A grown man stole some of my rare Yugioh cards when I was at a Yugioh tournament at Toys R Us when I was a kid. But the joke was on him because they were fake and I was cheating.

Kaiba: That's an impressive card, Yugi, but it's nothing compared to my BLUE EYES WHITE MEOWTH!

Some interesting Yugioh facts this video didn't cover: 1. The reason the series was so obsessed with Ancient Egypt is because in real life, some of the oldest war/board games on earth were found in Egypt. 2. The Yugioh card game was created as a literal ripoff of Magic: The Gathering because the manga author couldn't use it for his story. 3. The original manga actually featured the card game only sparsely. The manga's title was "King of Games" and was meant to be a protagonist who was fantastic at every game. But guess which game was most marketable?

Hitmonchan is Groot after watching the entire Rocky trilogy.

I'd imagine Black Lotus cards are also banned from tournaments due to the fact that walking around a convention centre with essentially a cheque for $150k+ in your pocket is probably not the smartest idea.

Dude your density of jokes and throwing shade per phrase is so high, it's awesome lol

I wonder sometimes what it would be like to grow up in a culture designed to guide your development as a human being, instead of exploiting it.

I was at a campout as a kid and one of my friends said he stopped playing Pokemon and gave me his holographic Charizard. I had nowhere to put it so I stuck it in my pocket, forgot about it, and promptly jumped into a lake. I still think about it to this day, and that was like 20 years ago.

I cried when I saw the blood on the meowth card, it's lost all of its value now.

One year during my birthday party, I got some Pokemon card packs and managed to unwrap a Charizard. I was so excited and I showed it off to all of my friends at the party. By the time the party was over, someone had stolen it.

I remember that in Poland between 2014 and 2015 (at least in my school) we had this football player card craze, there were these cards with football players on them. You couldn't even play with them, there was no game, yet my entire school had tons of them, and my classmates would constantly get in trouble for trading them during lessons.

Ironically, Digimon came before Pokemon in Japan, and was originally just a sequel to Tamagotchi, made by the same people, since it used to be a Virtual-Pet.

Walking down to the newsagents, buying a pack of pokemon cards, and finding a shiny inside. That was a perfect day for 11 year old me. Thanks for the nostalgia blast.

"Analog loot-crates." This is so ridiculously accurate, holy shit.

I had an entire binder filled to the brim with pokemon cards, 600+ easy, including a rare version of charzard and ninetails that I never took out of the binder and played with despite being like 8 when I got them. Then one day, when I was about 13, my older sister invited a group of people over, some of which played card games. I showed them the binder, and wouldn't you know it, the very next day when I go to look for the binder it's missing. Never got my cards back or found out which of them did it. Over a decade later and I'm still mad.

Hitmonchan's face is supposed to be shaped like a hand, as with hitmonlee's weird foot body. It's the combat they specialise at respectively.

Imagine a MaxMoefoe video where he opens up Ciggarete cards and smokes entire packs for them with a Pokemon lighter

I love this guy! His blend of facts I can rely on and British humor makes my day. Patreon, here I come!

Damn getting one of those black lotus cards is like getting a reservation at dorsia

It’s Christmas, I got some MTG cards, saw this in my recommendations while unboxing them, and am still happy.

Pokemon cards are worth more than the USD

I went to the continental yu gi oh championship for South America in Chile last year. As an outsider, only there as moral support because my best friend was playing, I gotta admit, it's a strange dynamic. Everything, from the little dice they give as a gift to those who sign up, to the collectible equivalents to pins and keychaings you get at motor shows, everything has a price. They even go as far as to sneak a handful of golden plastic dice into the bin full of blue ones, and if you get it, it's like 100x more valuable or something.

I won a MTG junior super series with a 1000 dollar college scholarship when I was 16 and still play from time to time. Those were some of the best times of my childhood!

I remember my school banned Pokemon cards. It was probably for the best. No one ever actually "duelled," they were really just for showing off.

When I was 12-14 I literally ran a business online buying and selling Yugioh cards on forums. My computer desk literally had a drawer full of patted envelopes, and plastic card holders, and I kept an invoice book. Those were the days lol.

I would give anything to have some Pokemon Mac n Cheese again.

Something this channel gets so right is the marriage of overbearing saltiness and snark, with the perfect dash and pokes of wholesomeness, it’s perfect.

God Yu-Gi-Oh is actually such a fun game. I have so many great memories of playing with my brothers. And the anime rocked. So campy and dramatic!!!

Magic is pretty much the reason I did not kill myself. Suffering mental and physical bullying from about the 3 grade all the way trough high school. Magic (and some Pokemon) was an escape from reality that forced you to meet other people to enjoy it. Heck even the bullies would accept you to play if there was a lack of players.

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11:50 - oh boy how that statement has aged

When I went to college my mom threw away all my pokemon cards ;-;

My Pokimon brings all the kids to the yard. And their like do wanna trade cards? Damn right, I can trade you but not my Charizard.

"Flipping the graph vertically"-- the secret of the Treasury Department.

I remember going to a card-shop in the mall when I was 12 or 13 and the guy there gave the exact speech you (almost) did in the last minute of the video, he even tore one of those 81 billion baseball cards in half to prove his point that ultimately everything is only worth the value we ascribe to it (or really, to get my dad to buy me more pokemon fossil packs)

I remember getting off of school one day in like 3rd grade i believe walked in the house Yugioh was on i saw the theme song along 1st episode and instantly was like ' oh yeah im going to watch this'!

Hitmonchan is made of old dried up scabs.

Here from trap lore Ross. This was a great vid and I just checked out the rest of the channel. U earned this sub

Hey I’m the guy from the main event and I’m neither Asian or a teenager, it was also summer in japan so everyone was mad sweaty. Nice video though 💯

I had a Black Lotus way back when. I didn't understand the game, I just liked the pictures. I swapped it for a blue land card because I liked the picture more. I could have bought half a house with that card now.

"[...]servicing more customers than your Mom on 2-for-1 Tuesday." Damn, Ordinary Things...

I'll trade you a bulbasaur and 3 grass energy for that MEOWTH

I forgot I had mine. I realized a year ago that I still had "Shining" cards from 1st gen, like "Shining Charizard" "Shining Tyranitar" "Shining Mewtwo" "Shining Leviator" and some with "stars" on them, that I understood to be a more modern "shiny" marker. I sold most of them for 200$+. I kept some by pure nostalgia.

"Fast paced battle game!" Control decks: *NO*

You see, the scary thing to me is that yesterday I watched the American Psycho for the first time in my life, and today I'm watching a video with full-on references that I wouldn't get if that hasn't happened. Spooky.

Got somewhat into "Magic: The Gathering" when it first showed up because I'm a huge tabletop gaming nerd and it made such a massive impact on that scene. I couldn't keep up with the hobby, though. It was either buy booster packs or pay rent & eat. And it was no good trying to play casually if you couldn't afford the latest & greatest cards. I would walk in with my meager little box of cards and come up against guys with literal rolling suitcases full of cards. Also,the social aspect suffered. I always seemed to find myself up against guys who LIVED for M:TG. There's no other way to put it. They were like those chess masters who see ten moves ahead and if you took "too long" contemplating your next play (i.e. two full seconds) they would lose their shit. They weren't there to talk about the latest film or comic book or TV show or whatever. It literally was not a game to them. And I'm not talking about tournaments or contests. I'm talking casual games at nerdy parties & the like.

"Shards of Imagination" is such a good term. As a kid, I had a single Pokemon card I found on a playground, and a Pokemon marble I found on a street. That's all I knew about the whole thing for years, but man I liked to look at them.

During the baseball card craze in the States their was a hockey card craze that had a similar crash in Canada.

What a banger this one was. Well worth the wait. If I may share a personal story, I was born in 1988. I know, very abrupt story. Anyway, when Pokémon cards came out, I bought my first pack as a kid in the mall 30 minutes from my town. I opened it, and near the end of the pack, was a first edition, holographic blastoise. I had no idea what I had opened. But it sent me on a lifelong addiction to, as you put it, analog loot boxes. I’ve recently quit mobile games a few years ago, as I was dumping large sums into them a month. It’s important to be aware if you had a problem, but it’s also important to enjoy these mediums we love in a healthy and balanced manner.

I’m surprised you didn’t bring up the Pokémon Illustrator card, that’s “The Card” in Pokemon, worth 100K

I had a Charizard once as part of a deck, it was given to me by my stepdad. Unfortunately, since nobody played pokemon cards in our area, I never figured out how valuable it was, I think it was a pretty powerful deck. I even had a Meowth as well, but I never thought that card was valuable either. So I just stashed the deck in my lower cabinet, eventually being lost to the floods brought about by the typhoons during the monsoon season..

The thing I’m blown away the most by in this video is that one kids favorite Pokémon was BEEDRILL. Who’s favorite Pokémon is Beedrill!?

"Crack cocaine had just premiered to rave reviews in LA" Brilliant.Always a good morning to watch a new ordinary things while cramming my food hole.

I'm so happy everytime i see that you uploaded a video :D

Misplaced all my old Pokémon cards when I moved out to college but started buying some again out of nostalgia and to play a game or two with my roommate when we get bored. Crazy seeing how the card markets changed since I was a 7 year old in 2008 at Target buying packs with money I’d get from returning bottles and cans lol.

I just cannot. At 10:33, immediately after saying "It's time to d-d-d-duel," I got a Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duels ad. The second he said it. That was the best thing I've ever seen on KZfaq

The content just keeps improving. The stuff about the baseball cards in particular was fascinating! The whole video was great, looking forward to more! :)

The Magic collector's reaction made me smile. Also, the economics class where I learned about Fiat Money was pretty eye opening to how we value things today. Might be something you look into sometime.

"Incelpaloozas" and that comment about being stuck to a gaming chair are the golden comments I needed today!

11:58 The fact this joke came before the NFT explosion is mind boggling

Do cryptocurrency next!!!!!!!

5:36 This has now become the official way to say "planeswalkers"

I’m so thankful to have been the perfect age during the Pokemania of the late 90’s. It hasn’t truly been repeated by any other phenomenon and likely never will. If you weren’t there you’ll never understand it. It was magical.

Imagine someone pulling out an actual 150,000 dollar card to whoop your ass in a card game

This channel is criminally underrated..

I’m from Tupelo and the Pokémon plane was retired at the air field near my house. Not gonna lie, it was pretty cool.

I like that TCGs have a lot of depth and give players the freedom to create their own strategy. I HATE that they're always sold as randomized packs or that you have to buy from a secondary market to get what you want. There was (or is, I don't know) a game called Keyforge, and the gimmick was you bought a full randomized deck that you couldn't change. It still had the FOMO of buying another deck to see if you got a better one, but all decks were unique, so there weren't sought-after cards or anything like that. Then they released a second edition where you could buy a regular deck, or a more expensive one that maybe had a rare card in it.

"What was hitmonchan, a tree ?" Sudowoodo: 0__0

loved the video the end really hits the point and my love of cards, been collecting cards since i was kid kinda casually then went kinda nuts for it when i actually had friends to play yugioh with, regret giving my brother most of my Pokemon cards though may not know how to play for shit but man those cards still looked cool, loved the vid as always and this one really made me miss being able to play yugioh with my friends

Remember back in ‘99 aged 7 popping a booster pack to reveal a crisp, minty Charazard... My life peaked early

Thankfully I really never go into this when I was a kid in the 80's. I remember collectable and baseball card shops and they are all gone now.

The only trading cards I ever collected were Newcastle KB United (Australia) soccer cards. They were distributed by a local bakery in the late 70's and came singularly with a loaf of bread. Bobby Charlton and Craig Johnson played a game or two for the club as guest players. I think I had near a full set of cards too. I should have kept them, they'd probably be worth about $10 now.

11:56 time before NFTs

Hitmonchan is pokemon’s tribute to Jackie Chan, with Hitmonlee being a tribute to Bruce Lee

I used to play mtg in my youger days. It was a fun game to play with friends and even go to local pop culture stores where they often held mtg game nights where you could meet other people. I never got in to the whole collecting expensive cards because I saw it as a waste of money. All in all I found it enjoyable playing the game and meeting other people

Sometimes I come here for the subject matter of the video, but I always come for the production of the video. This man is brilliant

Dude that noise at 4:18 freaked me out, sounded like some woman was wailing outside my window. Great video nonetheless

I like your channel the MEOWTHst of all the channels on youtube

the Charizard card is a soar subject for me.I found it in my first pack and years later sold it for pizza money...

10:09 "Pokémon inspired many imitators, the most brazen of which was, of course, Grotto Beasts"

I remember when, in '99, my Elementary school banned Poke'Mon cards because they became a distraction in class.

I love how I can still binge watch all of these and giggle my ass off everytime!! 🤣🤣

I paused this for like 2 hours 1 minute before the end. I almost closed it out and didn't finish it after I came back. glad I did, made me laugh my tucus off. lol

1:40 Baseball is awesome - I've caught a fowl ball at the same game where I sang the National Anthem with my local Barbershop Brigade!! I know that has to sound like the most Classical Era American thing you might have heard, but it was a great summer 2 years or so ago!

I had a shiny charizard when I was a kid. I traded it for some other useless cards. Although it was probably a Dutch version of it which I suspect isn't as valuable as the English ones.

Pokemon cards always have really nice art.

The one time I go to a game store in the area that isn't my friendly local game store, I got my Ring of Maruf stolen.

When I was a kid, I brought my binder of Pokemon Cards to school to show it off to my friends. Then I got jacked, and I cried. The next day, my mom tried to cheer me up by buying a new pack, and it had a Charizard in it! Still have it to this day. I appreciate the lucky Charizard pack way more than my small binder collection ever would have. The lesson I learned: when something bad happens, it might just lead you down a better path.

Meowth! Das Rite!

As kids me and my friends thought of the Charizard card as a piece of shit that seemed to pop out every booster pack. I remember getting like 5 of them. 300 dollars a piece? Good thing I traded them off to the younger kids who thought he was cool. I cri

Fun fact; the card speculation boom is one of the main reasons Marvel went under on December 27th, 1996. They’d bought Fleer in 1992 which massively contributed to thier $8 billion in debt and, when combined with a large number of factors that led to horrendous sales, meant that they couldn’t pay thier debts. When you can’t pay your debts, you file for bankruptcy.

Dude, Hitmonchan is the visual embodiment of a punch itself. His head looks like a knuckle flying at your face with speed lines included.

> "you can get a base set holo char for just a few k" should we tell him fellas

I just realized, that i sold a Time Warp from the Beta in pretty good conditions for about 450€ ten years ago... Now it is worth... about 5000... damn.

Watching this while sorting my pokemon cards to sell in bulk. Thanks for the mini history lesson! Totally forgot about the pokemon plane.

Congratulations on your acquisition of Meowth.

Trading cards, also known as physical loot crates!

Somehow, I watch a lot of British guys on KZfaq. They all have differences, but all like to make references to "your mum". Especially this guy and What Culture

Somewhere in my house I have a collection of tons of first generation Pokémon cards my brothers and I collected. There’s a specific album we have that has the special ones like Charzard, Blaines charzard, blastois, Ho-oh, lugia etc. I sometimes wonder how much they’d be worth but I’m always too busy to properly look for them and then index the cards lol

Shout out to the guy at my local corner shop who didn't know the difference between the "trading cards" and "playing cards" so sold them both at a pound instead of £2.50 for the ones people actually wanted.