A Collector tried to BUYOUT all the Lotus Petal's ...and then gave up

[@Delamorth]

I tried to BUYOUT all the Evolving Wilds.. I still haven't given up yet!

[@Shea-Key]

NOEL GUIDRY everyone does lmao

[@testthewest123]

Keep going! There cannot be that much more out there!

[@zombiedude347]

I have at least 15 in my collection I'm not using.

[@ArigatoPlays]

I'm telling you, Evolving Wilds is a stupid card to buyout. Terramorphic Expanse is so much better!

[@jacefrost7985]

I'm buying all swamps and island

[@pkfatstephen1319]

I'd like to point out the flavour text of Tempest Lotus Petal: "Hard to imagine," mused Hanna, stroking the petal, "such a lovely flower inspiring such greed."

[@akimbofurry2179]

Lol

[@UmbraBree]

Directly hating on reserve list card owners

[@KnownAsKenji]

"She loves me... she loves me not... she loves me... she loves me not......"

[@AkshatRamanathan]

BowlUndrFire ever better

[@absolutegamyr8002]

slowly rips apart most expensive card

[@johnhowe8424]

I am currently buying out all basic islands so nobody can ever play control again

[@christophercombs7561]

john howe you cant have any of my 1500+islands nope not happening

[@TheFroperator]

I semi support this but you aint getting my basics!!

[@Twoswordsdrizzt]

I'd happily give up mine, but only when you have the rest. Don't forget non-basic blue lands though.

[@Slurms19]

you are the hero MTG needs

[@DeoHoPnuema]

I have a sneaking feeling they might reprint basic islands. Good luck lol

[@dingding12321]

His goal was to rip up every copy in public and then own the only remaining 4 in existence. And then lose to Exodia.

[@MVPMTKING]

Last 3 blue eyes*

[@AkshatRamanathan]

dingding12321 best😂😂😂

[@davidhowell1415]

dingding12321 that’s fucking great 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@redlipper1240]

Wrong game 😂😂😂

[@elainehelmont4647]

@Agent 00 Bademeister splitsecond

[@Ragmesesis]

He tryed to build a black lotus with all those lotus petals XD

[@paulmayton4816]

hahaha

[@reaver8338]

lmao i was just about to comment that

[@OmegaSpecter87]

Ragmesesis nicely done lol

[@thomastran5531]

Ragmesesis ffffd

[@Jack-xf2qb]

Fuuuuuuu-sion-ahhhhhhhhhh

[@brandongiovanni44]

Lotus Pedals’ market price is almost $18.00 on TCGplayer so that wouldn’t be too bad of a haul today...

[@DrewskiTheLegend]

It’s even higher now. Not that he could have foreseen that. Dude got greedy and had to decide between going hungry or holding out for a boom that he couldn’t foresee.

[@omegaoz]

Here when they’re around $25 a pop

[@yakopc6600]

@@DrewskiTheLegend Are you greedy for choosing not hungry?

[@penpal222]

25 is what i'm seeing now!

[@rickjames222222]

Exactly

[@ronalddonahue8325]

"its heavy, its like a metal" Dude you literally just read the label that says its 22 karat gold lol

[@marcellachine5718]

Um that would be plated. The weight would be the steel or zinc the coat of gold is electro plated on.

[@andrewbrady1247]

Beat me to it.​@@marcellachine5718

[@testthewest123]

6 Feb 1999...and still not curled. WotC once knew how to do it...

[@alvinmason758]

hahahaha

[@kobisjeruk]

Thats where you're wrong. Early foiling process curl as much if not more. Issues arises since urza's legacy where people stack their deck with foil lands and non foil others that led tc to issue statement that people must either use all foil deck or have them get replaced with basic lands or something like that.

[@sclerocarpets]

I think he's referring to Professor's video.

[@Aorpheat]

TFW I have yet for any of my cards to curl.

[@RoBi1475]

Alvin Mason The former owner probably lived in a desert. The humidity is what doesn’t. I live in a desert and all my foils are straight af.

[@ausaskar]

Chinese = purely complex pictograms Japanese = simple letter-like symbols mixed in with a few pictograms Korean = small circles fucking everywhere

[@TheEfengy]

and I think it´s traditional chinese right? Thats always hard to tell for me..

[@TheBizarroDavid]

Yes that was traditional

[@Champigne]

Korean always seemed to have more square shaped characters with thicker lines, to me

[@jemmpolitics4627]

Korean is mix bag of 'em cause early Korean started using a system of adding certain shapes to a symbol to denounce vocabulary, grammar, and sound. Nowadays its only vocabulary/grammar as greedy emperors kept changing how the alphabet was used or discarded it entirely until it was revived, but the vocal components of the language changed while the alphabet remained dormant. Still super easy to learn to read, speaking is another task all together. obv. Japanese and Chinese have differences in how they use the originally Chinese symbols, with Japan still using the mixture of traditional Chinese with hirigana and katakana, while East Asian and Southeast Asian countries using either Simplified or Traditional Chinese based on region. Hell China itself uses Simplified, with the exception, technically, of Hong Kong (but that's too geopolitical for this comment section). I may have gotten 1 or 2 details wrong, but I'm fairly assured overall in the correctness of my ramblings.

[@lrom5445]

The fist set is chinese, set 2 is korean, set 3 is Japanese. Japanese Kanji comes from chinese character (Hanzi) and can look identical. In fact, you'll notice set 1 (the chinese set) has the same symbol for flower as set 3 (the japanese set). The kana is a better giveaway for Japanese cards, as there is always kana on Japanese magic cards. Just based on the kanji/hanzi though you'd basically be guessing since many of the hanzi are in kanji as well.

[@dafickler]

$5 then. $16 now. He sold at the wrong ass time.

[@mynameisforrest]

lol yeah 😂😂😂

[@trevorp875]

20 dollars to day.... crazy...

[@thirdcoast6513]

Wow like 3 dollars back then

[@Benkenobi8118]

As a type 1.5 extended player of this era, Wall of Roots makes perfect sense. It was a staple card back in the day.

[@TastySnackies]

What's the storm count, does anybody know? You don't see that many Lotus Petals without a Tendrils of Agony over the horizon.

[@dillwax_rk9646]

lol

[@Eric-lr3zj]

tryhard

[@tbaggins5349]

my best guess for storm count is dead?

[@Tydorstus]

Ahh the storm deck. Its fun storming out on turn 2

[@nikoaz]

I can assure you, those lotus petals were used for something far more insidious than storm count. Those were used for Tolarian Academy turn one kill in standard. You can tell because he also had the feldon's cane, spellboox, urza's bauble, and 4x stroke of genius.

[@aljosak.1745]

Order was: Chinese 蓮花花瓣系列 Korean 연꽃 꽃잎 수집 Japanese 蓮の花びらコレクション Chinese signs are much more dense mostly based on sticks. Korean signs have a fair bit of separation and use many circles that look like Pokemon anons. Japanese has more simplistic signage that visually impacts the separation even further.

[@lordjulian10]

Only true of hiragana and katagana. Many japanese sentences can be made with all kanji in which case you wouldnt be able to tell if youre not familiar w the language

[@delgande]

@@lordjulian10 basically Chinese: complex characters Korean: has lots of circles Japanese: simpler than chinese(very easy to recognize hiragana and katakana)

[@josiahb.2117]

Back in the late 90s I was in middle school, and in computer applications class we were all assigned to create a digital picture. I scanned a Lotus Petal and did absolutely nothing to it. Got 100% and the teacher hung it on the wall as one of her greatest assignments ever. I wish I could've been there when some student later told her it was a magic card submitted by some random Timmy.

[@xXNoFateXx]

I've bin playing magic for 16 years now, and i have to say with exact certainty... The eager anticipation you feel before looking through a big-ol' box of cards thats still a mystery to you; And the pure joy of actually finding those rare gems, buried in unplayable crap... Its like combining the joy of Christmas, the rush of gambling and the high of drugs into... well.... into a big-ol" box of friggin magic cards :)

[@knicknevin9975]

I can't speak for any more recent trends, but back when Tempest was still current, the petals were pretty valued. As I recall it was a common(?) but traded at around 5 dollars or so. I can't imagine trying to corner the market on them, especially if it's been reprinted. Hoarding them in the late 90's makes more sense though.

[@valiantstallion]

Haha yup. I got some old scryes and duelists and yes it was an "uncommon-common"

[@johnhruby6205]

They are about 25$ now

[@alextomas6295]

lotus petal is now 10 bucks each

[@masondeitrick]

Just came here to say this.. man holding onto these would been a good investment

[@Osiris261]

@@masondeitrick i bought 3 serra's sanctum. 20$ each. that was a good investment. in general it is quite insane looking at the value of the old cards you played back in 2000´s .

[@bigreddaman5988]

Guessing they ended up cornering the market lol

[@Ambyli]

Now 20$ each

[@eddyw16]

@@Ambyli how much were they 3 years ago?

[@User-fp4gn]

i always thought i was a creepy collector but then you see those people and realize tha youre in the bottom of the Pyramid

[@paulmayton4816]

or ppl that buy like 300 of the same ten cent card because it has a girl on it lol

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

Dark Magician Girl flashbacks

[@Magikan0]

.

[@beaububbles]

Interesting this has popped up - 5 years ago. 2018 jumped to $10... 2022 jumped to $20... now a Mystery Card (reprint) however still made the jump to $25 this year.

[@jkw3010]

When you said he tried to corner the market, I thought you meant the whole 5K box was filled with Lotus Petals. He's only got a hundred or so in that collection -- please, that's not cornering the market, that's just having a few of a favorite card.

[@blazrrr-4082]

Looks like he gave up on cornering the market pretty quickly

[@jasondowell3623]

Rudy, while looking through an impressive collection, with many signed rares.. "Weird collection. Doesn't make much sense. Nostalgia!! No real value though. Not much this. Not much that." Classic, slick, sales talk. Classic."

[@Xenzif]

Yeah, really antipathetic, worth the downvote just the tone he uses judging for the first sight.

[@burkles4456]

Way too many quotes there buddy. Are you saying this or did Rudy say it?

[@icedragon9097]

​@@burkles4456Nerd

[@tzera_rhuon]

Wow, I have a small bundle of Lotus Petals I've used as bookmarks in the past because I like the artwork.

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

You got yourself a $7 bookmark there, Rebecca.

[@TentacleOne]

See? MTG-cards have practical uses. I'm not throwing money out of the window.

[@joe47771]

I like the artwork God did with your face

[@joe47771]

@@smashingpunkkids go tell your other friends and family what to do, not me

[@joe47771]

@@smashingpunkkids Like I said, don't tell me what to do big man, I'm not one of your toys

[@Abecbu]

Unsleeves foil, throws it in a stack, then swirls all the cards around. I guess that's your triggering moment from this video but I can't believe people watch these videos and still send you their cards.

[@spakjoeXD]

Yeah, the jokes about him not caring about the game is really true. He is just using the magic market as vehicle for wealth building :/

[@Koboldfunnywow]

You're both stupid.

[@Abecbu]

Thumbs up

[@PoweredByRedstonecom]

Like most card shops, yeah?

[@SMFZeroXP]

Except he give everyone a chance to buy card super cheap

[@kurtilein3]

I have huge stacks of stone rain and strip mine. All different sets and languages and re-prints. I do not really know why, and it makes no sense because both exist in crazy numbers. When i ordered something online on magiccardmarket and someone had stone rains for 2 cents per piece or some 80 cent strip mines i just added them all to my purchase. In reallife my trade binder started with 20 pages of stone rain. Now i think the alpha and beta stone rains and the antiquities and from the vault strip mines pay for it all. This was not a buyout, just fun, another guy did it with dark ritual. One time a guy i barely knew walked up to me and just gave me 40 stone rains.

[@RitchieJake]

you could make a gaming room with dope ass wallpaper

[@Clabian96]

The old Deckmaster sleeve boxes! I remember buying those back in the day as my first sleeves. Still have them 15 plus years later.

[@forevergogo]

Legend has it, if you have 25 lotus petals in your hand, you can play them together as a black lotus.

[@ChiefToad]

12:27 "I don't recognize the art." 11:54

[@gretttt33323]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@PlayGhost3]

9:41 the way you unsleeved that card and then proceed to throw other cards on top of it 10:56 triggered me

[@alvinmason758]

glad someone else noticed besides me lol

[@decimusxd5572]

Didn't bother me, mainly because it isn't my card lol

[@joelowdon1615]

why? The card is pretty much worthless

[@SK8R43]

theyre just cardboard....

[@natasjwb12]

lion's eye diamond is over $100.00

[@qlcrane8019]

Rudy selling his own collection to himself!

[@bigricksuperthick5893]

pls, stop throwing and harming the cards in such vile manner Rudy.

[@05basTi]

that poor Lion's Eye Diamond...

[@mr_baa]

Yep, I'm not even a collector but that violence against cards bothered me too. :(

[@thegriningnumber12]

he didnt put them back in the sleeves either

[@sabretact]

He handles expensive cards all day he knows what he's doing far better than you.

[@TidmanJ]

sabretact if he knows what he's doing why is he throwing cards and bending them under piles of other cards? lmao. fucking dumbass

[@willsmith7466]

"Hi Thanks for sending me all this stuff guys, Can you try to organize it a little more so i can sell it more easily?" (then Proceeds to throw around cards sent by a Fan)

[@ericjohnson8322]

Corner the market - that's a textbook definition of a pittance. If he tried to corner the market, the UPS guy would have needed a pallet jack to bring the card boxes into the store.

[@mythronos98]

I know literally nothing about Magic and I love these videos.

[@LiamPenfold]

Mythronos same

[@kampsudamien]

Mythronos You don't have enough mana

[@AnthonyHernandez-tv8vp]

Haha dude same fr

[@GenJotsu]

What's a magic?

[@MedievalFantasyTV]

LV426 xenomorph It is not D&D at all... (I have been playing Magic and D&D since 1995)

[@Strype13]

I'm assuming Lotus Petal was just his favorite card. Myself, as well as a few friends of mine did the same thing back in the day. We were on a team called "Team Legend" so, as lame as it was, we collected that awkward Stonehold rare called "Sword of the Chosen" due to it's association with Legends, and the fact that nobody would ever play it, so it was a rare we could trade for cheaply and easily. At one point, we ended up having over 200 of them. And for those old-schoolers out there, does anybody remember the deck called "Flagpole" that was first created and played by Andrew Pacifico? I believe he won the Junior Championship with it at one point. I'm assuming that's the reason for the signed Walls of Roots, as well as the playset of Tradewind Riders. The deck was really popular for a while back in that time frame, and was basically one of the first Type 2 four/five color control decks. It played things like those Gemstone Mines, Wall of Blossoms, Wall of Roots, Birds of Paradise, Spike Feeders, Firestorm, some counter magic, some burn, etc... and mainly relied on bounce control with Tradewind Rider. I only remember all of this because I had Pacifico sign almost my entire Flagpole deck, lol. He even drew little flag poles into the hands pictured on my Walls of Blossoms. It seems super mundane now, but when I was 14, I thought it was awesome!

[@nikoaz]

I don't remember it by the name "Flagpole", but I remember all those cards being played together. Don't forget the Diabolic Edict and Mog Fanatics :)

[@fodcomhomedepotworker9570]

That kicks major ass, dude, and you’re probably right

[@dantedeloden]

Birds of paradise is a trigger from back in the day

[@Crocoroar]

I collected Tamiyo because I loved the artwork. I still have my foil Tamiyo.

[@Clemsonalumnus]

Don’t remember “Flagpole” but I do remember “ATS (Angry Tradewind Survival)”

[@Justin3Santiago]

"Wait, it's all Lotus Petals?" *loads up* "Always has been"

[@BatCaveOz]

Lotus Petals are now worth $20 or more.

[@jajadeinemudda]

Now lotus petal goes for 17 euros 😮

[@volatilesky]

After handling them, I assume most of your cards are listed as heavily played?

[@JohnDoe-ld8nr]

I don't play Magic but wouldn't they have printed tens of thousands of those Lotus Petal cards?

[@YoungLiam74]

Rudy i cover myself in mayo in anticipation of your uploads, thanks for coming thru comrade.

[@redlion145]

irishboy9780 ...what? Is that a bukkake joke I just don't get? Never heard of mayo on a floppy taco....

[@aaronjessome1032]

$400-$650 Canadian in Lotus Petal's from the Tempest set, this were Japanese, Korean and Chinese foreign Petals I believe. Looking at prices on eBay, there are individual signed Korean Lotus Petal's going for 25+ American! That is a lot of money.. moderately played players going for $23 American and up.

[@700NitroXpress]

I prefer to use Lotus Bloom over the Petals because I imprint it onto a Prototype Portal, then you tap it for free and it puts the Lotus Bloom into play. Then you can do that every turn and with Unwinding Clock in Multiplayer, you ramp fast and hard, giggity.

[@yawgmoth5662]

Sounds like unplayable garbage.

[@CryptoInvestor]

What I've learned about trying to corner the market is that it ALWAYS costs much more than you think it will. Whatever your expectations are, quadruple it at the lowest and don't be surprised if it ends up being ten times higher than your expectations. I bought out a TON of Sylvan Advocates on MTGO a year and some change ago. First of all, I heavily underestimated the liquidity of the market for reselling them. More importantly, I also underestimated the sheer amount of volume that were sitting in player's collections, despite it being MTGO. My initial assumption was that a higher percentage of cards on MTGO are actively traded and played and hence tried to estimate supply through deck popularity in tournament play. I've never been so wrong. Point is, if you're going to try and corner the market on ANY card, be prepared to spend much more than you are comfortable with.

[@mtgnoob9988]

Crypto Investor i started cornering a reserve list card then ebay became flooded with them. It was fun seeing the price spike but no one else was buying so its stagnant. Ill need to sit on them for 25 yrs ha

[@L0j1k]

Legit question: You were trying to "buy out" digital cards?

[@trevathecleva]

Get a group of people to collaborate with you for your buyout shop you can split the up front cost..

[@4tznblunts]

Trying to buy out a standard rare (on MTGO!) when its still in standard? This must be a troll

[@CryptoInvestor]

@Loj1k - Yes. It's worked several times for a variety of other cards online. Only issue with online is liquidity - otherwise it is same in terms of factoring in supply and demand. @forties - Nope. I had well over a thousand of them. Actually worked quite well til I tried tickling them back into market.

[@THEFlea1991]

The counter medallion made of gold “huh that’s interesting, feels heavy or something” *tosses it aside”

[@johnschneider1808]

I wanna correct his pronunciation, but I cant tell if that is part of his mind games now...

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

He used to work for Square Onyx so he is definitely trolling.

[@redlion145]

It's a shtick, an act. It's high-larious sometimes though. He's made me laugh talking about Tarmagoyfs starting with R: Rawrmagoyfs.

[@solodragun]

Ch-asm, 😒

[@Crosby4hyg]

My favorite art in mtg

[@mjo2892]

mines the scars mox opal

[@The_Fried_Piper]

Crosby4hyg i couldn't tell

[@eancycler1112]

Nick McKee dammit dude that’s what I was going to comment

[@NorinTheWary]

@@mjo2892 mine is ob nixilis reignited

[@AkshatRamanathan]

Clearly

[@sunslastphase]

just an update; tempest Lotus Petals sell for $28.00 each in NM condition now. that is a staggering amount of money in that stack (assuming you could move them all).

[@glytch5]

maaan I wish I still had my old cards from this era.. losing your collection 3 times really blows. Trying to get back into the game now and its just a mess.

[@dvorak2676]

the second time your house burned down you should have moved in a cave, it's fireproof

[@jonathanmeindl3811]

10 land mono green stompy WAS a thing. Signed wall of roots makes sense.

[@Scharlatanvin]

The way he touches Magic cards tells me that he not really loves the game.

[@architectofdreams73]

I knew a guy that was trying to buy as many lightning bolts as he could back during revised then burning a huge chunk of them because he thought it would increase the value of lightning bolt.

[@austinh1805]

Video starts at 6:03... and the title was a lie too, btw. "I don't know if he tried to corner the market, if he tried to invest in it... I honestly have no idea guys."(6:18).

[@EricFrock]

That counter was made for the old Legends of the Five rings card game. I used one, and many players used them since they were simple to use. They go for about $10 on ebay.

[@akimbofurry2179]

And there gold? I cant find em

[@ComingUpDilhouse]

If he bought those petals 4 or more years ago, he's doubled his money. From 3 to 7 a piece.

[@austinerratic]

And now they’re around $18 plus the foreigns are a little more. So it’s a great haul if he still had them as well as a lot of the cards in their!

[@TheKrismage2000]

How much for the gold and blue lifecounter? I'm interested.

[@oldfag_adventures]

personally i think those signed bolts are great, as they are signed by the late Christopher Rush

[@Sheriff_K]

GhoulcallerGisa yeah.. sucks to say it, but that's raised their value, is say.

[@TheFaithfulAtheist]

Did anyone ever find out what he died from? I know he was only 50. I have a couple dozen cards of his signed, actually (including a playset of 4E Nether Shadows), and yeah, death does raise the price of signatures. I wish they were still cheap. I always heard he was a super cool dude. Also, his artwork kicked serious ass.

[@benjaminblack6635]

TheFaithfulAtheist he had a heart attack. His daughter was at GP Albuquerque last year and we caught up as we hadn't seen each other in years.

[@SK8R43]

Actually, that depends. Death doesnt always raise the price of sigs. It raises the price if not many exist, but things like this it doesnt really. Signed art after death is raised, however.

[@nobody-fu8yx]

Rush was also at a lot of GPs there's so many printings of bolt, and so many signed cards by him, it's not likely to really increase the price. especially considering, the likelihood there'll be interest from new players going forward is small.

[@adamgregory9198]

Every time Rudy struggles to brute force a card out of a sleeve from the bottom doing damage to the card, a Serra Angel gets her wings.

[@98eru]

What a hit with that Lotus Petals collection being in 2021

[@Gulyus]

About Korean/Chinese/Japanese written differences - If it has a lot of circles, it is Korean. If it looks like a square house being build, it's Chinese. If it has a lot of rounded corners on the house, though, it is instead Japanese. Forgot who pointed that out :o was it Gaijin Goomba? I think the first few were Chinese, the next few were definitely Korean, and the last few were probably Japanese. The legs on the first card were what I used - so if I am wrong, sorry.

[@naphackDT]

Well, Korean is easy to spot. Chinese and Japanese is a bit more tricky.

[@zendahl874]

Rudy I suspect he just collected the card. Sometimes a particular card has meaning to a person. Mine is the original art prodigal sorcerer. It holds a fond memory of my early days playing magic and so I collect them. I've been known to spend hours in a shop getting every copy from the bulk bin and spending 5 or 10 bucks to buy them out. I have hundreds. Not as an investment but because I just want them all. There are shops I frequent that set them aside while sorting bulk and no longer charge me for them.

[@Abcdds2]

zendahl wow keep up the good work.

[@raziel1132]

That's pretty cool, i have a lot of comet storms. I don't like the card or even burn in general and i don't play red, but the card amuses me and costs less than a dollar so i have about 50 now.

[@zendahl874]

raziel11 sometimes you just like an oddball card. Nothing wrong with it.

[@raziel1132]

Yeah, i've also wanted to start getting a bunch of oblivion sowers. I like eldrazi and cards that interact with decks.

[@EadricRicmund]

I do that for all cards with John Avon art just simply cause he was the first Magic Artist that i really learned the name of and I actually like his art no matter how shitty the cards are.

[@troyrussell177]

I did this mama snare, signets, and a bunch of other cards. Petty profits but I did okay. I think its mana snare. That one mana counter a card with 2 converted mana cost. I cleaned house there. I should have bought 100x what I did. I think I had a couple hundred of them. They were 30 cents when I got them. When I sold them they were 8 - 10$. Funded my draft habit for 2 years. I still have like 200+ bounce lands. They weren't worth anything last time I checked but i Will always love them.

[@Brian-ey4xt]

IDK about lotus petal, but... I used to buy up wastelands back in the late 90s wherever I went. I mostly picked through the uncommon bins at comic book stores and got them for 25 cents each. I made a dumb deck with 30 wasteland and then a bunch of random artifacts (stax with some stalking stones lol) just to troll on kids who paid $10-20 for each of their dual lands. I stopped playing MTG in college and med school, then came back to the game in 2013 when I found my box of mtg at my mom's house. I sold 100 wastelands to a dealer in Virginia for $8,000 and then paid off one of my school loans, haha. Basically all I'm trying to say is that back then a lot of stores had big cardboard boxes just sorted by rarity; a lot of the time commons were something like 10 cents and uncommons were 25 cents. So it was pretty easy to just buy a bunch of a certain card if you wanted to collect them for some crazy deck idea.

[@TylerBaraby]

I couldn't make it through 2 minutes of this. If I ever saw someone handling my stuff this disrespectfully in person, they certainly would not be leaving with intact eye sockets.

[@jacesaces15]

been watching a lot of MTG videos lately for literally no reason, i dont know a damn thing about it, but i really want to start collecting tho now.

[@mathdarven5634]

The golden disk you call a life point counter is actually an accessory for pen and paper RPG Legend of the Five Rings (L5R), basically weaboo D&D. Don't ask me what it's made for, I only play 3rd or 4th edition of L5R, so I don't have a clue regarding its use.

[@mickeyrube6623]

I know someone prolly said this already, but the foreign lotuses are: Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, in that order.

[@MrWeedWacky]

4:43 - the label says "22 karat gold" - the dude then says "it's heavy, some kind of metal!" YEAH ITS FUCKING GOLD!

[@Miztickow]

Chinese and Japanese can be pretty hard to differentiate if you aren't really familiar with the languages, especially because they use some of the same characters, but Korean is pretty easy. Korean is mainly circles and straight lines. Once you see it on a few cards, it's really easy to tell Korean from the other languages.

[@jkw3010]

Chinese characters are more complex (each character is a word) while Japanese are more simple (half the characters are just sounds) - also, the psuedo-period is a give-away on Magic cards - Chinese has a circle in the middle of the line, Japanese has a circle flush with the bottom of the character line. First cards were Chinese, 2nd set was Korean, and 3rd pile was Japanese.

[@EadricRicmund]

Rule of thumb is... if the characters look like Tic Tac Toe, its Korean. If the name have a mixture of symbols that are both complex and simple then it's Japanese. If all the characters are complex then its Chinese lol.

[@89qwyg9yqa34t]

Not surprising. M:tG's market is stupid-manipulated. I'm willing to bet that only about 6 people have like 90% of the black lotuses. I remember early 2000s seeing the prices on Ebay suddenly reach thousands of dollars where they were only $400 (beta version) from almost the beginning of Magic to just a few months prior.

[@kaifowler6832]

Rudy I did it i did it i followed your advice and I bought out a card from a set with a lot of printings a card from ice age but we'll whatever it's called Ice Cauldron

[@travisnelson4423]

The life counter is from an old card game in the 90's I think it's still around. Legend of the Five Rings.

[@aaronjessome1032]

Awesome video Rudy! I love these where we get to search through a random collection!!! Ohhh and Lotus Petal's each are listed on facetofacegames for 6-8$ Canadian, depending on condition of course!!

[@0011peace]

My favorite card is Spiritmonger 3GB 6/6 1B: regenerate 1G: becomes color of choice when it does damage put +1/+1 counter on it. Put flying or can block fires it can actually beat protection from black

[@johnkapp849]

Let me tell you a story about a man named Nelson. Nelson owned a Bunker. And Nelson loved to Hunt. One day Nelson thought he could Hunt out all of the silver in the world and store it in his Bunker in anticipation of better days. Nelson Bunker Hunt never cornered the market on silver and ruined himself and his business partners in the meantime.

[@hf7807]

But he DID corner the silver market. The government stepped in and fined him billions of dollars citing market manipulation and other charges, mainly because they are the only ones they think should be able to manipulate things.

[@wigglytuffgaming]

Was gonna say lotus petals go for $10-$18 but then i noticed this was 4 years ago

[@MunchinOnDew]

"that's interesting in itself!" Plop.

[@Martician]

Those lotus petals are now going for like $13+ a piece

[@Holyspecter]

4:59 Tosses out the 24K gold like it's trash lol

[@JeffCraigTV]

Gold plated, not pure gold. It's not worth anything.

[@splix85]

22k gold leafing. Not worth much of anything.

[@itxi]

It's heavy, like some kind of metal or something...

[@Meowmeow.age.6]

white weenie was fun with cataclysm. This guy was playing with illusions of granduer he was playing extended around urza it seems.

[@sasanmottaghipour876]

Damn , id love to own a signed set of petals!

[@profsinful8340]

And now lotus petal is selling for around 19$ a card…

[@ajronmejden]

RUDY, that was not a life counter, it was an honor counter for Legend of the Five Rings CCG (now actually LCG, after acquisition by FFG).

[@BarHonigfeld]

Really? I had the green one from that series and it looked remarkably like the green mana symbol. And I used it as a life counter for years. Lol :D

[@ashrhill77]

I recall them having removable/changeable top plates so you only had to buy one base but could get various clan tops. They probably did a set of mana symbols also.

[@Dirpman42]

I played EDH in Atlanta with a guy that had 2 decks double sleeved with both of them "backed" in Lotus Petals. I wonder if this was the same guy.

[@denverboyd9953]

Hey Rudy have you ever considered giving discounts on singles to patreons? Maybe a percentage discount or something?

[@jayfenwenzel6531]

When you took Beast of Burden out of that sleeve and didn't put it back in and started shuffling through the cards I Heard a Voice in the back of my head screaming to put that back in the sleeve at least I think it was in my head it definitely wanted that back in the sleeve

[@Jeskul]

If u have enough lotus pedals, eventually u can trade em all for a whole lotus💪😂

[@yawgmoth5662]

Yes but you only get the super worthless yellow lotus. Not the ultra rare black one.

[@moonsunismarried]

@@slaytronic great deal i would say🤣

[@drakkenmensch]

I remember setting up my greatest combo deck out of so-called "useless" cards including Glacial Chasm. It all started with Storm Cauldron and my desire to find a use for it, not just a situational one-off use, but a center stage glorious STAR of the deck. Here's how it goes: Storm Cauldron, Fastbond, Glacial Chasm, any "do X damage" spell as the finisher. Storm Cauldron returns any tapped land to your hand, Fastbond lets you replay them for mana immediately at the cost of damage, Glacial Chasm reduces that damage to zero. *Infinite mana.* For extra fun, make the X damage card a Hurricane or Earthquake to bring ruin to an entire table's worth of players in a multiplayer game. This also brought one of my favorite "Did you even READ your card?" moments as I performed that combo and concluded "... and I cast hurricane with 10 billion mana, so everyone and everything takes 10 billion damage, except me who takes zero because of Glacial Chasm." One of the players thought he had a GOTCHA and replied "I FORK YOUR HURRICANE! SUCK IT, LOSER!!!" There was a moment of silence around the table as everyone stared at him silently. Clearly, he was the only one who did NOT understand the futility of what he had just done. "Okaaaaaay... now everybody takes *20 billion damage* except me. Because you know, Glacial Chasm? The card I just told you reduces all MY damage to zero? You just made everybody lose twice as hard, seriously man do you even understand how Fork works?!?"

[@BuddahBlueMage]

"that's interesting in and of itself." *yeet*

[@Kenku178]

To Answer, the dial is a Legend of Five Ring Water Ring Honor Counter. Usually -20 is loss and 40 at start of turn was win so it was an extended dial to make sure to cover overage.

[@diogosantos1186]

Honestly I felt a lot of desinterest and desdain throughout this whole video. Even if the cards are not the rarest or most valuable, this person clearly had put effort into signing and attending pre releases etc etc. And even if he didn’t had any value on cards, at least respect if they were sleeved.. keep them sleeved.

[@kamakazedragongaming3129]

at the 12:50 mark the card you are thinking of is the spell swindle, 2 Blue, 3 coulourless, counter target spell.. im pretty sure thats the one..

[@Inthreadwetrust2]

Rudy I want to buy a set of signed petals!!!

[@AkshatRamanathan]

Inthreadwetrust sign me in too

[@PBTZYT]

And Rudy never ran out of petals again

[@theconcubin3]

Will it kill you to handle the cards in a more respectful manner ?

[@MichaelSmith-fm5ln]

Not sure anyone mentioned it yet but those signed cards at the beginning are from championship decks. Kind of like pre cons but made to copy winning decks of the time. They were pretty cool actually.

[@MichaelSmith-fm5ln]

Or are they? Lol. Now I am wondering. Those signatures on the petals looked different.

[@SplashAttackTCG]

RUDYFLOPPYTACO! I don't even play Magic but I've been watching you for almost a year now. Somewhere along the way you inspired my curiosity for Magic! I opened my first Ixalan Bundle box yesterday and did an opening with 10 packs! I have no idea what I pulled! Can you please help me out? I uploaded the video a few hours ago. Thanks!

[@wolflink2131]

Dude, I checked out your video! You pulled some of the best and most expensive cards in the set! CARNAGE TYRANT!

[@trevathecleva]

I sold my carnage tyrants into the hype. I hate standard. Prefer to sell standard money cards and use money to draft again. Draft draft draft.

[@matthewrogalinski6544]

#FloppyTaco

[@DeagleLas]

I made a bet when Revised was going to be removed from the market and 4th was going to be published. Me and my group of MTG fellow players from our club chose a common which we thought was going to be retired from the set. There was a dude who bet for Kird Ape, so he was able to collect like 200 of them. Another one said that Atog was going to be retired and he was able to collect like nearly 200 of them. I collected nearlly 500 Erg Riders. Luckly, there was someone who did an even worse bet and collected about 600 Mesa Pegasus.

[@edstuff1198]

The foreign Lotus Petals are Japanese and Korean. Poor April, that's a lot of signed cards.

[@edstuff1198]

The first, from Urza's is Chinese. The set of 3 red cards are Japanese, you can see the Hirgana and Katakana characters as well as the traditional Kanji (Chinese characters). Hirgana and Katana are phonetic alphabets compared to the Kanji which are pictograms. The Japanese combine all three when they write. It's easy to recognize from Chinese writing because of this.

[@edstuff1198]

Sure, except the Japanese use Chinese characters as well as their own as I pointed out earlier. The Chinese style may be a little different but they are the same characters.

[@MagikarpsSplash]

@@edstuff1198 wow you sound like a real cool guy.

[@edstuff1198]

@@MagikarpsSplash Yes, yes I am. Very cool even.

[@elfguy2007]

Love watching you open old collections I never got into magic back then so its really cool.