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So for further context, there's a 25th anniversary legendary collection that released for the TCG and the 25th anniversary rarity collection which is exclusive to the OCG/Asian territories. This was just slightly tweaked footage from one of my earlier livestreams where I showed my pulls from both these products, such as adding in the better quality videos where the frames don't drop.

The legendary collection basically comes with rereleases of 6 packs from sets very early in yugioh's history and some promo cards guaranteed every time, including one of those as a quarter century secret rare. The cards are reprints which despite being old cards from 2002-2003, they have the current card frame you see in 2023 which I find hampers the nostalgic experience a little.

The rarity collection on the other hand, which also contains reprints, instead contains a lot of cards relevant for present day yugioh such as droplet, imperm, pot of prosperity, triple tactics talent, ash, belle, lava golem, maxx c, ice dragon's prison, etc., and all of these cards can come in almost any rarity (unlike a sealed TCG product), both making any individual card easy enough to pull but making it that much more difficult to pull a specific card in the highest rarity (for example, pulling a quarter century secret Baronne de Fleur wouldn't be so easy as you can instead get a quarter century secret rare of ANY of the other 79 cards in the set). Not to mention some of these cards just look absolutely beautiful.

A further comment on the differences between sealed TCG and sealed OCG product: I prefer the OCG's approach to distributing rarities as it doesn't make certain game pieces needlessly expensive or scarce, whereas the in TCG the high cost of certain singles can price people out of playing certain decks, with Kashtira being one of the worst offenders recently. Seriously, UPSHIFTING A COMMON TO A SECRET RARE THE DECK WANTS 3 OF???

Even with the OCG's rarity distributions, the fact that in the rarity collection ANY card can take up a high rarity slot would make the more desirable cards of that rarity (such as quarter century) that much more expensive (such as highly impactful meta cards like Baronne or Maxx "C"), and still provide an avenue for Konami to financially profit big time from the whales who would just want to show off the flashiest and rarest cards they can get. Seeing what the OCG does with respect to card accessibility, as great as yugioh still is over here in the west, it could just be that much better without corporate greed getting in the way.

But still, both of these products beat magic the gathering's 30th anniversary product by a landslide, mainly due to theirs being $1000, so overpriced that about 99% of the playerbase couldn't even justify buying it and were simply priced out of being able to celebrate a huge milestone in magic's history, and even if they did, those cards would NOT be usable in sanctioned events. And don't even get me started with how Wizards literally didn't want to accept the fact that their idea of selling $1000 proxies was garbage and even DOUBLED DOWN on promoting it, several times mind you.