I remember my dad saying no about 100 times. Then one day he snapped and bought them all in triplicate. Sad part, all I can find from that includes; one blue eyes, one dark magician, and a slew of commons from both decks. Sad.
@@nevmax9312 still have my starter deck Joey red eyes, and starter deck yugi dark magician to this day never got kaiba or pegasus always wanted the OG SDK blue eyes 😭
I opened about a dozen of these as a kid because I was obsessed with Blue Eyes and was too young to understand that promo cards weren’t “rare.” If only I kept them sealed lol. I still have all of my old Blue Eyes but they’re certainly not mint anymore.
I remember having the Kaiba starter Deck 1st Edition as a Kid, when me and my Uncle randomly met a Friend of us, working in a Toys´R´Us Store. He reduced the price from 20 Bucks to just 50 cents for us ! It was that moment when that Kaiba Starter Deck become a nostalgic memory part of my life
I remember when I was a kid and my dad bought me my first ever yugioh cards and its was the kaibas starter deck . Seeing this brings back soo many memories.
I found one of these a few years ago, box sadly ripped open but some cards, even blue eyes white dragon were mint condition. Still keeping that blue eyes in a sleeve in my binder.
Yep, I remember opening Starter Deck Kaiba as a kid. I got that and Starter Deck Yugi together as presents for christmas the year they came out. Classic memories.
Never had this deck or any cards really when I was younger seeing that the franchise was frowned upon back then and getting cards in my country was hard to come by. It's only this year that I learned that this artwork is alt art for the TCG, which I found very interesting because I've never seen the LOB printing before. Everyone I knew who owned a copy of Blue Eyes [Even I owned a copy] was more than likely the SDK print.
Starter deck Kaiba was how I was introduced to the game. I remember my mother purchased it for my birthday around when it was released. Absolutely wild box that I wish was reintroduced for nostalgics like me. Great video!
I had 3 of these starter decks back when they first came out i also had 3 Yugi, Joey, & Pegasus starter decks... i never would have thought these cards would have so much value now... i stupidly sold my LoB exodia pieces a few years ago
My brother got Starter Deck Yugi, and I got Starter Deck Kaiba--so cool to see how far those decks have come now. Ironically, nowadays, I'm a bigger Dark Magician fan!
Damn, I had a first edition Yugi's deck. I have this memory where a friend of mine had a first ed Kaiba's. He was a kid, somewhere around 6 or 7. I was 9, I believe. And he had this idea that the older the card the more mystical and powerful not was. So his blue eyes was all beaten, so much that it would flap when you held It, so he put it in a hard sleeve. I still tell him about it, and he refuses to believe how much that card costs today.
I love these so much more than the new stuff. Nothing is better! I remember ripping these decks open so fast to get that blue eyes. To think I have all mine to some lucky kid back in the day. Had to restart my collection
I literally had all of the starter deck's as a kid it was amazing when pegasus' came out with toon world and relinquished But there's nothing more nostalgic than that blue eyes right there
THIS IS REAL YUGIOH! These cards are gonna be so valuable in the future. All old sealed yugioh will see a huge price spike in due time. I remember getting several starter decks of yugi and kaiba in walmart back in like 2002 or 2003. I think they were just unlimited boxes but what if at one point I held 6 1st edition starters in my life and played with em NO SLEEVES!!
This was awesome video, Ruxin!! Because it bring back memories, when I start collect Yugioh as a kid and the anime. "My first ever product was the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Master's Guide, because I ever own both with Kaiba and Yugi deck. Also, I still got the DVD too!! That's how I got fell in love Yu-Gi-Oh!"
I was too young at the time unfortunately. I started opening yugioh tins around 2006. I believe one of my first tins was the one with Neos on it! Brings back memories! Have a great new years Rux and everybody else!
I first got into YGO with the Deluxe edition Pegasus deck, but I did go back and grab the other three starter decks too. None 1st ed unfortunately, but I still have the SDK Blue-Eyes in one piece! E: wait..I never knew Dark Assailant used to be called Dark Assassin
Back in the day, I remember buying the Joey deck while my brother bought Kaiba one. I knew my Red Eyes was trash compared to the Blue Eyes, but I still loved playing that deck 😂 I recently bought a first ed Joey deck just for the red eyes ahah
@@hunterhofman3555 They came in a long box with the starter decks, a few packs, and some card sleeves. It was the best way for kids to bring their stuff bc it had a handle too.
I will never forget my grandfather coming home from work one day and placed Kaiba’s blue eyes starter deck on the table back in 2002. Forever one of my favorite memories.
Yup, had SDK and SDY when they first came out, still have a bunch of unlimited SDK blue eyes and 1 1st Ed, was my first intro into yugioh aside from the show back then. The comic book store I bought them from in my neighborhood is still here but they don’t carry yugioh products anymore
I opened starter deck kaiba as a kid. Most of the commons are in bulk ,but I still have the Blue eyes and other 2 holos in my binder they've seen better days tho. Happy to have them in my collection all these years later.
I think almost everyone remembers their first starter deck as a kid... mine was Yugi's but Kaibas was definitely my favorite, and blue eyes cards are still my favorite to this day
so awesome!!! i still have my brothers starter 1st ed deck yugi and kaiba cards. heavily used sadly. starter deck kaiba's blue eyes is definitely my favorite. i really do not like any of the other art works of it. cant wait to see what you guys were doing in LA!!
I opened and played with that deck quite a lot as a child haha. Lots of fun, very few cards survived on good condition, but oh well. Completely worth it.
I think I had the Kaiba SD when I was about 13 years old. Dang I feel so old but the nostalgia is incredible. Love the content! Keep up the incredible work and God bless you, dude! 👏
It was my first sdk ever 😍 shortly after I got pegasus's one 💘 yeah... I remember the days when battle ox and swordstalker were scary monsters to fight lol
In LA one time, my pops and I went to a gas station and at the register counter they had a Kaiba starter deck box with maybe 6 in a row. I pointed and asked my dad to get it for me (didn't always get what I asked for but hey why not ask) he asked for one and that was my first time opening up my Kaiba deck 🙏 i have very fond memories of my dad when I think of these Yugi and Kaiba starter decks. Thank you and have a good day bro
Man the nostalgia. I had the starter deck kaiba. It was my first ever yugioh product. Back then my love for the game started. Sadly I don't even have it anymore. That is on top of my wishlist to once again have one. But the prices are just to crazy. So the video was amazing. To see it once again being opened :)
I had at least 1st ed Kaiba, and later, two of the unlimited starter deck Kaibas. I just found my old copies of the unlimiteds sitting sleeved in my kiddy deck. My 1st has uber edge wear (but no creases or bends :) )
Loved this opening, really is a shame for the blue eyes! I got several of these packs as a boy just because of how amazing the blue eyes holo looked. My younger brother and I played Yugi and Kaiba decks late into the night. If only I hadn't given all my cards to my nephews a few years later!
This was my first Starter deck I remember i have to work like a month with my dad for it . Such memories men! ( Sorry for my horrible english greetings from México)
I opened a SDK and SDY as a kid, unfortunately the cards didn't make it through childhood. The blue eyes had a huge crease in the middle and was traded off sometime in 2012. The Dark Magician is still in my collection, however, its heavily damaged.
I remember getting the 1st edition when I was 8 years old even back then I would put the blue eyes in a DVD case to protect it while I played spiderman the movie game it's an epic experience
I’m sure someone’s tried it but when there’s smudging like that on the back I feel like Maybe taking a dry q tip and likely circle scrubbing may get it off but I’ve never tried
I remember buying 2 decks for my bday. Got money. Me and my brother ran to our local 99c store. And I bought both. Yugioh and Kaibas. Man if I only knew they would be so valuable.
Me and my uncle got Yugi and Kaiba starters respectively and since neither of us was very proficient in English back then we would duel with the anime crappy rules from season 1. Fun times.
I have never opened a old gen deck ever since they pretty much expensive but its pretty good to have a original blue eyes art or having a blue eyes in general
I’ve never opened a Starter Deck Kaiba, even when I was little I would pick the Starter Deck Yugi which I ended up losing all the cards back then when I was little lol. I wish I picked Kaiba’s and kept them sleeved up in a binder instead haha. Great video dude.
My first ever starter deck was the Yugi one back in 2004 and it was unlimited. I still have the majority of the cards from it, but in the past I traded the Dark Magician (what an idiot I was) and the soul exchange. Card destruction is still in my binder
I had all 4 starters as a kid, but i love joey's....recently i bought a Kaiba starter deck with some liiiiiiittle damages on the box for almost 400 "pesos"(some like 10 or 12 dollars)
i opened both starter decks, sadly i do not have any of the cards left. Kaiba and Yugi evolution decks are pretty neat as well if you plan on opening those.
I remember getting the starter deck Evolution Yugi (the one where you get BLS) and I stocked up on manju and ritual cards because I could never get a blue eyes haha.
Back in the day in New York My friend and I knew a wholesaler who use to sell these for cheap and we sold them on eBay for profit. We used that money to buy booster packs of LOB MRL PSV LON and LOD. Back then eBay way way better. They never took a percentage from the shipping like they do now. I miss those days.
I remember having the 4 original starter decks as a kid, they were the best bang for your parents bucks !
19.99 at Walgreens back then and yes best starter deck imo
I remember my dad saying no about 100 times. Then one day he snapped and bought them all in triplicate. Sad part, all I can find from that includes; one blue eyes, one dark magician, and a slew of commons from both decks. Sad.
@@nevmax9312 My first Starter was Pegasus :D
@@nevmax9312 I wish my dad snapped like that when I was a kid.
@@nevmax9312 still have my starter deck Joey red eyes, and starter deck yugi dark magician to this day never got kaiba or pegasus always wanted the OG SDK blue eyes 😭
Imagine telling someone in 2002 their sealed $10 starter deck would be $3,500 in 18 years
me 18 years ago :)
i cant :D
Imagine telling someone that Pokemon fire red and emerald would be worth 15,000 sealed in the box graded at only an 8.5
Only Bitcoin has better performance
My younger self would shit himself
I opened about a dozen of these as a kid because I was obsessed with Blue Eyes and was too young to understand that promo cards weren’t “rare.” If only I kept them sealed lol. I still have all of my old Blue Eyes but they’re certainly not mint anymore.
I remember having the Kaiba starter Deck 1st Edition as a Kid, when me and my Uncle randomly met a Friend of us, working in a Toys´R´Us Store. He reduced the price from 20 Bucks to just 50 cents for us ! It was that moment when that Kaiba Starter Deck become a nostalgic memory part of my life
I remember when I was a kid and my dad bought me my first ever yugioh cards and its was the kaibas starter deck . Seeing this brings back soo many memories.
I found one of these a few years ago, box sadly ripped open but some cards, even blue eyes white dragon were mint condition. Still keeping that blue eyes in a sleeve in my binder.
Yep, I remember opening Starter Deck Kaiba as a kid. I got that and Starter Deck Yugi together as presents for christmas the year they came out. Classic memories.
Had 3 of these back in the day... my 8 year old self loved these and have no regrets opening these!
Never had this deck or any cards really when I was younger seeing that the franchise was frowned upon back then and getting cards in my country was hard to come by.
It's only this year that I learned that this artwork is alt art for the TCG, which I found very interesting because I've never seen the LOB printing before. Everyone I knew who owned a copy of Blue Eyes [Even I owned a copy] was more than likely the SDK print.
Starter deck Kaiba was how I was introduced to the game. I remember my mother purchased it for my birthday around when it was released. Absolutely wild box that I wish was reintroduced for nostalgics like me. Great video!
I had 3 of these starter decks back when they first came out i also had 3 Yugi, Joey, & Pegasus starter decks... i never would have thought these cards would have so much value now... i stupidly sold my LoB exodia pieces a few years ago
My brother got Starter Deck Yugi, and I got Starter Deck Kaiba--so cool to see how far those decks have come now. Ironically, nowadays, I'm a bigger Dark Magician fan!
I also had the Kaiba starter deck as a kid! it's crazy knowing people still have them sealed
Damn, I had a first edition Yugi's deck. I have this memory where a friend of mine had a first ed Kaiba's. He was a kid, somewhere around 6 or 7. I was 9, I believe. And he had this idea that the older the card the more mystical and powerful not was. So his blue eyes was all beaten, so much that it would flap when you held It, so he put it in a hard sleeve. I still tell him about it, and he refuses to believe how much that card costs today.
I had both starter deck Kaiba and yugi when they came out, they were just unlimited decks. The smell of those cards, Sam would be proud
That's amazing.
I love these so much more than the new stuff. Nothing is better! I remember ripping these decks open so fast to get that blue eyes. To think I have all mine to some lucky kid back in the day. Had to restart my collection
I literally had all of the starter deck's as a kid it was amazing when pegasus' came out with toon world and relinquished
But there's nothing more nostalgic than that blue eyes right there
THIS IS REAL YUGIOH! These cards are gonna be so valuable in the future. All old sealed yugioh will see a huge price spike in due time. I remember getting several starter decks of yugi and kaiba in walmart back in like 2002 or 2003. I think they were just unlimited boxes but what if at one point I held 6 1st edition starters in my life and played with em NO SLEEVES!!
I had starter deck Kaiba as a kid and was lucky enough to get an error deck that had 2 blue eyes in it!
That's insane... So half of the ever printed blue eyes in one deck 😱
This was awesome video, Ruxin!! Because it bring back memories, when I start collect Yugioh as a kid and the anime. "My first ever product was the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Master's Guide, because I ever own both with Kaiba and Yugi deck. Also, I still got the DVD too!! That's how I got fell in love Yu-Gi-Oh!"
Thanks Edi!
I was too young at the time unfortunately. I started opening yugioh tins around 2006. I believe one of my first tins was the one with Neos on it! Brings back memories! Have a great new years Rux and everybody else!
I first got into YGO with the Deluxe edition Pegasus deck, but I did go back and grab the other three starter decks too. None 1st ed unfortunately, but I still have the SDK Blue-Eyes in one piece!
E: wait..I never knew Dark Assailant used to be called Dark Assassin
I remember my mom picked a couple of these for my brother and I at our local mall. Great memories, great video as usual.
Back in the day, I remember buying the Joey deck while my brother bought Kaiba one. I knew my Red Eyes was trash compared to the Blue Eyes, but I still loved playing that deck 😂 I recently bought a first ed Joey deck just for the red eyes ahah
The coolest starter decks they did were the deluxe editions for Joey and Pegasus. That were so great to haul your cards around in as a kid.
the deleuxe?
@@hunterhofman3555 They came in a long box with the starter decks, a few packs, and some card sleeves. It was the best way for kids to bring their stuff bc it had a handle too.
@@ArcticAppleKoolAid yeb i know which ones they are. they are pretty cool
I opened it as a teenager. But I loved the starter deck. Seeing it opened again is such a great memory brought back
Starter deck Kaiba was one of my presents for Easter as a kid after buying the Yugi starter deck a few weeks before. One of my fav holiday memories.
I remember buying both the Kaiba and Yugi starter decks back in 2002. Nostalgic!
I will never forget my grandfather coming home from work one day and placed Kaiba’s blue eyes starter deck on the table back in 2002. Forever one of my favorite memories.
I had this started deck way back in middle school and played the hell out of it, it brings back so many memories
Yup, had SDK and SDY when they first came out, still have a bunch of unlimited SDK blue eyes and 1 1st Ed, was my first intro into yugioh aside from the show back then.
The comic book store I bought them from in my neighborhood is still here but they don’t carry yugioh products anymore
I opened starter deck kaiba as a kid. Most of the commons are in bulk ,but I still have the Blue eyes and other 2 holos in my binder they've seen better days tho. Happy to have them in my collection all these years later.
I had both Yugi and Kaiba starter decks, I played them so hard but in sleeves. Had I known these would get so valuable I’d have bought two sets each!
I think almost everyone remembers their first starter deck as a kid... mine was Yugi's but Kaibas was definitely my favorite, and blue eyes cards are still my favorite to this day
I had this deck and i remember it like it was yesterday. Thanks for giving me this beautiful nostalgia!
Never had the 1st edition but definitely had both Yugi and Kaiba's starter decks. Love the content Ruxin!
so awesome!!! i still have my brothers starter 1st ed deck yugi and kaiba cards. heavily used sadly. starter deck kaiba's blue eyes is definitely my favorite. i really do not like any of the other art works of it. cant wait to see what you guys were doing in LA!!
I opened and played with that deck quite a lot as a child haha. Lots of fun, very few cards survived on good condition, but oh well. Completely worth it.
I think I had the Kaiba SD when I was about 13 years old. Dang I feel so old but the nostalgia is incredible. Love the content! Keep up the incredible work and God bless you, dude! 👏
This was my 2nd deck after Pegasus, so many feels!!
Had both starter decks as a kid. Man this takes me back.
Sadly, I never have opened an "old school" starter deck..it must be quite a feeling!
Only opened the starter deck yugi evoltuion as a kid when it came out. But it was quite satisfying and I still got most of the cards.
Damn so many memories from opening SDK with my older brother back when I was little :)
SDK was my first ever Yu-Gi-Oh starter deck. Love the artwork for the Blue Eyes. Great video Ruxin 💪🏼
What a sick opening! I had all the starter decks as a kid! I actually ended up buying ALMOST all the structure decks for a while as well!
Thank you!!
Opened a few of those back in the day. Nostalgic.
It was my first sdk ever 😍 shortly after I got pegasus's one 💘 yeah... I remember the days when battle ox and swordstalker were scary monsters to fight lol
I’ve never had Kaibas starter deck but it’s on my bucket list. Just recently started my yugioh collection while rewatching the anime:)
Never got my hands on the Kaiba starter deck. Wish I did though, it looks real awesome.
In LA one time, my pops and I went to a gas station and at the register counter they had a Kaiba starter deck box with maybe 6 in a row. I pointed and asked my dad to get it for me (didn't always get what I asked for but hey why not ask) he asked for one and that was my first time opening up my Kaiba deck 🙏 i have very fond memories of my dad when I think of these Yugi and Kaiba starter decks. Thank you and have a good day bro
Man the nostalgia. I had the starter deck kaiba. It was my first ever yugioh product. Back then my love for the game started. Sadly I don't even have it anymore. That is on top of my wishlist to once again have one. But the prices are just to crazy. So the video was amazing. To see it once again being opened :)
I had at least 1st ed Kaiba, and later, two of the unlimited starter deck Kaibas.
I just found my old copies of the unlimiteds sitting sleeved in my kiddy deck. My 1st has uber edge wear (but no creases or bends :) )
My brother had the Kaiba deck, and I had the Yugi Deck! Always loved trying to outsmart his overpowering blue eyes!
Loved this opening, really is a shame for the blue eyes! I got several of these packs as a boy just because of how amazing the blue eyes holo looked. My younger brother and I played Yugi and Kaiba decks late into the night. If only I hadn't given all my cards to my nephews a few years later!
This was my first Starter deck
I remember i have to work like a month with my dad for it .
Such memories men!
( Sorry for my horrible english greetings from México)
No problem!!
personally I've never bought a starter deck. Looking forward to your future videos!
My first deck was starter deck Pegasus I believe. I remember dueling as a kid with it. Good memories !
Starter Deck Kaiba 1st Ed Englisch is so rare these days, even hard to find it on Ebay
dude ive been looking for over a year for a 1st edition kiaba and nothing
Crazy how I had like three of them
As a kid lmao , truly wonder what would have happened if I kept them and never opened them
i bought one for 300 3 years ago. They're super rare
@@Tomb413 hope you still got it sealed
@@hunterhofman3555 yup got it and yugi both sealed mint condition straight from a case. It’s not bashed up like this one he opened is.
I opened a SDK and SDY as a kid, unfortunately the cards didn't make it through childhood. The blue eyes had a huge crease in the middle and was traded off sometime in 2012. The Dark Magician is still in my collection, however, its heavily damaged.
My favorite starter deck. And I still have quite a few of the original cards from the deck. Including 3 of the blues eyes
I never had the deck but it looks so cool. Blue eyes are awesome.
I remember getting the 1st edition when I was 8 years old even back then I would put the blue eyes in a DVD case to protect it while I played spiderman the movie game it's an epic experience
This was my first Yugioh deck. So much nostalgia
Never had a starter deck. But thats a very nostalgic opening! Keep up the great content!
I’m sure someone’s tried it but when there’s smudging like that on the back I feel like
Maybe taking a dry q tip and likely circle scrubbing may get it off but I’ve never tried
Behind the scenes. That setup >>>
Lmao amazing
I remember buying 2 decks for my bday. Got money. Me and my brother ran to our local 99c store. And I bought both. Yugioh and Kaibas. Man if I only knew they would be so valuable.
Definitely had sdk back in the day! Love that old artworks
Never had the whole starter deck Yugi, Kaiba, or Joey, but I did buy an unlimited Dark Magician, Blue Eyes, and Red Eyes from each recently!
Starter Deck Kaiba was my first yugioh product I ever purchased. I think it was like S12 at walmart back then.
owned it as a kid. still have alot of it sleeved and bindered at my moms somewhere.
I opened starter deck Kaiba as a kid, so this brings some memories back.
Yes I had a starter deck of all the deck, include blue eyes, dark magician, pegasus, joey.
I had yugis starter deck and my brother kaibas, we dueled for hours, like rivals 👌 it was really balanced, loved this time 🥰😍
The dueling mat, classic! I forgot about those. I still have like 4-5 of them haha.
Definitely had that deck as a kid, one of my favorites ❤️
Back in the day when I was young I was lucky enough to be able to have both Kiba and Yugi starter decks
Me and my uncle got Yugi and Kaiba starters respectively and since neither of us was very proficient in English back then we would duel with the anime crappy rules from season 1.
Fun times.
Wish there was some new card game that’s created that’s as interesting as how yugioh was
I remember getting one of the starter decks, pretty sure it was Kaiba, alongside my friend that I grew up dueling/watching the show with
I have never opened a old gen deck ever since they pretty much expensive but its pretty good to have a original blue eyes art or having a blue eyes in general
I’ve never opened a Starter Deck Kaiba, even when I was little I would pick the Starter Deck Yugi which I ended up losing all the cards back then when I was little lol.
I wish I picked Kaiba’s and kept them sleeved up in a binder instead haha. Great video dude.
I had both at some point when I was a kid. Loved the og stuff!!
My first ever starter deck was the Yugi one back in 2004 and it was unlimited. I still have the majority of the cards from it, but in the past I traded the Dark Magician (what an idiot I was) and the soul exchange. Card destruction is still in my binder
I have opened all the starter decks back in the day and i also have many cards from then. I love them
I had starter deck Yugi, however I won a SDY Blue Eyes in a duel back in middle school. It's in my binder now :)
Pretty much had all the starter decks back in 2002-2004. Back in grade 2
Shaddoll showdown was the only one I remembered buying myself as well as the speed duel ultimate predators
The most Yugioh Deck ever 😍
Nostalgia at it's finest 👌
I was sadly not into Yugioh in my younger years, due to my parents and my love for Pokemon, but still, cool opening Ruxin!
Use a microfiber cloth and tab a little bit of water and lightly touch the back should be able to get it off
Let’s go!! I never had it myself but it’s cool to see y’all open everything bec I was only two years ago at the time
I had all 4 starters as a kid, but i love joey's....recently i bought a Kaiba starter deck with some liiiiiiittle damages on the box for almost 400 "pesos"(some like 10 or 12 dollars)
Why don’t you use a playmat (mousepad) to protect the cards from the scratchy table surface?
Unfortunately never had it. My first starter deck was the spellcaster starter deck back in 2005. That's when I got into yugioh.
Starter deck kaiba was my first EVER yugioh product i bought! i didn‘t even know what yugioh exactly was about until there.. very special for me
i opened both starter decks, sadly i do not have any of the cards left. Kaiba and Yugi evolution decks are pretty neat as well if you plan on opening those.
Crazy to see how much your channel is blowing up Ruxin! Gives me motivation to one day start a RUclips channel
Thanks Kevin!
I remember getting the starter deck Evolution Yugi (the one where you get BLS) and I stocked up on manju and ritual cards because I could never get a blue eyes haha.
Back in the day in New York My friend and I knew a wholesaler who use to sell these for cheap and we sold them on eBay for profit. We used that money to buy booster packs of LOB MRL PSV LON and LOD. Back then eBay way way better. They never took a percentage from the shipping like they do now. I miss those days.