Video summary
The video documents an intense and financially risky endeavor where the creator opens 100 packs of *Dragon Master Magia* in a desperate hunt for the elusive "Starlight Extended Art" Dark Magician Girl card, which has plagued him across multiple sets including *Battles of Legend*, *Terminal Revenge*, and *Stampede*. To track the financial toll of this pursuit, the creator meticulously calculates his net profit or loss throughout the process, starting with a significant upfront cost for the boxes. He explains that unless he pulls the specific target card before losing approximately $1,200—the estimated value of the prize—he will remain in debt after the session ends. The video serves as both an entertainment piece and a cautionary tale about the high costs associated with modern trading card game openings, highlighting how quickly expenses can mount when chasing rare full-art cards without immediate success.
Throughout the opening marathon, the creator pulls several notable singles that add value to his collection but fall short of breaking even or securing the main goal. He manages to pull a few "Chibi" versions of Dark Magician Girl and other solid hits like *Galaxy Photon Prime* and *Dragunity Glow*, noting that while these are desirable cards, they do not match the rarity or cost-effectiveness of the specific Starlight Extended Art version he seeks. The stream also features updates on his channel's operations, including a major shift in how giveaways are handled; instead of waiting months to announce winners, future prizes will be distributed live during weekly Whatnot streams starting that Friday. He promotes these upcoming events as opportunities for viewers to win vintage singles and other items while offering free credits to new users, aiming to streamline his workflow after years of falling behind on giveaway announcements due to a heavy content schedule.
As the pack openings near their conclusion with only six packs remaining, the creator reflects on the irony of the current trading card grading market, discussing how double-grading services have emerged to verify high-grade cards amidst controversies over fake slabs and inconsistent standards from major graders like PSA. He mentions his own plans to return graded cards soon as other companies recover from recent shutdowns caused by high demand. Despite pulling some valuable items that could be sold individually or in sets, the cumulative cost of the 100 packs leaves him with a negative balance relative to the value of what he has opened so far. The video ends on an emotional and chaotic note after he finally pulls a Blue-Eyes White Dragon during his Whatnot stream promotion, screaming in excitement before signing off, leaving viewers anticipating whether future attempts will eventually yield the elusive Dark Magician Girl needed to turn his financial fortunes around.
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Today we see just how bad it is to open
100 packs for Dragon Master Mia.
I'm screwed.
>> Welcome back everyone. We are here with
another Majia video, but it's not just
any other Mijia video. I'm actually sort
of rebooting this in a way so that you
guys can see exactly how expensive this
series can be. So, starting in today's
Mijia hunt up until we pull the
Starlight Extended Art Masia, I'm going
to be showing our net profit on the
packs opened the whole time. So, we're
going to start at the number that was
the cost of these boxes, which is fairly
expensive. And then we're going to add
back the value as we go. And if I get
into the positive, we'll start at a
positive number next time. If I'm
negative, we're just going to keep
showing how much of a hole we're in. I
think that's probably the direction
we're going to end up going. If we end
up pulling it, you know, before we lose
1,200 bucks, I think then we break even
cuz Mia is a $1,200 cardish. But when we
don't do that, which is very likely,
you'll see just how expensive it can be.
Now, for today's giveaway, I'm going to
be giving away this uh Blackwing Vue,
the Emblem of Honor. So, let's talk
about giveaways for a second. As you
guys know, I suck at announcing the
giveaways because I get way behind. I
have so much going on. I end up not
actually posting them for months. Well,
we're going to change up how the
giveaways work. After years on the
channel, we're changing the way we do
it. I'm going to still do daily
giveaways. I'm going to show you guys
what the giveaways are, but instead of
waiting months to pick winners, every
whatnot stream, I'm going to take all
the giveaways from the past few videos
and we're going to pick the winners live
on whatnot. So that way I get the
labels. It just makes it really easy for
me to like ship them out very timely and
you don't have to wait months to win the
giveaways. So, it's going to add more
giveaways to the whatnot streams. This
will be just in addition to the stuff
we're already doing. Plus, it's going to
give you uh, you know, chances to see
what you can win before we actually do
the streams. So, leave a comment down
below, like the video, subscribe, and
all that good stuff. I appreciate you
guys doing that. And check out the
Whatnot stream this Friday. We're going
to be doing a ton of crazy singles. I'm
going to be giving away big vintage
singles as well and doing the giveaways
from this week live on Whatnot. So, that
way I'm not like stressing out over, oh
my gosh, I got to do the giveaways. I'm
3 months behind. I don't have time to do
them. I have too much going on. This is
going to make it way easier and you guys
can just get in there and we're just
going to consistently do whatnot
streams, do more giveaways, more
giveaways, more giveaways and
everybody's got a chance to win. So,
make sure you click the link down below,
get $15 free credit as well while you're
doing that. But it's completely these
are going to be 100% free giveaways.
They're not going to be buyers
appreciation. They're just going to be
you need to be there. So, enough
yapping. Let's get going. Uh 100 packs
today. We're going to see let's just
make this the shortest like miniseries
ever. And we're just gonna pull this
thing. And as you can tell, I I've
changed up a lot today. We got the
giveaway switch up. We're doing a little
bit different things with Amasia. The
mat is upside down. This was a
recommendation from the comments.
They're like, "Just put it upside down
and it'll be fine." It's like, it
doesn't even matter what it looks like
at this point. It's like, you're right.
I'm just going to do that. So, uh, we're
going to open 100 packs of Battles of
Legend Glorious Gallery today and see if
we can pull the card that's been
torturing me for many years. It tortured
me in Battles of Legend Terminal
Revenge. Konami brought it back to
torture me in Stampede. It wasn't as bad
in Stampede because, well, Stampede did
torture me. So if you think about it,
Mia did torture me as well. So every set
that's had Amasia has tortured me. So I
think it actually does line up pretty
well. And then in this set, Battles of
Legend Glorious Gallery, we are also
looking for Amasia. So
some people I know some people are
probably like, "Oh man, I think some
people are getting tired of like full
art openings as we've done a lot of them
recently." So if you are that person and
you're still watching this video, like
probably just didn't even click on it if
you're tired of it. But if you were, let
me know what kind of videos you would
like. I tried that V uh Vin Con uh Gen
Con video the other day that I thought
was really fun to record. And I would
like to do more stuff like that when I'm
at conventions, but I have to be at a
convention, so it does make it a little
bit harder to make that happen. But if
you like that kind of video of just like
searching for Yu-Gi-Oh cards at local
stores, you know, maybe I can do more of
that. I'm trying to find different
things to do. Uh I do have a new series
coming out on Monday that I think you
guys are really going to enjoy. If you
liked Battle City Bonanza, you're
definitely going to like this new
series. So keep an eye out. It is a
master duel style series. Uh childhood
Yu-Gi-Oh is not going anywhere. So, you
got that um on tomorrow's video. We're
continuing. It's Wednesdays. Usually, we
do that. It's our first hit. That might
be a couple bucks. Uh I don't think
anything else is. There might have been
like a one or two dollar card in there,
but we haven't done much so far. So,
yeah. Child of Yu-Gi-Oh! Wield Anime, I
think, is going to be back Friday as
well, the tournament. Uh you guys really
enjoyed the one with uh C Reacts. He is
just the goat. So, that was a super fun
video if you missed it on the wheel
enemy tournament with Merrick finally
getting his appearance. Logia, our first
chibi, some of those chibi really don't
add up to much. Uh, but if you do get
like a full set, they can be worth like
25 bucks. Uh, just because they're
combined. So, individually, they're not
as much, but if they go together, they
can be I usually sell them as a lot. Uh,
if I can get all 10 of them, which I'm
opening a lot of these packs. So, I am
going to put the total number of packs
we've opened, I think, on the next video
cuz I still have to go through. I didn't
like keep the spreadsheet as well as I
should have. So, I actually got to go
back to all the videos and do math. Oh.
Oh.
Oh, wait. Maybe we need to know the
number. Maybe this is it.
So, the thing about the Majora, it's
Starlight extended art is what we need.
So, we don't need just a Starlight
because there isn't a Starlight of it.
We don't need just an extended art. We
need both. Here we go. Make this the
moment. Make this the moment. I'm so
ready. I'm so ready. Gaga illusion. This
would be so ironic if it was right after
full art week 2.
[sighs]
Okay. All right. All right. That's a
good one. That's a good one. It's not an
extended art, but it is a chibi. And I
do like the chibi. And it is the
starlight. It's got a little like dot
right there that would probably come
off. But uh centering looks really good.
How the corners look. This honestly
looks super strong. Looks like a super
strong uh PCG gradable card because, you
know, I do have actually have some PCG
things coming back because they had a
whole thing. They're going to have like
an announcement about, you know,
centering adjustments and stuff like
that.
And I think they have a special code
coming up. I think you guys can you can
try it now. I think it's going to be
actually I don't know if it's out yet,
so I won't announce it yet, but there is
going to be a code where you guys can do
if you're thinking about doing PCG uh
express at regular level. So, $20
express service. So, I'll be announcing
that in my next uh PCG return. So,
that'll be a limited time thing. But, if
you do have something and you want to
send it like super fast, it'll be only
$20 a card. So, very, very nice. That's
like bulk level PSA cost to get them
back express level. So, that's going to
be pretty sick. And I hope with the new
adjustments, uh it seems like they're
going to really help with like if you're
getting killed on centering like I do
sometimes, these are going to help and
make it more reasonable. But, I I did
get a preview already. He was uh one of
my one of my guys at PCG was like,
"Yeah, that rarity 5 set was pretty bad
print quality, huh?" And I was like,
"That's not a good sign for my
[laughter] for my return." He was like,
"No, it's not." But so I'm like, "Okay,
but I have like five returns there." So
it was not going to be all of them, I
don't think. Cuz I have some OCG stuff.
I've got my my serialized card I think
is going to be coming back pretty soon.
They were like, "Yeah, it is going to be
coming back soon. We're working on
everything because we've had a big rush
of orders with PSA closing down." I'm
like, "No worries." I mean, I'm not in a
huge rush. And I mean, it's not going to
take nine months like PSA is right now.
So, that's good, I guess. Okay, we have
Dragund Remis. I think I saw PSA was at
the national and they had to shut down
their on site cuz no matter what, like
PSA is still the craziest demand. Like,
people still want they're going to grade
their cards with PSA. Doesn't matter if
it's $80 level, super express level,
like they're going to submit them. there
there's just so many high-end cards
right now and it's like when it's PSA
graded it becomes $800,000 as a Pokemon
card or a sports card that I mean why
would you not for you know the the that
level I guess so with Yu-Gi-Oh it's a
little bit harder to make happen because
we don't have those super high level of
cards as much as like Pokemon sports etc
so $80 becomes like a pretty big
commitment for a grade so I think that's
I I understand why they're still getting
crazy demand even throughout, you know,
there being of course some some crap
going on. But there's a pyramid turtle
junk armor. And nowadays they have that
new service. I don't remember what it's
called, but like they grade your grade.
Have you guys seen this? There's like
PSA, but then like there's another thing
that grades how strong your card is.
Like is it a strong nine or a strong 10?
And it'll like tell you actually this is
a strong nine or this is a a weak nine
or whatever. or this 10 is actually
deserves a 10 or this would be a black
label 10 or Yeah, cuz they'll like some
people like pregrade it too. It's crazy.
The grading thing has gone to another
level. I kind of understand that though
with with grading there's so much like
week 10 uh check out that the 2000 2
million s it must be a fake 10 or
whatever. And it's like you can't
obviously you can't just pick an era
because just because it was in that era
like let's say I graded it 20 years ago
like a lot of times they'd give a lot of
tens then that doesn't mean that every
card graded was a weak 10 because there
were mintier cards back then. So you'd
think like back then there was a lot
more minty cards. So it there would
actually be a better chance of having a
high grade. But then they're like well
it was easier to grade. So really you
have to go by a card bycard basis as
always which some people seem to forget.
They're like no it's a whatever search.
So that means it's automatically a fake
10. So, I kind of get the the demand for
like the second grading of the grading.
It's a little ridiculous. Uh, honestly,
just having so many different levels,
but I get it because you want to know,
is the 10 I'm buying for $5,000 a real
10 or is it actually a nine or whatever.
So, I totally understand it, but uh also
it we're getting to a point of like
almost irony with what with what's going
on with with graded cards, right?
It's like, yeah, we grade our cards,
they become very expensive, and then we
double grade them. So, then they said
that the grade that we got was actually
correct. You know, it's pretty wild. So,
yeah, it is what it is. Uh, you guys
know I love grading, so I I've always
been a fan of it, but even I can see
we're getting to a point of weirdness
for sure. Okay, so let's keep going. So,
that that's one thing about like I don't
why am I talking about the grading so
much? We're not even grading cards right
now. But uh with with the PSA and the
other ones like SCGC now they just do
like the one grade. It's just so much
harder to really explain. You know, you
only have 10 numbers. When you have the
subgrades, you have so many more numbers
and it gives you a much better story of
what what's up with the card. But when
you have one or 10 total numbers, you
can give them one uh to explain their
card. It's like such a big range in
there, you know? It is tough cuz like a
nine that's like almost an eight versus
a nine that's almost a 10. Pretty big
difference there. And you know, same
with all the other numbers. There is a
first full art of the day. So, we've
gotten a Starlight and a full art. This
has been a great opening for uh full art
week. If you guys missed that, go check
it out. Uh why can I not open the
sleeve? Uh yeah. So, we did a bunch of
full art openings and we had a point
system. And yeah, we're also um by the
way, the new YouTube thing, we're
starting those giveaways with today's
video. So, I'm going to do the regular
YouTube announcements up until today. So
that way uh you know it's not confusing
for those other videos and then I'll
start doing the whatnot thing and see if
that works uh today. So hopefully uh or
this week I guess. So th this this is
the first one. So I'm hoping to make
that a little simpler for me because
honestly I have like negative time. I
have no time. And I'm probably going to
be trying to hire somebody soon
hopefully to help me uh because I have
my brother, but he, you know, goes to
college and so he will be gone soon. And
then I will be again swamped, which I'm
already swamped with him here. So
hopefully that can happen. I'm going to
hopefully get some way for people to
like say they're interested, etc. And
hiring is such a nightmare. Uh I've only
done it for editors, but it is a
complete crapshoot most of the time. But
I'm hoping to find somebody awesome and
then, you know, they can help me. They
can even like we can help me with like
having two people to record stuff like
when I go places. It'll be great. You
know, there's just a lot of potential
things that I could need. So, yeah.
Hopefully that will happen and [music]
uh go smoothly and everything. Uh feel
like my camera needs to be uh cleaned
off cuz it's kind of I don't know, maybe
that's just the reflection. Actually
looks pretty good. So, it's when I can
always tell it's a little blurry is what
is on the edge of these. It's kind of
foggy, you know. It's not too bad
though.
But I am thinking about like doing a
real camera too. Like another real
camera instead of a phone just cuz like
the iPhones I feel like the cameras are
more annoying now. They're probably
better but they're not as easy. Before
it would they would easily focus and
like I could tap on there it would
manually focus. Now it does not manually
focus at all. And I hate not having that
option. It's like you can tap on the
screen but it ain't going to do
anything. Okay, what else do we have?
Summon skull. Chibi summon skull. Took
us 10 years to pull that. All right. I
got to take this thing off. This thing's
hot. Shout out to the Kings. Big
Sacramento fan now. A cuff. Let's go.
And the A's. Just big Sacramento fan.
Let's keep it going. I feel a lot less
hot now. All right. Bond between teacher
and student.
Majia
100 packs.
Oh. Oh. Doof frog. Mirror barrier. The
mirror of the barrier. All right. Come
on, baby. Please. In this. I really just
want to stop using this mat. I mean,
it'd be nice to have the Mia, but
the punishment is the worst part, I
think. Pyramid Turtle is cool. These the
cards are looking pretty good, actually.
This this angle. I might actually keep
doing this for a while. This is kind of
the old angle you used to use. But a lot
of times, the problem is the lighting.
Like, if you go like this, it's a little
dark, so you kind of have to angle them
up, but it kind of works like that.
Looks pretty good. Give it a little uh
slight lighting.
Tell. Okay. Yeah, I always have to move.
Uh, whenever I move, I have change up my
setup a little bit and a little bit and
sometimes it works, sometimes it
doesn't. Another chibi. We're getting a
bunch of chibiies today, which is
fantastic. Uh, yeah, reminder about the
whatnot. Yeah, Friday. It's going to be
insane. I have a lot of old school stuff
that I bought at the collect, not
collect, Gen Con. Uh, and a lot of that
and a collection I bought recently. So,
we're going to be doing a lot of vintage
singles, like a lot of classic stuff,
cheaper, expensive, like we have all
varieties. It goes from there's Junk M.
It's like a $10 card last time I
checked. So, that should add a little
bit of value. But, there is a lot of
stuff there and we're just going to sell
it all and whatnot. So, everything's
going to be auctioned off live and
whatnot except some giveaways
potentially. So, I'll probably give away
some cool cards there. So, I'll I'll be
probably announcing that in this video
or something or maybe tomorrow in the
whatnot ad. So, if you want to see that,
if you want to win cool old school
cards, if you want to buy cool old
school cards, I've got a ton of stuff.
I'm going to have Blue Eyes, Dark
Magicians, Ghost Rares, ultimate rares,
uh you know, vint all almost all of it's
going to be like original series GX 5Ds
will be like ghost rare stuff, stuff
like that. Ultimate rares. So, there is
a lot substit. That's hopefully adding a
couple bucks every time we get one of
those. So, a lot to be excited about.
So, keep an eye out for all that. Uh,
that's going to be Friday, by the way.
Friday. Vampire Lord. Cool. Not
Thursday. Normally do Thursday, but uh,
whatnot has like a fee, no fee thing on
Friday, and I was like, I don't got
anything going on Friday. I guess we'll
do it Friday and save a little bit of
money on fees. So, uh, keep an eye out.
Friday, I'm aiming for I think three
actually. Did I say four earlier? I
think I'm aiming to do an hour earlier
because we might go a little longer
because last time I did singles, we did
a 100 auctions and it was like a three
almost maybe even a four, three and a
half hour. I don't remember how long it
was. It was a very long stream. So,
there'll be a lot of giveaways. There'll
be a lot of cards sold. Uh, if you like
ghost rares, if you like ultimate rares,
if you like old school cards, first ad
unlimited, uh, you know, collector 10
stuff, there's all kinds of old vintage
childhood cards that are going to be
sold there.
So, definitely do not miss that stream.
And, and if you've never been on,
whatnot, now's the time. I mean, there's
so many giveaways happening. $15 free
credit is still a thing. That's money
right there. I'm still doing Chaos
Origins as a bonus pack for, you know,
until I can't do that anymore. So, make
sure you check that out. You know, your
first purchase with me, you're going to
get a Chaos Origins pack. $20 bundles
are still being sold. You're getting
seven packs for $20. If you have 15 off,
it becomes $5 plus shipping for seven
packs. Then you get the eighth pack
becomes an eight pack for $5 plus
shipping. So, absolutely crazy deal
there. Don't miss out. We got hu I mean,
we've got that. And then we've got uh
some pretty big whatnot stuff with like
magnificent monsters, assuming I can get
stuff. And then I think we're doing one
gonna try to do a vintage one. Going to
try to do a vintage one.
So there is some cool stuff coming up.
Not just with the whatnot, but of course
all the YouTube series I was mentioning
earlier. So there's just a bunch of
content coming your way. So let me know
down below. Of course, let me know uh
what content you like the most. What do
you want to see more of? What do you uh
not want to see? Cuz I do want to see
that, you know. I mean, don't be mean
about it, but just let me it's not your
favorite series, whatever, or not your
favorite uh, you know, type of video.
And I'll take it into account.
Obviously, like a couple of comments
aren't going to like
two full arts. They aren't going to like
necessarily speak for everybody, but it
is good to know, at least when I'm
considering like doing stuff. Okay,
number 62, Galaxy Photon Prime Photon
Dragon. Very nice. Another full art.
Another full art. That is not Dragon
Master Mia. They're both ultras anyway,
so even if that was Mia, it would not be
enough.
Oh, another chibi. We're actually
getting good pulls today. We're getting
very solid pulls. We're not getting
anything crazy, but we are getting very
solid pulls.
Dragunity glow. If we don't get it
today, we'll just probably do another
100 pack opening and just do a 100 packs
every time we open it and just try to
knock it out cuz that is a lot of packs
at once cuz I really want to finish
this. Like I don't want this to be a 50
episode series like whatever or whatever
it was for Stampede cuz I actually do
want to pull the card, you know? I mean,
I've always wanted to pull the stampedes
as well, but like this time I there's a
couple couple reasons. The Mat and the
There's Dark Magician Girl. We might
have gotten almost every Chibi this
time, which is making me very upset
after uh full art week. You guys should
definitely go watch that out. Watch that
out. What does that even mean? I don't
know. Okay,
see if we can get something else. One
Starlight, two full arts. Feels like we
probably won't, but you never know.
You never know. Sheen, that was one we
didn't have. Dude, we've gotten
technically we could get 12. And if we
don't get any repeats, we could get them
all. I don't know if we had that one
either. Maybe at the very beginning. So
very close to having all of the
chibiies, which is pretty crazy. Uh, Le
Fusion, I think, is actually a few
bucks. So that's good as well. A lot of
these singles will be posted on my
whatnot stream as well. So if you want
to uh grab singles I usually I will put
them up for even if it's only like $1.
I'll put stuff up for that. So you can
use the $15 free credit. You do have to
pay shipping. I think it doesn't cover
the uh credit, but if you get multiple
things during the stream, it will
bundle. I don't think it does that on
marketplace right now for some reason.
So uh yeah, just wait for the stream if
you want to buy all that. Broxen34.com
will also have some some stuff, but I
don't know exactly yet. Those are mostly
consignments and my own stuff usually,
so keep an eye out. Ruxen34.com, of
course. Uh, if you have your own
consignments, you can send them there on
ruxon34.com. We got some big stuff. We
have Yu-Gi-Oh. We have One Piece. We
have Pokemon. Got a Moon Bion for sale
right now. The guy just lowered the
price to 4500. So, if you're interested
or even want to make an offer, it's PSA
10, obviously, uh, for that. So, uh, not
not raw for that price. We've got a
bunch of old school Yu-Gi-Oh stuff.
We've got ARS, Yu-Gi-Oh Slabs, PCG.
We've got TCG or not TCG, PSA, all kinds
of stuff you could want. So, if you have
a preference, there's a lot of options
for you.
Okay, six packs left. Here we go.
Six more packs. Five more packs. Mijia
time, please. Come on, baby. That's not
Amia. Just It'd be a pretty crazy four
boxes if we got three full arts, a
Starlight, and a and one of them was a
actual full art Starlite. I'd be down.
Three packs left. Learning Elf. I feel
like I've pulled Learning Elf so many
times in this Learning Elf. Okay. It's
probably cuz that that one reminds me of
Learning Elf as well. That the art is
very similar. Last Pack Magic, guys. L
Patrick [music] for the last pack magic.
Hit that subscribe button. Check out
whatnot this Friday at 3 p.m. Let's pull
the uh Mia
next time. Let's pull it next time. All
right, so here is our total. How far we
went negative or positive. I feel like
even with the good polls, we probably
went negative cuz these boxes are not
that cheap. So check out some other
videos on your way out. The whatnot
stream this Friday at 3 p.m. Central
rux34.com and I'll see you guys in the
next video which will be childhood
Yu-Gi-Oh tomorrow. Shout out to Brandon
Cheney, Adams, Bea [music] Training,
King Tamaya Junior.
>> OH, [screaming] AND ARCH LORD Christian
first edition.
>> Shang Lang and Cryptopy Mike for your
support as ultimate members. [screaming]
>> OH MY GOODNESS.
THE BLUE EYES, WHITE DRAGON. [screaming]
OH,
and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.