This reminds me of my best friend. Growing up he played yugioh, to the point he made it to nationals in Chicago and got invited to play in japan. He would min max a deck with cards that are “banned” now and would make the morbidly obese manchilds rage (like the ones in this article) he probably made over 2k just playing local tournaments which was good money for a 13/14 year old and he’s been selling old cards lately for even more.
That and he ran a deck slightly over the minimum card limit. Can’t remember what specific cards he used, but he basically speed ran through his deck while the sweaties were running max card decks.
You’d be surprised. It was the advent of things like Dueling Network that really allowed people to test outside of their local playgroup and started consolidating knowledge and theory. But even into early 5Ds era, I’m pretty sure it’s possible to find occasional tournament deck lists that did put up actual results doing silly things like running Upstart Goblin in a 41 card deck.
No. It's well established now to keep the absolute minimum number of cards in your deck as possible. You pick the cards that will win and nothing more to keep the chances of drawing them high.
Anything more than that bloats the deck.
But back when we were all kids zMor3 monsterz izzz moar powahhhh.
He’s making about 10k a year off collectible selling on eBay and the like. His younger brother has about 50k worth of collectible cards just sitting in boxes in his mom’s basement according to him. Imagine being able to pay off a good chunk of a house today just from Pokémon and yugioh cards.
Imagine being able to pay off a good chunk of a house today just from Pokémon and yugioh cards.
Imagine what a clown world we live in where people are willing to pay for them.
It's crazy enough that people pay obscene money for old baseball cards that are genuinely rare because people didn't value them until years after they were printed, but these cards came from computer files that are stored on some server, and they could crank out a million more tomorrow that would be identical in every way. It's truly artificial rarity.
Oh my friend mocks the entire thing, but 10k a year doing minimal effort and eBay selling is a nice paycheck bonus. He even shows me the buyer demographics of a lot of these cards/ collectibles, it’s almost entirely apartment renters in cities buying $200+ dollar cards. The eBay bidding addiction is real, I’ve seen people outbid his buy now price by $50+ a few times now.
The consumerism in nerd culture has gotten to epidemic levels and been nothing but bad on multiple fronts: hobbies that used to encourage DIY aspects are all but gone in the name of selling more products, scalping and limited runs have become so common now even some companies are trying to step in. Tell your friend to keep an ear to the ground, I don't know when the bottom will drop out but I'm guessing sooner than later.
This reminds me of my best friend. Growing up he played yugioh, to the point he made it to nationals in Chicago and got invited to play in japan. He would min max a deck with cards that are “banned” now and would make the morbidly obese manchilds rage (like the ones in this article) he probably made over 2k just playing local tournaments which was good money for a 13/14 year old and he’s been selling old cards lately for even more.
Because he liked to use POT OF GREED, allowing him to draw two more cards from his deck???
That and he ran a deck slightly over the minimum card limit. Can’t remember what specific cards he used, but he basically speed ran through his deck while the sweaties were running max card decks.
Everyone knew you needed as small a deck as possible to be effective.
You’d be surprised. It was the advent of things like Dueling Network that really allowed people to test outside of their local playgroup and started consolidating knowledge and theory. But even into early 5Ds era, I’m pretty sure it’s possible to find occasional tournament deck lists that did put up actual results doing silly things like running Upstart Goblin in a 41 card deck.
You mean minimum card decks?
No. It's well established now to keep the absolute minimum number of cards in your deck as possible. You pick the cards that will win and nothing more to keep the chances of drawing them high.
Anything more than that bloats the deck.
But back when we were all kids zMor3 monsterz izzz moar powahhhh.
Next episode: "What does Pot of Greed do again?"
Yami: sharp intake of breath
ROLL MY DICE
That does what it do.
Until you said Chicago I thought we might have known each other irl. I've gotten a deck banned in the past as well, and sold a fair few prize cards.
He’s making about 10k a year off collectible selling on eBay and the like. His younger brother has about 50k worth of collectible cards just sitting in boxes in his mom’s basement according to him. Imagine being able to pay off a good chunk of a house today just from Pokémon and yugioh cards.
Imagine what a clown world we live in where people are willing to pay for them.
It's crazy enough that people pay obscene money for old baseball cards that are genuinely rare because people didn't value them until years after they were printed, but these cards came from computer files that are stored on some server, and they could crank out a million more tomorrow that would be identical in every way. It's truly artificial rarity.
Oh my friend mocks the entire thing, but 10k a year doing minimal effort and eBay selling is a nice paycheck bonus. He even shows me the buyer demographics of a lot of these cards/ collectibles, it’s almost entirely apartment renters in cities buying $200+ dollar cards. The eBay bidding addiction is real, I’ve seen people outbid his buy now price by $50+ a few times now.
The consumerism in nerd culture has gotten to epidemic levels and been nothing but bad on multiple fronts: hobbies that used to encourage DIY aspects are all but gone in the name of selling more products, scalping and limited runs have become so common now even some companies are trying to step in. Tell your friend to keep an ear to the ground, I don't know when the bottom will drop out but I'm guessing sooner than later.
Yeah my card career financed my first car.
I mean I'd compare to my Nvidia stock.