 In this video, we're pitting the first two sets of Yu-Gi-Oh! against each other! First Edition Metal Raiders vs First Edition L.O.B. The legend of Blue Eyes, White Dragon and Metal Raiders are the first two core Yu-Gi-Oh! sets to ever release in the TCG. Both debuting in the year 2002, they included some of the most iconic Yu-Gi-Oh! cards to ever be printed. To this day, Konami is still printing support for original archetypes from these sets, such as Blue Eyes, Dark Magician, Red Eyes, and Gate Guardian. Hey Konami, when are we getting the new Exodia support? I know we got a few things, but I'd really like to re-enact the first episode of the anime at locals. While both of these sets have awesome cards and are very popular to this day, there's still a question begging to be answered. Which of these two is better? Legend of Blue Eyes is often quoted as the best set for collecting simply due to containing some of the top anime cards of all time. But Metal Raiders has a strong argument, containing collectible and anime-focused cards in every rarity, Petite Moth, Baby Dragon, Harbulaeity at Common, Magician of Faith, Sankan, Witch of Life Forest at Rare, Gate Guardian Pieces, Harbulaeity Sisters, and Caribo at Super, nearly every Ultra, and both secrets in the Thousand Dragon and Gate Guardian at Secret. This may be the most collectible set ever. Today we find out for ourselves which is better. What's up guys, we're back with another epic video. We have Metal Raiders, my favorite set versus the original, my probably my second favorite set, Legend of Blue Eyes. So as I said, we have first edition packs to be open today, but we're not just going to do a two-pack opening, obviously. We have a couple of booster boxes of the brand new 25th anniversary prints. I'm pretty excited about this. Metal Raiders and Legend of Blue Eyes. How many Picanha Moths will we pull? I mean, that might be the difference between these two packs, but even if we don't get something crazy, I would love to pull Picanha Moth first and maybe get a 10. I already have two of them, so a third one would be pretty awesome for the playset. But before we get into it, we do have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this Pharaoh Serpent 25th anniversary booster box. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, let me know down below, which will win. Blue Eyes, my dragon or Metal Raiders. All right, we have the representatives back there, the first dead pack. So we're going to start off with one Metal Raiders pack. I figured you guys have seen a lot of legacy openings, but I know you guys will still enjoy this one because this is the original three. I mean, the original two, I should say. It's just good stuff. You know, it's always fun to open Metal Raiders in LOB. It doesn't matter how many times we do it. Are we starting off hot? We have a heavy storm. Super rare. Okay, that's pretty hot. I'm not going to lie. A comment in the OCG Metal Raiders. If you guys missed that OCG video, go check it out. There were some pretty interesting facts about Metal Raiders in there, and I hope you guys enjoyed it. A lot of you guys seemed to like that video. We have Kumurin Soko, Basic Insect. We have Follow-In, Dark World Thorns, Yami, Tyone, Turtle Tigre, we have Goblin Sigourimity, and a Drutling Lazarus. Not bad, not bad, but no moth yet. Will we pull a moth in this box? A lot of times you get over these boxes and just not get a moth. It's one of the rarest cards out there. Yami, King of Yami and Pekai, we have Thunder Dragon, Paralyzing Potion, Gagatek Wolf, the Pale Beast, Ruksa 34, Oguchi, we have the Battle Guard, Witch's Apprentice, and Leogon, the Lion. Huge monster with Alliance Main, similar to the King of Beasts. Interesting, similar to the King of Beasts. I don't know if I've ever actually read that flavor text before. That's interesting. Furious Sea King, we have Dragon's Treasure, Hino Tama, Dark World Thorns, Two-Mouth Dark Ruler, Hitatsume Giant, Root Water, Flame Ghost, and a spiked Seidra. I am really excited to open up these first set packs, by the way. So the Metal Raiders is Unweighed. It came out of a Blister Pack, and the Blue Eyes Pack is one of the middle weights that we weighed out from our 20-pack purchase. So last time it didn't have a foil, but there's still a chance at that weight to have a foil. Armored Zombie, so it's basically Unweighed even though it's weighed. Launcher Spider, we have Ancient Lazard Warrior, Robin Goblin, and a Wing Dragon Guardian of the Fortress Numero Uno. I considered using a heavy pack, and I was like, that would be kind of unfair for Metal Raiders, so I'm just going to use one of these middle ones and see what we can get. And also, we're looking for that Pecainio Moth and Psy, we're looking for, you know, some good commons out of LOB, there's some good ones. Lady Defe, also like Heartbe, Heartbe Lady is a good one out of Metal Raiders, it's like $300. Sagi the Dark Clown, very nice. Jirai Gumo, we got a, ooh, a ruxus special right into the Kozigen, so Metal Raiders has got two supers already. Definitely starting off a lot hotter than LOB is. LOB is saving it for the end, it seems like. Let's see if they're going to pull like a Blue Eyes White Dragon to make up for it. We have a Beaver Warrior, Hinotama, basic insect. Blue Eyes was actually really hard for us to pull both in the live stream and in our video, so it seems like, you know, it might be harder to pull. And my harder to pull, I mean, don't take that as fact, because it's definitely not. It's almost definitely the same ratio. A lot of times people just assume, because if you watch my video and like, the hardest card to pull, they assume it's harder to pull. It's not usually Larva Moth. It's just like a ratio. There's a Heartbe Lady. We want to get that in the first dead pack. Domo, we have Mass Sorcerer and the Skull Knight. All right, the Knight of the Skull. Man, I wish we had more of these first dead packs. If we could open just like a ton of them, it'd be really fun, but you know, at this point it's getting really hard. So fortunately we do have the brand new 25th anniversary, which basically, you know, compared to these first dead packs cost like nothing to open, which is really fun. And it's a great option. If you cannot afford, or if you can afford and don't want to have to afford these first dead packs like me, I wish, you know, I don't want to have to afford them. It's too expensive. You can open these up and you can save yourself a ton of money or we can get anything. Man, Eaterbug first super for LOB. Yeah, like, instead of, I guess these two packs together are probably going to be like, you know, 1200 bucks or something like that in this video. So by the way, hit that like button if you're enjoying the video because $1,200 opening what does that mean again? Neewa Tori, we have Hayasu Bay and that's not even the box. Like the whole boxes of these two costs like what, 120, 150 bucks, something like that, probably like 75 on average per box. So yeah, it's a lot more expensive open to these packs and it's open to 25th anniversary booster boxes. All right. So it is cool. That's what I do like that they do these reprints a lot. I really don't have like, I know there is could be like some issue that like maybe you're reprinting it too much because as I, as of my video where I showed you guys all the reprints of LOB, go watch that if you didn't see it. There's nine reprints, nine or nine total prints, not reprints, prints, but still a lot of reprints. But compared to places like Pokemon and stuff where I mean they get like evolutions or just kind of a reprint in 2016. That's like, that's like it though. You have to buy like first dead unlimited base set and stuff like that and it costs like thousands of dollars to be able to do it. And we can just buy these boxes at a very cheap price and enjoy like the nostalgia. So I like it this way better. I like that we have access to LOB and MRD on the Walmart shelves for the last 20 years. I think that's super fun. And it's exciting because that's when I got back into it so I can go back to that mystical elf one that was really hard for us to pull in the every hollow pull opening. When I was getting back into it in 2018, I was just looking for these packs 2017 reference, I guess at the time. And I was sca, I was scavenging every Walmart like I'll pay eight bucks for these not like, no, of course I will. That's awesome. Like reliving the memories. So all the people that are getting back in 2023 and they want to get like these old school packs. I think this is a really cool because like even if they hadn't done this in 2017 was the newest reprint. Like you couldn't find those anymore. Like they at Walmart, they just weren't there anymore. Like occasionally you'd find a Walmart with them, but they had basically been taken out of Walmarts at this point. So it is really cool that they've done this again and it allows like new people to keep coming into the game and keep, you know, whether they're playing or just collecting like me, you know, mushroom man number two for the first time. Love to see that. Yeah. It gives them a easy, easy access to something that they really love and it's super cheap and you don't have to go back and spend your life savings to buy like one first-aid LOB pack or something. Like it's insane. So it's pretty cool. I like it. I think it's fun and I don't have a problem with doing reprints. Even if they do change them up to like new style cards and stuff. I don't have a problem with that. I think it's still fun. So let me know what you guys think about that in the comments. I'm sure a lot of you guys agree with that, but maybe some of you guys disagree. You guys can let me know. Great moth. Ooh, the grante moth and a catapult. Still no ultras. Very interesting. Five supers in a row. Let's keep it up before we get to those first-aid LOB and metal raiders packs. What can we pull? No pocaino moth so far. I'm just saying silver grotto, petite dragon. We got a petite, but not the dragon. We have petite angel. Lots of petite that are not the right one. Dark gray. Okay. Petite angel and petite dragon. Come on. Come on. Give us that petite moth. That's what we want. They really like the word petite early. That's kind of weird. Gigatech. We have labyrinth. I wonder if it's like a translation. We have magical hat and the sword of deep-seated. That's okay. We're going to pull in all the blue eyes in this video today, by the way. Five crystal skull red bird. Remove trap, rain, temperature, silver bow and arrow. Petite angel. Rebirth of the cards. Thirteenth grave. Will today be the day that we pulled a legendary blue eyes white dragon? Or we could pull a gay guardian. I've pulled only one of those. I'd never pulled it. It's not actually on YouTube. I only pulled it on whatnot. We pulled it on whatnot. It is not on YouTube in any form. I didn't post the video or anything because I didn't record it. I only have like the VOD, which is vertical. So I didn't like, you know, that would be horrible to watch on YouTube. You know, the giant black bars on the right. I didn't, I should have recorded that video. Unfortunately, I didn't. I remember I was just like really busy and didn't have time to set it up. So it could be my first gay guardian secret pull on YouTube. Could happen. Be pretty epic. I've done it one time. Actually, no, it couldn't. It's from a blister. What am I talking about? I can't even do that. All that talk and oh wait, wait, it's from a blister. I can only get 1000 dragon. Have I pulled 1000 dragon? I don't know if I pulled 1000 dragon either actually. That one, I don't think I've ever pulled actually. Maybe have I opened a retail box before? I might have opened a retail box break one time. Maybe I did that. Oh, left leg at the forbidden one. Okay. The leg. Left leg probably not the one you're looking for. I mean, if I get that out of this pack, I would not be mad at all. If I got a left leg first end, I would actually be really happy with that because I do not have that card in PSA 10. I only have the right arm and the exodia head. That's all we have. We need three pieces. Oh, speaking of gate guardian, the legend has been pulled. Yes, we have pulled the reprint before, but still really cool. Gate guardian secret rare. That's big for metal raiders. Better than 1000 dragon for sure. So we've got the better secret. There is a thing about these reprint boxes though. You can get two secret rears. Sometimes you can get zero very rarely. Sometimes about once per case, I think you get two secret rears. So we get lucky. We could double up on secrets of one of these boxes and that would really put them ahead, but I'll be all the red eyes black dragon back to back ultras for legend of blue eyes. But we're heating up right now. Secret rare. We got a couple ultras at LOB red eyes black dragon. We are looking nice right now. This is good. Okay. Also, you can potentially get three ultras or one ultra. That's possible as well. Oh, just like I mentioned both secrets in one box. I think this is about one every case based on my openings. We would usually get 13 secrets in a case. So it was like there's 12 boxes, 13 secrets. Wow. I called it. That's pretty awesome. Oh my goodness. What an opening. This is insane. Okay. Maybe that's a good sign for the first dead. That's awesome larvas. Wow. That was a really good four packs in a row I think. Weren't those all in a row starting with the exodia? There's our, we broke the streak by the way, but we're kind of running out of cards to pull. Actually, I don't think we've pulled an ultra out of MRD yet. So that's kind of crazy. Maybe that's going to happen right here. Electrical is our armored zombie. Whoa. Look at all that armor. We have Tongue. We have share of the pain, ground attacker, bug Roth, blade fly and a battle steer. Different battle, different steer. Let's go. We can do this guys. We can do this. We're still recording good. We don't want to lose that awesome footage of those polls. Tyone pot of green flexion number two, still no secret out of LOB. So we're hoping for that maybe even a double secret. Who knows? I have not seen a triple secret yet. So I guess we have hope for that because we've already pulled two out of metal rays. Larva, the cousin moth, very nice. Mystical amp. Impress judge, big eye, sangan, dream clown. Okay. Well, yeah. Lesser dragon, Powerfication, Kagemusha, electro whip, two mouth dark ruler, laser cannon, mystical moon, dark fire and a trap hole. Super. Oh, it's all coming down. It's the last few packs and then those first edition packs. What are we going to start with? Probably metal raiders just because like the blue eyes could be in the last pack because obviously that would be insane. We have never pulled that. What am I? What else have I not pulled on the metal raiders? I'm wondering if there's cause I think I pulled 1000 dragon. Maybe that might be one. Um, we pulled summon skull. We've pulled B skull. We've pulled solemn judgment. I think I think that was in a box break or something. Rygeki, my favorite super rare. I'll take that. I would love to pull. I'd take a Rygeki out of there too. Rygeki would be sick. I really like Rygeki. One of the most nostalgic cards for me, as I've said many times on the channel, just because I own and I still own those two cards, which is pretty cool. Ancient brain, feel the pain. I'm happy that I own those because I don't own a lot of my old cards. So owning those Rygeki's that I was so proud of back then is really cool. Mr. Corseman. And I was cheating just lasering people with Rygeki's. I had two of them in my deck in like 2006. Definitely not legal. We have tripwire, Urabi. Come on. Frenzy Panda. Raids body, heat, fire, yaru, fissure and a mountain. Let's go. We have a flame manipulator, basic insect, petite dragon, dissolve rock, king fog, mware number one, numeruco, fusionist, and a beaver warrior. We can do this. We can make it happen. Dragon Piper, cybersaurus, thunder dragon, very nice. Musician, kink, commonari attack, steel scorpion, water amotics, witch of the black forest, and a bistro butcher. We are getting down to the end. It is almost time for the legendary. We still haven't pulled any ultras out of metal raiders. What is happening? Kumutoko. We have a armored starfish. I guess hopefully they're going to be at the end. We might not get an ultra because we got two secrets. That's possible. A second ultra, I should say, flame manipulator. Who knows? I mean, you never really know what the ratios, what will happen. That was weird. That crimp, or that flap was backwards. We have the queen's double, seven-colored fish, including the lips, saige, the dark clown, mushroom man, number two. Very nice. Oh, and finally we pull it. The Poceno Moth has been pulled. Water amotics, beautiful sangan. Oh, and the Black Skull Dragon. Let's go. Black Skull Dragon and Poceno in the same pack. Okay. Three packs left of each. What an epic pack. We hadn't had an ultra yet, and we hadn't had a Poceno yet, and we got both in the same pack. Well, we just lost that. Kumutoko, Yurabi, legendary sword, trial of nightmare, no longer hell. We have hard armor, turtle tea gray. We have cherubin and a sandstone. Cool stuff. Three packs left on metal raiders side. Two packs on the blue eyes side. Guardian of the Labyrinth, flame Cerberus, Prevent Rat, Ruxen, Special, Mewatory. That is a cheat. Let's not say Chikorita. Oh, man. Too much Pokemon, guys. Go check out Pokerux, by the way. If you guys haven't seen it, Pokerux, I've been putting in work over there, and we're pulling a Summit Skull, Beast Skull, and two secrets in the same metal raiders box. No way. Look at this box. Can you beat that box? I don't think you can beat that box. That's insane. You have to have an error or something, which you almost have an error with two secrets, but it's not really an error anymore. Back in the day, it would have been an error. Wow. It's going to be hard to beat that box. Shout out to Pokerux for bringing us the luck. Very nice. Go subscribe over there if you want to see some Pokemon content, been putting in work. Super excited for that. I've been literally putting in way more work over there, so it's been fun. Not then here, but in general, like, compared to what I was doing. First Ed Pax, almost here. Let's go. We have Baby Dragon. We have Queen's Double, Paralyzing Potion, Pale Beasts, Rucks, and 34. Very nice. We have a Aioticar, Lava Battle Guard, Petite Mall. Beautiful. We have a Dark Elf, and Harman Lazar. Two Pocaniomoss. That is awesome. All right. Legend of Blue Eyes, last pack here. What will we get? I don't think we've gotten a secret yet, so we could have no secret, which is pretty rare in these boxes. Chinning Mermaid and Machine Conversion, Goblin Seeker Remedy. Oh, and there it is. The Unworthy Dragon with three sharp horns, sprouting from its head. Someone in the comments section the other day was like, you're so unworthy to open all these packs. So I replied, call me Trinhorn Ruxen. Come on, guys. Come on. It was great. It was good. It was good. He didn't reply though, so it was very sad. All right. Last Metal Raiders pack before we get to these first Eds. Here we go. One, two, three. You got to believe, guys. We have the Ancient Brain, Feel the Pain. We have Tana Wisdom, Lucianus, Castle, Unhappy Maiden, Doma, Princesses, Sarugi, and Armored Lazar. Finishing it off, not fiending it off, but lasarding it off to the final first Ed packs. Here we go. We have Metal Raiders First Ed. Let's do this. First Edition, I want to put, we've had great insane luck with Metal Raiders. Let's hope it continues right here. Here we go, guys. First Edition, MRD. Can we get any foil would be amazing, basically, but Ultra and Up would be insane. So here we go. We're obviously looking for Picanha Moth. There's some great comments in this set, such as Harpy Lady that are greatable for high high dot, oh man, check that out. Oh no. All those comments are dinged, maybe even the foil. That's not good. Okay, Armored Zombie. No, not the Armored Zombie. Your armor. It didn't defend you, maybe because of that. Not great. We have Flame Cerberus. Okay, don't be something great. Battlestear in these four cards. Hayasu Bay. Okay, okay. Those are the damaged ones. Guilty of the D-Night. I don't know about the others. We'll have to check them out, but Guilty of the D-Night. This is a really cool artwork. Nostalgic for me. I love it. Niwatori, yes! Oh, we got to get this guy graded. Okay, let me look at him real quick. Four, let's look at the Electrical Lazar. Not great. Okay, this thing looks pretty good. Pretty good. That might be greatable. All right, Niwatori. We have Electrical Lazar. We have the Thunder Dragon. That's a good one, but the Centering. Wow, that Centering is terrible. Wait, is Niwatori Centering bad too? No, his is pretty decent. Okay, Thunder Dragon. That's Atrocious Centering, but that's okay. Hollow card. Will it be a foil? Come on, guys. Send me some luck in the comments. We don't want you, Mugamugam. I'm sorry. We don't want you. Yeah, okay. It looks pretty clean, but never mind. There's a thing at the bottom. Rip, Mugamuga. You are in not even in good shape. The hit of the pack! Niwatori, are you gradable? Let me look. It looks pretty good. I don't know. Maybe it is gradable. They're going to be like, why is someone grading this? Even though there are people with complete MRD PSA 10 sets. Shout out to you, Gezi and Peter. I know you guys are collecting those random cards, but hey, I'm going to be the next one to get Niwatori PSA 10. All right, final pack. If we get a foil here, L.O.B. is going to win, even with how good Metal Raiders has been. It's a middleweight pack, so we don't really know. Hopefully that means Secret Rare. That'd be really cool. I have never pulled Gaia. I don't know. I think it's a Trihorn pack, though, but I will try one, but it's cramped. I would like to pull a PSA 10, not a cramped one. That'd be cool. Never had a Trihorn PSA 10 before, so that'd be pretty awesome. All right, let's open this thing up. That opened pretty well, actually. Keep that pack nice and crispy. Okay, one, two, three, four. Will that be a Blue Eyes in the back right there? We have a Beast Fangs. Hopefully get some good sintering on these commons. That looks pretty good. The Flame Manipulator used to make the Flame Swordsman very cool. The Frenzied Panda. The Panda has been frenzied. Super Fang. All right, this is such a cool card. I would love to grade this a 10. It's pretty classic, to be honest. Memoreth Graveyard and the Living Arrow card, Yugi. We have Firegrass. Okay, a fire breathing plant found growing near volcanoes. Okay, Dark World Thorns. Don't really care about the Firegrass. Dark World Thorns is pretty cool. We have a Red Medicine. Increase your life points by 600. Pretty terrible card, but hey, it's medicine. All right, final card. It could be the Legendary Blue Eyes White Dragon, a card we've been searching for for many, many years. I've never pulled it. I don't own a PSA 9, but I didn't pull it. Here we go. Let's see if we can get a 10 here. Oh, the Giant Soldier of Stone, and he's a little off-sinner too. This would be a really cool PSA 10, but the sintering is not looking too good on this guy. All right. Oh, two duds on the final two packs, but it was still fun to open these old school first edition packs. If you guys enjoyed it, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this, because that was expensive. Shout out to Tom Fosho, Daxter, JT Show, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto Dianna, America Doidster, Supreme Sage 21, CJ, Leo Guine 62, another Thai show, Ian Moosa, Junior Barney, Mimegeko, and Robert Epp. Thank you guys for supporting the channel, and I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.