 Yu-Gi-Oh players have come and gone since the card game's TCG Inception in 2002. Whether it be aging out of the game or simply running out of peers to play the game with, people are always leaving Yu-Gi-Oh. However, those former players always seem to find their way back to the game at some point. And one of the first things these people do is ask, how much are my old cards worth? They see videos referencing expensive Yu-Gi-Oh cards and they believe they might have had those cards. 9 times out of 10, these players don't have the cards they think they had, but occasionally, some players know they are sitting on gold. In today's video, we talk about a guy who did have an expensive Yu-Gi-Oh card, but not just any expensive card, a one of one, Tyler the Great Warrior. What's up guys? Today we are viewing one of the craziest Yu-Gi-Oh events to ever happen. So because I know the man himself, Simo, I had heard an inkling of what might be in this video, but I don't know a lot about this, but we are about to see the rarest card of all time go up for sale. Well, let's not get into it too much until we see kind of what's going on. I want you guys to make sure to go check out Simo's video to watch the whole context. We won't be showing the whole video here. I'm just going to be reacting to a few things that come up in the video and then talking about what this means that Tyler the Great Warrior is now up for sale. So I think first and foremost, we should start off with, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself? Okay, I'm Tyler Gressley. A lot of people know me as Tyler the Great Warrior. Wow, Tyler the Great Warrior. This is insane. So if you guys don't know the story of Tyler the Great Warrior back in 2002, Tyler was diagnosed with cancer. So Make-A-Wish heard about Tyler's predicament and basically gave him the opportunity to make his own card. And it looks like he actually got to design it and they kind of like, obviously he didn't just draw it. They put it on there, but they kind of like reformed it or whatever. And then they actually gave it the name Tyler the Great Warrior. He didn't make that up, which he just said in the video, but he got his own one-of-one special card because he had this cancer and this issue. But the cool part, as you guys see, he actually made it through the cancer. He made it through the fight and he also got this crazy awesome Yu-Gi-Oh card. And that's what we're watching about right now. And if you guys remember, I did a one-of-one video about the one-ring coming to Magic the Gathering and how crazy it is. This is even crazier. This card actually was given to him August 5th, 2005. So we're talking about like an 18 year old card at this point versus the one-ring, which is a brand new card. So this is a one-of-one. It has a massive story behind it about a kid who was diagnosed with cancer, had to go through such a difficult time and was given an awesome Make-A-Wish opportunity to get a Yu-Gi-Oh card with his own name on it. So there's a lot more to dive into, but I want to see what else is in the video before we keep going. I mean, this just tells the whole story here. Oh, there it is, guys. So are you just a big Future Trucks fan? I was saying this before, it's very Dragon Ball artwork. I mean, he made it up. So he was probably watching Dragon Ball at the time, you know, and he's having to go to the hospital all the time. That's what my guess would be. He would probably really into Dragon Ball and he also loved Yu-Gi-Oh. So he kind of mixed them together. My journey really started in 2001. I was initially diagnosed with undifferentiated sarcoma of the liver. Eventually, they told me about Make-A-Wish. I told them I wanted to make this and they flew us out to New York. My dad and I, they introduced me to the artist. Dude, he has some flow. Look at this flow. Dad, look at Dad and Eric. Oh my gosh, they look so young. That's crazy. They contacted me and first thing I wanted was a Porsche, but that wasn't all I'm not sure. So his options were Porsche, Yu-Gi-Oh card. Second option was Yu-Gi-Oh card. I mean, I guess the Yu-Gi-Oh card might actually, I mean, when this thing goes up for sale, it might actually be worth more than a Porsche at this point, which is pretty wild to think about. I drew this. Always been inspired by Dragon Ball Z and stuff. I loved Yu-Gi-Oh so much. So I was like, man, I can combine the both if I can do what I wanted, you know? So it was actually, he literally had it in mind. I want to make a Dragon Ball Yu-Gi-Oh card. That's what he did. And that's what the title of the Great Warrior turned out to be, which is amazing. At the time, who wanted a wish to design his own Yu-Gi-Oh card and I remember thinking I have no idea what he's talking about. That's hilarious. It was one of the first requests like that we had gotten. He had no idea at the time, like nobody really did, like how crazy this Yu-Gi-Oh and trading card stuff would turn out. But it's crazy to think that this is one of the like most valuable potential things you could ask for. Like he wanted to ask for a Porsche and that was like, you know, probably like, I don't even know how much those cost, but tens of hundreds of thousands, I don't know how much those are. I mean, he could have asked for so many different things, like to meet somebody or to like, you know, go to a baseball game or something like that. But he asked for a trading card, which at the time people were like, really a trading card? And now it turns out to be like one of the craziest collectibles in Yu-Gi-Oh, probably the craziest collectible. And now we're going to see what it ends up going for when it goes up for sale. We know this wasn't actually Tyler's first request for make a wish. Why did Gage get to be here? What's up with that? Gage get to be on the call? Come on, so unfair. In retrospect, and you can be honest, do you still wish you got the Porsche? In retrospect, no, no. I don't wish I got the Porsche. I still would have stuck with the card for sure. I didn't even think about the portion of like, not just getting the card, but I didn't know initially that he actually got to design the card, which is even almost a cooler thing that he personally got to decide what the card looked like. And the more I'm listening to this, the more that I'm realizing that it wasn't just about like, having a card with his name on it, it was actually getting to make his own card and it be a real card, which if you think about it, it's pretty amazing. So curious, when they first approached you guys about this, what did you guys think? What was your first thing? Dude, I was like, we absolutely need to get them here, no matter what. I was like, gee. Dude, this is the Holy Grail. Oh, 100%. Yeah. Okay, so they're saying this is the Holy Grail. This is why I wanted to make this video, one of the reasons. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments. Is this the coolest Holy Grail rarest card ever? I think we can confirm that from what I've heard, I think that they actually go into this a little bit in the video, but I think this is definitely a one of one. There's only one of them. And there's no other Yu-Gi-Oh card like that. Even if you go to stuff like Cyberstein where there was 100 of them or all those SJC prize cards and stuff like that, there's no one of ones. Even in Pokemon, when you go back to the Pokemon Illustrator, there's like 20 of those, 25 of those. There's one of these. There's only one and it has such a crazy story. This could be the Holy Grail if you're looking at collectibles. Then you got to ask yourself like, well, you know, it's not as known to a lot of people, but at this point, I think the lore of it has actually become so well known that maybe at this point, it actually is the most known Yu-Gi-Oh card. So I don't know. Just let me know in the comments what you think about that. When they printed it, did they, it was just on this one sheet because like I'm pretty interested in the production on it. So they just made the one, cut it out, put it directly into the case. No one, as far as I know, no one's touched it with their bare hands. Gotcha. What? Oh, okay. So they, as I said, I think they mentioned this. They made one only. It's never been touched by bare hands. Whoa. Okay. So they put it in the case and he never took it out. That first of all, smart. This is a smart kid, but he's not a kid anymore. He's my age, but wow, that is incredible. That's incredible restraint, to be honest. You design your own card and then you just leave it in the case. That's thinking ahead, man. He's smart. Okay. We have this concept art and stuff. Well, they said, does this... Whoa. Okay. So this is what it could have been. Honestly, this looks sweet. He's got the sword. He's got the fist going here. I like this. That's cool. One or this one looked good to you. And then he, of course, liked the Dragon Ball stuff. So he went with this option. Wow. That's, they're both really nice. So both of those that we have, those were both done by Kazuki Takahashi and those were the two. So they're done by Kazuki Takahashi, which of course the legend and RIP he had recently passed away, but amazing. Those look so good. At one point we talked a little bit about what attack level I wanted it, things like that. Oh, interesting. He had to pick the stats, which of course they had to go with 3,000 to match the Blue Eyes, White Dragon. I mean, you can't be under the Blue Eyes, White Dragon. I remember back in the day, they were so hesitant to put stuff at 3,000, they would have like 2,950, 2,850, 2,900. They would put so many cards like that because they're like, oh, Blue Eyes, too powerful, can't be up there at 3K. If you look at the card, it doesn't like correctly totally sit in there, right? I can record it up. Does that make you at all nervous of how it will come out? I'm interested. What will this grade? It's never been touched before, but it's in one of these interesting cases, as they mentioned, that you really don't know how well it preserved it. I'm guessing if it's Beckett, you guys know how I feel about getting 9s at Beckett, but maybe they'll get lucky. Imagine if this got like a BGS 10, that would be insane. So I did see them press and mint the card, but it was behind glass. You got to watch them make it? Oh my gosh, it's crazy. From my memory, I don't remember it being that as awe-inspiring as you thought it might be, it was kind of just like, shh. Yeah, well, I would expect it not when you're like 14 or whatever, you see the card get smashed or whatever, and you're like, okay, whatever, no big deal. But now that we're all super nerds and we level this trading card stuff, to see something like that would actually be an insane experience. Just seeing a Legend of Blue Eyes sheet being printed or whatever would be crazy and seeing this is next level. Do you know how many copies of the card were actually printed? Their word to mine at four kids, it is the only copy. The only copy. This is the thing that I have to make a huge takeaway of is like, when we're talking about rare collectibles, this is the rarest. There's no one of one. We've already mentioned this, but this is the only one. And the only reason there's only one is because it was for a make-a-wish thing. If it was for like actually selling it, they would have made more, or even SJC prizes, they got to make more. So it's just an insanely unique situation that it never happened for Pokemon or Magic. They didn't have like a make-a-wish thing that I know of like this. It's just insane. Okay, so this comes off. Oh no. Look at the back of it. It definitely, okay, as you can see, it's definitely not like minty-minty. So we're probably guessing like, I'm going to try and guess the grade. I don't know if like, I mean they have some incentives to be like, you know, actually it's a better grade. But I guess with that back, like I wouldn't even have that like a near mint card, but like it depends on what the rest looks like. I would be so nervous. Like this guy, I would have been freaking out if I was this guy. Like having to actually touch this card for the first time, you know, be really careful around it. So he did a good job. He didn't like damage anything from what I saw. So we're good. I wonder, okay, I wonder if these grading companies, I don't think they actually do, but do you think they have like, okay, this is a very expensive card. So we're going to have like the top level grade or grade this one. I figure they do actually, I figure they probably do that. I don't know. All right guys, we're back. What do we think of grading? I don't know, man, I like to be optimistic. I really want the black label, but I'm going to be concerned. I'm going to say it's a 9.5. I don't think it's a 9.5 based on the back that we saw. I bet it's like, I would guess like an 8.5. So when we are grading, we grade off the four categories. So the centering corners, edges, and the surface of the card. I think what's going to hold this card back is the back surface. The center looks pretty good, the corners. I mean, I can't really look at it. I'm just looking at this video, but it looks pretty clean on the front. So I think the back's what's going to hold it back. And then so we ended up with a 7. Okay, I knew I was being optimistic. The surface is what killed this, I guarantee it. 9.5 on the centering, 8 on the corners, 8.5 on the edges, and then a 6 on the surface. 6 on the surface, that back, it was the back. But I'm surprised the corners were that bad. I didn't see that. You can actually see a crease going through it. So this is like disappointing and all for like the grade, but in all honesty, the grade doesn't matter at all because this is a one of one card. It's the only one that exists. It doesn't matter if it's a 10, a 7, a 6, a 5, a 1. It's all the same thing. Really, the grade here, like, oh cool, it's in better condition. But when you have the only one that exists, it really doesn't matter what condition it's in. I want to part with the card now after so much time. I think there is a good chance that this card doesn't go up for sale again because if the right people go for this, which I think everyone that's interested in this card will know about this auction. The right person gets it. They're not going to want to get rid of it. They're simply collecting because they want the rarest Yu-Gi-Oh card. This might be the only opportunity ever to get this card, which is pretty crazy. I want to own and operate my own business to also help my community. Pretty wild that he's actually put it up for sale, but I totally understand where he's coming from. He's like, look, I've had this for 20 years. It means a lot to me, but I will always be tired of the Great Warrior. Even if I don't have the card, so it makes sense. He wants to move on, maybe not move on. That's not the right word, but he's ready to go and start his family and stuff. So it's crazy. I'm so interested to see what this is going to go for when they sell it. So I do think the most fitting name is Tyler the Great Warrior because what better name would I have come up with, especially as an 11-year-old? You know, at first I was like, oh. Okay, so he was 11 at the time, and then 14, I guess, when they printed it. Because it was 2002 when he was diagnosed and then 2005 when they printed it. So that makes sense. Yeah, 11-year-old? What's he going to say? You know, I really had overcome this crazy journey. So I really was a warrior over this. And I think especially now over the years and growing so much just as an adult and over time that I couldn't have picked a better name. That that was really, really fitting. Wow, this is an incredible story. And now they're auctioning it off. Tyler the Great Warrior will be hosted on eBay beginning April 19th, 2023. We are definitely going to be following that auction on this channel. We're going to see what it goes for. I want to know in the comments what do you guys think this is going to go for? Because if you remember the Legend of Blue Eyes case that sold a year or two ago went for over half a million dollars after the buyer's premium. This is a much, much rarer item because this is a one of one. There were, there was tons and tons of Legend of Blue Eyes printed. There was one of this printed. So if you compare those two, it's like, will that get to that 500,000? Will it get to a million dollars even? I don't know. Let me know. Is that crazy to think that a Yu-Gi-Oh card could go for a million dollars? We've seen the Black Lotus in Magic go for what? A million dollars with the signed one? And that's not a one of one. There was 1100 of those rares, obviously not all PSA or BGS 10s or whatever it was. But this could be the most expensive Yu-Gi-Oh card. I can almost guarantee that because at the moment we don't really have a card over like $200,000 and I'd be surprised personally if it didn't go over that. We can always argue the Black Luster Soldier card. That's a one of one. But I still have never seen any evidence and look, we have an entire YouTube video about this card, about how it's a one of one, about it being graded and everything like that. I'm super excited to see what this goes for. Make sure to go check out C-MOS full video because you only saw part of it here. Most of it was just me talking about the theory of the card, how much it's going to go for, Tyler himself and stuff like that. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this. Well, maybe not like this because this might never happen again. So maybe other content similar to this. How about that? Shout out the Tonefo show, Daxter JTCHO, Puffence of Doom, Ernesto D'Ande, Dizzy Hoppus, Choice 333, Missycle James Jantz, TCG Trust of Cards, America Deutzer, Supreme Stage 21, and then the tie show, Ian Musa, Junior Barty, Mimic Gecko, and Thomas McClain. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.