I Bought 8 Pounds of Magic Cards from a Goodwill Auction
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- Yes, apparently Goodwill sells Magic: the Gathering cards by the pound!
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Quest for renewal in the myr deck and journey to nowhere in the aura deck
missed a second elixer of immortality 28:05
I might've seen a diregraf in the zombies deck, if that's still worth a few bucks
Seth, did you end up sending me my cards from the sealed collector booster boxes opened on stream?
Reminds me of the days when i moved out (had paused mtg back then) and later got told by my dad that he sold all my cards on ebay for a apple and an egg
Its sad when your biggest hit is a yugioh card in a magic collection
Delinquent duo is more or less a better version of Grief. Glad it's in yugioh and not mtg 😅
@@masterthnag105there are mtg cards that do exactly what delinquent duo does but they are 3 mana and sorcery speed and just not good
@@masterthnag105 More like a 0 mana Hymn / Mind Rot hybrid. Confiscation is the one analogous to Grief / Thoughtseize
@@ellatgrasso2096 to represent delinquent duo the same in mtg as it is in YGO it would cost 1 mana and you'd lose 2 or 3 life and possible a 3rd card would be lost because YGO you get 5 cards not 7. Sure the 3 mv cards that cause 2 discards aren't great... because they are 3 MV. Put them at 1 and they are broken.
@@bladdnun3016 I assume 1 mana because YGO generally has no cost to its spells and this is a card that could be played on turn 1 were it legal.
I worked for Goodwill e-commerce and for the most part there's usually one person who does the cards that actually knows what they are worth and how to list them. When I was there I was responsible for any and all MTG stuff because I knew exactly how to list it and what cards to show in the main pictures to draw people to the auction. The hopes of there being like a hidden really valuable card amongst the big bulk is wishful thinking at best.
Goodwill knows what they're doing lol
I once saw online a youtuber who bought sealed alpha boosters (and spent a LOT of money in the process) and he found a brandnew black lotus. So, that was a return on investment there... in fact, all this "blind" buys are much like playing in a lottery, and I don't know which is worse.
Yeah they've stopped allowing themselves to be taken. They're still going to TAKE but not be taken lol
@@emorsi That's not investing, that's gambling.
@@SpitefulAZ Yeah, for sure... you know what I am regretting the most? Not buying Bitcoins when it was 1 Bitcoin for 1$.
my theory on the common card being sleeved would be that some people, myself included, collect cards to play with them and have fun, not for what they are worth.
You don't play with cards in hard cases. They're for display. Or it's a very high value card that not's currently in a deck. That's why the hard casing choices are so baffling.
RIP Seth. Buying a box full of basics, a box full of sleeves and some precons and budget decks is rough
I spent half of what he did for a revised Savannah last Friday… I think I saw about 150-200$ in CK buy list value.
@@drokhalis3338 a guy I worked with sold me his collection for $300. He was leaving the state and didn't want to take it with him. I knew he played back in early 2000's and it was about 2000 cards. Anyway so I didn't open the collection for about a year or two. Mostly because life and I wasn't playing much. His collection was worth about $1500+. Definitely more in todays value but at the time, i think 2015, it was about $1500. I've also never seen someone with so many lightning bolts. Literally like 15 of them for no apparent reason. I miss that guy. Dude walked 6 or 7 miles to and from work every single day in his 50's.
i guess its my fault for scrolling down to the comments but damn, spoilers.
Could have been way worse
that wasn't 8 lbs of cards. that was 8lbs of weight. 8lbs of straight cards only; is about 8000 cards. that is not 8000 cards. not even a 1000.
“With pounds of cards we need to organize” and proceeds to trash it immediately 😂
You should hold onto the decks from lots like this and when there's enough of them, run a "random buy deck" tournament to see what jank can come out on top: Earthquake Elves? Poison Myr? The jankiest Exalted deck of all time? Only one way to find out!
Actually playing the deck is a hilarious idea.
OMG I would love to see this
Playing with decks? LOL
My roommate spent 200 bucks on a lot of 25000 cards (which we only now finished sorting, after it arrived in october!). I joked about putting it all in a pile and running some kind of massive cube draft to con other people to help us sort it and also have some fun gaming on top of it
Meme or Dream to the extreme@@MTGGoldfishUnboxings
I bought a huge box of 'over 10,000 cards' from a thrift shop once, cost me like 350USD, virtually half of it was rares, dozens above 10USD each, hundreds above 3, ended up with about 14k usd in value with the best card only being like 35USD, had a few misprints and some world championship decks in there too, really good stuff, they were all just dumped in a huge cardboard box, funny thing is the entire top half was uncommons and commons almost exclusively so by the time I started pulling out all the rares which were the entire bottom - I thought I got destroyed.
Wish I had this whole thing filmed.
I was so lucky that I thought I must be a genius at buying those, I bought another for like 100USD with only 4000 cards, every each and single one of them was a basic land, lol
Really fun to watch video Seth!
Sounds like an awesome buy!
The 1 percent gambler. Holy cow
Were any of those basic lands full art zendikars or alpha lands at least? That might have made it worth it
@@thejustlawofshamash Not remotely, there were like 4 snow covered basics as the only basics with value, that was before Kaldheim so I think they had better value but I never managed to get rid of those regardless, I donated all of them to the local LGS, you win some you lose some, both lots were only showing facedown cards in the pictures, which obviously... can lead to 2 very different outcomes :)
I bought a huge box at my thrift store as well - it was full of 100 sealed alpha sets - it's too bad I didn't film it either. But now I am on my private island enjoying everything........
Fun fact: Journey to Nowhere is worth about $2 because of pauper!
Ohh, good call! I'll have to pull them out, I was thinking they were bulk.
For a long while it was the only 2 mana O-Ring effect, too. I remember paying even more for one years ago when building an enchantress EDH.
@@thecrazycapn I remember playing them back in my Scars block PTQ
@@MTGGoldfishUnboxingsshould play the earthquake elves 😂
@@MTGGoldfishUnboxingsI love Dawnglare when I'm sorting cards.
I agree that video is better with wrap-up. Not only for the overview of how you did,, but what you were surprised to see had value, what you thought had value but did not, etc. Who knew you'd get like $30-$40 of whispersilk cloak
Yeah, those Whispersilk Cloaks really carried, without those this one would have been a disaster.
Why 30-40$? Whispersilk Cloak is like 80 cents average price on cardmarket, are US prices that much higher?
@@behemoth9543 It's the specific printing of Whispersilk Cloak; that's the Darksteel printing.
Note to self, before I sell my collection I need to put a bunch of random cards into hard cases
The Green Yugioh Card "Delinquent Duo" is around 25-50$ depending on the printing. If you look on the bottom right under the art there's a code that's basically the set/printing its from if you want to compare exactly.
It's hilarious that the most expensive card from a pile of magic cards in the first half of the video (haven't watch the rest) is a Yu-Gi-Oh card
It’s pronounced “Delirium Duel”
That poison Myr deck was 100% pure nostalgia, Mirrodin Besieged block was awesome!
i love how hilariously ironic it is that duo, as a card from a different game entirely, is by far the most valuable card in a box of magic cards.
I bought perhaps 5 lbs of cards from a storage unit auction in Georgia. Inside was bulk from revised to Mirrodin. Quite a bit of mirage and stronghold. I found a mox diamond, sliver queen, Volrath’s stronghold, winter BB Mishra’s factory, spring BB Factory, a playset of the following: force of will, mystical tutor, worldly tutor, vampiric tutor, and all the ice age pain lands. There were a bunch of other wild cards like prerelease promos from Urza’s block, tempest, and invasion. TONS of unglued basic lands, and foil basic lands from 7th edition, invasion, onslaught, mirrodin, odyssey, and mecadian masques. Such a great find as most of the cards are older than I am. There are crazy collections in the most wild of places if you look.
Wow, that's the dream! Congrats!
How much did ya pay?
@@drugsdelaney2907 20 dabloons😎. Most storage auctions sell for under $100 with the stipulation that you have to clean out the unit. No one else bid on this particular unit and I just shouted out $20 because I like magic and recognized the box as nerd stuff because an Inquest magazine was visible from the door
@@MTGGoldfishUnboxingsabout 12 years ago I bought 3 plain cardboard long boxes from a yard sale for 8 dollars each. The most notable cards in it were 2 underground seas, 2 bayous, 2 taigas, 1 volcanic island, mana crypt, demonic tutor, sol ring, sylvan library, blood moon, force of will, phryexian dreadnought, worldly tutor, vampiric tutor, enlightened tutor, intuition, city of traitors, survival of the fittest, volraths stronghold and 2 sliver queens.
so it IS possible
I will for sure go and put some crazy commons in hardcase right now for someone to find in the distant future.
My theory on the fluffy bunnies is that it’s the only non-legally playable card in the collection and it didn’t have any other home
i think they where just a fan of Monty Python and the Holy Grail there's a whole joke with a fluffy bunny taking out multiple knights so funny and is the first thing i thought of when i saw that card i think i would have put it in a hard sleeve too
Goodwill def knows what they are doing. They used to not know a few years ago. Now they def know. Haven't seen a goodwill lot actually provide value in a very long time.
There's something really neat about watching Seth get excited for paper Magic cards as opposed to playing digitally. This channel was a good find!
@30:50
1. You use Wellwisher to gain more life than the rest of your kitchen table.
2. You get upwelling into play so mana can be floated across turns.
3. You use Priest and Archdruid to float a ton of mana.
4. Then you use earthquake to burn the rest of the table out in one shot.
This is definitely an elf deck made for group play games, it's filled with long-term value generation that works better at big tables with hardly any removal.
And no, the list didn't lie, it has things crossed off. The list is what the person was working towards, and they crossed off cards as they got them. The un-crossed cards were things they hadn't gotten yet.
Here's my thought on When Fluffy Bunnies Attack. Unhinged came out in 2004, at a time when you could easily completely miss a set like that. If you didn't go to the prerelease, you could miss out. Particularly if you weren't old enough or aware of the limited ways to get cards online at the time. I can imagine that being the only card a kid had ever owned where something came out of the image box (that was a big deal when Planeswalkers came out 3 years later). Cards like that were more special back then.
Sorry Seth! I knew when Goodwill employees started referencing my channel by name in the auction listings that random buys were kind of over. It was tons of fun while it lasted!
You should do earthquake elves against the odds
Who puts Earthquake in Elves?!?!?
@@MTGGoldfishUnboxings you will, on the next episode of against the odds
@@MTGGoldfishUnboxings it says "players" too! They just wanted to fireball to the face 😅
When I was a kid and a casual collector i would've TOTALLY hard cased When Fluffy Bunnies Attack. I would've never seen anything like that before. Back when I couldn't buy cards (because I was a grade school kid) and could only get cards through trades with friends or budget random packs saved from my crap allowance - something that looked this unique would've been a standout. It's the appeal of SCARCITY. Wanting cards but having no way to get them. This goes doubly because from a collector mindset it's so different. I LOVED Unhinged when it released because I only saw it in card magazines and it was basically unattainable to me. To this day I don't own a single paper copy from that set. But now that I can afford to buy unopened boxes of original Unhinged the appeal of having cards isn't the same since I can just pull out my credit card. When I bought my first 4-set of Rising Waters as a kid you have no idea how insanely powerful I felt after playing with singles and jank for YEARS.
Yay, love watching these things - and apprteciate the wrap-up segment, always a nice addition. Nice to see ygo representing as well - that particular card's value is mainly because it's been banned for nearly 20 years and has only seen a couple of high-rarity reprints in nostalgia products since that time.
Interesting, I know almost nothing about Yughioh, but I learned that looking up prices is actually super hard because apparently there are a ton of versions of cards that pretty much all look the same. I thought Magic was bad with versions, but Yugioh might be even more confusing.
@@MTGGoldfish haha, in some ways it's quite simple - usually only one artwork, foil/finish are determined by rarity - but once popular cards start getting reprints at new and exciting rarities, the different versions really are a pain to navigate.
I recently got a box of the fantastic Rarity Collection, but trying to list them was an Experience. Did I pull an Ultimate or Collector's Rare? I have literally never seen either of those things before, and the only difference is the foil finish, so all the pictures are identical >.
Seth you most honour the earthquake - elves deck an play it in an against the odds video. It will be hilarious if you end up killing somebody with a huge earthquake
I like this kind of video. Also, I appreciate the wrap-up in the end. You could do like a short listing with the most interesting things, if it's not too much work.
Still, it is fun to see people's collections, even though the value might not always be there, the thrill of seeing what's in it help get you through it all.
So glad you took one for the team, I've been wondering for a while what these were all about
"we have to be organised"
Knocks over and mixes up the piles one box in
Love this man - hope you can do more of this in the future. One of my favorite things to do is sort through collections for stuff. You never know what you're going to find. My friend works for a company that picks up old, unwanted stuff and sells it, and he gave me a huge box of Magic cards. 99.9% of it was garbage, but there were actually a bunch of good Pauper staples (not worth much, but good to have), and a few good lands; it was a lot of fun to go through. I don't know - I just love sorting through all of it and I like watching others do the same. Even though you lost money on the buy, it was still cool to see you hit some of those bigger cards like the fetch land.
This collection really told a story! I appreciate that you took the time to read the notes on the envelope 😄
I have to say, watching you open collection that used to be owned by other people is a lot more fun than watching you open packs or boxes directly from the store. There's much more of a human element there, you get to see the story of some player and its intriguing.
I recently discovered Goodwill auctions as well and tried to buy a collection lot that I peaked a Zendikar Masterpiece land in, but it's crazy how expensive lots go for to the point where based on the observable value people were paying anywhere from x3 to x50 the open value of the cards - in the hopes they'll strike gold. Too rich for my blood. I already hate myself when I gamble on packs; can't justify spending $100.00 on a 4lb lot with mostly bulk on the table. lol
Makes me tempted to list all my Mox diamonds, alpha/beta/RL in a lot get whatever for it and then keep the power 9 and duals as my parting gift. 😂
Thanks for doing the wrap up at the end!
This video is a little bittersweet. My collection that I have sitting in my closet also includes random rares, fat pack boxes of lands ect. Makes me wonder if they'll also end up in goodwill when they are disposed of.
100% should do more of these, was very cool and fun to watch for sure!
...well i didnt see the channel and this video randomly appeared so i guess i got another channel to sub to and watch the other videos but do hope to see more and more videos for sure!
That list was 100% cards that the person was looking for to add to the deck.
While that was certainly a strange elf deck, I think the logic behind the Earthquakes in it is that it hits players, is an X cost spell, and pairs with the enchantment that prevents mana from emptying from mana pools. I would go 100 different routes before I included that combo of cards in an elf deck but I can't think of another logical reason to include the earthquakes.
I just wanted to say thank you so much for letting me know about Card Conduit. I’ve been wanting to sell stuff and this is literal perfection.
Yeah, they are super easy to use! I'm a big fan.
I gotta say not hitting on a bulk buy video is very cool to see. So many of the videos feel too good to be true. Big props for that. The hunt for gold is always fun to see.
Thank you for this. It's nice to see some of these 'not greats ones' sometimes. It keeps the overall stakes higher for all the videos as opposed to if you were to only upload bangers.
I could absolutely see the cased "when fluffy bunnies attack" is filled with sentimental value, maybe the person who got them into the game loved the card or a close friend and that person passed/drifted away in life. Or they lost a bet and had to spend money getting that card and keeping it on them at all times protected at any cost XD
This looks surprisingly like my collection that was stolen by my room mate last year...
Did you live in Henry County, Ohio?
I don't know if you're joking but I had a very nice collection stolen from my car a couple years ago and I've always wondered what happened to it and if I'd see it sold online someday.
@@releasethedogs no, but I don't know where that room mate ended up, it also was quite small compared to what I lost. Anyway the hard sleeves and lack of old school cards changed my mind more than anything else.
@@patriciaboggs8882 I wasn't joking completely, I did have a collection stolen that was similar in some products and deck boxes, but the value wasn't there from my older stuff. The same room mate stole $10,000 in yugioh cards and 3,000,000 in Pokemon cards. It broke me because the person was my room mate for years, disappeared one day while I was at work and took all my cards. Several teal binders full of first edition foil pokemon cards and promo, purple binders filled with the same in yugioh, and three boxes of magic stuff. It took me months to be able to even face my dad about it(fhe helped me collect all the pokemon cards), and I still wake up often extremely depressed at how much it makes me a failure of a person. I filed a police report that went nowhere, I wasn't insured because I didn't know the value of the cards, they had been up there for years and I never planned on getting rid of the collection, as well I had become so engrossed in mtg and had a good life I barely even thought about them. Now I make and print my own cards, I still buy stuff now and then, but barely anything. These games were never about the money to me, but since I was betrayed like that its hard to not think about it whenever they come up.
the guys name is David Benjamin Stine. If anyone knows one feel free to reach out to me.
This is your periodic reminder that the border is the black part. The "old" part you are referring to, which encloses and separates the art and text boxes, is the _frame_
🤓
If you sign it, i'll buy that Fire Dragon for $15.
Sold. Send me an email (SaffronOlive@MTGGoldfish.com)
Ha, hope this happens!
Also, that Earthquake is totally a finisher card. Win while ahead, draw while behind.
As for the hardcase question: I'd say that they put the cards that they like very much in cases. Another option is: sometimes, if a person thinks a card might be worth something, they might put it in a case. Like, "Woah, this art is cool, I gotta put it in a case."
"When Fluffy Bunnies Attack" was probably gifted by someone special in their life.
When I was relatively new to the game (2000-2001ish) and before googling things was easy i found a single unglued card in a collection i inherited and i had no idea why it was silver bordered or what that meant so it sat at the front of my rares binder for a good long time. May be similar logic that this person had hard casing their card.
Enjoyed the wrap up. Also seems to end the video nicely too.
At least you get a video out of it! It is fun to just think about the person behind the collection
Natalie you've emerged as an important figure in this movement and are doing super important work. All while providing new and important perspectives. Thanks for all you do for animals!
"Is this elves splashing for fireball?" Elfball is one of the most ancient MTG archetypes c'mon my dude.
Just to let you know Goodwill definitely did hire people to strictly do there auctions who have some knowledge in those areas, so alot of there bulk lots of cards are picked through
The editor note about Whispersilk Cloak is me every time I go to add it to a commander deck lmao
Excellent video! More of this content please.
I've been organizing my own cards recently, and ive gotta say theres no bigger happiness then finding a 50$ card double sleeved in the middle of a pile of random cards
It's the best feeling.
I always shoot for 50% when I buy random cards, so by my standards you did really well.
Super entertaining to see this person's thought process!
Would love to meet them and ask them about it.
Enjoyable watch and appreciate the wrap up :)
The Ragavan on the dartboard is hilarious
As a former collector who lost his collection due to misfortune, it’s nice to watch videos like these. I just got back into MTG after a while and I’m looking to start collecting for Commander again. You earned a subscription ❤
Love these box/collection opening videos Seth!
Ah man, back in inistrad block I had a pike delver deck with geist as the curve topper. So much fun
Fluffy Bunnies Attack probably felt special to them because of the way the art comes out of the frame, as well as it having a distinct art style. it's a pretty card.
'This box is so massive, it'll be easier once we get inside it.' 😂😂
I bought like 800 random cards in the mail once. The other day I going thru to take a card for a friend and I randomly pulled a card and it turns out a mint force of will. I was like Wow guess I probably made my money back right there. I did not even notice it when I first got it.
seeing the sleeved decks, it makes me wonder how doing a few games with random decks found in collections would go. Just grabbing whatever deck you find and giving it one last play
The Lotus Petal Nykthos Concordant Crossroads Elves lore on the envelope only to get Earthquake Elves is so fucking funny
I suspect the hardsleeve Fluffy Bunnies served as a placeholder to not lose their order when looking through chunks of their collection.
I have a Gaia's Liege in a hard case or top loader. It's worth next to nothing, but I bought it because it was the first single I bought as a kid (and later traded away and the as grown up list my collection). So it's a memory from childhood.
I'm going through my collection and looking for random cards to put into hardsleeves, that way if something happens to me and my loved ones sell my magic collection to you, you can be extra confused. I'm also going to take my box full of good stuff and mix each card into the bulk lands box without sleeves.
I actually made a Taunting Elf infeft deck in 60 card pauper. It did pretty well at my family this weekend. It's kind of funny to send the taunted under the bus to get the infect kill. Use Aspect of the Hydra and Wirewood Pride for pumps. Pretty good.
The online listings giveth, the online listing taketh.
Definitely more fun to watch than a lotto ticket being scratched though!
I love these openings of weird stuff! Love to see you spend money on that junk so we don't have to 😂
I imagine the Fluffy Bunnies was just a laugh card from a draft and the unicorn was probably just liked the art or wanted a deck with that color combo.
Also, I can see that earthquake being a one sided boardwipe with a lethal swing behind it. I wish there were lotus petals and a concordent crossroads
Yeah, the wrap up is a good idea indeed!
I was totally ready for Seth to read the note and have it say something widlly creepy like "Seth, or, should I, SaffronOlive? I knew you would find this note and the cards included. While you thought this was a harmless idea for a video, you have now entered into a game with 24 hours to live. The cards are clues that you must use to save your life and your freedom. The clock begins now."
fluffy bunny theory: if they didn't know what silverborder cards are and they only come into the possesion of one it might seem to them as the most rare card ever.
That first infect deck I believe was a pauper deck! I built a very similar pauper deck for like no money a few years ago and recognized it instantly.
Now we need to see against the odds: earthquake elves
Im betting the list was an 'upgrades wishlist'. Its something budget players sometimes do. They would have two decks built in theory on the same strats one budegt and one the budget version can "upgrade" into, bet they gave their colection to goodwill during the process because cards are quite expensive for someone who doesn't play often.
This theory also sheds light on the cards that were hardshelled, both the unset card and unicon are odities in the collection and are treated as such.
Lots of people tried the elves + fireball deck back in the day (I did one and I kind of loved it). Have to say Earthquake is an interesting choice.
This is too funny. I appreciate you sharing!
It’s Elfball. It was a pretty common deck back in the day. Tons of fun to play.
Gonna be honest Seth, the art in both hardcases is amazing!
I have a proxied Mulch on a Revised Forest that my buddy gave me when I was leaning to play. I have it sleeved and in a top loader because its an important card to me because of where it came from.
Checking out that RG Elf deck, I believe the idea is that Earthquake and Fireballs are finishers for the deck. Cause the majority of the Elves are mana producers, which get around the Mana Barbs tax on tapping lands for Mana. So, the gameplan is punish the opponents for using their lands early as we would focus on using more elves for mana ASAP and hope we stay just above whatever our opponents life total might be before a massive Fireball or Earthquake to close out the game.
Seems like a pretty decent Kitchen Table deck actually.
Oddly, not sure why they don't have a Hurricane or two in there as well.
28:52 that unicorn art goes so hard wtf
I bought a random collection like this and it was 4 of every uncommon and common from the late 90’s to early 2010’s and a few hidden gems. It’s what started my collection of getting every card ever
The nice thing about Seth is that even when he's losing, he's fun to watch. Case in point, I didn't think you lose at unboxing, but... I was wrong. ;) (but seriously, this was entertaining)
thanks for the wrap-up
Technically you lost money, but that alternate art siege rhino makes it all worth it.
would love to see another one of these!
99% of collections like this you see are being sold without the original owners authorization. I.e. family member, spouse or theif
Facts.
I think the hardcases make sense: Those are fun to look at cards
This explains why goodwill mtg auctions jumped tenfold in price while having the exact same value, thanks.
Ouch ! Thanks for the fun opening
When fluffy bunnies attack might’ve been his favorite art or something similar. I keep a Northern Paladin signed by the artist in my box double sleeved in a top loader because it’s my favorite card art (inspired by Bruce Campbell, which is funny now that Ash is a card) even though it’s not worth much even signed.
25:00 For that deck, Dragon Arch basically reads "2, Tap; Put any creature from your hand into play at instant speed" so i can see why they'd do it.