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[KLonso]

I'll just leave this here:

I... I don't even....

 

[Crash Station]

Any other cards worth a bunch? Still got binders of 1st edition stuff from like 12 years ago.

 

[Giard]

I'll just leave this here:

 

[terrisus]

Hell, stuff like Baseball cards are valued only on their rarity. A T206 Honus Wagner is worth millions and does nothing.

Oh, it does something alright.
It continues to increase in value.

 

[bigkrev]

Most tournaments for TCGs are in some sor of Standard format where the most expensive cards are rarely worth more than like $200. Even a Black Lotus, which can only be used in the legacy format, can be had for around $300. For the most part TCGs, at least at an even slightly competitive level, aren't supposed to be limited by people not having access to expensive and rare cards.

Black Lotus isn't legal in legacy (vintage only), and your paying at a MINIMUM 1100 for an unlimited edition, beat to hell copy of the card.

With the one time exception of Jace, the Mind Sculptur, no tournament legal in print card has ever gone north of 50 dollars after the initial few weeks of hype after release.

 

[sixteen-bit]

that pikachu looks so happy

 

[Mr-Joker]

People still play with Pokemon cards?

Er yes.

What does it do?

Nothing what so ever.

?

Pfft, Jynx isn't racist.

 

[bigkrev]

Any other cards worth a bunch? Still got binders of 1st edition stuff from like 12 years ago.

If I had to guess, anything from before the mid 2000s is probably worth nothing, as Wizards gave the license back to the Pokemon company, and none of the older cards are tournament legal anymore.

 

[Tripon]

If I had to take a guess, the seller was probably one of the guys who paid for it $10,000-20000 and thought he would flip it real quick.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

One of the winners of the original contest which awarded the Illustrator card:

Just beautiful.

The rest are here.

I'd give that kid the prize too, look at that

 

[Aaron Strife]

One of the winners of the original contest which awarded the Illustrator card:

Just beautiful.

The rest are here.

My favorite:

 

[Crash Station]

If I had to guess, anything from before the mid 2000s is probably worth nothing, as Wizards gave the license back to the Pokemon company, and none of the older cards are tournament legal anymore.

Well damn, that sucks :/. Ah well, maybe some of my old Magic cards are worth something.

 

[Rebel Leader]

I'll just leave this here:

is he...holy

 

[Hot Coldman]

not even tournament viable

 

[8bit]

One of the winners of the original contest which awarded the Illustrator card:

Just beautiful.

The rest are here.

'One of the winners of the original contest' is underselling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keita_Takahashi a little.

 

[Hot Coldman]

'One of the winners of the original contest' is underselling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keita_Takahashi a little.

"Mom, I don't think I'm good enough to win this Pokemon card drawing contest!"

"Don't worry, do your best"

 

[HK-47]

I'll just leave this here:

This is NSFW

 

[Espresso]

I'll just leave this here:

What am I looking at?

 

[Batigol]

I'd buy it just to set it on fire

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

I don't exactly remember if the black lotus picture is real or not, I decide to believe the later so I can keep my mind at peace.

 

[Elija2]

Haha, every single offer made was declined. That guy really wants the full 100k.

 

[Gintoki313]

Eeeexactly. Not a 1st edition holographic Charizard? Then I don't give a fuuuuuck

However it is neat that these are still popular, and stuff like this still sells. Pokemon cards are awesome. I remember the one that had the manji on it which everybody flipped out about because they thought it was the swastika

EDIT: Actually I didn't throw it away. My friend told me I gave him some of my Pokemon cards before throwing them away, and some of the holographic cards were some of them. He said he doesn't know where he put it so I guess me throwing them away is just the same lol.

 

[HK-47]

What am I looking at?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Nine

 

[Alcotholic]

I'll just leave this here:

Why???
I would sell that in a heartbeat.

 

[Rpgmonkey]

So what does the card..actually do. Kind of seems like a lame card, to be the rarest card of all time.

Doesn't do anything.

"In the Pokemon Card Game Illustration Contest, the quality of your illustration was recognized. For this we award you with approval as an officially-authorized Pokemon Card illustrator."

Not that useful, but would probably be really cool to a lot of kids.

 

[Hoo-doo]

What am I looking at?

It's the most expensive Magic: The Gathering card. It's worth at least a thousand bucks or so? (I haven't played MTG in years)

They are the kind of cards that you'd try to keep as mint and clean as humanly possible for them to be worth a lot of money.

Bending them like this hurts my collector's soul a little.

 

[Fou-Lu]

What am I looking at?

A card worth thousands being bent in half.

 

[Alcotholic]

It's the most expensive Magic: The Gathering card. It's worth at least a thousand bucks or so? (I haven't played MTG in years)

3k-5k

 

[Rizsparky]

I sold this for 50 euros when I was a teen. I thought I would get around few euros so the next morning when the bids were in I was ecstatic.

How much did it go for?

 

[ZQQLANDER]

http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardsearch.php?singlesearch=Black Lotus

Pennies compared to the Pikachu

 

[Anth0ny]

I sold this for 50 euros when I was a teen. I thought I would get around few euros so the next morning when the bids were in I was ecstatic.

I still want this card so badly

 

[ringlord]

I'll just leave this here:

In the old days of Magic, bending a card like this was done to prove it was an original. Forgeries would crease when folded over like this.

 

[Valentus]

What am I looking at?

Inferior white border black lotus

This is the real deal:

http://www.blackborder.com/cgi-bin/prices/ex_prodshow.cgi?prodid=100

 

[EmCeeGramr]

'One of the winners of the original contest' is underselling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keita_Takahashi a little.

Keita Takahashi is not exactly an impossible name for more than one person to have.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I'm pretty sure DR2K is just kidding you guys

A card that in reality cost like $0.05 to make.

Actually you'd hire tons of artists, print it out, etc.

So no

Or do you think they use generic pre-made assets? They actually have various talented artists drawing different card art for a single mon.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

In the old days of Magic, bending a card like this was done to prove it was an original. Forgeries would crease when folded over like this.

That's what I thought. Couldn't quite remember why I knew that the picture wasn't actually tragic.

 

[Exokell]

black lotus sucks, ancestral recall... now thats a fucking awesome card.

 

[DigitalDevil]

black lotus sucks, ancestral recall... now thats a fucking awesome card.

I had like fifteen of those. Jesus. I had no idea they were worth so much

 

[MrSaturn99]

One of the winners of the original contest which awarded the Illustrator card:

Just beautiful.

The rest are here.

LOL, I remember seeing these in a magazine. Forget which one.

 

[zoukka]

How much did it go for?

I said in the post, 50 euros. Which was big money at that time for me lol.

 

[Cocaloch]

Black Lotus isn't legal in legacy (vintage only), and your paying at a MINIMUM 1100 for an unlimited edition, beat to hell copy of the card.

With the one time exception of Jace, the Mind Sculptur, no tournament legal in print card has ever gone north of 50 dollars after the initial few weeks of hype after release.

I was talking less about Magic and more about Yugioh and Pokemon with the $200 price point. As for the Black Lotus, I guess I was just wrong. I remember a guy that had a white border one that said he got it for $300 bucks, but that was just a lie probably.

 

[ido]

I was talking less about Magic and more about Yugioh and Pokemon with the $200 price point. As for the Black Lotus, I guess I was just wrong. I remember a guy that had a white border one that said he got it for $300 bucks, but that was just a lie probably.

$300 was common over 10 years ago.

I regret having the entire power 9, and about 50 dual lands, among much more... Sold it all for $2k to go to Vegas with friends.

 

[Metallix87]

Yes. People also still play Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh!.

You can't really put Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! in the same category as Magic: The Gathering, though. Magic's been growing nonstop for years, is at an all-time high in terms of players, and Hasbro recently revealed that the player base has increased at a steady rate of ~35% per year for the past three years.

 

[foxuzamaki]

I'll just leave this here:

I dont truly get the context of this post
all I know is im offended at the bending of the card.

 

[nicoga3000]

In the old days of Magic, bending a card like this was done to prove it was an original. Forgeries would crease when folded over like this.

Wow, really? Kiiiind of awesome.

Also, I saw someone buy one of these before. It was at GenCon three years ago. It was the weirdest thing...Seeing someone drop that much money on a single card. It was almost painful.

 

[Atlas157]

I dont truly get the context of this post
all I know is im offended at the bending of the card.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MTG-BETA-BLACK-LOTUS-POWER-OF-NINE-CARD-MINT-NRMT-/221206123401

 

[nicoga3000]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MTG-BETA-BLACK-LOTUS-POWER-OF-NINE-CARD-MINT-NRMT-/221206123401

THIS is a MUCH better representation of the price. eBay is a joke in terms of card pricing.

 

[Atlas157]

THIS is a MUCH better representation of the price. eBay is a joke in terms of card pricing.

Selling it on eBay is a good way to earn a ton of cash.

I'd keep it though.

 

[zerokoolpsx]

I don't think you play with a $20,000 card.

You proxy it of course.

I'll just leave this here:

That guy has money to burn. I would put it in a nice case. So much rage repeatedly staring at that lol.

 

[dezzy8]

Pfft, that's not a Charizard.

lol that's the first card that popped into my head.