Love the history lesson behind this product. You should do some more videos like this with the back story of the products you open. The hard work put in this video shows.
Agreed. I don't play anymore but the history on this video was amazing with the fun pulls. Adding some history to regular pack pulls would be a cool addition.
Thanks for bringing more attention to this. Upper Deck during that era made Konami seem like the villain out the entire time. Funny enough, 4kids also tried to embezzle Konami and other rights holders for Yugioh too, so really, there's been a lot of attempts to steal from Yugioh.
Konami is still the bad guy in their own right. Garbage card quality the past few months/years, absurd rarity-jacking between OCG/TCG, and a severe lack of decent prize support among other things.
Shame really, the older card print quality and feel is so much better, they feel much cheaper and more flimsy these days, even modern starlights, ghosts and collector rares I can't appreciate as much as the upperdeck stuff.
The tcg side if the game is the cashcow while the ocg side is premium. They get all the cool rarities and affordable staples while we just take it up the bum bum with shit quality control damn near every set and shortprinted staples :')
@@hodlenbinglebutt1117 Fax. MTG card stock is so hit or miss. Yugioh card stock even today feels solid for me, now there maybe print errors and such, but the card itself seems structurally solid to me. Some new mtg cards im afraid to even flick them in my hand cuz theyre so flimsy feeling.
I really can't understand how they could be counterfeit cards in the first place. Lower quality, yes, but produced by the company licensed to produce the TCG cards, and all the cards were TCG cards. It's such a weird thing to me.
Great opening ruxin - love that kind of stuff. Konami isnt a great company, and they probably deserve alot of the criticism they receive, but jeez, you almost feel bad for them with what upper deck was doing at the time.
Wow as I've only just got back into opening cards I stopped collecting in 2005 but came back due to seeing your videos so had no idea of this situation hearing this history lesson was great I'd love to see more videos in the future like this great content :)
My local card shop had a fake Aqua Neos in the case. He got it in the purchase of a bulk purchase from someone selling their collection. If you don't know about the counterfeit cards to begin with it is an easy thing to miss.
I like the idea of a bit history before the opening part. Would actually love to get a little history lesson for some special items with a unique background story :)
From the UK! I bought one of these from Walmart on a holiday to Virginia in 2008 when I was 12! Didn’t realise this was tied to the upper deck drama! I still have a few of the fakes, including the Dreadmaster!
Counterfeit, which nowadays translates to "we think we deserve money for artwork on cardboard, so only our cardboard with art on it is real." Making cards which cost roughly fifteen cents to mass produce, and then attaching an arbitrary value based supposed value is the reason I start making my own magic and yugioh proxys.
I got a huge flashback for when I was a child at a flea market I remembered the time i saw that exact same product wow what a flashback I dint remembered this at all I can confirm I saw this same product
I hate that the counterfeits look nicer. Really goes to show how much Konami cheaps out on their product as far as manufacturing goes. Those look about as cool as the different holo rarities in Cardfight Vanguard.
Man I recently traded a Near Mint first Edition Ultimate Rare Flame Wingman to a card shop without knowing this. I went back and checked, sure enough it had a silver square at the bottom instead of gold. Kinda feel bad about it, but I did offer to trade what I got with the store credit back in, they wouldn't let me. (was an entire DPE package)
The funny thing with all of this is Upperdeck was the printer of the cards for Konami at the time, therefore the crime is actually not counterfeit it’s misuse of trust. Saying upper deck committed counterfeit is like saying the mint counterfeits, you can’t say the official flow is fake otherwise you admit all is fake, however what upper deck did was overprint, which wouldn’t be a crime if it was an accident. They printed more cards than Konami the rightful copyright holder allowed them to for their own gain, and that is breach of contract.
I knew the counterfeits existed, but never actually knew about their origin product. That’s really cool. Shame things happened the way they did though; I do miss the old UDE print quality compared to modern Konami printing
I always thought those see-through packs with like 15 cards were kind of weird. Always gravitated towards special collector products or buying packs from a comic book store.
My dad and I used to buy cards from the store open the packs, take out the good cards , then put some random terrible baseball or pokemon card in the pack, glue it shut and return it. Back when Neo Genisis was around. But it got to the point where we did it so often we started buying the packs we returned and just stopped all together. It didn't go on for more then a few weeks. It's a terrible thing to do but it is hilarious looking back. I can't imagine how pissed some kids must have been being hype to pull a Lugia and end up getting some random shit like a Houston Astros pitcher who sits on the bench the whole year instead.
I remember buying one of those blisters in 2008 from Toys R Us, I remember it came with the 1st Ed Aqua Neos with the silver stamp and I think a flute of summoning kuriboh or Winged Kuriboh Lv10
@@Ruxin34 I think it may have also came with Elemental Hero Electrum with the silver stamp too so these bundles had some of the MDP2 rares. Also, for some strange reason it included a couple of ultra-pro “mammoth rider” art sleeves lol can’t believe I remember those sleeves from 14 years ago.
Hey ruxin, i would love to See a "Cash back" series from you . You Start with a Budget (lets say 300$) and oprn Packs for that value. Then the combined value of the pulls is the Budget you have for the next week. The goal is just to choose good Packs with good value to keep the series alive. This could be a really sucessfull Format for your channel imo
@@Ruxin34 then the "season" is over and you Start New. But the tactic is to hold it alive, i think its Not as Hard if you have the right product. You can also grade the cards and get some more value of it. It probably works Best with newer or underrated products
Dang thanks for this explanation. I used to collect yugioh cards OG till gx era, then stopped. recently I opened up some new yugioh packs and could immediately tell something was off with print quality from I used to remember it. Didn't know all this shit happened lol
This was very interesting, loved the info and lesson on how to spot the little differences. I for one had no idea about this so it was nice to learn about
This was actually really interesting, I heard some things about those counterfeits but never knew the differences nor the whole story. Thank you for sharing and showing this, it was amazing! It is a shame though, honestly the foiling on the counterfeits looks pretty good too... but well, life is life huh?
I love how space-conscious this product is. Wide enough to catch the eye, while being flat enough to store a few dozen on a shelf while having little to no waste. Much better than the replacement for Special Editions. Makes me wish this company handled all Yugioh product.
Such fascinating history about this product, I had stopped playing when I had gotten into high school in 2006. I didn’t know this had happened. I knew ppl were getting fake cards but I didn’t know how. Thank you for this history lesson. Aloha from hawaii 🤙🏼
For upper deck they are also slightly thicker and weighted more idk if you said that and I missed it but that affected some playability cause there was some people stacking with them
Could this be the reason behind Air Neos' lack of reprint and showing? Out of all the "theories" and "rumors", this makes a lot more sense since it's around the time period Air Neos got printed, then the lawsuits started appearing shortly after. Within that time, I don't think they could have reprinted it because of the lawsuits happening. And Konami probably wanted to avoid any "possible" lawsuits by not having Air Neos in the artwork of Instant Contact. As a just in case measure.
I remember back when toysrus had these fake blisters and a mom had these fake promos that didn't even have the Konami logo at the bottom of the card. So I knew it was fake. I told her and she was like why would toysrus sell fake cards.
Depending on who you ask some do not care or know about the UDE variants. Ive known some to consider them fake and others to equate the real thing with the UDE counterfeit value.
man watching this and seeing the differences between UDE and konami printing on that flame wingman makes me mad the UDE was greedy enough to try and circumvent konami. UDE printing just looks so much better
Wow, you just reminded me I once bought one of these products or something similar way back when. The promo card I got from it was a Elemental Hero Tempest with a unique holo to the card where the whole front had a mosaic rare type of look to it, but with a star-like pattern. I don't have the card anymore, but it always stuck with me in my mind with how unique it looked.
This is really pushing the definition of counterfeit. These cards were printed alongside real TCG cards, just without Konami's permission. In fact their print quality is arguably better than that of the real thing.
Thats what a counterfeit is. If I all the equipment to mint US currency, to the extent that the quality of my printed currency is indistinguishable from legitimate US currency, its still a counterfeit because I'm not authorized to produce it.
It's not counterfeit. Upper Deck had the right to print YuGiOh cards thus those are official cards. Konami did not like them printing cards and selling individual cards without their consent, as you can see those were "Pack Ultimate rares" not promo cards that are specific for that set. So Konami filed a lawsuit to remove Upper-deck's ability to create cards because that was the only way to remove upper decks authorization. So calling them counterfeit when at the time, they had the right to print cards is just false.
I unfortunately own the Flame Wingman one that I got from a 50¢ machine since I knew that some stores were doing that so younger me didn't think anything of it when I got the card I wanted. It's currently my only copy of the card and I will forever be disappointed to know my card is a fake distributed by a company that was supposed to sell real cards.
Ultimate Rares and Ghosts left primarily because of rising costs of card production, and UDE would eventually have to cut costs like every other companies. UDE was notoriously violent against the casual player, moreso than modern Konami. I think we're in the better timeline.
I know it's a year or more late, but I personally have a Duel King OG (can't find it, every one I see/find are Duel King 2 or 3). Has Wingman, Dreadmaster and Neos on the front. I feel I might be the only person who has this copy, which is insanity. Edit: the packs in it are Rise of Destiny, Legacy and Sanctuary
I'm so glad i stopped playing before then, as i have a ton of older cards, some pretty rare one's as well, but at the time most of them were basically worthless, until yu-gi-oh got more popular amongst collectors in the post gx era.
I've known this story for a long time now, but it's still insane that a major business would take such a stupid risk. Also that they continued manufacturing and supplying to Konami in the middle of bitter legal battle.
This video made me look into my old cards because the White-Horned Dragon was one of my favorite cards to use during the playground days. I remembered it being this rarity and it being a mcdonalds promo based on the code. Verifying the card it is rare as well, limited edition, it states it has a mcdonalds promo and it has the silver mark on the lower side which means it is very likely that it is the counterfeit but I want to confirm it because I remember opening McDonalds pack 2 and I still have many of the cards but I don’t remember opening this product. Also looking for the White Horned Dragon I found that I also own the counterfeit Dreadmaster which I did not know was fake until today (EOJ 1st edition silver mark) but I don’t own the Mist Body.
You are 100% right. I agree with you the print quality from upper deck was really good and that’s the one I grew up with and love the texture of old Yu-Gi-Oh cards I Hate the modern print cards… it doesn’t feel the same way back then such a shame. That’s is one of the reasons why I don’t play modern Yu-Gi-Oh
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Love the history lesson behind this product. You should do some more videos like this with the back story of the products you open. The hard work put in this video shows.
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Agreed. I don't play anymore but the history on this video was amazing with the fun pulls. Adding some history to regular pack pulls would be a cool addition.
Thanks for bringing more attention to this. Upper Deck during that era made Konami seem like the villain out the entire time. Funny enough, 4kids also tried to embezzle Konami and other rights holders for Yugioh too, so really, there's been a lot of attempts to steal from Yugioh.
Ude was much better company tho their cards is perfect
Konami is still the bad guy in their own right. Garbage card quality the past few months/years, absurd rarity-jacking between OCG/TCG, and a severe lack of decent prize support among other things.
Pretty crazy, Upper Deck had all the means to print legitimate cards for this product, but they just went for bootlegs instead.
Thats what kinda baffled me too
Upper Deck didn't print the cards. The video got that wrong. Upper Deck was the Distributor. Konami always produced the cards.
Shame really, the older card print quality and feel is so much better, they feel much cheaper and more flimsy these days, even modern starlights, ghosts and collector rares I can't appreciate as much as the upperdeck stuff.
The tcg side if the game is the cashcow while the ocg side is premium. They get all the cool rarities and affordable staples while we just take it up the bum bum with shit quality control damn near every set and shortprinted staples :')
100%
I didnt know it was possible to get worse quality than older card stock.
Compared to modern mtg and pokemon, the quality of modern ygo cards is still pretty solid.
@@hodlenbinglebutt1117 Fax. MTG card stock is so hit or miss. Yugioh card stock even today feels solid for me, now there maybe print errors and such, but the card itself seems structurally solid to me. Some new mtg cards im afraid to even flick them in my hand cuz theyre so flimsy feeling.
Thats cool, id love more of this style video because Id like to know the history behind the cards and sets in quick and concise formats like that
You don’t see these opened every day!!!😍🔥
More like never
I really can't understand how they could be counterfeit cards in the first place. Lower quality, yes, but produced by the company licensed to produce the TCG cards, and all the cards were TCG cards. It's such a weird thing to me.
Upper Deck didn't print the cards. The video got that wrong. Upper Deck was the Distributor. Konami always produced the cards.
@@SolidSnake9689 would you know why they printed 1st Ed with silver stamp then ? Thanks for the insight!!
They probably this on purpose to break their contract without breach
Great opening ruxin - love that kind of stuff. Konami isnt a great company, and they probably deserve alot of the criticism they receive, but jeez, you almost feel bad for them with what upper deck was doing at the time.
Wow as I've only just got back into opening cards I stopped collecting in 2005 but came back due to seeing your videos so had no idea of this situation hearing this history lesson was great I'd love to see more videos in the future like this great content :)
These short educational videos regarding YuGiOh are so interesting. Keep it up rux!
My local card shop had a fake Aqua Neos in the case. He got it in the purchase of a bulk purchase from someone selling their collection. If you don't know about the counterfeit cards to begin with it is an easy thing to miss.
Idk since Konami took over the holographic cards look cheap to me and scratch super easily or maybe they’re more apparent now
Yea print quality is so bad now
I like the idea of a bit history before the opening part. Would actually love to get a little history lesson for some special items with a unique background story :)
From the UK! I bought one of these from Walmart on a holiday to Virginia in 2008 when I was 12! Didn’t realise this was tied to the upper deck drama! I still have a few of the fakes, including the Dreadmaster!
I would still keep those too bad my fakes weren't close to that lol
Counterfeit, which nowadays translates to "we think we deserve money for artwork on cardboard, so only our cardboard with art on it is real."
Making cards which cost roughly fifteen cents to mass produce, and then attaching an arbitrary value based supposed value is the reason I start making my own magic and yugioh proxys.
I got a huge flashback for when I was a child at a flea market I remembered the time i saw that exact same product wow what a flashback I dint remembered this at all I can confirm I saw this same product
I hate that the counterfeits look nicer. Really goes to show how much Konami cheaps out on their product as far as manufacturing goes.
Those look about as cool as the different holo rarities in Cardfight Vanguard.
Well both the real and the counterfeit were printed by Upper Deck technically. They printed the original Wingman in 2006
I didn’t know anything about this until now, thanks for the new info
Man I recently traded a Near Mint first Edition Ultimate Rare Flame Wingman to a card shop without knowing this. I went back and checked, sure enough it had a silver square at the bottom instead of gold. Kinda feel bad about it, but I did offer to trade what I got with the store credit back in, they wouldn't let me. (was an entire DPE package)
Props to you for trying to do right!
Very respectable! Glad you got to keep the DPE stuff
God I remember trying to go to upper deck day in NJ back in 2009 and when we got there, there was no event. Should’ve figured something was up
That small history tidbit before the opening is pretty neat, very nice way to slightly hype you up before watching the pack opening
Yoooo! That's my picture of the 3 counterfeit dreadmasters at 0:43 from an old reddit post I made 4 years ago. Super cool to see it featured hahaha
Let's go!!!!
Damn, I wish I got my hands on those back in the day !
Bro these duel king 2 blisters are so hard to come by these days. Amazing to see this get opened again.
Really loved the info aft the beginning of the video to hype up the product you were opening. Definitely do more of this because it's great!!
Nothing wrong with big openings, but this was a nice break, always enjoy learning about history behind certain cards and events
Actually dope, would like to have that flame wingman for sure
The funny thing with all of this is Upperdeck was the printer of the cards for Konami at the time, therefore the crime is actually not counterfeit it’s misuse of trust. Saying upper deck committed counterfeit is like saying the mint counterfeits, you can’t say the official flow is fake otherwise you admit all is fake, however what upper deck did was overprint, which wouldn’t be a crime if it was an accident. They printed more cards than Konami the rightful copyright holder allowed them to for their own gain, and that is breach of contract.
I can’t remember what episode it is but Patrick Sullivan talks about this on the podcast The Resleevables when he worked there
I knew the counterfeits existed, but never actually knew about their origin product. That’s really cool. Shame things happened the way they did though; I do miss the old UDE print quality compared to modern Konami printing
I always thought those see-through packs with like 15 cards were kind of weird. Always gravitated towards special collector products or buying packs from a comic book store.
My dad and I used to buy cards from the store open the packs, take out the good cards , then put some random terrible baseball or pokemon card in the pack, glue it shut and return it. Back when Neo Genisis was around. But it got to the point where we did it so often we started buying the packs we returned and just stopped all together. It didn't go on for more then a few weeks. It's a terrible thing to do but it is hilarious looking back. I can't imagine how pissed some kids must have been being hype to pull a Lugia and end up getting some random shit like a Houston Astros pitcher who sits on the bench the whole year instead.
Your dad was pretty pathetic
I remember buying one of those blisters in 2008 from Toys R Us, I remember it came with the 1st Ed Aqua Neos with the silver stamp and I think a flute of summoning kuriboh or Winged Kuriboh Lv10
Oh cool. I was second guessing myself for a bit when I could only find Dreadmaster stuff LOL
@@Ruxin34 I think it may have also came with Elemental Hero Electrum with the silver stamp too so these bundles had some of the MDP2 rares. Also, for some strange reason it included a couple of ultra-pro “mammoth rider” art sleeves lol can’t believe I remember those sleeves from 14 years ago.
looks real enough to me and it has all of the official game text
Really good video, just recently getting back into Yugioh and I was wondering why do these new cards feel different, this explains why 👍
Nice video, I loved older cards, and more nostalgia now when I look them haha, I think you need more videos like this, a history of TCG and YGO cards
Hey ruxin, i would love to See a "Cash back" series from you . You Start with a Budget (lets say 300$) and oprn Packs for that value. Then the combined value of the pulls is the Budget you have for the next week. The goal is just to choose good Packs with good value to keep the series alive. This could be a really sucessfull Format for your channel imo
My only issue is what happens if we pull like $4 on ep1?
@@Ruxin34 then the "season" is over and you Start New. But the tactic is to hold it alive, i think its Not as Hard if you have the right product. You can also grade the cards and get some more value of it. It probably works Best with newer or underrated products
Holy shit I vaguely remember this. Upper deck definitely milked Konami.
Dang thanks for this explanation. I used to collect yugioh cards OG till gx era, then stopped. recently I opened up some new yugioh packs and could immediately tell something was off with print quality from I used to remember it. Didn't know all this shit happened lol
Maybe that's where the counterfeit Legend of Blue Eyes booster boxes were coming from.
Great explanation, I didnt quite understand what happened when I watched Cimooo and MBT explain it
Awesome video Ruxin! Loving the different types of videos you've been posting recently. Keep it up!!
Before I even finish this vid......intro and back story was 🔥🔥🔥. Had no idea officially why Upper deck got the boot!!!
I loved the new take with this. Educational videos about yugioh interest me. I’d like to see more in the future!
This was very interesting, loved the info and lesson on how to spot the little differences. I for one had no idea about this so it was nice to learn about
Wow, I was unaware that any of that had occurred and it was definitely interesting to learn about O_O
I knew about this story roughly but not all the details so this was cool!
This was actually really interesting, I heard some things about those counterfeits but never knew the differences nor the whole story. Thank you for sharing and showing this, it was amazing!
It is a shame though, honestly the foiling on the counterfeits looks pretty good too... but well, life is life huh?
It actually does look good😂😂
Awesome history lesson here. I honestly didn’t know about the information you provided. Upper deck really threw away a good thing they had going.
I love how space-conscious this product is. Wide enough to catch the eye, while being flat enough to store a few dozen on a shelf while having little to no waste. Much better than the replacement for Special Editions. Makes me wish this company handled all Yugioh product.
It really sucks, because Upper Deck actually did a pretty bang-up job with prize support.
"in 2008, something would be released that changed everything" made me think of dark armed dragon lol
Didn't know about this so yeah, it's very educational. The quality of the old yugioh cards were better.
Such fascinating history about this product, I had stopped playing when I had gotten into high school in 2006. I didn’t know this had happened. I knew ppl were getting fake cards but I didn’t know how. Thank you for this history lesson. Aloha from hawaii 🤙🏼
For upper deck they are also slightly thicker and weighted more idk if you said that and I missed it but that affected some playability cause there was some people stacking with them
Awesome video, loving the Naruto Clash of Ninja 2 background music
I want to say the flame wingman and aqua neos were in a similar bundle (maybe like duel king 1 or something) because that's how I got mine.
Could this be the reason behind Air Neos' lack of reprint and showing? Out of all the "theories" and "rumors", this makes a lot more sense since it's around the time period Air Neos got printed, then the lawsuits started appearing shortly after. Within that time, I don't think they could have reprinted it because of the lawsuits happening.
And Konami probably wanted to avoid any "possible" lawsuits by not having Air Neos in the artwork of Instant Contact. As a just in case measure.
I remember back when toysrus had these fake blisters and a mom had these fake promos that didn't even have the Konami logo at the bottom of the card. So I knew it was fake. I told her and she was like why would toysrus sell fake cards.
Loved learning the history behind the change in cards. Always wondered why the new cards feel different.
It oddly feels more special pulling one of the counterfeit Flame Wingman's.
That intro was nice. The history behind it was very interesting.
Depending on who you ask some do not care or know about the UDE variants. Ive known some to consider them fake and others to equate the real thing with the UDE counterfeit value.
man watching this and seeing the differences between UDE and konami printing on that flame wingman makes me mad the UDE was greedy enough to try and circumvent konami. UDE printing just looks so much better
Thank you for the brief history lesson!
Wow, you just reminded me I once bought one of these products or something similar way back when. The promo card I got from it was a Elemental Hero Tempest with a unique holo to the card where the whole front had a mosaic rare type of look to it, but with a star-like pattern. I don't have the card anymore, but it always stuck with me in my mind with how unique it looked.
Oh these are a legit card. It a mattel edition. Those are money card now. Also known as hobby league rare
@@calallen8786 lmao wow I haven't felt so disappointed in myself for so long until today
@@segomac96 let me see if I can find a link
Still a $23 cards
Never heard about that "scandal"... very interesting!
I could tell just by the stamp on the aqua card. I haven't touched yugioh in aaaaaaaaaaages lol.
Never knew any of that. Thanks for the info Ruxin
Thank you for the information i was wounding why the cards felt so off, now i know why!
The old school print quality imo was much better but I could just be bias. The new cards are to slick feeling for me
I had never heard this piece of yugi-lore
This is the best video you've made man, great work and production. More of this when possible!
Thanks man!
Ohhh, I never actually knew where the counterfeits came from. Always just assumed they were in boosters.
This is really pushing the definition of counterfeit. These cards were printed alongside real TCG cards, just without Konami's permission. In fact their print quality is arguably better than that of the real thing.
Thats what a counterfeit is. If I all the equipment to mint US currency, to the extent that the quality of my printed currency is indistinguishable from legitimate US currency, its still a counterfeit because I'm not authorized to produce it.
It's not counterfeit. Upper Deck had the right to print YuGiOh cards thus those are official cards.
Konami did not like them printing cards and selling individual cards without their consent, as you can see those were "Pack Ultimate rares" not promo cards that are specific for that set.
So Konami filed a lawsuit to remove Upper-deck's ability to create cards because that was the only way to remove upper decks authorization.
So calling them counterfeit when at the time, they had the right to print cards is just false.
I wouldn’t mind you doing Yu-Gi-Oh history videos that intro is pretty awesome!
I unfortunately own the Flame Wingman one that I got from a 50¢ machine since I knew that some stores were doing that so younger me didn't think anything of it when I got the card I wanted. It's currently my only copy of the card and I will forever be disappointed to know my card is a fake distributed by a company that was supposed to sell real cards.
At least it has a cool memory from when you got it attached to it!
@@Ruxin34 Yeah it does and until the end of last year I never knew it was fake, I'll get a new legal one eventually.
I wonder if we'd still have ultimate and ghost rares in core sets if UDE still printed the cards. 🤔
Ultimate Rares and Ghosts left primarily because of rising costs of card production, and UDE would eventually have to cut costs like every other companies. UDE was notoriously violent against the casual player, moreso than modern Konami. I think we're in the better timeline.
@@Teebs1996 Yeah for sure I'm glad we don't have the hobby/retail exclusive junk anymore.
Always wondered what happened between Konami and UDE. Appreciate the info
i noticed that on mine as well with the excelion ultimate rare first edition
Loved the intro, hope you do more of these! Learned something new, thanks Ruxin
I know it's a year or more late, but I personally have a Duel King OG (can't find it, every one I see/find are Duel King 2 or 3). Has Wingman, Dreadmaster and Neos on the front. I feel I might be the only person who has this copy, which is insanity.
Edit: the packs in it are Rise of Destiny, Legacy and Sanctuary
2:56 I actually prefer the left one more lol.
I actually never knew about this. Damn really informative thanks!
I'm so glad i stopped playing before then, as i have a ton of older cards, some pretty rare one's as well, but at the time most of them were basically worthless, until yu-gi-oh got more popular amongst collectors in the post gx era.
Honestly really enjoyed the education portion of this video. Wouldn't mind seeing more of it!
Wow what a fascinating product, so much history but also so confusing. Awesome opening, thanks for sharing this!
I've known this story for a long time now, but it's still insane that a major business would take such a stupid risk. Also that they continued manufacturing and supplying to Konami in the middle of bitter legal battle.
Very nice video! Thank you for the information and lesson about upper deck :D
Ruxin! Ezellent video. Haven’t seen you do a history video but you’re a natural!
The upperdeck prints are so much nicer 🤧
This video made me look into my old cards because the White-Horned Dragon was one of my favorite cards to use during the playground days. I remembered it being this rarity and it being a mcdonalds promo based on the code. Verifying the card it is rare as well, limited edition, it states it has a mcdonalds promo and it has the silver mark on the lower side which means it is very likely that it is the counterfeit but I want to confirm it because I remember opening McDonalds pack 2 and I still have many of the cards but I don’t remember opening this product. Also looking for the White Horned Dragon I found that I also own the counterfeit Dreadmaster which I did not know was fake until today (EOJ 1st edition silver mark) but I don’t own the Mist Body.
I don't think the McDonalds ones are counterfeit - only the ultra/ ultimate rares in this set - but not 100% sure
I used to hace an aqua dolphin ult with silver hologram and "1st ed" text, now i know why people ask me for it a lot hahaha.
You are 100% right. I agree with you the print quality from upper deck was really good and that’s the one I grew up with and love the texture of old Yu-Gi-Oh cards I Hate the modern print cards… it doesn’t feel the same way back then such a shame. That’s is one of the reasons why I don’t play modern Yu-Gi-Oh
The new cards have grown on me, but nothing will compare to those old school UDE cards
The rares are also counterfeit, they have the eye of anubis sideways.
It’s crazy how high the fake flame wingman sell for. I’m not sure if it’s just people that don’t know or whag
I think people not knowing is a huge factor
That was interesting history of yugioh that I didn’t know about. Thank you ruxin for the information
Love seeing how many people dont know about this really shows the game is still growing and that your channel is helping that.
I was getting asked about this a ton and I realized not everyone knows about this anymore
@@Ruxin34 now they do 😎
I knew about the counterfeits, but man I never knew about this product. I thought they came from rewaved booster boxes