 In today's video, we're seeing if my $1,000 TCG player investment was worth it. What's up, guys? We're back with another TCG player $1,000 check-in, and this is not only the one-year anniversary or the one-year check-in, I could say. This is the two-year, so we've both invested at the beginning of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 $1,000. So, I invested $1,000 in a TCG player, not just in 2022, but I also did the beginning of this $1,000 more. So, we have $2,000 total into TCG player at the moment, and we're going to check-in on both the two-year check-in for 2022, as well as the one-year for 2023. But before we do that, we do have a giveaway. I'll be giving away a $50 TCG player gift card. All you have to do, like the video, be subscribed to our notifications. Let me know down below. What was our best year in terms of investment, and what should we invest in for 2023? And how should I do it? Last year, I had Twitch chat pick the $1,000. The year before that, I totally picked it on my own. Should I go back to doing it by myself? Should I let Twitch chat do it again? Or should we do a whole separate one? Maybe we can even do a YouTube stream or some other idea that I haven't thought of. Without further ado, let's get to the check-in. We're at year two here from the $1,000 investment back in 2022. If you want to go watch the quarterly check-in videos that we've done since then or the very first video, go check out the playlist on the screen. I've put in all the videos we've done so far, so you can see, like, what my reaction was back then to seeing them. There were some crazy spikes, some crazy dips. Hopefully, some crazy spikes today because we need it. All right, so something that happened in the first year was he had condition issues, and that sort of cost us a lot of money. But the check-in at one year last year, we had lost 16% of our money. The most recent check-in, we had lost almost 45% of our money. So we got absolutely killed recently. I'm hoping there's some sort of comeback, but based on the reprints they've done recently, I'm not feeling too good about it. So let's start off with the Blue Eyes My Dragon Ultimate Rare. So let's see if we can improve any way from how it's been going because it has not been very good. Let's say that. So the Ultimate Rare Blue Eyes, we have both a Nearmint Unlimited, which is now $1.72 for the cheapest. Unfortunately, this guy Prodigy Games is here. If he wasn't here, we'd be up to $3.59, which kind of sucks. So $1.79 is definitely less than what we paid. Okay, so it's the second one because it's not first yet. So $1.79, we have lost $6.15 because it was originally $7.94. That's 77%. Not a great start to our thing. Let's check on the first debt. Unfortunately, it's lightly played because I, you know, this year I kind of was just like, whatever, we're going to do the condition I bought either way. But $4.66, we spent $25.99. So yeah, that is not exactly great. 82%, 77%. Unfortunately, this is only about 33-ish dollars of our actual investment. So not a huge percentage in that way, but we have lost basically all of it already on the Ultimate Rare Blue Eyes, which it's surprising. I wonder what the near mint would be. Let's say I had actually gotten a near mint card when I ordered it. It would be $10. So either way, it'd still be really bad. It'd be better obviously, but still that's a pretty big loss from $25.99. But I will remind you guys, the 2022 investment was right, I mean, it was still in the tail end of the boom for Yu-Gi-Oh! card. So everything was insane. It was super expensive. So it's going to be pretty hard to ever make our money on most of this stuff. 2023 is where we have a little bit of hope because like it was sort of a down, more down market and it kind of is now still. So if it ever gets, you know, exciting again, or like big and hype, I won't say exciting because it's still exciting, but everyone's excited about it at the same time, I should say. Then maybe those could go up at some point. Okay, Silent Swordsman at level five. We have a lot to check in right now. So let's just get right to it. This was another one that we got a lower condition than we thought. I feel like this is up 56.33 from last time at least. So if we look at 56.33, overall we're down 35%. But last time it was at $35. So this one did actually go up. And if you look here, there's only one list or two listed from the same guy at 56. Lightly Played goes up to 75 after that. So that one's actually trending upward. If you look at near mint, I bet we would actually be doing about 114.68. That's usually the case with this one. We actually invested 109. So we'd actually be up if we got the near mint copy when we bought it at that price, which is pretty nice. And as you can see as we went along, it's kind of been down the whole time. But it's nice to see it's actually going back up. The oldies are kind of nice, especially if you actually get near mint. Really hard to get near mint oldies. So it's unlikely that happens. Let's go to the next one. One of our worst investments we've had on this next one. All right. Next one, the Astral Leviathan. Oh my goodness. Even recently, like you can look at this, a look at this nightmare. This is where we two years ago was when we invested. So it was already down a ton. 25.95 for the Astral Leviathan. You know how hard it is to pull this card? That is an insanely low price. If I was investing right now, I feel like that'd be okay. 25.95. But let's just check it how much it is down. $84.76. Look at this. 109.95 would be invested in that one. Yeah. Not great. I'm just going to move past that one because it's sad. Lighting Storm is going to be the same way though, because it's seven prints in rarity collection. Not going to help much. Let's see Lighting Storm Starlight. All right. Here we go. Check this out. Oh, past year we are way down. Oh, 96.88. Oh, that's going to hurt 96.88. We are down 67% from our $298. So yeah, Starlight reprints. Yeah, sure. They're awesome. I love them. That hurt. We lost over $200 buying that card and holding onto it. So that's pretty rough. Unfortunate for us. We are down a, we have 185 total dollars right now. We're halfway through and down 81% overall. This might be our worst one yet. Solid morning ultimate rare up next. It is only unlimited though. So unlimited. It is near meant though, which is good. So near meant for, it's German 4049. That's down too. That's definitely down. So that one's down 41% from 69. I mean, these are, these are down a lot just from last time. Look, this one was $123. That's only down a dollar, but only one thing's been up from even last time. So this is a really, really rough start. Okay. A dust of gold. I know it's not going to be going anywhere. I know that. All right, brothers and legend. Whoa. Check this out. Signs of life. Oh my goodness. Signs of life. A dollar 99. Is this, is this it? Is this where we, we start making a move 146. We made 50, 53 cents since the last time. 53 cents, but we're still not 84% from the original investment of 1299. But hey, glass half full there. There's something, there's something to be happy about. All right, Strato Salty. I think your only chance to at least be close, right? Maybe. Does this get a rarity collection print? Did it get a rarity collection? I can't remember. Maybe it did. But either way, it's down to 1248, which honestly is still a respectable price for a card. Very respectable. So even though we invested 150, we're only down 25%, which is our best one by far, besides the, it's both oldies by the way. Keep that in mind. Ultimate rare, as they just do really well. And by really well, I mean, they don't lose as much of your money. They still lose 25%, which is really a lot. But I'll take it. I'll take it at this point. Red-Eyes, Thor, Metal Dragon, Ghost. How was the ghost going to do? I have hope for this one. It did have a lot of prints in, you know, rarity collection, but maybe just because it didn't have a ghost print. Okay. Rarity collection is probably going to hurt it. You can't even find it because of rarity collectors. All these prints now, son of a nutcracker. All right, there it is. You're going to type the whole freaking name in. Okay. Nearmint first edition. Yeah, that's definitely down 74.97. Oh my gosh. Rarity collection. Rarity collection. Look, I love you and all, but you are not helping our $1,000 investment. Okay. This is bad. Warrior's Triumph has honestly been one of our most solid investments. They're not going to reprint this. So maybe this one can stay steady. Come on, please, please. No, it's down. Oh, that's $15 shipping. Okay. We got to include that. So $94.99. If it's like ridiculous shipping, we'll include that. Okay. That means we are actually only down 4.7%. Yes. We are not up on a single card from 2022. We have literally lost 50% of our money. 40, 48.98. So 49%, $490 have been lost. All I did was spend it and not do anything, and we've lost $500. So wow, that is a really, really rough 2022. I'm hoping 2023 will be a little better. Let's get right to it. We do have a lot more to check out. So year two, here we go. So 2021 or 2022, I should say horrible, horrible, not good, but I'm hoping that these will be better. So Sky Striker A's rose. Let's see how that one's doing. All right. 22 cents. That is not great. Okay. So we're looking at 66 cents. We're down 80% on a card we spent like a $1.20 on. All right. Dark Arm Dragon Ghost Strip. I have more hope for you. Dark Arm Dragon, please, please do something for us. Dark Arm Dragon Ghost from the path. Oh, it's down. Oh, well, it's a little rebound. Okay. Near Mint 30.99. That's definitely less than we paid. 30.99. Let's see, compared to last time, we are down a little bit still. Colossal Fighter Ulti. I'm just going to go a little bit quickly through these because we do have a lot here, but Colossal Fighter, or unless there's something like really big we need to pay attention to, Colossal Fighter was really good for us last time. So I'm hoping that can stay the same. Yeah, it's held up pretty good. Near Mint, 114.86. That's really good. 114.86. Wow. We're up 31%. Okay. Last time, we were up 33%. So it's about steady where it was. That's a good one. I honestly should sell these. I did a little bit of selling, which we sold some of these here, the Trap Tricks here, which, okay, we are up 81%, 30% stuff like that. And we actually profited $118 on those, and I probably should do that for some of these that are up, such as the Colossal Fighter. And that's, I mean, 31% is really solid. Ally of Justice Catastor. Another one, thanks to Edison, that's been doing really well. I'm hoping that continues right here. Catastor Ulti. Where's the Ulti? All right. So, oh, this actually hit a dip for a while, and kind of rebounded a little bit, which is good for us. 98.73. Okay, 98, which looks like we missed on our check-in. So last time it was kind of up there. It went like it threw a dip for three months and came back. So we actually ended up making a little bit more, 41%. Wow. We only spent 70 bucks on this. So honestly, a really, really good investment on that one so far. Should probably move both of these. The thing is with this one, it's only really a $28 profit, which with the shipping costs and everything, like really in reality with taxes, shipping, everything, we're not making that much if I actually moved it. So it probably wouldn't even be worth it to move that one. Colossal Fighter, on the other hand, is up about, what is that? Only 26, so really about the same difference. So that's kind of the thing about, we're profiting on these cards, but it's such a low like margin, even if the percentage is higher. The shipping cost of like five bucks and then like the tax we originally spent on TCG player really adds up to making it such a small profit. It's not really worth the hassle of selling it. Okay, Ash Blossom and Joy Springs, this was the Mega 10 version. So Ash Blossom, will you be up in price for us? 10 of the Pharaoh gods. Oh boy, yeah, all that rarity collection. Yeah, rarity collection is just annihilating the market, which surprise, surprise, printing 50 copies of good cards does not work out so well usually. Okay, so I think there was, I need to do times six, right? There was six of them. So that puts us at down 41% to match our 41% right there. That's a shame. Had I known that they were going to do a rarity collection, I wouldn't have invested in so many staples such as pot of desires, which is an ulti, but guess what? We got another ulti. It's a little bit different though. Let's see. I don't know, pot of desires. Can you hold up? Was this one actually, the pot of desires I got was definitely not in a near mint condition, but we're going to check up for near mint. Look at that rarity collection, just decimation of this card. 36.99, that's definitely going to hurt. So we are hurting from rarity collection. 33% killed us. Okay, Trap Tricks, we sold all those. So we don't need to, I guess we can just put in the amount, right? That's why I think that's came from there. So Trap Tricks we sold, we ended up, we locked that in at 68%. That's why I should have moved some of these cards potentially earlier. But I mean, there's no way to predict what they're going to do with rarity collection, but do have to keep in mind if it's a high end staple, they're going to reprint it into the ground. Eventually it's going to be worth nothing. So that's something that's probably going to happen. I should have predicted. So Tomb Black Luster Soldier. This one actually, I feel like, did okay last time. Let's see if the Crystal Revenge version is doing better. Oh, 880, because that's verified. 880 feels like that's up, actually. Yeah, 880. Look at that. Up a little bit until it gets its next reprint, it's up 12%. That's good to see. It's definitely going to get another reprint. It only has two right now. Instant Fusion Ultimate Rare. These I was forced to do. I had no choice. It was a Twitch Chat decision. If you guys remember, you guys didn't watch when Twitch Chat made me do the decisions. It was pretty funny. And the one with the Fiverr draw. You got to go check out that video as well. So they made me do this, even though I knew this was a terrible investment. And yeah, it obviously didn't work. I went up 34%, which was actually up from last time when we were down 41%. So I guess it's trending in the right direction. Maybe in a little long term, this will be a decent one, which would be great. Night Beam. These actually were kind of hot last time. Night Beams, they were good and oldies. They were really good. So let's see if they keep that up. So first Ed's near meant 1229. That feels consistent. I think we bought 10 of these, right? Yeah, 10 Night Beams. So 1229. That is going to work out as 16% increase. This year is feeling a lot better already. I mean, that lock in for Trap Tricks has honestly been a game changer. It's made this investment so much better. Like we've actually been holding up like above 1000. Last time it went down a little bit. This time probably going to be down again. Thanks for ready to collection. But some of the stuff is actually doing really well. Like let's check on the Baxia. I'm much happier with our choices. So Twitch Chat, like being there actually did really well. Like I was shocked at how well Twitch Chat has done. They had some good suggestions, though they made me do a meme one, which of course is Twitch. What do you expect? Okay, this was first Ed. Just wanted to make sure that was a first Ed copy. So first edition, Ulty 2398. I feel like that's down a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, a little bit, but not too bad. So we're down 21%. Let's go to Yazzy. Very similar card to Yazzy. I believe these are both Ulty first. Will Yazzy be okay? That one's down as well. I think it had a, didn't have a recent collector where something 1484 or they could have maybe even been a rarity. I'm not totally sure. So that, that was pretty rough on our investment. That's, they weren't huge cards. They're pretty cool. Ulty's rescue rabbit secret first. So near meant first for rescue rabbit is $15. I feel like we definitely spent more than that. Yeah. Down 30. So we are seeing a little bit kind of falling back into not a great trend here. Overall, only minus 12%. It's not terrible. Rising energy. Let's check on this one. This one was one we spent quite a bit on. There was like a, I feel like a refund offered on one of them. Can't remember exactly, but something like that happened. We had a 630. Okay. So what do we spend on these? How many did we buy? 2373? About two. So yeah, we're definitely down on those. All right. 630 times two puts us down 47%. That's pretty rough fiber jar. We just got to refund for that one. So that one's, you know, the star. You guys remember, if you don't remember, go back and watch the video of the mail day gone wrong. Go see when we got the cards. It's right here. It's in the playlist as well. It was, it was insane. I'll have the playlist linked at the end of the video as well. All right. Droll and Lockbird were kind of insane. And I probably need to sell these. These actually went off last time. They're just rares out of tactical masters because we spent like less than a dollar here. It looks, oh man, they're going to be down again, but they were all, let's see. They were like way, way cheap. They were like less than a dollar and they were up at like $5 for a while. Let's see. They're at 332, which is still not bad. And we bought, I think, a play set. Yeah. It looks like one play set. So we are at 332 times three. So it puts us up 600. So last time we were up 918% because we spent $1.40 on three of them total. This was three. That was $1.40. So yeah, we kind of went crazy on these. They were like 40 cents or 49 cents or whatever it was. And now they're worth like 10 bucks for a play set, which is, I mean, that felt like a good one at a time because that had just released. So they were at the absolute low they were going to be. Everyone had them and it's aged pretty well. No reprints since then. So honestly, pretty good. I mean, they've fallen back a little bit, but it's been really nice. All right. Gate guarding. This was the ultimate meme purchase. We bought gate guardians at $5 a piece. Absolutely terrible buy. I mean, terrible. Secret rears. They're now down at 76 cents. So that is going to really hurt. I think we bought 20 something of them, 23. I think I might reserve the right to not allow there to, if we do another one where viewers can choose, if they want a meme purchase, I can veto it. Like if it's something this stupid, like gate guardian, like we spent $101 on gate guardian, now we're $17 for 24 cards. We're not, I'm not allowing that. It's not happening next year because that's really killing our overall vibe. Okay. Battle on the battle fader, which has been really good. I haven't been able to move it though. So the price is a little bit fraudulent. Let's see. Nurement unlimited. It's down to 39. So this is a little bit more reasonable. Where even is my price? I added up at like the lowest price and it just keeps going down. So 39.98. We're kind of back to what I spent on it. It was crazy for a while. It's up 33%. It was at $125 at one point, which it wasn't selling for that, but that was the lowest price it got bought out. So still up 33 bucks. It's not bad. It looks like we're actually going to lose money here for the first time all year. But see them off. I think we bought like a bunch of these. So these are, these are going to add back some, some value, but not a ton. Really. I mean, honestly though, it should be a lot, but we only bought unlimiteds because first ads are actually expensive. We got unlimited 37 cents. We bought 14 of these. So 37 cents times 14. That puts us down 41%. We're actually down for the first time this year, 4%. And we can go ahead and give a big shout out. Thank you rarity collection. We went from up 18, up five to down four. And it was basically all rarity collection. We killed our ash blossoms, our pot of desires. For some reason, I think these two were in rarity collection, but I couldn't be wrong about that. If they were, then it makes perfect sense why they're down. And then we are down on a few things like the battle fader being a fraudulent price. You know, it's still up, but it's probably more reasonable about what it is right now. That gets a reprint. It's going to hurt it even more. So overall, though, we have not lost a ton of money one year in, let's compare this year where we're down 4% after a year to last year. How much were we down after one year? And should we expect it to go back up? Or is it going to continue to tank like it did in year one? So if we check right here, a year later, I had lost 16%. So we're doing better than last year after a year, but still it was down a little bit, but it was doing a lot better than it is currently like 16% compared to 49%. So are we going to see like these cards being down 4% going to down 20% or 25%? The good thing is, and really the main reason we're doing so well is I locked in this $292 sale, which was a 68% increase in our trap tricks, traphold nightmares. And really, I should have done that on a few other cards as we went. And maybe next year I'll be more intentional about doing that. And that'll help us actually profit in the future. Let me know what you think about this video. Do you want to see a year three and what do you want to see different if we do the year three? Because of course I'm leaning toward doing it because it's one of the most fun series we have on the channel. But I do want to change it up a little bit. I do want to have some way to make it even more fun, like maybe be more intentional about selling stuff, make content out of that, like buying and selling the cards, stuff like that. Maybe we can even buy stuff throughout the year to continue into our investment. Like if I sell something at a profit, maybe spend that money immediately on another investment. So we can have more and more cards. That could be really fun. So if you do enjoy this video, don't forget to subscribe to the channel because we're going to have more content just like this. Shout out to Tom Foshow, Daxter, Puffins of Doom, Renesto Dina, America Doidster, Leo Gwine, 62, Brad KK Beatz, Anonitaisho, Ian Musa, Junior Marding, Robert F. Thomas McLean, Changolang, and Joey Castle. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.