This guy thinks we can see through his BS 😆 He's got the most Evolving skies. C'mon man.

Not having your first edition base in an acrylic case is so wild

"Everyone's cracking these packs whether they're naked or not." These statements are why I am here.

Poke rudy is best rudy!!!!❤

Fusion Strike is the set where they had a table full of stacks of the chase cards.

I haven't watched this channel in a few months but it's great to come back and still see the old man ramble

People will eventually come around on the S/V sets too. The illustration rare cards are all beautiful and 151 already sells out almost instantly every time it’s restocked.

You got a subscribe from me.. love the way you explained this and it’s so true the patience will always outweigh the haters and naysayers I try to explain this to my friends all the time stop sleeping and wake up the time was a few months ago and no one listened

Makes sense to me. Unfortunately I got into saving boxes when I thought evolving at 144 was too much and thought I'll get this at 120.. never saw them there. Bought one to open at 180 and didn't hold one to save because I thought I'll see at pokemon center at 144 again.. nope. live and learn.

Glad I genuinely enjoyed ES as a collectible and playable set. A few cards (not Moon, thank God) away from a master set, which includes some square-edge misprints. So many memories. It’ll be fun to peak at values now and then, but the binder is on the shelf to stay.

Hey Rudy, I know you probably won't see this but I really enjoy your videos, especially the long conversations about life. You have mentioned becoming a father recently (congrats!). I'm an expectant father as well, and I was wondering how fatherhood has changed your perspective on things. Would be a neat video to listen to! Take care.

Never heard of you before, but found this extremely interesting and informative. Thank you!

Been saying it for 2 years. 10k copies of moonbreon in a 10 is a drop in the ocean when a million want it

The casual $200,000 box flex to start the video

I seen his videos and I seen the crates that he bought two years ago of lost origins silver Tempest, and evolving skies. It was a huge flex. I seen it so when I seen him shining, I can be happy for him.

Its important to remember that even though the BB's are going up, the packs themselfs are under msrp for every set besides ES. This points to either the fact that the booster boxes themselfs have become a highly sought after and collectible item, or possibly alot of speculation. But its important to remember, these packs arnt running away from everyone. You can still get packs affordably and open as much as you want. They havnt all been gobbled up. Only the booster boxes are running away, which is only an issue if you are intrested in collecting or speculating on the box itselfs.

I’m a small time investor but have a case of fusion strike and brilliant stars. Thanks for all the info Rudy am new to the channel but love it.

Could never imagine that we'd see the day where a Blaziken set card is going for $300 raw. Truly bizarre and wild.

You the man. I need one of those shirts

Rudys flexes are cold af :D

Rudy + long Pokemon video = 🌮

Magic = dead pokemon = future

Feel like I could listen to rudy at all times. Wisdom.

The last 5 mins were gold. Great insight.

Thank you for your insight

Your logic has always made sense. Buy at $80-$100 and you just can’t lose. The market has always dictated that it’ll eventually go up. After listening to you say that a year ago I bought a ton of Battle Styles, Fusion Strike, Chilling Reign, Lost Origin, and one case of Evolving Skies. I’m definitely sitting pretty now and I’m excited to see the day when all these sets (even Battle Styles) breaks $200.

The photo of cards that fell off the back of the truck from a few years back featured chase cards from Fusion Strike if I remember correctly.

Great video Rudy

Great Info!

Rudy that was Fusion Strike with the stack of alt arts/rainbow cards that were stolen from the factory. The guy was trying to sell them all at once at one store

Our lord and savior, Rudy the Great

i really like your approach to pokemon investing as a whole been following the pokemon market for a long time and bought in on a much smaller scale in the last 2 years. my question to you is how do you choose when to unravel your position if you dont really need the capital. is it slowly over time or just hold everything until selling all at once. i know that really doesnt apply to you as much with the patreon plus your history holding for the long haul. but what would you recommend, like selling lower performing products to re invest in other product.

Dropping in to say you’re killing it. Thanks for the value-add videos. What effect do we think modern repricing will have on vintage sealed products, slabs and singles?

KEEP THE POKEMON CONTENT COMING RUDY! POKI IS KING

It’s time baby! 🚀

History repeats itself…I’ll leave it at that.

just found the channel, thanks!

Rudy is my spirit animal

it was fusion strike that had all the stolen factory alt arts, like Gengar and Espeon vmax etc.. everyone thought it would crash the price, but from what I heard they were discarded and trashed, therefore making some of the alt arts even more rare + valuable, but who knows. alt arts continue to be high demand.

The story 11:30. An individual who worked the printing factory had stack of 151 mews, umbreons etc equivalent to 300-500k+, prior to price hikes. They tried to offload them all at once to a LGS. I wonder though if these cards were taken from packs there must be a tonnn of dud S&S packs out there.

Thanks Rudy 🎉

Great Video.

We all know Rudy is going to build a mansion with Sword and Shield cases!!!!

Rudy, who is your favorite Pokémon. I know you don’t collect it, but you gotta have a favorite.

the biggest reason in my opinion, in my small little collecting corner, that everything is growing so fast is just the mass pack breaks that happen every day on KZfaq etc. I mean possibly 10s of thousands a day. So supply has never dried so fast. I remember waiting years to see gains then lost origin went from $90 to ?210 in just 8? Months.

The first half of Scarlet & Violet era has been pretty good, especially compared to the first half of Sword & Shield. I'm not sure why people are still downing it, other than by influence. Mr. P Evolved and Temporal Forces have been my favorite so far. While Obsidian Flames was the lackiest of luster set so far (IMO) it's still a ton of fun. Trainer Gallery/Illustration Rare sub-sets really made the pack opening experience and the awsome cards to pull, way better. Always appreciate the Pokemon vids, Thanks Rudy!

7:23 in an he finally gets excited lol

Yes, rudy. The brick of cards that were stolen were SWSH Fusion Strike. Remember all those gengar VMAXes and Espeon VMAXes? Look at how much those go for right now.

Rudy always makes me smile. 😂

Rudy is the goat

What alot of people forget is swsh is last era with yellow borders

Yup it was fusion strike that had the stolen hits. Didnt affect pulls though. If you look all the bigger hits (blaziken, zard, quaza, etc) are going up byt some of the smallwe ones arent. Hoping to get some more

Well said 👏

11:32 I think that was around the time of Lost Origin but I could be wrong

Really regret opening up a case of fusion at $88 plus tax/box :O

i'm new to pokemon want to invest some spare money into boxes i found silver tempest at 125 euro ea i think that is a good deal?

Chilling Reign has a long way to go... UP!

the trend is ur friend to the end until chuck norris 🤣🤣🤣

The big alt arts are hard to pull they were always undervalued the top alt art from each set was always 2/3 - 1 1/3 of box price but you have to open cases to pull it, printed to oblivion yes but with Scarlett & Violet being lack lustre people are chasing the sword & shield because it was better. box breaking isn’t profitable compared to market value.

Only Rudy has random 1stEd base set boxes just chilling, no case just hanging out, nothing to see here lol

Casually showing a 1st edition box like its nothing, Rubert is that man

I have one sealed booster case of each SW&SH set and sealed case of ETBs of each set

It's all the people who DIDN'T invest telling you you're gonna fail because they're jealous they didn't get a slice when they had the chance. People just can't be happy for someone else's success, people are petty as hell.

Is there even an upper limit for how much they can print without crashing the market? Based on the reception for the S&V sets, we seem to have reached that point. But will sentiment shift again in 5 years time?

Nice video Rudy, how do you plan to practically offload such huge inventories in the future? That is my only worry with my inventory of swsh

Rudy! Please talk about Double Masters 2022 singles going up in value some are double the lows

I think we owe this to pokemon 151. Many got into the hobby because of it, and now they want more. We see this because they are alt art and different from what people remember pokemon to be. Now it's like investing in art, because it is.

Fusion strike was the set with a bunch of the alt arts stolen from the factory.

The zelda reference hit hard

Fusion Strike was the one that was "compromised" because of the leaked photos of the stolen hits. Evidently 😆

You said it man

"Rudy takes a victory lap"

Rudy is STILL rent free in my head!

That's exactly what the leader of a market manipulating cabal would say.

Hey come on Rudy I did my part, I bought a case of Chilling Reign at it's bottom price. I would of bought more if I was allowed to but something about Pokemon and making money didn't sit right with my wife 😅

The stolen hits were from Fusion Strike and Evolving Skies

Rudy. Talk to us about modern Pokemon single price “NFG” contradiction to the norm. Bubble? New Norm???

Pokemon love ❤

Good ol' market manipulation video ;) This bubble is bursting. Idk when, but you cannot eat carboard. I'd never participate in the frenzy after prices already gone up. SPECIALLY when reprints never seem to end.

nice JM bar, i wonder why fusion strike sleeved has not sold out on pokemon center. they are only 3.99 ea.

ser please make a video of your stock :)

A lament for the pokemon bathroom.

There was just an announcement of a black lotus sold for $3 Million 🎉 I can't for pokemon to do the same.

Been a sec since your last lego video

gotta get me one of those PSA 10 69 Rudy Umbreon cards

Remember this logic when rudy brand has 1million subs and not enough metazoo rudy promos to go around. I have a box full 😊

Weren't we just in a bear market 2 years ago. How time flies.

Hair is looking good

what about one piece??? :(

The stolen cards he mentioned was from Fusion Strike. The chase cards from that set are the Gengar VMAX alt which goes for over $300 (over twice the market price at the time of the incident) and the Espeon VMAX alt which goes for around $150 (almost twice the market price at the time of the incident)

I pulled that Blaziken 4 years ago it was my first “good” pull 😂 I knew holding it would pay off. Still not selling though

Gamepiece army is big mad with what's going on

WTF happened to lost origin? $200 on ebay? I bought these on pre-order for 100 bucks. Wish I kept more sealed but I had to complete the set ;) I love cracking packs but sometimes it's a little dangerous for me lol

Chillin reign just got taken off Pokémon center I don’t know if they will come back so might be out of print as of now… I believe sword and shield will be just like sky ridge ( last set WOTC printed) sword and shield will be the last set with yellow borders and crazy alt arts . Hopefully I’m here in 20 years to see the prices so I can finally retire lol

boosters are fraction shares, it all makes sense now

I cant tell you how many times I sold a moonbreon on eBay and got attacked by shill bids, with no payment. Ebay records these as legit sales no matter how many times I call them and tell then to delete the auction. AND report non payment.

Gotta. Catch. Em. All. This will be obtainable if and when pokemon is all said and done, something many people are crazy enough to try and do. Buy low and hold everyone its ezzzz

I agree with all besides rebel,vivid,battle styles, and darkness ablaze. PERSONALLY believe that. Much rather buy LO CR ST FS BRIL ES. Those are just way better investments.

What would you do as a young person, starting out in the "real world"? Can one make it in the "traditional" way anymore? How would you approach it if you started in 2024?

It was Fusion Strike.