Alpha Investments Buys out Evil investor

[@antoniop1017]

I'm the seller. No I wasn't kidding when I said I'd send you ~200 beta jumps and power leaks lol. When I counted them it was only 190 so I sent the 10 arabian nights cards to make up for it. Also I didn't just buy these 2 cards - I bought everything but hadn't gotten around to selling these particular ones yet. Since they were cheap I had a lot of them 😂 Thanks for letting me share my story!

[@Dalpima]

As another player who STARTED with buying a starter deck of Revised. I love you. Hi. XD Super cool cards man. I love the memories of old MTG. Its SO much fun.

[@beachedwhale12]

why u decide to sell

[@antoniop1017]

@beachedwhale12 A few reasons: 1) No real connection to the card, unlike my original P9 which I held for 23 years 2) Anger/frustration/lack of faith in Hasbro after Magic 30. Some Magic 30 cards buylist for more than their Alpha counterparts… insanity. 3) Peace of mind after selling my tangible assets (mtg, 1st ed. base set Pokémon holos, gold, silver). I no longer have to worry about theft, fire, or my kids destroying my stuff lol

[@antoniop1017]

@@Dalpima Thanks dude. We'll always have the memories of old MtG.

[@AlphaHoarder]

As a fellow holder of many many limited edition Jumps, I salute you, sir.

[@chazzanschutz6096]

Rudy now owns over 1-2% of all the beta jumps. (He already had hundreds before).

[@gringoguapo]

Probably more than that!

[@bat2275]

small evil investor bought out by gigantic evil investor

[@antoniop1017]

😂

[@MTGUnpacked]

Pretty sure Rudy is single-handedly holding up the market for vintage cardboard at this point!😂

[@hitmangfx7162]

I would have sent the Mox, then a pile of Disenchants and a pile of Shatters. Take THAT, Mox!

[@timothyvandenberg2905]

First magic card I *ever* saw for sale at an LGS was a Revised JUMP in a 10-cent bin....No clue what it meant, but later that day I bought my first ever 4th edition starter decks. This was in Stockholm, Sweden during a family trip in August 1995 (Chronicles had literally just come out). Years later, I collected all the Alpha, Beta, Unlimited etc. versions of Jump I could find. This video, therefore, has special meaning to me! Thank you for sharing!

[@jamesheine6249]

The first time i saw a game of magic the first play i saw was a player jumping a force of nature to his opponents face

[@atava85]

Those were the good feelings.

[@Wallyworld30]

Imagine playing Jump in a deck with creatures that have Trample? Was it a sealed deck?

[@jamesheine6249]

@Wallyworld30 no but it was before fallen empires came out

[@ThisNameIsBanned]

Imagine having 290$ at 10 ... wtf ...

[@antoniop1017]

I basically saved up every 10, 20, or 50 dollar Christmas or birthday present from grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. and after a few years you end up with a couple hundred bucks 👍 Bought the lotus around 5th grade.

[@levant5378]

@@antoniop1017I think it’s still a lot of money, most kids never end up getting that much tbh. In total over 18 years with my parents I maybe got 1k in total including money from religious ceremonies. And I think that’s pretty normal.

[@Wallyworld30]

Only Lotus I ever owned was a NM Unlimited I paid $180 for. I also owned a Mox Pearl, Mox Saphire and Mox Jet all Unlimited. Beta Time Walk and Ancestral Recall. I sold them all after graduating HS for less than a grand after intense pressure from my father. I still remind him of that to this day.

[@tomglpn]

It's all about demad. The old fudds of old-school cards are the only ones with Interest in the old stuff

[@jamiesangster9350]

i dont every mtg player necessarily thinks identically to you man... especially when you mention "interest"... everyone is at least "interested' in power lol... being interested enough to want to buy it though is another step altogether though... but dual lands is always going to be the gateway for a small but consistent percentage of people over time

[@brendans1983]

And we got the money to waste on whatever we want! Hit me up if you ever want a job that goes somewhere, i could probably find a spot for you in either of my businesses 🍻

[@riotThomy]

The old storys are epic - plz never stop to buy (vintage) mtg

[@runderwo]

This video demanded a Van Halen background track.

[@strawpiglet]

Which one?

[@strawpiglet]

Never mind 😅

[@SeriousSamurai077]

Man I hate how arbitrary grading is. All those edge marks and it gets a 9? I once sent in an immaculate (IMO) foil Amethyst Core (Sorcery) to PSA and it got a 7. I was floored, as it didn't have a single mark on the card.

[@brendans1983]

I'll see that story, and raise you this; my LGS sent a pokemon card in, going for a 10. Got a 9, they cracked it open and sent it back in for grading cos they weren't happy. Came back as an 8. They spat it, cracked it open again and sent it back in again. Got a 10 this time... That experience right there was enough to shine the biggest light on the industry for me.

[@dough4prez]

I trust my own grading over "professionals"

[@lukeg2171]

@@brendans1983 Yep card grading is a scam.

[@7Alberto7]

Stunning! Absolutly stunning!❤ thanks Rudy!

[@Evilshonen]

Kinda crazy that mox got a 9 for the edges. I couldn't stop looking at that edge wear.

[@TheFaithfulAtheist]

Plot twist: the seller was Kris Kross.

[@The_Myster]

Apple sauce

[@CowboyRibeye]

@@TheFaithfulAtheist thought it was Eddie Van Halen

[@mtgfan6979]

Loving all these Vintage posts! More please!!!!

[@austinnadz1]

Evil collector gets taken by evil investor. The plot thickens.

[@lonsmithicus]

It's true. I was buying beta commons from ABUgames back then for 50 cents and Alpha commons for a buck. It didn't last long. Maybe a couple hundred of each or less in HP condition and then they took the whole Alpha Beta section down and restarted it with 5 dollars for the cheapest Alpha. I was just including 1 of each set in binder collections I sell on eBay for the kids.

[@Nightenstaff]

Ah, might as well jump *jump!* Might as well jump.

[@dough4prez]

What elementary kids got that kinda dough?! I was broke AF in 93-94 at 9yrs old. 100$ might as well been 10000$

[@AllanAdamson]

My first power was a beta, Mox Ruby it was played but baby, it was mine and it loved to just come out first turn to the point I was accused of cheating with it

[@AlicaGriffis]

Do not underestimate the power of getting in early. If you are not in Adaxum now, you are lagging behind.

[@V1C10US]

The further we get from 1993 the less MTG players there are that have any personal connection with vintage Magic. I personally don't see vintage going much higher without significant inflation. The nostalgia is waning as time passes, just like vintage cars and motorcycles. The kids don't care.

[@jw70467]

I cannot comment on the investment value, but I can say that is why I don’t care about current MtG. The old sets were nice mixes of universal concepts and in universe specificity. Arabian Nights was before my time but the cards were instantly recognizable and unique. Legends was amazing, unique cards all over the place tempting you to combine colors in different ways. Then comes the crush of the new release schedule with Crappy Kingdoms, Ice Age (why?), and then set after set of unremarkable schlock. That combination of wonder and familiarity is just missing - it is so difficult to capture, but MtG doesn’t have it. Flesh and Blood has a bit of it, and that’s what I play.

[@CowboyRibeye]

It's not only about nostalgia. Eventually people are drawn to rarity. Right now the focus is new magic and Pokemon. Everything is cyclical. All it takes is a reason to care, whether that's nostalgia for older players or younger people getting their attention drawn to older magic for the rarity or another reason.

[@V1C10US]

@@CowboyRibeye Hard disagree. G.I.Joe has been around for over 60 years, but the only fans that collect the 12" figures are the ones that were kids when those were the standard. Everyone else collects what they're nostalgic for (3.75" scale) or what's new (1:12 scale).

[@CowboyRibeye]

@@V1C10US You might be right, but those aren't very comparable things. GI Joe does not exist anymore in any capacity other than barely related movies and toys that are not the same thing as trading cards. The show hasn't existed for 33 years.

[@africanveteran7728]

2:44 there's whitening on the surface above the color wheel and a pretty deep scratch above the blue orb

[@antoniop1017]

Pretty sure the whiteness is on the slab not the card, but yes, the ding is above blue orb. I know cuz it was mine lol.

[@RocSandy]

I rate todays folks a solid 7.6/10. nothing to crazy, but it gets the job done, and simply a classic. Also please make a FOLKS coin

[@IneptCardCollector]

Bullish on tacos 🌮📈

[@TcgP1725]

I love these videos cuz every has their own crazy way of packaging these things 😂

[@KevinFranklin89]

Keep it up Rudy! Love your content!

[@TurgayAdnan-h5e]

One of the top new project is definitely Adaxum. Defi and E-commerce narrative will do great in the following year.

[@infamousgerald]

Thanks for not breaking the slab. Management

[@ChrisLee-on3ro]

I have never been on the buying,investment coaster. Started playing in 93'-94'. Right around when a unlimited red mox was about 50 $..(..my most regretable pass,..I bought a pack of legends for 40$ and got the Moss monster or something crappy I think..)--Second worse miss was trading like 5 Revised Shivans and a few duals for a well played(..7 or a 8 pcg..) Lotus. But I still have my revised set,w/duals in a case,...I collected full sets up to after the urzas block. After that I trailed off playing and buying packs. I don't have a million $ worth of cards,but to me they are priceless. I will leave them in the family and they can sell them for a nice trip maybe. 🥰

[@festos7012]

Imo the reason old vintage magic cards have not gone up is playability. The power 9 is banned in all the popular formats. So the only demand for them is remmberbearys. At my lgs if you look around 95% of the player base was not even born when those cards were playable but lotr set one ring is this generations black lotus

[@go4celerity413]

Any idea why the Jumps are so lightly played?

[@antoniop1017]

*Shrug* I bought them as NM or LP and kept them that way.

[@snakeonia7542]

Sports cards have same issues for year. PSA9 walter payton rc 1976 (one of the best ever) can be bought for cheaper than some new release boxes. Markets are stuck that way.

[@levant5378]

I feel like a lot of the people who knew the value in old school have sold out of it. And the percentage of mtg players who care about vintage is getting smaller and smaller. How is that trend ever going to reverse when the nostalgia bubble has come and gone. Are we really going to get old school players spending their retirement to relive the glory days of their childhood?

[@rebelking_21]

Hell no 😂😂 ain't no 60+ retiree gonna be like hey I wanna buy a mox for 8k 😂😂

[@grounder91]

6:50 @alphaInvestments - did retention drop at this exact moment?

[@uv_khamaileon]

Quick question.. of all these collections you acquired how many of these cards are available for players to purchase from you.

[@INHUMANENATION]

Hasran Ogress was my first time 😅

[@FestivePump]

What are your thoughts on Topps, Star Wars, and marvel?

[@easydoesit83]

Rudy should do a divorced dads pack opening way cooler than spastic the gathering

[@Arvolite]

I wonder, why dont they send the card to PSA or BEKKET to get re-evaluated?

[@Crytical8494]

How long until they start attaching NFT's to the serialized cards? or to All the cards and allow them to be registered (and played?) digitally?

[@lordsauron2879]

Two years is the plan.

[@ThePointer17]

This letter could have been me right down to the $290 unlimited lotus. Got mine for $280…

[@TahaJfali]

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[@StarcoreLabs]

No single old printed cardboard rectangle should be worth two or more used SUVs. Card games should not be an investment asset.

[@tcsmagicbox]

Did it make you "Jump"?

[@HaticeCeyhun-u2v]

Gold tier bonuses look incredible! Adaxum is rewarding its loyal presale participants and early adopters well!

[@CansuGulsah]

Just subscribed to Adaxum yt channel. Looking forward to more updates on this project

[@pariahpokemonwesbragg2904]

I'm hoping these youngens and newbie collectors find some love for the older/vintage stuff... we'll see. I've been collecting (mainly Pokemon for 10+ years) and have seen these boom and busts several times.

[@BankofArabia]

Did you fix the smoke detector

[@TheDarkElder]

Jump, jump, jump! Jump Rudy 😀

[@MTGBros]

how many evil investors are left are rudy buys them all out?

[@David36661]

Rudy I’m going to tell u how the new mtg market and Pokémon market is controlled. It’s time So there’s a giant community of us who manipulate the market on TCG/eBay by faking sells on items we have that we want to make go up... This only works with items that have large quantity of. That’s why new sealed product or certain cards we can manipulate the market quit easily and can make something go back 10-100% in a couple days if we do it together. Cuz once people see where making a item go back, people start panic buying it, which makes it seem as natural as possible See now u can understand that old MTG singles we can’t manipulate. It’s nearly Impossible. Remember, ALL card product that you’ve seen “gone up” last years, has ALL been manipulated by groups. We can’t manipulate old MTG singles, so the market is showing its natural outcomes. Which is, no one buying lol too expensive cards with the tiny market. And since people can’t heavily manipulate prices with having lots of that product, vintage MTG will never go up Rudy. Never Now u know the truth and cats out of the bag And told u for free. Should be giving me a ES box lol

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

Ah, might as well jump (jump) Might as well jump Go ahead and jump (jump) Go ahead and jump Hello, hey you Who said that? Baby, how you been? You say you don't know You won't know until you begin So can't you see me standing here? I've got my back against the record machine I ain't the worst that you've seen Ah, can't you see what I mean? Ah, might as well jump (jump) Go ahead and jump Might as well jump (jump) Go ahead and jump Jump Might as well jump (jump) Go ahead and jump Get it and jump (jump) Go ahead and jump Jump Jump Jump Jump

[@-odinfire-2324]

Shouldn't be flat? In price? What's the end game? 500 per Alpha common?!? They're stupid expensive now! I get having value it's what helped keep the game alive but cmon....it's become a game for just the rich if you want anything beyond bulk that no one wants.

[@xunsungwar77]

hi bro I love to hear u talk but can u make more pokemon video? magic will die at one point because old people will die and kids don like magic. please make more pokemon video...

[@ryanremus2617]

You don’t buy me out, I buy you out. (Moe Green)

[@Scaran1982]

I would be curious to know how your grading company is doing. Would be nice to get some stats and people in general are submitting. Maybe even stats on what the average grade is per tcg being graded. Just a thought, I know I enjoy stats 😅

[@jasperchu6151]

I don't understand how people still think BGS is the gold standard for MTG. That beautiful 9.5 centering is clearly shifted to the left, and the bottom left edge has a giant mark should make the edges an 8 or 8.5 at best. I've been examining every graded alpha card up for auction on eBay and PWCC this past year (and bidding on most mint ones), and BGS is clearly the most inconsistent with their grades.

[@GamingManual]

IDK man I still think Vintage Magic is always going to come back into demand, and these new IP sets are going to be less and less popular with collectors as they age.

[@5starcollectibles103]

I’m staring to suspect one person is writing all these letters 🤔. All of them are written the same way. 😂

[@CowboyRibeye]

Might as well

[@TCG-Juice]

Day 27 of asking Rudy for a job.

[@majorissues6604]

He said a long time ago he won't hire anybody due to too many ppl stealing from him. He only uses his family and very close friends when he needs help.

[@xymoriintus]

TF would he employ you to do? You really think he's gonna let some random person around his millions of dollars of TCG inventory

[@Wowbob.]

@@xymoriintus a person can dream can’t they !

[@AllesSpitze]

​@@xymoriintus im asking for Jobs in calli or Amsterdam but nothing 😢

[@anotherhobbit]

got any money? buy calls

[@peterUSA-m7v]

No one cares about vintage magic because it is not old, 30-40 years is nothing in the trade market.. it is stupid to think that this is an investment, it is 100% nostalgia. i would rather put money on coins, gold, toys, videogames, all this are better than MTg as an investment

[@_Ekaros]

Just need to pick right generation of items, I say investing now to what was popular in 5-10 years will make money in 10 to 15 years.

[@MumunOzgul]

The roadmap for Adaxum is super ambitious. If they can deliver on even half of it, we’re in for a massive ride. ADX to the moon?

[@fernwogteveril6935]

People want the new stuff but also Magic 30 killed everyone's faith in the old stuff being special and rare and never being reprinted.

[@madquest8]

Alpha Investments Buys out Taco investor

[@Kaaierd]

Jumpstart 1993! 😂

[@SuatSeda]

I think Adaxum token ADX will be one of the top performers in bullrun 2025.

[@jdj-sapphire]

That Ruby is Over Graded. It’s a PSA 6.9 at best.

[@Infamous159]

Rudy wonders how long it's gonna be sideways/downtrending. MY MAN, YOU HAVE ALL OF IT! lol. YOU need to raise the prices.

[@brendezen]

Should I do magic videos on my Pokemon channel. Thoughts on future of magic guys?

[@JohnSmith-mj7cz]

Nobody cares dude

[@danelast7692]

Im a filthy pokemon guy but the more i watch your magic videos the more I find it interesting but at the same time it seems too much to get into now. If you were new to magic where would you start.

[@atunga5]

you have the jump market cornered

[@tomcadden8054]

What an amature. The alpha horder has hundreds(?) of alpha Jump's

[@Jankegs]

I bought a PSA 9 Braingeyser in hopes of impressing my wife.

[@macsenhayes]

Why do people love new magic? Didn't they just completely sell-out the concept of the game and screw over all the good Glass?

[@INHUMANENATION]

I said this exact thing when they released ice age. What just throw snow on bs and it's a new set? Money hungry pricks eh lol.

[@mebinici]

When does everything go to zero? 😅

[@lordsauron2879]

​@@mebiniciLast quarter of 2027. One week after the Mothership arrives.

[@wiwog525]

Hope we're still boys Rudy I didn't mean nothing personal just realized i cant be spending so much :(

[@rebelking_21]

Not gonna lie man these scalpers and hoarders are so bad for the community in my opinion. Kinda makes me sick

[@CoopCooper.]

Invest in novelty items.. seriously please invest in novelty.😁

[@alexhuxley3355]

Rudy, in your lifetime you will never, ever, ever sell those low end cards. You just wanted the Mox. The others will be crated up and sent to an Indiana Jones type warehouse full of crates. Am I right ?

[@VMC_Boy]

No he needs them for his decks!

[@antoniop1017]

I sold him the Mox and sent him the betas for free so his cost basis is 0.

[@pokeymonster]

Alphameisterrr

[@randomsanctum]

Laughs at CGC while his own grading company is dogshit. lol

[@bryanhuber3554]

Jump man jump man jump man jump

[@GoobNoob]

3.1k views 1 hour ago

[@NOLA-vv3sz]

Alphahoarder sold you his Jumps? Not sure I can live with knowing that.

[@EngineerfifeninerO]

No. He wayyy more Jumps than this. Extremely unlikely.

[@NOLA-vv3sz]

@ and his are alpha.

[@AlphaHoarder]

I did not sell. My jumps are secure 👍

[@davidwinters9461]

well you made it so lame no one wants it.

[@mebinici]

Aw, are you crying poor Timmy?

[@Mannyshevitz]

Rudy you don’t like cgc huh

[@jonesdarryn1]

i highly doubt you will ever sell all of those jumps. you should give him $1 for that entire stack of jumps. there is a guy that just came up and he shows tournaments that only use 93-94 MTG cards and jump is never used.

[@antoniop1017]

I gave him the betas as freebies as a thank you for doing this deal in 1 day

[@starlightmasquerade8647]

❤❤

[@snoopanoop7705]

👀

[@tcgdude]

Lets go

[@Smellyalater]

Yo

[@LucaRovaldi]

🥃

[@taylorkennedy5840]

Have you observed after hundreds of hours of video, that you nervously swallow your own saliva every few seconds... An odd habit really. Makes the stream unlistenable in headphone.

[@chrisduncan5826]

he thinks revised came out 7 years ago BAHAHAHAHa

[@antoniop1017]

Yeah, I said when I was 7... not 7 years ago haha

[@LisaMitchell-v3k]

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[@jonesdarryn1]

everybody is selling out of MTG using you. Eventually no one will care about MTG anymore and you will have all the cards but who cares because MTG is dead. I hope that never happens

[@Draegon86]

Serialized cards and collector boxes are the worst thing to happen to this game. Just make one box of bloody cards and sell it . The gamble for great cards has been limited to the rich. This is just my opinion

[@INHUMANENATION]

It seems like gambling is for the booster boxes. If you can afford a collectors box it doesn't appear to be much of a gamble to even open them.

[@Draegon86]

@INHUMANENATION aren't new sets reduced to either "play boxes" or "collectors boxes", with the collectors boxes having the serialized cards? Or can you get serialized cards in play boxes as well?

[@lordsauron2879]

​@@Draegon86Yes. No.

[@Draegon86]

@@lordsauron2879 thank you for the clarification. I stand by my original statement lol

[@last9up]

Folks!