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I got a mystery pack when I was a kid in Hawaii and the first yu-gi-oh series was still airing on 4kids. The pack was advertised as rare cards that you couldnt find in America. Oh, they're were right, you couldnt find these cards in America, cuz they were common cards just printed in Spanish!

You know they are a scam if they are still slapping Yugi on the box. Bro hasn’t been in the show in like a decade 😂.

Here’s a story from when I bought a Power Box with my friends to see who would get scammed the most it was one with Yu-Gi-Oh! Merchandise and I got a Spanish version of Joey’s old deck

BCCG: "Grade 10, Mint or better" Me: "What's better than mint?!"

Little did we know this whole video was just an ad for TCG player

I’m just surprised that he found cards at target I can’t find anything lol 😂

2:03 My Favorite Yugioh Pack: Glitch code Talker

What no one else talks about is case mapping; opening enough boxes in a case to pull that starlight rare and a good amount of the pricey secrets, and then selling the other boxes for a slight discount where one of them may be missing a secret or an ultra.

I remember a few years ago in the Magic community these mystery cubes started popping up. They became popular because the company was putting old commander decks in them (which normally sell for 120 bucks) and the cubes were like 20 bucks. People were weighing them in stores to find the boxes that held commander decks. However they were like most other things a scam. If you didn’t find one with a commander deck in it they were pretty worthless. And some of them might have had the weight of the commander deck but not necessarily held one. They just jammed extra cards in to make it appear like there was a commander inside. I found one once and it was all lands.

Alec has cut his hair, balance has been restored to the force.

6:15 Summoned Skull☠️😎

I remember that Cimooooooooo warned us years ago about those products.

I’ve been noticing y’all’s video quality increasing, this video is a great example of that. Super well done guys, and as always thanks for the tidbits of info.

Love you guys! You're the reason I dusted off my card collection and started building decks again

The Yu-Gi-Oh section at my local Target is always full lol so I can see why they do this.

Look how full those shelves use to be 😭 you’ll be lucky to find anything these days cause of scalpers

I don't play Yu-gi-oh but Ive followed this channel for about a year and I've loved how well this was filmed and edited, the script writing, the B-roll, the L/J cuts, keep it up. This is amazingly done!

You guys should do something informative like this with the theme of buying things online from places outside TCGPlayer. I feel like it would be very helpful for newer people getting into YuGiOh.

I actually have good luck with the cubes, the other repackaged packs, not so much.

I was so tempted when I saw these packs in store forever. Thanks for the great and very informative video! 😊

damn this video came a day too late for me. Bought 3 of these at walmart. Some the of the cards were damaged, and in one of them the foil card was just a cardboard advertisement for a Yu-gi-oh video game.

I remember when my local Target and KMart had Yugioh cards. I remember when my local Target and KMart had anything. They're gone now, just like my childhood.

I’ve always felt like these were a scam just by how their packaging looks. Good job on the ad plugs by the way! You fit them in really fluently and they were well done.

Its funny because i literally just bought 2 of the random 25 count packs from target. ended up getting a Max gold Blue eyes. lolol

The Walmarts and Targets near me don't even have any cards to stock, so I have no choice but to avoid these.

Thank you Team APS, for actually making an educational video about this without actually opening the scam products. Action speaks louder than words, and in the past I often get upset when I see other Yugitubers trying to educate yet at the same time contradict their words through their action (by opening said products). Well made video.

Watching the beginning and seeing how many Yugioh products that store had made me realize how good I used to have it. My Walmart has 0 Yugioh products anymore. Just an empty shelf.

really high production value on this one, keep it up!

i remember starting to see them years ago and i was pretty suspicious. still, thanks for bringing this up for the new players who are starting out

Thanks guys, always avoided the stuff but glad you covered a video about this!

Big fan of this sort of video essay style! Good work!

I recently bought a mystery power box out of curiosity and I ended up pulling a First edition flames of destruction Infinite impermanence so I personally think alot of these are just gambles depending on the resellers

I don’t really mind much, I want as much cards as I can have to fill 2 binders, but not to sell them it’s just for fun 😂

I recently purchased the mystery box and Walmart and you were correct it didn't contain a structure deck like the box had promised. I thought it was just a packaging issue, I has no idea they company's were just repackaging and selling cards at a lower value

Nice, I see you are using a camera stand and different angles this time! Finally, been baging dor this for months hahah nice video guys!

I wish my stores actually had packs and stuff they only have ice barrier deck and light charmers 😢 Also did you hear about the new tin that's coming out I'm excited for that dark magician vs blue eyes

would there packs be ok to get for collection card not caring about rarity only deck building?

I once bought a mystery box that said it included a first edition legend of the blue eyes booster pack...but they lied. They gave me a Spanish version of the pack that was the recent reprint

Thanks for making vids that no one normally are not really made love the vids

Pulled my ultimate rare pot of greed out a walmart mystery box.

I live in Lexington KY and yugioh product does not exist in any Walmart, meijer, target, cvs ect. To find sealed product is a miracle

I will say that in my experience with the mystery cubes and monster boxes, the packs have never seemed weighed in terms of pulls, and most of the time, I open the legacy pack and just sets that have ultis in them and keep the rest sealed. It’s really hard to find the legacy packs these days, so it’s really nice to be able to get them. That being said, this video provides some great info, people trying to build decks and play competitively definitely should avoid these. Thanks guys!

Thank you for this scam reveal. I've seen these and haven't bought them in the first place, but this is great for people that might.

I miss the days when these were decent. Back in gx and 5ds days it was just random stuff in them and it wasent a shock to make your value back in foils

I believe MaxMoeFoe found an entire Portuguese set of cards out of one of these. Within the past month.

Target does the same thing with Magic the Gathering stuff as well. Ever since I found the Demonic half of Divine vs. Demonic in one of the repackaged plastic cubes I've always checked for value there. Funny thing is that I didn't know the Demonic half was in there, I just wanted the original Ravnica Orzhov starter deck that was on one side.

I just wanted to say this but when you did the hero vs dark magician theme duel I liked how you set up the cameras then vs now

This doesn't just apply to yugioh... pokemon, mtg, and sports cards are also a target...

Man, I buy these every so often because I'm a masochist who loves to be disappointed. It reminds me of the same feelings I get when I think of my relationship with my dad.

I'm not sure if it's because the 2 retail stores I go to got lucky, but at the start when the monster boxes came out they always came with all the packs they advertised. Then shortly after the stores also had the individual packs for sale from the monster box. Including a decent amount of Secret Forces. Which is how I got like around 20 or so packs of them.

Subscribed!! Really wanting to get into collecting again.

They aren't a scam if you're specifically for old/bad cards.

Monster boxs are the best of these products. You can often get pretty decent pulls more frequently from it as opposed to the others. Examples: Secret Imperm, 2 secret invocation, ghost neo galaxy eyes photon dragon, etc

Thank you for making this because everytime i was at walmart I was so confused why there was so many of these yugioh mystery cubes

Lol oh yeah, I learned that years ago about those random mystery box. Sometimes, some of those cards look they have been play with.

Is that my boys from the Konami Crew😎👍

Me- (who only buys only decks) Okay

Man thanks for the heads up i didn’t know this even tho i brought 2 and pulled some nice toon cards

This is a great video and it applies to MTG and Pokémon as well. You could even change the title, do some editing, and upload a video talking about all of these “mystery” cubes/boxes. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about this - it’s more or less an urban legend (to me at least) that these things are scams. I never knew why though, now I do 👍

2:10 actually, they mix them with some good things as well to attract buyers

Man, at this point, I’ll take any cards I can find at a store

Reminds me of CDOs. A bunch of bad stuff packaged together makes something (actually not) less risky

This scam also applies to other card games sold at major retailers at well, like those mystery cubes and mystery boxes they sell for magic the gathering. If you're going to spend money on trading card games, buy the singles you need every time. If you have a gambling addiction (which, lets be fair, most of us who play yugioh/pokemon/mtg really do.) buy sealed products instead, where at least the odds are a little more actually in your favor.

thank you for talking about the Yu-Gi-Oh Scam

Dude at least your wal Mart and target has cards lmao there’s literally NONE in my area

I just found this out the hard way from Wal-Mart and Pokemon Cards. They're repackaged by MJ Holding Company LLC. So, repackaged by a 3rd party to resell. Being the price they are, obviously they're not gonna put good cards in them like it is randomly at the real manufacturer.

The way I see it is if you want specific cards go with TCG player or by sealed boxes. If you just want to expand your collection then booster packs or Walmart mystery boxes.

In a nutshell: all of your dreams are a lie and you will never get ahead in this world.

Man the production value lately has been insane good shit yall

I’d honestly like to see one of these Mystery Boxes. It suggests that there are stores in my area that have Yugioh packs to spare. Which there are barely any stores that even sell them in my area.

I was never good at the game and I tried the new online one got tapped but I enjoy you guys and energy, look forward to watching to old and new videos

Me watching this from erbil: at least you don't have to order online a structure deck is 10$ but with delivery and all for me it is 30-40$ also me: realizes this is a vid how not to get scammed oo ya about that No all jokes aside can we appreciate the video

Woah woah woah woah woah woah woah, hold up the monster box SLAPS. I literally buy one every time I see them.

I always enjoyed the mystery cubes because they usually have a complete deck. I got the foil Noble knight deck out of one

I really enjoyed the presentation and topic of this video, god job guys!

Ayyyy I’m early for da first time

Keep on warning people about these please, I remember when I was a kid and got them boy do I regret those. Sad thing is my local stores don't stock very well and that is all that is left. I very much prefer card shops but my closest one is about a hour and a half away, so now a days I get most of my stuff offline.

This product tricks grandparents looking to buy cards for their grandchildren all the time. I work retail and I have talked a lot of grandparents out of buying them because they often ask my opinion on if they will like them.

I'm a newbie to the trading/collecting cards game. While browsing at Wal-Mart I was shocked to see low prices paired w/ card sets of 25 Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh!, a variety of Yu-Gi-Oh!/Pokémon super packs or what I now call, ' BS promises packs ' after reading the back of both products. ' The collectible products in this package have been purchased directly from the manufacturer or purchased from the secondary market & repackaged for retail sales by MJ Holding Company, LLC.MJ Holding Company, LLC is not affiliated with the individual manufacturers or trading card companies contained within this product. All related trademarks and logos are trademarks of their respective owners '. AKA We need to profit from every card, picked from the trash, repackaged, low prices. I didn't make a purchase. Appreciate the videos.

i got one of those that was supposed to come with a mystery deck, bunch of packs, and a graded card, the graded card wasn’t there and the mystery deck were printed in spanish

Thanks for this, literally just bought a metal raiders power box last night, wish I had seen this before that 😅

I live near a big lots and Dollar General which are the only places near me that I can go and buy cards if too far from a Walmart and there’s no target near me and my locals is about 45 minutes away. I just have to buy these or buy em online which I’m not the biggest fan of

I've seen those a few years ago and I didn't buy it because there is a fine print on the box somewhere that clearly state that it's just leftover cards and some would be preowned with unknown condition. So yeah, that's when I was like "yep I would shell more money for randoms than unwanted cards".

That still kinda blows my mind. I am not even sure i ever saw a repackaged, not konami licened yugioh product in ANY store in germany. Yes some game stores like where you play and can buy singles sometimes have such gimmicky packages but not a real storechain like that where it is professionally repackaged. Feels so weird to see that.

The only ones that are worth getting are the monster boxes. It has the packs you get on the back of the box and you are basically buying 10 boosters for 4 bucks each. Also there aren't any battle or star packs

Great video. Really informative and to the point.

Hm... Aaah... yes, I remember these. When I was a child waaay back, when the pegasus deck was still new, I got given one of these full of Masked Beast and THousand Eyes Restrict.

Since like, the top deck days I've had a graded dark energy a friend gave me. It's not only a common but it's not even a first edition. I have no idea why it exists.

The only target that actually has anything to buy from is in an upper class neighborhood. Luckily my visit to Seattle paid off with a small store that had plenty of sealed packs.

Also, another thing that wasn't mentioned yet it has been showcased in your team's videos, sometimes the packs themselves aren't even sealed. There is an existing chance that the packs in the mystery box are already opened up and leaving all of the commons.

Walmart and Target both have no Yu-Gi-Oh atm at least where I live

Sheesh, haven’t seen a big retailer with yugioh or Pokémon in my area for months.

I mean you're right about alot of this, even with the blister packs being more bang for your buck. Some get them because it's actually cheaper than the booster packs, vs just getting random cards not wanting to be with specific packs. I personally collect the blister packs and chaos cubes because the amount you get vs getting a 5-9 card pack for $4. I collect to try to get more opportunities to make more decks or even finding the rares, that's whats fun.

This explains why me and my friends never get any good card in the single booster pack back in 2003/2004. We kept purchasing the leftover ones.

We don't have them in England but we have lots of bundles and things like that most of the time they are ok but the cards usually come from newer packs or ones that didn't sell great but you always get the amount of rare and holos it say you will get . Watch out with the commons most of the time they are repeated 3 or more time

Great video Paul! Or Pastor... 🧐🤔 Not sure what that's all about. I've heard yah say in multiple videos but I'm just now getting back into the scene since the mid 2000s when I gave it up in HS. Anyhow, just wanted to mention I had purchased a DG(Dollar General) mystery pack earlier this year n I semi reignited that flame to get back in. I'm excited but YOOOOOP has things CHANGED SHEESH! Head hasn't STOPPED SPINNING LOLS 😂😂😂 -Hiyruko

Watching this kinda made me wish that konami would make little blister packs with those keychains and pins more. Seems like a fun way to branch out more and give fans more to collect.

nice video thanks! I live in germany and we dont have this mystery boxes. my time i spending on YT is also for YGO openings or some Larry in the Hole´s. now i know i dont need to order this overprized from usa to germany. but i will use tcg players for orders for now on :)

I had more hits than misses with those. I learned how to use Pendulum summons and synchro summon since that is mostly what I kept getting out of those packs. I have been working on a good Salamangreat deck and others.