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0:00Hello and welcome to OnePieceInsight.
0:03In today's video, we will be looking at
0:04the expected value, that is, how many
0:07dollars worth of cards you would expect
0:09to open out of a booster case of the
0:11first five sets that were ever printed.
0:13And that includes both OP-01 white
0:14bottoms and blue bottoms so that we can
0:16get to the bottom of should we be buying
0:18these boxes, should we be opening them.
0:21So with that, let's jump right in. So
0:22the first question is, why look at
0:24expected value at all? So expected value
0:26tells us if we were to open a case of
0:28cards, approximately how many dollars
0:30worth of value we would get from opening
0:33that case. So why is that information
0:34useful? Well, we can figure out which
0:36boxes are better to open and which ones
0:38are worse to open. We're going to do
0:39that. It also helps you to evaluate
0:42current prices so you can compare sets
0:44against each other to see which ones are
0:45maybe overvalued or undervalued based on
0:48their box price compared to the contents
0:49inside. And finally, it allows you to
0:51predict future prices, right? If we can
0:53estimate what the insides of a box are
0:56going to cost, that can help us to set
0:58what we think a fair price should be for
0:59that booster box. We're not going to do
1:01that today, but that is something that
1:02you can potentially do as well. For this
1:04video, we're going to be looking at the
1:06six oldest booster box cases. So that's
1:08OP-01 blue bottoms, OP-01 white bottoms,
1:10OP-02, OP-03, OP-04, and OP-05. I'm
1:15going to be giving a scale of one to
1:17five stars on whether or not I think the
1:19boxes are a buy at their current price
1:21and whether or not I think they're a
1:23good idea to rip. I want to say up
1:25front,
1:27ripping any of these boxes is going to
1:30typically result in losing money. So if
1:33something is a three-star rip, that
1:35doesn't mean that I'm recommending that
1:36you rip it. I'm just saying that if you
1:38were going to rip something, this might
1:40be better to look at than something that
1:42is a one- or a two-star rip. So again,
1:46this isn't financial advice on what to
1:47buy or what to rip, but I really want
1:49you to keep in mind that when you rip
1:51things, typically you're going to lose.
1:53You should only do it if you're getting
1:54more fun back than you expect to lose in
1:57the value of the box. So, we're going to
1:59start from the cheapest sets to the most
2:00expensive sets. So, first up we have
2:03OP04 with a box price of $502
2:06and $6,024
2:08for a case. So, the cards that are doing
2:09the most to contribute to the value of
2:11OP04 are of course the SPs led by the
2:14Boa Hancock. Um the average SP in this
2:17box is $274, so that adds $549
2:21uh in expected value to the case. Then
2:24you have the Sabo Manga, which is one of
2:26the cheapest Mangas that we've gotten uh
2:28at pull rate of one in three that adds
2:30$217 to the expected value. And then
2:33finally, we have the leaders in this
2:34set, which is headlined by the Vivi
2:36leader, an average price of $45 for in a
2:39case, $180 added to the expected value.
2:42So, the total result here is that we
2:43have an expected value of $1,278
2:47and an expected value percent of 21%.
2:50This is actually one of the lowest
2:52amounts that we'll see in a case today.
2:54Um and so, for that reason, I'm going to
2:57give this two stars to rip. It's not the
3:00absolute worst, so I'm going to save one
3:02star for the absolute worst, but you
3:04really don't want to rip this box. I
3:06would only rip this if your plan is to
3:08lose almost all of your money and you're
3:10totally fine with that. There are no big
3:12chases that are going to make your money
3:14back even if you hit the Boa, which is
3:16the biggest chase, even if it's like a
3:18BGS 10, chances are you're still losing
3:20money on opening a case. So, I don't
3:22recommend. In terms of whether to buy,
3:24you know, this is a fairly expensive box
3:26and there's certainly are other boxes in
3:28the One Piece TCG that are less
3:31expensive and have a higher expected
3:33value percentage.
3:35But, because it is a little bit on the
3:37older side, I'm not going to completely
3:39discount the fact that maybe there is a
3:40premium associated with being older and
3:43having a slightly smaller print run than
3:44some of the modern sets. Because of
3:46that, I'm going to give it a two star
3:47that I would only buy it if you're okay
3:48with overpaying. So, in terms of where
3:50this falls among the booster cases,
3:53right now it's in first place cuz it's
3:54the only one we have. Okay, so let's
3:56talk about OP-03. So, OP-03 is very
3:58similar to OP-04 in a lot of ways.
4:00Um we have a box price of $575. We have
4:03a case price of $6,900.
4:06One thing you'll notice about OP-03 is
4:08that in terms of adding value to the
4:09case, it's pretty balanced across its
4:12different categories. You know, you have
4:13the Sogeking manga valued at around
4:15$900, adding about $300 to the case. You
4:19have the SPs uh in this set which are
4:22less expensive, but they're still adding
4:24$297.
4:25And then finally, you have the leader
4:26cards with an average price of $73 that
4:29are adding $292
4:31to the case. So, if you did open a case
4:33of this, your average case would
4:35probably be a little bit closer to the
4:36expected value uh than OP-04 where it's
4:39a little bit more high-risk,
4:41high-reward. So, in terms of how this
4:42translates into the actual expected
4:44value for the case, the total expected
4:46value for this is $1,221,
4:49which is less than OP-04 despite the
4:51fact this box is actually more expensive
4:54than OP-04, leading to an expected value
4:57of only 18%.
4:59Would I buy this?
5:01I wouldn't buy this. I don't really like
5:03it at the current price to be honest. I
5:05was torn about whether I was going to
5:07put it in a one-star category or a
5:08two-star. I ultimately landed on the
5:11two-star because I think it's kind of
5:13similar to OP-04 and it's maybe a little
5:15bit older, so maybe there should be a
5:17little bit more of a premium. Although,
5:19our estimates suggest that there's about
5:21the same amount of OP-03 and OP-04 out
5:24there, so I don't really think that
5:25there should be much of a premium for
5:27OP-03. In terms of whether rip, this is
5:29destined to lose money. This is like one
5:31of the worst things that I've looked at
5:32that you could possibly rip. Do not rip
5:34this under basically any circumstances.
5:37You're going to lose the vast majority
5:39>> [laughter]
5:40>> of what you spent on your case. So, in
5:43terms of where this falls uh both in
5:45terms of total value and expected value
5:47percentage, it's below O P O 4. Next up
5:49on the most expensive is O P O 2.
5:52Uh box price of $598 and a case price of
5:56$7,176.
5:59Now, I'll remind you that unlike O P O 3
6:01and O P O 4 that came before, this set
6:03actually did not have SPs. O P O 3 was
6:05the first set that had SPs. So, if we
6:07look at what's actually contributing to
6:08the value of O P O 2, for starters, we
6:11got to talk about the Ace Manga. So, of
6:13the sets that we've looked at so far,
6:15the Ace Manga is by far the most
6:16expensive Manga and is contributing by
6:18far the most amount to the total case
6:20value. So, we have $561 in this case
6:24coming from the Ace Manga. Uh the second
6:26most expensive category in this, again,
6:27because they don't have SPs, uh are
6:29actually the alt arts at $18 for an
6:32average alt art. Uh with 20 that you're
6:34likely to get in a case, that's an EV of
6:37uh $360 added to the total case EV.
6:40Those aren't like wildly expensive alt
6:42arts, but there are some decently priced
6:43ones, mostly because this set is kind of
6:45on the old side.
6:47Uh and then finally, we have our leaders
6:49with an average price of $83. Uh you're
6:51going to get four in a case, so that's
6:52$332
6:55uh added to the expected value. The
6:57leaders in this set are actually pretty
6:59expensive. So, what I find interesting
7:01about this is that even though there are
7:02no SPs in the set,
7:04uh the value of the other cards actually
7:07make up for the loss of SPs. When we
7:09look at the total expected value for
7:11this box, it's $1,555,
7:14which is above the other ones that we've
7:16so far and has an expected value
7:18percentage of 22%, which again, is above
7:21the other ones we've looked at so far,
7:23even though this is a more expensive
7:25box. So, there's a pretty significant
7:26difference between uh O3 and O4 and what
7:30we're looking at here with O P O 2. Does
7:31that mean I think it's an amazing deal?
7:33I don't. While I think there's arguably
7:35a premium for things that come first,
7:38I don't see that much of a premium for a
7:39coming second. Again, our estimates of
7:42uh the number of cases opened suggests
7:45there's a similar amount of product that
7:47was printed for OP02, OP03, and OP04.
7:50So, I don't see a tremendous premium
7:51there. So, I guess I would say I would
7:53rather have this box at this price than
7:56I would have OP03 or OP04.
7:59But, it's not by a ton. And I certainly
8:01would not go out and buy this. I still
8:02think this is probably overpriced for
8:04what you're getting.
8:06In terms of whether to rip, well, I
8:07certainly wouldn't rip it, and you're
8:09definitely going to lose your money.
8:10But, of the three things we've looked at
8:11so far, I think this is probably the
8:13number one choice to rip. So, in terms
8:16of how it slots in with the boxes we've
8:17looked at, this is going to be number
8:19one right now at a 22% expected value.
8:22Moving on to the really interesting
8:24boxes. So, first up we have OP05, which
8:27has an average box price of $958.
8:30Now, big caveat here, I ran this
8:32analysis a couple weeks ago, and so some
8:34of these numbers may be a tiny bit
8:36outdated. I think the overall message is
8:38the same, but if you're looking at this
8:39thinking, you know, you can't get OP05
8:42for $958 anymore, I hear you. I don't
8:46think it changes things too much, but I
8:48wanted to flag that this is a little bit
8:49older data.
8:51Um in terms of a case price, when I
8:52looked at it, it was $11,500 for a case.
8:55So, the things that are adding the most
8:56value to OP05, the first thing you'll
8:59notice here is that the numbers are way,
9:00way, way, way bigger. This is the first
9:02set where we have any actual chase cards
9:05that are really expensive uh to pull up
9:07this total value. So, first you have
9:09three mangas in this set, and the mangas
9:11have an average price of $3,716
9:15being pulled up massively by the value
9:17of the Gear 5 Luffy manga. And that adds
9:19$1,239
9:22to the expected value of the box.
9:24The biggest one here though is actually
9:25the Oda signature, which has an
9:27estimated pull rate of one in six and is
9:29valued at around $8,000 raw for a total
9:32EV of $1,333
9:35added to the case.
9:37And then finally, you have SPs here that
9:39are higher valued than the SPs in OPO 3
9:41or OPO 4. Again, you're getting two of
9:43them, so that's adding $422 to the total
9:46value of the case. If we look at the
9:48expected value for OPO 5, it is by far
9:51the biggest number that we've looked at
9:52so far. It is more than double the
9:54second best box that we've looked at at
9:56$3,693.
9:58And even though these boxes are
10:00significantly more expensive than the
10:02ones we've looked at so far, this still
10:04has a significantly better EV percentage
10:05than the other boxes coming in at 32%.
10:08So, in terms of whether to buy OPO 5, I
10:11actually think these numbers look pretty
10:13good. Even though it's very expensive, I
10:15don't think that this is wildly
10:17overpriced based on the cards that you
10:19get inside. And in addition to the cards
10:21that you get inside, I actually do think
10:23that there's an argument for OPO 5
10:25having a higher booster box premium
10:27because of how iconic the set is. One of
10:29the things that we've seen in Pokémon is
10:31that box prices often outgrow the value
10:34of the cards inside because the boxes
10:35themselves become a collectible. And so
10:38when I'm looking at what I think the
10:39value of a box should be, I'm
10:41considering both how much is the value
10:43of the cards inside and now also how
10:45iconic is the set. How great is the box
10:48art, right? How much of a premium are
10:50people going to pay to keep this sealed
10:52on their shelf? And unlike two, three,
10:54and four, I do think OPO 5 actually has
10:57that special sauce that is going to
10:59command a premium over other sets uh
11:02separate from the amount of value of
11:03cards inside. So, I was a little bit
11:05surprised when I did this analysis. I
11:06thought that I was going to think the
11:08box was still kind of overpriced given
11:09how expensive it is, but I actually
11:11think it's pretty fair uh given its
11:13long-term potential and the value of the
11:15cards that are already inside.
11:17In terms of whether to rip, again, I
11:19don't recommend ripping OPO 5, but of
11:21all the boxes that we've looked at so
11:23far, this is the only one that I can
11:24make any type of upside case for. There
11:28is a universe where you could possibly
11:30open a case
11:32uh
11:32that [laughter]
11:33provides the value that you spent on it.
11:36Um you know, there are cards in this set
11:38that are worth a lot of money, unlike
11:39the other sets that we've looked at so
11:41far. So, while I don't recommend ripping
11:43this at all, if you were going to rip
11:45something of the ones we've looked at so
11:46far, this is what you're probably going
11:48to get your best return on. So, with its
11:50expected value of 32% OP-05 moves into
11:53the first slot. Now, we're getting into
11:55what I think are the really interesting
11:56stuff. So, OP-01 white bottoms. The
11:59second most expensive of the first five
12:01sets. And actually the second most
12:03expensive set that we've ever had in One
12:05Piece. A box price of $1,750
12:09and a case price of $21,000. Now, if
12:11you're watching this and you don't know
12:12what a white bottom is, let me give you
12:14a quick explanation. When OP-01 first
12:16came out, the boxes had blue bottoms.
12:19And in those boxes had cards that were
12:22eventually errata'd. And when they were
12:24reprinted, they reprinted the boxes with
12:27errata'd cards and with white bottoms.
12:29And so, you essentially have like a
12:30first edition set for OP-01, those are
12:33the blue bottoms, and an unlimited set
12:35if you're comparing it to Pokémon, and
12:36those are the white bottoms.
12:38From what I can tell, the print runs of
12:40the blue bottoms and the white bottoms
12:42appear to be somewhat similar. So,
12:45primarily the differences between the
12:47white bottoms and the blue bottoms are
12:49number one, blue bottoms are considered
12:50to be first edition, but also they have
12:52these pre-errata cards and collectors
12:55will pay a premium for the pre-errata
12:57versus the errata'd versions of the
12:59cards. So, in terms of what's adding
13:01value to OP-01, so as we talked about
13:03with OP-02, there were no SPs in this
13:05set. So, the thing that's actually
13:06adding the most value, and I thought
13:08this was fascinating, is the alt arts.
13:10This is primarily because of the Nami
13:13being worth over $400. You also have the
13:15Luffy being worth, you know, almost
13:17$150. So, the average price of an alt
13:20art in this set is $64. And because
13:23you're getting 20 of them, that's adding
13:24$1,278
13:27to the case expected value.
13:29Next up we have the leaders. There are
13:30some very expensive leaders in this set.
13:32Luffy is over 800 dollars, the Zoro's
13:35over 550 dollars, the Law's 400 to 450
13:38dollars. So the average leader in this
13:40set is 302 dollars. And since you're
13:42getting four of those, that's adding
13:441,209
13:46dollars to the overall set value.
13:49And then finally, in last place, we
13:51actually have the Shanks manga, which
13:53although it is the second most expensive
13:55manga we've looked at so far, is
13:56actually adding the third most value to
13:58this set at only 710 dollars. So if we
14:01look at how all of that translates to
14:02total expected value, we have 3,903
14:07dollars total value for an expected
14:09value percentage of 19%. Right off the
14:11bat, I'll tell you that I expected that
14:13OP-05 would have a much higher total
14:15expected value than the OP-01 white
14:18bottoms. And that I was going to have to
14:20come in here and tell you that well,
14:21even though the EV on this set's really,
14:22really low, you know, because it's old,
14:25like that's how we're thinking about
14:26pricing it. That's of course still true,
14:28but I was very surprised that its EV was
14:31above OP-05. So that was a really
14:33interesting takeaway from this analysis
14:35for me.
14:36Because the boxes are so expensive, the
14:38EV percentage is still only 19%, but
14:42that's not the worst that we've seen.
14:44>> [laughter]
14:44>> Even though, like OP-05, there are other
14:46arguments for why you would want to have
14:48this box or why this box would be more
14:49expensive than the contents inside.
14:52So in terms of whether I would buy this,
14:55I still find this box very hard to price
14:57because a lot of its value is the fact
15:00that it's first, but also on the other
15:02hand,
15:03because it's the second version of
15:05OP-01, it's not like the true first set,
15:08right? I'm somewhere between,
15:10you know, this is a two-star, maybe it's
15:12a little bit overpriced, and this being
15:15a three-star reasonable entry point
15:17to purchase this at. Again, the expected
15:20value is low, but it's not the lowest
15:22we've seen. I would rather have this box
15:24at this price, I think, than OP02, 3, or
15:274. But, because it's so difficult to put
15:29a finger on what the price should
15:30actually be, it's hard for me to
15:32recommend it any more than that.
15:34In terms of whether you should open
15:35this, no, you should definitely not open
15:36this. It is great that the expected
15:39value is a lot more than I expected it
15:41to be, but still, at a case price of
15:44$21,000, there is absolutely no way
15:48that you're going to recuperate that
15:50cost because there are no huge chases in
15:53the white bottom booster boxes. Even if
15:55you got lucky and you pulled the Luffy
15:57and the Zoro leaders and the Law leader
16:00and you pulled, you know, the Nami and
16:02the Zoro and the Luffy alt arts, it's
16:04never going to equal $21,000. So, under
16:06no circumstances should you open this,
16:09unless you're actively trying to set
16:11money on fire. So, even with it being
16:12the most expensive box we've looked at
16:14so far, this one's going to slot in at
16:16fourth at still having a higher expected
16:18value percentage than OP03, which I
16:20think speaks really, really badly for
16:23OP03
16:24and its current price. Finally, we have
16:27the big boy, the OP01 blue bottom, at an
16:31average box price of $6100
16:33and a case price of $73,200.
16:36Now, if you're looking at this and
16:37thinking $6100, you can find boxes on
16:40eBay for, you know, $5600, why are you
16:43using that price?
16:45The reason I'm using that price is
16:46because we just had a sealed case sell
16:49at Golden
16:50for $73,200.
16:53And because we are looking at the case
16:55value, which assumes the fixed hits that
16:58you're going to get in a case,
17:00I wanted to use a sealed case as opposed
17:01to individual boxes, which are going to
17:04be more hit or miss, right? Because it's
17:06possible that somebody opened a case,
17:08they took all the good boxes out and are
17:10leaving you with just the the weak alt
17:12art two hit boxes, right? So, that's why
17:14we're using the case price for this. In
17:16terms of what is adding value to the
17:18boxes, it's exactly the same story as
17:21the white bottoms except with different
17:23values because now we have the
17:25pre-errata versions to consider that are
17:28going to massively increase the price of
17:29some of these cards. In first place, we
17:31have the alt arts at an average price of
17:34$131
17:36bringing in $2,625.
17:39So, this is about twice what the alt
17:41arts were bringing to the table in the
17:43white bottom booster boxes. So, keep in
17:46mind not every alt art has an errata,
17:48not every leader has an errata, so there
17:50are just a few that are dramatically
17:53bringing up the prices of these because
17:54they're significantly more expensive.
17:56There are some lower level alt arts
17:58that, you know, might have been 15 bucks
18:01in the white bottoms but are now 150
18:03bucks in the blue bottoms because of the
18:05pre-errata collector premium. And so,
18:07that's why this is going up so much even
18:09though not every card is pre-errata.
18:12Same thing with the leader here. You
18:14know, the leader prices go up to $642.
18:17This is being pulled up a lot by the
18:18pre-errata Luffy leader, which is the
18:20biggest chase that you can hit in the
18:22blue bottom.
18:23It's actually not that hard to pull
18:25comparatively. You know, there were
18:27eight leaders and you're getting four,
18:28so it's a 50% chance of whether you're
18:30going to get one. But the truth is is
18:32when you're paying $73,000
18:34for a case, having a 50% chance of
18:36hitting an expensive card
18:38is just not really that helpful anymore.
18:39There's no way that you could possibly
18:41recuperate the value back that you spent
18:44on the booster boxes. But the leaders
18:46here are adding $2,567
18:49to the total value. And then finally, we
18:51have the Shanks, which is exactly the
18:53same as OP01 because there wasn't a
18:55pre-errata version adding $710 to the
18:58value. So, in terms of EV, the OP01 blue
19:01bottoms have $7,465
19:04worth of cards in an average case. I'll
19:07be honest, this is much higher than I
19:09was expecting. I I not expect this to be
19:11the highest of all the booster boxes.
19:13Maybe I should have, but I'm a little
19:14bit surprised at how strong the
19:16performance is. Now, that said, despite
19:18that fact, because the case is so
19:20expensive, it's EV percentage is still
19:23only 10%, which is by far the worst of
19:27any that we've looked at. Now, I would
19:29have guessed that this would have been
19:30the worst just given how expensive it
19:32is, but I am somewhat pleasantly
19:34surprised that there is more value in
19:37these boxes uh than I would have
19:38guessed. And primarily the reason for
19:41that is because you have like super
19:43rares and alt arts that have pre-errata
19:45versions that are significantly more
19:47expensive than their errata versions,
19:49not just the leaders, which is what most
19:51people think about, and that ends up
19:53contributing a lot of value to the
19:54overall set.
19:56Let's start with the easy one. Would I
19:57rip it? Under no circumstances. There's
20:00absolutely no reason to ever rip this
20:02ever. Just do not do it. Like, unless
20:04you are the Joker and you are trying to
20:06light money on fire because you think
20:08it's fun, do not open one of these
20:10boxes. They're worth so much more
20:11sealed. Now, the hard question.
20:13What is the right price for this box?
20:17I don't know. So, for starters, let's
20:19just talk about the EV percentage,
20:21right? So, you have OP01 white bottoms
20:23that had a little bit more than half the
20:26value of the blue bottoms, and yet the
20:28blue bottoms are like a little bit less
20:30than four times as expensive as the
20:32white bottoms, right? If you're just
20:34looking at EV percentage, this would
20:36suggest that the blue bottoms should be
20:38about twice as expensive as the white
20:39bottoms. So, at their current price,
20:41that would suggest that the blue bottoms
20:43are wildly overpriced.
20:45But, the problem is is that there is
20:47definitely a premium for the blue
20:48bottoms being the first edition, right?
20:52How do we quantify what that premium
20:54should be? I can frankly also see an
20:56argument in the opposite direction that
20:58says that, well, there's a much greater
21:00premium for the first edition than there
21:03is for the unlimited edition. And so,
21:06that means that the white bottoms are
21:08actually overpriced
21:10because they're so vastly inferior to
21:12the blue bottoms in terms of like
21:14collector desirability.
21:16I understand that. I will say I do think
21:18there's a pretty big difference here
21:19between the first edition Pokémon and
21:22the unlimited Pokémon in that we know
21:24that the unlimited set had like
21:27a way larger print run than the first
21:30edition. Whereas here, you have a
21:31distinction between errata and
21:33pre-errata.
21:34But, the print runs of each are pretty
21:37equivalent. So, it's not clear that like
21:38the pre-errata is significantly rarer
21:41than the post-errata. I will also say in
21:43terms of collectibility, I think there's
21:45a pretty big difference between
21:47something that has like a first edition
21:49stamp on it versus having a different
21:52color bottom to the booster. So,
21:55again, I'm not sure that I think I
21:57understand what the right price should
21:58be. I don't own a white bottom or a blue
22:00bottom. You know, I see the argument for
22:02why they should be valuable, but they're
22:04personally beyond my wrist tolerance.
22:06So, in terms of would I buy this? The
22:08answer for me is no, but the answer for
22:10you might be different. And, you know,
22:12in terms of how fairly valued I think it
22:14is, I think it's somewhere between a two
22:16and a three star in sort of the same
22:18vein as the OP01 white bottoms. I think
22:22there's a universe where they're both
22:23overpriced. I think there's a universe
22:25where one is overpriced relative to the
22:27other and the other is underpriced. And,
22:29I think there's a universe where both of
22:31them are underpriced, although that one
22:33feels the least likely to me, which is
22:35why I'm putting it in the two to three
22:36star category. So, again, I see the high
22:39upside to this, but I also think there's
22:41a tremendous amount of risk because it's
22:42so difficult to price. While I don't
22:44think this is a shock, the OP01 blue
22:46bottoms are going to slot into the last
22:48position when it comes to overall
22:50expected value percentage at only 10%.
22:53So, if we look at number one, we had an
22:54expected value of 32% and number six, an
22:58expected value of of 10% with everything
23:01else falling in the middle. You know,
23:03for the most part these boxes are
23:05grouped pretty closely. You know, other
23:06than the 10 and the 32, everything else
23:08was between like
23:0918 and 22. So, I think that reflects a
23:13little bit of an age premium while also
23:14saying that there has to be at least
23:16some value of the cards inside. This
23:18isn't Pokémon where an Evolving Skies
23:20booster box can have a 5% expected
23:23value, right? We have to care about the
23:25cards inside at least a little even if
23:27we are putting a premium for age. All of
23:29that said, in terms of my personal
23:31rankings,
23:33my clear number one is OP-05. For me,
23:35you're getting one of the most iconic
23:37sets and you're getting the best value
23:39cards inside. That feels like a
23:41no-brainer to me. I feel like it has a
23:43much stronger case for why it's valued
23:45the way that it currently is as well as
23:47having upside potential.
23:49In second place, I would personally put
23:51the white bottoms just because I feel
23:52like if there is a little bit of an
23:54imbalance, maybe it's that the blue
23:56bottoms are a little bit overpriced.
23:58Now, we have seen a pretty large
24:00correction in the booster boxes for blue
24:02bottoms, so maybe that has been a
24:04recognition
24:05that those were a little bit overpriced
24:07and they've moved into a more
24:08comfortable territory. So, this may not
24:10be true anymore.
24:11But, in terms of expected value, I think
24:13I like it a little bit better than the
24:14blue bottoms. But, I I have the blue
24:17bottoms as my number three because I
24:19think the argument which is better is
24:21pretty much personal opinion at this
24:22point. One thing I do feel is pretty
24:24objective, though, is that two, four,
24:27and three are definitely the worst ones
24:29to own with two being slightly better
24:32and then four being slightly better than
24:34three and three clearly being the worst.
24:36You know, again, I would not open any of
24:38these sets, but if I was going to buy
24:40one, I would buy OP-05 and the ones that
24:43I would be least likely to buy are
24:44OP-02, OP-04, and OP-03. That's all I
24:48have for today. I hope you found this
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