Wife Can't Believe Magic Cards Are Worth $100,000

Wife takes husband's beta Magic card collection (complete with black lotus) to get appraised and finds out it's worth thousands at the Antiques Road Show.
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[@crimsonwolf3487]

I get the feeling her husband doesn't know this interview is happening.

[@leme686]

My thoughts exactly..

[@Aldebarean]

Good news honey. I found a guy in a hoody who gave me 200 bucks for that old piece of shit cardboard collection you had....

[@zephyrstrife4668]

I'm inclined to believe that the reason why she is doing this would be due to her husband passing away... though without official confirmation, we have no way to know for sure.

[@newenso2780]

@@zephyrstrife4668 If he wasn't before he sure is now

[@sensen9900]

@@zephyrstrife4668 More likely "Thats stupid shit of my Husband i wanna get rid of it and if possible make money while doing so".

[@anonymousnate678]

I love the idea that some kid is gonna get through college with no financial struggle because his dad was a nerd in the 90s lol.

[@chadeckert4609]

Kids should pay their own college tuition

[@TraceyAllen]

@@chadeckert4609 yes let’s saddle our children with decades of debt, sounds like a solid plan. Took me 15 years to pay my $20k school loans, never missing a payment. Actually payed it of early.

[@chadeckert4609]

@@TraceyAllen how the hell does it take 15 yes to pay 20k? I paid my student debt off in 5 yrs. And it was nearly 25k....sound like you have money management issues.

[@chadeckert4609]

@@TraceyAllen 24 hours a day, sleep 4 work 16 and you have 4 hours left for showers, eating, shopping(necessities only).... live below your means. Buy a 35 dollar phone not a 1000 dollar phone. Drive a pos car not a new one. Don't pay for Netflix disney plus etc. We have plenty of money to pay for our kids college education, cash. But we didn't and we won't. I worked a full time job, a part-time 2nd job, went to class, and still had time for extra shit.

[@chadeckert4609]

@@arturp8212 poor family's are lazy. Period.

[@Cragun.]

"They're just cards to me." Her husband was probably tearing apart the house looking for the cards right at that moment.

[@gustafbstrom]

Just imagine her selling them on a backyard sale to someone offering her 75 dollars for all of them.

[@AB-dd4jz]

that must have happened so many times by parents or wives IRL

[@PatternLand]

@@AB-dd4jzyes it has people comment on videos and post too often about how their parents sold or threw away cards , toys

[@renzanfortineri196]

In my case its kind of same but different object In middle school, I bought Gundams and Mini4wd with my own money went to college, comeback only to know that my step mother sold them "The robots toys are already been sold... You already adult, dont need toys anymore right" all of them for 50% price of a HG 1/144 (Its probably kind of near 10-15 dollars in US... It was 3 weeks of food cost in my country) I had a Freedom METEOR too ffs Which is actually 5 times more expensive of that whole sale alone

[@mvd0072]

Immediate divorce and a heavy beating

[@kiillabytez]

Lol, I dount their actual value is worth even that much.

[@pangea1now]

She's probably a little upset because her husband told her it was worth a ton of money and she wanted to throw them out. She probably took these down to antiques roadshow to prove her husband they are trash and was proved wrong.

[@Romans1-8]

I'm of the belief hes passed away seeing she only mentions him in past tense. And she said I think he wanted to put together a complete set if he was living she would know his motivation.

[@pangea1now]

@@Romans1-8 I did not think of it that way. I thought of it as someone who played and didn't play anymore but realized the value of the cards.

[@ChristianIce]

@@pangea1now If he was alive he would know of the value, and i strongly doubt he would allow the wife to simply take it and bring it there.

[@bboycole]

He's sitting at home, moved the Arm Chair to the front door and chilling with a beer waiting for her to walk in.

[@bubonikkronik6561]

@@bboycole THIS is what i want to believe

[@jameswarner5878]

When I stopped playing MTG the most expensive card was a mint Beta Black Lotus worth $400. Imagine my surprise when I looked up prices a few years ago. Shout out to my mother for storing my cards for me for 20+ years.

[@NikachuMTG]

Some Mother’s never throw anything away!

[@NamathCB]

Yeah too bad the vast majority who played back then never even saw a lotus etc because these cards just weren't available to us. Im one of those. Thankfully got some Duels and a fistful of FOWs but for people not into it, don't go buy a pile of cards unless you know exactly what you're looking at. :) ✌☃️

[@Durakken]

@@NamathCB If it makes you feel better, I have a friend who has a Black Lotus signed and modified by the original artist... he messes with people while playing sometimes by licking it and sticking it to his forehead ^.^ But yeah, as someone who works in a cardshop... there are tons of people who think they've hit pay dirt because they find an old card and it's worthless. The longer I do this the more I am unaffected and don't get excited at the possibility of finding a high value card. I once thought I found a $2000 magic card, which ended up being like $2 because i knew nothing about the misprint backing that happened at the time and it took a bit of time to research and figure out what exactly was the deal with the huge variation in price tags.

[@NamathCB]

@@Durakken would LOVE to see a Chris Rush retouched card, esp a Lotus. What a card to own! Assume it's WELL SLEEVED if he's doing that. 😆 if not then he's a bit insane. ;) Thanks for sharing, so cool to hear about some of the crazy stuff out there that's not owned by the few

[@Durakken]

@@NamathCB He keeps it pretty safe along with many of his other cards, but that's the trick... Magic Cards are actually fairly difficult to damage in such a way. They have a coating that is waterproof save for the edge so as long as you're not messing with that edge it's not really an issue. Also what he calls his "cheap" decks are in the $10,000 range in value so while he respects the value, he's a bit on the side of not caring about it as much as others. He also has some pretty stupid luck. I've seen him pull close to $10,000 in cards from random pulls off the top of my head which far outpaces the value i've pulled from doing that.

[@jameschristensen4028]

It's funny how the wife thinks that the husband is going to sell his cards.

[@ShanePlaysTheGuitar]

My mother once gave my entire Yu Gi Oh Collection to a kid without asking, that kid knew the value of some of the cards and sold them. I do remember that i had atleast one misprinted one and a Limited Blue Eyes White Dragon infront the Earth ( Dont remember if it was the Banzai Promo Card or the Foil Earth one ) The Value of good childhood memories with my Dragon Deck is still more worth than the actual money

[@thekillingduck]

What did you say to her?

[@btfcam]

**Wife gets home** Husband: "Hey honey how was the.." Wife: "We're selling the cards."

[@HandheldGamer1991]

And thats the reason you dont tell anyone how much they are worth! When the whole pokemon craze hapened i came back home after a 3 month trip to germany and behold all my base set first edition pokemon cards gone! The only thing left in the binder where some common cards! And of course when i asked who did take them my family said "who would take/touch those things" well if thats the case then where the fuck are they now?! Did someone break into the house and went in my room ignoring everything in the house straight to my shelf and looked into my binder and not steal the whole thing but just took out the most valuable cards out of it?! Yeah i belive that...not! I swear fuck anyone who does shit like this!

[@nerdlord2288]

"There my cards though" "no we are married they are our cards"

[@Lcngopher]

I actually saw this episode when it aired. My dad paused it just before the price reveal and asked my mom what she though value was. She wasnt close

[@Lcngopher]

@@JohannesWOW because i play the game and they wanted to guess the value to see how close they could get

[@Mr.Potato420]

@@Lcngopher and what was their reaction?

[@Lcngopher]

@@Mr.Potato420 surprised

[@stairfall12345678900]

how much did she think it was worth? honestly I'm surprised that the black lotus wasn't worth more

[@Lcngopher]

@@stairfall12345678900 i dont remember. Also they were beta, not alpha. That will affect the value

[@dromeaetherium211]

Dad played in the 90's and he also was a champion for a year or two, it was really cool I've grown up with this now and I've learned maybe 10 decks, for legacy. He sadly passed away so now I have to learn and get guidance from other people. But I'm proud to say I've taught 3 people how to play magic after his passing which was late January this year

[@rektl2036]

Lawyer :" your dad left this binder to you" You open the 1st page, you see a black lotus.

[@dromeaetherium211]

@@rektl2036 I am disappointed I did not get this reply, nono its even better version Lawyer: Your father left you this *gives a box the size of a deck box, made of wood and a lever* You: *flicks lever it opens up to a gingerbread man deck with 4 black lotus and the power nine, one turn kill*

[@zacharyadair4724]

I sat through this entire video with goosebumps. To see an entire beta set in one place is absolutely amazing.

[@ygaudreault]

The moment your wife understands the value of your cards is your last with a magic collection.

[@Buster_Scruggs]

every time I tell anyone my commander deck is worth over 3k, they dont believe me and tell me that if it was, I would sell it.

[@V2ULTRAKill]

@@Buster_Scruggs only 3k You must not be rockin some cedh staples

[@Saixjacket]

@@Buster_Scruggs that’s called a poor mindset. By that logic anyone who owes less on a vehicle than it’s worth should sell the car and get a new one because profit!!!! ….oh wait

[@ravenfighter9157]

Nah a man keeps his woman in line

[@zatozatoichi7920]

I pity the spineless men who let their other half judge their hobbies. Fuck that shit, seriously...

[@frasert8779]

“How much has my husband been spending on magic cards?!?” That part killed me 😂 😂 😂

[@Arankchess112]

Probably not much if the 90's story is true, those cards were aight but not crazy back then price-wise.

[@tristanbeaumont8048]

@@Arankchess112 lotus was worth about 500 in 1995 already

[@ordinaryk]

@@tristanbeaumont8048 I started playing in 1996 and I scored a damaged Unlimited Lotus for $150. I had the entire power nine at one point... and then sold off the whole collection before prices exploded (my Time Walk was only worth $90 at the time and it was near mint!)

[@tristanbeaumont8048]

@@ordinaryk talking about a alpha or beta lotus not unlimited

[@mccraeday5809]

@@tristanbeaumont8048 500 is nothing.lol

[@CrackedCogInTheMachine]

I sold 4 black lotus cards along with quite a few other cards at a college tournament back in 97 or 98 think i made right under 400$ total that day. It was big money for a game I had lost interest in after investing 1000's. A friend of mine has the rest of that collection I had, plus his untouched collection that he has never sold or traded. I keep teasing him he could retire today with that collection as he invested a considerable amount more than i did. I think I should let him know i wasn't joking. He literally has 1000's of cards sitting in a box in his closet untouched for the last 20 years.

[@napoleonbonerfarte6739]

If you did convince him an update would be nice

[@hugh.g.rection5906]

proof or its not real.....like give me his address and the hours when the house is empty lol

[@austingardner785]

@@hugh.g.rection5906 if you find out this info I can help you conduct a welfare check

[@IDONTEVERAFRAID]

Your analysis of how our spouses act when learning about our collectables worth was so spot on I actually died.

[@ternaryorbit3142]

Part of the womans expression is: "I now have to walk around with a binder that is worth more than my house"

[@gantzisballs]

Most people would have a look of pure excitement and joy that their dad's stamp collection or rare coin collection is finally worth money. This woman is like, "Are you actually telling me my husband's embarrassing old geek hobby is worth money?! Gross! What kind of weirdo would pay money for this junk?"

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

Yeah and she is correct. Its what i say as well, about most "art". 😅

[@brianmurphy8811]

@@trazyntheinfinite9895 What a delight you both must be to live with. Her husbands not dead, he's hiding.

[@inquisitorwalmarius6650]

@@trazyntheinfinite9895 weird, i thought you where a collector of everything rare.

[@somepunkrookie76]

The rich kind of weirdo! Lol.

[@tybarker5038]

Someone like Bill Gates lol Or some wealthy app developer or software engineer.

[@baneblackguard584]

every time I see this kind of thing I think back to that summer day I returned from summer camp and found out my mom had thrown away my entire comic collection. at the time I was upset because I loved the comics, but now i look back at it and think, I would have been a wealthy man if my mother.... Thanks Mom.

[@girlinvt]

It doesnt compute for vintage baseball cards either, though more people are catching a clue. My brother went in the navy and mom was going to get rid of his collections baseball, Star wars figurines ect. We convinced her to store them in a trunk. She gave them back to him when he retired from the navy. He was pleasantly surprised...

[@gingerplz1]

This guy said $20k for a beta lotus ungraded? I’ll take one of those...

[@adamgorsky8422]

Rudy would like a word....

[@xinitarchives]

Fr its about 40k-60k

[@invertedcrayon]

@@xinitarchives its as if this could have been filmed at a date in which it was valued at a lower price :O

[@Yawyna124]

@@invertedcrayon He could also be speaking on a strictly "this card is presently ungraded" basis.

[@Robfenix]

Also the people they bring in to evaluate it always have to lowball because they give the bottom range of a price that a re-seller would pay it for, which is what the the re-sellers want to know (they pay the expert evaluators). What the cards would then be resold for after a year or so is much harder to predict not what the re-seller needs to know.

[@ChristianIce]

Dear beloved husband, gonna sell those, I know you'll forgive me from up there.

[@MrPuzzoncello]

Ovunque tranne che qui mi aspettavo di trovare Christian Airte

[@tamachaama]

100k delle beta pfffff, meglio che non sappiano quanto valgono adesso.

[@colledeicorvi7422]

Ma nuovi video?

[@sersacchiotto]

Guai a te

[@ButiiiiiILiekMUDKIPZ]

all those cards arer worth a lot more now.

[@marvinlouiseponce3257]

nice! that last line made me hit the like button without thinking the line: "i will tell ur significant other how much ur magic cards are worth" sends any magic player into panic mode

[@Pastree117]

Hey Nikachu, it's cool to see you have branched out since last I checked, I'm so happy for you! Last I checked was probably like 2016 or so, getting them Modern Merfolk guides and tips. Good times 😊

[@anssilehtimaki3841]

The audacity of this woman to take those cards out in the open like that

[@thygrrr]

Such a beautiful binder. Each card brings back memories. There was at LEAST a 50% chance this binder could have ended up in the trash, and a 33% chance on top of that to have ended up at a garage sale.

[@irtnyc]

This. Happened to me!

[@ericr6816]

@@irtnyc At your expense, or to your benefit?

[@irtnyc]

@@ericr6816 My mom "handed down" my 1993-97 binder to a younger cousin at some point, perhaps while I was out of the country for a while. I had no idea. Eventually, before I even found out it was gone, his mom had thrown it away. Bye-bye Black Lotus... and so many other cards. C'est la vie! I did get back most of my old Matchbox cars which have sentimental value, at least. Didn't have the heart to tell them all what the MTG screw-up cost the family.

[@Osjey]

@@irtnyc rip, I don't understand why they would make that decision over your head. Parents see their kids playing with the cards, treasuring them, so why not just ask before the card goes into the bin or handed down to a snotty 5 year old that picks their nose before handling the cards.

[@thesonofdormammu5475]

@@Osjey My wife is constantly trying to give toys that belonged to our older kids to our younger kids without asking. My oldest son had some transformers from the early '00s that he was hanging on to (he buys and sells vintage items as a part time gig) and she was going to hand a bin of toys worth about $1k to an 8 year old without asking anyone. It's about the dumbest thing I've ever seen, she will throw or give away things that we paid hundreds of dollars for instead of having a garage sale or listing on facebook/craigslist. She has pissed off our kids a couple of times over giving away things, sometimes one of our kids will go look for something in storage just to find out that she has gotten rid of it. IDK why she does it. Pretty annoying though.

[@Ryan_Dye-r]

I could imagine a Mox Ruby being used to get 2 Lightning Bolts out on turn one, & a 1994 printed Ball Lightning out on Turn 2.

[@JervisGermane]

I can't believe that someone made real jewelry inspired by Mox Emerald that contains a real emerald and real gold, and the real jewelry is worth less than the cardboard that inspired it.

[@SRADracer]

At least she was smart enough to not sell this at a yard sale, like my mom did with my old Atari, nes, snes consoles and games. Not worth 75000, but all games and consoles had original box and manuals. Still mad about it 😂

[@benderrodriguez4067]

no matter how many times i hearthis type of story i still cant believe parents can be such assholes to their own children

[@antonsmith1497]

@@benderrodriguez4067 Your Parents place is not your personal warehouse. If it was back then "so expensive and value" why didnt those people take their stuff then.

[@jtyree0226]

@@antonsmith1497 it’s called going to college? Going away for military? You can even just go on a trip to Europe for high school. Doesn’t matter the reason. Point is that’s very low for parents to touch your things while you’re away. Doesn’t matter if you’re living there or not. The fact that you would even have a kid just to control every aspect of there shows how you are

[@antonsmith1497]

@@jtyree0226 its a big difference if u are 20 or 30 or even older. if u have ur own apartment then take ur shit with u kiddo.

[@braddorcas9363]

@@antonsmith1497 Hopefully one day you sell one of your childrens valuables at a yard sale for nothing that you're too brain dead to realize is worth money depriving them of a future house down payment. Prove to the world what a shit parent and person you are cause picking up a phone to say "Hey you still want this?" is apparently too difficult for your brain to process. Such an edgelord.

[@Fritzgar]

If magic would have an anime series every kid would know it...

[@KT-dq6wv]

Expect the cool kids

[@rafaelsanna96]

mtg is not even japanese man, how can it have an anime, like wtf

[@shousekiryu5337]

manga version of duel masters actually used magic i believe

[@CustodialDaniel]

Knowing WOTC they’ll make it live action

[@derekhung535]

Actually, there's a manga called "Destroy All Of Humanity. It Can't Be Regenerated" which is a love story(?) about mtg

[@joebaumgart1146]

My brother had a whole set of Alpha. He bought a huge house in West Chester, PA, a college fund for my neice, and a nice little nest egg for retirement.

[@Skepticalio]

When this aired there was a reddit thread talking about it. Can't remember who it was related but the husband was deceased, he passed away. You can also notice how she always talks about him past tense.

[@Wistbacka]

I still dont get it why people have a hard time accepting high values on mtg cards, but are completely accepting and aware about the extreme values of baseball and hockey cards. And stamps. Fricking stamps...

[@DelugeQuebec]

Hey! Leave those stamps out of that talk aight?!

[@Wistbacka]

@@DelugeQuebec I'm sorry if I stamped on your feelings. 🤭😉

[@DelugeQuebec]

@@Wistbacka Its alright, I'll go lick my wounds now.

[@89qwyg9yqa34t]

In those peoples' defense, the market is extremely manipulated. Black Lotus sat at $400 for almost a decade before they were suddenly $10k each.

[@alexfrank5331]

Small brains. Hard to process new information after world view has been solidified after late 20s.

[@LordMajicus]

EXCUSE ME SIR, Black Lotus has in fact won a game by swinging in for 3 damage. #PowerNineWinGames

[@jorgenorberto293]

The power of the infamous Oko (good fucking riddance!!).

[@unstopable_rob]

I think we should remake the power 9 because yawgmoth's will is obviously the best card of all time and isn't even in the power 9

[@LordMajicus]

@@unstopable_rob That's a weird way of spelling Oko, Thief of Crowns.

[@ericwollam5532]

@@unstopable_rob Commander player here, you meant smothering tithe, right?

[@unstopable_rob]

@@LordMajicus yeah, imagine a card that can get your 4 oko's back for the cheapest

[@KuramiRocket]

As a card collector (focusing on dragon type Yu-Gi-Oh cards) it's insane how pricey cards are. Some really are valuable. When I tell my mom of the prices of some individual cards she's like, 'What is it made of gold?' Lol. Any card collector can appreciate old school cards.

[@DamorahTalset]

My parents still don't believe me when I tell them my YCS Number 106: Giant Hand is worth at least a couple grand.

[@DarkMagicianGirlYT]

Adjuster gold was like worth its weight in gold

[@kiillabytez]

Actually, they're only valuable to you and other like-minded individuals. The most expensive baseball card or stamp in the world really has no value to you, but if it were the most expensive Yu-Gi-Oh card in the world, your eyes would gleam over. It's all about perspective, nothing more.

[@Asageun]

​@@kiillabytezthat's how money works. It's only worth anything if people say it is.

[@maloydonedidit2903]

My wife was the same way. She initially poked fun at me about my toy collection and TCGs..... Until she saw how much they are worth.... Yeah... My Pokemon cards don't seem like they are taking up too much space now huh?😂😂😂😂

[@Saixjacket]

Women only care when it’s aesthetic and valuable. Women don’t look at coal as though it is money, they look at it as “dirty fossil fuel”. I could go off, but I swear, their greatest fault is an inability to look at something outside of “is it hot” “is it worth money RIGHT NOW”?!?! Yet they make 80% of all spending decisions and carry 60% of all student debt lol.

[@jayceh]

I don't understand why she's not just getting this information from her husband

[@zippydipity42]

It's likely that he just played the game during beta and doesn't actually know anything about the current state of the market.

[@masticoregaming5592]

Because husband is not stupid to share where is the money with someone he doesn't trust...it seems you little dummy hagh

[@dingding12321]

He likely didn't actually play much himself and just wanted to have one of everything.

[@unstopable_rob]

@@dingding12321 there's multiple of some basic lands

[@mojosodope45]

Because she killed him.

[@blightedadmiral7006]

Your face when you said “that ruby probably powered a bunch of shivan dragons in it’s day” made it 100x better

[@oldsk0ol]

Imagine finding this binder at some garage sale because the wife wanted to sell some stuff.

[@HandheldGamer1991]

Me: how much for the binder. Wife: ummmm 6$? Me:Hehehehhahahahahhahahhahahahahaha! Wife:O_O

[@brodie6858]

It was on this day she finally respected his hobby

[@Firefly-mb6pl]

Personal head-cannon here but: I wonder if the husband passed away? and she's having mixed feelings about the cards because A. He was sitting on all that money and never told her what they were worth or B. She expected them to be worth not very much and wanted to keep them but now is torn now because her husband really loved them but that's a ton of money for a widowed person who might have kids...IDK what is really going on but her reaction is really strange for someone who was just told their item was worth $100k...

[@bebzon8941]

@@tannerpace3703 That would be a stupid idea. People might wanna rob you.

[@phantom3969]

@@tannerpace3703 no one follows home ppl with 100k cars, cause they live in good neighborhoods with even better security... by your logic, every criminal would only go after billionaires only...

[@Tahllia]

I got the impression that she was thinking back on all the times she bullied her husband while he was live about his stupid hobby, and now he's dead and she can no longer apologize

[@MTGFoil]

I am glad my GF don't believe I spend 20k a year on MTG....

[@3starperfectdeer233]

I hope you don't. Because if you do, your either broke AF or you have more money than you know what to do with. I hope your somewhat generous to others with that kind of cash

[@mikeO31082]

Used to play MTG back in the day. From around 4th Edition to Mirage or Tempsest. Knew people who had been collecting since the first set and had complete sets of everything. Crazy how much these cards are worth now. Also crazy how much the game has changed. Tried getting back into it and it's just not the same IMO.

[@3starperfectdeer233]

I just got into it last week and I'm enjoying it. Reminds me of collecting Yu gi oh as a kid.

[@BradGryphonn]

In the mid-nineties I was assisting a newsagency clean out their storeroom. We threw away 20 boxes of unopened packs of these early cards. I had no idea what they'd be worth in the future. I kept the Spiderman cards and others they were tossing. I made a little money from them about 5 years later. But I wish I'd hung onto the lot. My grandchildren would have a nest egg.

[@vitorzelao]

i can only imagine how many times she told her husband to sell that pile of crap.

[@HlewagastizHoltijaz]

Or toss it in the bin.

[@myrkurefni2398]

@@HlewagastizHoltijaz Or burn it it.

[@jeff330]

It is just some cardboard. Humans have weird value structures sometimes.

[@thebatman6201]

"Opened boosters until he completed his collection." Ummm... you know I don't believe he told her the truth

[@choreomaniac]

I started playing right after this, when the revised just came out. Lots of people around me had moxen and a few had lotuses. Even then, a black lotus was worth about $2-300. I sold my complete revised set that I assembled myself in 1994-1995 for $12-1300 in about 2012. All the dual lands. All mint. I wonder how much they would be worth today?

[@thoman296]

I love the fact that these cards see no play outside of vintage

[@lastofusclips5291]

don't forget, ancestral recall can win the game if your opponent has less than 3 cars in their library

[@NikachuMTG]

A double edged win condition.

[@DakonBlackblade2]

Ancestral recall confirmed for best enhancement to a Vintage Dimir Rogues deck.

[@AzgarthX]

*opponent flashes out laboratory maniac*

[@michealray4895]

Helm of obedience

[@Polmax2312]

Also black vise + ancestral the opponent closed me many games. In my stasis deck i do ancestral as an offensive more often.

[@Phentari]

At the peak of my collection, I had a binder page of black lotuses--one alpha, two beta, and six unlimiteds. Total, I had thirteen over the course of my Magic collecting days. I sold my collection back in 1996. Nowadays, I try REALLY had to avoid doing the math on what that collection would be worth had I kept it...

[@wernerbeinhart2320]

You probably could habe invested the money you would've made off it over 10 years and then retired as a millionaire

[@ordinaryk]

Same here. I had all the Power Nine and STACKS of cards from Legends and earlier. I could have already retired if I hadn't sold the collection in the late 90s.

[@jordan9503]

your looking at about 5 mil depending on grade

[@brutismaximus1]

Don't feel bad. My dumbass was collecting Mutant Turtle cards.

[@jonathenfowler7821]

About 9 months ago my mother called and said they were cleaning out their garage. She asked if I wanted any of my old baseball and basketball cards or if she should just pitch them out. Rewind back to 99' when I went to college. My parents cleaned out my room and turned it into an office. My parents said they threw out all of this stuff back then and my rage was felt 20+ years ago. Now back to the present. I asked her how much stuff was there. She told me to bring my SUV. Skip the over printed sports cards... i had 7 binders and several 1000 count boxes with alpha through urza's legacy. When I opened the first binder my jaw dropped. I told my mom, I'm gonna buy you a car. I loaded it up and took just some of it into my LGS. The guy's working told me to take it home right now and buy a safe or a safe deposit box. When I asked them why, I'd not followed the market since college. To say the very least. My jaw dropped when they showed me the price. I had deck boxes with unsleeved dual lands, lotus, most of the 9. Duplicates of loads of Reeserve List cards. I'm currently waiting for Tournaments to go back into full swing so I can show off the booklets I have printed up showcasing the collection. Insurance estimate was $745,000.00

[@xswishaxwardx]

Seeing that Black Lotus almost crippled me, the value in that first alone.

[@rytramprophet843]

that's how much it was then. Now it is much more. The values are only continuing to skyrocket.

[@GregHMacLean]

Yep, just waiting for one of those binder rings to suplex the power 9. Also, shows like this make me nervous. Why is she the one getting her husband's treasured prized possessions appraised? Where is he? Is he ok with this? Does he even know? Are those cards getting back home to him?

[@Retroloft556]

He has clearly been killed after a vicious I told you so moment.

[@xzeroxman]

He's passed away based off the conversation

[@dakkenblah1450]

@@xzeroxman Or she's about to divorce his ass and wants to know if she should make him sell them and split the money with her as part of the settlement

[@CaptainTittus]

@@dakkenblah1450 if you want to have a emergency phone call with death that would be that way to make it happen

[@spol]

@@dakkenblah1450 That's why you need to mysteriously disappear your collection

[@Agitabodie]

My stomach actually hurt when she said she had no clue, let alone the insane binder/packaging of the cards. That she was allowed anywhere near these cards pains me.

[@heyhoe168]

Female privilege to do things she never should be allowed to.

[@sparda9060]

She probly opened up the fking safe that the binder was in while husband is at work. lol

[@Badartist888]

@@sparda9060 It's clear going by the way she speaks that he is dead and she is getting his prised collection (stored how he kept it) valued. She is being really fucking respectful.

[@sparda9060]

@@Badartist888 if her husband was dead she wouldve mentioned it like most people that go on this show to get price on their items Otherwise hes still alive.

[@pkennedy0219]

Try and look for a meaningful existence, you are just sad.

[@PrimetimeD]

Most of those Power 9 are in better condition than the ones I saw back in the 90s. Just...wow...

[@GodWorksOut]

She doesn’t give a fuck about those cards or their backstory. She wants that money

[@averagememe4873]

I wish I was born 10 years earlier so I would’ve had a chance to get some alpha and beta cards

[@Sweetguy1821]

I remeber as a kid , our local card store had a beta black lotus for sale for 700$. I though no way any one would pay that for a card. Boy was I wrong.

[@TraceyAllen]

I started playing in 1996 with friends. My girlfriend at the time seen us and pulled out her cards that she had been given. They were a complete set of alphas and betas. They were very played with but I hope she kept them. I don’t know where they went when we broke up.

[@mowerds33]

The binder makes me so nervous.

[@johnli9041]

What’s a good binder? I’m using the same 3 binder ....

[@kurtilein3]

I used binders like that for years without ever damaging a card with a binder ding. But fingernail marks and some edge and corner wear does happen. Now i use ringless side-loading binders and all my cards are double sleeved in the best sleeves available. KMC from Japan. And people still look at me like i am from mars when i explain that the Library of Alexandria is in such a perfect condition that the global population is probarbly around 50 or less. People think im crazy for not having it in a plastic case, keeping it floating around raw in my binder, not even considering getting it graded.

[@mattc3581]

Won a PTQ back in the day and got 6 booster boxes of Urza's saga out of it, dread to think how much that would be worth now. Me and friends just opened them and played with them all. Think I gave my brother all the many singles I owned some years later, many Gaea's Cradles and everything else that was in there :)

[@Wardice_Warlord]

The vallue then was making someone else happy. That too is priceless. Hind sight sucks though.... but just think about it was you in that moment and the knowlage you had then

[@spotfinder11]

The real question is: Does the husband know that she's selling his cards?

[@arthurmusson4981]

lol

[@wesleytakahashi5334]

She doesn't know what they are worth.

[@AB-dd4jz]

I'm not a fan of cards but if my girl did that with my old video games collection and console without my knowledge, I would leave her right away, that's something I cannot forgive because the trust between us would be broken.

[@maxpayne4129]

@@AB-dd4jz facts

[@mikepalmer2219]

My thoughts exactly.

[@DeineKreativeSeite]

saddest part is the “kids send to collage” just move to a first world country with free education

[@Rednamrahc004]

Who gets free college?

[@piotrskutecki528]

Germany Norway Poland Austria Greek France and many other european countries

[@mvargasmoran]

@@piotrskutecki528 but is it actually free?

[@chaosinfernoid9008]

@@mvargasmoran German guy here living in germany, it totally is. Europe in generell has the best education-system (probably Sweden and North have the best ones) in the world. Literally the Country pays everything, but we pay really high taxes for that. It's shocking you guys never even realise the state of things outside your countrys. Though it's difficult to keep up sometimes.

[@norwegianblue2017]

@@chaosinfernoid9008 The difference is that only a limited number of people can get in for the free college. Not like what the kids in the US think, where EVERYBODY gets "free" college.

[@yhnchris63]

Her "does not understand" face is great 😄

[@DutchDread]

I've never even played magic the gathering and I still recognized that black lotus.

[@DudeManGuyBro]

Her look of disbelief at 5:20 is priceless hahaha

[@Ohmophobe]

"And that Ruby probably powered out a ton of Shivan Dragons back in its day." - John

[@nahnanananananana2914]

Her expression is “I was literally threatening to throw these away every fight the past 2 decades.”

[@jvon3885]

My cousin has 2 complete book shelves of magic cards and his collection dates back to the olden days.

[@zeorox4490]

His beard is so impressive that I couldn't follow his explanation.

[@84decoy84]

I bet they had a fight about him collecting cards. He told her to take the binder to the roadshow and see for herself. Now she has to do something every woman hates, to tell her husband that she was wrong.

[@Last_Resort991]

Nah,he is probably dead.

[@erisdiscordia5429]

@@Last_Resort991 Nah, see, the smart chick just sells them on the way home, tells the hubby/wife/group of overactive sex partners that the people at ANTIQUES roadshow said they were just cardboard and offered 200 bucks for the set. Explain I spent that on a new haircut, and now here we are, another Tuesday. Let's smoke some weed. "Ooh well maybe you should have just told me their worth, instead of sending me on an adventure. Seriously, where's the weed?"

[@wcmatthysen]

If he was alive there would be no fucking way in hell he'd let her just go to a roadshow with that binder and risk damaging those cards. He probably passed away or she was trying to sell those cards without his knowledge.

[@AwakenedAvocado]

They're always wrong

[@roninryatt4118]

She’s got the look on her face like I feel stupid that I never took in interest to my husbands hobbies.

[@charlie2b-d335]

That lady still is processing the information in 56k fax modem mode

[@tonystromboli6471]

She looks both excited and angry.

[@codygottman2642]

She is so pissed he never sold them to pay off the house!

[@muggs105]

remember this guy that when planar chaos was the newest set, he was selling alpha booster packs for a 100 dollars

[@davidboudreau4054]

I remember that me and my computer nerd friends played MTG when it first came out. Going to a "tournament" was so frustrating because everyone would just argue about what the heck the rules and the cards actually were meant to do. At that time, it was so new and so ambiguous. I found it to be very frustrating, so I didn't invest much time into it. If only I had scooped up and saved all those cards from that time. I don't think I ever had any of the beta deck cards, but I am sure I had plenty of the ones that were printed just after that. But like buying Bitcoin at 1 penny, who knew you could make such a profit from such a low-cost investment at the time.

[@TheMattmatic]

I love that he says they ”just printed and printed and printed” Unlimited Edition. Ah yes, people are just throwing away those unlimited duals... White bordered crap!

[@TheMattmatic]

6:10 has to become an emote! Perfect for when someone makes a suspicious play lol

[@jamalsachleben3026]

@@TheMattmatic Nikachu even provided the perfect name for it! "SyntaxError"

[@Romans1-8]

*TILT*

[@ordinaryk]

When I went to the Mirage prerelease in 1996, the tournament organizers had stacks of mint Unlimited basic lands for the sealed deck tournament. That image sticks in my mind to this day.

[@TubetakerBHV]

Her expression is simply explained: For 99% of people its simply absolutly unbelievable that anyone would pay 100$ for a piece of a kids game. Let alone 100.000$ or more.

[@Blue_Azure101]

It’s called being poorly educated, pooor and having no taste. They would do the same with a piece of Ming pottery or a piece of Celadon pottery.

[@kiillabytez]

@@Blue_Azure101 Actually, it's called "Not buying into the hype that some store owner somewhere got the idea of hoarding every copy of his favorite card and then spreading the rumor that they were extremely hard to find, and swindled somebody into paying an outlandish price for them, and eventually word spread around" and now, here we are with $100,000 cards whose actual value is .05 cents a piece. You claim they have no taste, yet you apparently have no sense.

[@Blue_Azure101]

@@kiillabytez wow triggered much?

[@Asageun]

​@@kiillabytezhave u heard of fort Knox and gold. Or banks.

[@chaoticpoodle3582]

5:57 Thats the face my friends give me when I show them a shiny piece of cardboard that goes with my other pieces of cardboard 😂

[@tybarker5038]

My dad is the same way lol. I’m like “well, people have passions. In art, nostalgia, and so on. Some things are rare, especially in flawless condition. These people also may have lots of money so… it’s a formula for really expensive cards”. He still can’t make sense of it 🤣 he invests in Iraqi and Vietnam currency that only goes down but is confident that one day, he’ll be rich, along with every single Vietnamese and Iraqi person on the planet.😂😂😂

[@huh4484]

Those kids better start working if they want to go to college aint NOBODY selling my cards

[@Its1754_]

imagine coming home to your wife that sold your full collection for 200$ and say i got dinner money with your stupid cards

[@darkflmmstr]

@@Its1754_ she'd be divorced the next day, fuck outta here sellin my shit without my permission, guess I'll just have to sell her car to a scrap yard

[@geinerelizondo2019]

Never have kids, you're not father material!

[@huh4484]

@@geinerelizondo2019 way ahead of you i hate kids

[@darkflmmstr]

@@huh4484 eugenics at its finest

[@Adeus555]

Yo man, there is no way in hell the husband knows or allowed this woman to even touch that binder let alone take it to an appraising auction! I told how much my cards are worth from the 90's to my wife and she literally got on my ass to sell them to buy a house. I was close to leaving her lmao... So i taught her how to play and now shes hooked. Also.. If it came between college and selling my magic cards for my kids... my kids are going to be tradesmen...

[@napoleonbonerfarte6739]

Hope you can make it to 80 years old and sit with a smile on your face as they're worth a mil a piece then shred it in front of your wife and kids

[@cypressbill8066]

tradesmen will probably pay better anyways

[@spol]

People like you are the reason the cards are worth so much lol That's awesome

[@nathanwarzecha2943]

Based on how she says "my husband used to play", I'm guessing that he died. He's not alive, because he wouldn't allow her to carry that binder, and they didn't divorce, because there's no way in hell she gets that binder in the split.

[@Adeus555]

@@nathanwarzecha2943 Hmm, you know what I would consider that possibility.

[@th3_crappi3_kill3r]

Bro you are spot on lmao, this lady is exactly thinking that.

[@TheGoodContent37]

Maybe she is simply remembering times when she talked shit about the cards or remembering times when her husband told her something about the cards or maybe a time when the family had an emergency and needed money and she thought the husband was hiding the money or value of the cards.

[@jorgenorberto293]

My instant reaction : WTF are those cards doing in THAT BINDER??? AND UNSLEEVED. OMFG!!

[@coolColombianguy]

I don't tell my wife the cost of cards. She made that same face when I told her how much my foil Jace, TMS cost when I opened the booster pack and saw my eyes tear up! She didn't know if to buy more or walk away!

[@jonconner6107]

The power 9 should really be the power 10 and Sol Ring should be included... That's why I ALWAYS play with 5 of em in my my deck at all times.....

[@tigerplaystemple1961]

She is probably thinking " how many times did i tell him to throw these out."

[@talesmigliorini5541]

Maybe the guy explaining everything is actually the husbund talking in third person 🤯

[@magiccardmaster9921]

Her face is the best part why do people judge law based on thier size you got a mansion worth of money there and she thought they were worthless

[@whiskcat3047]

On the way back to her car, the lady tripped and the binder fell in a muddy puddle of water.

[@Unaidedfoot]

The algorithm brought me here because of warhammer and it’s pretty neat seeing this hobby and fandom. Another thing that I liked about this video is that her husband got plenty of great times out of this collection and they’ll surely sell it to someone else who will also. Now it’s time to look into this magic thing and see if the games for me. I mean if folks are willing to purchase cards at such a crazy price the game must be a hoot. 🇨🇦

[@NikachuMTG]

Thanks for letting me know you play Warhammer! Sometimes I never know where new viewers are coming from 😂

[@CustodialDaniel]

Love this kind of video with you! The more Nikachu the better 😂

[@ChescoYT]

*She's thinking of all the things she can buy with the money. Cause she doesn't give a shit about the cards.*

[@sdeznutz]

Now imagine taking the binder back home and waiting another ten years or so

[@CapAnson12345]

I started collecting with 4th edition.. so I had a complete 4th.. most of 5th before I quit.. a few Alpha/Beta/Unlimited/Revised but nothing special. At that time I was like "Should I get serious about this and really start collecting all of it?" My prize card was a Revised Serra Angel signed by the artist. But decided against it and sold what I had for a couple hundred bucks and went back to baseball cards. Part of the reason was at the time the Black Lotus was about $250-$300 and I thought "Well this is just a fad.. and NO WAY those prices are going to hold as the years go by". Silly me. Still waiting for that bubble to pop.

[@GunplaShock]

Thank God my wife plays and understand the value of magic.

[@HaienTwitch]

Does not compute and the syntax error comment KILLED me. I AM DEAD hahaha

[@Redstoner34526]

my dad used to have tons of magic cards back in 1993 - 97 and he ended up selling them all but all of his cards nowadays would have been worth 100s of thousands of dollars, he even had a alpha black lotus

[@aka_rook]

I love how in her head, she's already spent his money.