Video summary
In this video, the host embarks on a high-stakes pack opening session of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game's "Magnificent Monsters" set, aiming to finally break his streak of bad luck and pull a Grandmaster rare. Before diving into the main event, he promotes a massive 30-hour Pikachu celebration party on Whatnot, where thousands of packs are available at a discount and a $16,000 Rayquaza Poncho Pikachu will be given away. The host expresses his frustration with the current state of his phone while explaining that the "Magnificent Monsters" set has notoriously poor pull ratios, making it feel like finding a needle in a haystack to get anything beyond ultra rares or secret rares. He notes that despite the high cost of mini boxes at $35 each, many collectors are hesitant to buy them because they cannot resell the cards easily if they do not hit a rare pull, leading to a situation where players must either lose money opening packs or avoid buying them entirely.
The opening session quickly turns into a marathon of disappointment as the host opens numerous mini boxes and sealed display cases, pulling only ultra rares and secret rares for an extended period. He expresses growing despair over failing to get even a single Starlight Overframe after opening nearly 200 packs across various streams, highlighting that the set feels like an "all or nothing" gamble where getting a standard rare is considered a failure compared to the elusive overframes. At one point, he jokes about retiring from this specific set because the value of non-overframe cards is so low that there is no incentive to continue unless a Grandmaster appears. The atmosphere becomes increasingly tense as he approaches the end of his supply, with the host questioning why Konami has made such high-rarity cards so difficult to obtain compared to previous sets or even the Pokémon Celebrations set he promotes.
Just as hope seems lost after opening an entire sealed display case without a single extended art or Starlight rare, the climax of the video arrives when a Grandmaster Blue-Eyes White Dragon finally appears in the last few packs. The host reacts with screaming excitement, celebrating the moment that validates his persistence despite the grueling odds. Although he had programmed a specific pack number for a Grandmaster earlier in the stream and missed it with a Star Junk Synchron instead, this final pull serves as the ultimate redemption. He concludes the video by encouraging viewers to check out his upcoming Pokémon streams for better odds and giveaways, while also promoting his website for other Yu-Gi-Oh! products that guarantee overframes, ending on a high note of relief and joy after what he describes as one of the worst opening experiences in history.
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Today's the day I do it. I pull a
Grandmaster [music] rare.
>> What's up, guys? We are back with
another search for Grandmaster rares.
And if you've been following my journey,
I personally have been opening this
recently. I opened a lot for Front Line,
my local store. I open some on whatnot
in a couple different streams, but I've
been opening my own packs recently,
trying to get really, well, really
anything. I've gotten nothing.
Obviously, I want a grandmaster. That's
the ultimate goal. But I haven't even
gotten a Starlight overframe yet or
extended art or full art, whatever you
want to call it. I just default to
overframe. I think it sounds the best.
So, today's the day we break that
streak. But before that, we have a
giveaway. I'm giving away the underframe
dark magical curtain and dark magician,
the pharaoh servant. And of course, my
phone is being weird, but we we'll
figure out the the you know, how it
looks later. Like the video, be
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So, I will see you guys this Thursday at
3 p.m. Central. I cannot wait to open
celebrations and pull that Lugia. Now,
as you guys know, this set the pull
ratios suck. So hoping to get something
good out of here is like hoping to, you
know, find a needle in a hay stack. But
I can't stop opening it because I'm a
little addicted. Okay, I'm not going to
lie because there is such a cool chance
of getting Grand Masters. The Starlight
Overframes are crazy. There's so many
cool cards in here that I want to get.
This is way too close to the screen.
Okay, and we are going to take this one
mini box at a time because these mini
boxes are not cheap. They're $35 MSRP.
Uh, no joke on the price. So, I'm going
to I'm going to just enjoy my time. See
if I can finally pull something. I want
Chibi Zeus or Thousand Eyes or Nightmare
Eyes Restrict out of here. That's a
Starlight rare. It'd be cool if I could
get the Starlights of those. Uh we have
the uh Ruler of the End of the World,
which is going to focus right now
because iPhones are incredible. I love
how good they are at staying on the
recording. And they used to be so good.
I feel like they got worse. I I'm I
would stake my claim to say they are
worse. Okay. I've never had so many
problems until like the last year.
Phantom of you bell and Stardust Dragon
Victim Sanctuary. We got to do one from
the back to get the correct pack trick,
I think. So, let's do it like that.
Magnificent monsters. I can't rip
through these like I rip through Battles
of Legend or something because they are
just I mean they're like $10 packs
basically right off the rip. So, it's
like Rarity 2, but everybody hated
Rarity 2 and there was no grandmaster.
votes. Not like Rarity 2 at all, but
price-wise uh for Rudross and uh
Stardust Dragon Victim Sanctuary, is
that a sign? Yes. And by the way, I ask
get asked all the time, "Is your
Grandmaster being graded?" Yes, it's
being graded. Still waiting on it.
Haven't gotten it back. You will see a
video as soon as I get it back. Do not
worry. And uh hopefully it gets a good
grade, man. Maybe I do need to go back
to this. I'm trying to find the right
angle here. There. There we go. Not 90°
angle. The correct angle is what I'm
trying to say. Okay, let's pull up these
chibiies. I like those. Cyber's code
magician.
All right, $35 in. We've gotten a couple
of chibiies. That's about it. I have
faith, though. I have faith. If you
start thinking about how much these
cost, it really starts to it starts to
hurt a little bit. Okay, next mini box.
Uh, Dark Run IP, that's pretty good,
too. At some point, I will finally have
all my extras on whatnot. I keep meaning
to put them up. Hopefully, they are
there for this stream, but they may or
may not be. Also, just uh whatnot this
week is uh the new celebrations, but
next week we're also doing the original
artwork collection. So, you can bookmark
that stream as well. Uh that is a crazy
new release. That is probably I I don't
even think it's a stretch to say it's a
better set than Magnificent Monsters.
Magnificent Monsters has grand masters.
I don't know for sure if there are Grand
Masters in original art collection yet.
Even if they don't have them though, the
set has so many crazy anime and manga
cards mixed with like extended arts that
it looks like a much better set in my
opinion. What much better? And I like
this set. I'm not even saying this is a
bad set. I think the pull ratios suck.
But other than that, it's still pretty
good. So I think original artwork is
going to even eclipse that. So
definitely be there for that stream.
Going to be giving away some packs, etc.
Uh we have the wing kuribo sa level 10.
Man, you really can't see those ultra
names. Already too many boxes in. Oh,
it's going so fast. It's going so fast.
Please stop. Don't go so fast. I'm going
to I'm going to take my time a little
bit more. Okay, I'm already kind of
taking my time, but not enough. Not
enough for these. Okay. Antimatter
magnifica. Okay. Any chibiies I pull out
just cuz they're fun. There are quite a
few chibies in this set. Quite a few.
Come on. Give me Give me something.
Starlight Overframe would be incredible.
I would love that. I mean, just a
regular overframe would be great.
There's a flaming man. I've pulled that
guy many times on the uh the
underframes. I still can't get rid of
this Mia mat because we haven't pulled
it yet. There is a ma big Mia video
coming soon uh that I'm going to record
a bunch of pack openings. So hopefully
we can uh get lucky on that one. So keep
an eye out. That'll be coming tomorrow
or the next day, something like that.
Okay,
we have evil hero Neo's lord. We have
the uh witch crafter, iron chain,
deception, and cyvers contract witch.
That is now three mini boxes. And we
have not pulled anything but ultra rares
in the secrets in the promos. But yeah,
no nothing but secrets in those. If you
didn't see the ratio video I did, the
EV, the expected value, you can check
that video out. But 96.4% chance on
every pack, you know, when you open a
pack to get all ultra rares. So very,
very high chance. And I think it's
actually lower because of clumping.
There's a mega clumping problem where if
you get the wrong cases, you just get uh
nothing. Like the best you can get is an
ultra overframe essentially is what it
seems like on those those clumped boxes.
There's no way to know if they're
clumped though. That's the problem. Oh,
I didn't open this. This has Chibi Zeus,
I believe. Chibi Zeus or Nightmare Ice
has Chibi Zeus. It just doesn't have the
Starlight version. But hey, I'll take
that. Secret rare is pretty cool. Secret
rare is pretty cool indeed.
This is a fun pack opening. Plus, we get
to open celebrations today. It's just a
good day of pack opening. A lot of fun
stuff. I am trying to get it where it
you can actually see these cards better.
But this dagum phone is just I can't
wait to get a new one. I kind of want to
get the flip phone though, but then, you
know, it's the first iPhone flip phone.
It's probably going to be terrible.
Could always get an Android, but they're
like a they're you know, I don't even
know how to operate an Android. I'm not
that technically proficient. All right.
Saint is Amina. And we have Dark
Magician, the Pharaoh's Servant. Very
nice pull. The corner though. Nice
corner right out of the pack. Dinged up.
Okay, cool. That's our first sleevable
pull though. I'll take I mean, not that
we wouldn't sleeve anything else, but
the cards I'm sleeing during the video.
Magnificent monsters. Crazy. Like I know
that a lot of people didn't love this
set, but you can I can still find these.
Maybe not you, but I personally have
been able to find these in stores. Like
every single time I've looked for them,
there's been a million of them
available. Another Zeus and a fancy
ball. So, people are not like going out
of their way to go buy these. And I
don't really blame them because it's 35
plus tax end of almost $40 for like
three and a half packs. I mean, I get
it. We've talked about it many times
like it's really for the chance
something crazy. But I get why people
aren't like I'm buying them all because
it's kind of expensive and if you can't
just, you know, resell them, which I
guess people are not doing around me at
least, then it's like, well, I got to
either open them and lose a [music]
bunch of money or just not buy them. And
that seems like what's happening. uh
favorite hero, which I'm cool with. They
stay on the shelves a while, I can
always, you know, grab a couple, open a
couple more, all that stuff. Have a
little fun with it. Last pack of our
What is this? Fourth mini box. Fifth
mini box. Oh my gosh, this isn't going
well. [laughter]
We have nothing. We have nothing. Oh my
gosh.
It's all ultra rares. The title of this
video is going to be like Magnificent
Monsters has the worst pull rates of all
time or something like [laughter] that.
That's what it's going to be. It's just
going to be a bunch of uh are going to
get 30 ultras and 15 secrets in this
display box and be like, "Yep, that's
sick. That's great for me." All right,
there's an an cool and I the world
chalice just saw.
Come on, baby.
Elzette Averax. Pretty cool. Fish sonar
and favorite hero, Flame Wingman.
Magnificent.
The monsters are quite magnificent
indeed. Come on. Let's go.
We have the liquid soldier.
King's resonance dark. Like, you
literally can't see this name. Like, I
don't know if it's the camera or like I
have to go like this. You can kind of
see it. and wing kuriba sa subtl level
10. I got to pull out this dark magician
of course. My gosh, we are literally
it's all [music] ultra rares. How many
packs has this been? We've got another
12 13 17 packs of ultra rares and then
six packs of all secrets.
This is bad, man. This is bad.
Witch crafter. Waboku. Very nice goat
reprint. You can use that in Edison. You
could use that in Duelist Kingdom of
Conquest. If you guys haven't checked
that series out, make sure you check it
out. It's been crazy. Uh, Guardian Slime
Gaga Magician Gaga Magic. I'm gagaing
for something good and I'm not getting
anything. Guys, it it might be time to
retire from this setup if we get 30
ultra rares and 15 secret rares. This is
bad. This is really bad.
feels really, really bad. The cases I
opened for locals, like
they weren't crazy ratios, but we were
at least getting stuff. Since then, it's
like impossible. I've gotten not a
single Starlight Overframe, and I wish I
had the numbers, but I did like 150ish
mini boxes on whatnot. We got nothing uh
in terms of Starlite overframes. We got
a bunch of ultras, but uh no Starlet
Overframes. Then I've opened for myself.
I've opened
20 30 I don't know how many. 40
something like that. No, no Starllet
over frames. Almost 200 for a Starllet
overframe.
Eco Talker integration. Okay, I need
water. Didn't make me feel better.
[snorts]
It didn't make me feel better. I was
hyped. I was hyped for this opening. I
was ready. I was getting myself pumped.
I was like grandmaster time. And then
this
Not even Grandmaster. I don't want I
don't even want a Grandmaster. I mean, I
do, but I don't even expect a
Grandmaster, but Starlight rare would be
enough overframe and nothing. Just not
even a Starlight out of the promo packs.
Okay, that's pretty good. That's our
best hit yet. I think it's around 12
bucks.
But it's the Dark Magical Curtain. It's
under frame. It's cool. Pretty cool
card. Pretty cool card. We got a Dark
Magician or Dark Magical Curtain and
Dark Magician the Pharaoh Servant or
whatever. So, we've gotten the giveaway
back. CAN WE FOLD THOSE? OH my gosh. One
more pack here before we have still
three more mini boxes, I think. This is
hurting. This is really rough. This is
really rough, dude. Original artwork
collection. I hope you get got some nice
pulls in there that we can get. Uh,
[groaning]
pendulum.
Why is the side of this There's a side
It looks like there's like something
coming off of that. You see that? What
is that? Is it this card? It's just
Edgewear.
Edgeware is all shiny. Like the card's
jacked up. OH MY GOSH.
OH, I see why Ry retired from this set.
I might have to follow suit. Let me know
in the comments. Do I retire from this
set? Do I give up? I've never felt so
discouraged. E. Well, maybe Mia.
Actually, Stampede probably was worse.
I felt pretty bad on those, but at least
I was getting like good cards the whole
time. Now it's like, okay, cool. Those
are three good cards. Not like I'm not
getting good cards, but like with
stampede, I was getting quarter
centuries and there was some value in
those that I could at least sell back,
get some more packs. There's almost no
value in these packs.
If you don't get an overframe, it's like
nothing. Like, you got to get the dark
magical curtain and stuff and those are
like 12 bucks and you're getting one
like one in display.
Like, oh my gosh, this is rough.
Two left. It's really all or nothing.
almost the most all or nothing set since
Ghost of the Past 2, but this one is
like way higher all or nothing cuz you
can get really crazy stuff
IP.
Nice Galatea.
Okay, maybe we'll get more than that on
Dark Magical Curtain. Okay, feeling a
little better. That helps for sure.
Getting a second Dark Magical Curtain. I
like that. And one Dark Magician, the
Pharaoh Servant. All right, nice. So,
one more pack. That made me feel
slightly better about this. But it'd be
really nice to get something that wasn't
just an ultra rare in one of these. I
mean, that would be fantastic.
Not even an overframe yet at all.
Oh, I'm scared. We'll get a pendulum.
Pendulum. We'll get Astrograph sorcerer.
All right. Magnifica. Mischief. Banana
bell.
Astrogass sorcerer. I was talking about
the overframe really, but I mean we get
the underframe version right after I say
that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Two more mini
boxes, guys. This is not pretty. Hit the
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thoughts on this set.
I'm sure you guys have given up on this
set by now. I don't know. Maybe some of
you guys are still on the hunt cuz I
mean some of you guys have hit me up
like, "Hey, I got a Grandmaster." and
you guys were like, "This is
incredible." So, you guys are living the
dream. I already hit I already hit one.
So, I I'm lucky enough to have gotten
the one in in OCG, so I can't really
complain too hard. Also, I should
mention like if you guys are like, "Man,
these pull rates are rough. I like when
they guaranteed overframes." Check out
ruxen34.com. I still have limit over
collection the rivals, which [music] is
the blue-eyed set, and it guarantees an
overframe per box. So, I've still got
some sealed ones of those. I've got some
open boxes. Most of those are just they
don't have the shrink wrap and you'll
still get your overframe usually. Uh at
least from all I've heard and all the
ones I opened that was the case. And
then there are some loose packs as well.
So you have a much better ratio on
those. So if you want to hit those up,
they're also way cheaper. They're like
60s something per box which is 15 packs.
15 packs of this is five mini boxes
which is like $200. So yeah, you can
save some money open as an OCG product
there. All right. Breakthrough skill. We
have a bow cube. First time seeing that
today I think. Galate eye, the orc is
the automaton. Here we go. [snorts]
Odd eyes, pendulum dragon, four heavenly
dragons.
Yeah. Yeah. Four heavenly dragons.
Awesome. Yep. Just what I was looking
for. Next one. Come on. Please
make this the pack that we've been
searching for.
It may have been bleak so far, but this
pack will change it all. Ancient
warriors oath activate. Underworld
circle GMX allos. My camera's going
everywhere. I'm hitting cords and stuff.
Phantom of you bell. AND HERE WE GO.
Winged Kuribo underframe. Maybe we need
to call in Master Noah. BUT MASTER NOAH,
SHUT UP, JOHNSON. It's my TURN TO OPEN A
PACK. I will open this magnificent
monsters pack, you fool. But I will show
you how it's done. I live in the virtual
world. I can program anything anywhere I
want. And I've just programmed a
Grandmaster into this pack. It's number
34. Dark Magician, the Pharaoh's
Servant, Grandmaster. Here we go.
Regenesis Arch Fiend, Exo Sisters
Magnifica, Iron Chain Dragon, Dark
Cavalry, and my Grandmaster I have
programmed in the virtual world.
Um, what's gone wrong with my my my
computations, my analytics? They I
thought for sure I had programmed
something into this spot, but it's a
star junk synchron. More like star junk
crap synchron. Last mini box. We had to
kick Noah out because he was being too
loud. He was too loud. We got to make
him shut up. Last mini box. Not a single
Not a single extended art in nine mini
box. This is a sealed display.
Not one Starlight.
This could This will be the worst
display. I guess the worst would be
somehow you don't get any dark magical
curtains, but not a single Starlight
rare or overframe in this entire display
unless there's one in this. So, I
win-win. I either get a Starlight or an
Overframe or I get to complain about not
getting one. So, win-win for me.
[laughter] I'd rather get one. Okay.
Oh, thank goodness. Ah, Galaxy eyes
antimatter dragon. Let's go. Okay, we
got one. And we got a Starlight Abberax.
That's nice. This is not a crazy
Starlight that I'm looking for, but it
is a high rarity card. The first high
rarity card in $315
worth.
Oh, that hurts. Okay, now we have four
packs. Now, hopefully this means if we
get an overframe in here, then I'm going
to start being convinced there's like a
ratio and it's like at per display you
get one of each or whatever
cuz that's what I got last time I think
was one of each. Please overframe.
Please overframe. I still haven't gotten
a Dark Magician even though the ultra
rare uh ultra overframe alakard. We have
Rainbow Bridge by Frost. We have Infred
Necromancer, Fish Sonar.
Number 34, Emissary 39. I wish it was
number 34. It'd be great. Oh my gosh. I
could only hope Pokemon Celebrations
ratios aren't this bad. I would assume
they're not. Uh, but you never know.
Pokemon opening Pokemon can be brutal
sometimes, too. But there's a lot of
cool cards coming out. So, do not miss
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We're going to have packs. We're going
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give away the gold star Pikachu tonight,
which is going to be so cool. So, make
sure you guys are there for them. Now,
bring us a little luck celebrations.
Let's celebrate a grandmaster or just an
overframe at this point. That's all we
need. We need an overframe.
Treacherous trap hole. Quite treacherous
these packs have been indeed. Malefic
paradigm shift. Crimson call.
Galate. eye that works automaton and
go talker integration. Why? Why? Why are
they like this,
Konami? Why?
Why are these so hard to pull anything?
Okay, last pack. Last pack. Magic, guys.
Hit the subscribe button. Hit the like
button. Send me clovers.
Oh my gosh, this is a bad opening. All
right, we did get a Starlight, so at
least didn't get nothing. No nothing,
but we were pretty close. Last pack
magic. Five more cards, five more
chances. Send us the luck we need. Here
we go. Source Child, we have Rainbow. We
have Sulphord.
Medius the Pure. Will we go 30 packs all
ultra rares?
And we ended on a pendulum under frame.
NOT A SINGLE EXTENDER.
8:30 packs in a full sealed display.
WHAT IS [screaming] HAPPENING?
All right, guys. Let's hope Celebration
is a little more fun this afternoon. Of
course, check out the whatnot stream.
Check out my website, rxen34.com. Like
and subscribe if you want to see more
content. Please don't make me open more
of this, but I I'm probably going to
want to and like tomorrow I'll probably
like, you know what? be kind of sick if
I open more of this, but I got to
remember what just happened. How bad
that was. Shout out to Brandon Cheney,
Adams, Bea Training, King Tamaya, Junior
Party, OH, AND ARCH LORD Christiania
first edition,
>> Shang, and Crypto Poppy Mike for your
support as ultimate members. [screaming]
>> OH MY GOODNESS.
THE BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON.
OH. [screaming]
A
great
>> and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.
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