 Today we're ranking the top 10 best sets from 2022 from a collector's perspective. What's up guys we're back with another video we're doing something and I have never done before we are ranking the top 10 sets of the year but from my perspective which is more of a collector slash pack opening perspective versus like these other videos like house of champs made one it's basically just like is this set the best for like metagame and all that stuff he did a little collector like addition in there as well but we're doing specifically from collectors and pack openers like a lot of you guys that watch me you guys open packs where you guys collect stuff for the most part some of you guys play as well but we're gonna give a little twist and we're gonna see what were the best sets this year our giveaway for today will be specific to whoever wins the giveaway whatever you think was the best set this year let me know in the comments I will personally get you a box of that set I don't actually have any of like some of the sets anymore so we're just gonna have to like send you the money and then you can buy it or whatever so that's how it's gonna work just like the video be subscribed turn on notifications let me know your absolute number one set of the year for whatever reason doesn't have to be from a collector's perspective just whatever you would want to win all right let's hop right into it we are going to be using the tstg player price guide just to look over some cards and stuff like that we're going to start with a special award this year's stinkiest set of the year award goes to drum roll please hidden arsenal chapter one all right and as we look at hidden arsenal chapter one you can see exactly why it's so bad the top card in the set is $4.91 yeah $4.91 for the absolute best card this set was never hyped no one ever really liked it there was a skill drain in it for a while that was expensive stratos I guess is kind of cool but this set overall was an absolute bust it was not a good set it was one of those ones where they put it in the weird shaped box I think it may have had dice as well I can't remember but this set overall just had absolutely zero value and just only a couple of cool cards that it's basically the stratos and the skill drain and I guess if you're using whatever notorious sun sunflowers for uh $4 so yeah not a lot of value in this so not really much to open if you're a collector so you know what are we gonna collect out of here I guess the stratos maybe the skill drain uh and then if you're pulling for value there's none there so you're basically you're gonna lose money every time you open this pretty much so this was a super rough set I wanted to throw it in as the stinkiest set of the year so hashtag stinkiest set of the year in the comments let's go on to the top 10 at number 10 I have OTS tournament pack 18 spoiler I only had one OTS pack in here and that's because this year it was 18 19 and 20 none of them were that great for like collectability and stuff like that this one I specifically picked because I did want to put the top OTS set in here it's a little borderline if it should even be in the top 10 it's not that great but I personally really like Zeus I think it looks really cool while it is sort of like a medicard it also I feel like could become collectible just because it's really iconic to people playing it and also like I've never actually really used Zeus myself I just think the artwork looks really really good so good artwork high rarities like starlight and ultimate rare I think it'll become fairly collectible even when it falls out of favor like I don't even think people are really using it too much right now fusion destiny is a classic I think because if you're like a collector who doesn't play a lot you've probably still use fusion destiny and stuff like that you've used like the uh red eyes fusion you're probably played your goon you've probably played dpe they're like the noob cards that we use so fusion destiny still pretty cool and of course invoke dogmatica it's a deck I actually used in a tournament so I have a soft spot for Ecclesia I really like the ultimate rare starlight is worth way more but still this is a 38 dollar card value ultimate rare just saying and then of course we have to throw in our favorite card where is he mind you the 10 000 hands we'd love to talk about him from invasion of chaos he did get a reprint in here so we got to throw him in here there's also a couple other good cards like token collector was pretty good for like meta gameplay and as I said we're doing for collectors but my rankings do still consider like the meta value it'll just be like worth less in terms of like where I'm putting the set so while token collector is a meta card I it still helps the set a little bit even though we're really looking for collectability here and then of course the dasher is part of the dpe package so oh yeah don't forget about baby sarasaurus dinosaurs I played that as well in a tournament so I do like this set I don't think it's that amazing and also it's an OTS set so like you can't usually open a lot of those packs but I like it at number 10 next up we have legendary duelist season three this is similar to the hidden arsenal set except it's like actually kind of decent so inside each of these you gotta die and the die had different rarities like there was like the dark magician girl die the dark magician die and then there was some more common ones like the elemental hero ones which that was a really cool addition to like get in every single box which is always nice then they have these really cool dark magician reprints elemental hero reprints there's evil hero stuff so it's a lot of like fan favorite stuff that's really really nice and there's not a lot of like meta gameplay stuff in here which you know that's not what we're looking for but there is some really nice collectible stuff like the magician souls the dark magician so if you're playing the dark magician deck which a lot of collectors usually hop when you hop into the meta game you're like how do I play dark magician how do I play blue eyes this set here give you a lot of good stuff for playing like dark magician so which is really cool there's also a dark magician girl in here which is always really really nice curse net girl fear got a reprint so it was just a lot of really decent stuff for collectors while there's not anything huge value which is like what we want to see as collectors like how do we pull the high rarity there wasn't any of that in here so that's why it's down at number nine but I did think the dark magician support deserved to be on the list all right on to number we have a set that doesn't have a lot of collectible stuff but was a super strong set this is the grand creators the grand creators is a collector rare set which if you guys watch a lot of my videos you know I don't really like the setup of those sets I like collector rares but I don't like the boxes that they're in and the specific reason is you only get three ultras per box and then you get occasionally a collector rare so you're opening 24 packs you're really pulling three cards for the most part occasionally there will be a super worth something but not usually and then you might get a collector which would be four out of 24 so there's not a lot of pulls like normally if you're opening like an old school booster box you get four supers and two ultras that six pulls maybe even a secret that seven so getting three pulls it's like you're opening a lot of packs you're not getting a lot of stuff but this was by far the best collector rare set of the year and if we're looking at like meta impact this like would be one of the best sets of the year but because we're mostly looking at collector stuff there's not a lot in here there's like torrential tribute which is really cool solemn strike while it is also sort of a meta card it's also kind of an old card at this point it's like six seven years old so kind of a collector card emergency teleport same thing with that meta relevant but it's also from doulos genesis so pretty cool to see a collector rare there the rest of it I mean I guess you could say in zectors maybe if you played back in 2010 2011 whenever that was when in zectors were really good you were excited about those I think they kind of flopped but they still did get some nice high rarity cards but when we're looking at the meta relevant stuff we have the brave stuff we have the punk stuff the exo sister stuff all that stuff was really successful and had like really solid value in terms of like pulling the stuff which also is part of what we're talking about when we're opening packs even if it's not for like a collector's purpose if you're opening a box you do want to pull like a card that'll get your value back and that is another thing that we're considering and here there was a lot of really good cards there's like ride of error misire there's water enchantress I mean there's just all these really strong value cards and even if you go to the ultras when this first came out the ride of error misire ultra rare was 60 bucks so you would pull that and make your money back on the box there was like the ogre dance is a 21 dollar uh oh that's a collector rare but it used to be a 20 dollar ultra rare before it got the uh the collector rare but some of this stuff has been reprinted we have to keep that in consideration but I'm talking about when it first came out as well as like now so we're kind of like averaging them together but this was a really strong set overall not a lot of stuff that you take and like grade or something like that for like collecting but you might actually keep some of this stuff just because it was like iconic in your meta deck and stuff like that so I think this has a solid spot at number eight and if it was a meta listed be even higher at number seven we have the 2022 tin of pharaoh gods so this set was pretty solid overall because it had a lot of really strong reprints one of the problems with it though was they like half and short printed a lot of the cards which is good and bad it's bad because you don't get it as often it's good because the value like usually stays higher because they're harder to pull so it's like a give and take it's kind of a good thing for collectors because then you know you actually have a high rarity card or not a high rarity but high value card to search for there's not a lot of like high value though the most expensive is the $37 pot of prosperity but we also have the collector stuff in here which is the three new artworks which is really awesome by new I mean from the ocg I believe they're already in the ocg we got them in the tcg so we're talking about the blue eyes white dragon the dark magician girl and of course the red eyes so it was really cool to get like some of those cards finally in the artwork because I think the dark magician girl artwork is really good the blue eyes artwork is it's not my favorite one but I think it's decent and I really like the red eyes I think it looks amazing so that was really cool to have these thrown into the tins I know a lot of people that are not collectors like more dark magician more or not dark magician this time but more blue eyes more red eyes but you can't get enough when it's new artwork it's really cool stuff and then of course the dark red eyes dark dragon's in here and that's like that's a collector card even though it was used in the meta dark magician as well as the red eyes put together so that's a collector card and then all these awesome like prismatic sea carriers like the lighting storm are really good so I thought it was a solid set overall but not having like a huge chase card definitely held it back a little bit and then the the short printing is like it's kind of weird so like that's number seven I think it's pretty decent let's go on to number six all right number six we have another set that is very strong an amazing meta set but not necessarily a collector set but it kind of had to be on the list because it was so good we have power of the elements this was one of the absolute best sets of the year because of the archetypes that came out of it not a lot of collector cards in here I do like the dpe starlight a lot of people were not happy about this card being in here because they thought it should have been in burst of destiny last year which it should have to be honest but I mean we either didn't get it and then didn't get it at all later on or we didn't get it and they made it later so I know they were like cashing out a little bit on the set but like they didn't even need it because that was amazing so I think it was just a little bit of a cherry on top to have the dpe starlight and it was something I searched for for like I think seven or eight cases for us to pull it and it's a really beautiful card so that I think is the best collector rare card in this set just because it's like heroes it was like used in the meta as well so that's going to be iconic for people so I think that card will age pretty well really nice card there but the rest of it I mean really no uh collector rare cards in here at all but the tier elements and the sprite stuff has been so big throughout this year that everyone who played in this year like in like 10 years they'll remember the tier element stuff like oh yeah remember that tier zero format remember when sprite came out and the tier elements in the same set and they're all amazing so that's it's gonna hold up well I think in terms of like people remembering this set and it being really really good and then also we have to mention the value you could pull out of here because the value when this first came out this this planet thing was $80 sprite blue was $100 Slayer was like 50 I mean there was crazy secret rare value and then an ultra rare sprite elf still $20 back then it was I think around 20 as well so there was some good ultra rare stuff there was some amazing secret rare stuff then there's star lights that you could pull which is always fun even if it's like a meta star light pulling a star light rare is still awesome for collectors and you want to grade it because it's like wow that was really hard to pull it's one in 25 boxes or whatever one in 100 for my specific one that I wanted or whatever one in 125 actually but yeah so this set overall just a really strong set honestly could maybe even be up higher but because there's really maybe one-ish collector card in here that's why I have it down at number six but still really really awesome set and it was fun for me to open up and I really enjoyed our time with power of the elements so had to make it on the list of number six let's go to number five so we have dark wing blast now you might hear that and be like hmm there weren't any collector cards in that set at all and there really wasn't not not many at all in terms of collector cards I think there might have been one what was it I guess you could consider the black wing dragon somewhat collectible but it already has an ulti and it goes so we searched for it we still have not pulled it by the way so we want to pull that not super big in terms of like the collector space but I think it's a decent card for that but this has to be one of the best value sets I've opened I would say the number one value set I've opened this year and I'm not talking about the very first day like when the prices are crazy of every set this set like even a week or two a month later is still holding crazy value with the cards and that's because there was a super rare that's like $15 there's a super that's like $8 so that's two cards that you pull very often like usually one of each per box then you have ultra rare that's $70 right now it was like 60 on release maybe 50 I don't know 50 to 70 so crazy value in an ultra rare you pull four ultra rare per box you have a great chance to pull it and then there's another ultra worth over 20 so the unicorn the cast your unicorn as well as the cast your affinity I mean they're both crazy money then you go into the secret secret is overall not great I mean there's not like a huge line up of amazing secret but the Loubellion's 50 bucks so there's still a big secret rare in there and then in the star lights the rule closes over 300 bucks that's solid value then of course the black wing dragon which is a cheap card by the way so cool for collectors so this set was just such good value like opening it up you would almost always pull like at least like $30 worth of cards like it was like the absolute worst case scenario so this set was just awesome for that and as an opener like not necessarily a collector but just opening packs when you open packs you want to have potential like you want to feel like okay I can actually pull something good in every pack and that's how this set feels so it was a lot of fun to open that's why I've opened it multiple different streams and stuff like that and even though it doesn't have a ton of collectors the opening side of this made this such a fun set I had to put it at number five and it also has some nice you know meta relevance as well because the cash tier stuff's just good and don't forget about of course the rule close I mean tier elements tier zero so it just really really solid stuff number five for sure I had to put it in the top five so let's move on to number four maybe we'll actually have some collector cards in the next one at number four we have one that's somewhat debatable I watched House of Champs video before this and he was talking about this set he had this set really low on his ranking ghost from the past the second haunting so the reason he had it low was because he thought the set failed based on the ghost rares he thought because they were in bad condition that made the set a failure I had a little bit of a different perspective on that so let's go into what I like about this set first of all we have nine ghost rares I mean that is in and of itself enough to make the set hype ghost rares didn't even exist in the TCG for like five years so them bringing these back and of course they did ghost from the past one but they even up the ghost rares from five to nine in this one made it even more exciting they made them easier to pull you're usually getting one to seven per case occasionally some people got zero I know if you're watching this and you got zero that really hurt for me to say one to seven I know I feel you guys I didn't have it on this set but I had it on Grand Creator so I know what you mean but it was possible to pull multiple ghost rares and these ghost rares are not just any ghost rares they're one through six are amazing I mean we had Dark Magician Girl Blue Eyes White Dragon we got Red Eyes Black Dragon we've got Cyber Dragon Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon and the Dark Arm Dragon all of those are insanely nostalgic awesome collectible cards there are a couple issues I think the ghost rares foiling is definitely lacking on these compared to some of the older ghost rares it definitely does not look as good as some other cards that you could pull but I still do like ghost rares and I think they're really cool John's point about it having bad you know scuffing on the back and not being in good condition that goes both ways first of all it's a bad thing if you if you pull one and it's like lightly played it's like oh are you kidding me I really opened all this and got a garbage ghost rare now if we go to the PSA grading side this actually makes this set interesting because if the cards came out pristine perfect you grade them it's like Pokemon you get like a BGS black label 10 every time you grade them it's like well what's the point of grading them when they come out like this and they're all damaged and stuff it actually makes the pop really low it's really hard it's kind of like the wing dragon a rod with the ghost rares all scratched up having like a PSA 10 of that card is extremely rare it makes it so a card that's like massively printed is actually super rare because you have one of the few that's actually in great condition and that's what kind of happened with this set a lot of these I think it was blue eyes does that still have zero 10s it might still have zero 10s I'm not sure but there it's a very low pop to get a blue eyes my dragon and PSA 10 so that makes that card actually super cool and like okay maybe I could open that set hope for the perfect blue eyes you know there's the slight chance of pulling the blue eyes which is already a cool chase you're like oh what if I get the blue eyes you get it's $150 card like wow that's awesome then there's the next level what if it's in perfect condition what if I grade it a PSA 10 then it's going to be worth you know $2,000 $3,000 so it adds like a double layer for collectors which I think is actually a cool thing I'm not saying that we want that all the cards to come out in terrible condition I know Tim aka Yuki O2 a lot of times when he sees factory issues he's like awesome now now the cards will be really hard to get in good condition and he like gets excited so I know some people actually are happy when they come out in bad condition so it's a weird thing so you could be on either side of the fence you might want them them to be perfect so you have a nice card when you pull it or you might want that you have the chase to get that super rare perfect condition card so I thought that was an interesting perspective on it and I think that it can be a good thing but I'm not going to say it is a great thing for it to be bad condition for these high rarity cards this set overall I've talked a lot about this set so far we're kind of rambling but it was kind of a disappointment in some ways because the value outside of the ghost shares was not there that's why I don't have it up at the top because you would think at the beginning of the year when you saw this line of ghosts it was going to be the absolute best set and it didn't turn out to be the best set but I still think it's relevant enough to be at number four with like dark magician girl blue eyes ghost dress and stuff like that so let's move on we've spent enough time on this one make sure to let me know your opinion in the comments all right on to number three we have battles of chaos and when this first set first came out I don't think anyone would have said this would be like in the top three sets of the year I still think people aren't probably not saying that but I'm personally going to put in the top three for multiple reasons this set not only had dark magician support it had a blue eyes starlight rare card the blue eyes jet dragon which is one of my favorite cards ever made really cool looking card it also had a couple of meta relevant cards like the guardian chimera and the dark the dark charmer which not only is a super rare which is easily accessed it also has a high rarity starlight the best starlight in the set as you guys can tell it's five hundred and thirty dollars I have one for sale by the way so if you won't want to hit me up then they also had the randomly inserted dark magician which I think when it first came out people were hyping up I was I'm sorry I was one of them it was an accident I was off on the ratios okay guys so people were hyping it up and then it was disappointing because it was easier to pull than people thought the price went way down I think it was up at like what eight hundred dollars and went down to like a hundred or something so now it's at what whatever it is 92 dollars this was still a really awesome card and I think that because of like the negative press of like people thinking it was worth more aka me and then it not being worth so much and not being so hard to pull it kind of made people have like a sour taste for this card but I think when you look back this is a really really awesome card because have we ever seen a randomly inserted bonus card it's not like an extra card but it's like instead of a common you could pull a dark magician it was one of the coolest things ever because like normally when you're finding high rarity it's just in the rare slot this was not in the rear slot it was like at the back of the car of the pack sometimes there's in the front of the pack it was all over the place you never knew like you had to open every single card in the set to make sure that it was not there like some people were putting them in their bulk and stuff like that which you might say that's a bad thing because then we lost it but I think it was just cool it was like a lottery ticket like it was like it randomly inserted lottery things it was it just felt like a mystery box almost it was really fun so I think that it was a cool idea and I hope they do it again with some other cool card like like maybe a blue eyes or something like that and oh my goodness I just noticed the flounder ease and advent adventure ultra rare is now 31 dollars so we've got an ultra I mean it's no cash to your affin rear but 31 dollars for an ultra I mean there's some value in this set honestly it's not too bad when it first came out it seemed like a flop because of the whole dark magician thing but I think this this set is aged super well and I think it will continue to age well because of the dark magician stuff and just other really cool cards I mean wow I think it's doing well I'm surprised at where I have this on the list but let me know what you guys think I mean you guys still like battles of chaos pretty fire set in my opinion I think we open like eight cases of it okay number two we've been going on for a long time I didn't expect to talk this much but sometimes I just talk a lot we have the battles of legend crystal revenge the newest set I think to date it's a pretty new set this set I really like for numerous reasons but there's a few drawbacks that kept it from being number one this set has the best lineup of collectible star lights by far ever absolutely loaded there's nine star lights this is our first time ever having more than five so that was really cool they also increase the rates and yeah we're gonna get to it us versus euro but in the US cases you're opening 1.1 cases to get one star light it used to be you'd have to open 2.1 I think was the ratio so it's like a whole case easier to pull a star light amazing that's awesome for the US sorry euro guys I think it was like 1.5 cases for you guys so it's much much harder very annoying I would be very frustrated if I was a euro person you know someone from Europe opening euro cards if you have to open that many more packs to get a star light it's just a bummer and it feels like you're kind of like paying more to get less yeah I'm not a fan of that I hope that they correct that and don't do that in the future I also don't like how they're splitting up the secret ferro rears and ultra ferro rears either but we'll get into that in the next set number one but this set was amazing access code talker while it's not like super collectible amazing medicard $575 starlight so big value then we've got of course exodia all five pieces really amazing super poly another medicard then we have borlode savage dragon another medicard then we have yada yada grass who got a starlight it was banned till this year now I got a starlight blackwing armor master really really cool card as well I mean it at it's yeah I was disappointed when I pulled it but it's still a decent card overall and it's somewhat collectible because the blackwing stuff I mean progression series and memories and all that stuff but just having a full exodia set and yada that right there amazing collectible starlights because normally we get one collectible starlight per thing we get six here so that's pretty awesome then of course there's some good reprints in here as well I mean we've got tune black cluster soldier that's a collectible card right there tune black all the tune stuff is very collectible we got saline that that needed a reprint we've got of course the borlode savage regular let's see it more chaos stuff so the chaos space is big the tune stuff fusion destiny again I mean this set was okay diddy crow another reprint the doodle stuff people really like that just a lot of good stuff there's also Edison reprints in here which is always big I'm a big fan of Edison reprints overall a pretty decent set I think without the starlights the set is very average but the starlights were so awesome in my opinion I had so much fun opening for exodia we still need that left arm by the way that I had to put it up here I think maybe you could argue like it could be bumped down maybe even battles of chaos could beat it out but I think the exodia starlight set it's really hard to not put that up there for collectors and stuff like that however opening this set the value is not that great that kind of made me hesitant to put it this high because a lot of the cards are worth like two dollars like nice two dollar secretaries but they don't have a ton of value so let me know what you think about this one I had this one at up top and then I realized there's no way I could put it above the number one set and of course our number one set is magnificent mavens the set I always call majestic mavens this set was amazing for so many reasons first of all amazing reprints let's just go look at these reprints real quick evenly matched triple tactics talents lightning storm infinite impermanence yeah none of those have anything to do with collecting but when you're opening up and you get these value cards are all ten dollar cards you can get them fairly easily that's pretty awesome then there's the ashizu stuff also doesn't matter for collectors but it's good value for your openings you have a meta relevant stuff that's really good then you have harby's feather duster of this is actually iconic that's a very nice tp8 artwork reprint which is amazing apollosis in here got blackluster soldier soldier of chaos I think this is a collectible card to be honest there's all high rarity stuff until now so if you're looking for this card for your collection you want to cheap here it is it's a great card it's really cool artwork skill drain classic card if you're playing old school formats I mean there's all the entire sword sold decks in here if you're gonna play that let's get to the collectible stuff first of all when you're opening these up you get a guaranteed box of sleeves in every single mini box which is insane I said box but I mean pack of sleeves that's instant value I still have like a hundred and eighty left that I've been using and I'm not gonna run out of sleeves to like pack orders in a very long time so that's just cool value second of all ultra and secret fairware so first of all ultra versus secret fairware the euro gets ultra we get secret I don't know why they're split up I actually like secret better but for some reason ultras are worth more I don't know why but both pretty cool and not only did they use this new rarity I mean they technically used it before with like what was it like the god cards at some point and it was really it was a busting king's court but they did a lot better this time they look a lot better the secrets look amazing I think the ultras also look pretty good because they put some of the foiling in the front they also have classic cards they have meta cards I mean look at this dark magician girl Silvore Calcos Necro Valley red eyes black dragon reinforcement of the army for old formats we got blue eyes white dragon I haven't actually seen that one yet that's pretty cool change of heart grave keepers trap for the newer stuff elemental hero Neo's got a high rarity finally it's so cool triple tactics talents it's a nice meta card we've got neos again it's it's confusing because they have secret and ultra on here so we got multiples but black closer soldier another high rarity card as if it needed that we have the lightning storm we got tune kingdom there's 18 different cards in this rarity which is so cool and then you have the ultra and the secret so if you you could split them up and have two different ones I don't know I think it's a really really cool idea I don't necessarily think this is the best rarity ever I like starlight a lot more I like ghost shares more even though the new ghost shares they're getting worse I think they could definitely up those I like ultimate rare is more but still just having this new rarity I think is really cool it's subtle it's nice looking and just having an option for a high rarity card in this set makes collectors and pack openers want to open it up and not only do they have these they're holding big value I mean like look $400 for the silver or Calcos you know 530 for the ultra fairs red dark magician girl and just insane value basically opening this up you pretty much get a good card every time you open it and then you're guaranteed to get sleeves so you're gonna have sleeves and a few good cards every time you open this that makes it feel really good and while it is not necessarily a collector set straight up it's like a collector and a meta set it's the best of both worlds everyone's happy opening this set and it's just a really awesome set and I don't think you can really argue that this is the number one best set of the year and then there's no weird stuff going on where like the star lights are worse in Europe even though you guys got the ultra fairs which are apparently better so yeah I think that this is the number one set of the year I had fun going through these from a collector perspective it's actually kind of hard because like there's not a lot of collector cards that they make you know current year but they eventually become collector cards throughout the years maybe at some point should we do like a top 10 of other years maybe I go back to like 2005 best 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