Rudy probably got to that Serra Angel before he hit record.

Just imagine how many t-shirts you could buy with $40,000...

Serra wearing that Lewinsky inspired dress!

"Prodigal Sorcerer...they call him captain timmy or something, want me to sign him." Prodigal Sorcerer was known as Tim for years and years. It's a reference to Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.

I love how much you love magic man. Enjoy the cards Rudy. Good hands to be in.

I remember having a playset of p9 pulled all but 1 time walk from packs when I was 13 my entire collection was stolen its so hard now to try to rebuild I completely understand where you come from keep up the great work

Says it's sad that these collections dont exchange hands anymore but then states he refuses to sell any of his collection

Betasexual, (noun): an individual who receives sexual gratification or arousal from 93-94 era Magic: the Gathering cards.

I worked at a comic shop when I was a teenager. My boss was collecting 5 beta sets. (actually 5 of every set up to Alliances, the current set at the time). He wanted 1 pack fresh set and 4 of every card for playing. wish I had the foresight to keep all my old beta -unlimited power cards.

I love these videos, the box openings are 24k gold, but these videos are special as Rudy really shows how much he loves this game for what it's meant to be. A fun card game to play with friends

16:32 'uncommon, which is a library' Don't know if that was intentional or not, but it made me chuckle.

I didn’t know Serra Angel had a pearl necklace print

Correction for anyone watching: fastbond was in revised.

I actually saw teachers rip very high level cards up and then throw them in the garbage in front of the whole class. That shit is real.

Thank you for sharing your experience with us, seeing your love with these cards and the history behind it from you are amazing and fun.

i started playing in 1997, me and people playing where seen as like Lepers, totally understood this part

Love these videos! I nearly had my deck confiscated by the principle, never forget going to the principles office to talk about a game that is dark and possibly demonic! Also, we never sleeved our cards and power nines were flying around the grass, driveway, picnic tables and wherever we could play! Old school magic will always be where my heart is!

You are like a dragon, making a giant pile of treasure and just sleeping on it.

I love watching your videos whenever you show the old cards. Absolutely love them.

It brought me back to the days we actually played for ante. Thank you.

Great video. I started magic in 1994. At the time my stepfather owned a “gaming shop” and I had access to all the “cool stuff.” I never knew what was up with the “mono/poly artifact.” Great video.

Prodigal Sorcerer is nicknamed "Tim." It's a Monty Python reference.

Thanks for sharing Rudy. Started playing in 96 and it’s nice to see these cards again. Started playing old skool recently and I love using the old cards again. Thanks for sharing some nostalgia 😊

Your an inspiration. I always go out to eBay and check prices while watching your videos. I am reminded of how sad it is that I didn’t buy and keep sealed booster packs from the early nineties. I wish Wizards/Hasbro would do a classic edition with the new back card art for us old timers. I don’t play with cards made after the Urzas Saga block.

The "Let's watch" series is my favorite kind of content. It includes Collections, and vintage booster pack openings

21:33 totally agree beautiful artwork.

thank you so much for showing us all theses beautiful pieces of history, it made my day!

Rudy been watching you for a while now, and finally started to play magic last week I’m hooked ! I LOVE that you keep these collections close you are truly a god, thank you for the awesome content ! Send me that play mat 😏👍🏻

I love that you share these experiences 🤘thank you dude

Not a regular follower, but special story thank you for sharing. I love Magic in this era

Sometimes I miss the cards I sold you and will go back and re-watch the video you made of my collection. I love videos like this because it reminds me of what it was like to play back in the 90's.

Rudy, you should join the misprint group or talk to Tavis, the factory damage is sometimes worth more. I've sold and seen a few, especially these!

Awesome video! Born into this world in 86, I was just a touch too young to have too much disposable income (and on the wrong side of the states, to have much luck at getting alpha / beta anyways) to have had much a chance at this old magic stuff. I want to say I remember riding home on the school bus, talking to a kid who's parents were "well off" about how they bought him some arabian nights packs at $15 each. This was probably around 1998-99. He played in tournaments in bigger cities, had his deck "ranked" if that was a real thing.... and I remember he had some cards like demonic tutor (I remember that specifically... as another kid took it from him in a joking manner and him retorting "that's fine, you don't know what to use it to look for..") but I don't remember if they were alpha or beta. At any rate, I always felt I was just a tad too late to the magic scene. There were a handful of kids in my really small home town that played, but no one other than that one kid really had any expensive cards. At best, some unlimited stuff but more 4th, 5th and 6th edition. By the time magic was "a thing" here in Western PA the original A / B / U / AN cards were just too expensive. Especially for a teenager with parents who weren't well off. I did get into Pokemon a bit.... base set / jungle / fossil were already out of print.. I started buying base set 2 stuff. I've always loved the artwork, the mechanics, the history of MTG even though to this day I have no clue how to play it. Watching videos like these ones, watching openbooster go through is NUTS beta booster box opening (dude has to have like as close to the best possible booster box... SO MUCH POWER 9 IN ONE BOOSTER BOX!).... seeing this collections. It's cool for me. It's like I get to "experience" it without the crazy high prices that I'll likely never be able to afford. But, to some extent, thanks to folks like you (alpha investments) and openboosters and others... I get enough of the experience that it's OK for me to not actually own the cards. I remember seeing some arabian nights booster packs for sale in the local collectibles shop, at insane prices for even the time. I want to say $30-$40 a pack... at a time when I was buying 1st edition jungle pokemon packs for around $5 each IIRC. I pulled two if not three jungle holos out of those packs, including a first edition jolteon without the jungle symbol. I regret selling my cards now :( but you live and you learn.

Great video Rudy. Love the nostalgia.

15:50 I remember when you were playing prof and used that card, good times.

same will happen in Magic over the next 100 years as it happened in stamps 1840 to date: the high end rare material finds a home in life-long collections, and specific elusive items change hands in the 20 to 50 year time frame. There are items from the 1840s-1850s that have been at auction once every 40 years or so. Look up Hawaii Missionaries. Magic is a baby compared to stamp collecting. There will be great collections built that will have a dozen Alpha Black Lotuses. The super whale stamp collectors (Ferrari, Burrus, Ishikawa etc) may not have materialized in Magic yet.

Hey, Rudy. Thanks for making this video. It's nice to be reminded of the good old days, coming up in a gaming store and playing mtg

Like how you mentioned how we were all shunned for playing magic in the early days. Great video

congrats Rudy! you always show how hard work pays off!

YESSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU RUDY!!!!!!!! I LOVE THESE KINDS OF VIDEOS

Thanx Rudy. That was a treat.

That was awesome Rudy! Thanks a bunch! It really get perspective into the game, there was so much power and at the same time very lame power. Loved

Cockatrice was one of my favorite green cards back then. My friends would be all high and mighty playing a Serra Angel only to have it destroyed by a flying snake, chicken dragon thingy.

Ahhhhh the memories! Thanks Rudy!

I cant wait for rudy to also figure out that the art from resurrection also matches up to mox jet and forcefield.

With an ending like this I can imagine Rudy doing a painting show in 20 yrs from now

I wish I still had my goodies from 1994-ish. Had my main deck swiped about a year into playing and never got into rebuilding anything major.

Always nice to see the old cards Rudy. Just made me think about how rare draw as effect was back then. In that collection wasn't it just Jayemdaya Tome, Verduran Enchantress and Ancestral Recall that could do that?

Glad I kept all mine lol great to show people, oldies but goodies

well said sir. Playing back in 1997 was a like being a witch in Salem!

I dont even play magic. But for some reason. I've been watching these fucking videos cause of this guy. I love it!

Love the Dr V. My favorite. That Angle looks like a booger on it.

11:51 that artwork is so op

Psionic Blast wasn't the only direct dmg blue card, there was also Mind Bomb and Psychic Purge ;) but it was the coolest

A beautiful Chaos Orb, I see what you did there. Chris Wilson would be proud to hear it I bet!

Thanks for sharing rudy! :) hope one day i can also buy those power cards.. :)

Lure/Cockatrice (or Basilisk) - was awesome when magic was fun.

Like your opening statement. Same reason why I want to open my lgs and build money and collection cause the same time during the 90s it was the only that made me cool and accepted by people I didn't know (especially in Jr high) that other people played a game that we were all equal in.

Evil Rudy buys out the bottom of the market hosing the timmys.

This brings back memories...I wish I could find my cards from back when I played in 4th - 6th grade

some of these cards are seriously heavy hitters in the alpha 40 format. Meekstone is really gaining traction bc of its synergy with serra angel as well as a whole bunch of red creatures (ironclaw orcs, goblins, oriflamme, etc)

I am absolutely shocked and floored by this video... There was play wear on a clockwork beast.

The argument about icy manipulator and Serra angel being reprinted and it doesn’t affect the original price is because they are cards that are only bought to collect, and not play. But for cards that are expensive because they actually are wanted for decks as well as collecting, like dual lands, they would absolutely be affected by a reprinting.

@31:20 Fastbond was in revised, but overall great video! those roller lines make me sad, but I agree 20-30% of unlimited had em... bad card quality started there and then pushed into revised with the light ink, and has been on and off since then...

I was over at a friend's house recently (we are both teens) and her dad has probably thousands of cards in big card sorting boxes! He used to play in the 90s I guess and I'm really tempted to ask if he wants to sell them. I was nosey and peeked in one while we were in the basement and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how vintage cards there were hiding in just one of the 5ish boxes

Great job and good luck

I really enjoyed watching this video! I can’t afford those cards now days, but I have many of them in revised. Still just a fun video!

Ok you've convinced me, I'll stay the damn course!

The color that was on Serra... Not what I initially thought...

I love and collect these old cards.

MTGLiar surely salivating now. 😜

What is it with Serra having stains? All of my old ones have stains too, but its not er chocolate like that one. The Mana Vault is super sweeeeeet!!!!! Also the Nightmare, it's gorgeous. I'm waiting for my invitation to go to Florida and play magic Old School 93-94!! My first rare was an unlimited Personal incarnation. I traded it for Vesuvan Doppelganger! Meekstone was the cornerstone of Zak Dolan's first world championship deck. It's funny that Rudy talks about cards evading him because we found this too and I think it had something to do with the printing. like the infamous Legends uncommon A/B fiasco. My friend openned a whole case of Legends and didn't pull even 1 of the uncommon Thunder Spirits he wanted because of the printing.

My beta tutor and twist are my fave MTG cards, so good.

So hard to find a mint Juggernaut on these older cards. Not many people played with sleeves back then and that card went well in any kind of aggro deck.

I run all 5 circles of protection, Rhytic Circle, and Island Sanctuary in an Alela EDH. They're pretty good.

I always knew you were a black mage at heart. We can tell our own.

Someone had dookie on their fingers when they held that serra angel.

@alphainvestments @rudy Chaos Orb possibly had a riffle shuffle warp on the bottom.

Icy has an interesting price history worth considering.

Nettling Imp Royal Assassin combo FTW

Nice, another bunch of cards going to the Shadow Realm

Thanks for sharing ^^

Rudy. I hope you know, the way to break Island Sanctuary is to pair it with Mystic Decree

Beautiful heavily loved Serra with the vinatage DNA stains. Thats a keeper for sure.

Would be lying if I said I wasn't at least a little bit jealous of you being able to purchase a collection like this without breaking the bank! Such beautiful cards!

I thumbs upped. I couldn't find the swirly circles button.

Someone had some fun with that serra... forgot to go in the sock

Wish I still had my old cards.. think the basement flooded and they ended up getting thrown away

Oh at 17:54 that's a wraith not a rath. Like in the old movie the Wraith, with the cool car.

Old school magic cards has the sickest looking illustrations of any card game.

Thanks for sharing :) stay safe sir

Back when alpha came out I bought 4 lotus for 20 apiece and 6 alpha starter decks for I think 7.95 eac. Sad i played it as a game only and didn’t collect for long term. Well done Rudy from all us floppy tacos.

Teachers ripping cards in half... Haha, how about I rip them in half! O_O This is awesome. Thanks for sharing this man.

This is history in the form of cards....wow....

Awesome cards, very cool!

I bet the reserved list matters. Icy and Sol ring are very famous and uncommon cards. The old art and old series is a collectors item. If they dropped the RL and started printing duals and post 1993-1994 cards like LED’s, Grim’s and cradles, Prices will plummet by tens to hundreds of dollars

Rudy, some people pay a premium for those mox with a roller line on them, check out the misprint community there are some folks who will pays a huge amount for that mox with the roller mark

but this guy never tires of buying cards? incredible

How to taxes work when you buy a collection like that?

Always been curious how the money transfers on big deals like this? Meet up at the bank?!