me: gas is too expensive rudy: I just bought a friggin' $20,000 starter deck

I can still remember these in stores selling for $7.95 a pack and I thought it was outrageous. Course this was 1993 when money was a lot less

His wife saw there was no Back Lotus and left the deck in the safe! haha

That starter box had an old school combo in it. Royal Assassin/Icy Manipulator. Nice.

Those gloves are worth more than the alpha starter deck these days. Should have left those gloves sealed in the box and made a fortune.

Man I remember playing with many of those cards but with the 4th edition reprint. Good old high school days. Loved that Ice Age expansion!

Man this brings back memories from when I was a 10 year old that bought packs from the local movie rental store every weekend.

I collect yugioh cards and have never played magic but I love watching Rudy open magic cards!!

Congrats! Beautiful stuff! My first ever starter deck (4th Edition, August 1995), included a Royal Assassin as well! Unfortunately I was 2 years late for the Alpha copies!

It's not often we see Rudy actually kinda speechless from looking at the cards and well, we don't see often see an unboxing like that. What a video indeed. Thank you for sharing that story :D

Rudy: "Red elemental blast" The color Blue: "Am I a joke to you?"

Never gets old, alpha / beta are just such amazing products. The art work, the story, the history.... just incredible!

What a cool video, I love you opening packs and boxes even that I don’t play MTG. Anyone else having it like that?

I remember at the time, icy manipulator and royal assassin was quite the combo.

Seeing this brought back so many memories. I was 15 years old, playing Magic with my friends instead of running around the track in school in PE. The year was 1994. I think I had 90% of those cards. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Rudy: *slaps top of pack* this bad boy can fit so many smooth cards

Free content for Rudy. Do a psa return video

I was just wondering where my Rudy was Edit: Rudy calls Blue elemental Red...meanwhile I’m losing my mind because I can’t tell if he did it on purpose or not.

I’m SUPER casual with magic (mainly played in college), but watching you be enthusiastic about this was worth every minute!

9:04 If you look closely, that Red Elemental Blast might have a misprint. Something just seems off.

Imagine opening this in 1993. You've got the Icy Manipulator, Royal Assassin combo. WIN ALL THE ANTES!!!

Rudy: "Omg i am too big..." Rudy's mind: Giggity

You make me appreciate Magic, I’ve only played a couple times. But I enjoy how passionate you are! Good content “Rudy”

I just started playing MTG at age 35 cause I thought my kids would enjoy it. When I say just I mean really maybe 4 games with a dual pack is all. Then I found your videos, and Its so cool that there people like you out there truly enjoying life it seems like, and sharing positivity, the world can be super sucky sometimes...a lot of the time.

Rudy it must be amazing to be able to enjoy something like this. It brought me back to 1994 when I started playing as a kid. As always, love the content and keep up the great work! Giggity.

You know Rudy means business when he starts wearing gloves like open boosters. Awesome video and awesome pickups.

Idk why I keep coming back to watch your videos, only played yugioh back in the day, haven't played a card game in 10 years but you somehow make it interesting.

Ex is short for example... Example of what to avoid in a future relationship

Wow. This brings back memories. Lost count of how many of those brown boxes I opened! If I had only kept one. ONE!

Weighing the packs and switching with reprints that’s Timmy investments for you.

Happy Easter to you Mr. Rudy and thank you for your amazing videos. Greetings from me in Denmark.

That ending speech.. I love you Rudy!

4:33 I was waiting for "giggity" Became disappointed

Can not really say why but royal assassin has always been my favorite magic card. something about a 1/1 completely stopping the other player from attacking is just badass lol.

What an awesome selection of cards!! Brings back a lot of memories... I wish I could get one of every MTG card from the start and up through the first 10 years of the series just to have in sleeves hanging on my walls to look at.

You're a good dude. I feel good watching you do your thing. Thanks Rudy.

As some have said, I'd love a follow up to see how the grading goes. Awesome video.

When Rudy rocks the gloves you know shit just got way too real...

God I love the artwork of the first cards. Really everything about them is cool. Especially the way the font looks on the blue cards at this time. The artifacts and lands look sick too. Like the vintage Island card with the pink sky was really cool.

9:01 says "RED Elemental Blast" while holding a BLUE Elemental Blast.

I took 3 Doozies already this morning ! This will complete my morning

Cool Story, Bro. Needs More Ugins.

Wait, so this is a pack that has been opened before? So the seller know the worth of every single card in the pack and sold it for 20k? What am I missing?

Awesome find, Rudy! Thanks for sharing this with us. You don't see Alpha box openings every day🤩

Watching this again a year later. What a story. Would love a follow up on how these graded.

Hey Rudu, how many of these will you be sending out for grading? I'd like to see a video on that.

Amazing to witness this story! Thank you Rudy for sharing and thanxs to that guy! SO AWESOME!!!

Wow...speechless, that was amazing!

Great story behind the pack - glad we got to hear it. You should extend our thanks to the guy (or we send them directly, if he's watching!). Looking forward to a follow up PSA grading video!

Rudy, have you done a video on packing cards that are sent to be graded? If not could you at some point?

So you know, we have a rare book collection where I work and the librarian said clean, bare hands are better for paper than gloves. There are often powders and things like that on the gloves that are worst then the oils on your hands after washing apparently, check it out

Nothing better than getting the icy and the royal assassin in the same starter deck :) Flood of memories came in while watching this video. Thanks for sharing!

You know it's serious when Rudy wears the O.J. gloves.

Wanna see a magic trick? I'm gonna turn $20,000 into $500.

i have often wondered about the contents of these packs.... glad ppl open them nowdays and record it, magic :)

Thanks for sharing. Brings back the memories. :)

Is it $20,000 because that's the going value for a pre-con from this set or is it because the cards in this particular deck made it worth 20k?

The Holy Grail has to be Opened!

Thank you for the positive and great message at the end of the video!

That story is nuts, awesome opening AGAIN.!

Did I just watch a video on Open Boosters' channel??

I had this going in another tab with low volume and thought some porn was playing because of all the *rudy moaning*

really cool. blows my mind the numbers people attach to these.

Great closing remarks Rudy.... keep it Real. Thank you

"Im too big, I don't fit into this" rudy 2019

Rudy did you get my 20$ Reacharound though? 🤔

Loved the video Rudy. Very nostalgic for me.

I miss opening the old school packs. I was in the Coast Guard when this game started. I would buy them by the case. I got out of Magic in 1998, sold all of my cards, bought a truck and a motorcycle, and thought I'd never look back. Then my son dragged me back into this game 2 years ago. Man am I kicking myself now. I had 3 Black Lotus' and the Alpha set was complete twice in binders. I could retire if I saved those cards until today.

When you put gloves you became the LEGENDARY KZfaq SURGEON

"Red Elemental Blast". -Rudy, 2019

Subscribed to your channel. Never really got into magic the gathering saw it in shops though. Thank you.

While you were in FAB land I went back to this video. This is one of those Alpha Investment videos that will always be burned into my memory. What a great video.

When you slowly started pushing the deck up on the mat I was making EEEEEEEEEEEEEE rubber noises, then he said "Your sound is working just fine", I busted up laughing at that point 😂

Watching these make me wonder where my cards disappeared to 😩

Liked for the last 20secs. Great advice

That Rudy laugh was Classic! Great story.

If I'm putting on rubber handgloves, it's usually for something else.

Plot twist: he was never divorced.

i seriously dont know the first thing about magic but ive watched a lot of your videos and im still not sure why but youre quite the character and its fun to watch you drool over this stuff haha. keep up the content

Rudy thanks for making my morning! Coffee is hot and my body is ready for this reveal!!

Royal assassin was one of the if not the best rare in the set back in the day!

“Oh god I’m to big. I don’t fit in there.” 😂 lmao!

It’s was like listening to one of those goosebump story videos. I shook with him!

I especially enjoyed your closing words. That’s what it’s all about. Take care & enjoy!

I have no idea what their backstory was. Maybe he was a jerk. Maybe he did her really wrong. But whatever it is (unless it has to do with domestic violence), there is just no reason to treat another human beings personal stuff like that. I am not talking about the deck alone. But all the other things like passport etc. What kind of insane person would just willingly destroy someone on a existential level just out of a grudge? This saddens me as much as it makes me happy to see that this wonderful nostalgic treasure survived. And the fact that with Rudys transaction, this gentleman has a new foundation for a financially stable life!

I really hate the fact that I started playing magic way earlier and I saved none of my cards and now I am poor

I enjoy all your videos!

Oh man that artwork.. and specially when you pulled out that Wall of Ice after artifacts I was just yelling: "ohmygod, alpha wall of ice"... thank God we have thick walls here in Finland :)

8:57 when thanos snaps and you're the unlucky half

"Many Magic the Gathering players, MERFOLK!"

Just an incredible video , Brother. Thank you so much . What a dream come true.

Great vid and I know all about crazy xs. Mine destroyed some of my G1 Transformers MIB

Rudy going through cards as openboosters is priceless! I can hear that "Merfolk of the Pearl Trident”!

If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit

This was an awesome vid to come out on my birthday, thank you creepy Rudy. I was honestly expecting it to be an alpha box full of lighthouses

You made me cry,thanks for sharing.

I love old cards art. So iconic. Yeah the new ones are "better", but I don't know, the old handmade art, colors, bordering and all it's just more appealing to me.

9:54 Is that *Tolarian Community College* reference? 🤣

enjoy and have fun - thats what i need right now .

beautiful message Rudy.