Dark Magician is a perfect fit with the rest of the promos and Summoned Skull looks terrifying in that artwork because he used to look like that in the Toei/BANDAI cards from 1998.
man this is why i love your videos - you make me love my cards even more than I already do. I've had these sitting in my binder since I was a kid but never really appreciated some of the subtleties in the art that you pointed out. definitely will be admiring them more now, thanks
One of my favorite sets. I remember buying and owning them as a kid. Amazing artworks and as you said, the heart and soul of Takahashi is in this set. Another cool thing about the Buster Blader artwork is that you can see the shadow of a dragon, which I believe to be REBD. It's a fight scene between them, hence REBD blowing fire right as Blader is grabbing his sword to deflect. The terrain and even the camera angles shares similarities. 🙂
This was my main chase set when I got back into collecting, always wanted this as a kid but couldn't afford the sealed prices, now through searching and waiting I have a set with an opened pack to top it off. All nicely framed in a 9-card hard case inside a wooden frame. One suggestion for the spare slot, why not get an open empty back and place it in the centre, would round off the set I'd say. I do like the Dark Magician inclusion there however!
My absolute favorite card in my collection is the shonen jump 2011 dark magician, that has the artwork style of the YAP1 collection with the signature in the bottom right. The all black dark magician with the white background is epic and I got it in a PSA 10.
I do pref the DMG being in that slot 1 - aesthetically the most pleasing being a row of vanillas 2 - iconic to be next to the BEWD 3 - this art of the DMG doesn't exactly have another must fit in slot for a collection binder unless you have a JUMP chronological section I think the only other card that can be considered is the JUMP-EN037 Obelisk since it was next card released in TCG with Kazuki Takahashi signature, but would much rather have the jump edition of the god cards together
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perfect spot in the binder for dark magician! and honestly, finding these packs here in NZ was a nightmare back when they came out! i managed to pick up a few of the loose cards, but definitely wish I could've gotten them all back in the day~ Love watching your content for all things yugioh - super nostalgic! I've started trying to make "character binders" myself, finish off a dark magician one and then planning on moving on to either blue eyes, or Toons next \o/
The summoned skull is based on the art work of the earliest yugioh cards being the bandai cards, in which they didn't even look like the modern day cards.
These cards also differentiate themselves from regular normal monsters because text on normal monster cards is italicized, but is not on YAP cards. Many fakes/proxies are easy to tell apart because they italicized the text
Man I remember this. I was going to pass on it when I saw it since I didn't play or collect anymore at that time but I saw they were all drawn by Kazuki Takahashi himself and immediately bought it. It was one of the first things I thought of when he passed away and I'm glad I bought it.
Imagine viewing Summoned Skull as being too grotesque, lmao. I love that's its an alternate take and why not, who can argue the mans own design. I believe he was in my opinion, inspired and grew up to Berzerk, dark fantasy but also the really extreme horror stuff that was anime's golden era.
I absolutely love Jinzo’s art! It reminds me of pop-art meets yugioh. Which is so odd, but works. And summoned-skull’s art is great in my opinion too. But maybe because it reminds me of Magic The Gathering. Loved you breaking all of this down!
The Blue eyes art is the best one in my opinion. But they seem to be unpopular, I tried selling these multiple times, and nobody wanted them, except when I cut the price down by like 40%.
Hi Omar. Love your content. This is one of my favorite vedios from your channel. I would see more of these lesser known collectable yugioh cards. A question besides the cards mentioned in this vedio what cards have kazuki's original art and are stamped with his signature?
Way more than the size of the text box is the color for me that makes it not match, it's hella different! While I really like your idea too I would personally put there a Dark Magician Girl and for the reason I stated first, I would put the OCG one there, the colors match. The english version would be ok too, kinda sad for her to be missing lol. Also what, 50 bucks costs this pack in Japanese? Damn, as much as it could have been printed that gotta be a tad underpriced, it's been 15 years after all. Imma pick one or two up for sure!:D
The Dark Magician is the best choice!! I always learn somethin new in your videos!! Btw are you planing one video about the grading rating? how it works depending the different grading companies and everything else? it would be amazing learn something like that from you :)
I got 2 boxes at toys r us back in 2009. Didn't know anything about them, opened both and didn't know it was just 8. Didn't think much and left them in my ring binder. One whole section got damaged, I gave away one red eyes. I have 1 whole set still in good condition. Found out 2 years ago how much they go for, time is crazy.
I know these cards, but i didnt realised it yet, that Buster Blader is in confrontation against a dragon or something else! Take a close look to the artwork, the details are crazy tho!!! RIP Kazuki Takahashi.
Here come all the rise on sales of the Anniversary pack and cards on eBay lol. No wonder my DMG looked different. One definitely looks lighter than the other one. I also didn’t know about the first print having no border. This set came out when I was in high school. I totally skipped this set, but I always wanted it. All these art works are amazing. I completely agree on the Celtic Guardian and Buster Blader. Blue eyes is awesome too. I just opened a pack too and a ton of print lines and scratches on them. The Dark Magician is like the missing piece of this set. Do more videos like these for sure
I agree this was an excellent product. Random, but the kaiba set for TCG should've had the single Blue-eyes white dragon as the only ocg art not yet released for tcg with Kaiba on it instead of the easily obtained Earth art
I would chose the Dark Magician there just like you did. I remember getting these packs at Target back in the day. Wish I would of knew to kept one sealed.
Personally would do dark magician as well. And if I do start a YAP section. I guess I'll need a fourth one as well since 2 en jump promos releases and the ocg wjmp on the other.
Hi Omar, awesome video. I vote for the Dark Magician. I was literally saying out loud, put it on top but you did. Now it depends how you see it, yugi on the first spot ( Dark Magician ) because he’s the main character, then if you wanna follow the anime put red eyes next yo it as he’s Joeys friend. If you love Kaiba leave blue eyes in the middle as it will pop out more. 😊 I don’t know if you agree?
Funny that you make a video on this now while i just got my YAP BEWD a week ago. Best purchase i've made, it's beautiful and will only increase in value if they don't reprint the artwork i believe.
Unfortunately I don't have a better suggestion, but no, that dark magician just doesn't fit. It isn't so much the text box SIZE for me, but it is definitely the text box color. It is extremely bright by comparison, and the background yellow of the rest of the card is different. Maybe if that one went in the center of the page? Tough decision man. But as it is in the corner, no bueno!
Paused on the new format of DMG and why not that card I'm here to say I think the black suit DM with the white background fits nicely think it was a jump promo
This video was so epic 🔥 i would definitely keep the dark magician in that spot. It looks like it’s ment to be there imo. Also i love that red eyes art. One of my favorite art works of the red eyes black dragon ever 🔥
As an artwork in my collection I'm still missing gyakutenno megami (dunno if that's written correctly), Celtic Guardian, Buster Blader and Summoned Skull. I think I would get those in japanese because they are much cheaper that way. I bought my TCG Blue eyes Copy in 2019 on cardmarket. Last year I bought an OCG copy of red eyes yap1 for my red eyes collection.
I did the basic thing and have Dark Magician Girl in slot 6 of the page. It's the Japanese YAP1. This was before the lost art but I'm similar to you Omar where the holo stars and attribute bother me.
Have you considered doing a video on the history of the layout differences and how they keep getting increasingly more uncanny? I really miss how they used to be. Watching the 25th Anniversary packs hurt me in the same way it was like seeing Evolutions. Just garbage results ngl.
I literally just searched for 8 hours yesterday for affordable options of the tch and its just too wild, ended up with the ocg version which is much more affordable
Where do you get those sleeves with the shiny logo on the top left hand side corners of the card's? Are they Ultra Pro by any chance @StrictlySealed? If anyone else knows please let me know, thanks!
Sadly, I don't understand why the majority of them are “worthless”? Like that blue eyes, if I’m not mistaken, it’s not that valuable even today, right?
The japanesse DMG has to be on the 9th spot. I know you don't like mixing in the japanesse cards, but this is the only thing that is right and the fact, that this card was not released in the set because of censure is also part of the Yugioh history and the history of this set. So it should be displayed in the way that highlights the fact, that there is supposed to be one card more but it was not released in the west. The japanesse DMG does this job perfect since it belongs and doesn't belong there at the same time. The japanesse text makes it unfitting and that is way it fits.
i found they are all for the most part easy to find in good condition, except for the red eyes. for some reason all the red eyes cards out there for sale, are beat LOL
@@Saens406 They made them that way so they could brand them and distinguish them from other sleeves on the market. People found it obnoxious (plus the symbol would chip off after many shuffles and look tacky) so they improved their design to make the logo less prominent. Other sleeve makers like Dragon shield never did that though and were better for it.
Another cool thing about the Buster Blader artwork is that you can see the shadow of a dragon, hence why Buster Blader is ready to grab his sword :)
Dark Magician is a perfect fit with the rest of the promos and Summoned Skull looks terrifying in that artwork because he used to look like that in the Toei/BANDAI cards from 1998.
I just realized that Buster Blader is facing the shadow of an enemy dragon on the artwork :o
The fact that somehow someway i kept mine in good condition still baffles me but its in a binder now and looks great
man this is why i love your videos - you make me love my cards even more than I already do. I've had these sitting in my binder since I was a kid but never really appreciated some of the subtleties in the art that you pointed out. definitely will be admiring them more now, thanks
One of my favorite sets. I remember buying and owning them as a kid. Amazing artworks and as you said, the heart and soul of Takahashi is in this set. Another cool thing about the Buster Blader artwork is that you can see the shadow of a dragon, which I believe to be REBD. It's a fight scene between them, hence REBD blowing fire right as Blader is grabbing his sword to deflect. The terrain and even the camera angles shares similarities. 🙂
This was my main chase set when I got back into collecting, always wanted this as a kid but couldn't afford the sealed prices, now through searching and waiting I have a set with an opened pack to top it off. All nicely framed in a 9-card hard case inside a wooden frame. One suggestion for the spare slot, why not get an open empty back and place it in the centre, would round off the set I'd say. I do like the Dark Magician inclusion there however!
My absolute favorite card in my collection is the shonen jump 2011 dark magician, that has the artwork style of the YAP1 collection with the signature in the bottom right. The all black dark magician with the white background is epic and I got it in a PSA 10.
I do pref the DMG being in that slot
1 - aesthetically the most pleasing being a row of vanillas
2 - iconic to be next to the BEWD
3 - this art of the DMG doesn't exactly have another must fit in slot for a collection binder unless you have a JUMP chronological section
I think the only other card that can be considered is the JUMP-EN037 Obelisk since it was next card released in TCG with Kazuki Takahashi signature, but would much rather have the jump edition of the god cards together
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I immediately thought of the Dark Magician. Perfect choice
perfect spot in the binder for dark magician! and honestly, finding these packs here in NZ was a nightmare back when they came out! i managed to pick up a few of the loose cards, but definitely wish I could've gotten them all back in the day~
Love watching your content for all things yugioh - super nostalgic! I've started trying to make "character binders" myself, finish off a dark magician one and then planning on moving on to either blue eyes, or Toons next \o/
I saw the Jump DM coming as soon as you said you had something in mind for that empty slot. It makes the most sense.
The summoned skull is based on the art work of the earliest yugioh cards being the bandai cards, in which they didn't even look like the modern day cards.
megami was featured in the japanese version of the anime where kaiba uses it to jam a gun pointed at his head
Quick sidenote: the Japanese pack has not 9, but 5 cards in it. The complete set in Japanese does consist of 9 total cards
Bought this at target, Celtic guardian was my favorite art out of the bunch
I’m gonna be honest I had no idea about the borders on YAP1, nor the DMG LART! That’s crazy observant thanks for this video man!
These cards also differentiate themselves from regular normal monsters because text on normal monster cards is italicized, but is not on YAP cards. Many fakes/proxies are easy to tell apart because they italicized the text
Great catch! Forgot to mention in the video. Thanks for viewing the videos.
What do you mean with italicized?
@@andreafax1640 He means it should like this instead of _like this_
@@airone7794 thank you
In the OCG there is a Card with the Name "True Exodia" painted by the Master himself with a weird effect😅 it would fit nice into the last slot.
Man I remember this. I was going to pass on it when I saw it since I didn't play or collect anymore at that time but I saw they were all drawn by Kazuki Takahashi himself and immediately bought it. It was one of the first things I thought of when he passed away and I'm glad I bought it.
Imagine viewing Summoned Skull as being too grotesque, lmao. I love that's its an alternate take and why not, who can argue the mans own design. I believe he was in my opinion, inspired and grew up to Berzerk, dark fantasy but also the really extreme horror stuff that was anime's golden era.
I just bought a nice copy of the Buster Blader less than a week ago! Looks amazing!
i put blue eyes on the left, dark magician center and red eyes on the right, the rest can just follow based on card release.
The Problem is not the empty card space, the problem is the binder… just use a binder with 4 Cards per side and it looks much nicer.
I have the same setup haha The Dark magician really needs to be in there!
I absolutely love Jinzo’s art! It reminds me of pop-art meets yugioh. Which is so odd, but works. And summoned-skull’s art is great in my opinion too. But maybe because it reminds me of Magic The Gathering. Loved you breaking all of this down!
The Blue eyes art is the best one in my opinion. But they seem to be unpopular, I tried selling these multiple times, and nobody wanted them, except when I cut the price down by like 40%.
Hi Omar. Love your content. This is one of my favorite vedios from your channel. I would see more of these lesser known collectable yugioh cards. A question besides the cards mentioned in this vedio what cards have kazuki's original art and are stamped with his signature?
Blue-Eyes' artwork from this set is my #1 favorite print of the card. Moreso even than the iconic SDK art on the DDS print.
the Celtic guardian is beautiful almost as good as the blue eyes. great video dude.
was lucky to ask my dad while we were at the store to buy me this back in the day
These artworks are definitely worth collecting & all look fantastic!🔥
Way more than the size of the text box is the color for me that makes it not match, it's hella different! While I really like your idea too I would personally put there a Dark Magician Girl and for the reason I stated first, I would put the OCG one there, the colors match. The english version would be ok too, kinda sad for her to be missing lol.
Also what, 50 bucks costs this pack in Japanese? Damn, as much as it could have been printed that gotta be a tad underpriced, it's been 15 years after all. Imma pick one or two up for sure!:D
The Dark Magician is the best choice!!
I always learn somethin new in your videos!!
Btw are you planing one video about the grading rating? how it works depending the different grading companies and everything else? it would be amazing learn something like that from you :)
I got 2 boxes at toys r us back in 2009. Didn't know anything about them, opened both and didn't know it was just 8. Didn't think much and left them in my ring binder. One whole section got damaged, I gave away one red eyes. I have 1 whole set still in good condition. Found out 2 years ago how much they go for, time is crazy.
P.s. I also added the dark magician card as my 9th card
I know these cards, but i didnt realised it yet, that Buster Blader is in confrontation against a dragon or something else!
Take a close look to the artwork, the details are crazy tho!!!
RIP Kazuki Takahashi.
I remember buying one of the boxes right on my OTS Store, opened them, then i retired and sold everything... the biggest mistake i ever did!
This is a must buy product for myself in the future
Another great video dude. 100% I agree that this is definitely one of the best boosters for collectors!
Here come all the rise on sales of the Anniversary pack and cards on eBay lol. No wonder my DMG looked different. One definitely looks lighter than the other one. I also didn’t know about the first print having no border. This set came out when I was in high school. I totally skipped this set, but I always wanted it. All these art works are amazing. I completely agree on the Celtic Guardian and Buster Blader. Blue eyes is awesome too. I just opened a pack too and a ton of print lines and scratches on them. The Dark Magician is like the missing piece of this set. Do more videos like these for sure
I like the Dark Magician in that slot. Sits really nice next to the Blue Eyes.
I don’t think you could go wrong with DM in that spot - What about Kaiba/BEWD Duel Art? 🤔
I agree this was an excellent product. Random, but the kaiba set for TCG should've had the single Blue-eyes white dragon as the only ocg art not yet released for tcg with Kaiba on it instead of the easily obtained Earth art
I would chose the Dark Magician there just like you did. I remember getting these packs at Target back in the day. Wish I would of knew to kept one sealed.
In my collection the ninth card slot is the JUMP Dark Magician. Good choice!
Personally would do dark magician as well. And if I do start a YAP section. I guess I'll need a fourth one as well since 2 en jump promos releases and the ocg wjmp on the other.
Hi Omar, awesome video.
I vote for the Dark Magician. I was literally saying out loud, put it on top but you did.
Now it depends how you see it, yugi on the first spot ( Dark Magician ) because he’s the main character, then if you wanna follow the anime put red eyes next yo it as he’s Joeys friend. If you love Kaiba leave blue eyes in the middle as it will pop out more. 😊
I don’t know if you agree?
I was also thinking to put that Dark Magician there
I remember buying 2 of these packs mainly just for Shiba, Warrior Taro. It was such a good card at the time.
I didn't realize that the cardboard packaging was rare. That's all they had at the Target that I got it from.
Well back then they weren't rare lol now they are. Thanks for viewing the videos.
Funny that you make a video on this now while i just got my YAP BEWD a week ago.
Best purchase i've made, it's beautiful and will only increase in value if they don't reprint the artwork i believe.
Red eyes and blue eyes look amazing
I prefer this Jinzo over the original. The other looks cool as well, but the arms with lighting here just add something.
I can wait to add your binders to my collection, I keep putting it off cause cardboard crack is expensive 😅
Unfortunately I don't have a better suggestion, but no, that dark magician just doesn't fit. It isn't so much the text box SIZE for me, but it is definitely the text box color. It is extremely bright by comparison, and the background yellow of the rest of the card is different. Maybe if that one went in the center of the page? Tough decision man. But as it is in the corner, no bueno!
That buster blader artwork is amazing!
Paused on the new format of DMG and why not that card I'm here to say I think the black suit DM with the white background fits nicely think it was a jump promo
DM filling that last slot is probably the best pick
Very informative video as usual!
It sad that his gone. Hopefully yugioh still goes strong
This video was so epic 🔥 i would definitely keep the dark magician in that spot. It looks like it’s ment to be there imo. Also i love that red eyes art. One of my favorite art works of the red eyes black dragon ever 🔥
push dark magician right in the middle, and make the rest circle around him since hes not in the set ?
this is how you do an anniversary
not the crappy bullshit that we got for the 25th
Great Video! Very Nostalgic
you have the nicest card sleeves man! any idea what brand?
As an artwork in my collection I'm still missing gyakutenno megami (dunno if that's written correctly), Celtic Guardian, Buster Blader and Summoned Skull. I think I would get those in japanese because they are much cheaper that way. I bought my TCG Blue eyes Copy in 2019 on cardmarket. Last year I bought an OCG copy of red eyes yap1 for my red eyes collection.
I did the basic thing and have Dark Magician Girl in slot 6 of the page. It's the Japanese YAP1. This was before the lost art but I'm similar to you Omar where the holo stars and attribute bother me.
Have you considered doing a video on the history of the layout differences and how they keep getting increasingly more uncanny? I really miss how they used to be. Watching the 25th Anniversary packs hurt me in the same way it was like seeing Evolutions. Just garbage results ngl.
Hey man,can you make a video where you cut opened packs and put them in the binder. Like lob pack or other
When can i buy ur Binder in Europe (Germany)? 40€ shipping codt is way to much. Binder + shipping 80€ +
Thx for ur Content and have a nice Week ❤
Dark magician allll day man. I had to buy a JP version to supplement the JUMP, prices be crazy
I love this set. All the arts are amazing. I only need the dog😂
I literally just searched for 8 hours yesterday for affordable options of the tch and its just too wild, ended up with the ocg version which is much more affordable
Where do you get those sleeves with the shiny logo on the top left hand side corners of the card's? Are they Ultra Pro by any chance @StrictlySealed? If anyone else knows please let me know, thanks!
Strictlysealed.com search blue rain
I know you’re you go oh guy but so you make those epic binder for Magic the gathering, and Pokémon card sizes ?
Yes they fit standard size cards as well. Thanks for viewing the videos.
Sadly, I don't understand why the majority of them are “worthless”? Like that blue eyes, if I’m not mistaken, it’s not that valuable even today, right?
Didn't think of putting the pack itself in the last slot?
It is weird how Dark Magician didn't receive a promo art like the others !
There is one. Dark Magician JUMP-EN049
surprised they didnt have dark magician in there
sadly all we are missing is maggi maggi magician
I actually bought my roommates cards and he had all of this and got them for 90$ nice deal
Or Magi Magi Magician girl could be put into that spot (I think that’s the name?)
Bro, why you doing this to me. Now I need to complete this set!
Disgruntled Mtg player here, feel like my entire community needs a actual anniversary product.
awesome set
Commenting for the algo. Looks like views are picking up, keep it up homie
Much love brotha. Thanks for viewing the videos and your support.
Man i had this entire set but someone stole my entire collection out of my parents house while i was away from college
Ocg dmg should go there imo
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The japanesse DMG has to be on the 9th spot. I know you don't like mixing in the japanesse cards, but this is the only thing that is right and the fact, that this card was not released in the set because of censure is also part of the Yugioh history and the history of this set. So it should be displayed in the way that highlights the fact, that there is supposed to be one card more but it was not released in the west. The japanesse DMG does this job perfect since it belongs and doesn't belong there at the same time. The japanesse text makes it unfitting and that is way it fits.
Let’s get into it
good timing on the video bro has stonks to sell LMAO
Are these cards easy to find in minty condition raw?
i found they are all for the most part easy to find in good condition, except for the red eyes. for some reason all the red eyes cards out there for sale, are beat LOL
Good old anniversary 10th days...
Love it 🧡🔥
Put the dark magician in the 9th spot
Japanese dmg is the correct option. Same layout and artstyle as the others. Or japanese DM in that jump art. The english one looks too modern imop.
Love it
why is there shiny circle in the top of the sleeve tho? it's so awfull
Ultra pro used to make them like that back in the day. These days I think they make them see through. I don't buy their sleeves anymore tbh.
@@princered10 but why would they do that? Is there any advantages? Do people like that layout?
@@Saens406 They made them that way so they could brand them and distinguish them from other sleeves on the market. People found it obnoxious (plus the symbol would chip off after many shuffles and look tacky) so they improved their design to make the logo less prominent. Other sleeve makers like Dragon shield never did that though and were better for it.
Best youtuber!