Alpha investments Presents : $3,000.00 Urza's Legacy booster Box OPENING

[@icebergslim6653]

I was 12 years old when Magic came out. I went to the local comic shop with my good buddy Rick. Our parents let us choose one thing: I was super into learning D&D, so I went the D&D Players Handbook route, my buddy Rick went the Magic route. He told me I should. I am happy with my choice, lifelong D&D guy. I just started playing Magic during Guilds of Ravnica. I love it. I really wish I woulda went the Magic route, at least a bit. Rick has a binder of cards that are gonna pay for his daughters college education :) lol Nice vid Rudy. Ill keep watching ;)

[@robertscully3876]

In honor of duplication. Ill watch this video 2x

[@jayp4687]

but that would mean 2x times the duplications, making you watch it four times. and that would mean...

[@adammurkin7496]

In honour of duplication. I will post this comment 2x

[@adammurkin7496]

In honour of duplication. I will post is comment 2x

[@coffeeteaornicklausasmrvlo3673]

@@adammurkin7496 in honour of duplication i liked both your comments and disliked both your comments

[@robertscully3876]

Like the creative thinking!

[@Diotialate]

I got a box of this on my 15th birthday I opened the shrink wrap, pulled out the "happy birthday" note out of the sealed, sealed mind you, booster box, and freaked out for the next 10 minutes.

[@austinwilburn1772]

wait... what?

[@Diotialate]

@@austinwilburn1772 Wizards of the Coast put a happy birthday note in every single box of this set. You had to be there.

[@austinwilburn1772]

@@Diotialate ah, I understand now, sorry I was like 50%, "wait did someone temper with it?", my bad

[@videos8159]

old white foils were the most beautiful cards ever. so amazing

[@bigedude]

Duplication: the Duplicating - this reminds me of the Urza's Destiny God Pack's from a Pre-release back in the day... the whole room went insaaaane and it was a good time.

[@anab0lic]

artwork from this era really was something special.... wish it was still this good.

[@Prog_Frog15]

The crop rotation will go perfectly with the pack fresh gaea's cradle

[@andykapsar4667]

block constructed!

[@internetjesus]

"Unless you're from Pluto, you're not a planet." Immediate unsub.

[@tobin1677]

Well I live in Illinois and Pluto is a planet here so ha.

[@RealSB]

Reeeeeee!

[@xinth23]

Pluto is a dwarf planet, just like Rudy's (fill in the blank)...

[@internetjesus]

Pluto is a planet and they'll have to take the designation from my cold dead hands.

[@oximofo9]

Cries in Setsuna.

[@-RTC-]

Weatherseed Treefolk blew my mind when I was a kid. It was my favorite card at the time. Coming back from the graveyard to my hand just seemed unfair. Still one of my favorite cards. Great video as always Rudy

[@emiach]

I opened a foil No Mercy from a Legacy pack on my birthday as a kid. This block holds so much damn nostalgia for me. It’s like the FF7/8/9 of MTG.

[@1dude2cats]

Climbing through Ice Age?!?! Love it. I remember buying packs at the card shop as a kid. Legacy was the first time I STOPPED playing Magic. Thanks for this one.

[@fingolfinfinwe]

The art in these old boxes is just on another level. I don't really collect MTG but if the newer sets were anything like these older ones I probably would get sucked (giggity) in.

[@unabashedindividualist6232]

I mean... in defense of the duplication thing... back then we were buying individual packs from LGS’ duplication wasn’t ever an issue when you only buy 1-3 packs at at time hahaha

[@implode3]

Speak for yourself, reserved a box of each new set back then...then greedily packs every weekend at my LGS. Think I ended up buying a case or more of each Saga block box by the time things settled.

[@unabashedindividualist6232]

Most of us were just kids with no source of income and living in lower middle-class households. You were probably the exception rather than the rule, bro. ​@@implode3

[@Clabian96]

I just wish I had bought more while it was still on the shelves at my lgs back then instead of buying Invasion block.

[@implode3]

@@Clabian96 I've been working my entire life---in 4th grade through Jr high I did a paper route everyday after school for 3 hours, on top of homework. In high school I worked fast food job at McDonalds on top of extracurriculars. So presenting things like I was given things and born with a silver platter is deeply offensive to me.

[@Clabian96]

@@implode3 I said nothing about you being handed things... that was the other guy. I was just saying I wish I had bought more Urza's block instead of the newest set back then... Good on you, though. Definitely appreciate things more when you work hard for them.

[@anthony2102]

so fresh, so clean - love the retro box openings

[@TheMrSlyxx]

I literally remember the day me and 2 other friends opened some cards from this set when it first came out. One of them said "foil cards look neat, but they will never catch on." The other guy said "Ya, it's just more stuff to collect. Now you can't get a full set unless you have 2 of each foil and non-foil" and both said they were gonna quit the game. LOL

[@finbarcastellino6664]

"It's like putting a screen door on every submarine in the ocean!"

[@jameshill2450]

I opened a box of original Time Spiral when it came out. You got one foil Timeshifted card in the box. Of all the amazing cards it could have been, my foil was a Squire.

[@bud7707]

I feel like Rudy is a low key horder, that claims he’s a investor ;) Edit* thanks for all the likes

[@GlennTheSadMarinersFan]

fine line dude. like the American picker show. almost collector they go to are really Hoarders :)

[@callumjones1068]

Wish I could hoard boxes of $3000 bills too 😔

[@Blickooo]

When you see that much dust, definitely a hoarder!

[@E-A-Z-Y]

The amount of old boxes he has is nuts

[@Cosper79]

I imagine an intervention episode where they wheel Rudy out in a straight jacket and you see that the foundation of the house is actually boxes of magic.

[@zanadriafurcadia]

Aww yis. I am ready for beautiful old foils.

[@otomustam7000]

I wouldn't be surprised if Rudy announced that someone died under his massive collection of boxes one day...

[@mrbobtehbuildah]

.....giggity

[@fsmoura]

Florida Collyer brothers

[@patmacrotch5611]

I think it’s crazy he lives in “always floods” Florida with that horde of cardboard.

[@turkeygoblin]

Hidden Gibbons was an amazing sideboard card. Loved, loved, loved it! You forgot about Defense Grid though, that was a great artifact.

[@bradwynarts7047]

"I think that Memory Jar might be banned everyone." LOL, the damn thing was emergency banned from standard almost immediately and has been banned in every format but Type 1 since.

[@tomasbrechler9299]

hah yeah I remember it was like a week from release. I actually sold one and the price skyrocketed right after and I was like "damn"... and then it got banned ) it was actually also promo card for the release. good times.

[@Baconbombs]

36 packs, with 44 rares in the set, means nearly every box will have some duplication.

[@mikeelarsen1964]

I thought about that too, and I think he's probably just used to opening more "modern" sets where they've done a much more thorough job of controlling what goes in the packs; nowadays, you basically only get a duplicate rare if one's foil, but you're right, for a small set back in the day it was far more common to get duplicates.

[@Gandalf22476]

@xxGodx try 9 duplicates. FF. Duplicate F for the respect.

[@Baconbombs]

@xxGodx sure the odds are the same as winning the lottery... buying a 1 dollar scratch off and winning $10. There SHOULD be at least 3-4 duplicate cards per 36 booster packs on rares.

[@TaQa04]

@xxGodx Things weren't randomized back then the way you might think they would be. 8-10 duplicates was common because rarity was uneven, about half of the rares had a higher print frequency, and if I recall correctly, there was even a bucket that was more rare.

[@philippkollmar8635]

But 9 times a duplicate rare? that's half of the box? that isn't: some duplication...

[@TaQa04]

Am I the only one NOT surprised by the duplication? I opened a lot of Legacy back in the day (okay, "a lot" is maybe exaggerating, maybe 15 boxes from 2000-2004), and 8-10 duplicates a box was expected (36 packs per box, 44 total rares, and rares not having even distribution are the reasons).

[@andrewgolubiewski3463]

It made the good boxes better and the bad boxes worse.

[@TaQa04]

Correct. Time changes everything as well, today this is not a great box, but back then, this would have been a pretty big winner of a box (2 memory jars, 2 hermits? yes please)

[@andrewgolubiewski3463]

Yeah, but those boxes with double monolith, double palincron were something else.

[@TaQa04]

Palinchron wasn't even a "big hit" back then (good, but not like it is today). It was only really useful in T1.X and for budget T1 decks, it made almost no appearances in T2

[@rfogle17]

I had to go look and see who the illustrator was on Grim because I was getting so anxious every time you showed the artifact illustrator. Chippy is the name of the illustrator. Can only imagine the joke/witty one liner you could've made if you had pulled one.

[@grizzlygreenbear]

I’m not a fan of investing in magic but I love these openings. Reminds me of when I was a kid. Thank you Dr Salt.

[@xthexpunisherx]

44 rares in the set. 36 packs in a box, gonna get a good number of duplicates

[@commanderjank9060]

You got the "D" all right, just not the "D" you wanted. Epic box opening. Reminds me of why I hated urzas legacy.

[@SocksTBH]

Rudy doesn't wear pants, idk why WOTC keeps insinuating this misinformation.

[@NamathCB]

That one card giving us the finger when you Crack the packs. Thanks for the purchase Sir. I/ we will enjoy these over n over annually. You're the man!

[@shaxxsextmag3612]

Nobody: Rudy: Says Indiana Jones Everybody: *Adventurer intensifies* Really though, love the intros for the old school boxes

[@billygnosis8820]

My knowledge of Magic ended with Fallen Empires so I don't know anything about these cards, but damn I love these videos. Your enthusiasm is infectious lol

[@zeldalink1388]

Getting doubles shows perfect mixture. That it is truely random and not prepacked to only have a couple chase cards.

[@turkeygoblin]

I did so many $9 drafts of Legacy at my LGS. So many good memories. We used to do this thing where 2 people would draft an entire box together and whoever won more games got the entire box.

[@MtendoTheSkunk]

I opened a pack of this for a crazy old school booster draft at my LGS and I pulled a Hidden Gibbons. The best card in the pack was Phyrexian Reclamation. Was still a lot of fun.

[@MrKHall2002]

Well, just realized I'm watching a video from exactly one year ago. Cool. Thanks for the nostalgia trips Ruby

[@coldtruth9431]

Damn the foils were so beautiful back then.. we need these back

[@45obiwan]

I loved this era, especially the fat packs with the book in them. Lost all my books when I was homeless, guess I need to buy them again. Yeah, I'm a nerd. Thanks Dr Salty!

[@mdnalmeidaiolpt]

I bought an Exodus box back in the day. I pulled 3 Oath of Druids from it. Duplication is to be expected in sets with only 44 rares.

[@DJayMan28]

Hands down, most incredible box opening. HANDS. DOWN.

[@Scorch428]

resealed getting rid of all those junk rares baby!

[@travisreed5950]

Thanks to you Rudy. That we can see some primo rare cards because of your investment's. Respect Sir.

[@chuckfoscoe8865]

I remember opening a box when the set first came out and being disappointed I didn't get a Ring of Gix, ironically. How perspectives change after twenty years.

[@willkern6]

Can this trilogy be 5 videos and 7 boxes again?

[@MrUshiikun]

I miss the old frame-only border. It really pops.

[@bumpasaurus487]

Ya, so much better. I didn’t like when they started doing the banner style on the title, but not as bad as the newer ugly black bottoms, at least put they black bar on top of the colored border frame, looks so shitty now.

[@Vimak71]

You can see at 3:46 when Rudy covers the box with the Happy Birthday card the third hairy arm comes from behind and changes the packs out for duplicates. Welcome to hosetown

[@WolleWip]

$3,000 box? More like $1,500 market price. But now there's one less of them. (Still sitting on mine after 20 years.)

[@Blackadder75]

Exaggerate is Rudy's middle name, if you watched this channel before you know that.

[@Scorch428]

nothing after revised will ever go up by that much..

[@justinmorine6662]

I opened my legacy booster box on my 15th birthday when it came out and remember all the duplicate rares I got as well, along with a misprinted palinchron!

[@Zev123]

I love the few random unlimited packs there just chilling.

[@NuMBERNYC]

@ 0:28 You pointed at Norrit. I have multiple of those cards from Ice Age but I only have 1 that has the swamp mana symbol from fallen empires and all the expansions from further back. Was this a promo from Wizards Magazine?

[@beabookworm]

I’m totes going over my monthly data while watching this right now lol. 😩🌮

[@jasoncarto]

Better upgrade that data. Rudy pulls no punches 😂

[@spartanboosts]

what invocation is that?

[@beabookworm]

spartanboosts Opposition =)

[@jhl5093]

I still remember the hype around Ring of Gix.

[@thekingsblend]

great video thanks for bringing me back to 1999! to bad the box wasn't as great. when I was 12-15 me and a friend would save up all our money to buy as many urza boxes as we could wish I'd have saved them cards together we probably had 4 complete sets of each kicking myself for that one

[@mrbuckets1106]

The old borders on these cards are so nice

[@Ragmesesis]

I Liked this Video, it was a really nostalgic trip. I Liked this Video, it was a really nostalgic trip.

[@Retzah]

Wait... I don't even play magic and never have... Why do I watch these videos... Must be the tacos

[@SamFreres]

Rudy being so surprised about the duplication means he never opened any boxes of Stronghold, Exodus, Urza’s Legacy and Destiny. Because only 44 rares in a small set and the rares were randomly inserted in the box, Every box of these sets had multiple duplicates of the rares. Wizards fixed this later.

[@one_teeth]

Radiant Archangel!! I was 11 when I started playing magic and urza legacy was my 1st set. I got Radiant Archangel foil. And guess what? I put it inside my wallet for show and to replace my id.. silly me.. Its condition got so bad, and I mean very bad. Young hearts.. lol..

[@Yakkosprite]

It's the only sad thing about knowing that Chippy painted the Grim Monolith. The moment Rudy shows the artist I was like ".awww..."

[@Coderjo.]

I bought a case when it came out. I wish I hadn't opened them all. But I did wind up with 5 Grim Monoliths, 6 Palinchron, 7 No Mercy, and 8 Memory Jars. All of which are still NM. None foil, though. Highest value foil appears to have been Crawlspace. 40 foils total.

[@Coderjo.]

Correction. Highest value foil is Crop Rotation.

[@Stretchball]

13:24 That might be the coolest foil I've ever seen

[@durrawr4802]

I took a drink everytime you said "oh my god"....currently getting my stomach pumped

[@RealSB]

"F" I opened a couple of these on release. Duplication of rares was standard. Love the original foils.

[@patmacrotch5611]

Great Crusader's Ghost it still happens lol

[@TehSnipez]

Every time you re-count the duplicates it's like i'm watching fucking sesame street all over again in the 80's. Thanks for the nostalgia. Floppy taco out.

[@turkeygoblin]

I remember opening like 5 Memory Jars as a 13 year old and I was so annoyed. It was like a $1 card because of the fast ban.

[@waltersnider7613]

Doctor Salty...thank you for the memories .. Rudy ,,, thanks for sounding like us all opening a booster lol

[@ctrain6962]

ya back on the day thos would happen and even worse, Opened a 7th edition and had the whole box duplicates. Friend and I split a lacgacy box too and had a lot of duplicates too but we got the hits. Foil Monolith and regular Monolith. My buddy still has both. He was a luck bastard.

[@sqrlmonger]

I remember opening these packs back in the day - this duplicate issue is something I keenly remember. PS - Grim Monolith was illustrated by "Chippy".

[@thundarrisaboss2725]

i love openboosters, and dan is the man, but gotta say rudy is bringing some vintage opening heat lately!!

[@inscrutablewut]

I'd have WotC and lawyers on the phone if I opened this knowing some other box probably had multiple reserve list cards. 3 grand and you are giving me some rare cards damnit.

[@sherekhangamedev]

Beautiful set and art 🎨, they don't do things like that anymore.

[@Zerostatik]

I found an old Urza's Era foil in my cards and your right they were beautiful. The foiling now just doesn't pop as much. Although MH2 retro foils did a decent job.

[@MTGUnpacked]

Foils and tonnes of duplication! Another incredible unboxing🤩

[@daproza2092]

Rudy! you're freaking us out with that laugh at the beginning.

[@alexmendoza9645]

Do you know how many Timmy's have died to make ultra super Beta Investments blade? Not even the Bobs know.

[@gildarmesh3809]

thought rudy was at ultra super instinct god super sayian maybe you missed the ultimate timmy extinction hosing arc :D

[@thehorribledrummer]

you should do a video with a weight comparison of the Urza's block booster boxes because I believe since the foils used a higher grade coating and the boxes with more foils in them would weigh more.

[@bigzlowered]

I started playing in the Urza Block.... the Deja Vu of all that duplication was so real.

[@sabastiancoakley7598]

take a shot every time rudy goes uuuuuuhhhhhhh

[@WakeUpUniverse66]

Why does it feel like Rudy just recorded his Voice over this video lmao i can just picture him trying to think of things to say while watching his random actions on a silent video of the box opening!

[@ThatHoodlum19]

Those foils are beautiful and hit so different :) The feels man!

[@scottishpride222]

Still got My foil crop rotation from when this set was in stores.. Increased abit in value since then.

[@overlordcacius]

I’m glad I managed to get a binder full of Urza foils at bulk prices.

[@therebenoname4me]

Man the duplication in Ravnica: Allegience is getting out of hand

[@emenende4057]

I don't play or know anything about magic but I've been watching your vids since like 2016.

[@julietsukamoto3575]

Thank you mr. salty. Pretty awesome of you.

[@MetalWebbo]

The foils are clearly all fake. They aren't curled and are even bright, vibrant and good to look at. You lose on this one Rudy.

[@alexgaspar2525]

And not foil in the art

[@DrKawstik]

@@alexgaspar2525 thats how they were

[@alexgaspar2525]

@@DrKawstik i know it was a joke because the original comment siad they had to be fake because they wee not curled.

[@emiliorod6979]

Lol Rudy this was hilarious but remember these three sets had small expansions. But I think you you have a great box.

[@xaviersantillan8354]

Wooow I love old foils I saved some from the scourge era I agree they look way better, this box was crazy.

[@ToTheNines87368]

2:07 the evil cackling strangely fits the thunderstorm going on outside my house currently O.O

[@ImPacosTacos]

I work at Wizards. Hey boss, Good-luck finding out which employee this is!

[@xinth23]

We're on to you, Mr. Rosewater.

[@YourOtherSock]

@@xinth23 Jokes on you. I'm Mr. Rosewater and all I do is fart in the coffee machines.

[@timystyles5980]

Thank you for the box opening. Much enjoyed!

[@ryanclark9386]

Rudy is living my dream just gets to open magic boxes from our childhood like its his job o wait it is

[@discocrisco]

The idea behind the duplication was to give Timmies a full playset of half of the rares in every set after opening two boxes.

[@7Alberto7]

I was able to buy 10 ultimate master booster box sealed,should i sit on them or open them and sell the cards? What do you guys think? Thank you if you decide to give me your advice

[@Bozar069]

I bought like 5 packs from this set right at the end of the time I played. I had no idea there were could as far as I can remember.

[@SaxoRo1]

Wow back in the day me and my friend bought a box of stronghold together and we had the duplication too...in his half box two sliver Queens and in mine two mox diamonds...and from this set i have a foil radiant archangel....good old days....crap im getting old😂😂

[@adamfaria345]

Hi Rudy what are the chances if I ask you for a box of urzas sag and ill open it live??

[@mathew2801]

the sharpness of the knife can probably cut through anyone's soul

[@leemiller6977]

On Card Kingdom one booster box of each of the Urza's sets is over 7600$ combined.......GOOD GRIEF!!!!

[@chumpypoodle]

my first foil from this pack was a planar collapse and i still got it

[@CaioMarcosMalheirosAlves]

It was really common to get duplicate rares in small sets like this. I got 3 Mox Diamonds in my Stronghold booster box