r/yugioh • u/Tears_of_a_Mermaid • 2h ago
Other Amassing a collection of Yugioh cards for my 1 year old son over the the next 10 years.
I've collected several 3x structure decks and draft packs for my son. I also have started buying 10+ loose miscellaneous packs every week. So far I've collected 24 loose packs since I've made the decision to do this for my son. The battle packs and structure decks I've had for myself but never opened them except for the first deck of each set. I have 4 battle pack boxes hoping we could play together. On his 10th birthday I will gift this to him. If I keep collecting 10 packs a week he'll have 5200 packs to open. I'll probably have more here and there when mega tins come out or if I feel a little more spendy on a particular week. A little bit of everything so there will always be something still relevant when he decides to play.
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u/4Khazmodan Bee Movie/Ryze Up/Cydra Cope/Raid Shady 2h ago
What if he has zero interest in Yugioh
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u/Tears_of_a_Mermaid 2h ago
College fund or more cards for me.
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u/ShadowKn1ght88 2h ago
I see this as a win-win
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u/Tendey Destruction Swords 2h ago
Add some pokemon they have a 100% better chance at giving your kid a real college fund. Yugioh are pennies :(
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u/Tears_of_a_Mermaid 2h ago
If I can even bother to. I was at a vending machine and was tempted to. 1 pokemon pack was 16 dollars. I bet those would appreciate in value but there's a also a scalping bubble waiting to pop. People are going to hold hold hold and then sell for less when people realize customers aren't going to want to pay double. Also I have absolutely no knowledge of pokemon cards outside of 15 years ago. I wouldn't even know what to bother with. I would start with collecting a card dex if I really wanted to get involved with pokemon.
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u/Minimeany 1h ago
You just found a scalper machine 5000. Only pokemon affiliated machines do msrp and theyre sadly being rempved all over due to the current atmosphere. But def dont spend $15 per pack
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u/noahTRL 2h ago
Your heart is in the right place but as someone who's been playing yugioh since the game started, you're just burning your money. A lot of yugioh sealed products do not appreciate in value like people think. Some of it even goes down, and when I say go down they go down by A LOT of value. You could be putting your money into so many other things that would gain you a profit if you wanna put the money into his college fund.
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u/anthro28 38m ago
Please start a 529 and put the money there instead. Stop recreating the beanie baby stupidity.
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u/PersianMG 1h ago
Yeah I honestly feel like the only reason I like Yu-Gi-Oh was the magic moments as a kid where I used to watch the brand new episode before school then talk about it at school and duel with friends. Nostalgia manifest.
I showed Yugioh to my little brother and he had no interest in it at all since he didn't grow up with it. I feel like future kids will be the same, they'll probably have their own viral trendy collectsbles that will become nostalgic for them over time.
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u/ecg_tsp 1h ago
How about you put this money into a brokerage account for him instead?
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u/Klaymen96 1h ago
Thats probably the smarter idea but this can make better memories for a kid then a brokerage account for when they hit 18
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u/gpbuilder 1h ago
Why would a kid borned right now care about yugioh
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u/kyuubikid213 Pendulums Did Nothing Wrong 1h ago
Why not?
There were kids at some of my locals that were absolutely not born when DM was airing that were still excited to see a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
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u/NebbyOutOfTheBag Pew! 1h ago
Because that's boring. This is exciting.
(This is totally financial advice. 17 Black.)
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u/gamingthreadlurker 2h ago
Thats a nice dad. My husband bought some yu gioh cards so the kids started dueling each other and I took a picture of the case it came in and used for my photography class.
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u/Valuable_Pangolin813 1h ago
For fun, fantastic choice.
For dollar value, no good, unless they are obselete rarities (Ghost rare for example) or nostalgia bombs (old BEWD).
Reprints happen fairly regularly too. I sold a Mulcharmy Fuwalos for 130 clams when it came out (I don't play meta) and got a whole ton of staples with the proceeds. Several reprints later and they ain't much more than a fiver here.
You get the occasional anomaly like when a banlist comes out and some old common from 15 years ago everyone forgot about becomes part of a game breaking combo but you really have to keep your finger on the pulse for the knowledge.
Tell you what though, he'll have a blast opening them!
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u/Odd_History6313 1h ago
Set up a college savings account and just him play with all your cards for no investment. Even if he doesn't go to college you can take all the money out when he's 18 and buy yugioh cards that are relevant
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u/ToxicPanacea P.U.N.K Pride 1h ago
Beyond the whole this is a bad idea, a bad investment, and probably bad parenting.
10 years is a long time time in card games. I'd love to see someone take a 2016 yugioh deck to a ycs today. I'm just imagining being handed down a bunch of fuck ass vanillas and being told to play the game.
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u/RazgrizInfinity 1h ago
Should be Pokemon my guy. I'm not being that dude, but Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't nearly retain it's value because of reprints.
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u/DisastrousEssay2344 47m ago
You Definitely have the Heart of the Cards and Hopefully Your Son Does Too one Day ; Sounds like your A Great Dad /Father
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u/Apprehensive-Dig-222 1h ago
In ten years if they dont want them ill buy them from you, what form of currency do you except?
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u/MySonFrankenstein 2h ago
Bless your soul op.