these are really interesting to watch, I’ve been collecting cards for almost all of my 19 years of life and it’s really cool to see old ones still in vids
I think Pokemon Week truly has killed the Pokemon Card Twitch Meta, I loved every box opening it was great seeing all these streamers dip back into Pokemon
Bro! That was so funny! Island was like “errrm what?” Me and all my friends laughed so hard when he said that. My friends were like, “what?” My friends said the same thing as island and we all laughed together!
A little FYI about the sleeves, from someone who worked in a game store with a lot of Magic and Pokémon; turn the flexible sleeve upside down, so the opening is at the bottom of the card. Then put the hard case over it normally. Reduces the chance of damaging the card, especially useful around these types of expensive booster boxes
Sometimes if science does it’s thing as well there can be a weird vacuum effect which makes it borderline impossible for dust to collect and minimizes oxidation so foils don’t cloud over years.
“Did you know that in terms of male and female Pokémon breeding, Vaporeon is the most compatible for humans? They’re an average of 3’3” tall and 64 lbs. This means they’re large enough to handle a human peni-“ Wouldn’t you love to know ludwig, wouldn’t you love to know.
Dude, I was thinking the same thing. A Vaporeon could handle human penicillin injections and be like a personal caretaker for people with diabetes. Very cool!
This is wild. This is the set we were collecting when red/blue came out and the cartoon first aired in the US. I still have a binder full of Pokémon cards from this set. I literally opened them and put them in the sleeves. Wonder how much they’re worth.
Oh dude I played magic the gathering in my teens. I had a collection folder thingy with so many sick cards. All old dual lands 4 times, multiple gaeas cradle, Timetwister, 4x Jihad. Promos, about 10 Force of will and some other really really sick old cards. At the time I lost it it was worth a few hundred bucks but now it would be worth 6 digits. I stopped playing for a while and when I started again I just couldn't find it anymore. Maybe my dad took it away when I had bad grades (he used to do that) and misplaced it.
@@cwill2127 Mizkif has fallen a little in the last 6 months due to reasons. But almost all of these people are extremly popular just not part of OTV and other groups close to them. Heck I didn't even know Rae existed until the end of 2020 when I only watch youtube content creators and not streamers and everyone I watched were extremly popular in their own categories.
Idk how much legendary packs but when ur spending 300+$ on a pack and it's 50$ to send a card to psa I've just lost money😂not that it's an investment just for the nestalgia
Guys i used to buy pokemon cards so tell me what psa is? And if we get rare cards from the pack can we sell that card? But where do we sell those rare cards?
@@JUSTINRYANable it's a website that you can send cards to and it checks for authenticity and condition after about 3-6 months thell come back with a grade and you cross your fingers😂
I sold a ton of cards to a card shop when I was poor and needed to play rent a year ago. This makes me feel like maybe I should have done more research. Either way, it was fun revisiting my childhood by seeing the card art. This got me way more hyped than I thought.
i know im very late on this but seeing island being so popular back in the whole pokemon meta was so cool because i actually very actively watched him for a while for his sw content
@@MrScraap It means that I do not believe that he truly had possession of all these cards, as they are extremely rare and valuable. I also don't believe that he would somehow lose/trade them if they were truly hollows/reverse hollows/etc as even a child would know that those are something worth holding onto.
@@Benjamslikestrains nah man this happens all the time. Kids are dumb and probably put it under his bed forgot about it and when he moved out his mom found it and threw it away. Probably happens all the time
My dad had the same thing happen to him. Had all his shinys and everything and crashed into a wall when he was 20 and lost everything he had. Low point in his life but he’s doing better now
My brother sold my entire collection of first gen Pokemon cards to someone else for £100 back when I was a kid. Tons of foils, multiple nine-tails. "YEAH BUT BRO I GOT £100. I GOT £100 BRO" "But I like my cards, I spent that much to buy them" "BRO £100". (I think he gave me 50 from the sale but can't remember) Not like I hold grudges, but shit, videos like this just make it that much worse. And I tell him about this at 35 and he's like "nah I didn't do that". Like yeah my cards completely evaporated from the house and I made up this entire story to justify losing them.
everytime a pokemon video shows up in my recommended....i remember how i had a charizard first edition stolen from my backpack in middle school....the pain never goes away
Never ceases to amaze me how he's getting so excited over such valuable cards Yet the total value still remains to be hella under the cost of the box, meaning he essentially got scammed
When I was 6 years old (back in 1999) I was really into pokemon cards, back when they were first released, and I was super excited when I got my favorite card, Charizard.I felt super lucky too, because it was all shiny, so I showed my brother. He told me it was pretty valuable so I should let him hold on to it for safe keeping. It wasn't until I was around 17 that I realized what had happened. In all honesty I'm not even mad, I hope he got some good money for it, I was 6 and likely would have played with the card until it was a folded, crumpled mess and then forgotten it in a drawer and then regretted it when I got old enough to realize I had ruined 55k.
When pokemon first came out I was like 10. I remember waking up early every saturday to watch the cartoon. I also have some of these cards in the video. Crazy how much the value has changed.
Lud: *gets told how important not putting fingers on holo part is* *gets shocked at how expensive holo Raichu is* *immediately slams thum over holo to dramatically reveal reverse holo Flareon*
This Pokemon card craze made me go check out my old cards that have been sitting for many years. Theres alot, I have 6 charizards for instance. Always knew someday they'd blow up but the prices are blowing my mind🤯 Not sure if I should cash out or keep them tucked away
If they weren't stored in mint condition, have any centering issues, any defects whatsoever, I'd avoid getting them graded, as a low graded card will oftentimes be worth less than an ungraded card. Just something to think about
@@michaeldaigle7207 most are NM+ Been parting out the lot, got 15k+ so far. I sold most before the bubble popped thankfully. Now I'll hold the rest unless a crazy offer comes along. And good call on the grading. Been getting PSA 8-9 prices on raw cards for the most part. Haven't graded anything yet but I'm planning to send a Shiny zard Vmax into Beckett soon
I'm so annoyed that I lost all my Pokemon cards as a kid, seeing you pull so many cards I used to own. I definitely had a few thousand worth of cards. I had a ton of rare foil cards.
I would have thought print lines would make them more expensive? As they aren't damage and are from the printing process, making that specific card 100% unique. I don't understand current pokemon collectors...
Thanks for having me! It was a pleasure
Subscribe to alpharad
We love you island !
wait wtf. islandgrown from sw???
middle man drug dealer lul
Birth marks are sexy 🤪
I absolutely love this collection. Those reverse holos are so sick. And the fact that you can still get a holo too with it is awesome
lud is there anyway can you swap my nidoran you pulled for ash’s dark raichu
PepeLaugh
@@ludwig oh
@@ludwig is that a yes or no..
@@ludwig i read this in Corpse voice from his song Catgirls are runing my life
@@ludwig Island ruined your video. why does everyone have their unboxing with Island, soiled Pokemon week
Ludwig: "Guys these cards are worth $30,000"
Also Ludwig: (Opens box with his teeth.)
Now that he is kinda a celebrity, would having his DNA on it increase it's value?
@@VixeyTeh creepy
@@Nyxio_more like realistic
island is dope fr, he bounces off that energy so well, i hope he shows up in more of luds content
he has such a nice vibe
Miz already stole him
@@jaybm1560 thats a big L for lud then
@@lucasj6147 Island was literally at mizkif house during pokemon week. Lol
@@NooBLT606 he could still show up more in lud content
Finally a RUclipsr that opens a expensive Pokémon card box and doesn’t touch THE DAMN ART ON THE CARD
It's funny that you say that, there were a bunch of people in the chat telling him to stop touching the art, lol!
hey, to the guy at 33:12 in chat who wished everyone a good year without knowing if anyone would see it, ily and i hope you're having a nice day.
Lmao that was me!
Edit: User name is theArtesianRiddle.
@@kaxxpe93 Oh!!! Have a nice year then :]
WHOLESOME WHOLESOME
@@kaxxpe93 Everyone liked that
@Chad Nickleson Lmaooo
these are really interesting to watch, I’ve been collecting cards for almost all of my 19 years of life and it’s really cool to see old ones still in vids
I think Pokemon Week truly has killed the Pokemon Card Twitch Meta, I loved every box opening it was great seeing all these streamers dip back into Pokemon
Hows it going Patterrz?
is the week over who were in it i wanna see those boxes
now its hot tub meta.... thankfully hot tubs don't deprive me of my seratonin
True wordz from pokelover
Jesus loves you
Lud: Ok so when I get the next reverse holo I'm gonna bend it in half
Island: Ahah- What
Bro! That was so funny! Island was like “errrm what?”
Me and all my friends laughed so hard when he said that. My friends were like, “what?” My friends said the same thing as island and we all laughed together!
A little FYI about the sleeves, from someone who worked in a game store with a lot of Magic and Pokémon; turn the flexible sleeve upside down, so the opening is at the bottom of the card. Then put the hard case over it normally. Reduces the chance of damaging the card, especially useful around these types of expensive booster boxes
Sometimes if science does it’s thing as well there can be a weird vacuum effect which makes it borderline impossible for dust to collect and minimizes oxidation so foils don’t cloud over years.
that's... the first time I am reading this and I have very strong doubts
@@crkTyphoonit’s real but an unpopular opinion
Aaaand makes it impossible and takes forever to pack every single card.
This is the best explained, but still very enjoyable card opening, and as others said, Lud and Island have great chemistry.
Why did I watch this for 40 minutes, I’ve literally never bought nor thought of buying Pokémon cards before😂
ludwig is just that dope
It’s even worst when you watch part of it live then rewatch it for no reason
bro, same
lmao, what generation are you from to never have bought Pokémon cards
Because addiction is entertaining to watch
Those cards are so nostalgic it’s insane! I remember trading stickers for my first cards in the early 2000’s
I waited a long time for this. -RUclips Frog
Yes sirrrr
Ok
Yup
Yessir
Nah I watched live on twitch.tv/Ludwig
15:42 ASH EVOLVED HIS RAICHU LESSS GO
15:06 lol Ash got in trouble from nightbot for spamming.
Ikr
25:50 the vaporeon copypasta killed me xD
“Talk to me Island” is just Luds version of “Jamie pull that up”
Lol. Exactly
@@shrimpyy420 did NOT expect a Korra reference in these replies
16:36 I love seeing Lud get his second “me” pack in a row, Island saying “double you” and then the chat immediately spamming W
“Did you know that in terms of male and female Pokémon breeding, Vaporeon is the most compatible for humans? They’re an average of 3’3” tall and 64 lbs. This means they’re large enough to handle a human peni-“
Wouldn’t you love to know ludwig, wouldn’t you love to know.
Wubby is better than Professor Oak in making Pokedex entries.
Dude, I was thinking the same thing. A Vaporeon could handle human penicillin injections and be like a personal caretaker for people with diabetes. Very cool!
Nah, He’s taken by Bunairy. Cant be fucked searching how to spell it.
@@harrisclow8772 i think she’s a lil underaged homie
@@justintexeira6095 not like I was referencing a joke which is in the reddit recap intro or anything.
This is wild. This is the set we were collecting when red/blue came out and the cartoon first aired in the US. I still have a binder full of Pokémon cards from this set. I literally opened them and put them in the sleeves. Wonder how much they’re worth.
Island has been one of my fav part of all of this, definitely do more content with him
32:08
This whole time I thought that Island was on Discord, and then a hand appeared next to Lud
I can't even watch this, it's too hard. seeing old school cards just reminds me of losing all of my gen 1 cards as a boy to the washing machine. sadge
God that happened to me too. I think washing machines are the ultimate antagonist of Pokémon cards
@@Amethyst_Deceiver1 actual trauma lol
Oh dude I played magic the gathering in my teens. I had a collection folder thingy with so many sick cards. All old dual lands 4 times, multiple gaeas cradle, Timetwister, 4x Jihad. Promos, about 10 Force of will and some other really really sick old cards. At the time I lost it it was worth a few hundred bucks but now it would be worth 6 digits. I stopped playing for a while and when I started again I just couldn't find it anymore. Maybe my dad took it away when I had bad grades (he used to do that) and misplaced it.
My brother’s were ruined by cat pee
Dude same i had stacks of gen 1 cards and almost all of them were $100+ and have em all away to my friends.
“I reached out to the 6 biggest streamers on twitch… and Mizkif”
_That one didn’t age quite so well_
What is he big now I genuinely haven’t heard of him or like half of these people lol I’m late
@@cwill2127 Mizkif has fallen a little in the last 6 months due to reasons. But almost all of these people are extremly popular just not part of OTV and other groups close to them. Heck I didn't even know Rae existed until the end of 2020 when I only watch youtube content creators and not streamers and everyone I watched were extremly popular in their own categories.
@@iceman3317 very explanatory. Due to reasons. Lmao
The art of those eeveelutions is absolutely beautiful
I love that these cards made 20 years ago have 10 times better quality than anything you're ripping out of a US-printed pack today.
3:31 I screamed with the way he opened that pack.
Card: 90 dollars
Ludwig: this ain’t worth shit
Me: wow this man really is rich
Well he did buy a $30,000 box of pokemon cards
That’s what happens when you commit tax fraud
Idk how much legendary packs but when ur spending 300+$ on a pack and it's 50$ to send a card to psa I've just lost money😂not that it's an investment just for the nestalgia
Guys i used to buy pokemon cards so tell me what psa is? And if we get rare cards from the pack can we sell that card? But where do we sell those rare cards?
@@JUSTINRYANable it's a website that you can send cards to and it checks for authenticity and condition after about 3-6 months thell come back with a grade and you cross your fingers😂
Lets be honest , we always smell the cards when we open a pack
@Frogman you fool, it is 7pm for me
edit: This comment was made 11 minutes after the other comment
@@sensrsq4744 where tf are you I’m on the west coast of America and any further than that goes to like Japan ands stuff and it’s 12:55
@@s14y3r8 a lot of people are fluent/can speak english even outside native english countries
Do you peel the crust off your Pokémon cards
@Frogman timezones are a thing lmao
"Even mizkif will walk away with something"
*mizkif pulling 125k lugia*
Not rly its about like $10k since its nowhere near a psa 10
@@ameliafrancks2198 didnt he say it looked really good on stream? Either way 10k for a piece of cardboard with an animal on it is good
@@doggofv but he spent 70k on a box of cardbord
@@ameliafrancks2198 Ladies. what did Island say the cost of the friendship was along the way?
@@doggofv still wouldnt be a 10 tho.. very unlikely but a 9 is possible
You’re telling me I watched the entire 4 hour long vod yesterday and he uploads this now
I sold a ton of cards to a card shop when I was poor and needed to play rent a year ago. This makes me feel like maybe I should have done more research. Either way, it was fun revisiting my childhood by seeing the card art. This got me way more hyped than I thought.
The pure sadness I heard when I heard “I don’t know what I was feeling” LOL
ludwig's robber is going to be confused on why his bank account is full of pokemon cards.
i know im very late on this but seeing island being so popular back in the whole pokemon meta was so cool because i actually very actively watched him for a while for his sw content
What's up, 2:45am EST-ers. How's your sleepless night going?
2:17 CST-er here. my sleepless night is actually going amazing and i’m having a great time. hope yours is going just as well!
Not bad, just finished classes
me to
probably going to sleep now, but it is going
great its only 3:45 now
The centering is good on these cards. I can see most of these getting psa 9 or 10
RUclips:how many ads do you want ludwig
Ludwig:yes
i remember holding all of these cards as a kid and it hurts knowing how much money i couldve been holding
cap
@@Benjamslikestrains what?
@@MrScraap It means that I do not believe that he truly had possession of all these cards, as they are extremely rare and valuable. I also don't believe that he would somehow lose/trade them if they were truly hollows/reverse hollows/etc as even a child would know that those are something worth holding onto.
@@Benjamslikestrains nah man this happens all the time. Kids are dumb and probably put it under his bed forgot about it and when he moved out his mom found it and threw it away. Probably happens all the time
My dad had the same thing happen to him. Had all his shinys and everything and crashed into a wall when he was 20 and lost everything he had. Low point in his life but he’s doing better now
18:46 sweatcicle with the D2 community representation
6:44 I love the seething pulling a holo potion card lmao
1 MILLION LUDWIG CONGRATS. ITS INSANE TO SEE HOW MUCH YOUVE GROWN IN THE PAST YEARS. 😃
2 years later and he's at 5.4 million subs. He's been poppin' off hard lately.
Sykkunos Intro in the background shows true friendship
Ludwig putting all of his money in pokemon cards to confuse the IRS
he said haunter like a football anouncer 9:21
The prices versus chats reaction shows they have no idea whats happening
This was so much fun to watch!!
Our 2nd time watching it😅
Im just imagining someone pulling a 3k card while the collector is watching and bro just crushes it 💀
15:24 *hears that its 3.8k at psa 10* *immediately touches the art*
AYO I’m early but my guy just dropped more $ on a box than my car.
So your car dropped $ on a box? 😂
@@strandkorbst9643 lmao
Looking back on this video, you grasp the cards to aggressively and it makes me nervous that you're damaging them 😂
Every Twitch streamer: opening Pokemon packs.
Maxmoefoe: am I a joke to you?
I love to see a play by play of how much it goes down in value by each thing he does to the box lol
Mans re-living his childhood respect...
lierally couldnt care less about the cards...I just love how you can tell how much he cares about them and how careful he is
19 minutes and the streak was over...
Dude he's almost late dvery single day.
@@binkleyme not on the west coast
“Yuppp that Ash, that’s the one” 🤣
Pokemon cards are becoming their own currency at this point
Been getting this video recommended for a month straight so FINE RUclips I'LL WATCH IT
Didn’t dude tell him not to put his fingerprints on the foil. Then dude proceeds to put his thumbprint on the $3800 card 😂
i mean hes not that worried, hes having a good time with his cards
@@gunnarrasmussen5768 they're not his
@Tiger The cat People bought some of these packs beforehand. Thats why he is pulling random names out of a bowl
My brother sold my entire collection of first gen Pokemon cards to someone else for £100 back when I was a kid. Tons of foils, multiple nine-tails.
"YEAH BUT BRO I GOT £100. I GOT £100 BRO"
"But I like my cards, I spent that much to buy them"
"BRO £100". (I think he gave me 50 from the sale but can't remember)
Not like I hold grudges, but shit, videos like this just make it that much worse.
And I tell him about this at 35 and he's like "nah I didn't do that".
Like yeah my cards completely evaporated from the house and I made up this entire story to justify losing them.
I was close to pulling my hair out when he started bending the card.
everytime a pokemon video shows up in my recommended....i remember how i had a charizard first edition stolen from my backpack in middle school....the pain never goes away
Never ceases to amaze me how he's getting so excited over such valuable cards
Yet the total value still remains to be hella under the cost of the box, meaning he essentially got scammed
im not sure if thats true if you count all the non special cards in...he said they are all worth around a hundred dollars
that's the same with all boxes tho
the boxes itself are usually higher than the total cost of the cards unless you get lucky
14:05 Oh dam I love that Pidgeot art
ludwig: its in such good condition
ludwig: proceeds to bite it
When I was 6 years old (back in 1999) I was really into pokemon cards, back when they were first released, and I was super excited when I got my favorite card, Charizard.I felt super lucky too, because it was all shiny, so I showed my brother. He told me it was pretty valuable so I should let him hold on to it for safe keeping. It wasn't until I was around 17 that I realized what had happened. In all honesty I'm not even mad, I hope he got some good money for it, I was 6 and likely would have played with the card until it was a folded, crumpled mess and then forgotten it in a drawer and then regretted it when I got old enough to realize I had ruined 55k.
Your card wasn’t worth 55k in 1999. He probably just traded it for a few bucks
Sure
25:50 damn im surprised lud didnt know about that copypasta, i remember seeing that shit like 7 or 8 months ago lol
yep lol
God those arts are bringing back so many memories of elementary school
“I GOT 8 F*CKING MANKEYS”
~Sweatcicle
Nahhh 15:53 "what else we got here... MEEEEEEEE" hahahahahaha
This was so good. Pokémon week was amazing. Thanks for putting it all together Ludwig!
39:57 no dont call the USP-S, its silenced after all
that haunter card is sick
32:58 the "what?" Killed me
No one has any idea how insane it is that Lospollos pulled a snorlax....
Why?
Why?
Y
Did you notice the vertical factory line on the hollow foil of the Electrode? These are super common in these old prints. very unique though.
RUclips won't stop recommending me this incredibly handsome fella, please help
at 36:06 my brain broke when Island said he doesn't need it talking about Ash
I was part of those unfollowing during the build-up to 1 mil... I was having heart palpitations... Everyone in chat was horrified... It was amazing
29:00 dang i have that squirtle from back when i was a kid... however it may or may not have been through the washer lmao
The hype for that reverse hollo Exeggcute lmfao
When pokemon first came out I was like 10. I remember waking up early every saturday to watch the cartoon. I also have some of these cards in the video. Crazy how much the value has changed.
Congrats on a million Lud!
congrats ASH, what a killer pack
Excpet he thumbed the holo RIachu lol
Lud:
*gets told how important not putting fingers on holo part is*
*gets shocked at how expensive holo Raichu is*
*immediately slams thum over holo to dramatically reveal reverse holo Flareon*
It feels like he was at 70.2k yesterday now he's at 1m they grow up so fast :(
ah yes the time when Island sold everyone on the PSA10 dream lmao
Congrats on 1 mill on RUclips lud, happy to see you blowing up finally.
love how u guys had a website open to check prices properly not some fake guy saying fake guesses like in logans live pull lol. solid vid👍
is he gonna show when he got his dark charizard? didnt see it on yt
3:07 JOE MOMMA
This Pokemon card craze made me go check out my old cards that have been sitting for many years. Theres alot, I have 6 charizards for instance. Always knew someday they'd blow up but the prices are blowing my mind🤯 Not sure if I should cash out or keep them tucked away
At least get em all graded
@@kylealexander7024 ya eventually I should, at least the high value ones. That'll be an investment in itself I'll go broke at $15 per card grading 🤣
If they weren't stored in mint condition, have any centering issues, any defects whatsoever, I'd avoid getting them graded, as a low graded card will oftentimes be worth less than an ungraded card. Just something to think about
@@michaeldaigle7207 most are NM+
Been parting out the lot, got 15k+ so far. I sold most before the bubble popped thankfully. Now I'll hold the rest unless a crazy offer comes along.
And good call on the grading. Been getting PSA 8-9 prices on raw cards for the most part. Haven't graded anything yet but I'm planning to send a Shiny zard Vmax into Beckett soon
@@B-ROYalty bet. You're living the tcg dream bro
Nice real life loot crates. Used to have some of these same cards over 2 decades ago. Amazing.
I'm so annoyed that I lost all my Pokemon cards as a kid, seeing you pull so many cards I used to own. I definitely had a few thousand worth of cards. I had a ton of rare foil cards.
“You’re not Heisenberg, you’re more like Jessie”
*perfect Jessie voice* “no no no”
31:19 for a cute little aged-like-milk moment.
It was lots of fun and nostalgia seeing you pull those beautiful cards!
Why did it age like milk?
I would have thought print lines would make them more expensive? As they aren't damage and are from the printing process, making that specific card 100% unique. I don't understand current pokemon collectors...