Roaring Skies Reprint just RUINED Pokemon's Credibility - 100% DESTROYED -

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[@LuxuryBallCollectibles]

Who has a home phone in 2017? That's the real important question.

[@HIWTYLSL]

Derium's Pokemon well I mean he's got more than just a single home phone

[@jennifer9084]

Derium's Pokemon what do you think about this being reprinted. Do you think it's affects the creditability of Pokemon?

[@StealthNinja4577]

Derium's Pokemon pretty much everyone who had one 10 years ago, most likely with a Internet&TV bundle. There is some utility. You can give the number to people you don't need to talk to right away and filter people who call your cell.

[@sparkzbarca]

this is probably his business phone? he isn't going to pay for a cell phone plan for his work

[@trashfire9641]

Derium's Pokemon Me

[@Guariita]

Roaring Skies reprint in a nutshell: A nightmare for investors A miracle for the players

[@sparkzbarca]

FeraxGaming no sucks for players too. you realize the players that bought the cards for 20 bucks just saw the cards ev drop to nothing right? like you realize huge numbers of players own roaring skies and now when they go to resell the card they paid 20 bucks for will be worth 2. you've screwed the players too they own the majority of the product

[@krinnphindalin6803]

Don Ziolkowski I am trying to sell one of my decks rn, and this is devastating.

[@OmniNero]

Agreed. Sure reprints are sweet. But once someone drops $50+ on a single card, then sees the value cut in half, they're gonna start second guessing on whether or not they ever want to spend that much money on cardboard again. Sometimes when some people get burned that hard they just quit the game.

[@Guariita]

Don Ziolkowski Sure, Shaymin may have had a huge price drop, and you may have made a bad investment. But you gotta look at the bigger picture here. What about the average person who is trying to build their very own standard deck? Shaymin is basically obligatory if you wish to succeed in most matchups in the current format, and the old card's price used to drive people off, and now more players are gonna come and join the game. What if you want to get more Shaymins? I myself was trying to get a playset of Shaymin EX so I could build Mega Gardevoir, Mega Rayquaza, and many other decks, hence why this is such good news to me.

[@tyed94]

this card game is also a very highly competitive card game and on that level of competition, you will be spending money on every single card to build the perfect decks. So it's common to spend more than a booster box to build a competitive deck just like any card game. most people playing are not playing for competition there playing with their friends. the reason people are freaking out is not becuase of one card price is too high or that no one can make a competitive deck. Pokemon does not give a fuck about you. they did this because the demand of roring skys cantinued to grow to the point that pokemon would make money if they lifted the off print statues of the booster box. They undermined you and the investors to make a quick dollar or two. if they really cared about the player such as yourself they would have relesed a special tin for $30 with a promo shaymin and some boster packs. this way we all win but pokemon wouldent be making as much money because they would have to come up with a new box and packaging for this single item for there belovied players. dont kid yourself man this is a move to make quick cash at the detrament of the investores. they dident care about the player or investores when making this dicessions. they wanted free easy money. so today be happy you can get a booster box that was out of print. but tomorrow you may find that no one is carrying Pokemon because there are no stable long-term investments for stores. The market exists as a whole the primary market, the secondary market and the vintage collectors market. so if you ignore 2/3rds of that market then you're shooting yourself in the foot.

[@winnkey]

pokemon has always seemed to care for the player and not the secondary market.

[@proyteam]

winnkey sp format says lmao

[@Chidon0]

that was an exception along with GG.

[@tyed94]

The market exists as a whole the primary market, the secondary market and the vintage collectors market. so if you ignore 2/3rds of that market then you're shooting yourself in the foot. if they really cared about all the people who invest in Pokemon and their players they would have made a tin with Shaymin for $25. but they wanted free quick money. they don't need to invest in making a new card with new artwork and placing it in a tin. when they simply can lift the out of print status of their boxes for free and print them with no extra work needed. the demand of roaring skies is huge and Pokemon got greedy and brought it back into the primary market totally screwing up their investors. Short term gain usually ends up horribly for the players down the line who do enjoy playing and collecting.

[@GTKDYLAN]

Thats a good thing, finally a company that cares more about the players then greedy holders who love nothing more then to control the secondary market and artificially spike the price. My opinion to this situation, fuck the collectors and holders. Card games are about the players and the the gaming experience. Players for life

[@davesmith4646]

Ty Smith this isn't the first time they've reprinted a set, and a shaymin tin would also kill roaring skies

[@Mrtfarrugia]

Rudy what happened to your "No Pants" policy.

[@The_CobraDragon]

Mrtfarrugia this was such big news that Rudy had to put pants on.

[@sabastiangarza4485]

technically their pj's

[@cardzoom3405]

I dig the jammies-- the first few minutes had my chest hurting from laughter =D

[@AlphaInvestments69]

I had to make an exception in this video, since i wanted to look "casual" with the feet on the Urza's Legacy Boxes :-)

[@Mrtfarrugia]

Alpha Investments Your tuxedo print boxers were in the laundry weren't they?:-P

[@fishsticks2360]

rudy is wearing pants CREDIBILITY RUINED

[@LegitBobsYourUncle]

I don't feel any remorse when I see tcg finance investors whine over cards getting reprinted.

[@RetroGamer0001]

"Don't buy large amounts of sealed products" "Yeah, I'm probably going to buy a couple hundred boxes of Roaring Skies."

[@ClampEEGEE]

Well, this is why people told you that Pokemon wasn't good for investments. They do not care about the secondary market. They care about the PLAYERS.

[@HyperNexusYT]

I'm sorry this comment aged so bad LOL

[@1ledluverjlp]

@@HyperNexusYT granted what happened during the 2021 season set releases was extremely unusual and unnatural for the pokémon card game. Sealed product does go up over time but the amount of gains that every product experienced is an unforeseeable event.

[@kaminarikatuhstrofik9534]

RUDY IT'S TIME TO START LETTING YOUR PATREONS BUY POKEMON FROM YOU. IT. IS. TIME.

[@rabbitsfoot6375]

Doktor Katuhstrofik how many comments are you going to leave with all caps?

[@kaminarikatuhstrofik9534]

Rabbit's Foot ALL OF THEM AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME BABY

[@rabbitsfoot6375]

Doktor Katuhstrofik loser

[@mlmorford5274]

Doctor K, Rudy has already had a limited Patreon buy on PkMn... I'd be disappointed if PkMn were the item of the Month. If you truly like PkMn TCG, let me know your interest in old stuff. I'm not interested in new PkMn and hope Rudy doesn't make it the only item for a month.

[@kaminarikatuhstrofik9534]

All I am saying, is that Rudy is a businessman, and I've been watching his video views and comments. I'm sure he has seen them too. There is money for him (even if only marginally) to make if he offers 1 magic set per month + 1 pokemon set per month for his patrons to mix and match. How long do you think it will last if he only offers the newest latest shit show sets MTG is releasing? His backlog is impressive to say the least, and Rudy knows I love him (I hope), I've purchased boxes and shirts from him. However, he can really capitalize on two markets here and if he is who I think he is, he wants to really give to his people, and offer an alternative to taking the bus to hose town every time someone wants some good shit. I'm shitfaced though. I don't know what I am saying right now. I hope this makes sense in the morning.

[@crazyrabbits]

You know it's going to be a good video when Cocoa Puffs are involved.

[@SelflessResurrection]

low-tier cereal

[@SwissRolesrs]

tier-1 cereal

[@Lumpyrox1412]

Should we invest in Cocoa Puffs now??

[@baconcube6109]

Torik Redguard I read you comment first and thought now way, he will not get the cocoa puffs. And then he did. Blew my mind lmfao

[@nicknakpaddyman]

These are games. Games are not an investment. If you want to invest go buy stocks. The games producer will do things to make money. They don't make anything from the secondary market. If they can make money they will do it. It's business 101.

[@P0k3rm4s7]

Thank god it's getting reprinted, having expensive cards in the meta is never a good thing because it creates some kind of paywall between players and that's not cool. Remember Tropical Beach? That card was very expensive and very limited, but Shaymin? It shouldn't be that expensive since it's just an EX card from a regular set.

[@sparkzbarca]

P0k3rm4s7 unless your a player who owned roaring skies, then your 500 dollar deck just dropped to 2 bucks. but yea great for the players

[@P0k3rm4s7]

That's true, it sucks for the people that invested a ton of money in a deck, but that's how everything works, we know a card will drop in price one day, specially meta cards like Shaymin. Landorus EX Full Art was really expensive (Maybe 60-70$) during the Furious Fist era, now it's pretty much worthless.

[@sparkzbarca]

P0k3rm4s7 no we don't, cards will retain value if you hold them and the supply drops off. yes there will be an initial drop like a 63 corvette will be worth less in 67, but more in 97. the real problem is they could have fixed this simply by doing a reprint of a few cards. the problem really was a few cards, by making a small 20 dollar tin with some key promo cards they could have kept both markets happy

[@sparkzbarca]

P0k3rm4s7 no we don't, cards will retain value if you hold them and the supply drops off. yes there will be an initial drop like a 63 corvette will be worth less in 67, but more in 97. the real problem is they could have fixed this simply by doing a reprint of a few cards. the problem really was a few cards, by making a small 20 dollar tin with some key promo cards they could have kept both markets happy

[@P0k3rm4s7]

I won't argue from a collectors perspective because I'm not a collector, as a player I know meta cards will drop in value when they get reprinted, the meta changes or they stop being legal in tournaments (Now we have expanded, which is great because it gives more value to more cards). I can see why collectors and hoarders are mad, I totally respect that, but having the whole set reprinted is amazing for players, people will get more Rayquaza, Sky Field, Shaymin, etc. Who do you think is more important for TCPi? The people that goes to the tournaments and buys new boxes and boosters and interacts with the official tournaments or the guys that buy 50 boxes and just keeps them in a closet just because "It might have more value in the future". Like I said, I respect collectors, I just wanted to share a different perspective, sorry if I sound like an asshole at some point!

[@paper1268]

Mass investors that take away from the player base are the only ones that gonna be upset about this.

[@tempestandacomputer6951]

Two Rudy videos, two times the giggity

[@DCAMM720]

So, as with Magic to an extent, their choice is either help the players get cards and actually play the game or help people who put more money into it and sit on the product so that the actual players can't afford the game. Huh EDIT: If you're going to come here and try to have a convseration, please do, but if you're going to say irrelevant drivel and spew insults to people with a different opinion than you, please stop looking both ways before you cross the street. And go for a walk.

[@sparkzbarca]

DCAMM720 so the problem with this is that players actually want the secondary market too. if you opened a 90 dollar booster and the value of everything in it was 5 cents a card. you'd probably be not that happy. also that's not a collectible card game, that's a basically you buy a box you get 4 copies of everything in it kind of thing. players want to be able to sell the cards they don't want. they want also to be able to purchase individual cards and if Rudy for example had to sell individual cards for 5 cents a piece, he just wouldn't sell them. it wouldn't be worth sorting, listing, picking and shipping eaches at five cents a card. it'd be like trying to convince a toothpick factory to drop ship you a box of picks. if they had to sell by the box. they just wouldn't sell them. if wotc or Pokémon etc lose the secondary market. if no one wants to hoard them, that means by definition the cards have no value, if they have no value then it's not a ccg. if every card is worth a nickel then wizards might as well just take 80 bucks and sell you the whole set because the only way for wizards to justify selling you a box for 90 dollars is if it contains 90 dollars worth of value. if the secondary market doesn't exist it's bad it means the product doesn't have value. if people don't hoard this product at all. that's bad. wizards needs people to buy it to play but also to hold because that increases the value of cards. it let's them sell 1,000 boosters but since only 500 enter circulation the actual value of the cards in circulation remains high because not everything they printed entered the market. it's like we sell debt to China and pay it back with dollars they sit on. the dollars we give then don't enter the market, making the dollar strong. it's good for wotc bottom line selling boosters, increasing the value of each for msrp and for the players whose cards cost more but are worth more.

[@SFhelper]

very well put and written far more nicely than I would have. some people are just childish retards that don't understand these basic concepts, but want everything for free.

[@ccgprime]

They can help the players get access by releasing sought after cards in special sets/tins with alternate art etc. Reprinting actual old sets card for card is the problem here.

[@DiegoDeschain]

@Don Ziolkowski The logic is overall solid in your argument and I'm pretty familiar with all that btw. There's just one thing wrong with it. I don't know a SINGLE person, who plays the game (be it mtg, pokémon, or whatever), and has that so called need for knowing their cards are worth money. My friends all want to pull Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, not because it's worth 25 dollars, but because they want to play with it, they want it in their decks. People only want to know their cards are worth money because they paid high amounts to get them in the first place. I, for instance like Force of Will and because the whole "fow is dying" buzz, cards are way cheaper to get nowadays. I don't care if the card I'm buying is worth pennys, because I'm going to PLAY with it, and if the card was at 100$ I wouldn't even have bought it in the first place. Btw, that's the central point here. Regular people, PLAYERS, people who just wanna have access to the cards and play and have fun with it, couldn't care less if the cards are not "worth" a lot, because that means they can get their hands on them in the first place. The only people who cares if a card is worth zillion dollars are people who have the means of obtaining them in a a much easier fashion them the regular people cracking like a single booster in a lgs on the weekend so they can make money on them. I told this in another Rudy video (I think it was the one about the Nissa vs Ob duel decks) and I will say it again here. If the game has to give in to the whole "hoarders/investors" community in order to be succesful and thrive, then it's the very concept of how they make business that is wrong. They shouldn't have to depend on hoarders to be succesful, they should have to depend on PLAYERS. It baffles me that people don't see the insanity in the fact that when a game like Force of Will, finally starts being accesible for anyone who wants to go and play the game with any card/deck they want because they're cheaper, it is considered a failure. It's completely INSANE. When people actually can play the game because cards are not artificially inflated, it's a sign that the game is "dying" and should be buried at once? That's a sign right there that the whole model with tcgs and ccgs are fucked up and should probably be revised.

[@ecksluss]

ccgprime It's only a problem for investors and hoarders. not a problem for me. :)

[@ajtame]

IMO as long as it remains in the standard format, it should be in print, only when it rotates out should it leave print.

[@hydra66]

exactly

[@vindixen358]

You know what surprises me about this? This just LEGITIMIZED WoTC and their 2nd print run of EMA. TPC just made a HUGE business mistake; they may have accidentally just saved MTG from its steady decline.

[@TheOrian34]

can you explain to me that 2nd print run and the legitimization of it? I'm interested in more Magic history.

[@sparkzbarca]

TheOrian34 mtg just recently did this kind of with eternal masters set. except according to rudy his info is they didn't really reprint wotc withheld first print run boxes to release later. that's per rudy

[@mikekelley]

What kind of camera/audio setup are you using? Sounds amazing.

[@TheRhetoricGamer]

Customer: "...Why are there Cocoa Puffs in my Pokemon box?"

[@ksl33333]

3:05 Just.. that image of Rudy hunched over a desk eating Cocoa Puffs, staring at the camera completely dumb founded. It is now seared into my brain forever.

[@yudela1]

Hey Rudy what do you plan to do with all of your Force of Will stuff?

[@bigidiot123]

I don't think Nintendo cares about the secondary market at all. They're making so much money it doesn't matter at all to them if they lose a very small percentage of their player base the invest in sealed product. Most of their customers are kids who want to just play the game. If you think this is bad you should look at KoA's yugioh reprint policy. Investing in yugioh product is not possible.

[@jazzo44556]

DrK Nintendo isn't in charge of the card game. FYI

[@bigidiot123]

Jazzo44556 Really? I know they don't print and distribute the cards but they still own the rights to them according to Wikipedia. They probably make all of the major financial decisions.

[@zegim]

Holding the Copyright and taking executive decisions are very different things. Just remember Pokemon Go and how Nintendo's stock went through the roof for a second when this game exploded. Then investors realized that no, Nintendo is not directly responsible for Pokemon Go and they were getting all its income, not even the most part of it.

[@winner3887]

The secondary market is _the_ reason why they're reprinting XY-Roaring Skies and not sets *before* or *after* it. Yes, Pokémon is a game that consists mainly of casual collectors, but XY-Roaring Skies is incredibly expensive because of _competitively viable cards_, and in this situation, The Pokémon Company International (TPCi) had to either appeal to the competitive buyer, or the investor lol, which shows they have a knowledge of how the secondary market is doing and they had to make a decision. For the (small) player-base, the majority of them are pleased by the reprint of the set because before it, the game was "unreasonably" expensive to play. Rudy is upset that the company shot investors into the ground. Many TCGs do this, and for a while, believed Pokémon wasn't capable of doing such a feat, and is now upset that yet another card game reprints sets that indirectly shoots investors down. And... the Pokémon franchise in general is operated mostly independently from Nintendo, although Nintendo does have some level of influence over the franchise. TCG-wise, the most Nintendo ever does is handle the distribution and maintain a sanctioning body in remote countries like Russia and Australia. If Nintendo handled the TCG, I don't think they'd know how the secondary market is doing to make this decision to reprint the set in the first place.

[@zac8603]

I love this decision, let players play the game they are the customers that matter. The dudes that buy this stuff just to put it in their closet and "make an investment" aren't the important customers.

[@raziel1132]

meanwhile your lgs makes what, a $5-10 profit on boxes that are at that low of a price? with an average overhead being somewhere in the $10-30k radius? you realise you cannot play pokemon at walmart, right?

[@abraham2057]

Hi, new to the channel! I was wondering if you have an ebay page where I can buy singles and stuff from you? Thanks! Like I'm seeing here! Subscribed.

[@pwoo581]

Love it. Stop hoarding boxes. Cards are meant to be played with

[@RunFromCities]

if they do this to non-standard print sets then you can really panic.

[@BaconLordBear]

The most ridiculous thing about this entire reprinting is that they're literally reprinting it because the players need ONE card from the set and Pokemon isn't just releasing that card as a reprint or a promo. This is just greed monster at its finest.

[@winner3887]

It isn't a complete upside... while it would be nice and convenient to get Shaymin-EX as a standalone collector's box promo with the original set symbol on it (or not; it doesn't matter, but they can't really make a unique promo since it has no alt art), since Shaymin-EX is literally the reason why XY-Roaring Skies is expensive, it may actually make the set fall even harder and upset investors more, since in the current situation, people would continue to buy XY-Roaring Skies boxes, and in your situation, there wouldn't be a need to open any. The other cards in the set has been run down to oblivion from the number of boxes opened. If TPCi wanted to cater to investors, they would have to ignore their player base's pleas to reprint Shaymin-EX and wait until it rotated from Standard. It would hurt their competitive buying market.

[@Marcusjnmc]

I think they may want it out of rotation on the next rotation so not adding it to a new set, & adding the card to a promo tin or pack would of tanked it's value even more pissing off collectors more

[@winner3887]

+Marcusjnmc I said that they could just print the original set number as a promo (ex: Gengar-EX Box), but it would still reduce the price and price of XY-Roaring Skies to oblivion so whatever.

[@pokematt7172]

Hearing about all the rumors about this reprint I quickly searched Rudy's page because I knew he'd have something to say about it... 'video posted 1 minute ago'... You did not dissapoint

[@Bobacus6122004]

LOL LOve when speculators get taken to the tool shed. Pokemon is a kids game. Not for you to horde boxes. Good on Pokemon for thinking of their customers first.

[@ThebubbleySquirtle]

The Floating Eye it's not really a kids game anymore like %90 of its players are 13+ I'd say about %40 are 13-18 and about %50 are 19+

[@crimsonaterdaeus]

The point still stands. Hoarders deserve this and it's fantastic. This guy is acting like the companies owe him something because he chooses to manipulate the secondary market. Entitled greed and nothing more.

[@sos_legio_primus9177]

Lol not really To get a full set of perfect Pokemon cards in a series is so hard to do with the odds so slim it is technically Illegal to sell Pokemon in the UK as it goes against the UK's fair play and gambling laws. Did you know that Pokemon actually has over 13 grades of cards they print, they actually print cards with flaws in them to make the odds of getting 1 perfect condition common card in a case of 6 new sealed boxes is in the billions. To get a full set of perfect cards from 1 series is impossible as there is not enough time, money or cards in the world to actually do this. we are talking about Googleplex numbers here as the odds. Pokemon CCG is very much for adults and collectors. The Nintendo games are just to get kids hooked on the franchise and to start buying cards to make collectors of Adults. I have seen a person open a full sealed pallet of 1 series of Pokemon cards and still not get a full set of the whole series nor all of the rares, foils, reversals, gems, metallics and multi-part cards.

[@kaminarikatuhstrofik9534]

HOLY SHIT WHAT IF WIZARDS IS STILL BEHIND POKEMON AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

[@SimplyDaveYognaught]

Is Poundtown close to Hosetown?

[@XTCMatrix]

What website is that?

[@ddamien1717]

Where is the inventions box? Anyone see it?

[@marcmarc1967]

On the shelf, right above the left monitor.

[@rogerprows4244]

Investors are what ruins the longevity of card games. They did this specifically to screw them and get them away from their product. This is a good thing

[@georgebrown493]

Will the reprints have a 2015 or 2017 copyright? In the WOTC days a reprint sometimes changed the copyright, like in the last print run of base set. If they update the copyright then the original print run could be distinguished and might be worth a premium.

[@cardzoom3405]

Urza's LEGacy as a leg rest! You're a goddamn genius Rudy.

[@dannyzep92]

So I asked myself awhile ago if it would be possible for wizards to reissue a set(s), similar to the way tempest was on mtgo. I don't think I want to find out anymore.

[@MarkJones-fn7kf]

Quick question for ya from another business owner: if all those boxes fell on you by let's say "accident", would it be a workman's comp claim/case??? Just asking for ya know, business reasons

[@BarryStewart]

Get back to playing Drug Wars on that TI-83

[@BarryStewart]

But for real, this is some BS to collectors. Makes me second guess MTG at the same time. Fire up those printers from 1993! We're going to bank mad stacks off some Alpha! Aren't you holding CharizardEX boxes with some Roaring Skies boosters?

[@barial1]

Wow I remember that game, drug wars was the shit back in grade school

[@NightMind0]

@Rudy, could you please include transcript if it's not hard? I'd rather read this as an article.

[@TerribleShoes]

Regardless of it ruining ROS' value, We badly needed a Shaymin Reprint, Its unobtainable due to price to most players despite being in almost every deck.

[@mtgheadquarters]

What's up guys...scarce here and we've got a double upload today

[@k0mbatw0mbat]

MTGHeadQuarters I hope I still shit post as well as you when I am your age your beardness

[@FlourescentPotato]

lol, rudy is salty. :) zero credibility lost, he just got burned.

[@JoyBoyTheories]

someone didnt watch the video lol

[@BaronVonZakary]

Well, if worst comes to worst, you take all those Roaring Skies boxes and build a nice extension to your Planechase Anthology mansion. An outhouse maybe?

[@drwtng]

Im wondering why the comparison with WOTC/ EMA? In my area, before the so-called holiday "2nd print run/ release", all the shops still had EMA... it was not sold out or considered in short supply. A few shops hoarded but if you wanted one, you could at around $240-$260/ box. So Im not sure why you are putting in the same boat as the RS reprint?

[@leotrepak]

Rudy, what do you think about Final Fantasy TCG?

[@alexv1351]

lol I'm getting a box. I'm reprinting it again

[@kaminarikatuhstrofik9534]

LOL WHEN THE MEWTWO BOXES GET TRIGGERED

[@ClaimToFameMusic]

Watching your old Pokémon videos is very informational and eye opening

[@misterburkes8364]

You made the right choice in investing in specialty product only.

[@METALMAN4Wii]

Is this an eposide of Hoarders?

[@manifreysson3480]

When is it coming out? Im so fkn mad rn

[@whoislen]

Would love to see your results on roaring skies bilk opening!

[@MultiThePaddy]

How much did you invest in Cocoa Puffs?

[@CGoody564]

they didn't lie. they said it was out of print; they never said it will forever be out of print. things can go in and out of print multiple times. if you think a company saying "this IS out of print" means it will always be out of print, that's kind of your own fault. unless a company specifically says they will never, ever print said item again (being out of print does not mean that) there is always a chance it will come back.

[@SelflessResurrection]

I feel sorry for the guy that bought the $250 box on January 3rd. Probably more for the seller if the buyer has remorse and tries to return it.

[@chadjosephmartin2018]

does this mean shaymin ex will go down in price ?

[@thenightangel05]

That was an amazing Intro Rudy, amazing!

[@streetlover404]

That cracked me up when you were about to say Force of Will, but didn't. Lol

[@artofdan1840]

Was the vid a little blurry or am I having a mild stroke? Love ya Rudy :P Giggity .

[@conyconychopper5375]

somehow watching this video makes feel better about my Roaring Skies Booster Boxes "collection", ok, i am back in the corner and cry again T_T

[@XmortoxX1990]

Since I play with cards and not colect them, I don´t have any problem with that.

[@Mrtfarrugia]

Rudy it's great to see you're almost at 40k subs.

[@BeatupMckillyoustein]

What this could also mean is that the Eternal Masters """""Reprint""""" is actually a reprint.

[@Late_Night_Mega]

I have an idea why they're reprinting Roaring Skies (or insert anything in here really). The companies don't want people turning current or recently released products into investments and hoarding them. The companies want people to play the card game. Players can't do that if there's not enough supply and investors/speculators are hoarding low supply items to make personal profits. That's not why these companies make these products. Thus, print the sets/products into oblivion.

[@scottchadfield223]

So, if you've not already been asked this question. How does this effect (if at all) you taking pokemon out of the system? Would you just buy more of the second prits or just stick to the first prints or... what? Give it to me rudy.

[@nukacolaquantum1929]

I don't understand why Pokemon didn't just release a Shaymin tin or something. Shaymin is the main reason people want Roaring Skies. 50$ a pop is a little too steep for people like me. It would have saved investors a lot if they just did that.

[@MyUncleWorksForNintendo]

I don't really collect or play trading cards anymore, but I stumbled upon your videos and keep watching them because I find them very entertaining and your thoughts very intelligent.

[@PokemonMaster_556]

People be smart about buying boxes. Dont buy em when theyre up in value... Just preorder the damn things like I do. Its way cheaper and youll never take a loss.

[@johnjackson2834]

It's cute that you think the reserved list will never be re-assessed.

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

I guess this is karma against investors over-hoarding an out of print set still in tournament play. If the player base can't get their hands on product at all because stores are all hoarding and speculating, there's gonna be a reprint even if they've gone out of print. There's only so far you push the market until the market pushes back. It's economics 101

[@RileyFreeman8]

Thank God I managed to sell my full set the day of the announcement... Guess that guy didn't do his research

[@GemMintPokemon]

Yes. Came to your channel to see this video ... annnndd. You've already made it & uploaded it.

[@oneminutewonder77]

Shaymin is not going to suddenly tank below 30-40$. It is going to probably go down to around there and then when the set stops the reprint it will stabilize around where it is at.

[@marcmarc1967]

Finding the Kaladesh Inventions box is like playing Where's Waldo?

[@antonyquigley5219]

cases who bought at "150"... i do't get the double inverted commas used in the complete w"r"ong context, almost every ..."Time". " ".

[@youngmage]

i thought the skit at the start was going to get old and it never did.

[@GlassEater420]

This video didn't age well. 5 years later and those boxes are worth a ton.

[@refineme]

Hitting $600 end of 2023 on TCG player.

[@Mecha82]

It's good that Pokémon Company did this because at end of day TCGs are to be played and have fun with instead of being hoarded in hopes of making money. Pokémon TCG is no different in that sense. Of course best case would be finding solution that keeps both players and investors happy but finding that middle ground is not easy task. So that leads to one customer base being favorite over other. As much as single cards are needed on market what won't help that is people hoarding unopened booster boxes.

[@OmegaWarGreymon]

Players first.

[@TheTomAbz]

@ Alpha Investments im never going to invest like you do and i havent bought cardboard in years. but watching how passionate you are about this has been a pleasure keep up the goodwork!

[@mlmorford5274]

Rudy, #1. Does this help the player base? Its in 'standard' for 6 more months... does this help the average Joe/Jane player? If so, its probably a decent corporate decision. #2. Will it be like Base Set to Base Set 2 reprint where the difference is clear? This is the MTG approach with reprints like MM, EM, CDR, etc... #3 What's the timeline for entering 'PoundTown" Can someone simply decline the bus ride and wait 2-5 years and then be 'OK" on their investment?

[@DirkVomEck]

I miss these wilder Rudy videos, it is good to look back from time to time

[@mjlapasta]

consistently the best content around. how do I join your portfolio lol

[@Masami_Salami]

They're not driving to poundtown! The bus is flippin'' here!

[@mindblastinggaming9780]

The boxes falling blasted my mind xD It was MIND BLASTING!

[@EvilLuisito]

Cocoa Puffs? Alright Rudy, I guess you needed a break. See you in 2 months buddy.

[@CaseyCJL]

I have about 50 grand in pokemon investments. Do you think they will reprint Flashfire?? I'm totally screwed if they do. Love your videos btw, i just found your channel!

[@Impzhahaha]

are you a millionaire now

[@CaseyCJL]

@@Impzhahaha yeah, no big deal though.

[@thunderstruck560]

Man this makes me so happy. I almost just bought shaymins at 60. But in any card game there should be no reason that a set in a standard format should be out of print and that's I'm guessing the new reasoning from tpci.

[@mrbenmouse]

Shit, has Pokémon ever done something like this before?

[@BleedingAzure]

They did back when WotC still published it.

[@sonkyunkim9906]

Next Destines and Boundaries Crossed

[@sgr7th]

Boundaries Crossed is still going up in value

[@yugidude1]

Not reprint an entire set but they've been known to tin a card when it's problematic price wise. Why they didn't do that with shaymin ex i'm not sure.

[@nomak38416]

Plasma Storm too. Those packs were like $8-10 per pack and was constantly sold out, but around the time it was going to be out of standard it suddenly was in stock everywhere.

[@piripepeno]

Im actually happy with this, I'm sorry that stores sitting on products is altering the msrp of the products, making some of the products even unavailable at msrp :/

[@simukasmukas]

That Treasure Cruise to pound town in the background...

[@BestDamnGamer]

Rudy - you hit the nail on the head like usual. I expect there will not only be a panic sell of Roaring Skies but other similar sets that have been increasing in value deemed "out of print". Let's just hope they don't get crazy and send some Team Rocket and Fossil boxes down the print line haha. (obviously kidding)

[@braindead8899]

2022 and they're back to 400+ a box... like you always preach - stay the course and the wealth just moved to people taking the risk... i'm a learning timmy :) love you

[@chettonex]

What would happen if there existed a business model where you could just order the cards you want to be printed? no boosters or collecting, just playing the game with the cards you want. The business model would work by releasing new cards to encourage people to order them to adapt to the new meta.

[@De4dPoo1]

Good for you Rudy im glad, Cool video. Btw more videos like the "restaurant one" Muchos saludos desde Guatemala

[@TheKillerRats]

At the time this posted I believe he had 25k subs. Now look. Holy damn.

[@thedonchiino4298]

This could be good or bad, but so many shops, investors and companies are purchasing every reprint available so that the common buyer can't get their hands on them causing the price reduction to come to a hault at some point. I've already seen reductions to 200$(cdn) so if there is just this one reprint and all of them are already bought out, the price will probably still rise again due to good cards available in the packs and the availability of these cards still. Things will be good for new players and those wanting to build/finish collection if it's a constant reprint for a while. This is going to be interesting.

[@user-uh6gz4gh3p]

This aged so well "unless it's wizards reserved list" 😂😂

[@Lethargicwaldo]

Holy shit some of the listing have already dropped from $350 to $250 on ebay

[@r.a.f6579]

Lethargicwaldo cheapest I just saw was $103 for a booster box already.

[@Lethargicwaldo]

Wow that's crazy, that wasn't there earlier. The only ones that were under 200 were pre-sales. This dude isn't fucking around.

[@JusZard]

Now these were good Rudy videos ! Lmfao this was genius !! This didn’t age well magic 30th wizards reprinted reserve list lol 😂

[@blazenjestergames4025]

I have to agree with you Rudy this is like what Magic just did but we don't know if these boxes of eternal masters where sitting and not shipped or so on, could this be the same case with Roaring Sky's and if so does is it deceitful? It's kind of a double edge sword do these companies make inventory errors and are afraid of just saying "Hey we screwed up and there's still x product sitting here needing to be moved." Or is it really being re-ran cause they don't want to fess up to the mistake?! That is probably info we are not privlaged to know or on the need to know basis but in the end the Pokémon holding company just like wizards never sees the secondary market money from transactions and need they're boxes to ship off to distribution to make their money and in doing so they're creating a new circulation and the hit cards have a new influx which creates the price plummeting and I hate to say this but what is good for a player isn't always good for a store, stores could have been buying the $9-$10 rare for 5-6 bucks two days ago and with this "reprint" we know that cost is going to drop and fast in some cases 50% so now they have to sell for lower then they bought it which in return hits them over the head cause the greed monsters "taking it to them" in the end that few dollar loss times X costs a shop a lot of money because the over head hasn't even been calculated towards that loss either they might as well burn them to keep warm when the power company cuts the lights off. These reprints are pretty much "bullying" LGS's now saying hey those singles your selling to keep the lights on guess what we want them to be worthless, imagine if this becomes a huge trend paper magic and Pokemon will be a thing of the past. (Can't speculate on Yughio because quite frankly after year 2 of that game I lost interest and touch just wasn't my cup of tea.)

[@jennifer9084]

I also don't have a roaring skies booster box and this benefits me in a way but sucks because those that bought them thinking it was out of print paid top dollar for it. I hope this is the only time Pokémon does this.