 In today's video, we find out if my $1,000 spent on TCG player was worth it. What's up, guys? We're back with another TCG player $1,000 video where we're going to be checking in on year one and the halfway point of year two. But before we do that, I am going to be giving away a $50 TCG player giveaway if you're international and just be a $50. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, let me know down below which card you think was our best decision and what card should we invest in for year three. All right. First of all, I think I want to check in on the first year and see how it's doing because we didn't actually do this in the last video. We didn't check in on our original $1,000 we did in 2022. So let's see how those are doing. We're going to start off with the Blue Eyes, White Dragon, Ultimate Rare. Okay. Here we have the Blue Eyes, White Dragon. I think we had a lightly played first dead and then an unlimited near man or something like that. So we have $5.95 for the lightly played. Let's go back here. So lightly played ulti. We originally spent $25. So yeah, obviously that one's not looking so good. We lost $20 on that one. Not great. It was also supposed to be near mint and it had been lightly played. That really was the main cause. Let's see. We can double check on the near mint as well. Let's see if we take the light play off. If it was near mint, we would be at $16.98. Not terrible, but it's not. All right. So what's the unlimited at $335? Man, these are so cheap. $335. So we're losing money on that one. The first year, I think we picked some pretty bad stuff. It kind of all got killed. Let's go for silent swordsman. This was also supposed to be near mint. Okay. Silent swordsman level five lightly played. First dead is going for $39.99 at the moment. $39.99. It's kind of been where it's been at the entire time. As you can see, we lost $46 on that purchase of $87. 54% decrease. Not great. Let's see if it was near mint. If it was actually near mint, I think last time we would have actually made money. Yeah, $120. So it's a lot more valuable. That's what it really should be at, but I didn't return it. And you know, now we're just out of money. That's why you should return stuff if it's not the right condition. Next up, number 17 Leviathan Dragon. I know for a fact that this thing is not doing so well. It has been one of our worst investments. It's been terrible. Near mint, we are at $49.96, over a 50% decrease on a $110 purchase, $60 off, 55% decrease. Disgustingly bad. I still have all these cards, by the way. I haven't gotten rid of any of them. Lighting storm. I mean, obviously no reason to when we've lost 50% of our money. Let's look up lightning storm starlight. This one has been fairly consistent, but just wait till it gets to 25th anniversary. Then it's going to get destroyed. It's already down to 180 anyway. Oh my goodness. That is rough. Solid morning up next. I felt good about that starlight investment. That was before they told us about the old 25th anniversaries. Now that would have changed my mind on what we were picking up. Okay, near mint unlimited, $44.90. Just all these cards are going down, guys. Yu-Gi-Oh! It's in a downturn. Everything's going down. All right. Losing 36% on the solid morning. I think we're going to lose on everything. Evil hero, a dusty goal, because the ones that we normally help us out like the starlight is not doing so good. So at the moment, if you're looking to invest in single cards for Yu-Gi-Oh! Not looking great. $245. Yeah. This one's way down. It's had reprints. So that was a terrible decision. I don't know why I went for that one. I thought maybe it wouldn't get reprinted by the end of the year, then it would go up. Stratos Ulti. I think this one could be around the same price. Maybe a little bit more. I'll look at it. Every single price is tanking. This is so bad. $123.90. Okay. That's sort of in the ballpark, but that's another one I could see getting a $25. Okay. Red-Eyes, Flare, Metal, Dragon. Come on, Ghostrare. You can do this. This was actually a nice condition, Ghostrare. So I have hope. This thing was near meant. It could be good. Come on. Where's the first ed? No first ed showing. There's no first ed option for some reason. First ed, $115.99. What is that? Oh, we still lost money. Everything's down, man. All right. Finally, the Warriors Triumph Structure Deck. Come on. Go up. Structure deck, first ed. Come on. Come on. $94.95. Limitless games. Come on. I've actually been there on the channel. I'm mad at you guys now. I'm mad at you guys for this. $94.95. Just kidding. I'm just kidding. Okay. So overall, our $1,000 purchase on 2022, we're going to go into 2023 of the current year, but we spent $1,063 plus tax. Keep that in mind. We now have $661. We've lost $3,340 and 34% of our money. So it's a great start. 2022 was a great investment, guys. All right. Year two. We've won FYI. I did tell you guys, I might sell some of the cards. The Trap Tricks Trap Hole Nightmares. I have a second tab here. I sold all of these for this amount. Ironically, you can look here. The Light Played Sulfur in the 55-56 range. Nierment I sold for 40. So ironically, the Nierment sold for less because it took longer to sell the Nierments versus the Light Plays, but I did still make 87% on these, 81% on these, 37% on those. Overall, we made $292, which means we increased about $118, 68% of our money. Not bad. So we've locked in that price. Everything else we still have. So let's check and see if anything else has made money and if we should sell anything else. All right. 60 cents. So it's about 60 cents each before it was $1.19. So not looking too good there. We lost $1.58, 47% of our money. Not good. Very small amounts. It's not a big deal. Dark Arm Dragon. We got a Ghost Trail. Let's see if that's gone up. I'm guessing that with the 25th anniversary rare, it is probably not. Yep. Here we go. 25th anniversary rarity. Notice how they, you know, oh look. Dark Arm Dragon got a 25. Wow. So we're looking at 37.99, which is not a terrible tank, but it is definitely down. All right. Colossal Fighter Ulti. I don't think this has gotten a reprint recently, so maybe? Come on. Give us something Colossal Fighter. Oh, oh, oh, oh, look at this. Ha! How do you do? $1.19.94. All right. Let's see. Okay. We're at a $31, almost $32 increase, 36%. All right. We're seeing something, guys. Our investment's looking better here. Maybe we should, we should probably sell that. It's an $85 card. No, we got it for $88, so it was down $3, and now it's up that much, probably because Edison has surged a lot recently, so that probably helps. It's used in a little bit of decks there. We have All I Have Justice Catastro. This is also an Ulti. All right. Come on, Catastro. Ooh, Edison, baby. Time to sell, sell, sell. We got 90, really 92 with that shipping. We'll call it 90 still, but it wasn't for that. It'd be 100. Okay. So there's two of these. So 90s are pretty solid price. There's two of them available. But we are still up from 70s. That's a $20 increase, 29%. Looking good. Up six Ash Blossom. Did Ash Blossom increase? There's so many prints of this, but it is one of the best-looking ones. Let's see. Okay. Not looking too good. Oh, we went off a cliff here. What happened? Okay. 681. We got six of them for like 10 bucks each. All right. So we had $40.86. So we lost about 20 bucks on that. Not the worst thing. Kind of evens out that Catastro, unfortunately. We're still up a little bit so far, I think. Well, plus this rep a lot, but let's see what Pod of Desires is doing. This is an unlimited Ulti. I'm sure the Pod collection didn't help this one. Yeah. Pod collection is definitely not going to help. Let's see. 66654. That is a lot better than I expected with the Pod collection reprint. We're still up 1150. Not bad. And then of course, the locked in here. So far, it's looking good. Then we got our Tomb Black Cluster Soldier. I don't have high hopes for this one because it's not a big... It was a little bit shorted. So maybe this one's held up decently as the Secret Rare. Yeah. It looks like it's about the same. We're looking at 550. Yeah. We're down a little bit. 550. We've lost about $2.34. Okay. Instant Fusion. I don't know if they banned it or not. We were worried it might get banned. So we put $122 and I'm not feeling good about that. All right. Oh gosh. Oh boy. Here we go. Oh, it's not good. $83.97. I was not happy about this one. Chat made me buy this. If you guys remember, this was a Twitch chat. They picked all these. So I mean, I had a little input, but they made me do the Instant Fusion. I remember not liking it, but now we have 10 Night Beam. Maybe that'll bring us back. Night Beam Ulti. Shout out to DZ. Come on. Give us something big. Near Mint. Wait. Oh, okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. $13.75. Wait a second. Wait a second. We're up $31 on the Night Beams. Wow. That's crazy. I would say sell them, but like when you sell 10 different packages, it's probably going to end up being, you know, with shipping and everything in fees. We probably wouldn't even make any money on that. All right. Backsia Ultimate Rare. Let's check in on that one. So far, pretty solid right now. Really not looking bad. We've had some bad losses, but we've had some really good ones as well. We're at $32.98. That feels high. Oh, it's slightly high. Not much. I mean, if we sold it, we would not make money because, you know, shipping and fees would be more than $248, but we're still up $248. That's not bad. We'll take that any of the week. Now let's go to Yazi. Come on, Yazi. Be up. Oh no, $26.99. Okay. Okay. The outside thing made it look cheaper. Oh, wait. We're actually up money. That's not bad. $26.99. All right. We'll take it. Rescue Rabbit. Coming up next, Secret Rare. Last time we were down a little bit. Let's see about the rescue. Increase from the rescue rabbit. Oh, $8. That's not promising. But if we go to near mid first at what is it? $19.75. Okay. A little better. A little better. A little better. Ah, we're still down. We're still down a little bit. Not terrible. We'll take it. Rising Energy Ulti. We got a couple of these. We're almost to that infamous fiber jar. You guys remember that? We'll flash back to that just for fun in just a second. Okay. Rising Energy near mid first. I'm not expecting this one to be up. $11. $11.19. Wait. Okay. Wait. So if it's two of, we might have actually almost broken even here. We lost $1.35. Really not terrible to be honest. Fiber jar. So I took this out, I think, because we were just kind of keeping it consistent because I got a refund. But this is the original. If you guys don't know what happened with this one, let's just flash back to the moment right now. This just came out of the package like this. So that's not awesome. Hopefully nothing was dinged. Anything on the service actually looks pretty good, surprisingly. Not real. All right. After reliving that awesome memory, one of the funniest things that's happened on the channel. Not a great memory though. Okay. Let's see if this rare went up. I mean, it was really cheap before. So I mean, how could it even go down? Right? It has to go up in theory. Wait. I think it did go up. Wait. Why is it? There's a 75 cent listing and then everything else is two. Wow. $250. Okay. All right. I think we spent what? $1.40 each. I didn't do the math here. I think these are originally $1.40 total, but I didn't do it. Yeah. Cause I'm pretty sure we bought them for like $0.40 or $0.50 because they had just come out. I'll just go with it like that. Okay. So now it's $2.50. If I mess that up, then let me know in the comments, but I'm pretty sure it was originally $1.40 total. So we're up $6. Those make sense because they were really cheap like staples that you want to have and they were actually kind of hard to pull from booster boxes. You wouldn't get a place at every time. Okay. Gate Guardian secrets, the memes that we bought from Simply Unlucky Store. Yeah. We bought a bunch of secret rare gate guardians for some reason. Yeah. Look at these. $1.20. We bought them for like $5 each. Come on. Oh, the pain. We bought 23 of them. Yeah. We lost $73 on those. Congrats, Twitch chat. Everybody clap for Twitch chat. You guys are really smart. You killed it. All right. Battlefader ulti. Let's check on that unlimited ulti by the way. $126. Whoa. Edison. Shout out to Edison. Time to sell this. Whoa. $125.99. We went up $96 a 320% increase. Wow. And look at sales. It looks like they've recently been bought out. It's going to be it. Because like near mint first said there were two for $58. Whoa. That is crazy. Definitely time. These will be one that I'm moving after the video. That is insane. Wow. Okay. That makes a big difference. That was really our big winner of today, I think. Shut up. More than one of those. I remember this was like an afterthought. We had like 30 bucks left. And I was like, Battlefaders are a cool card. Yeah. It is a cool card. Now we got petite moths. Remember none of these were actually near mint, but we're going to calculate them as near mint. Petite moth. These were unlimited. Okay. They had a reprint. They had a stock. I know. Crazy. 49 cents. That's probably about what we bought them on, right? Not bad. So overall, this is what we're looking at. We have spent a thousand. We now have $1,176.40. So we're up a little bit. This seems to be a messed up formula. I got to fix that. Okay. So we're up 18%. That looks a little more accurate than up 650,000% or whatever it was. That would be nice. I'd be happy with that. So it looks like what I'm going to be doing after this. The only thing I'm going to potentially try to move is the battle fader. Because it's at $125 right now, which is absurd. It's unlimited. Very cool. We'll take that. Overall, a much better year than 2022. That year, I mean, it was disappointing from the very get-go. This year is looking a lot better. I think that if we kind of sell through what's up and what's down as we go, we have a much better chance to have our portfolio go up. But if you enjoyed this video and you want to see more, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this. We will do an update about three months and then probably one. We'll definitely want it at the end of the year. See how it went. And then maybe we'll do it again with a little bit more of a twist. Shout out to Tom Fosho, Daxer, JT Cho, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto Dina, Miss Eichel, America Doyster, Supreme Stage 21, another Thai show, Ian Musa, Junior Barting, and Mimic Echo. 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