I tried to BUYOUT all the Evolving Wilds.. I still haven't given up yet!

I'd like to point out the flavour text of Tempest Lotus Petal: "Hard to imagine," mused Hanna, stroking the petal, "such a lovely flower inspiring such greed."

I am currently buying out all basic islands so nobody can ever play control again

"She loves me... she loves me not... she loves me... she loves me not......"

His goal was to rip up every copy in public and then own the only remaining 4 in existence. And then lose to Exodia.

He tryed to build a black lotus with all those lotus petals XD

"its heavy, its like a metal" Dude you literally just read the label that says its 22 karat gold lol

Lotus Pedals’ market price is almost $18.00 on TCGplayer so that wouldn’t be too bad of a haul today...

Chinese = purely complex pictograms Japanese = simple letter-like symbols mixed in with a few pictograms Korean = small circles fucking everywhere

6 Feb 1999...and still not curled. WotC once knew how to do it...

$5 then. $16 now. He sold at the wrong ass time.

As a type 1.5 extended player of this era, Wall of Roots makes perfect sense. It was a staple card back in the day.

I've bin playing magic for 16 years now, and i have to say with exact certainty... The eager anticipation you feel before looking through a big-ol' box of cards thats still a mystery to you; And the pure joy of actually finding those rare gems, buried in unplayable crap... Its like combining the joy of Christmas, the rush of gambling and the high of drugs into... well.... into a big-ol" box of friggin magic cards :)

Back in the late 90s I was in middle school, and in computer applications class we were all assigned to create a digital picture. I scanned a Lotus Petal and did absolutely nothing to it. Got 100% and the teacher hung it on the wall as one of her greatest assignments ever. I wish I could've been there when some student later told her it was a magic card submitted by some random Timmy.

lotus petal is now 10 bucks each

The old Deckmaster sleeve boxes! I remember buying those back in the day as my first sleeves. Still have them 15 plus years later.

Order was: Chinese 蓮花花瓣系列 Korean 연꽃 꽃잎 수집 Japanese 蓮の花びらコレクション Chinese signs are much more dense mostly based on sticks. Korean signs have a fair bit of separation and use many circles that look like Pokemon anons. Japanese has more simplistic signage that visually impacts the separation even further.

When you said he tried to corner the market, I thought you meant the whole 5K box was filled with Lotus Petals. He's only got a hundred or so in that collection -- please, that's not cornering the market, that's just having a few of a favorite card.

Rudy, while looking through an impressive collection, with many signed rares.. "Weird collection. Doesn't make much sense. Nostalgia!! No real value though. Not much this. Not much that." Classic, slick, sales talk. Classic."

Interesting this has popped up - 5 years ago. 2018 jumped to $10... 2022 jumped to $20... now a Mystery Card (reprint) however still made the jump to $25 this year.

12:27 "I don't recognize the art." 11:54

Unsleeves foil, throws it in a stack, then swirls all the cards around. I guess that's your triggering moment from this video but I can't believe people watch these videos and still send you their cards.

i always thought i was a creepy collector but then you see those people and realize tha youre in the bottom of the Pyramid

Legend has it, if you have 25 lotus petals in your hand, you can play them together as a black lotus.

I can't speak for any more recent trends, but back when Tempest was still current, the petals were pretty valued. As I recall it was a common(?) but traded at around 5 dollars or so. I can't imagine trying to corner the market on them, especially if it's been reprinted. Hoarding them in the late 90's makes more sense though.

Wow, I have a small bundle of Lotus Petals I've used as bookmarks in the past because I like the artwork.

What's the storm count, does anybody know? You don't see that many Lotus Petals without a Tendrils of Agony over the horizon.

Corner the market - that's a textbook definition of a pittance. If he tried to corner the market, the UPS guy would have needed a pallet jack to bring the card boxes into the store.

pls, stop throwing and harming the cards in such vile manner Rudy.

I'm assuming Lotus Petal was just his favorite card. Myself, as well as a few friends of mine did the same thing back in the day. We were on a team called "Team Legend" so, as lame as it was, we collected that awkward Stonehold rare called "Sword of the Chosen" due to it's association with Legends, and the fact that nobody would ever play it, so it was a rare we could trade for cheaply and easily. At one point, we ended up having over 200 of them. And for those old-schoolers out there, does anybody remember the deck called "Flagpole" that was first created and played by Andrew Pacifico? I believe he won the Junior Championship with it at one point. I'm assuming that's the reason for the signed Walls of Roots, as well as the playset of Tradewind Riders. The deck was really popular for a while back in that time frame, and was basically one of the first Type 2 four/five color control decks. It played things like those Gemstone Mines, Wall of Blossoms, Wall of Roots, Birds of Paradise, Spike Feeders, Firestorm, some counter magic, some burn, etc... and mainly relied on bounce control with Tradewind Rider. I only remember all of this because I had Pacifico sign almost my entire Flagpole deck, lol. He even drew little flag poles into the hands pictured on my Walls of Blossoms. It seems super mundane now, but when I was 14, I thought it was awesome!

Love watching you open old collections I never got into magic back then so its really cool.

Rudy selling his own collection to himself!

Rudy i cover myself in mayo in anticipation of your uploads, thanks for coming thru comrade.

Awesome video Rudy! I love these where we get to search through a random collection!!! Ohhh and Lotus Petal's each are listed on facetofacegames for 6-8$ Canadian, depending on condition of course!!

LOVE THESE type of vids , showing others peoples collections of all types of cards keep it up rudydudey!

I have huge stacks of stone rain and strip mine. All different sets and languages and re-prints. I do not really know why, and it makes no sense because both exist in crazy numbers. When i ordered something online on magiccardmarket and someone had stone rains for 2 cents per piece or some 80 cent strip mines i just added them all to my purchase. In reallife my trade binder started with 20 pages of stone rain. Now i think the alpha and beta stone rains and the antiquities and from the vault strip mines pay for it all. This was not a buyout, just fun, another guy did it with dark ritual. One time a guy i barely knew walked up to me and just gave me 40 stone rains.

How much for the gold and blue lifecounter? I'm interested.

"Hi Thanks for sending me all this stuff guys, Can you try to organize it a little more so i can sell it more easily?" (then Proceeds to throw around cards sent by a Fan)

When I see these vids with a bunch of 4th edition/Ice Age/Tempest era stuff the nostalgia hits me right in the feels.

9:41 the way you unsleeved that card and then proceed to throw other cards on top of it 10:56 triggered me

I know literally nothing about Magic and I love these videos.

The counter medallion made of gold “huh that’s interesting, feels heavy or something” *tosses it aside”

$400-$650 Canadian in Lotus Petal's from the Tempest set, this were Japanese, Korean and Chinese foreign Petals I believe. Looking at prices on eBay, there are individual signed Korean Lotus Petal's going for 25+ American! That is a lot of money.. moderately played players going for $23 American and up.

"Wait, it's all Lotus Petals?" *loads up* "Always has been"

10 land mono green stompy WAS a thing. Signed wall of roots makes sense.

My favorite art in mtg

Cool video Rudy. Thanks for sharing these weird collections with us

I think beside the Black Lotus, it was for the Lotus Petal - Kaladesh Inventions, I recall having those 3 type of cards alone in your deck can lead to a quick win (when combo/play) correctly with burnout mana decks also, but the Lotus Petal are like 5-7$ each and sign can go to upper 20$ sometimes when verify

After handling them, I assume most of your cards are listed as heavily played?

If he bought those petals 4 or more years ago, he's doubled his money. From 3 to 7 a piece.

That counter was made for the old Legends of the Five rings card game. I used one, and many players used them since they were simple to use. They go for about $10 on ebay.

You sir are a legend!!! And will be my next EDH commander. Cool video nostalgic as heck seeing those old cards

"that's interesting in itself!" Plop.

been watching a lot of MTG videos lately for literally no reason, i dont know a damn thing about it, but i really want to start collecting tho now.

I appreciate the boxes as well Rudy! Down here in a Aus, my brother and I got a blue and blue one for free when my local game store closed down.

just an update; tempest Lotus Petals sell for $28.00 each in NM condition now. that is a staggering amount of money in that stack (assuming you could move them all).

IDK about lotus petal, but... I used to buy up wastelands back in the late 90s wherever I went. I mostly picked through the uncommon bins at comic book stores and got them for 25 cents each. I made a dumb deck with 30 wasteland and then a bunch of random artifacts (stax with some stalking stones lol) just to troll on kids who paid $10-20 for each of their dual lands. I stopped playing MTG in college and med school, then came back to the game in 2013 when I found my box of mtg at my mom's house. I sold 100 wastelands to a dealer in Virginia for $8,000 and then paid off one of my school loans, haha. Basically all I'm trying to say is that back then a lot of stores had big cardboard boxes just sorted by rarity; a lot of the time commons were something like 10 cents and uncommons were 25 cents. So it was pretty easy to just buy a bunch of a certain card if you wanted to collect them for some crazy deck idea.

I prefer to use Lotus Bloom over the Petals because I imprint it onto a Prototype Portal, then you tap it for free and it puts the Lotus Bloom into play. Then you can do that every turn and with Unwinding Clock in Multiplayer, you ramp fast and hard, giggity.

Video starts at 6:03... and the title was a lie too, btw. "I don't know if he tried to corner the market, if he tried to invest in it... I honestly have no idea guys."(6:18).

Damn , id love to own a signed set of petals!

maaan I wish I still had my old cards from this era.. losing your collection 3 times really blows. Trying to get back into the game now and its just a mess.

Rudy I did it i did it i followed your advice and I bought out a card from a set with a lot of printings a card from ice age but we'll whatever it's called Ice Cauldron

I remember setting up my greatest combo deck out of so-called "useless" cards including Glacial Chasm. It all started with Storm Cauldron and my desire to find a use for it, not just a situational one-off use, but a center stage glorious STAR of the deck. Here's how it goes: Storm Cauldron, Fastbond, Glacial Chasm, any "do X damage" spell as the finisher. Storm Cauldron returns any tapped land to your hand, Fastbond lets you replay them for mana immediately at the cost of damage, Glacial Chasm reduces that damage to zero. *Infinite mana.* For extra fun, make the X damage card a Hurricane or Earthquake to bring ruin to an entire table's worth of players in a multiplayer game. This also brought one of my favorite "Did you even READ your card?" moments as I performed that combo and concluded "... and I cast hurricane with 10 billion mana, so everyone and everything takes 10 billion damage, except me who takes zero because of Glacial Chasm." One of the players thought he had a GOTCHA and replied "I FORK YOUR HURRICANE! SUCK IT, LOSER!!!" There was a moment of silence around the table as everyone stared at him silently. Clearly, he was the only one who did NOT understand the futility of what he had just done. "Okaaaaaay... now everybody takes *20 billion damage* except me. Because you know, Glacial Chasm? The card I just told you reduces all MY damage to zero? You just made everybody lose twice as hard, seriously man do you even understand how Fork works?!?"

Man, I love those tempest/urza cards from back when I started playing.

I wanna correct his pronunciation, but I cant tell if that is part of his mind games now...

What I've learned about trying to corner the market is that it ALWAYS costs much more than you think it will. Whatever your expectations are, quadruple it at the lowest and don't be surprised if it ends up being ten times higher than your expectations. I bought out a TON of Sylvan Advocates on MTGO a year and some change ago. First of all, I heavily underestimated the liquidity of the market for reselling them. More importantly, I also underestimated the sheer amount of volume that were sitting in player's collections, despite it being MTGO. My initial assumption was that a higher percentage of cards on MTGO are actively traded and played and hence tried to estimate supply through deck popularity in tournament play. I've never been so wrong. Point is, if you're going to try and corner the market on ANY card, be prepared to spend much more than you are comfortable with.

I love your videos man. When I visit my grandparents in Calahan I’m gonna stop by your shop.

I had a couple of those custom life counters, had a Nirvana smiley face made out of 22k gold leaf :)

personally i think those signed bolts are great, as they are signed by the late Christopher Rush

I know someone prolly said this already, but the foreign lotuses are: Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, in that order.

Every time Rudy struggles to brute force a card out of a sleeve from the bottom doing damage to the card, a Serra Angel gets her wings.

I have a forest version of that spin down life counter, love it!

What a hit with that Lotus Petals collection being in 2021

Hey Rudy have you ever considered giving discounts on singles to patreons? Maybe a percentage discount or something?

I got some old cards from around that era. Gonna have to check what I’m sitting on.

white weenie was fun with cataclysm. This guy was playing with illusions of granduer he was playing extended around urza it seems.

Rudy I suspect he just collected the card. Sometimes a particular card has meaning to a person. Mine is the original art prodigal sorcerer. It holds a fond memory of my early days playing magic and so I collect them. I've been known to spend hours in a shop getting every copy from the bulk bin and spending 5 or 10 bucks to buy them out. I have hundreds. Not as an investment but because I just want them all. There are shops I frequent that set them aside while sorting bulk and no longer charge me for them.

Chinese and Japanese can be pretty hard to differentiate if you aren't really familiar with the languages, especially because they use some of the same characters, but Korean is pretty easy. Korean is mainly circles and straight lines. Once you see it on a few cards, it's really easy to tell Korean from the other languages.

I've had random urges to collect a random specific card before. After pulling 6 in a row in Kaladesh Drafts I started collecting Aetherworks Marvels, had about 15 before the Marvel Deck came out. Really annoyed me as I was collecting them because I believed it to be a garbage mythic. I still maintain that the only reason the deck did well in tourneys is because the judges didn't catch the players cheating. In other news, I'm pretty sure I bought the French Lions Eye Diamond in this video.

Wall of roots was in at least one World Champion deck. It's a powerful card that doubles as both early game defense and mana acceleration. It was particularly powerful because you don't need to tap it for the mana and you could grab mana from it both on your turn and your opponent's. The one deck that comes to mind where I remember seeing it used was the reoccurring nightmare and survival of the fittest deck that took 1st place back in the day sometime in the mid 90s. It was particularly powerful in that deck because it could be sacced to reoccurring nightmare once it's counters were building up to high.

Let me tell you a story about a man named Nelson. Nelson owned a Bunker. And Nelson loved to Hunt. One day Nelson thought he could Hunt out all of the silver in the world and store it in his Bunker in anticipation of better days. Nelson Bunker Hunt never cornered the market on silver and ruined himself and his business partners in the meantime.

RUDY, that was not a life counter, it was an honor counter for Legend of the Five Rings CCG (now actually LCG, after acquisition by FFG).

you said you give the ma shipping label, do you give them anything else like half of the profits? i believe we have some books fileld with unplayed magic cards from whe nthey first came out up in a closet somewhere

Wall of roots signed sounds awesome to me. Especially since I felt it was a backbone to some early green based decks

Heck, that first collection looked like the cards I started playing Magic with.

"that's interesting in and of itself." *yeet*

Wow, I actually bought one of the Korean signed petals this past winter and I’m running it in Kess edh. It’s cool to see where it’s from!

That us actually a Legend of the Five Rings Honor Counter, around 4:56 you can see it written on the back!

HAH looks exactly like my collection. Tons of late 90s golden age crap

If u have enough lotus pedals, eventually u can trade em all for a whole lotus💪😂

How can I buy the 5 Korean signed petals from u if u still have them? Or just a play set of signed petals (foreign preferred)

I knew a guy that was trying to buy as many lightning bolts as he could back during revised then burning a huge chunk of them because he thought it would increase the value of lightning bolt.

4:59 Tosses out the 24K gold like it's trash lol

The foreign Lotus Petals are Japanese and Korean. Poor April, that's a lot of signed cards.

This REALLY takes me back. The Lotus Petals... I don't know if this is from the same guy, but I can tell you a little story about a guy I knew in the 90s and his commitment to the Lotus Petal. Once upon a time in Arkansas there was this shop where a guy named Chris worked, I and my friends played in tourneys there, I was really into 1.5 and Extended myself. My friend Joey was all about Standard. Anyhow, this dude who worked at the place always asked for Lotus Petals anytime somebody got Tempest cards. I found out when I and my friends bought a few boxes, and he tells me "I'll give you a deal on any Lotus Petals you don't want". I kept four, but I had a load of them after opening 3 boxes of cards, so I brought the small stack to him along with a few other spares thinking he might be interested in some of those too, but he just wanted the petals. He was still salty that he'd never gotten an actual Lotus in the day. And resigned himself to the fact he'd never own one. But he figured he'd get all of the petals he could and hold onto them until they were worth something. Maybe he'd cash out one day and get a real Lotus. It was kinda sad and funny, me being a young prick I decided to have a little fun at his expense and started collecting Erg Raiders and telling a similar story about how I knew I'd never own a Bazaar of Baghdad and hoped to trade them in for one one day. I ended up buying four of them a month later for $15 each, because it was still the 90s and nobody knew how badass that card was yet. I don't think he ever get his Lotus.

you have been blessed by the algorithm twice, congrats!

Rudy’s petal is floppy

Lotus petal goes for $10 at my local store

My favorite card is Spiritmonger 3GB 6/6 1B: regenerate 1G: becomes color of choice when it does damage put +1/+1 counter on it. Put flying or can block fires it can actually beat protection from black

rush signed bolts usually run $100-200 per playset!