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No one understood a word until that visor came out. Now it's all so clear!
Engineer Geordi approves
Super-visor!
When the visor comes on you know its serious
When Rudy puts on the visor,
you're about to get wiser
I see the visor and the whiteboard, then I click. That simple.
This is the man who sold the most chocolate in school
Haha, underrated comment
The most rare almonds, ever seen.
I was today’s years old (after 6 years of watching) when I realized Rudy is left handed… that explains it all!
This is the most important video because Rudy’s Mom finally let him put up a whiteboard in her basement.
Everybody who watches this channel lives in a fantasy world ;)
@@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTHyou put on your knee pads for this comment
@@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTH you are embarrassing yourself
@@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTH it's a double edged sword. People like Rudy keep a game I love around but they have also made staple cards go from 15 dollars to 40 to xxx. It only really makes me sad cuz the collectors market goes into the cost of playing the game. Most people don't think for themselves I thought you was just trying to praise the dude.
@@NERD-FROM-THE-SOUTHyou contradict yourself. If he comes from money and is such a successful landlord, then why would he need to "scam" people in the cardboard world? A $300 box is pennies compared to multiple properties and lucrative businesses. I think you might be stuck in your own perspective and unwilling to see someone like Rudy's. If you've watched for long enough, "scammer" or not, this man is passionate about cardboard. This is a hobby for him and he is clearly a workaholic that finds satisfaction in providing for his family. It's pretty twisted to think he needs to scam Timmys who can't afford a $300 box to begin with. Yikes.
Holy shit secret dinosaur
Jurassismine Park
Until no one wants the set and the amazon algo decides the box is not selling and gets firesold for $200. Then hasbro profits drop 50%
Let them eat cardboard.
_F-k it! We'll print it live!!_
Cynthia already knows how to make spineless gambling goldfishes spend all their money
Until no one wants the set and the amazon algo decides the box is not selling and gets firesold
Wtf will Hasbro and WotC do when even Amazon gets burned?
If LGS get burned and doesnt want product AND Amazon gets burned and doesn't want product, wtf does Hasbro do then?
Making Amazon hold the bags isn't a good or viable strategy, especially when Hasbro depends on them to move volume outside of LGS.
If secret dinosaur is right, this is going to be an absolute dumpster fire in a year or two when Amazon and LGS are tired of getting jurassic poo'ed on.
@@EdwinRosario432 Amazon will never get burned they have a commission and they make most of their massive profits on amazon web services, the store dont make much money at all.
I love how the visor retains all market signals being absorbed and conveyed by Rudy's Hair.
FINALLY THE WHITEBOARD IS BACK WOOHOO
Never seen it before but I do enjoy it. Quite good for explaining all this.
@@VideoGameWarlord it’s worth going back and checking out, his older whiteboard videos as well for knowledge
I really appreciate the Fallen Empires boxes up the side of the whiteboard… the real over printed set of all time 😅❤
He’s got so many he’s just slamming them into random places
😭
By the waters of Babylon, we lay down and wept, for thee Fallen Empires.
Need to buy one of those visors to wear when I pay my bills
Make sure to get a pair of glasses as well
I thought those visors were green? For money shinyness idk wtf is happening
Waiting for a follow up video for "Royal Caribbean Cruise" video from 4years ago.
Thank you for the pink visor videos, these really are The best 🎉😂
I don't even collect cards but you are an absolute stud, Rudy. Love checking in every once in a while & seeing how things are going. Wishing you nothing but the best!
Whiteboard, visor AND a TI-83!!
The title wasn’t lying!
A vid representative of Rudys tool set that does not go much beyond technicalities.
He reminds me of a stock market analyst not knowing fundamentals, just looking at chart movements, thus seeing Hasbros hope in manipulating sales channels or new card variants..
More interesting discussions are around if WOTC should go back to blocks, thus able to pool creative resources for three sets, instead of frittering them away in single set products like Karlov Manor or Thunder junction with no appeal to get bought, or serialized cards or which other IP to be integrated in a Secret Lair.
RUDY HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF HASBRO LETS GOOOO
Rudy Takeover Hostile! (I don't think Timmy's know what that actually means)
I love that hes using aa ti-83plus
...to multiply numbers by 10
@@fsmoura Can you share the Google doc link for your spreadsheet of all of Rudy's silly mistakes?
@@hahahafunniness I'll do it right away, as soon as I finish watching this new batch of Umu videos... only 17 to go ( o.o)
My kid says Folks in unison with me. You can teach your kids Magic. I’m teaching my kid Rudy.
gz a family of loser
Lmao
Lol that's awesome
Thanks for another solid vid, Rudy. In my mind, the next most prudent bottom-line moves for Hasbro would be two-pronged: First, begin printing 9/10 basic lands, 4/5 commons , 2/3 uncommons, and all tokens on the cheapest card stock possible - black ink lines on white backgrounds - don't even bother printing on the back (assuming sleeved play), rather creating something recyclable or even compostable. This would draw down the cost of resources going into cards (of which the majority are ultimately destined for dumpsters) while simultaneously increasing the scarcity & value of the 'rarer' commons/uncommons printed on regular stock. It'd also increase common/uncommon trading, particularly at the LGS level. And it'd 'coincidentally' have some real solid environmental benefits! Second ( and this would support the first move in a two-pronged attack), it'd make sense for Hasbro to move into the sleeve market and begin packaging prerelease sets with them, increasing the prelease set prices to compensate, while also selling these sleeves as a direct competitor to the other manufacturers. This would allow them to produce a tailored sleeve that would better mask any difference between the new B&W lands/commons/uncommons, and the regular prints. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe Hasbro owns any of the sleeve companies in play.
Just my thoughts - I'd love to hear you weigh in on this.
Seriously? Not joking? Lmao your first point sounds utterly ridiculous and would have a massive backlash from players. Reduce card quality further than it already has? Nah.
Second point, more feasible and something they could probably do. But rather than getting into the sleeves game though they could just contract with an existing company for fractions of a penny per sleeve and yet charge dollars more per kit.
@@JCLA5The playerbase will accept whatever WOTC doles out... And they will LIKE IT
@@johncameron5884 magic 30th anyone? While players need to speak with their wallets more than they do, there ARE lines that many players won't cross.
Finally! A long learning lesson video! Thank you Rudy!!!!!! This is so awesome!
Cynthia won! Now a box has 12 packs and sell for $325 that was $80 with 36 packs
I had the video playing in another time but I knew the "Awhhh that felt so good" was him putting on *the hat*
It Saddens me as a 47yr old Man who began playing MTG since it first came out i collected since the beginning .... back b4 my dad passed away in 2016 my entire collection got stolen people broke into our home and stole not only my entire MTG Collection worth a lot of money but my G1 Transformers and G1 Gi-Joe Collection among other things. we had everything insured EXCEPT my MTG collection :( till that day i never bought 1 single or pack of MTG since. i just can't afford it.
smells like an inside job
Sounds like your dad sold your magic cards for magic powder
First of all my dad is no longer living 2nd my dad would never do that didn't you know assumption is the mother of all fuck ups? check yo self next time b4 u spew bs@@sim_o
I’m going to have a hobby shop (tabletop wargaming, RPGs, etc) one day but I’m going to do something crazy… and minimize the Hasbro products I will carry. But I have an idea on how to get around that disadvantage.
Love you Rudy! ❤
Finally, another whiteboard and banker visor and/or frolf hat. Guide me, sensai.
Please do more of these videos as you can. They are very much appreciated.
If one party controls all the supply consumers get wrekt? Shocking.
You can know the print run when jou know the average pullrate of 1 serialcard x the total amount of availble serial cards.
Metazoo's art looked like it was made by a 5 year old. Their demise was inevitable.
Everything about Metazoo looked cheap. It gave me flashbacks to the bootleg pokemon cards I saw at a flea market, when I was a kid.
"looked"?!?
This is the kind of content I come to this channel for
"I'm a mitochondria with little fuzzy legs" was the best line in this entire lecture. 😆🤣🤣
26:26 10/10
37:25 "You don't learn until it blows up in your face"
very true rudy and not just about cardboard.
It's midnight on a Saturday, I can't get jiggy wit this.
ABOUT DAMN TIME, I haven’t understood word on this channel in so long!
RUDY DROPPING THAT FREE EDUCATION
Unsinkable Titanic huh, sounds like a Commander idea for Universes Beyond feat. Jack and Rose.
I clicked on the like button for the visor, and i must admit, the secret passage dinosaur. Thanks Roody
Been holding off watching this but its always a treat when you've got a whiteboard video...I spent a day few years back watching everyone you had uploaded at the time back to back. Always appreciate the lessons and your optimistic attitude, have for sure made me a more hopeful person. Cheers Rudy and looking forward to the next one!
Great vid! Thanks Rudy
thanks. sounds like things are work out
Thank you for another pink visor video!!!!! ❤
the visor is back!!!! let's goooooo!
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing.
Just realized Rudy is left handed. Good for you Rudy
Thanks for the insight homie
The one rudy to rule them all, one Rudy to find them, one Rudy to rob us all, and in the visor bind us
Isn’t this just what we’ve been trying to tell Rudy?
Thanks Rudy for this information continue the good work
you have explain it very good to me. thank you for you effort.
Man had the visor out, I'm going to preheat the oven for my lesson on Tendies!
A finance video that mentions learning from mistakes... Framed by Fallen Empires boxes. The irony is appreciated Rudy.
put on the visor, put on the visor, put on the vis.. YES!!!!!!!!
Well the secret dinosaur explains the smell of my cards lately. Seriously though, good break down Rudy. Cheers
love it. I also want to add an idea into this. I think one thing we forget is that people want to open packs, and play these cards. I think part of this is tied into to this, and products that have terrible play-ability, will show up in market flux. I rarely buy sealed product outside of 1 pack here and there from store credit for event placement. i find it so hard to justify as a player buying into sealed product especially when you get mucked, double master at 20-30 a pack with a total of 4 bucks in rares....hurts the soul
but will amazon necessarily play the long game so to speak? is it generally accepted that amazon buy prices will stay stable?
To get to the core of it: That model is entirely based on the psychological reception of boxes being scarcer than they are, based on LGS not receiving as usual. It also worked without amazon before, remember Time Spiral remastered? At the beginning it was severely bottle-necked too. But with amazon they can surely manage it better, adding only small restocks to keep the prices higher than they would be if LGS got these boxes for the ~$190 to sell at around $220 or so.
I don't know, are we as customers too dumb to see through this after the first time? For Fallout it surely worked out excellent for them as we didn't expect it. But now as (some of us at least) got that glimpse behind the dinosaur, will it work again and again?
My lazy prediction: Smart people can do pre-orders again at their LGS and lock in those prices, e.g. $220. If the vast majority of boxes then moves to amazon to be sold at $300 they can be happy to have paid less. Does that make sense?
👏 💯 yes general customers are too dumb to see through it. Even when you could estimate print numbers with serialized info and the fact if they’re paying for an IP license so they’re gonna use it fully, we’re still where we are now
Uhh, TSR was absolutely pumped thru Amazon for close to 300 a box like a month after release
@@epochsgamingthat's the point, people are buying at high prices on Amazon because it looks scarce but isn't, just like TSR.
@@chim007azo was responding to the first post where he said it worked without Amazon
Oooh these kinds of videos are the best from Rudy
Rudy mentioned that our society doesn't accept failure. Not sure if this is reinforced in our education system where I don't remember anyone going over with me why I would fail, just that I did. While the lessons were retaught what wasn't gone over was whatever method I was using to implement what was taught (not sure I'm being clear). Was listening to a Chael Sonnen video and something he said really struck me. I'm paraphrasing, but he said that "we are taught that failure isn't an option. Of course it's an option". I don't think we are taught how to come back from failure. Just found it interesting.
An excellent, insightful and entertaining white board video Rudy. Well done sir
It hurt to watch him take the visor off D:
lately i've been running into something ive never seen before (30 years playing in game stores) . new game stores opening up and not selling wizards of the coast products.also existing stores no longer selling magic cards or running events. i think this is becoming a new trend which i find very interesting .
the moment he put the viser on
Can I have hours of the magic that happened at 26:26? That was simply a gift to humanity.
I felt alive when Rudy put on the visor
Come for the Magic, stay for the finance and tacos.
Visor man should paint whiteboard on canvas and sell it for Timmy.
it’s called the secret amazon dinosaur oquation! brilliant! 😜😁👊🏻
I’m so stoked to see another white board video! These are my favorite content you make man, keep up the amazing work!
This reminds me a lot of the Chewbacca defense.
pink visor video has made my day already and im only 2 minutes 15 seconds in.
Fallout is the best MTG investment I’ve seen in years. Wizards fucked up this allocation 😢
Sarcasm I hope
Yes
Rudy still fighting the good fight for Pluto! The hero we need.
Hell yeah, Return of the Visor!
If only I could get a line of credit on any amount of boxes.
2 seconds early on the visor rudy thats how i know u a real one
Rudy thank you you are a genious of entertainment. I loved it when the product started coming out of the dino's ass. You're funny but also you are so right! We need to have a laugh even our assets are on the line! Thanks and all the best!
Rudy does not fuck around when he put these titles ❤❤❤
Dear Rudy:The AfterMath! (Pun Intended..😏)
Wizards should go back to 1 booster pack type and put all the variations in as special cards like it used to be. They could take a page from FaB putting serialized in the first run and just special variations in an unlimited run that is PtD.
Or get rid of serialized garbage altogether, because it makes zero sense to re-use the same art in a serialized variant.
Popped for Electronics Boutique
Homer: Number go up?
Marge; Print run's too tight for number to go up.
Homer: Number go up??
Marge: Ehh sure... Number go up.
This is why I watch this channel
By the waters of Babylon, we lay down and wept, for thee Fallen Empires. Tfw tower of babel is built too vertical.
Rudi more Pokemon video's please, show us some discoveries you did in the Pokemon storage.
You sir, should be teaching economics and finance at Tolarian Community College…This was brilliant!
Mind blown!
I feel like I learned something after watching this....what I learned I'm not entirely sure quite yet but I know I learned something
PINK. VISOR. VIDEO! LETS GOOOOOO 👏👏👏
Watched entire video ..🎉
Having never played MTG I bought a FO CB blindly when Rudy first mentioned anything under $300 was a good price at $260 and it has been the second most exciting thing to track other than Evolving Skies. Thank you Rudy. I’m convinced you’re a real one.
You omit that if card prices fall, and you buy them at that low price, you don't care if they hold value given they cost 50 cents to a few dollars. The game piece army may just want to play and can't afford higher priced cards thus, falling card prices allow them to buy the cards in the first place. If you buy a commander deck for $500, you care if it gets reprinted into the ground because you lose hundreds. If the entry price for that deck is $50, tanking card prices are not a problem since you lose $25 dollars and you can afford to buy the deck in the first place.
I waited so long for this! Did X-mas came early this year?
The problem with constantly raising the P. and reprints becomes "spending today is less valuable than spending tomorrow". Without FOMO the consumer can step back, relaxe and have a nice conversation where their money goes. Less impulse buys means less money for hash-sis.
nice video Rudy, the analytical breakdown was concise and logical. Makes sense to see the variables and yea it is prob what is happening exactly. we won't be surprised to see AMZN poop out more fallout boxes in drips for sure in small poop waves!
Pluto is not a planet. If we say Pluto is a planet, then suddenly there are thousands of other objects that also become planets, and now we're overprinting planets, they become common, and life become too short to look at them.
This was pretty valuable insight because Hasbro's solution despite everything was actually ingenious. Using product scarcity amongst LGS and price setting the market using Amazon as a way of creating artificial confidence and in turn, making more by selling less is really clever. However if Amazon ever wanted to press their advantage if they thought they could make more (or if they got themselves into some trouble), it would probably end up being a disaster. Although I suppose you could run the same scheme through Ebay by way of TCG.
Love this. All the other booger eaters are just commenting on the white board. The point we should be discussing is what, if anything, we can do about this. Especially because the new model is based on a false sense of scarcity that inflates consumer confidence. Rudy is right in that LGSs are going to get screwed. If I owned one I would limit my exposure to Magic as much as I could. This could go horribly wrong. I feel like the answer has to be in the singles market. If print runs are still that high, they are just hiding it through Amazon, then singles prices should crash - if everyone understood this. That would create downward pressure on the price of boxes that would crush their bottom line.
@@judsonbates1359 What I find interesting (about the model Rudy demonstrated) is, yes, the LGS's money-making ability is in fact greatly restricted but at the same time their risk exposure would technically decrease by a buoying of market value by Amazon setting the height of the tide. The risk as I allude to and you expounded upon must always be considered as it isn't insignificant. However, despite the risk and my own natural pessimism, I must say it is minimized by the fact I do not think (at this time) Amazon as a distributor would want to lose Hasbro's business (which includes Toys, Lego, etc.). I'm sure they are probably making a fairly good percentage on this, but in a hypothetical sense what would happen to the model if Amazon were to push for an extra % or two? Would it still work and how would they adjust it?
The natural fear is they would increase the print causing the systemic failure you describe and we have seen slowly get corrected in the last 18 months to make up that revenue. Managing those numbers will be incredibly vital to the entire company. The image that comes to mind is Philippe Petit walking the tightrope between the Trade Towers in 1974, if successful it will great accomplishment if not tragedy.
@@judsonbates1359my lgs is already backing off.
MTG cases are losing real estate to other games, sealed inventory continues to shrink..
Luckily enough I have enough closet flippers in my play group to keep me buying singles and cracking packs long after they quit printing MTG 🤷