Video summary
The video features an enthusiastic opening of the highly anticipated "Magnificent Monsters" Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG set, which the host describes as potentially the craziest release in the game's history. The session begins with a focus on hunting for the elusive Grandmaster Dark Magician, though the host also expresses excitement over other rare pulls like Starlight 2.0 and extended art versions of popular monsters. Throughout the opening process, the presenter highlights the high-quality artwork and unique variations found within the packs, noting that while some cards have minor print quality issues like fuzzy corners, the overall aesthetic is stunning. The host also takes time to promote a live giveaway stream on Whatnot, encouraging viewers to participate for a chance to win multiple mini boxes and even entire displays of the new set.
As the opening progresses, the video showcases a wide array of reprints and new cards, including Liquid Soldier, Cyber Dragon, and various Dark Magician variants like the Pharaoh Servant and Master Spirit. The host discusses the rarity distribution, noting that while Starlight rare cards can appear in any slot of the pack, full art versions are significantly harder to pull compared to standard ultra rares. There is a particular emphasis on the "Chronicles" series and the potential for Konami to release an official anime movie to capitalize on the growing popularity of characters like Dark Magician and Elzette. The presenter also shares personal anecdotes about attending recent tournaments, such as Worlds, and contrasts his collecting habits in Yu-Gi-Oh! with his more relaxed approach to Pokémon cards, explaining why he is less stressed about obtaining mint condition copies for the latter game.
The climax of the video occurs when the host finally pulls the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, a legendary monster that triggers an immediate and loud reaction of shock and joy from him. This pull serves as a major highlight, validating the hype surrounding the set's potential for iconic reprints. The host concludes by reiterating his goal to find either a full art Starlight rare or the Grandmaster Dark Magician to complete his hunt for this specific set. He ends the video with a final call to action, urging viewers to check out the upcoming live stream for massive giveaways and promising another opening session the following day to ensure fans get their fill of the new cards before they sell out.
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Today I'm searching for the Grandmaster
Dark Magician.
It's happening. I'm pulling it today.
>> What's up, guys? We're back with another
Magnificent Monsters opening. And as you
all know, I'm very excited for this set.
We had a video yesterday opening a few
mini boxes. Today, we're hopefully going
to open even more than yesterday, but we
have a giveaway. I'll be giving away one
of these mini boxes, and it's going to
be running tonight on Whatnot. So, make
sure you guys like the video, be
subscribed, turn on notifications. Let
me know down below what do you think
about this set. Have you had a chance to
grab some? Does your locals have any?
Did you pre-order any? And what is your
favorite card that you're hoping to
pull? So, as we're opening this first
one, another reminder about today's
whatnot stream 300 p.m. Central. It's
going to be absolutely incredible,
amazing, insane. I cannot wait because
I'll be giving away so many mini boxes
of this set and maybe even some displays
that your minds are going to be blown.
So, if you aren't able to get some at
Walmart, Target, pre-order, Sassi Auto,
you should check out his link. Use my
code 5% off. Whatever it is, you might
even be able to get some on my stream
where I'm giving a bunch away. So, check
it out today. 3 p.m. Central. Click the
link, get $15 free credit to use on the
app, course of Chaos Origins Pack on
your first purchase. I wish I could give
away monsters packs on the first
purchase, but they literally cost like
$10 a piece. Like, that's MSRP, so
they're even more than that. So, uh,
yeah, that's just not going to work out
with like, you know, somebody makes a $2
purchase and I give them a $20 pack.
Like, I just can't do that. Uh,
unfortunately, it'd be cool. But
I have giveaway budgeted for the stream.
So, if you want to, you won't get it on
your first purchase, but you might be
able to get some in the stream tonight
where I'm giving away a ton a ton of
stuff. Like, tons and tons and tons of
giveaways will be ran. So, make sure
you're there today, this afternoon, 3
p.m. Central. It's going to be the
craziest stream we've ever had, the
craziest set to ever release in the
Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. I'm very excited. We saw a
lot of these cards yesterday, but there
are a lot of variations where you can
get like Starlight rares of certain
chibi that I want. Uh there's a lot of
cards I'm hunting for, but Oh, no. I
forgot to I forgot to change this. I
realized I paused in the middle of the
pack, so this better not have a
grandmaster. I'm going to be upset. Uh
[laughter]
uh but I paused because it does this
weird thing and I figured out thanks to
Vintage Yu-Gi-Oh that if I turn off that
little flower uh I have to get the card
super close, turn off the little flower
and then it makes the focus a lot
better. So I wish that would
automatically turn off. If anybody knows
how to do that, let me know. I'm
probably going to have to get the new
phone sometime soon anyway because this
phone literally dies by 2 p.m. every
day.
Ooh, our first Starlight in the in the
promo pack from today and yesterday. So
this is cool. And I don't even know this
card. I think this is a new card. One of
the new ones that they were talking
about being in here. The ruler of the
end of the world.
Dude, that is an incredible looking
card. Ritual Starlight 2.0. That has
some swag to it. That is incredible,
dude. What did I Oh, you know what I
forgot to do? I did this I did the wrong
the wrong thing for yesterday. Oh, that
looks even better. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get
to the the We have Starlight 2.0 and we
have camera view 2.0, which is what
we're doing right now. mid [laughter]
a couple of adjustments mid recording.
That's pretty awesome. That card looks
incredible. Oh yeah, look how much
better this looks. Oh yeah, now we're
talking. I did yesterday's video the
wrong way because I just am so used to
doing it that way. I just kind of locked
in. Iron chain drop. Dude, look at look
at the cards now. Number 39. And wow,
Edgeware. The corners are like fuzzy.
Can you see it? Print quality not as
good. So when you get the better camera
angle, it's not as good for the QC. You
can see everything so far. Like nothing
huge on the QC, but the corners and edge
wear it has been noticeable. To tune
Cyber Dragon's a cool reprint. Uh that
was like a rare a long time ago. Phantom
of Bell. Awesome. Secret Emergency. And
oh, Liquid Soldier. If you're if you've
been around Yu-Gi-Oh a while, you'll
remember when this was a $50 to $60 card
in Magical Hero Legend, which was a
legendary duela set. One of the only big
legendary duela sets. Well, I that's not
true. There were a lot of that did
really well with the box. Like the boxes
went up and then they started doing the
uh season one season whatever and they
just got crushed. But that liquid
soldier was expensive when it came out.
It was in the same set I think as uh
magician souls the first time and
several other crazy cards like uh soul
servant etc for dark magician. All
right. Averax chibi school. Oh my god
man. Some of these corners are really
terrible. Crowley cybercode magician
underframe. And we have uh Poseidra, the
storming Atlantan. All these mini boxes,
man, it's crazy. $35 MSRP. Just thinking
about that when opening is like I it's
like I just opened $35 more dollars.
It's like holy. But shout out once again
to Frontline Games. I I only shouted
them out like once yesterday, but I need
to shout them out multiple times. If you
guys are in the Clarksville,
Hopkinsville, Fort Campbell area, that's
Tennessee, Kentucky, should definitely
go check them out. Nashville, you can
make the drive. Go say hi. let them know
Ruxen sent you. They're allowing me to
open up some product for them like they
do a lot of times with new releases
which is incredible. So huge shout out
to them for letting me do that and you
know opening up some product to show to
you guys without having to like first of
all it's not like I'm not going to buy
it anyway but like I don't have to like
buy so much product and then also it I
can get it a little bit faster from them
because they get it and I don't get my
shipments directly so I got to get them
later you know so it's cool. So, I get
to do like the Wednesday openings when
they release on on at local. So, [music]
very, very awesome. Shout out to them
once again. They're awesome. There's an
underframe and another liquid should
soldier. All right, Magnificent
Monsters. Let's keep going. We're only
like four minutes in and I've already
opened two mini boxes.
So, you don't have to worry about
opening a million packs if like you're
Oh, there we go. Wing Kuribo Sabatiel
level 10 and breakthrough skill. her
first overframe of the day. I still have
yet to pull a Starlight overframe. That
in Starlight 2.0 is going to look
incredible. So, I can't wait for that.
But that is an awesome overframe. So,
one Starlight 2.0, not overframe, and
then one overframe, aka extended art,
aka uh full art, whatever you want to
call it. I think extended art is what we
are supposed to call it over here in the
TCG. I mean, obviously call it whatever
you want, but I think that's what the
Konami official term is. So, I guess the
Starlights are going to be at the at the
front there, but I maybe they could be
in any slot, but I assume they would
pick one slot to make it easier on the
distribution. Uh, AOQ with a little bit
of a uh dot there on the zero. That's a
little ink error. And then Master
Spirit, Attack, Force, Pendulum, Ruler.
Kind of hard to not have those errors
when the letters are so small and close
together. Okay, I'm having fun. We're
flying through Magnificent Monsters.
We're opening packs.
It's amazing. It's awesome. It is
Magnificent Monsters. We are here. King
Resonance. I don't think I've seen that
card yet. In here we have uh Verudas,
the final bringer of the end times.
Whoa. Ruxen Special. Sort of. It wasn't
really a Ruxen Special. It was just a
drop card. Cyber Contract Witch and
Ancient Warriors Oath Double Dragon
Lords. I want to get I want to get a
Starlight rare so I can like compare
them to the ultra rare and then the
Underframe. But so far we haven't gotten
a uh full art Starlight. We have
Underworld Circle. We have Wabaku. This
is awesome for if you're playing any old
format Yu-Gi-Oh. It's not really a great
goat card. People don't really use it
too much. It could be used or it is used
in some decks, but if you're playing
like OG 2002 2003 kind of decks, this is
an awesome card. So, nice uh ultra
reprint of that Gorgon. I think it's
already had an ultra print at some
point, but still awesome. And then
Regenesis Arch Fiend. I I remember
opening this in the OCG set before its
main set, and now it's in a reprint in
English. Okay, one more pack. My voice
is a little grally. Sorry guys, trying
to grind through this after being at
worlds and it was super loud and a
million people there. So, I was talking
loud or yelling the whole time. Dabel,
we have gem knight favorite here.
Wingman and Draco Tail. Yeah, I was
screaming at the u screaming is a strong
word, but I was yelling when we were at
like the uh Chase Center watching the
finals for TCG and for VGC. I didn't
really know what was going on in TCG. I
was kind of following the commentators,
but I don't really play Pokemon TCG. Uh
VGC, however, Jarvis, uh my friend you
guys know from YouTube has been really
into VGC and kind of getting me into it.
So, I definitely knew what was going on
there, which made it really exciting.
And there is another Starlight and they
can be in any spot it seems like cuz we
got one in the front and one not in the
front. So, let's see what the Starlight
is in the promo pack. It's cool that
like a Starlight can pop out literally
anywhere. Galaxy Eyes Antimatter Star
the Black Witch.
Oh,
ultra banger IP Mascarena Altart
Starlight 2.0.
Check that out.
That is incredible.
So, IP now has three alternate arts. It
has OG. I can't even remember what OG
looked like. There's the one on the
bike, obviously, and then there's this
one. What did the OG look like?
Is this like a censored or uncensored?
Now I got to now I can't remember. My
brain hurts. I'm so used to the the
motorcycle one in that one now. Is that
the third art of IP? We got a lot of
arts. Uh Rainbow Bridge by Frost. We
have uh Infernity, Guardian Slime, Deco
Talk integration, and Tier Limits. That
might be the strategy. I mean, that's
what Pokemon does. They're like, "How
about we just make Charizard 9,000 times
in different art?" We kind of do it with
Dark Magician, but we don't really build
up a lot of the other characters as
much. So, now that they're doing like
the um the anime series, whatever it's
called, the the stories, the why can't I
remember the name? I was just think
talking about this the other a dang it,
I can't remember. Elzette, we have Dark
Magical Curtain and Nightmare Throne.
The Chronicles series. There we go. The
Chronicles. Maybe that'll like build
those characters up a little bit more.
I'm really hoping Konami comes out with
a full anime after Pokemon announced a
Yu-Gi-Oh movie. like essentially a TCG
movie that like is literally Yu-Gi-Oh
except Pokemon. I'm like come on
Yu-Gi-Oh. Like we got to counter like
where's our movie? Come on. Doomsy
change. Galate eye. We have Ashgraph
Sorcerer and Divine Golden Shadow Dragon
Draguxion. Let's get the guy from Andor.
He could do He could do a Yu-Gi-Oh
movie, right? That'd be sick. Yu-Gi-Oh
show. That'd be a banger. Uh but I hope
that does happen. Okay. You know, I'm
going to move this down a little bit.
We're We're camera adjusting all day
because why not? Why not? Let's just
keep keep it going. Yeah, I feel like
I'm holding the cards very high. So, two
Starlight 2.0's, one full art. I haven't
really seen a ratio yet, but maybe if I
can figure one out, I'll let you guys
know. We have Rainbow Bridge by Frost.
Okay, Rainbow Bridge. Magnificent
Monsters is back. Second day of opening.
Let me know how you guys are feeling.
Are you guys still excited? You guys
want to see a big opening? We're
probably going to do a big opening
tomorrow. Phanell uh and of course
today. So, if you're watching this on
the day it comes out, 3:00 today,
whatnot, bookmark the stream. Going to
be insane. Going to be awesome. Make
sure you click the link, get your $15
free credit. Make sure you check out
those $20 bundles. There's going to be
some awesome packs in there, including
Battles of Legend, Chaos Origins, etc.
Uh, which by the way does expire at some
point. Like, if you watch this in a
year, it's not going to include those
same packs. Just FYI. Sometimes people
are like, they're still asking about
Rarity 5 packs as the bonus pack. I'm
like, that was like two months ago. But
uh so FYI, they do expire like as I run
out of packs, etc. But this is like the
first, you know, we're not going to be
out right now, like in the next week or
so. So go check those out. Go grab them.
$20 bundle, seven packs. You get an
eight pack if you're a new user. You get
$15 off with your your free credits, $5
for eight packs plus shipping. It's
pretty insane. Check that out. Check out
the whatnot stream. Check out the
massive giveaways. We're going to have
the magnificent monsters. We might pull
somebody a grandmaster. That would be
insane. We've already pulled somebody
Mia for me or from me before. So, let's
Oh, that's amazing. I love that WP fancy
ball. The secrets look nice in here.
They look really nice. They've done a
good job. Still a bunch of packs left,
though. So, let's let's keep grinding.
Let's keep looking. Let's keep Oh, over
framing. Keep wondering what else could
be possible inside these packs of
magnificent monsters. We have Onomoag
Ono anamakage. There we go. All right.
We have Cybur. We have the Elat. I tried
to sound it out for some reason. I don't
know why. I just made it just made it
harder.
IP mask. We have sulfacord. We have
medius the pure odd eyes and a shining
sarcophagus. Who's going to play the
sarcophagus of readon dead? We're
opening an entire display today and
maybe even like a couple more cuz we
didn't open a display yesterday. So,
we'll probably finish off that display,
too. Uh, so a good amount of packs being
opened. Not a crazy amount of of uh
yeah, a good amount of displays, I
should say. Not a crazy amount of packs
because there's only three real packs
and then the promo pack. So, a display
is 30 packs plus 10 promo packs. There's
IB and Oricalos. Pretty cool. So, it
isn't a massive number, but as you know,
each pack has a chance at a grandmaster
card, which he's real pack. I don't
think you can get a grandmaster out of
the uh promo packs. Dark Lord, Crowley,
Star Junk, and Tier's Cash Tira Kira the
Fenrier. All right. Uh assault
Blackwing. We have Alfreda
Dark Magician. This is what I'm looking
for in full art, in Starlight, [music]
or in Grandmaster. Obviously,
Grandmaster would be amazing, but uh my
backup is the full art Starlight rare,
which would be also awesome, and I would
be totally okay with pulling that.
That'll look great with my other full
arts that I've pulled. Uh Elzette, Dark
Magical Curtain, and Master of Chaos.
It's a great pack for Dark Magician
fans. We are flying through this opening
so far. You can open these quick. Like
if you don't take, you know, time to
stare at each card, you kind of just
check them out as you go. Like normal
pack opening, these go pretty quick cuz
yesterday we were spending a little bit
more time on the individual cards, you
know, one by one, etc. A lot of
antimatter dragon meets a samsara and SP
little knight on the skateboard. Let's
get this and a starlight as well. That'd
be sick. No, wait. I was Why do I keep
Did I say no full arts earlier? We have
the wing kuribo. One full art, two
starlights. I don't know why I was
thinking we hadn't pulled anything. We
pulled three total, including yesterday,
I think. something like that. We've been
pulling. Okay. Sulphord uh delinquent
duo. We have winged kuribo and chimero.
We pulled a rhyme and uh a rhyme and
dion. Next pack SP little knights. Uh
thunder king the lightning strike kaiju
3300 attack. Saint asina. This card came
out. What set was that? I pulled this in
secret rare originally. We have start
synchronizing
Atlantan. I kind of like that I can just
go straight through it. I could do a one
from the back, but I really don't need
to. Question is, will people be opening
this with scissors? Will they be opening
them from the back? Well, it's not the
back card, so I think you're safe to do
the normal opening, but you know,
scissors were the the the way of choice
for the Japanese uh release, which was
pretty crazy. And obviously, we had the
big disaster with the cut card. Whether
it was real or not, I really don't know,
but it was pretty wild. Three more
Magnificent Monsters mini boxes. And uh
I have to like go like right here to
zoom it in. So uh we're having troubles,
but I don't know. There might be some
upcoming changes coming soon that could
be pretty exciting for the channel. I
don't know. That might be good for some
openings, good for some duels, maybe IRL
duels. I don't know. Little spoilers.
Maybe a little hint into the future. Let
me know your guesses in the comments
about what we're going to do. Nightmare
has restrict. I need this Starlight.
Need
inject it into my veins. Oh, cards are
trying to escape. All right. Nightmares
are strike. That was not pretty. Uh, and
malefific force. They tried to escape.
They thought they could bounce out of
here. Magnificent monsters. Here we go.
Civil, the White Forest, Fish, Sonar,
Flame Wingman, and Liquid Soldier. They
have reprinted a lot of They definitely
went with like the iconic monster theme.
It was like, "Okay, let's do Elemental
Heroes. Let's do uh, you know, Dark
Magician stuff." And they're like,
"Let's let's feed into the Grandmaster
stuff." I think the back card is bent.
Here we have number 39. and evil hero.
Yep. First significant bend I've seen on
the openings. So, this is probably pack
number I don't know. We've opened maybe
17 and a half displays. That's like 50s
something packs. So, not super rare, but
also not happening like every pack,
which is nice cuz that has happened on
certain sets for uh Yu-Gi-Oh releases.
So, I'm glad that that is not too bad.
Last pack for this mini box. All right,
we'll do the pack trick here. Let's go
for the Grandmaster. So, let's go. Uh,
Red Eyes, Black Meteor Dragon, Witch
Crafter, Radiant Typhoon, Tiny Spirit,
Sardis Dragon.
Such a cool card, but not secret or
anything. Will we get a full art
Starlight? Still no full art starlight
yet. That's kind of crazy. No full art
starlight. Uh, I don't know how rare
they're going to be. I mean, they make
full art Starlights extremely rare in
core sets, so it doesn't surprise me
that they're pretty hard to pull. Uh,
but this is obviously a small sample
size. Nice Zeus and W Fansville. I want
that Zeus Starlight. That's one of my
car. I've got a couple in Japanese. Ry
sent me one. I pulled one. And now I'm
hoping to get it in English. That'll be
awesome. Underworld Circle. We have Fila
Diabel Gem Knight uh Nefim Kbo and
Dragotail Lucius. Two more packs, guys.
We're going to be opening more of this
tonight on whatnot or and this
afternoon. It kind of starts in the
afternoon if you're from central uh or
or or Pacific or mountain, but uh
Eastern's kind of more evening. So, make
sure you guys click that link. Let's see
what we can get. We have Shiny Flare,
Wingman, Alakard Link, $15 free credit.
Bookmark my shows. Follow me on whatnot.
We're going to have a lot of other crazy
releases. There is the original artwork
collection coming out. We're probably
going to do something for celebrations
in a couple weeks as well. So, I'm
probably going to be doing a couple
whatnot streams that weekend. Uh I'm
hoping to do some celebrations because
that set looks crazy good. and awesome
and exciting and uh a lot yeah a lot of
you guys uh you know you you guys watch
some videos you don't watch every single
video you don't watch all my channels
which is understandable because I post a
lot of videos I have a lot of channels
you know uh and you might not know I am
a big Pokemon fan so a lot of people
will say why are you doing Pokemon huh
and I'm like cuz I like Pokemon I always
have uh I've been playing so much
Pokemon too so uh kind of all in and
went to worlds etc so yeah that's why
just ahead of time when you when you
think to ask, you've been answered
there. Uh we have Wind Unicorn, we have
Witch Crafter, and uh Rainbow Bridge.
I'm going to show my uh my current
Pokemon collection I'm working on, which
is Johtomon's obviously the best
generation. It's coming together nicely.
I picked up a few nice cards at Worlds.
The nice thing is I've made it where I'm
not under pressure where I have to like
collect mint or even near mint or even
light play. Like I have mod play cards
there and I'm happy with them and it's
made it a lot easier, a lot more fun to
search for stuff. breakthrough skill in
Yu-Gi-Oh. It's so hard for me. I'm like,
I need the mint, you know, near mint,
you know, at least. So, uh, it's been
it's been nice to to settle on some of
the Pokemon stuff. We have King's
Resonance, Vas. We have favorite hero,
Shining Flare, Wingman,
and Ancient Warriors Oath, Double Dragon
Lords.
No Starlight Overframe yet in either of
our openings. We have pulled an
Overframe, a couple Starlights today.
This is our last pack of the day. This
went through a lot faster than I was
expecting because we opened four more
mini boxes I think than yesterday. But
when you're not like looking at every
single card like super closely, it can
go pretty quick. So, make sure to let me
know your thoughts. Make sure you guys
follow over on whatnot. Check out the
stream today. We'll be opening more of
this if you haven't had your fill just
yet. And uh I haven't. Uh let's do let's
do a pack trick for the last pack. Here
we go guys. We're Genesis Arche. We have
Mech Knight, Crusadia, Averax, Chibi,
Waboku,
Gorgon of Zilafonia,
and
the Dark Magician, the Pharaoh server.
Did we pull this in the last pack
yesterday, too?
I think that's a good sign for our Dark
Magician hunt. That will be the card I'm
hunting for. Full art, Starlight, and
Grandmaster would count as well. But,
uh, one of those, that's the card I need
out of this set to feel happy with my
pulls. So, if you want to see that, make
sure you subscribe for the journey. Make
sure you check out the whatnot stream
today. It's going to be absolutely
insane. Giving away so many mini boxes
that you'll be like, "Oh my gosh, this
is a lot of mini boxes." That's what
you're going to say in your brain. This
is a lot of mini boxes. Maybe even some
displays. So, make sure you follow
bookmark the stream for 3 p.m. today.
$15 free credit to use on the buy now.
I'm going to have a lot of items that
you guys can check out over there as
well. So, thank you guys for checking
this out. Let me know your how hyped you
are for Magnificent Monsters. Tomorrow
will be another Magnificent Monsters
opening. Yes, I'm doing three in a row
because we need openings on the channel
and we need to open magnificent
monsters. Shout out front line once
again. Check out Sassy to get 5% off and
I'll see you guys next time. Shout out
to Brandon Cheney, Adams, Bea Training,
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>> OH MY GOODNESS.
THE BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON.
OH. [screaming]
A
great
>> and I'll see you guys next time. [music]
Peace.