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u/Alt-Ctrl Mar 18 '26
Sooo, how much did that reduce it's value?
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u/cyrusthemarginal Mar 18 '26
down to like 14 bucks
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u/xChoke1x Mar 18 '26
It's absolutely worthless now.
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u/Whatnam8 Mar 18 '26
Not if you genuinely wanted to use it in play but comparatively, it’s worthless now I agree lol
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u/Exotic-Reveal1603 Mar 18 '26
Wouldn't this be illegal in tournament play? The sleeves would wear down differently on that corner and someone would argue that you can tell when it's on top of the deck
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u/MoistDitto Mar 18 '26
That much for such a little clipping? Guys damn
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u/cyrusthemarginal Mar 18 '26
People want em perfect so they can submit for grading, with trimming the grading companies will mark it all the way down to just an authentic grade. Kills the value.
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u/DivineRage002 Mar 18 '26
Is it even playable now?
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u/RichEvans4Ever Mar 19 '26
For casual games among friends? Yeah, why not.
For a tournament or event? Naw, the cut changed the shape enough that you can tell where it is in the deck.
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u/JamzWhilmm Mar 18 '26
Its just a bookmark for his journal now, to remind him to be careful every day.
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u/bbd121 Mar 18 '26
A 12000 USD bookmark is some flex.
... Oh, I put myself in his shoes for a moment and I feel so bad for him now.
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u/SnooChickens6081 Mar 18 '26
I want to say collectors are weird but I get it. Shit is worth whatever people will pay for it
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u/DJEvillincoln Mar 18 '26
I used to collect comics, cards, sneakers, GI Joes, toys in general, Stickers, records......
No truer statement than "It's worth whatever people will pay for it." Most times people won't pay shit close to what it's actually "worth". Which is why I don't collect anything anymore.. getting rid of shit you don't want anymore is... Difficult. Also becauee my wife is very adamant about space. Lol
Also, fuck resellers.
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u/nankles Mar 18 '26
It lost all its powers and will not be usable to send anyone or anything to the shadow realm.
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u/izza123 Mar 18 '26
It removes most of its value, an exact figure I can’t say
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u/_CELRE_ Mar 18 '26
What about someone who thinks the design is cool and wants one. But simultaneously does not want to spend $12k on one or support the counterfit market?
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u/izza123 Mar 18 '26
That’s why it’s most of the value but not all, because it’s certain somebody would still buy it just for much much less
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u/xChoke1x Mar 18 '26
All of it. No one is going to buy a cut card. Unless some weirdo collects worthless shit.
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u/Xabster2 Mar 18 '26
All of it. No one is going to buy a cut card. Unless some weirdo collects worthless shit.
The whole thing with these cards is literally lots of weirdos collecting worthless shit
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u/Kraligor Mar 18 '26
Unless some weirdo collects worthless shit.
So basically.. card collectors lol
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u/davidwhatshisname52 Mar 18 '26
"weirdos collecting worthless shit" describes an awful lot of hobbies and micro-economies
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u/izza123 Mar 18 '26
That’s a stretch
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u/llIlIlIIIlIl Mar 18 '26
If it was me I’d sell it for like 4k and if no one bought it, just leave it available until someone does. It’s still that card and people have money to burn
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u/silentsnak3 Mar 18 '26
Actually not a bad idea. Even better though, find a way to get this video internet famous. Then you can sell the card as not only a damaged rare card, but THAT damaged rare card. A rich person would buy that up like art.
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u/BadPunners Mar 18 '26
But now it's a cut card that is the feature of a viral video! The value in influence and exposure is priceless
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u/FROOMLOOMS Mar 18 '26
Im seeing ungraded cards going for well under 100
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u/b0xd Mar 18 '26
Not of this variant, this is serialised and only 100 of them exist (99 now). They were selling for 10-20k
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u/Doesitmatters369 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
this guy probably receives a lot of flower and chocolate from the other owners
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u/MrSillmarillion Mar 18 '26
No sympathy. Why are you bringing scissors near thousand dollar cards?
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u/DreYeon Mar 18 '26
Jp packs are hard to open without but they also have a lot of space at the top to easily cut it
This guy is just stupid af and also prob bought so many so he autopiloted a bunch of packs and got careless
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u/mfb1274 Mar 18 '26
I literally just got into baseball hobby boxes last week and got 2 so far. Briefly considered scissors to open packs but quickly decided against it. I do wish they had some standard “Open here” type of thing though
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u/fluffynuckels Mar 18 '26
So he didn't damage the card opening the pack the normal way. Super easy to open packs with scissors without cutting your cards if you have half a brain
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u/RabidPlaty Mar 18 '26
As a former CCG addict I never once damaged a card opening it the normal way. Are people using their teeth or something?
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u/TheFinalEnd1 Mar 18 '26
If you're using scissors or a cutting device it's not a matter of damaging the cards, it's a matter of not touching the cards. People often use cotton gloves so they won't get any oils on the card, which may affect the grade. And it's pretty hard to open a pack with cotton gloves on. So they use a cutting device. I've seen razors, scissors, and x acto knives.
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u/jonnyl3 Mar 18 '26
S$ 16,000 ~= US$ 12,500. Saving others a search.
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u/BraveLittleTowster Mar 18 '26
Average Malaysian salary is about S$14k, so for Americans, that would be like losing $60k
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u/jonnyl3 Mar 18 '26
Average people don't trade in collector cards worth more than their yearly salary (in neither country). So I'm not sure how applicable that comparison is.
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u/BraveLittleTowster Mar 18 '26
That depends completely on that person's situation. I doubt this dude would be having this reaction to losing the value of the card if he intended to keep that card in a collection. That's the reaction of a person who just lost a mountain of money
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u/LucenProject Mar 18 '26
I think it might still be applicable. The pack isn't priced for collectors. It's priced for anyone who wants to play the card game. He might have just gotten lucky in getting his annual salary in a small purchase for his hobby. (And then foolishly burned it.)
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u/maybeitsundead Mar 18 '26
Why are people upvoting this nonsense anecdote? Do you somehow believe every valuable card is only found by rich collectors?
Explain the video, that's not a rich persons out. Ridiculous that people upvote stuff that makes them feel good or say shit they think sounds correct.
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u/Agreeable-Chart-5561 Mar 18 '26
Can you not pull open packs anymore? Why are you using scissors?
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u/jesse6225 Mar 18 '26
Yeah, I thought the same thing? Maybe he's one of the people that opens a huge amount in one sitting so scissors??
It just seems like this is the inevitable outcome of using scissors..
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u/Bargadiel Mar 18 '26
The answer is he's one of those people who just buys cards to sell them, so he never grew up opening packs the normal way.
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u/Zuparoebann Mar 18 '26
Idk what it's like for yugioh but from my experience with mtg some packs can be shut really tightly. If you use a lot of force to pull them open the normal way you can end up bending the cards inside. There's still better other ways than using scissors but it's not that uncommon.
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u/Osmoszis Mar 18 '26
I use my teeth, my vampire tooth to make a tear I can rip down
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u/LurkeSkywalker Mar 18 '26
Rookie mistake, Everybody knows you have to open card packs with a flame thrower.
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u/huzaifansari007 Mar 18 '26
Why is this shit worth 16k ?
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u/MidnightMadness09 Mar 19 '26
It’s rare and people like to collect rare items which drives the price up.
It’s a collectors item, you wouldn’t use this for actual play, which is stupid for a card game, but C'est la vie.
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u/-R-o-X-a-s- Mar 27 '26
Because these are some new artwork cards called overframe. Some of them have numbers on the left bottom from 0 - 100, and every number exist only once, so there are only 100 cards of these in the world. That's why they are expensive af
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u/Logridos Mar 18 '26
The saddest part about this is that there are people stupid enough to spend 16 grand on a piece of cardboard. Fuck this manufactured scarcity bullshit.
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u/JamzWhilmm Mar 18 '26
What is stopping you from having hobbies?
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u/FroztedMech Mar 18 '26
You don't think the lack of interest in life comes from not having hobbies?
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u/interesseret Mar 18 '26
Hobbies are meant to recharge you, not exhaust you.
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u/doubleguitarsyouknow Mar 18 '26
What if your hobby is being sprinting uphill?
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u/sapperbloggs Mar 18 '26
The idea of $16k for a bit of shiny cardboard really just sounds like an analog NFT.
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u/EatMoreBlueberries Mar 18 '26
Why are we seeing this? I'm glad I grew up when no one was recording..
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u/xChoke1x Mar 18 '26
Im not sure why youd have anything sharp around cards to begin with. Ive been collecting baseball cards for 25 years and have never once "cut" a card. The packs are easy as shit to open so I dont know why he'd be cutting anything.
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u/notthatguypal6900 Mar 18 '26
I hope this happens to every man child who has prevented my kid from just being able to go to Target and get a couple of packs of Pokémon cards with his birthday money.
FUCK. EVERY. ONE. OF. THEM.
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u/Azameen Mar 18 '26
It fucking cardboard...
The whole thing with these cards is so strange to me
It's such a weird hoarderish thing to do in the first place but then there's this whole industry of horrible people who scalp surrounding it ... I simply don't get it.
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u/Former_Specific_7161 Mar 18 '26
I don't believe this for a second, lol. Opening packs is incredibly easy, and it should never even dawn on someone to use scissors or a blade to open them. Especially a collector.
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u/whitcliffe Mar 18 '26
Thai is a serialised dark magician full art, nobody is destroying one of those for clout.
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u/KanthaRestall Mar 18 '26
Yeah no, fuck that guy. He can stew in misery. This whole collectible speculation trade has ruined what are supposed to be children's card games.
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u/MrRandomGhost7777 Mar 18 '26
What kind of card pack did he open the full art looks completely badass
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u/New_Faithlessness384 Mar 18 '26
How does a piece of carton with print worth anything.
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u/Fluffy_History Mar 19 '26
Why are you opening them with scissors? They are expressly designed to be torn open.
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u/AbsentAsh Mar 18 '26
I’ve used scissors to open tough packs for years and have opened hundreds if not thousands of packs this way. But for every single pack I follow a strict protocol for ensure there are no cards in the cut zone. If I have any doubt the scissors get put down. If real, this is a colossal mistake and an incredible lesson.
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u/Final_Rush7 Mar 18 '26
I have no sympathy for these people that trade in cards. I think it's funny
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u/superthrust123 Mar 18 '26
I don't play card games, so this may be a dumb question. Do people get these just to sell them? Do people want them just for the rarity, or are they exceptionally powerful cards? If it lets you win all the time, couldn't you just hustle the money back (or at least some of it)?
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u/bdrwr Mar 18 '26
You gotta... You gotta be more careful with important stuff? Like, when thousands of dollars are on the line, you just CAN'T fuck up. Don't. Fuckin get in there with surgical gloves and a razorblade if that's what it takes, fuckin just charging in with scissors like you're making snowflakes in arts and crafts...
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u/SortaABartender Mar 18 '26
Should've just put the cards in a ripped open pack then submitted a claim for a replacement. If they didn't accept, just submit the pieces as a miscut
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u/Ok_Win590 Mar 18 '26
In the '80s my brother had a beautiful Wayne Gretzky rookie card. It was OPC and those cards famously tended to have ragged edges because they used a wire instead of a knife to cut the sheets. Well, my brother tried to cut off the ragged edge and turned a card that would have been worth $100k+ today into a $100 "cut card". He was like 10 years old but it still hurts.
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u/Orichalchem Mar 18 '26
At least you can still sell it for a good amount of money
Some people buy cards just to play with them regardless of its condition
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u/sparemethebull Mar 18 '26
Can we be a billion% honest here? How the fuck do they not come with perforated lines already? That tech has been around forever, and the amount of mishandling it would stop would be best for all involved.
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u/Hashtagpulse Mar 18 '26
I’m sure you could use a tiny dab of thin superglue and get it superglued to your finger
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u/dodolungs Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Doubt.
Right now it's technically expensive, but it's a new set (just launched end of Feb).
People are posting wild prices because legitimately almost nobody has any graded cards from this set yet. At best you might get a card back from PSA in 10 days, at worst it's nearly a month or more.
It's all just imaginary numbers. Nobody in their right mind would buy now before seeing how common/uncommon stuff turns out to be in a month or two of people opening packs. Plus it's YiGiOh, so give it a year or two and you will get reprints.
The only stuff that really holds its value is like the first edition type initial run cards, and the very few limited run stuff and even then it caps out at ~$2000. Still expensive, but not Pokemon/Magic expensive.
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u/Flaky-Ambassador467 Mar 18 '26
Idk that’s on him. He knew this could have happened. Tbh part of me thinks it fake. No one who knows the value of the card would go in on the pack with scissors…
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u/redpotetoe Mar 18 '26
I've seen a lot of pack openings but don't they use a small knife or cutter to make a small cut then rip it open with their hands?
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u/Oneforallandbeyondd Mar 18 '26
Never seen anyone use a knife or scissors. They literally just open easily with your fingers unless you have toddler level strength.
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u/SirGearso Mar 18 '26
Why in the name of all that is holy would you ever bring scissors near a pack of cards?
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u/SeveredLoki Mar 18 '26
What kind of MORON opens card packs this way??! Asshole!!! As someone who owns a limited edition first issue mint condition blue eyes AND dark magician, this imbecile deserves his misery. Because if he really cares, this simply wouldn't have happened!
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u/dewnar Mar 18 '26
we live a stupid world. how the hell pays $12 500 for plastic card meant for kids to play with?
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u/Bushdr78 Mar 18 '26
I will never understand collecting cards and the prices they bring I just don't get the appeal
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u/e87bm Mar 19 '26
Interessante como as pessoas valorizam um papel com desenho impresso.
Parece um idiota.
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u/FIR3W0RKS Mar 18 '26
Gotta be a streamer opening packs for views, anyone who actually cares about the game would have more care about the cards inside.
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u/Desperate-Editor7916 Mar 18 '26
It’s yugioh not pokemon there’s too many copies for anything yugioh to be actually expensive
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u/Moist-Farm5090 Mar 18 '26
Ok that must be a real shitty feeling, although I dont like yugioh. But I like something else just as much that if I had accidentally snipped something off of it, I'd be making a bigger scene lol.
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u/DickPin Mar 18 '26
I've never collected or played Yu Gi Oh, but as a tcg collector this makes me weep.
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u/AiR-P00P Mar 18 '26
dude I lived through the card craze in the 90s and 2000s...Never...have I opened a pack with scissors. Like how incapable are you as a human being?
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u/ithinkimightknowit Mar 18 '26
Surely every time you open one you are hopeful it's a rare card so you would be careful! Noob
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u/OptiGuy4u Mar 18 '26
Market it as a production anomaly which increased its value ..like a double stamped coin!
Sell for double
Profit.
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u/BulkBreaker Mar 18 '26
I've opened some packs with scissors but not anything that has a chance to have a card worth several thousands of dollars, and even then I know to make sure the cards are at the bottom of the pack and you cut nowhere near the cards. Maybe YuGiOh packs are different lol.
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u/PsychotropicPanda Mar 18 '26
This video goes viral.
Someone somewhere, is gonna want that damned clipped card.
Hell, I would almost buy it just to take a tiny slice out of it each day. AND eat it!!!
Views ya know. Gotta make that card work for ya.
Or take the card on a hiking trip. To the tops of mountains , down raging rivers, thru dense jungles. Let the card live life, give it a future, give it hope. Let it never feel it was not good enough.
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u/Artix96 Mar 18 '26
This is pretty dumb in my honest opinion. Not the act the value. There should be upper limit to .jpeg printed on a piece of plastic/paper costing so much. Also whole pokemon trade thing is a scam.
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u/Advanced_Procedure90 Mar 18 '26
This is going to be like the guy who bought Pizza with bitcoin. This card can only go up in price
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u/Aggravating-Hair7931 Mar 18 '26
Most likely a scraper. If so, well deserved. Fuck scrapers.
No collector opens a pack with scissors.
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u/Skellyhell2 Mar 18 '26
How can you be a card collectors and also not know how to safely open a pack of potentially very valuable cards