Northernlion on selling trading cards

[@SoundOrientedd]

do it. spend 300 dollars on a booster box. you will get all the hits. you will win big. all of your psa returns will definitely come as a 10. you cannot lose, it is theoretically possible to lose.

[@erfaniom9576]

"it is theoretically possible to lose" goes soooooooo hard whaddahell

[@carbonsiren]

Get it twisted

[@Thezamary]

You'd spend more getting a card graded than it's worth 99% of the time when it comes to newer cards.

[@Archimedes.5000]

I'd rather spend that money on dog genetic lottery I guess

[@gnerus1972]

MY MAN

[@tommytwotakes]

Watching NL banter with the no context video game play behind him is really doing something to my ADHD.

[@Speratus254]

His streams come built in with subway surfers equivalent now.

[@nottaibo]

People will laugh at zoomers for the Minecraft parkour gameplay - reddit AI voice tiktoks and then watch this shit (I'm people)

[@MrKrawby]

did he get a sub-5 on that last run? someone has to ask the real questions

[@Element_Doom]

​@@Speratus254 this 💯

[@Element_Doom]

I pretty much had the same thought a couple of weeks ago that NL streams is basically content for people with medicated AD(H)D or when AD(H)D is only kicking in low momentarily, watching helps me calm down.

[@dragoknighte48]

NL's definitely spittin'. The secondary market/money side of card games is the worst part of them, and makes the format worse for it. It's even worse when indie TCGs try appealing to this crowd and end up collapsing overnight trying to chase the investor dream.

[@blehhg2961]

Metazoo...

[@DanteL1983]

Losers who do card investment are subhuman

[@jakehr3]

Meanwhile PTCG is out here with 90℅ of competitive decks sub $100 and only a very small number ever top out at $150

[@MrGhostTheBigRoast]

Yeah man. I despise the tcg 'investor' types with a passion. These are the people who enable bad behaviour from greedy companies and are directly responsible for ruining the game. I just want to play the goddamn game. Proxies ftw.

[@traplover6357]

This^^^ The secondary market will develop when your game genuinely gets bigger. Focus on IP and popularity first

[@nathan2499]

pokemon tcg went crazy when we were 8 and basically just played war with them and the bigger number won (what the fuck is an energy card)

[@zzeroara9511]

that's kinda 90% of the reason I'm so excited for the TCG pocket app because that's basically what it is, it's an official version of the game that's basically dumbed down to that. it seems like it'll be so funnnnn

[@eliastew9636]

Blast from the past. Pokémon war with HP was pretty much the only use

[@tb4076]

Lmaooo the funny thing is that when i was a child, i /wanted/ to learn how to actually play the game, but for some stupid reason I never had enough energy cards. Maybe because I only ever bought boosters

[@AndrewNajash]

Vance vs Walz magic the gathering match could go insane

[@Blaurot]

Annoying hypernerd vs dad who doesnt get it but supports your hobby anyways

[@andragonm8932]

Mardu aggro VS bant flicker midrange.

[@FalseHerald]

Forget about children getting priced out, I quit magic years ago as a full grown adult because I shelled out 400+ dollars for a standard deck and had to ask myself the hell I was doing. Speculators are the worst, all judgement to them.

[@Element_Doom]

It's probably not comparable to Yugioh cuz A) Standard Magic is rotation and B) at least to my limited knowledge not the prevalent competitive format, BUT in current "modern" competitive Yugioh 400$ is on the cheap side, and the crazy part is unlike in Magic there aren't really that many "collectworthy" cards that are powerful enough to be played in the current day, with exception to banned cards of course.

[@DanteL1983]

They are subhumans

[@sloesty]

Play pokemon instead. They sell tournament ready decis for like 30 bucks. I bought one the other day and made it to second place on my first local. Very affordable.

[@dudesk099]

All things considered 400 for your main hobby isn't crazy or anything. Granted I have yugioh brainrot where we justify way more expensive decks. Hobbies cost money but if you enjoy yourself it's fine

[@traplover6357]

​@@dudesk099the Yugioh brainrot is definitely crazy when we have one format and we try to be somewhat competitive in Tier 1 formats with diverse formats being a rarity

[@LordBigSlime]

"JD is a Magic-head? Makes sense. He's got a beard." *Immediately shows his wife* God damn, Librarian

[@GigaVanguard]

I believe Librarian would be that subtle, he’s done it before

[@DaggerSkullery]

Has my brain stopped working? I don't get this

[@oatmonster]

@@DaggerSkullery A beard is slang for someone you're in a relationship with to hide your sexual orientation

[@DaggerSkullery]

@@oatmonster Ah ok. Never heard of that before. Thank you

[@wyldenites]

In the flea market, straight up bargaining it. And by it, haha, let's just say... my GX

[@Dschonathan]

In the fled market?

[@spyczech]

Scratch offs? Thats a poor tax for the non finnicially literate. Booster boxes on the other hand? that pay worse than 30% back and are a pain in the ass to sell

[@vitzel33]

this is why I open csgo cases, plenty of loss and I can immediately flip to buy more

[@pluralkumquat]

This video is pretty good timing. Apollo opened two boxes of Magic cards and all he was talking about was possible value. My guy if you don't play the game don't open boxes for value. No card shop will give you anywhere near what the card is worth. They're in it to make money not make you money. You assume cards have value but in reality they are just game pieces and their value is only high if the supply is low and demand is high.

[@bigsad7675]

Only people who don't give a shit sell their cards to a shop where you will at best get 50-70% of the value, But you can make your money back or more if you take the time to sell the cards as singles online but lets be honest Apollo ain't going to go through the trouble of doing that lol.

[@Thezamary]

Never sell your cards to a card shop unless you desperately need the money. Facebook has tons of groups where you can post and sell your cards at 70-80% tcgplayer prices.

[@Shoelid]

It's just scratch-offs for nerds bro, no need to gatekeep around "only crack packs if you play the game". People usually talk about monetary value because it's the best way to determine how sought-after a card is. In my experience 90% of people have no intention of immediately selling their cards.

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

Like all the MFs who bought mewtwo ex for 30 (literally all 6 last sold MP are 30) and all listed for 40. Not natural growth, fuck you, end of story.

[@user-jq1mg2mz7o]

I just got a video recommendation on the history of the black lotus card that fetched big bucks and i couldnt believe the ending was basically trying to equate it with baseball trading cards and stamps that fetch eye watering sums and ergo secondary market is legit and okay. like man, those are stupid as hell too. and at th eleast no one is making stamps just to feed the secondary.

[@KaikiIsTaken]

Post Malone buying The One Ring for 2 million USD was actually insane

[@NaldoNidoking]

Khans of Tarkir is a banger ngl, he played during peak MTG IMO And if bro is sitting on Expedition Polluted Deltas, that's a spicy ~$300 USD.

[@Zooropa_Station]

Dude's in a time loop of Luxray and Doordash takes for eternity.

[@zzeroara9511]

it's not like 500 people have done their best to educate him on Pokemon types for the last few months : (

[@ripswf]

Librarian has tricked me into listening to Bluey discourse again

[@WeenusMcMenace-dm6ep]

I watch Bluey with my nieces and I agree with NL. Bandit does feel like takes too many hits from his kids sometimes, you have to feel bad for the guy.

[@MrBigNicholas]

3:50 "prostate sphincter axam" got me more than it should've

[@CrazyJawaMerc]

Need Northernlion to sing "Woke Up This Morning"

[@bigzigtv706]

Got some gabagool

[@jazzarazzatfc5047]

I see playing the game and playing the market of the game very differently. I currently put no money into magic the gathering but i enjoy playing it occasionally. I find this to parallel with the way i can enjoy playing music with minimum expenditure (aside from maintenance, replacing strings) on the same instruments bought for, given to, or handed down to me by friends and family. When people hear me play an electric guitar they start talking to me about different brands of guitar or amp or types of pedals and I'm clueless. My mind isn't where the money is though that's for sure 😂

[@seantheplayer101]

This is true of most things in my experience. The people who partake in any hobby out of love/passion don't care about what they actually have in terms of $ value whether it's cards, instruments, or any other type of gear. But like you say with TCGs there's the game, and there's the market, and they are totally separate from one another.

[@Crazybean2012]

As a member of the yu-gi-oh delegation of the card game coalition, I gotta give ryan a +2 for this. He is indeed spitting

[@traplover6357]

What ancient Yugioh card is in bubble terroritory? Meta cards rn is based on competitive viability mostly.

[@rorywhyte6722]

Didn't have the return of Friday Night Magic anecdotes on my 2024 NL bingo card but we take those

[@killburn25]

Did NL get new teeth??? They look more prominent

[@0zzmium]

Even when bantering about Magic the Gathering nerds, the Bluey fandom cannot escape his wrath

[@EliseMarieAriette]

TCGs were the original gachas

[@comradefunky]

This is why I play pauper in mtg, modern and even pioneer are too expensive to realistically hop in and play. You can get a tier 1 deck for ~$50 or less if you don’t care for the printings versus close to $1000 for modern.

[@bigzigtv706]

Lets just say ive got some card stock and a printer

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

@@bigzigtv706 Lets just say ive got colored pencils and paper

[@comradefunky]

@@bigzigtv706 proxying is great when you’re playing with friends but if you want to play at a store, most of the ones I’ve tried to don’t allow proxies. So you’re sol otherwise which sucks.

[@bigzigtv706]

@@comradefunky thats why you double sleeve, use good paper, and dont cut it out like youre doing an elementary school arts n crafts project

[@kholdseid6614]

every time he talks about expensive magic cards he references expeditions

[@Sheamu5]

I really enjoy the condensed edits of this game, I cannot handle watching him reset every 10 seconds

[@paradiseislands]

as a card shop worker i never wanted to be seen by the Eye Of Sauron

[@paradiseislands]

Also ive noticed more people making the jump from collecting (specifically) pokemon to playing the game because of how cheap and accessible it is. Any time investor bros get into the sphere they make things infinite worse LMAO

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

@@paradiseislands ugh the game is boring and WAYYYYYYYYY too expensive. Sure I HATE scalpers like people who buy up copies of older niche cards and relist for 2x the price more, obviously, but the players are always so fucking toxic in my area. The game costs money for tournaments, literally built in capitalism so you have to spend like $100 a month if u wanna go 4x to ur local card shop and buy optimal decks and go to leagues. I prefer trading, much larger skill window imo, can make money (personally I dont care but my parents DID take the 1.7k i made once sadly so I guess its for my "future") but most of all its free, always fun and rewarding. Trading is definitely my fav. Its ashame the stupid players in my community always get mad when i ask them to trade. Maybe id play the game if tournaments were free and the players werent toxic (some literally made fun of me on the lgs discord for "asking people to trade too much"). I prefer yugioh though, but speedrunning is free and a lot more fun than any cardgame to me. Maybe someday ill play ygo if i can play older formats online and there is a big scene but tldr im not spending $30 a month plus $20 every 2 months to play a mediocre game when I can just play smb2 any%

[@LiveTwinReaction]

I have a holo #105/107 latias star from ex deoxys that's in pretty good shape, lightly played is my guess. But what they don't tell you is that it's actually annoying as hell to sell a card through mail especially if it's ungraded and also you risk getting scammed and also good luck getting what it's supposedly worth. Also, if you're listing it on a site, you need to be already trusted and then also wait months or years to have anyone actually care enough to spend the insane amount for it. You can list it for the $800 or whatever it is but if nobody with that kind of money is trying to buy one then it doesn't matter lol

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

Not gonna lie since I collect gold stars I'd pay you like $300 cash to just put it in a binder

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

Yeah most cards I sell are the cheaper modern ones I already have all of. Gold stars are hard to sell or even find

[@badguyjr007]

Why are to NL's upper front teeth so noticeable in this video?

[@killburn25]

YEA did he get veneers? What’s up with that

[@Szanth]

There's dozens of us

[@woddie898]

his camera must be misaligned by 2 degrees why are my eyes magnetically being pulled to his teeth wtf is going on

[@AWildGrickit]

the Bluey half of this is great too

[@O3PLcs]

I went to the Pokemon North American International Championships in New Orleans this year with friends and it was crazy to see that there were ~4x as many TCG competitors compared to the VGC players

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

well yeah tcg is a lot easier lol. Most people collect cause imo the games shit and i prefer tradeup

[@jakehr3]

NL's 2016 Esper Dragons bit was the most seen I've ever been

[@9clawtiger]

I got into Magic just slightly before the Commnder boom. So those format staples I picked up that never see reprints have steadily risen in price.

[@garrettsmth]

Its the same as beanie babies man :/ its such a boomer take that if you wait on a long enough line your money will come rolling in because you held on to some trading cards bro idk maybe I’ll be proven wrong but

[@zzeroara9511]

i mean it literally is true but it does actively harm the people who ACTUALLY care about the stuff and who just want to have fun without spending 120 dollars to get a good card/stuffed animal

[@roronoa1243]

The pokemon TCG (and other card games based on existing IPs like Lorcana, Digimon, One PIece, etc.) strike a balance where collectors can drop 300 dollars on the most recent version of a prismatic Charizard, but if you actually want to PLAY the game, the best deck is like maybe 50 dollars. Magic and Yugioh don't have the luxury of being tied to IPs like that, so the sole value of cards comes from how powerful they are (or their printing if they're super old/serialized copies).

[@traplover6357]

Sad that Yugioh is in this camp cuz their IP hasn't adapted and is all nostalgia bait.

[@neckal]

Let me get those polluted deltas amigo i'll trade you my playset of raging goblin (they have haste🤯)

[@tulicloure]

Me for the first several years playing: "all my other merfolk have +1/+1 and islandwalk" --> "I attack" Meanwhile the people at my playing group throwing around shit like Emrakul and Approach the Second Sun

[@goigadol1420]

that outro is amazing

[@waxtrax_]

0:12 chatters who referenced Faith No More huge +2

[@Nosae758]

If people crashed the MTG price market I would buy the dip so hard. I do be playing my cards a lot.

[@Vieweer]

I like knowing that if shit really hits the fan I can offload my collection binder for some cash, but mostly I just like my pretty foil Godzilla cards and my JP alt art Liliana

[@Hania102]

This video reminded me of the death of my childhood hobbies. prettty sure my childhood hobies were really putting money into a paper shredder.

[@CersosDungeon]

Another banger king

[@BigStinker_14]

“Supply and command” cmon Ryan…

[@Apotheosis01]

i was invested to see if that last run was gonna PB how dare you cut it short

[@dangdudedan8756]

who else got spongebob patrick in their head singing "harold squarepaaaants, margaret squarepaaaaaants, grandma squarepaaaants realistic fish head. barnacle boooooy, barnacle maaaaaan, flying dutchman the floating shopping list the jellyfish SMITTY WERBENJAEGERMANJENSEN"

[@rileybailey8873]

we're magic guys of course we tap a seafch land to tutor out a HEELLLP ME HELPP MEEEE HEEEELL

[@sloesty]

The way i played pokemon irl was by buying a premade bow for like 30/40 euros that was based on a previous tournament win. I never buy packs. I want to play the card game, i just need a good deck'.the first time I played and did this i got second place at a local lol. Alternatively i just play online. Master duel and duel links were easy to get good at f2p

[@NeMuWazn]

my 1st edition MINT holo venusaur is the prize of my collection. goes for around 10k and the only reason i have it is because i forgot i owned it for 20 years

[@vincenttorrijos9680]

At the estate sale, definitely didn't murder the dude, but damn these $100+ pokemon cards do be hitting good for 5 bucks a binder

[@herobrineharry7698]

13:22 did you know that men will view having 50% of a room being women as more than a majority? Did you know that when women and men talk the same amount of time, it is usually reported that those in the conversation felt that the women were talking far more? Did you know that when executives of large companies were asked what percentage of executives were women, they said 25% (men) and 21% (women) when the actual percentage was 8%

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

I'd be so happy since women never show up to tcg events

[@Jackwhoknows]

7:08 that leaf would change his entire life

[@chaboii]

"so yeah bluey redpilled me" is an all time +2

[@pikapi985]

I was invested in that run, now I wanna play SMB3

[@BearKenster]

Merfolk representative

[@PravusTheKid]

All my old head mtg coworkers don’t like the current direction of magic (power creep, crossover bloat) and plan on selling their valuable cards and get proxies

[@Wompond]

Librarian no way you cut the video before he finished that new PB. Cruel

[@drsherifff]

NL is never beating the EDH player allegations

[@ultimateo621]

I was not ready for NL dissing merfolk. I’m disappointed and ashamed of him.

[@suNn.K.O]

Esper Dragons kinda hilarious.

[@LeadAHorseToVodka]

Waiting for the day NL learns the difference between the Cockney (cheery-ho) accent and the Australian accent

[@Skellevision32]

Man complains about adult's collecting Pokemon while playing Mario against himself

[@cal971]

as someone whose name is Caleb the first ten seconds took me incredibly off-guard

[@jams8015]

So should I buy the s&p 500 now or not

[@prometha4592]

never bad idea to buy stocks that historically go up

[@r_se]

not now we are on the verge of a historical recession

[@doctorpepper3519]

Joel

[@basilton7]

pokevestors are the worst thing that has ever happened to society. im not spending 100$ on a shiny mew card bruh

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

modern is worthless shit took me a year to get 65/65 alt arts in gen 8 for literally no money (im a decent trader)

[@MarcusFigueras]

The real investment is some obscure licensed trading card series. When that show or series gets a remake you're going to pop off in value

[@zzeroara9511]

final fantasty tcg and fullmetal alchemist tcg come to mind, those are popping off rn

[@dasamont8274]

I've never bought pokemon cards as an adult, but don't people give away their "worthless" cards to children? Like, couldn't it theoretically make it easier for children to get into TCGs if they just got cards that the adults don't want, and just play with them?

[@elleniscoo]

Guys of course

[@mattiascrowe2549]

MTGO- to the polls!

[@notgood38]

you guys should liquidate your mtg collections before everyone else does! id like to play legacy

[@moshhk]

I got two of those van gogh pikachus and sold each one for $100 CAD, was a good grab ngl. Its definitely a cooked hobby but i cant lie when i say it can be real easy money

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

I've made like 2k (made my lifetime including all the money ive put in) from trading but thats a shit fucking mindset. I collect for fun. If I ever DO sell its to buy more cards I like. Pro tip never sell over 1k at a con ur parents will tell u ur a genius and then u gotta fork it over for college rip gold stars.

[@thefranklin6463]

Based and decomodification pilled

[@drsherifff]

Siege Rhino clueless

[@justicerainz]

Bluey's dad is a good dad because he let's his kids hit him? What? Question marks???

[@chedc28]

Yes, next question

[@thegoodtimesareover1668]

all the fetches got reprinted lmao

[@GrizonII]

The Expeditions printings are still pretty expensive though.

[@sscswimmer1]

Wtf scammed I was so ready for VB long neck clip

[@Thezamary]

As someone who knows literally nothing about bluey, he makes it sound like the most violent kids show ever made.

[@georgejpg]

If/When he gets S on everything, can you make a supercut of the S runs please? I think that makes me a type A or B chatter or something

[@Hel1mutt]

Just buy lego sets, its more stable than MTG

[@Element_Doom]

Cope, if you want to make money off Lego, you have to short sell stocks of the competition, a lot of their stocks have been in decline while Lego kept rising, probably partly due to the reason, they managed to psy-op the mainstream into buying their product as investments, when in reality only very few sets actually have any long-term collector value.

[@zzeroara9511]

7:00 he's so stubborn and dense

[@Camakazininja]

Mald

[@povilasbuda6490]

I wanna buy a pokemon booster box rn

[@zzeroara9511]

do it

[@kevincressman1267]

i bet JD Vance plays a Tasigur combo deck, misses his triggers, and has to tell people his playmat is fine because 'it's not gross, it's art, don't be judgemental' 😂

[@christianroot6287]

nope it leaked that he plays Tron

[@RPGmaster94]

@@christianroot6287 WOW

[@the-golden-duck]

We're Librarian guys! of course we make the same joke over and over and over and over again