How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market

i cant help but describe mtg as 'super gay' its like they looked at pokemon and yugioh and went "how can we make this even LESS interesting and MORE time consuming?"

get a real hobby nerds.

oh i thought chess was a nerds game

Do they sell Jewish space lasers at the MTG market?

Amys "Exotic Pets" could be REALLY annoying/mean, if played right.

So basically every TCG in existence?

I need a follow up video to know if one video can actually raise the price for those cards.

What - and I can't stress this enough - the F?

This is insane. I dont understand why people spend that much on paper that can just disappear overnight

This video is hilariously wrong about Magic and finance.

Sam, drink a ginger tea….

Nowadays games like Lorcana and One piece have alt arts as the hyper rares instead that way it keeps needed play cards within circulation at fair prices while allowing for collectors to do their collecting

disappointing that your editor did not download magic set editor to create the internet dweeb

And people cry, about NFTs being overrated

There was that time at Gen Con 2023 when a couple guys heisted a pallet of Magic cards from the loading dock of the convention center. They even took the pallet jack. Of course they were seen on camera and then on the camera outside their nearby hotel. I know they were arrested but never found out their final fate.

Welcome to the MTG YT community, HAI! Over there on the left, you'll see Spice8Rack, he's a bit of a rambly goblin. Over here on the right, you'll see The Professor. He likes to try to break accessories, and rates them highly if he fails. Over in the breakroom you can see the lads from Game Knights. They're always deck-building, and like to hog the printer for custom tokens. Up in the basement you'll find 8thPlaceDave and his wife, we think they make tiktoks? Down in the attic, we have Rhystic Study. They like to thematically analyze the lore like weirdos, although they sometimes recap it in a digestable format which is nice. And lastly, we have the LoadingReadyRun crew currently using the conference room. They seem to be playing something called Beejlander? Ope, nevermind - that's a pack wars tournament, but Beej was there so it was confusing.

Any questions?

This might be one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen. Are you not embarrassed?

I'm disappointed that he didn't make a card about bricks!

"Promising auras" I love it Amy

I wonder how it would impact things if they just like, printed a BUTTLOAD of copies of a powerful card vs. just banning it. The original printing may get more value in resale because there are fewer of it, but it wouldn't be worth spending thousands or 10s of thousands if the reprints are super common and do the same in the game, right?

The “internet dweeb” card pairs nicely with the “brick video” card.

If post malone throw the card in a volcano the lore would be perfect

How has sick ‘Wendover productions’ got on this channel?!? WTF?!

lol

Let's friggin go!

As a card shop owner, this is really cool to see you guys cover it.

Booster packs for a few dollars? Maybe 20 years ago.

Just one caveat: "The One Ring" is a big deal and there are talks of it being banned.

YuGiOh... YuGiOh...

What kind of an idiot would spend money on this

Lighning bolt!

Me, sitting here with my 4 underground seas, hearing that a card store in New York still remember the time they sold a tundra... 😅

This video is uh… not good that’s a ton of misinformation. I almost feel like an AI scripted this because there is a lot of incorrect remarks made. Plus a lot of confusing statements. It feels like they just mentioned random things quickly to meet the required time of the video and didn’t dive deep into anything.

I would heavily encourage players invested in the market aspect to find people IN the magic community covering this topic or someone who actually knows a thing or two being a long term player. A video that is about 8 minutes long will not teach you jack about a terribly complex 30 year long topic.

If you came to me and started talking about MTG and then used half of the things this video said about the game and market, then I would 100% laugh at you, then actually inform you and encourage you to play MTG so you can laugh at this video too.

I’m not writing out a long statement here about every wrong thing said because I know for a fact nobody will actually read this comment.
If enough people do maybe I will.

Foil basic land are like the government bonds of Magic , the prices don't move around a lot but they hold value well.

This video is unfortunately riddled with incorrect or poorly researched statements. You can see in the comments, but it makes me sad to see something talk about an actual problem in the game but be researched so shoddily or just put together badly. They even mentioned but glazed over the reserved list, an enormous part of mtg finance, extremely contentious, and hugely impactful part of mtg. As well as incorrectly stating that Wizards manages the secondary economy. They cant even acknowledge its existence as is well known; because if they do they run afowl of gambling -- not to mention child gambling -- regulation.

I quit this addiction along time ago and I am still paying it off. Like Nancy Reagan said, just say no. I haven't played the game in over a decade, but I still have all of my cards. The same goes for Yu-Gi-Oh!

Oh my gosh. I had no idea this game was still around. I used to date a guy who played it. In 1995. 😮

Fun fact: Pokemon card packs earn more money than scratch offs.

Clearly, you made this video while sick. You can hear it in your voice. Hope you feel better now.

This video is the entire reason I never really played MTG.

i created a pointless speculative bubble once by buying a bunch of copies of cards i collect.

Absolutely ridiculous video that gets almost everything wrong. By definition, every collectible market is the equivalent of a stock exchange because they're based on speculation so to say Mtg has created a stock market system is redundant at best. It's literally in the name for these types of games - CCGs. Wizards isn't the SEC, they're closer to the equivalent of a ponzi scheme where they need more new players and buyers to prop up the existing economy and the easiest way to do so is to print more and more powerful cards. Yes, Black Lotus and the Power 9 are still over powered, but literally 99% of the vintage cards are outclassed by pretty much any modern card these days. The result is that if you want to be competitive, you'll need to buy into the newest sets. Wizards' creation of newer tournament formats wasn't to protect players but sell new cards as they make no money off the secondary market so they have to force players to buy into the new sets. Jeweled Lotus was printed against the recommendations of the independent rules committee because it was too over powered. When they banned it, the independent rules committee caught the brunt of the consumer wrath and gave up regulating Commander rules to Wizards so Hasbro now in charge of the most lucrative mtg format.

This is why we proxy.

This video unfairly makes Wizards of the Coast seem like the good guys. They're not. They take forever to ban cards that 99% of people recognize as broken. They also charge so much for cards that cost them nothing. Don't forget that they release more and more sets with pop culture crossovers that do nothing for the game, but are pure fan service.

Let’s be real this is not the stock market.

These so called mtg investors buy in and will sell at a loss.

as a long time Magic player, this video simplified the subject to the point of being what I'd consider functionally incorrect. there are many large online figures who have first had experience with this market who I'm sure would have offered their insights to contribute to this video, and it would have been much better for it