Video summary
In this video, the host investigates whether he was scammed after purchasing a vintage blister pack of Feronic Guardian from Collecticon that appeared to be resealed incorrectly. The main issue with the specific pack in question was that the plastic bubble was sealed off to one side rather than being centered, leading to suspicion that it had been resealed or contained a factory error. To resolve this uncertainty, the host decided to open the pack along with a large variety of other vintage sets, including Legacy of Darkness, Power of the Duelist, Battles of Legend, and Chaos Origins, hoping to find some nostalgic cards while testing his luck across different eras of the game.
Throughout the opening session, the host pulls numerous cards from these older sets, expressing excitement over finding specific "goat" format staples like Starlight Rare, various Ultimates, and Secret Rares such as Destiny Hero Double Dude and Heavy Polymerization. He notes that while his luck with Chaos Origins has been poor recently, he manages to secure several desirable cards from the other sets, including a clean copy of Submarineroid and multiple foil versions of older monsters. The host also takes time to promote his website and merchandise store, offering sealed boxes and singles for collectors who want to support the channel or build their own vintage collections.
The climax of the video arrives when the host finally opens the suspicious Feronic Guardian blister pack to determine if it was a scam. Despite the weirdly off-center seal, the contents feel normal upon opening, and he proceeds to reveal the cards inside without finding any signs of tampering. The pack yields a high-quality Necro Valley Hollow, which is a significant find for his Goat format deck, along with other useful commons and rare spell cards like Magikard. Ultimately, the host concludes that he was not scammed; the pack was likely just an original print with a strange factory seal or perhaps a very well-executed reseal that fooled him initially. He ends the video relieved to have avoided a scam and happy with the valuable cards obtained from what turned out to be a legitimate vintage product.
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In today's video, I'm finding out if I
got scammed by buying a vintage blister
pack.
What's up, guys? We are back with
another opening. And today, we're
looking at a blister pack I bought from
Collecton. Now, I bought four at once. I
didn't look at them all super closely,
apparently. I thought I did, but
apparently not. Because if you take a
look at this, there seems to be
something wrong here. This blister pack
is sealed off to the right. I mean,
obviously it is very not in the middle
at all. So, it seems like it either got
resealed and like stuck the wrong way or
it could be as simple as just a factory
error. But the only real way to prove
that it wasn't a receal is to pull a
foil. So, we're going to be opening it
up today. I had four of these and the
other three all were good. I was
packaging them all and I grabbed this
one as the third to last one and I
looked at I'm like, "This looks bad."
So, then I shipped the other one and I
had this one left. So, it looked like
three of them were normal. Everything
was fine. Uh, but this one specifically
was weird. So, we're going to check it
out later in the video. I also brought
the Legacy of Darkness I bought in the
Asking Every Vendor video at
Collecticon, which includes eight packs.
And then I have a first at Legacy of
Darkness that I've had laying around for
a while that we're going to open up as
well. We're going to try to get some
vintage goodies today. I also have a few
Power of the Duelists we're going to
open up to keep it old school. And we're
going to open a few Battles of Legend
because we haven't opened any Battles of
Legend in quite a while. And I still,
yes, need the Matia. So, Battles of
Legend. We do have a few Chaos Origins
as well. So, could we have just first
pack magic this?
There's still a lot of cards I need in
here. And Starlight as well. So, if we
first pack magic this, that is going to
change the whole video. Let's go. Come
on. First pack magic. Oh, okay. It is a
Starlight, though, so that's very nice.
This is not the card I was hoping for,
but it will have to work. I can't be mad
about getting a Starlight in any [music]
any way, shape, or form. So, that's
still pretty sick. Okay, let's do uh
Chaos Origins. I'm not going to be pack
tricking everything uh because we are
going to try to open a bunch of packs in
this video cuz there's still a lot of
stuff that I need. And then we're going
to open some vintage as well. So,
there's some other cool cards we can
get. Legacy of Darkness. See if we can
get any of those. I can't believe we we
first packed a uh a Starlight rare. That
was pretty cool. And Chaos Origins I
haven't had great luck with. I've had
pretty poor luck with that one so far as
well terms of my own cards. If you guys
if you guys watch the videos of uh full
art week, definitely go back and watch
that. I mean, absolutely got destroyed
overall. We're going to open Legacy of
Darkness or Power of the Duelist after
this pack. Let's see. One more chance at
Full Art Masia.
Not that time. Okay, let's open up Power
of the Duelist. I already got very lucky
in the 2000 upload special. If you guys
didn't see that, I celebrated uploading
2,000 straight days to YouTube. And uh
crazy pulls. If you like vintage old
school polls and you're like, "Man, I
wish RX had opened more old school
stuff," definitely go check out that
video. It was old school tournament
packs. It was part of the duelist. It
was some good stuff. And boy, did we get
some fantastic polls. You definitely
don't want to miss that video. Some of
my best polls of the year for sure. And
uh probably going to make it in that in
that finale at the end of the year. So,
that was very exciting to get some crazy
awesome polls in there. Like, not just
one. There was a couple of nice pulls in
there, which is awesome. There's a
chibi. That's cool. I'm hoping that
today is the day to get some awesome
stuff. This is a nice weekend opening.
We're opening some fun stuff. Uh just
enjoying uh Wait, we're not doing this
for these. We're Oh, I just I would love
to get this a Starlight. Speaking of um
but that's a cool card. I'll put that
super in the hits pile just cuz I like
that card. I think it's really awesome
looking. Let's see what else we can get.
Uh the black uh Brago is an Edison card,
I think. So, very nice. Let's try our
first Legacy of Darkness. So, these did
come from loose packs from a vendor. So,
I'd imagine we're probably not going to
get anything, but it would be really
cool to get obviously a secret rare.
Maybe get like a Roa, Exiled Force,
Spear Dragon. There's a lot of really
cool vintage cards in Legacy of
Darkness. So, I would be cool with
getting something like Invulg. Okay.
Dragon's Gunfire. We can beat a giant
dragon. We don't get to open vintage
very much anymore or old school. [music]
Uh, Sammy Destruction and
Thunder. Nion. Nion. It's kind of a cool
goat card. We could throw that in the
goat box. It's not like super goaty, but
it's that era. So, like if you wanted to
get creative with your deck, it'd be
nice to have that in the uh as an
option, I should say. All right, Draguni
Legatus out of Battles of Legend, Chaos
Origins. Still so many cards I need from
Chaos Origins cuz I've gotten absolutely
decimated. There's a Ravi. It's a cool
super rare, but uh I've I it's been
rough for me for Chaos Origins. Like
super rough.
All right, next we have
Okay, Chibi. That's cool. I'll take
that. Let's try Power of the Duelist
again. I We just had a great pull in
Power of the Duelist, so I don't imagine
we're going to get anything. But I'm
going to open a few packs for you guys
just to make it extra fun. We're going
to spend a little bit of money on this
pack opening.
Little bit as in, you know, not too
little. There's a a Neos. It's somewhat
expensive. We have Dspirit. Oh yes.
And one of my favorite ulties you can
get out of retail power of the duel is
the back does have some scuffing on it.
I'm probably just going to put this in
my binder because I've been building up
my binder just to like have a full
binder of like cards I like or have
acquired or pulled or whatever and it's
getting close to full and I think this
is an appropriate
an appropriate card. Uh like back in the
day I would have graded this and been
like this is like a nine or a 10 even
with that scuffing. But these days
they're gonna hammer you on every little
thing. So, it's like, you know what?
I'll just put my submarine roid in my
binder. That's probably the best pull
we're going to get all day. That's
awesome. I don't think it's super
expensive. Maybe it's 30 bucks. That
might even be high. I don't know. But,
oh, Pyramid Turtle. Nice Addison card or
go-kart. Uh, but
in terms of cards I like, that's one of
them. So, very cool to get that. Plus,
it's an old school ulti. There are a lot
worse ulties in that set as well. So,
very cool to get that. I like getting
fun cards. [music] And submarine is
always such a goofy one. and attack
directly. Switch over or switch back
just to defense mode. It's just
annoying. It's fun. So, uh, if you're if
you're the one using it. If you're not,
it's like, okay, this thing's a kind of
a pain. Is it level four? It is level
four. Dang. So, no gravity bind. Okay.
Okay. Nothing in there. Let's try Legacy
of Darkness.
Legacy of Darkness.
What else can we pull out of the
darkness? We already got something. Oh,
I just saw it, guys. I just saw the
card. Convulsion of nature. I just saw
the goat. The patrition
of darkness. This card used to mean
nothing to me and now it means so much
thanks to childhood Yu-Gi-Oh. If you
guys have not checked out childhood
Yu-Gi-Oh and you like old school cards,
you like old school duels, you like two
friends just hanging out, having a good
time, riffing back and forth, roasting
each other, getting roasted, check out
childhood Yu-Gi-Oh. There is 30 plus
episode playlist you can go watch.
There's playlist for all my series. So,
if you want to go check that out, you
can check out wield anime tournament.
You can check out the new Duelist
Kingdom Conquest, go check it out. But,
but Darkness specifically in Childhood
Yu-Gi-Oh has been awesome. So, I got to
pull that card out for the goat box cuz
it's a goated goat card. All right.
Dragon Rage and then Opticlops rare. So
far, the Legacy of Darkness are kind of
performing as expected.
I think we have 50 total packs as a
substitute substitute, I should say. Uh,
I think there are 50 total packs to be
opened today. Uh the newer ones make up
about 30 of them, so they will be going
a little quicker. But uh we have a
decent amount of packs to be opened.
Should be a good time. Don't really do
these. I mean, I know there's some
people that are like, "Man, dude, I wish
the good old days every day was an
opening or at least close to every day."
And it's like, yeah, those were good
times, you know, but it is getting
harder to find product. Like less people
are really caring about openings, so we
just don't get to do them quite as much.
And like the series are a lot of fun for
me and I think more people actually like
those. But the openings will never leave
the channel. So don't you worry. Uh and
so I'm kind of doing this one special
for you guys who are opening fans. If
you're a big opening fan, you're like,
"Man, I love I miss the old days of all
the openings." Well, here you go. That
you're going to love this one, though.
Okay. Power of the Duelist
First Edition. Let's see what we can
get.
I'm doing pack trick on the older ones
because they are, you know, vintage
pack. 20 years old for the power of the
duelist and older for the legacy of
darkness guardian. There's another Neos.
Oh, wait. I did the wrong pack trick.
Destiny Hero double dude. Super rare.
He's double. He's a dude and he is a
super rare. Very cool. Pretty clean card
as well. Very nice. We'll take a super
rare. So, Power of the Duelist is
performing, but I know those are unwade
because I have had tons and tons of the
or I have tons and tons of those or have
had I guess most of them are gone from
that lot. But, uh, so I know these
there's been many good pulls from people
like many, many good pulls. Oh, I forgot
I have two uh heroes packs as well.
That's going to be fun to open. Chibi
Summon Skull. You don't see that every
day. That's an awesome card. Uh, I
always have trouble playing the Chibi
Summon Skull. Still have not pulled the
actual Starlight version. So that would
be fantastic to actually get one of
those at some point. Just saying. You
know what else would be fantastic to
get? Mia Shape Snatch. That's a great
card. By great, I mean goofy, but also
fun. If we get one foil of these Legacy
of Darkness, I'll be happy. And out of
the unlimited. The first ED is a
separate thing. I have no idea where
that came from. I just found it in like
a box and I was like, "Oh, wow." Okay.
All right. Come on. Gradius option.
Cool. You want to play the gradius
stuff? I'll put that in the goat box.
Who knows? Spiritual energy settle
machine. Super robo lady. Troop dragon.
Thank hiccup. Fusion sword. Minosame
blade. Okay. Struggling. I had like a
hiccup burp thing there and I couldn't
breathe. That was weird.
That happens way too often. Lagia chibi.
We're getting a lot of chibiies which is
fantastic. Only a couple more packs of
Chaos Origin and Battles of Legend. We
are almost completely done with those.
There's Uriah. I've gotten everything
but Lord of Skinny Thunder. I think
that's wild.
And okay, secret rare. It's going to be
mostly vintage and ended. I know you
guys mostly care about the old school
stuff, but it always is fun to check out
the new ones, especially with the full
arts and stuff. And knowing that I have
not really pulled that well out of those
sets.
Blade Master, Relis, the Starboard,
Ruxen Special, Wonder Garage, Synthetic
Saraphim, Black Terror, and Dark City,
the Darkest of Cities. Let's open one of
the Oh, I have three of these. I have a
Heroes pack. These were all packs I
brought to uh Collecton and didn't end
up opening.
Oh, Dark Magical Curtain. That's cool.
Oh, and the Kuribo. That's also a nice
secret. One more Chaos Origins pack.
Why did I pack trick that? Maybe because
it's the last pack. Ruxen Special. S
Force Power Patron. Ruxen Special.
Double RXen Special today. That's okay
because we have Legacy of Darkness. We
still could use some uh legendary oceans
as well for the water deck. That could
also be cool.
Bubble Crash, Robotic Knight, Double
Snare, Devil Snare, Skull Knight number
two, Dragon's Rage, Ryukishing Clown,
Heart of Clear Water, and Azura Priest.
We got a hollow and it's an awesome one.
Super rare Azura Priest. And the back is
looking pretty clean. Overall, a nice
condition old school goat card. Very
nice overall. I wasn't expecting to get
any foils, so getting one at all is
awesome. Now I'm expecting to get a
grandmaster. Let's go. Grandmaster time.
Here we go. No grandmaster. All right,
we tried. Power of the duelist. And
don't forget, we have a scam pack to
open at the end, which I hope isn't a
scam, but even if it is, Feronic
Guardian has some good rares. So, and
commons. So, hopefully there will be
something good in there no matter what.
Like a metamorphosis. I could use more
for my goat box. I usually sell them.
Then I'm only like down to a couple
metamorphosis. I have to find them in
other decks and I'm like, where'd I put
that deck? You know, it's kind of a
pain. Oh yeah, last heroes pack. Let's
get a grandmaster and everybody's happy.
Got a collector rare, I think. Yep, we
got a heavy polymerization, whichever
one it is. Nice collector rare. Very,
very beautiful. So, interesting that
they have collector rares in their
heroes, but our magnificent monsters
does not. That's interesting. We didn't
get collectors or ultimates for whatever
reason. Hm. Okay, not a huge deal
because I mean they're they are kind of
cool but not necessarily needed but in a
premium product you kind of expect it.
Heart of clear water and warrior
returning alive but maybe they're
thinking like let's not oversaturate the
rarity and you know put 20 rarities of
everything which I can appreciate that
as well. Okay.
Miracle Jurassic Egg, Mausoleum, Decoy,
Roid, Bite, Lawn, Dspirit, Wonder
Garage, Alien Gray, Synthetic Saraphim,
Cosmic Horror, Gangiel. All right. How
many more packs do we have? Three of
those. We got one first out of there.
Okay. So, I think we got three unlimited
Legacy of Darkness. We This is also a
first dead for a guardian. If there's
actual, you know, real pack in there and
maybe it got recealed like and the pack
didn't get open. They just like they
probably would have waited at that
point, but maybe they just sealed it
back or whatever. Super Robbo 8. Where's
Legendary Ocean at? Susa Soldier. I
could like really use that. That'd be
sick. A lot of these are not cards for
goat. And the more goat cards I can get,
the better. Now for power of the
duelist, four from the back. We have
brainwashing beam, alien hunter, common
saw. One ulti so far, one super ultra
would be great. There's a lot of heroes.
Another ulti would be awesome. Pass of
Destiny, Dspirit,
Wonder Garage, and
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A chain for Okay, maybe not. Maybe not
that. All right, let's check out Legacy
of Darkness.
My battery is getting low on my phone
because my phone dies in 8 seconds,
which is fantastic. Another great reason
not to use your phone to record. Four
from the back. Let's see if we can get
this dragon dwelling in the cave.
Spirits invitation. Twined wolf.
Gradius's option. Troop dragon. Fang
Shing Mirror, Patrician of Darkness, the
goat of Legacy of Darkness. We have a
faint plan and
oh, speaking of goats, fantastic Edison
card. A decent goat card. Fantastic
Edison guard. Bottomless trap hole.
Legacy of Darkness does have some pretty
awesome cards and it is proving that
right now. Can we get something here in
this Power of the Duelist bag? By the
way, if you do want to grab some Power
of the Duelist, I do have some available
on my website and whatnot. So, you can
get them in uh groups of 1, 5, 10, and
24. So, if you want a full like booster
box worth of these 2006 first dead
packs, they are all unweighed. They are
random packs, so you may get crazy
ratio. I've had people buy 10 packs and
get five ultis. I've had people buy 10
and get zero ulties. So, it's just kind
of random on what you get, but there is
definitely a chance to get stuff out of
these packs. So, go check those out on
rux34.com. elemental hero Neos. Very
nice. And that you'll support the
channel as well and hopefully get an
awesome pull or just keep them sealed,
whatever you want to do.
Submarine roid returns to the field as a
rare, okay? Cuz if you watch the 2000
upload special, you saw a pretty crazy
pull out of Power of the Duelist. So
definitely go check those out on whatnot
or my website, ruxom34.com.
Okay. Also, there's a lot of other
things available there, including a lot
of people's consignments. There will be
a lot more going up as soon as I get
caught up on those consignment listings.
So, keep an eye out for PSA graded
sealed stuff. It's a lot there. I put
some singles up there. Let's try this
Legacy Darkness last unlimited pack.
We've got one super so far, which is
honestly better than expected, but it'd
be great to get a secret or an ultra
right here. Even another super would be
awesome. There's some good ones.
Patrician of Darkness number three. A
playset of the goat of Legacy of
Darkness. I got to put that in the the
hit pile. Cave Dragon and looks like a
foil. Let's see what the stats are.
Ooh, twin headed behemoth. Okay,
super rare. So, those were not at least
fully weighted. You know, we got some
couple of foils out of there. This is a
pretty cool card. Has a once per duel
effect, which is pretty goofy. Uh, twin
headed behemoth. Awesome. Two hits out
of eight packs, I think, and I got one
extra. So, it's two for nine, which is
not bad. Overall, pretty close to ratio.
Let's open our last power of the
duelist. Then we'll do First Dead Legacy
Darkness, then the weird Feronic
Guardian blister pack. Did I actually
get scammed? We're not actually going to
know that answer, but we can make an
estimated guess. The we pull like a
ultra rare, then probably not, you know,
but if we don't pull anything, then it's
kind of just like maybe, maybe not. Or
if we pull like Power Rangers cards or
whatever, we'll know. We got scammed, so
we might get answers. We might not. We
have Alien Hunter, Common Soul, Neos,
that's like our third one of those at
least. Dspirit, Crystals, Dolphin,
Alien Warrior. Very nice. Okay, one pack
of Legacy of Darkness First Ed. That's
been in my Where was this? It was just
in a box. I have no idea where this came
from, but Legacy of Darkness First Ed. I
got to hydrate for this one.
We got to be ready cuz if we pull like a
secret rare first dead, that's a huge
pull. I don't remember the last time I
opened First Dead: Legacy of Darkness.
It's been a little bit. We did open a
good bit of this throughout the years,
but it's been a while. This one opens
way easier for whatever reason.
First dead pack, four from the back. I
would love to get a first dead legendary
ocean common as well. We never got a
single legendary ocean in here. Dragon
dwelling dwelling in the cave. A huge
dragon dwelling in a cave. It is
horrible when it gets angry. Although it
is usually quiet, it is said to preserve
certain treasures. So, watch out. Smog
is ready. Spirits invitation.
Twin-headed wolf. Where's my legendary
ocean? Spring of rebirth. Maharagi
spirit
throwstoneone unit. Looks like no
legendary ocean here and
oh wait one more card. Super robo yaru.
Okay seeer ultra super bottomless fatal
abacus. NO, NOT THE ACCOUNTING. First
edition pack. Unfortunately first
edition miss. Now we get to the climax
of the video. Did I get scammed from
this feronic guardian blister which has
an ancient name that exists before so
powerful blah blah blah. Nine cards per
every pack. Man, these are nostalgic.
The backs of these look amazing. [music]
And obviously this is not in the right
spot. It does not move. So it was either
glued back in super well or uh it just
originally got sealed like this. But
even an original seal a lot of times
will move. So it makes me think maybe it
was resealed just cuz it's so tight in
there. I'm trying to like just pop it
out. But this thing is really on there
good. So, I really don't know what to
think right now.
All right, I guess we're just going to
have to rip it open.
Here we go. Maybe it was an original
seal and like just weirdness happened.
I mean, it's opening pretty normally.
It's kind of opening like a normal one
would open. It's ripping the back, which
does happen a lot on these.
And yeah, that kind of looks a lot like
it would, at least from my experience
with some old school blisters.
Interesting. Okay, now I'm even more
confused. First Ed, this pack doesn't
feel weird at all. Feels like a regular
first dead pack. Doesn't feel like
there's different cards in there. I
mean, now I don't think they would have
resealed this pack. It probably would
just be Wade. But overall, feels like a
normal pack. Doesn't I'm not seeing any
signs of anything. Okay, first Dead For
Guardian. Maybe we have a good pack
here. Now, if it's a good pack, I mean,
we we we I could have ever sold that
blister. I don't think like that because
it would always look resealed. Um, but
it was like, you know, 100 plus dollar
blister that we're opening up here. So,
hoping for something good. Doesn't have
to necessarily be a h 100 bucks, but I
would love to get a hollow. That would
make me feel a lot better. Reaper on the
nightmare is awesome. Donaluga is
awesome. It'd be nice to get a
metamorphosis common trap dust shoot.
Let's see what we can get. timidity,
non-aggression area,
charm of shi. So far, none of these are
the commons I'm looking for in the
common slots. Pyro clock of destiny.
Okay,
birdface. Justice for birdface is
officially here. Quick panic's going to
love that one. Ride of spirit. All
right,
we got something out of here. We got a
metamorphosis, which is formerly a very
expensive common. It's now only a few
bucks, but in goat format. This is a
great card to have, especially since I
have a goat box. And this is a card that
often gets sold because it costs like a
few dollars. So, I'll sell it for seven
bucks or six bucks, whatever it was that
much. And I didn't set aside as many.
So, whenever I build decks and multiple
decks, I don't have enough
metamorphosis. [music] So, this will be
good to add to the goat box. Servant of
Catabolism. All right, last card here.
Why is that looking like a foil back
here? Book of Life, even. Maybe that
would be an awesome card as well that I
don't have a ton of. Book of Life is a
super rare in this set. Uh what else
could there be? There's a few other
super rarers. Let's see. Uh or sorry, uh
Magic SL uh spell cards in here. We
actually spoilers. We actually got
Magikard version, which fonic guardian
is when they were switching that over.
[music] So you can get both spell card,
feric guardian, and magic card. Let's
see what the last card is.
Oh, and Necro Valley. That's a huge one.
So it looks like Okay, we got to mess up
with the Rxen [music] face. It looks
like I did not get scammed.
And that was just a weirdly sealed
blister. And check out that horrible
center. [laughter] It's a little bode.
It's got terrible centering, but it's
still a Necro Valley hollow out of first
edition Feronic Guardian. So, we know
this is the original print. This is not
one of the 15 Aratas of Necro Valley.
This is the OG. Incredible. Nice hollow
there. What an awesome way to end this
video. Actually finding out I didn't get
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