 Yu-Gi-Oh is a very popular TCG and is known for its complicated gameplay. Konami is constantly updating the Yu-Gi-Oh meta through banlist and by adding new cards to the card pool. Oftentimes the newest meta cards are so strong that their price has become too expensive for the average player. Konami's solution to this problem is simple, reprint these expensive cards. With more on the market the average player can afford these cards much more easily. But what happens to the original sets with these cards? Are they still worth opening? In today's video we're looking at what is considered one of Yu-Gi-Oh's strongest modern sets, Rise of the Duelist. Rise of the Duelist debuted in North America on August 7th, 2020. This set contained a ridiculous number of strong cards such as triple tactics talents, forbidden droplet, nadeer's servant, and many more. It also was one of the first sets to contain a 5th starlight, the Diddy Crow. Boxes of this set were around $80 on release which is about 25% higher than an average core set. The hype was real but 3 years later every card in this set has been reprinted some multiple times. All of the high end non-starlight rare cards have fallen in value. But the box prices continue to rise. If you want to purchase a Rise of the Duelist box today it would cost you about $250. In today's video we find out if opening sets like this has any merit or if they're better left kept sealed. What's up guys, today we're going to be opening up 24 packs of Rise of the Duelist as you guys saw in the intro. This is the equivalent of one booster box so right now about a $250 box as I mentioned earlier in the video. And we're going to see is it worth opening something like this anymore because this is now a $20 pack right here. $20 for one pack. All of the cards besides the starlight rares have gone down. So it goes to opposite of what you think. The price of the sealed goes up and then the price of the single goes down. So it gets harder and harder to make a profit as you go. Because if we open it up back in 2020 it was much much easier. You could put like a $90 card out of here as an $80 box. So you just make your money back right away. There's now no card in here that does that except for the starlight rares. But before we actually hop into it we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these two structured decks. First of all we have a albastrike and then we have a Legend of the Crystal Beast. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know. Is it worth it to open something like this? Give me your opinion on it and are there other sets that you think maybe are worth it in this time period? Or maybe are they all just not worth it anymore? Okay let's just go ahead and start. We're going to be opening up about $250 worth of blisters. I'm going to have both the 2020 price and the 2023 price pop up for all of our big pulls. So if we pull like anything like Secret Rare or Ultra Rare I'll try and have a price from 2020 and 2023 pop up. The value that's going to count against our $250 is the 2023 price of course though to see if it's actually worth it. All right let's start off with this thing 24 blister packs rise of the duelists. This is a pretty expensive opening these days as I have told you guys. And it's really sad to see like all these really nice cards you know they get really cheap after a while. They end up being like you know $9 cards and they used to be really expensive. Sad and good at the same time because they're more affordable which is great. But then it just makes like opening a classic set just so not worth it. So we're going to do our best to actually pull something awesome and see what happens. We're going to see maybe it is worth it. Maybe we'll get a starlight. Those in fact have gone up for a lot of them. We've got Dogmatica Punishment which is a great card that came as common in this set. Fright for Jar. We've got Dogmatica Theo. Dogmatica Nation. I do love Dogmatica and that's the this is the debut of those. Galloping Gaia Dark Lord. We've got Abyss Actor. And Gaia the Fierce Night Origin. We have Gaia cards in here. If you don't remember one of the starlights is a Gaia card. This is also a bit of a trip down memory lane for me because back in 2020 this was my second stream that I ever did on YouTube. Chelsea and I opened a case of this set. I watched a little bit of a back and man it was hard to watch because we were using a camera was shaking all over the place. There was no music in the background. What's up guys? Ruxen34 here with a live stream of Rise of the Duelist Case. Oh there goes the camera. Gotta be careful. And with Chelsea so hopefully we'll get lucky and pull an epic starlight. And before we actually start the live. Look this is one of my first streams ever. Okay have some have some understanding Ruxen. Okay but yeah it was pretty rough. But those were good times because we pulled amazing out of that case. If you guys don't remember you guys can go check it out if you want to sit through some atrocity there. We got Edgyms Scythe. We got the Vespinato. The full. So far we've probably made like zero dollars back. Jon Sleeve got Didi Arc. Galloping Gaia. The Fright for Repair. Abyss Actor Twinkle Star. Dragon Maid Tidying. Just a super. This is going to be a little bit different than like a booster box opening because as you guys know the blister packs could have random ratios. If it was a booster box you'd probably get you know a couple secrets for Ultras pretty much every time. Probably not a starlight but maybe out of here it like we could get six Ultras no secrets. We could get three secrets no Ultras you know something weird like that. So this we'll just have to see. I mean this this could you know have a little variable here but I think it'll be fun. We got Spyro Fusion. Melphipony. Spiral Discharge. Melphitag. Spiral Reborn. Dracoon Lamp. Fright for cool way. Cruel rail I should say it looks like a one-piece character to be honest and then a Raid Raptor Arsenal Falcon. So we're starting off with all supers so far. Okay still searching to make any money back on this opening. It really you're gonna have I'm gonna have to get some amazing polls in general just to like make half our money back in for this. So it is pretty tough. If you do get a starlight though like I guess that's the reason. So if we're like looking for a reason to open stuff in 2023 of a set that most of the cards are reprinted kind of like Dawn of Majesty something we've opened recently. A lot of the cards are just you know not worth anything anymore because they've all had reprints. There's another Raid Raptor Arsenal Falcon but if you're looking for the starlights those cards usually age pretty well because it's like okay really expensive box not really worth opening for anything except the starlights. The starlights got to go up because there's got to be some value somewhere right. So yeah that's that's kind of like the the bread and butter but you guys know it's one in two cases to actually pull a starlight. So that happening in one box is a you know one in 24 chance about like whatever that is like 5% or something even less than that. Mulfi Rabbit, Gallop and Gaia, Fright for Repair, Visactor Twinkle Little Star, the Curse of Dragon, the Curse Dragon and our first ultra rare artillery catapult cannon. Okay interesting card probably not going to make our 250 back but we have an ultra rare. Okay our first foil I mean like I guess technically a super is a foil but I don't call those foils anymore even though they're technically foil cards I mean you're getting you on every single time so it's really not that crazy. Artillery Catapult Turtle, I mean the retrain of Catapult Turtle pretty cool when you think about it but it is not that valuable. I think it did have about a dollar value back in 2020 which is not too bad Curse of Dragon, the Curse Dragon, Dogmatica Encounter, Fright for Cruel Whale, the DD Arc and the Ancient Warriors Oath, Double Dragon Lords another super rare. So as of right now even if we open this in 2020 with an $80 box value we would not even be close right now but we also have not pulled a Starlight Raria and if we did get this at Walmart you know 3.99 per pack we'd be paying about 96 bucks so that would be pretty expensive for those blisters that's why buying them at Walmart is a lot more expensive than buying a booster box you know with a coat with sassiato or something like that. Speaking of go check out votes on Hypernova if you haven't yet use code HypernovaRucks and I think for 5% off you guys can get way less than a 96 dollar box. We got a Dark Lords, we got a Diameter, Heavenly Dragon Circle, Captain Roland, the Diced Dice, the Melphie Finney, Thunderhand, Dark Lord Nurgle and oh an Ice Dragon's Prison now we're talking this was a big one in 2020 and also a pretty good card still to this day but as I mentioned reprints this thing has been reprinted I think it was Ghost from the past too this was in something like that and uh same rarity I think too. Actually I do remember this card being like four dollars on release this card went up to like 20 or 30 bucks because I sold all of mine for four dollars huge mistake I mean I didn't have that many because I only opened one case back then but still it went from four to like 20 or 30 so that card could be counted as like four or it could be counted as like 20 like a couple weeks after release. Okay a couple ultra rares Ice Dragon's Prison that's pretty good at first people didn't really realize how good it was I think and then they realized this card is insane so it got pretty expensive and then of course the reprint not too long ago actually might have been in the Megatons I feel like we might did we get a uh no we got a Prismatic Seeker here I think of that okay we got Heavenly Dragon's Circle Horn of Oliphon does that taste the Lord of the Rings reference we got Pony, Dogmatic of Punishment, the Finney, Fright for Repair, the unauthorized boot up device, Dark Lord Uprising and a Holtzer Rare Speedroyd Car Turbo I don't think this one was ever good so nothing too crazy there but hey speed roids people like roids all right I mean do people I guess people like roids it's an anime archetype but I really don't know anyone that's a huge roid fan I like some of the roids but I'm not like an overall roid stan I guess you could say uh I don't know don't think they're that great let's see that's three ultras no secrets kind of like box likes so far we got a red potent, Edgyms Scythe, the Vespinato, the Playhouse, Mommy, Cursed of Dragon, the Cursed Dragon, Dogmatic Encounter and Guy of the Magical Night a very cool super rare that is certainly not going to have any value and no matter what year it is just a super rare Gaia card I mean Gaia has not been playable literally ever I mean Legend of Blue Eyes it wasn't good it's a two tribute 2300 it has never been good only yummy you could use it because you could just throw it down without attributing and stuff like that okay next pack nothing crazy there Spiral Discharge with the Haunt Claire, the Ancient Warrior Saga, Indulged Dark Lord, Dark Lord Nurgle, Melphymommy, Dogmatic Ennation we have the Thunder Hand and Ice Dragon's Prison See this is something you would not see if you were open a regular booster box you probably would not get two of the same ultra rare but back in 2020 if we had held these for a couple weeks after pulling them this would be a great opening that would have been like half our box back next pack I feel like honestly like with the ones we've pulled so far we haven't really pulled any of the ones that have like tanked because Ice Dragon's Prison on Release was one of the few cards that wasn't over hyped like most of them were like maybe not over hyped but appropriately hyped that one was not appropriately hyped at the time and then it did get appropriately hyped and it went way up Super Every Samurai Scarecrow we have the Melphy Rabbit we've got the Astolfo the Red Potent the Fluffle Dolphin Dogmatic Encounter the Capricious Dark Lord full of Melphy Playhouse I don't know what I'm saying and the Dragonmaid Tidying Dragonmaid cards were in the set I totally forgot about them let's keep it going so far no secrets out of these these packs so these are as I've said blisters so they're a little bit random we could get no secrets hopefully that's not the case I would trade in no secrets for a Starlight though I don't care which Starlight Gaia even at a hundred bucks or what 130 I'd be down for we got Dogmatic a Punishment Spiral Fusion Melphy Pony Dogmatic Encounter it would be funny to pull a Starlight just ruin the whole premise of this video like yeah you can't make your money back and then we make our money back because of a Starlight and then we have a Nemesis Keystone even though the Gaia would not actually make our money back I think the rest of them would rise to the duelist DD Crows about like 475 Ecclesia is way up there it's like 600 something which is wild because it has an ultimate rare so I guess that's just the preferred printing the best one is the the TTT it's still over $700 that's a crazy one okay super every Samurai Scarecrow Fright for Jar can we get a secret rare out of here and see if we can make some money back Melphy Fenty Thunderhand Dark Lord Nurgle Fury of the Kaishin the Revenge Rally that's it oh that's it that's the super rare lots of super so far but that's Yu-Gi-Oh for you slightly over halfway we've pulled all of our Ultras if this were a regular box it's not but you know you normally pull four Ultras in a box two secrets so we'd still be looking for secrets hopefully it turns out where we do get two secrets that would be great I would be very happy pulling two secrets hopefully there are some good ones basically not every but almost every secret in the set is pretty good in its own right there's some that are bigger than others obviously we got the Iron Punch Hunt Claire the DD Evil Melphy Tag Spiral Reborn the Dracoon lamp Fright for Cruel Whale and a Raid Raptor Revolution Falcon Air Raid so far this experiment's not turning out so well for you know encouraging people to open these up so if you're ever looking at older packs and you want to pay like you know 20 bucks which a lot of the older packs aren't that expensive but 2020 packs are getting pretty crazy so if you're looking at Rise of the Duelist you're looking at Battles of Legend Armageddon stuff like that those are really really expensive and they're not usually worth opening because you have to get like a really high end chase card like Battles of Legend Armageddon you got to get that 10k Dragon or something oh and there's a nice Ultra Dogmatica Ecclesia the Virtuous I totally thought this was a secret in the set but this is just a crazy Ultra this is one that has been severely hurt by the passing of time the reprints this was 26 dollars in 2020 so like crazy because that's what I thought it was a secret because I just completely forgot it was just an expensive Ultra an amazing card in the dogmatica deck you're playing with invoke stuff like that really really good and it's had multiple reprints it's had better looking reprints like the Prismatic Secret Rare from the tin there's just a lot of better versions that people would go with the Starlight if they want to go really high end but the Ultra Rare has just been you know passed by the wayside it's like five bucks now something like that and you know you got to open a 20 dollar pack to get a five dollar Ultra that used to be crazy expensive all right next pack a question that I have is at what point do cards like dogmatica Ecclesia ever go back oh wow what in the world that is potentially a tampered with blister I mean these looked like they were from Walmart so it's possible that these were you know or at least this one specifically is messed with looks like it got cut straight through though so I don't know what happened here a little distracted with what I was going to say first of all let's inspect this pack it looks like this just got completely sliced through we'll have to see if there's nothing in here you know we can be a little sus but as I was going to say when do cards like that ever start going back up do they become like oh the original print of dogmatica Ecclesia or is it you just go with the hybrid do you go with the Starlight that's probably the one that you know holds the value having the two versions probably hurts it indulges dark lord we got the Iron Punch Karishan the nation galloping Gaia creature's dark lord and yeah so it looks like there was a foil in one of these at one point so one two three four five six seven eight yeah and it was taken out unfortunately so hopefully that was not like a starlight rare or something next pack rise of the duelist I'm just I'm just gonna say that there was a triple taxes talents starlight rare in one of those just keep that in my one two three four you guys remember when I pulled that I also pulled the DD crow is a very crazy case fry for jar we got the dogmatica Theo dolds dark lord melty tag fury of Karishan dogmatica nation galloping Gaia oh and a dogmatica Maximus which ironically is the secret of dogmatica this should definitely be the secret right I mean it does have the starlight but still pretty weird that this was the secret rare pretty good card but not on the level of the Ecclesia even this one back when this first came out was only 20 bucks compared to the 25 or 26 for the Ecclesia but still pretty so I mean pretty solid this one's got reprinted in the tens as well so they've all been hit by the reprint bug nice to see that there were secret rears in here so the guy who opened the pack I guess missed the secret rears one away seven packs left in our um you know mate makeshift booster box here it's a little bit of a I almost said misprint I mean then we have like one being tampered with that's another thing you gotta worry about buying from walmart people will go through there and sometimes try and mess with the blisters take stuff I'm glad we got a secret though melt behind seek pretty normal we have five ultras one secret it's kind of like a box horn we got the Vespinato the Gardner fury of kaishin we got the boot up device twink a little star the melphie tag oh and another secret back to back following a valve as this is one of the better ones for a while but then of course this got multiple prints one was in a structure deck I think is a common then there was an ultimate rare in the OTS pack this has seen many reprints since 2020 but I think back then it's pretty decent actually now that I'm looking at it this was only a $5 card so I think this didn't actually go up until all of the cards and the support for the archetype actually came out like was that a couple years later was that 2022 and that when was that I guess it was around when this albastrike structure deck that we're giving away came out because this made it really easy to play the branded deck and it was really really strong for a few months there it was actually really really good this was like 2022 I think when this came out maybe late 2021 I'm getting my dates confused but that card was a little bit of a sleeper for a while so we've actually pulled some of the rise of the duel sleepers so far we are actually pulling more than box ratio now two secrets five ultras where you're going to see like how we're doing yeah you know compare oh and we got another tampered blister that is unfortunate so yeah unfortunately some of these definitely have been tampered with I don't even know like what was in there were they getting triple tactics talents or what like what what's going on we're just going to one two three four I mean are there eight cards in here yeah so there's no foil in here that's always exciting you know getting some blisters you know these are $20 now so that hurts it's kind of how do they even do that I mean I guess they're going through the top maybe and then they know pulling them out like that I don't know so even with those two that have been tampered with we pulled over ratio oh there's more oh no oh dear oh dear I might have to talk to the guy I bought these from because uh yeah yeah that's kind of unfortunate I don't know I'm assuming he didn't know but one two three four yeah no foil again so uh yeah I mean just imagine if we had gotten these without being tampered with we might have actually got some crazy cards who knows more more no okay how can we tell like where where how is this happening it's coming through all there it is that's how you see it okay so a little a little extra lesson here today if you go to Walmart double check all around the blister they're not getting so that looks like they cut them pull it out open them up like that and then you get uh yeah you get yourself some open blisters unfortunately so fortunately they were not all like that but I mean how many is that now that's like four or five of them that have been tampered with it seems well here's the thing it actually doesn't really throw off our experiment too much because we've already pulled over box ratio like pulling too much of a box ratio wouldn't be too realistic so uh yeah I guess wait let's double check right here that one looks good okay this might be a real blister that's good hopefully the rest are yeah that looks good four or five of our box were tampered with unfortunately this one definitely has an extra card a aka the normal amount of cards let's see if we can get something big what if there was a starlight that'd be hilarious the guys like you know cutting through them and then we get a starlight rear okay six wins we got discharge boot up device dark lord uprising nexus dark infernoble knight a modus and a performapal odd eyes metal claw all right pretty cool looking dude he's got like a wolverine you know action going on over here final two packs it's been a fun video I mean we've done I mean multiple things have happened first of all we've gotten scammed for a couple packs make that another pack right there uh we've also reviewed a very old and expensive set we have pulled a few secret rares and it's been interesting for sure uh yeah make sure to leave a comment down below guys if you guys uh want to see more like this it looks like the last one is also a scam so at least six of these were were scam packs which is unfortunate it's also a little weird because like not all the packs were like this I don't know maybe I can get a slight refund but I don't know we'll have to find out that would be nice to get a refund for some of these open open cards because yeah that's that's like six packs that we paid like over a hundred dollars for so overall this is a lot like a box we've got the two secrets we got five ultras we could basically say like we only got one ice dragon's prison you could kind of do that and uh it's basically like a box uh then we have the you know the six mess with packs but that kind of makes what it would be like to open a box in 2020 we're gonna have the value if you open in 2020 the value if you open in 2023 right here we certainly did not make money and either I don't think if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this shout out to ToneFo Show, Daxer, JT Show, Puffins of Doom, 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