I Found a Long Box full of MTG Cards at a Thrift Store for only $8! Magic The Gathering Random Buy!

[@MattcasterMage]

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[@cjackfly]

Read the bones.

[@VinnieKielbasa]

Seems like whoever put them on the shelf knew enough to take out the rares and mythics, but had no idea that they've still left a treasure trove there. Amazing video, Matt!

[@MattcasterMage]

Good point! Good thing they didn’t have extensive knowledge in the game

[@regaleagle6533]

The player could have easily quit long ago and sold off the rares.

[@VinnieKielbasa]

@@regaleagle6533 And found a buyer for all of them, even the bulk, but didn't sell staples?

[@regaleagle6533]

@@VinnieKielbasa “staples” aren’t cards that always held value. Noxious revival was worth what under 2 dollars 5 years ago even less further back. I know multiple folks that dumped all their rares when they quit and had a box of bulk uncommons and commons sitting around 10 years and then want to dump it. Doesn’t mean they want to carefully go through it and see if anything became valuable.

[@doofusmccookie4430]

I found a long box in a thrift store in portland like 3 years ago. The cards were not minty but it was $7 and there was an academy rector and an opalescense plus a mirri's guile and a ton of fun stuff

[@joshuaruth6648]

This reminds me of when I worked at a DI thrift store. I used 2 5$ employee coupons on a 10$ box that had a selesnya shockland in it. It made my day.

[@mikegrazick1795]

The experience of finding this outweighs the value.

[@mylesbfor3]

Diabolic tutor worth over a dollar for sure

[@adamstanley4778]

I. Do not think he just “found it” either knew it was there made it or bought it online and made up the story for effect the fact the he runs a MTG channel and just “found this “ is one in one million

[@Charles-yq8vv]

I was at a yard sale a few weeks ago and found a box with a Preacher, land tax, and both the green and white tutors. Finding stuff like that feels good!

[@MattcasterMage]

That’s amazing Charles!

[@MintyMagicMTG]

Nice! I never have cash for garage sales lol Most people have Venmo or PayPal but not everyone

[@marcellachine5718]

@@MintyMagicMTG anyone who dosen't use cash, will enjoy being a slave in the near future.

[@madprops4615]

Bought an old collection from a friend of the family for like 100 bucks. Ended up being a large box of alpha cards, which made me feel bad since they were worth so much. So I sold them individually and split the money

[@RW77777777]

so many influencers gloat in their videos about the worst lowballing possible and their huge profit margin off of some guy who obviously REALLY needed the money "I just took some guy for 7k worth of spiderman comics and got it all for 250$!$!" I just don't watch after that. I don't know how anyone can be a collector, and do that to someone with the same hobby passion. good on you

[@TheRealNiko]

​@@RW77777777I been seeing alot of shoe traders on my yt feed and they seem to be the worst for doing that. Dam near every video I see they are rinsing some little kid or a kids mom for like a quarter of what the shoe is worth or less

[@coreywilliams5310]

@@RW77777777 If it's a random buy, which is to say you don't personally know the individual, then the onus falls on that individual to know the value of their own cards.

[@rampdavidson6397]

Thrift stores are frequently cleared out of Magic stuff since it's so popular here in my city. But my fiance works at a consignment shop and has brought home some pretty juicy Magic finds. We're talking Reserved List stuff

[@chadanenberg6454]

Those commander cards are the remnant of a kallia of the vast deck. It was my first commander precon and recognized them

[@MTGAttitude]

You know what, even the one's you were pulling that weren't quite a $1 or more were awesome to look at. This was a cool little find, but I'm still watching. Good on you for finding this.

[@caiopereira1289]

@13:35 you missed a Tainted Strike too! Really cool card and it's worth like 2 bucks! Great video!

[@henryreinhold9097]

Just the opportunity to go through a random long box feels so good. Definitely worth it. Love it

[@IRsoBasic]

Nice to see someone who knows alittle more about the commons and uncommons of the mtg sets, instead of being clueless.

[@MattcasterMage]

Thanks Anthony!

[@phoenixkid5688]

I pulled a Triumph in my 2 myster booster boxes, had no clue it was that good and almost sold it with my bulk of cheap uncommons and commons. So glad I kept it

[@vaughnbocchino]

I've had a lucky experience twice. One box had a Snapcaster and a handful of $2-3 multilands. Another had a revised Demonic Tutor that had literally been bent in half, but hey, still plays the same. Each box was about the same, around $8.

[@22781dave]

Awesome find! Great value in it. Thank you for rolling the die at the end of the video. I actually shouted out: "Roll it! I mean, who picks up a die and then just carefully sets it down?!" right as you sat it down. You must've heard me. That, my friend, earned a sub :) Cheers from the States.

[@coachesmagic2886]

Good sub, you going to like the market mover series, Mattcaster has some great info. Roll the Die!!

[@alexandersepa3037]

This is neat! I found a long box at my local value village a little while ago in NS and it was full of revised commons and uncommons! really cool to have older cards from mtgs history

[@wesslusser7665]

This is what I want to start doing in my area. Picking up thrift store buys like this

[@szupko]

This is great! I don't recheck all of my card prices very much and these videos help me look through some of my older binders. Thanks!

[@jamessmith2205]

Not a bad haul. I’ll have to go over my new phyrexia bulk and see if I have any hits

[@wademiller2376]

This drives me nuts, my value village is corrupt. They take all valuables out and that would be forty bucks in the display... Happy for you though! Also we have full time people that hit the thrift stores multiple times a day... I see them almost every time I'm out

[@MattcasterMage]

I know! Sometimes I see stuff like this that is marked up or behind the glass. It really depends where and when. Certain people who put these out don’t care about the value. But some are sticklers

[@sams6098]

Congrats...I think I enjoy these vids the best. And yes correct you are it's surprising some of the bulk commons/UC that gain value over the years. Hopefully you find more finds in your future thrift store hops. Cheers

[@MattcasterMage]

Yeah! I wish I could find these all the time.!

[@zomb1622]

That was awesome, I've only found cards in a thrift store once, wasn't a long box but it was cool. I have found them at the flea market a couple times and pulled some value

[@AoiKami]

I have never in my life seen a single magic card at a thrift store and I used to go to like 7 thrift stores a week for years.

[@lightmode6557]

One of my relatives used to work at a thrift store. One day they got a longbox with cards left there. He didn't know how to price it so he gave it to me as a christmas gift. It contained 2 Damnation from planarchaos, 10 simian spirit guides(at that time they were 5$) and lots of fun bulk from that block

[@Zestypanda]

So this looks like the long boxes you can buy off Wish, they probably bought it for the foils and rare and then dumped the rest.

[@petelemoi373]

Love these videos. The random buys are my favorite

[@Vok250]

All that oldschool bulk would have made a great retro Innistrad cube. Jealous of that find!

[@yu205718]

Excellent find Matt, good job!

[@burningtendrils]

Looks like the Value Village at Woodbine! I've found some INSANE mtg donations there, likely because of the proximity to F2F there are more people getting in and out of the game in the area.

[@MattcasterMage]

This is absolutely true!

[@blakmajk3512]

There used to be, but we got no thrift stores where I am anymore. Great content, Matt! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@MattcasterMage]

Unlucky! I love thrift stores for stuff like this

[@MrMeeseeksthe1st]

0:50 it's prolly 20+ years old but I still have that same exact hacky sack, crazy to see it brand new again.

[@paulfarr7]

I wish I lived somewhere where stores like this was a big thing. We don’t really have them. The charity stores only really stock household furniture, and the likes.

[@mortallybroken4736]

same here, i am in scranton pa

[@mana191god]

What I learned after years away from the game... the bulk buying, drafting, and prize packs from my Mirrodin block playing days may land me a pay day. Noxious Revival and Triumph of the Hordes... I need to go find my stacks.

[@-RTC-]

I’m just starting the video so I don’t know what you pulled yet but man I have searched constantly thrift stores for the last 7-8 years and have never once found mtg cards. Lots of good board games though! Great find!

[@moxavenger]

Fun buy. Thanks for sharing.

[@MattcasterMage]

Thank you for watching!

[@Vtrjfrost]

Anger and the commander 2010 cards are from the Kaalia deck, Heavenly Inferno. Too bad the complete deck wasn't there. I know those cards because that was my first edh deck ever. Funny they were bunched together.

[@Man0War_Loki]

There's no way unless some mom must have gotten so pissed off at their son/daughter that she went and gave up some of his stuff to the thrift store as a lesson

[@Malao558]

Really goes to show the power of the uncommon. They’re not usually much to write home about, but if you know what to look for there’s a ton of uncommons that hold significant value.

[@CrazyPierreReduxed]

Just bumped into this channel and what a find, for the channel and box! Hope to see more of these vids in the future!

[@MattcasterMage]

Thanks! Hoping for more

[@tulpfiction8920]

I found like 6 albums full of cards but the owner knew what he had but still bought some, and only other thing were magic cards in plastic bags for like $1 a bag with maybe 20-30

[@leob636]

Cool video! Pretty sure Tainted Strike (13:36) is worth at least a dollar.

[@wally7073]

Great video again dude. Keep it going!

[@MattcasterMage]

Thanks Wally!

[@84decoy84]

a buddy of mine found a play set of the Portals 3 kingdoms set at a Goodwill. Another friend found a lion's eye diamond, mox pearl, and candelabra at a store that sold them for 10 cents each because they thought they were commons, it was a retro game store, and they didn't know anything about mtg. this was around the time of the 1st Innistrad block.

[@scottricks1676]

watching this like a year later, work from home full time. your vid brought me some joy. thank you. EDIT just saw the Triumph pull! nice!! has won me a game or two :)

[@PawzBrownMTG]

Bro the first handful got your money back nice gamble

[@MattcasterMage]

One of my best random buys!

[@MTGAttitude]

Great find indeed

[@coachesmagic2886]

It’s great how Matt knows the value of every card off the top of his head, even ommon and UC cards. I don’t think you missed a value card in that box Matt, and were spot on with your prices 😯

[@MTGAttitude]

@@coachesmagic2886 That is definitely not missed on me either

[@rafaelfonseca6425]

Missed the diabolic tutor value. Very big hit

[@nkling02]

8:05 Janky decks Going back to those early bruise for kitchen table type games can be fun. There is a lot of crap, I agree. Love your videos by keeping up

[@thedanath]

A few months ago i found mtg cards in the little baggie things. the good part was i got a ton of really good rares so i made my money back plus some.

[@leomanach4735]

I didn't find anything like this but a good friend of mine found a box of cards on the side of a road. They were all old, and we found there were several 4th edition black bordered lightning bolts, or Italian Legends Chain Lightnings... Even a sylvan library, a necropotence and a couple strip mines

[@dustinburns4550]

Can't wait for my big box buy to arrive there too you :) , looking forward to seeing some real spicy cards.....I was looking back over urza's block cards there's some real hitters in there, my guess is the box is like 3 or 4 of these long box's in one, should be alot of fun :)

[@dustinburns4550]

I have also noticed your knowledge of older cards is alot higher than mine, you can scan through them alot faster and reliably than I can......I usually have to lookup every card I don't know, wich is most of them in the sets over 10 years old.

[@MattcasterMage]

It helps that I do Market Movers! Haha

[@dragonknight46208]

Old friend's brother gave me a bunch of his old cards when he went to college and there were a few Dragon's Maze shocklands in there as well as a very damaged Gaea's Cradle. Have never been so freaking THRILLED in my LIFE.

[@OfficialMaddeck]

Imagine you are the original owner of that box, and you are watching this vídeo. HHahhahahH

[@MattcasterMage]

🤣

[@donray4075]

Where are all these boxes when I go to my local thrift store, so jelly! So much like finding buried treasure.

[@chaoticarcherthe2nd]

Don't know if someone mentioned it but that knight token is a magic league promo and its on cardkingdom's buylist for 2.75$

[@SuperRutherr]

Good video! Thank you for not milking the crqp out of this video for 10 minutes before starting to go through the cards lol ❤ I didn't realize Pyrohemia was worth 5 bucks! A small suggestion as the viewer, it would be cool if at the end of the video maybe typing up a list of the cards found with prices and maybe some you missed but found out later they were worth something? KZbin algorithm sent me here so I'll subscribe and check out the content! Have a great one 👍

[@jakob187]

Bro, the Triumph and Noxiousx3 was HAWT to see happen. However, there were SOOOOO many Pauper playable that can sell at a quarter a pop: Glint Hawk, Forbidden Alchemy, and a ton of others. I was already building Pauper decks in my head. Loving your videos. Makes me wanna go buy random boxes, but I got out of Mahic a few years ago.

[@crackerjack_games]

That Anger art is ridiculous.

[@keithmanara2856]

Reminds me of what a local store in Vancouver does, they call it a pawn pack, 20 dollars for 1000 cards, all commons

[@2killzore]

I found a shit load of 2000 AD comics at a charity shop aka a thrift shop here in the uk...they are the judge dead comics with various other different stories about all sorts of worlds and characters...my dad let me snag like 6 out of 100 or so but I'm sure if he hadn't rushed me I'd have snagged some value...I showed him how much they are worth for early editions or first story editions of dread and Slane lol...he was convinced he seen some early ones but failed to point them out...lol

[@hoon4tw]

It pays to look through your bulk/common box every few years. 3 years ago I found a card in my common box I cracked from some packs of Saviors of Kamigawa I won at a legacy tournament forever ago. I had forgotten I had the card entirely until I saw it and I recalled being super annoyed that it was a foil crappy rare, at the time. Now I have an unplayed NM foil Oboro, Palace in the Clouds which sells for about $400-500. I also have a friend that tossed out a nm playset of Mishra's Workshops because he was in a rush to pack-or-purge when he moved out of his parents house and tossed some boxes of commons, one box of which had his Shops because he was too lazy to put them away properly a few weeks prior.

[@chad0x]

the dreuger hedge mage just before anger is worth something

[@vincebaggett7918]

I love watching these kinds of videos, but they do make me a little sad. That guy probably donated his bulk in the hopes that some young kid would find it and fall in love with the game the same way so many of us did.

[@YourPalJamieEllis]

I had no idea Noxious Revival was twelve bucks! I for sure have a handful of those socked away somewhere. Thanks for the alert!

[@ca.b.92]

Best lesson I learned from "recheck your old cards": I played MtG a bit when I was in School, back 1996-1998 .. never really got big into it, as just had money for some booster packages and starter decks back in time. While corona pandemic I dug out my old cards, because a friend plays, and I thought it might be nice to build a deck again. So, we went through my cards (he has a bit of experiences in cards and prices), and I was sure I have nothing of value.. I had some 5 to 10 buck cards... mostly just that stuff everyone had back then.. and we already where joking about "Nothing" of value when there were some nice cards... well.. the joke was on my, when in one of my stacks my old Lion's Eye Diamond was nicely sleeved. I never used that card, due I never had a deck around "have a full hand in the cemetery" mechanic... So I never really thought that big of the card as a more valuable card.

[@peterbarnes-keyes5173]

Triumph of the hoards is my favorite green win con. Even more than craterhoof

[@sickedout7723]

I'm two years late, but those glint hawks at 4:35 are worth about 2 and a half bucks a piece!

[@tjthemute]

Hey, it's Tj (personal account). Subbed your channel, and congrats on your success so far!

[@rowankeltizar5961]

I recognize the frantic hands opening a mystery box of cards. I actually received a shoebox full of cards as a gift from a friend. Over 400$ worth of cards inside!!!!

[@Bancheis]

Hey, you can still make janky decks even though you know they are bad. You don't have to be new to do that. Plenty of 10-20 year veterans who do that still :p

[@timurziyatdinov9259]

3:50 evincars justice is played in pauper, isn't it?

[@joshholmes1372]

funny having this pop into my recommended videos as new phyrexia releases and seeing you hit some really good infect cards.

[@PieBandit]

Was there anything in the deck box?

[@MattcasterMage]

Nope! Just a few commons and jank

[@kennethdixoniii4113]

I just threw Triumph of the Hordes into a Lathril deck last week.

[@private0941xx]

I just bought a long box for $18, but the long box is full. Will be checking out tonight.

[@bmay81]

Nice hit on the new phyrexia hits!

[@piscesstein]

Recently found a long box full of MtG cards for $15 in a different thrift store. Even though the cards were mostly recent commons and uncommons, the box paid for itself as it was a $50 Gamegenic Cards Lair.

[@odoacredacalcutta5085]

I always find mtg cards in thrift stores but their value despite being higher than what they're priced is never really high enough to get me buying them. I don't want to put my time into selling them for spare change

[@MintyMagicMTG]

I recently moved to an area with several Goodwill/thrift stores and I always forget how close they are. These videos inspire me to do some more digging at thrift stores.

[@americantrain]

in 2023 you wont find much flippers ruined it..

[@matthewwells5098]

Duergar hedge Mage is also a couple dollars, saw one in the vid when you were going through them

[@MattcasterMage]

Thanks for keeping an eye out 🙏

[@scottcisek2376]

5 = very expensive card holy shit man if you saw the cardboard I’ve been ordering lately lol that necropotence and vampiric tutor really hurt lol

[@brunopaynejunior8285]

It might be an 8$ box, but every single Commander's Authority would be priceless for me because it's the very card that led me into Magic.

[@coachesmagic2886]

Nice find, you were due for some spice. The value adds up with those smaller hits

[@MattcasterMage]

Yeah this was one of my best based on return!

[@franshendrix1404]

Infect deck there. Good find!

[@HSSG7]

One time about 8-10 years ago I bought two 700 count boxes from VV & got a Taiga & Maze of Ith as the spicy stuff. This summer was at a VV in the GTA area and bought about 10 boxes in varying sizes from small, to 700 count to long boxes. They had those plus Yugio all on a shelf behind their showcases. I bought the Magic. Was tons of foils, foil full art basics, foil tokens as well as tons of other mostly bulk stuff incl bulk rares. Most of the stuff was from Double Masters, Moder masters and products like that. I think I pulled a few $10 uncommons. But nothing outrageously good. But was a lot of fun to go through. Spent about $50 I think on the stuff. Made my money back for sure

[@samrose5780]

9:20 does pausing the video and going out for a smoke count?

[@joshe465]

I wish I still had my cards. I played back in the 90s when Ice Age came out. We regularly played with moxes and lotuses. No idea what happened to my cards.

[@peterbruno657]

Somebody somewhere found a box at a thrift store that contained 3 revised dual lands and an unlimited Mox Jet. I played as a kid and left my cards at my parents house when I moved out. When I found out how much my old cards were worth I called my mom to get them and found out they had been donated to charity.

[@drakarrx]

My friend bought a $50 Magic box at a auction because he saw the Vegas thing going on and became interested. I looked over his cards and pulled out several revised dual lands that were with a few thousands added up. His wife couldn’t believe some stupid pieces of cardboard could be worth so much.

[@goway9999]

At least this was acrealistic video. Thank you

[@Randoverse]

Always looked but never found at Goodwill. Nice find!

[@chaoswarriorx4411]

Only card I picked up (so far) from a thrift store was a Zombie Master (usually goes for $5) that I got for $2 for my zombie deck. Happy find

[@veerkillerx]

This is eerily similar to my commons/uncommon box... should probably look through it again lol

[@TimmytheSorcerer]

Wow, your videos are doing great! 117,000 views well earned, because these random buys are so much fun to watch!

[@jasonandkathleenbarker6306]

I remember throwing out boxes of uncommons and commons from revised through weather light in 2000 when I got married and wanted to shrink the physical size of my collection.

[@matthewludivico1714]

An ultra box that cheap is a decent buy at that long box price...nice find

[@b7a1r3]

Not a long box at a thrift store, but I found a fat pack at a garage sale like 6 years back. Had a couple copies of birds of paradise, a mox diamond, and some other old as heck cards. I'm willing to bet some kid went off to college or something and the parents sold them without knowing what they were. Made a lot of money off that box

[@SvviftDeath]

I think I only saw one but Suture Priest is about $1 as well. It depends on where you look though.

[@coachesmagic2886]

Nice eye

[@GatheringTheMagicYT]

This was class! Makes me jealous we don’t have stuff like this in England!

[@Saint-q9k]

Oh we do I've found some before in charity shops

[@olgerkhan9331]

Now im intrigued what my sleeved (propably worthless) rare cards from 15+ years ago are worth. And my sleeveless ten decks my friend and i played i still own. Wonder if cards like living bridge, thundershock or mirri are worth anything today. Those we hold dearly cause at that time they were relatively pricy.

[@ariam.7987]

I haven’t found any long boxes, but I did find one little box mostly full of proxies haha. There were a handful of unlimited lands tucked in there though so those alone paid for the four dollars I bought it for haha