Video summary
The video documents a trip to Walmart to purchase the newly released Magnificent Monsters Grandmaster Mini Boxes, which the creator surprisingly found in abundance on their very first attempt. Despite expecting a difficult search, the shelves were stocked with approximately thirty boxes, indicating either a massive initial shipment or poor sales velocity rather than a restock. The creator purchased five mini boxes for a total of $191.46 after tax, noting that while the set is exciting to open due to its potential for high-value pulls like Grandmaster cards, the high price point per box makes it a risky investment if one does not hit the rarest items.
During the opening process, the creator successfully pulled several desirable cards, including a Starlight Chibi in the first pack and multiple Ultra Rares across the regular packs. The video highlights the statistical probability of the set, where there is roughly a 96.4% chance for a pack to contain five Ultra Rares, yet the creator experienced significant "clumping" in luck, going through many packs without hitting specific targets before finally securing key cards. Notable pulls included the Dark Magician and the Dark Magical Curtain, though both were identified as Underframes rather than the coveted Overframes, adding value but not reaching the peak rarity sought by collectors.
Ultimately, the financial return on the initial Walmart purchase was minimal, with the creator admitting that they likely did not make their money back based on the cards pulled so far. However, the session concluded with a sense of accomplishment after finally pulling the Dark Magician and other interesting variants, transforming the opening into a "win" despite the lack of a Grandmaster. The creator also promoted an upcoming live stream on Whatnot where they plan to open more boxes with better luck, while acknowledging that the high cost of the set means future openings will be limited to avoid excessive spending.
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I'm headed to Walmart to find the brand
new Magnificent Monsters boxes in
stores. I hope it's probably going to
take a while.
>> Nighttime Walmart run.
It looks like they're here.
That was a lot easier than I expected.
Did not expect to find these in the wild
on my first try, but it's a good sign
for Yu-Gi-Oh. Well, kind of good. Kind
of bad. They're not getting scalped at
least. That's good. What else do they
have?
You got the usual.
You got some Dragon Shield.
They got GX. They've got the decks.
They've got a lot of a weird amount of
of NBA today. That's a really cool set
of sleeves.
I don't have my mic, so it's not going
to sound incredible here. But I really
didn't expect there to be anything here.
That's why I didn't come prepared.
One for one. That's a shocker. If you
told me that 2 months ago, I wouldn't
have believed you. But I'll take it.
Pretty great. Let's pull A GRANDMASTER.
WHAT'S UP, GUYS? WE are back from
Walmart. And amazingly, it took one
Walmart and there were tons of mini.
There's probably 30 mini boxes on the
shelves. It was insane. I couldn't
believe how much cuz I I went on a
Sunday night. Usually they drop on a
Thursday or a Friday. So, they've been
there a few days and still had that many
left. So, they either didn't sell that
well, put up a massive amount, or maybe
they restocked it. I would be surprised
if that was the case. So, maybe not as
in demand as we expected originally. So,
we've got our five mini boxes and they
were $34.97 each, equaling a total of
$19146
after tax. We're going to try to make
that back on this opening. But if you've
watched my EV video, you know we're
probably not going to get back on that.
You should definitely go check that out
if you want to see the numbers on this
set. But not to worry, I will be giving
away another one of these Magnificent
Monsters mini boxes. Just like the
video, be subscribed, turn on
notifications, let me know down below.
Will we get lucky today? Will we get a
Grandmaster? I'm really just looking for
an overframe, but a starlet overframe
would be insane based on how hard it's
been to pull for me. Want to remind you
guys that I will be doing more
Magnificent Monsters on whatnot this
Thursday. That's either today or
tomorrow. I don't know exactly when this
is being posted cuz the timelines are a
little messed up, but either today or
tomorrow, we're going to be live on
whatnot. It's going to be at 3:00. I
think we're going to start in the
afternoon and opening more mini boxes
hopefully with better luck than last
time. So, if you want to potentially
pull a Grandmaster, be there live. It's
going to be a lot of fun. I still have
yet to pull the Dark Magician. I think
that'll be the chase. Dark Magician
overframe Starlight uh for me cuz
obviously Grandmaster, any Grandmaster
is a win, but that's going to be so hard
to actually do. Uh that it's probably
not going to happen. These are actually
the first packs I've opened for myself.
So, this is really exciting. I haven't
gotten to keep anything yet because the
first four cases were all from my local
store. Shout out to Front Line for
allowing me to do that, but um obviously
I didn't get to keep those. I get a
Starlight in the first pack. Let's go.
This is a great start. Uh, and then the
whatnot stuff we did and it was super
unlucky. So, I'm hoping we get better
luck. We're already off to a better
start. Chibi, Dark Ruler, no more. That
is a W right there. I don't know that
the value is going to be a million
dollars, but I love Chibi and I love
them in the Starlight uh rarity. So,
that is incredible. That is awesome. One
for one already. I mean, how could I how
can we top that? Okay. I mean, uh,
that's probably all downhill after that
because that's a great start, but if we
can get anything in the fourth slot of
this pack, uh, we're going to do one
from the back because that'll put the,
uh, variant card to the back. So, we
have Shining Sarcophagus, Wish Crafter,
Madame Ver A, we have Gladiator Beast,
we have Gorgon of Zilonia,
and we have a Stardust Dragon Victim
Sanctuary. Cool ultra rare right there.
I'll take it. I do love a good Stardust
Dragon. As you guys know, I have the
Grandmaster in the Japanese set. If you
missed that poll, go check out that clip
or that video. It's supposed to be
coming back from grading for the last
like four months or four, sorry, four
weeks. Uh, it's been like, yeah, it's
coming back. It's coming back. So,
hopefully we get it back at some point.
But, of course, now the English ones are
out, so nobody's going to care. All
right, Chimera, we have Mech Knight,
Crusader, Averax. Pretty cool. Uh, Chibi
card. We have the Fandora, Gem Knight,
and
Cyber Contract Witch underframe. So, in
that slot, you're always going to get an
underframe or an overframe. You're going
to get one of the two. And if you're
wondering what I mean by underframe, I
mean a card that could be an overframe,
but it's not. It's a regular uh old
Yu-Gi-Oh card frame. So, call those
underframes because they could also be
overframe. Okay.
Next up, we have the Tier Limits Cash
Tira. Nice card. Uh, Assault Blackwing,
Kisanagi, the Gathering Storm,
Automatonic,
Guard Slime, and El favorite hero,
Shining Flare, Wingman, also an
underframe. So, we are starting with 15
ultras in our box and two secrets. Uh,
it's pretty normal to get 15 ultras. If
you watched my video, every pack has a
96.4%
chance to be five ultra rares, and the
other 3.6% chance is all the other
rarities. So, uh, knowing that, I'm not
going to have high expectations. Uh,
let's open our promo pack, but at the
same time, I had to give it a chance at
Walmart. And I'm glad we already got
Starlight. That's pretty awesome. So,
Infernal Strike, we have Visa Samsar. I
like that chibi. And then the Master
Spirit, Tech Force, pulling out all the
Chibies, and I'm pulling out all the
Underframes. A lot of those will go in
my whatnot store. Uh, I did that for the
OCG. And it just seems like cards that
people like and I personally like as
well out of the set that are not huge
value, but are very cool. Draco Tail
Lucas. We have the Oricalo sort of
ceiling, the GMX associate noma fish
sonar, sonaring the fish and wing kuribo
savier level 10 underframe. Okay, if we
even get the one underframe, I think the
ultra rares, what was the percentage on
those? It was like 2.9% chance. That's
the highest chance to get something
besides a regular ultra rare if you get
the ultra extended art. 2.9% chance
according to my uh that was according to
my uh the one math basically uh by four
cases. But as you know four cases is a
small sample size compared to the
massive amount of cases out there. A lot
of clumping in this set it seems like.
I'm assuming it's clumping because
you'll go 90 mini boxes with nothing and
then somebody gets five, you know, in 10
mini boxes. So it's really really
interesting. All right. Malefic. We have
the King's Resonance, the Galatea Eye,
the Orcus Automaton, and
Horoscope Sorcerer, the Stargazer,
Magician. All right,
that's good. That's great. All right,
last pack of this mini box. Uh, I have
high hopes. Uh, I don't know why I have
high hopes. I really shouldn't because I
got the math the math cuz the 96% chance
was actually on the good opening. 96% to
be to be all ultras. So, if you go with
the bad opening, it's like 99.9%.
Woku, this is great. I'll be pulling
these out for the goat box. Um, Saint
Azamina. And come on, baby. We got the
Gaga girl cell phone subtraction. My
locals actually pulled this card in a
full art or a grandmaster basically. So,
uh I can't remember the number, but I
think it was 32 maybe out of 100. So,
Front Line had an awesome pull. I was
like, man, they gave me the wrong cases.
That would have been sick to pull. But,
uh, still still awesome. Okay, next mini
box. I'd imagine we haven't made much
back. The Dark Ruler No More, I'm sure,
is is a couple bucks. So, that being a
Starlight rare is great. And I really
can't expect in my original one, you
getting a Starlight 15% of the promo
packs, which was pretty good, but I feel
like some of the other ones I did were
way lower than that, so I might have
gotten lucky or unlucky the next time.
Uh, Mobilize Engage Chibi and the
Oricalos Sword of Ceiling Secret Rare.
Very nice. Now for magnificent monster.
I still can't believe that this was so
easy to find at Walmart. That that
surprised me. I walked in. I expected
there'd be nothing. And then there was
not only something, but there was a ton.
Cuz I was planning to just grab a couple
cuz, you know, if there was only like
five left, I didn't want to grab them
all because this set is hard to get or
like, you know, a lot of people want it.
There was like 30 boxes. I was like, I
can get my normal five boxes and and not
feel bad. This is great. All right.
Malefific forest. We have whirlwind for
hire. I couldn't believe it was there 3
days later. Elzette
Star Junk Synchron Underframe. This is a
nice looking card. Just the regular one
looks really good to be honest. I like
the underframe on that Magnificent
Monsters. I really don't I'm I'm a
little conflicted with how much to open
of this set because it is a fun set to
open, but the price, as I've talked
about, is so high per mini that even a
short video like this is $191 at $35 a
piece. So extremely expensive. And if
you get the 96% chance of not getting
anything, you're not really like it's a
huge money loss. So, it's a hard choice.
IP Mascarena. Obviously, I'm going to
open some, but it's probably not going
to be in the massive amounts of packs.
Luckily, Front Line was nice enough to
let me open a big amount for them. Gaga
Magician because they need S. That's the
thing with like locals. They won't have
singles from the new set, so they open
stuff anyway. So, it was a perfect match
where it's like, oh, I'd love to open a
lot. You know, it saves me a lot of
money. Okay, next pack. Yeah, just three
packs in a in a promo pack. just goes by
so fast. It's like there's $35 down the
drain right there. Uh, okay. And I
obviously I want to get the Dark
Magician. I don't care if it's Starlight
or not, but uh getting one of those
would be great. Secretarian Dragon
favorite hero flame wing man. This is an
awesome one. I saw a grandmaster went
for 77.50 I think for this one. So quite
expensive on the favorite hero flame
wing man. It does depend on the number
etc. what you get because sometimes the
numbers are better or worse of like
number one out of 100 is going to be
very very expensive. We're only opening
a total of 15 regular packs and five
promo packs. Only 20 packs from Walmart.
I have a couple other ones that we might
open. We'll see. We'll see how crazy I'm
feeling. Uh the World Chalice Justice
Star secret rare and the master tech. I
I did I have the old angle right now and
it's kind of working so I'm not
switching it. I keep switching between
angles of recording but we're just
seeing how it's going to work. Okay.
We're going to see how it works. Let's
do Magnificent Monsters Tre Treacherous
Trap Hole. Dueling Special. This card
was so good in a 20 card deck format
because you only need to play like one
trap. We'll just play three of these and
then like you draw it immediately every
time and popping two in a three, you
know, monster zone format is so strong.
Zeus, my favorite card. Finally pulled
this. I love this in secret rare. Love
it in Starlight Rare. Very exciting. We
have the Radiant Typhoon. Dark Magician,
the Magician of Black Magic. Awesome.
and
favorite hero. Flame Wingman. The
Wingman is back. More chances here.
Magnificent monsters. Give us some more
luck. Come on.
Breakthrough skill. Diabelar. The black
witch. Shout out Ryme. Sulacord
happiness.
K9 Auna. And
the odd eyes pendulum dragon for
heavenly dragons. Pendulum. Dragon.
Pendulum. All right, another pack. Let's
just move on from the pendulum. These go
by so fast.
We're already almost done. Like, this is
such a quick opening. I don't I don't
like how quick it is. Uh, ghost alakard.
We have Isa Samsara. Nice chibi. Sinful
spoils. Uh, delinquent duo. Shout out Ry
and Dion. That is a very annoying card
in the OG days. And this will go in the
goat box.
Starjunk Synchron Underframe. Okay, I
still love opening the set no matter
what the EV is like the return. Like
there's just a lot of fun stuff. There's
some goat stuff. There's some chibi
stuff there. There's all kinds of I mean
obviously the grandmaster potential is
insane. So getting that is is nuts. I
think this is the best secret rare right
here. This uh this ruler of the end of
the world. I think there's like three
bucks or something. Engage on the uh
chibi. That's nice. And then Orical goes
sword of ceiling. Three packs remain
here from our Walmart run. And as you
can see, here's what we made back of
$191.
Uh I don't know that we've been adding
up the the tiny cards. So that you could
add a couple bucks that in there
probably, but that's not really going to
change a whole lot. Divine Arsenal Aeus
Sky Thunder Chibi.
Very nice. Gym Knight Ant.
The Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon. Four
Heavenly Dragons.
Okay, two more packs. This ain't pretty.
This ain't pretty at all. 96% chance to
get all ultra rares. And guess what
we've gotten so far? All ultra rares.
Every pack's 96% chance. So you keep
factoring that together. I guess you
have a better chance every time. SP
Little Night, Automatic. We've got the
Guardian Slime
and Starjunk Synchron underframe. I feel
like I've seen Star Junk Synchron about
20 times. I said I like the underframe.
They're like, "All right, we'll just
give you nine of them. How about that?
Last pack from Walmart. We're going to
open a couple extra packs here because I
don't want the video to be too short and
because I really want to get something.
Uh, sulford sul sula sul. I don't know
what that says. Uh, elzette wink. Did I
do the wrong pack trick? Wink kuribo. I
did wink kuribo underframe. All right.
So, uh, 15 regular packs, all ultra
rares. Seems like the numbers I I did
earlier makes sense. 96%. Okay. I'm
going to grab I'm going to grab another
box. Okay, I have a couple boxes laying
around. I'm adding to the cost of this
video by $35 every single time, which is
quite expensive. Quite expensive. But I
want to pull something on our first
video. First video opening this for
myself. Oh, wait. That was the promo
pack. Why did I do that? Okay, Magnifica
is a nice chibi. Forgot I was opening a
promo pack. I hate how these are always
upside down.
Every time they're upside down. Light
them up, baby. Here we go. Nightmare
Throne. Nice card. Assault Blackwing. We
have Performer Palushfire. Sorry, I'm
licking my lip. My lip is so dry. It has
a hole in it right now. Shocker. My
mouth is messed up. I know. Gaga
magician. Gaga magic. But it is driving
me insane. It's been messed up for a
week and a half. At least I can talk
this time. But my lip is extremely dry.
Feels like I'm in the desert right now.
It's killing me. Divine Golden Shadow
Dragon Duxion. WP Fancy Ball. We have
Radiant Typhoon. We have Delinquent Duo
again. and Cyber Code magician under
frame. Not even a dark magician under
frame or a dark magical curtain under
frame. This is rough.
Come on. Come on. Okay, here we go. I
also uh have started the NFL Pix league,
which you'll miss like win the Wednesday
night game potentially if this is being
posted Thursday. Um but join in the Pix
League for Rucks and Sports. That's my
sports channel, which we mostly just do
football stuff and have fun with that.
So, make sure you guys join. There we
have Fish Sonar and number 39 Utopia.
Do we have to go until we get something?
I don't know that I'm committing to
that, but I am going to give us another
chance. So, uh yeah, join the Pix
League. It'll be fun. We're just going
to It's all casual. You're not going to
win anything. It's just really just for
fun and bragging rights and to do better
than me, which is not hard cuz last year
I kind of sucked. So, I'm excited for
the football season. So, make sure you
guys join that. Okay. If you are
football watchers. All right. Nightmare
Eyes Restrict. Nice. a uh Madame Ver and
IP. I like all of those. That's a nice
nice little thing there. Little little
promo pack is what I'm trying to say. I
don't think it was upside down that time
and I was flipping it upside. Okay. I
don't know what's going on. Next pack.
Walmart. Oh, wait. This isn't Walmart
anymore.
I guess we could see like all these
extra boxes. Will we make our money
back? I doubt it. We have an IB. We have
Keel Fish Sonar.
Favorite hero. Flame Wingman number
three. Where are the dark magicians?
Anybody? know where Dark Magician is.
Still looking. All right, two more
packs.
What are we up to now? Like seven mini
boxes. It's getting dicey. Uh Poseidra.
We have Master Spirit, Art Mage,
Deception.
Favorite hero? Shining Flarewing. Man, I
got a lot of favorite heroes. That is
for sure, man. Magnificent monsters. Now
look, I know we pulled the the limit
over collection, the heroes grandmaster.
You don't have to be so mean to us
though. Uh SP little knights. Uh we have
fluff wings. OGS
the final bringer of the end times. And
dark magical curtain underframe. Let's
go. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's nice. We
got We got something. It's an under
frame, but we got something. Dark
magical curtain. Fantastic. That That's
a few dollars right there. It's a nice
pull. It's got Dark Magician Girl on it.
But are we going to end there? No. Of
course not. Of course not. I think this
is I think this is probably the final
one. I think this is the final one. I
got to hold myself back for other videos
cuz we open all the packs now. We can't
make more videos.
All right. One Starlight on the first
one and nonsense. So, it'd be cool to
get one right here. But, you know, 85%.
It's kind of kind of checking out
Magnifica.
Cool. Now, we've got our three packs.
Magnificent monsters.
Can you give us something sick? We have
SP Little Night, Radiant Typhoon,
Delinquent Duo, and Gaga Girl. Cell
phone subtraction. Subtracting from the
cell phone. Also subtracting from our
wallet. We got snatch stealing our
wallet. Now we got subtracting from our
wallet. Two more packs.
Two more chances. This will be eight
total boxes. That'll be 24 regular packs
and eight promo packs. So 32 packs
overall.
Neos Lord, Sky Striker, mobilize,
engage. We have Paleozoic, oloides, St.
Amina, and
yes, Dark Magician, the Ferro. Okay.
Okay. So, I'm feeling better about this.
We at least got the Dark Magician and we
got the Dark Magical Curtain. They are
under frames. They're not over frames or
anything, but they are very cool. So,
the Dark Magician, the Pharaoh's
Servant, ultra rare. Put that with the
Dark Magical Curtain. And now we
consider this a win of an opening. Don't
look at the subtract the the negative
value there. Just ignore that part.
Okay, leaving us with last last pack
magic, I should say. If you guys have
not checked out the whatnot stream, make
sure you bookmark it, guys. Follow me
over there. We're going to be doing a
lot of streams. Pokemon Celebrations is
next week. We're probably going to be
doing some of that. There's also going
to be the uh original art collection
coming out in the OCG, which is going to
be one of the best sets ever. If you
like, you know, Magnificent Monsters is
cool, but the original artwork
collection is probably going to be
better. It does. I don't know if it has
grand masters, so it might not have that
high-end, but like the actual cards in
it are absolutely insane. So, make sure
you bookmark the streams there. We will,
of course, have YouTube videos opening
it as well. So, make sure you subscribe.
A lot of good stuff coming up. Let's get
a Grandmaster Neos Fusion. We have WP
Fancy Ball, Doomsy Destruction, The
Crowley, and
Cyvers Code Magician.
Just what I was looking for in the last
pack right there. Very exciting. All
right, so that's what I was able to get
at Walmart and three extra mini boxes.
Unfortunately, the 96.4% chance stands
true. Let me know your luck on
Magnificent Monsters. Have you guys been
pulling Grand Masters? Have you pulled
an Ultra Overframe, Starlite Overframe?
I want to hear your luck. How many boxes
did it take? Were you the person that
got one one mini box and got a
Grandmaster or got like Dark Magician
extended art or whatever? Let me know in
the comments and everybody can
congratulate you and pat you on the back
and you flex a little bit. So, check out
the whatnot stream coming up. Make sure
you guys subscribe and of course check
out rux34.com. Thank you guys for
watching. See you guys next time. Shout
out to Brandon Cheney, Adams, Beam of
Training, King Tamaya, Junior Party,
>> AND ARCH LORD CHRISTIAN first edition,
Changang and Cryptopy Mike for your
support as ultimate members.
>> OH MY GOODNESS.
THE BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON.
OH,
>> and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.