Oooo a Yugioh group! Loved collecting the Korean OG sets lately! Super cheap and really took me back!! Weirdly the hardest card to pull in LOB-K is the Left arm of Exodia haha
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Pretty sure a WATA 9.6 sold for like 18k a few months back so I would say 15-20k now a days. Can say that about everything sealed since then.
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Got my old cards out although didn’t have many goods once. Nice to see 3 blue eyes and dark magician in decent/solid condition at least. Collected a few specific cards that I remember from the anime and thought looked cool. Will do more at some point, but still focusing on Pokemon ones at the minute. 
Late to this conversion, but I thought the 30k price-point for that item was somewhat reasonable. The listing was recently bumped to 60k I believe, which is clearly outlandish at the moment. But my rationale is that first print DDS is a multi-faceted collectible. From the perspective of a yugioh card collector, you most likely have a mint condition set of iconic promo cards. In the emerging vintage video game market, you have a sealed copy of a limited-run GBC game. The same logic can be applied to other particular YGO games, FMR premium edition comes to mind. In my opinion, some of these sealed games amount to more than than the sum of their parts. Still waiting for the pallets full of DDS to be unloaded onto eBay though.
I feel the opposite due to this video by Ruxin where he opened a sealed DDS only to find that it didnt have the promo cards inside.
I’m unfamiliar with the graded game field but it seems like a massive risk to be buying a sealed game that may or may not have the prized card that makes up most of its value and may or may not achieve the highest grade after being sent to a grading company.
I’m aware of the infamous Ruxin video, but there is a very noticeable weight difference between a copy containing the promos and one that doesn’t. So it should be easily verifiable if the seller is willing to post a pic of the game on a scale.
In general, buying sealed product is a very risky purchase because you might receive a tampered product. The DDS game of course has that same risk, but a lower risk in any other regard, as you get the cards you want 100% (unless you get a factory error copy) and the dds card quality is very high, increasing the odds of getting a psa 10. Most vintage booster boxes don’t have these advantages.
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60k seems to much atm, I agree. As for the pallets of sealed games hiding in someone’s basement, even if this is true (and I haven’t seen evidence), the owner would be a fool to try to sell them all at once
Don’t be so unsure of pallets of sealed games. There was a pallet of DDS found last year or the year before.
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lol thats why I mentioned it, literally waiting for the pallet. its like a storm cloud in the distance. It always comes up in the DDS conversation, multiple times in this thread even. even if we never see a sign of it again the threat is always looming. As well as loose DDS bewd hoards that I have seen in Japan. You have to wonder at what point the knowledge of these things will be priced in to the game/cards if it hasnt already. I think the first time I heard the DDS pallet story was as early as 2018. if someone’s been holding out on buying DDS items since then because of that story, they haven’t done themselves any favors.
Agreed you would of been better off buying than holding cash but look at the growth profile of a lob blewd vs dds blewd.
Weird thing about dds bewd is despite having moderately higher pop than other bewds, it’s always available and constantly being flipped
The set card ultras comparatively are much harder to come by in psa 10
I’ve never been a fan of the LOB BEWD art. I will always be biased towards the SDK artwork and I think many others feel the same which is why DDS holds so much value.
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I’ve always preferred lob bewd art and I guess I’m the minority 
As a kid, sdk bewd was much more common and I recall seeing an lob bewd for the first time and preferring it much more
I prefer the LOB BEWD art… never liked the SDK (but I love the DDS)
I know what you mean, the LOB variant initially had a bigger wow factor because it was a much rarer sight than the sdk (which everyone had). But at least in Europe the DDS was on a whole other level. Europe never received the limited edition games containing the dds, so all we had were some pictures of the prismatic secret rare version in fan magazines. The card was as unobtainable to us as the gbi god cards, which made it so special.
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ah that’s helpful insight. the gameboy cards were very accessible in Singapore
For the gbi gods they were pretty common where I lived (in Singapore)
I was making money in school buying the game, opening it and selling the god cards for $35 usd each lol. good times.
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I prefer the SDK art to really any other artwork of Blue-Eyes. I 100% believe that’s because of my attachment to the anime/manga and because it was the first Blue-Eyes I owned. I think most of the other artworks are better but the original holds a special place in my heart which I believe is the case with a lot of other collectors.
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I found my small collection a while ago from when I was a kid. Unfortunately it was stored in a hot attic and all the cards are destroyed. Oh well
LOB-Eyes gets looksmaxed substantially aeons better when blended with the ancient ring and Yugi in the box/ pack/ promo poster art over it’s sparingly no expense at being dynamic for the sake of it card.
I’m with you. SDK was in the show and way cooler. LOB already has a broken neck. He can’t fight like that
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