 In today's video, we're checking on my $1,000 TCG purchase and we're going to check on the ones from the last two years as well. Let's see how much money I've lost. All right, guys, before we hop into it, we're doing a $50 TCG player gift card giveaway. Just like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know down below. Did we make any money on any year? Like did anything go up? Which is, it's pretty unusual, but let me know down below. Let's get to it. All right, right off the bat, let's just start off. I think we should probably start with year one. I mean, we have a lot to go through. So we have year one, two and now three. So we have three separate years. I'm going to go through these pretty quick because now that we have three separate years to check, the video could be really, really long. So first off, let's go check on our blue eyes, ulti blue eyes. They've not been performing that well. All right, blue eyes, white dragon, baby. Give us some money. Blue eyes, ulti first edition. I've got a little story, by the way. When we get to year three out, we've got a little story going on. So if you're a little teaser for that, you guys will hear that later on. There's a little story going on with one of the cards. Okay, five, four. This is weird shipping. We'll do 455, I guess. This is first set. Oh, and I had to do light play because, you know, we, we didn't return it and yada, yada. I know we've lost $21, 82% of our money. Uh, we don't need to talk about that. That just pretend like it didn't happen. Okay, near mint unlimited. We're definitely making our money back 335. Definitely, right? No, we're not. We're not 57%. All right, silent swordsman. Another one that would have performed well, had our return and got another one. The thing is what I've been able to get one. Maybe, maybe not. Not really sure. This is a beautiful looking card. By the way, I still have all these cards. The only ones I've sold were the Trap Tricks. Trap on my merits from year two. So I have all these cards still and, uh, we're getting it a little bit should have sold them. Okay, 56, 22. Just kidding. These are cool cards. So I'm not, it's, it's all right. It's, it's fine that we spent $3,000 on TCG player and probably have like none of our money left. Hey, look, we only lost 35% of our money. Not too bad. Astral Leviathan. Surely that'll help us, right? Yeah. Leviathan dragon. Yeah. Getting more prints recently. I think, or did they print this? No, they printed utopia. Oh, great. Yeah. I think we bought a utopia too. Didn't we? Let's see. Near met first debt. Still 110 bucks, 3495. Okay. This is literally getting worse. How is this getting worse? We've lost 74, 75 dollars. Oh, that's the biggest number. Like the percentages isn't as bad as the blue eyes, but we only spent a total of $26. We spent $110 on the Leviathan. What a stupid decision. Lightning storm might be able to upstage it though. I think we're going to be losing more money on this one. This one was actually doing well for a while, but then, you know, rarity collection happened. So yeah, this thing is not going to be holding up so high. Let, oh my, that's just in the last three months. Look at the last year. This is where we were. This is where it is now, 79.95. Oh my goodness. Starlight rare RIP starlight rares. I mean, completely getting waxed. Solid morning. We're flying through this as I said, but holy crap. Oh no. Chill out to be keyboard. My keyboard is now sticky King constantly. And I don't know why it's like new. So I don't know how it's happening already. It's like malfunctioning or something. It's really unfortunate. Oh wait, this is this is getting a print ready collection too. So it'll get crushed. Don't worry. Don't have no fear. This is a 299 shipping. So we're going to make that 56 26 instead of 54 56 26. Wow. Only $13. It's the closest we've gotten only lost less than 20% of our money. Slightly less a dusting gold. Okay. Evil hero a dusty gold had a random blueprint since then. Seeker rare brothers a legend. This was a terrible decision. 298. Let's go. Yeah. Elements or elemental hero Stratos isn't isn't Stratos in rarity collection too as well. They're personally targeting like Konami's like, okay, what did ruxin invest in in his $1,000 TCG player purchase? We're going to reprint those in rarity collection. I think that's what's happening because they're targeting our cards. All right. 99 95 for verified 99 95. Don't worry guys. We only lost $50 and 4 cents. This first year is getting depressing. So it looks like I'm hoping that what happens at some point like in like year seven of this series if we keep going that long is that like eventually some of these cards like they get their reprints they get destroyed and then they slowly start taking back up. The question is will they ever get back to that price that they were at when we bought them? Probably not. But maybe in like 10 15 years we'll be able to see them go and then just slowly make their way back up. That's what I'm hoping that's really all I can hope for at this point because we are getting absolutely massacred red eyes flare metal. Okay. Red eyes flare metal ghost near me. This one actually was near meant first at 63 95. Wow. What? This thing's that cheap rarity collection. Curse you rarity collection. They literally reprinted like three of the cards in here for the cards if you include rarity collection too. So flare metal lightning storm solid mornings upcoming. I think Stratos is upcoming. I'm sure blue eyes will be in something at some point. I mean it's as a million lieth and dragon is probably going to be in Brothers of Legend reprint number seven or whatever. Where's Triumph tech? This is the only one holding up because you can't really they're not going to reprint boxes. They might I say that I say that I shouldn't say anything. No reprint it. Okay. Verified 80. This is $15 shipping. I think this is the same guys last year. I'm pretty sure last time we checked out our last three months ago. Whatever. So I think we put that at 95 or well I guess we take $4 up $5 up for shipping. Let's call it 90 99. As you can see it looks like the sealed product was our best choice. We lost 8%. We have literally lost 50%. Let's see what it was last time. Hey, we actually did check last time right here. You guys can see we had 490 lost. Oh wait. No nevermind. That's lost. Okay. Here's what we had. So we've technically lost about 17 bucks since last time. Here's the original. So the first time we went up 27 bucks. Then we're down a little bit. Then we're down a little bit more. You can see the progression. 660 bucks. The 551 bucks 510 bucks 493. We're literally at like less than 50% value of what we spent. It's absolutely terrible. Let's just go to year two and see if it'll be a little better. All right. Sky's tracker A's rose. Let's keep going. I don't know. Maybe these will be a little better. Maybe these will be a little better because they are not so old, but maybe not. Let's see 24 cents. So we bought three of them. So we lost 260. Wow. These are worth nothing now. Okay. Dark arm dragon. I know this one hasn't held up very well, but it shouldn't be like as bad as some of the other ones we've seen because it hasn't had a million prints. So near mint though, near mint 3495. It's not horrible. Just being in the ballpark these days is great. Colossal fighter eventually is going to get a reprint for, I really should sell this because it's going to get a reprint for Edison and then it's going to be very, very cheap. Okay. Colossal fighter ultimate. Okay. This actually has pictures. Sometimes I skip these because I think they're foreign 9999 for that one. And that's pictures. It's the only one. Is it actually near mint? It's hard to tell from that picture. Edgeware a little bit. That picture is pretty sketchy. So let's see. Let's see if there's any. Have there been any sales recently that corroborate a $100 one? They've been selling 116, 110, 112, 140. Yeah. I think we're going to go with the non picture one because I can't really even see that picture. 114, 93, 114, 93. We've actually, wow. I need to sell this card. This card is worth 34 more or $26 more. Ally of Justice, Catastor. I mean, this is our only chance to lock in any profits. But at the same time, you know, maybe we just hang on to it and just let it ride, you know, $100 on that one. We've actually made money on those two. Thank you, Edison format. The only thing that's carrying the series. Ash blossom enjoy a string. We have string. Ash blossom enjoy a string. That's okay. That is not what we're looking for. Okay. We had the mega 10 version. Where are they? 10 of Pharaoh gods. This is a 599. That's what I'm talking about. We're making our way back up. All right. We have still lost $24. But hey, we're making our way back up. Pot of Desires, Ulti. This one I remember was not in the condition it was stated. It had a big old blob on the back and it had rarity collection reprint. So 24, 26, even for near meant ours was not near meant, but that's fine. Traptor trap old nightmare. We locked this in it. What was this? What was the sale at 292.26? That's the only reason this year is going to hold up at all to Black Luster soldier. See if these have made a run at all. We have the secret rares. Whoa. Okay. I don't even know what that sound was 1116. I sold all of mine to sassy Otto for like really cheap. So congrats sassy Otto besides this one that I bought on TCG player, but hey, a 42% increase in diffusion. That's why I should I should just ask sassy Otto. Next year, what should I invest in that? Then I'll actually like do something. I'll actually get something good because he's a genius. 129 90. Wait, what's instant fusion on the come up 7%? Okay. I like it. Night beam up next instant fusion. We are, we need to be celebrating this. This is insane night beam. What, what, what, what, what do you got? What, what 1094? That's about what we paid. I think 10 10.94 times some of these were not we're not near met, but I don't think we cared. Baxia. What you got for us? Ultimate rare first edition 1799. So that's not going to quite cut it. Yazi evil of the angzing. So far this has been a much better year than the previous because we're actually making money on a couple cards, which is great to see 1248 not on that one. That one got killed. I think that one was I might have been rarity collection to rescue rabbit because every single card ever was in rarity collection or rarity collection too. So it's going to be hard for this series going for it. Okay. We didn't buy a CR. We bought a secret, right? Okay. Secret rare near mint. Oh, what the, why are you rolling me up? Stop rolling me up. Stop doing that 1594 for first ed losing money on that one. Rising energy. I feel like that could have been. I feel like everything was in rarity collection. I came in to remember rising energy. We collected all the cards. So I have them somewhere first ed near mint. I've got a story to still tell about year three. So yeah, it's a wild one. It is pretty unfortunate. I'll say that. Whoa. Oh, that's times two. That's why I was like, what the? Yeah. We knew we over invested now in fiber jar. Yeah. We got to refund for that after like two months took forever. Drone lock bird. I think these were doing good last time. Let's see if they still are. Drone lock bird regular rare from Tama $4. Holy crap. We bought these on the cheap. Oh my goodness. That times four bucks. That is $12. We made 700. Wow. 757% increase. That was a good investment on those drone lock birds. They were literally a dollar 40 divided by three. That's how much they were like 40 something cents. Gay guardian. The way here's a big one. Here's a big L. This is the way you can't let chat decide for you. Okay. Midterm paradox, baby. These suckers are worth. There is literally a 3 cent listing with 3 cent sales. 3 cents. We paid like $5 each. Oh my goodness. Three cents. All 23 are worth 69 cents. Now one of them we paid like 10 times as much for one that 23 of them are worth. We lost 99% of the value. That's like buying like a crypto and it just of course inevitably goes to zero. That's what just happened there. Wow. That is that is sad. Okay. That is completely just complete destruction of the wallet right there. Just don't even ever consider investing in a speed dual secret rare of gay guardian. It is a bad a bad idea, which now the three cents. So maybe like you could actually make some penny stocks off of it, you know, because it's worth nothing. All right. 64 99 collectors cash go and but 14 of those Canyon moth. Of course these made money because they're the rarest cards out there, but he moth metal Raiders. Let's see. These are 26 cents. That is unbelievable. Completely false. I don't believe it for one second lost 58%. So overall we made 2% on our money. We made half as much as it would just put it in a high yield shape savings account. Who is proud guys? We did a great job. So proud of us. We could have just put it in a savings account. Not even worried about it. We didn't even consider tax. So we lost money. Okay. But guess what guys? They're still your three. Nothing to worry about. This is going to be a longer one. All right. For some reason this was not listed separately as the ghost. So I'm going to have to go find it. Uh, Gold ghost. There it is. So always makes it difficult near mint 25, none of eight. So yes, we have in fact made money on that one. That's nice. Dogmatic Ecclesia ultimate rare. I remember this being really cheap. Let's see if it still is. I think it still is to be honest. So maybe we'll have a little bit more time. It'll go up near mint 12 whole dollar race. We did not make money there. Nekagall number one. Let's see. One of the meme purchases. Somebody donated for that one. Nekagall number one near mint. Anybody 175. So that's not going to hold up. Oh wait. No, no, it's not. We are losing money on the Nekagalls. Trap tricks were fleas yet. Trap tricks was good to us last time, but there's no trap tricks trucks or deck coming out this year. So it's going to make it a little bit more difficult for us to make money on this 21 68. Hey, we did it. We made a little bit of money. All right. 25th anniversary. No, look, the LOB boxes did go up. Legend of blue eyes. These went up to like a hundred some dollars. Yeah. A hundred nine ninety nine. So stocks, we should have done more of those. And I think these will hold up because these aren't just going to get an immediate reprint little D up next. So the stocks, as you can see, 25th anniversary boxes. I do believe in those. They're very solid. So I'm very pumped that that worked out. And if you guys want to see any of the videos previously, where we actually bought these cards, where we opened the mail for them, go check them out on the screen right here. They'll be up. There's a whole playlist for the one K investment because you do this many times a year, probably like six videos a year on this. Judge. OK, here we go. Here's the story. Judgement dragon. You guys may have seen the mail day. If you didn't go check it out where we got the judgment dragon back. The guy said it's near meant. I look at it. There's a bit all the way through the car. So I hit up the guy. Hey, his car doesn't bend in. And he's like, OK, you can return it. So I'm like, OK, cool. So I returned it to him. He offers another card. I look at it. He said he's like, oh, I got one here that slightly played that you could take with a little refund. I looked at it. I thought it was like heavy play, to be honest. So I just said no. So we didn't do that. So I returned it. Got a refund, which was great. Put out a little post on Instagram. Hey, anybody got a judgment dragon? Get a message from tricky ending on Instagram. I've met him card party. Really cool guy. It's like I got one and I was like, OK, I'll pay you the 180 we paid like for the other one. He's like, no, dude, don't worry about it. You don't need to pay that much. Just pay a hundred. I'm like, are you sure? He's like, yeah, sure. I'm like, all right, sure. So I so he sent it to me. I paid him a hundred bucks, whatever. Guess what happens? It gets lost. Yeah. So first the first ones back condition replacement one was not in good condition either reliable seller. I knew would actually have a nice near mint copy for me offers it to me not even for a hundred for 100 not even for 180 for a hundred bucks. So giving us a big discount just because they're like, I got it for a hundred. You can have it for a hundred. And I was like, that's super clutch. And it gets lost and to top it all off, he threw in a little bonus pack for us to open a heavy start us over drive. So we literally didn't get the card like multiple times and he threw in a heavy start us over drive pack. We were going to get to open. So that got lost. Shout out to the post office for being awesome. Just kidding. They're terrible. Every time I go in, I wait 45 minutes to pick on my mail. So annoying. So yeah, unfortunate. There are some people at the post office though. If you do see this at the post office, I like some of you, you guys are working there. But sometimes it's rough. Okay. But yeah, that's what happened with Judgement Dragon. Very sad, very disappointing to be honest because tricky and then go check about on Instagram threw in a free pack for he didn't make any money on the card through a free pack and it gets of course gets lost. So even refund like, dude, don't worry about refunding me. He refunds me anyway. So right now we're just going to calculate it like we have like we have one. I'm going to try to find another one. If you guys have a Judgement Dragon hit me up because I'm still trying to, I haven't actually spent our one K because I got a refund for it. So twice, twice. So it's stupid. It's cursed. Give me one that I will not be cursed on. Maybe when I go to an event this year, I can find one and buy one and then that way like, I know it won't get lost in the mail and I could look at the condition everything. Okay. So that was a super sad story. That's what happened. Unfortunately. Let's see what the near mint cost is first edition. It is one nine nine nine five. Okay. One nine nine nine five. Very nice. Looking good on that one actually too bad. We don't actually have the card. That would help. Okay. Zushan or let's go for that one. Yeah. Very cool card. Yada yada. Okay. I guess it's unleashed right. Yeah. It's the older one. This one is nine cents. So okay. We've somehow lost money on this card. Equals. Why don't I make two? I don't know why I made two lines for this, but there's two lines. So I guess cause two different packages who just made it easier. So yeah. So we lost money even on the 19 cent card. It still went down somehow cause some we had to pay 21 cents. I see Mirage of Nightmare. No, no, no more Zushan. More Zushan. I guess we had to play 25 cents on those. So we are taking a big L on those Mirage of Nightmare up next. As you can see, not exactly an exciting exciting check-in this time. We kind of got waxed this time. Mirage Nightmare 550. Okay. 5.50. We got three of these actually. So we actually got multiple quantities on a lot of things, which we don't normally do or not this much at least. Okay. So that one's still taking an L destroy Phoenix and forces. This one will be interesting because it was pretty cheap when we bought it. Not the Starlight Rare. It would be pretty cool. We got, what do we get? The Burst of Destiny or the, you get the secret. I think that means Burst of Destiny. So 4.99. Let's see what the price, yeah. Yeah, it was three bucks. So it was this one. Let me see. All right. So we actually made money on the, that made sense. That was a really cheap card for how good it was. Heavy Storm. Let's keep going. All right. The unlimited 5.99. I think we spent 5, right? No, 5.49. Okay. So we made 50 cents. I'm not mad about that. Brilliant Fusion. I think Brilliant Fusion. People were really like happy about those. This shop that sold us to them, sold us super clean copies. They were like, ooh, this is a cool card. All right. 23.98. So we didn't make any money, but we're not getting killed yet. Lost 4%, not the worst thing ever. Draco Sack. Let's see what that one got. When we get like way into the series, we have like multiple years at some point. I will, I will do these ahead of time and like maybe we'll check on the current year and I'll just kind of review the other ones, but you know, maybe we'll even start doing that this year because this is taking a little bit of time. If you like it longer though, let me know if you like the like maybe not because normally they're like 10 minutes, which is a little short. So this might be a happy medium for that. We made 5%, not bad, which is not much, but it's something bearing the floor. Okay. Now we're checking in on a rarity collection options. I think we did supers. Yeah, we did supers here. So let's rarity collection. What are these worth? 74 cents. Somehow these have gone down even more. Linda the Light Charmer, our big starlight rare. 288. You are also down, but who is it? Dingyirsu. All right. Dingyirsu QCR going down already 949. All right. Lava golem. We bought a few of these QCRs. There's no way these are $20 still, right? There's no way that'd be insane. Yeah, 1510. I was about to say that would be pretty insane if they were and that means we've also about 25% on each of those a little bit more and some of them evenly matched. You are evenly matched. We went with the Ultras on this one. These are literally the same price. So, okay. Moving on. A lighting storm. Let's see what you are doing lightning storm. Are you holding up as well? This is my typing skills. They're not good. 85 cents. No, you are not holding up. Not great reasoning our last card. I don't think this is going to get us back. What do we get? Like an ultimate or something? Prismatic ultimate on this one. 53 cents. So you aren't doing so hot either, which means this year we have already lost 5% and it's only been three months. Not off to a great start because usually the first three months is where you actually make something. So overall, the investments these days in Yu-Gi-Oh. I mean, as you can see, it's never been great, but it's getting worse and worse. It's just like slowly they get worse and worse and worse. So not awesome. If you guys enjoyed the series and want to see more, make sure to subscribe to the channel and hopefully at some point it will be worth buying cards and you're not going to like slowly just die. Shout out to ToFoShow, Puffin Zidoo, Ernesto Dianne, America Deutcher, KK Beats, another side show, Ian Moosey Jr. Barney, Robert F. Thomas McClain, Chang-Ling, and Al Delso, Galicia Jr. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.