(light music) (clicking)
- So we're here today to get our Yu-Gi-Oh! cards valued.
I collected these a little bit after
I collected my Pokemon cards, so I was slightly older,
took a little bit better care of them
and yeah, I used to, I never really played the game,
for me, it was more about just the collecting
and the trading aspect.
- Here are my cards in a nice little fancy tin.
I used to play the game many years ago,
I can't remember how long ago now.
I must've been maybe like 12, 13 years old.
I would be in the playground, I'd see my friends,
I wouldn't even say anything to them, I'd be like this,
just this, just give them nods
and they knew what time it was.
Know what time it was, it was time to duel.
(David and crew members laugh)
I had to say it man, I had to say it,
I had to say it, I had to say it.
- So I've got some pretty cool cards with me.
I've got a few of the more powerful spell cards
from back in the day.
This one, Raigeki, it's pretty cool,
it just completely wiped out all of your opponent's
creatures which is great.
Polymerization, you used to be able to kind of like
fuse your monsters together
and create these super crazy ones.
Also, some of the trap cards are pretty cool,
so I got the Mirror Wall, the Mirror Force,
and Dark Mirror Force.
I remember Yugi busting these out in the day.
- Some of my favorite cards would be,
I would say it would be these two right here.
So these two cards here,
the Black Luster Soldier and Chaos Emperor Dragon,
these two cards are pretty much the Messi-Ronaldo
of Yu-Gi-Oh! back in the day.
If you had these two cards,
you were running things with this,
you would be destroying every single deck
you were playing against.
- So I think I've got some pretty good cards,
some of them are in reasonable condition,
not mint but not too bad.
After the surprise I got with the Pokemon card valuation,
I'd probably expect in the region of a hundred,
maybe a bit less.
- If I were to valuate all the cards I got with me now,
I would it was probably maybe somewhere in the hundreds,
I'd say maybe close to the thousands.
Actually no, I wouldn't say that,
I would say probably the hundreds.
- It's time to du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-duel.
- Hi everyone, my name's Roy Raftery.
I'm back, back again to dream crush the boys.
I'm from Sneak Attack Games
which is one of the biggest stores in London
for trading card games, it's a very unique store.
We can literally do every card game.
So my experience with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards
is pretty much similar to the boys themselves.
We're all roughly the same age,
so we all grew up watching the cartoon.
The cartoon in turn taught us how to play.
So the main things I'm probably gonna see are like
original printings of the Legends of Blue Eyes set,
which was the first set, Metal Raiders,
all the iconic cards like Pot of Greed, Mirror Force,
Monster Reborn, Raigeki,
and what I'm looking for are those slight misprints
'cause they rushed the printings at the start,
they rushed it to get it out, to cover all these bases,
and it sold out very quick
so they were just constantly rushing them out
and there's a cool little tips and tricks
that I'll talk about when I show the cards as well.
(light glockespeil music)
So I've just had a look through Harry's stash of cards
and I've picked out a few that look interesting.
So first off, one of his prized cards, Raigeki.
Right, now, this is not a first edition.
The way you can tell with first edition cards,
very similar to Pokemon, it was very easy.
Just on the left hand corner here
it should just say the word first ed,
so that's how you know you got a first edition one.
(ding)
This was one of the OG cards.
Every single deck, every single competitive deck
had to have Raigeki so that it was desirable.
Another cool thing about his Raigeki
is it's from the Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon
which was the very first set,
and there was a printing error on the card so
on the top right hand corner here, it says magic card.
Wizards, the people who own Magic,
swiftly came to them and said,
"You can't print trading cards with the word magic on.
"Please remove it otherwise we'll sue,"
so they quickly changed it around,
so if you have a near mint
or mint condition Raigeki first edition
from Blue Eyes White Dragon where it says magic card,
you're probably looking around 50 to 60 dollars.
In this condition, it's probably three to four dollars,
mainly because in terms of competitive Yu-Gi-Oh!,
the judges are very strict about the condition of your cards
and if there's any little nicks on 'em,
you just can't play with 'em.
If they're curved in any way, shape or form,
it's just a big no-no,
you have to go and get updated versions
or near mint versions.
That's why damaged Yu-Gi-Oh! cards sell for way less
than say like a damaged Pokemon or a damaged Magic card.
Next up, we got Mirror Force.
So again, Mirror Force is one of the OG cards,
you had to play with it in your deck,
it was the best trap at the time.
In this condition, again, poor Harry,
none of his cards are the way you want 'em to be.
This is probably passable, probably passable at a tournament
and it's probably again around the same
three to five dollar mark as the Raigeki.
In near mint, a Mirror Force from Metal Raiders
is probably about 10 dollars
and a first edition Mirror Force
is probably around the range of 40 to 50 dollars,
so it's a good one to get if you've got it
'cause collectors like the original cards.
So one of the first ever boss monsters,
Yugi's famous Dark Magician.
So, here we got two different printings
and one of 'em came from the very first structure deck.
You had a Yugi one with Dark Magician
and a Kaiba one with the Blue Eyes White Dragon.
You also had running alongside it the first ever set
which was Saga of the Blue Eyes White Dragon,
and in it you had Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon
and then gave 'em different artworks,
so a lot of people say, "Oh, I've got a Dark Magician
"but it's a different picture than the one I know,
"is it worth 10 times as much?"
Not as so because people like,
believe it or not, people like the cartoon artwork,
the one that Yugi was always slamming down
at any chance he got.
- Dark magic attack.
(intense music) (creature screaming)
- So a first edition Dark Magician
from Blue Eyes White Dragon is easily,
easy like 45, 50 dollars.
In this condition, it's got a few creases on it,
dings on the top like the card's
peeling away a little bit at the top.
Again, this is heavily played,
this is probably in the six to eight region.
This is the Dark Magician from the structure deck.
These came in first editions as well
and they're quite hard to come by.
One of these in near mint first edition is easy 85 dollars.
Easy, easy.
It is very hard to come by.
This one is probably in the two to three dollar region.
People like this artwork as I said,
it's what they identify with.
It's basically a part of their childhood,
they like this one.
Same with the Blue Eyes artwork.
So here we have, again, two famous cartoon-based monsters.
We have the Relinquished and Buster Blader,
and the really, really cool thing about Yu-Gi-Oh! is
even now they're updating these monsters.
They're giving them companions for the archetype
so there's a new Relinquished monster
that came out about six months ago.
There's a new Buster Blader, like Buster Blader's ally,
and it keeps these cards relevant.
Each of these cards is probably in the
five to 10 dollar range based on the condition,
double that if it's in good condition
just because people like 'em.
Everyone remember Pegasus and his Thousand Eyes Restrict
and his Relinquished in turn.
Buster Blader just annihilated Kaiba
and people like it for those reasons,
they like collecting these cartoon cards.
So if you have any of these in your collection,
you should look out for these.
Alright Harry, overall,
you've got some really nice iconic cards,
the problem is a vendor will have
trouble selling them to players
because you can't use 'em in competitive play
because of the condition, so I probably wouldn't buy them.
If at a pinch, I would probably offer something in the
20 to maybe 30 dollar range and I know that seems low
but a lot of these cards are three to four dollars,
a lot of the commons from back in the day
are not worth anything, just straight up not worth anything.
So yeah, unfortunately, 30 dollars tops.
Sorry.
(light glockenspiel music)
Okay so, got David's cards here and they're way better.
They're all in sleeves,
even though they're very old sleeves
that have stained my fingers,
they're still in great condition the cards themselves.
So we'll start off with his two prized possessions.
So we have the Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
and Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End.
So the Chaos Emperor Dragon has been banned since,
for at least 14 odd years, never been unbanned.
Black Luster Soldier recently became unbanned
so the desire for the card is there,
but the real talking point is the Chaos Emperor Dragon.
So it's a first edition Chaos Emperor Dragon
and recently it's just been going sky high.
So about four, five months ago,
I bought one for like 20 quid, sold it for 35,
but now they're 90 pounds
and I sold one in a bit better condition than David's
for 90 pounds, they're about 100 dollars at the moment
and they're only going up and I don't really know why.
Great card, very iconic, really hard to come by,
the print qualities and the print runs
were super low at the time,
so already his Chaos Emperor beats the rest of them.
And so the Black Luster Soldier isn't first ed,
but at the moment, the most recent printings of
Black Luster Soldier is probably sitting around 15 dollars,
so for an original one in the condition that this is in,
it's easy 20 to 25 dollars.
So David's Mirror Force is much better condition.
It's in a sleeve and it's first ed,
as you could see from the bottom left hand corner
and it clearly saying the word first edition.
Easy 45 dollars for this one in the condition it's in,
so yeah, just adding to the value,
David's total just du-du-du-du-du-du-du.
Like when your life points went down but his are going up.
So here we have just original cards from the anime
that people identify with.
So a lot of play when the cards were originally made.
Still see a little bit of play now,
people just want 'em for that like
iconic collector's reason.
You got Swords of Revealing Light, Heavy Storm,
Magic Cylinder, and Call of the Haunted.
All of these cards were just super cool.
You had to have 'em in all of your decks.
Because of that, they still have a little bit of premium,
but the biggest problem with certain Yu-Gi-Oh! cards
is the fact that they've been reprinted to death.
Alright, so David hands down won.
There's some cards that you didn't get to see
but he had a big, big collection.
Easily, easily eclipses 400 dollars.
He had a lot of iconic cards, a lot of first editions,
a lot of just very powerful cards
that were good in and of themselves,
individually of the cartoon and of the trading card game
which accumulates to a good collection and a happy David.
(light music)
- So we've just had our cards valued by Roy.
Unfortunately David has banished me to the Shadow Realm.
He's absolutely destroyed me in terms of card value.
- I thought I would get a lot for my cards
'cause I kept them in good condition,
they were in sleeves.
I had some pretty rare, nice ones,
including the Black Luster Soldier and Chaos Emperor Dragon
but I didn't expect them to be as high as he valued them.
- Tiny bit surprised by the valuation.
I thought they might be worth a little bit more
but as with the previous valuation that we did,
it was the condition that let me down.
I prefer to think of them as well-loved
rather than in bad condition.
(ticking)