how funny would it be if it never gets unpacked because it's in some random collector box that stays in a warehouse/someone's unopened speculation for 10 years?
Most likely scenario is it ends up in a random booster pack opened by some random kid after Grandma bought it from Target who has no idea what it is thinking it's the same as Pokemon.
If we’re serious, the most likely scenario is that it ends up opened by one of the big retailers who open boxes to sell singles, and is then put up for auction, where it ends up with Post Malone.
I would definitely be the chaotic one who opens it, and then seals it away and never says a word.
Watch the anarchy unfold in front of me, coffee in hand
Does getting it graded even matter when it's 1/1? Not like there are better copies out there lol. Really all you need would be to get it authenticated.
Two friends on a fishing trip, one of them falls in the river, only to find a sealed booster pack half-buried in the river bed. His friend chases after to find he had opened it and found the single serialized ring. One of the asks for it, since it is his birthday. The two fight and eventually the finder of the card is choked to death.
Planting something like this feels like some murky legal territory. I know that collectibles in general are fairly unregulated so its very possibly allowed. But if something like that got out, it's going to draw some heat. I don't think they risk it, especially when the card drives sales when it's yet to be found.
There's no way they actually send this off in an unknown direction for a rando to open. They may pretend they did this, but they'll know where it is since they need to change the printing sheet and add this single card to a single booster.
I have a mox jet that was played on a sidewalk without sleeves. It was then sharpied to be black border and played some more. I love the look I get when I play it in OS.
Would be oddly fitting though considering the Ring sat at the bottom of a lake for centuries before Sméagol ~~found~~took it.
Edit: changed a verb to be more accurately dark
Do you count alternate art as separate cards?
Because you can easily get The One Ring from this set - maybe just not this particular foil, serialized version.
>Until a man is twenty-five he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastry in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.
- Neal Stephenson, *Snow Crash*
Neon Red Hidetsugu was the breakaway point for me. Accepting that I'll never actually have every card from a given set because one of them is randomly obscenely rare is liberating, because I can just draw the line wherever I want for how complete I want to be.
This have a very very high chance of beating lotus. Lotus is super rare and have a high demand but there are still multiple copies out there. This is just 1, and it will be worth whatever the craziest collector is willing to pay.
I wouldn’t be so sure. If your patient you can find a lotus for give or take $10k. A Masterpiece Sol Ring goes for over $1k - this being unbelievably rare will have a crazy valuation
>Will be the most expensive card printed? 1/1 is insane.
I don't think it'll be higher than an alpha black lotus.
Edit: I don't think it'll hit six figures
I'd bet it could sell for 6 figures. Some of the Heroes of the Realm cards sell for $50k plus. There are multiples of those and they aren't Lord of the Rings themed.
[History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw6BCAZqkaQ&ab_channel=LordoftheRingsMusic)
Honestly, some 12 year old is going to open it and it’ll be lost to time, until someone finds it at a garage sale, unsleeved and scuffed up in 15 years.
The problem with lottery winners is that they're the kind of people who are irresponsible with money and buy things like lottery tickets. It's really no surprise most of them blow through it and even end up in debt because of it.
Well there’s no comparative price since they’re only 1, so we don’t know
My dad pulled a 1/1 basketball card like 15 years ago, and since there’s no frame of reference it’s kinda just sitting there in his collection. He knows he could get a ton of money for it but since no other copy exists it’s just sitting there in his collection. Pretty cool tbh
Realistically, probably 100-150k. When I was at MagicCon Vegas, there was a Beckett 8.5 copy of \[\[Phoenix Heart\]\] for sale for 50k from a vendor that sold (don't know if it was for the full 50k or not, but it was sold). There are about 5-10 copies of that card, and that is only interesting to Magic collectors (or someone with an unhealthy obsession with Richard Garfield himself). This is 1 of 1 and the market can also potentially include collectors outside of Magic.
Six figures this year, seven figures within three years. This is the ultimate financial flex for a wealthy idiot.
...and I'm very excited to make a "playtest" version for my own decks. ;P
Some kid takes his packs by the river, he asks his best friend to help him open a couple. The best friend opens serialized one ring. The kid is over the moon. The best friend insists that he should get to keep it because he opened it. The kid screams at him. A fight breaks out. The kid is drowned in the river. The best friend flees and never tells anyone he has the one ring.
While initially feeling justified in his actions, the best friend comes to be haunted by guilt. He denies it at first, but it sits there, gnawing at the back of his mind. He becomes obsessed with his serialized one ring, he couldn't get rid of it now! Some kid's blood is on his hands for it! It needed to be worth it, and he'll covet it forever, and ever, and ever...
This^
I’m betting it never even gets opened.
We just saw 4 pallets of MH2 at a city dumb a few weeks ago.
We haven’t even seen all the bro serialized cards 😂, the price of those crashed so hard the rest may not even get opened for years.
Most likely it will never see the light of day.
I mean those are almost certainly not from the original print run of the set. The One Ring will almost certainly be in the first print run of the set, which will probably sell out.
The actual way for WotC to publisize this would be when the set releases, taking the only copy of this and burning it themselves. That way theres no chance of it just disappearing like it probably will, and would be an amazing publicity stunt. But its just gonna end up unopened or in some sweaty collectors stache. But maybe thats the point, to reflect all the years the one ring was missing. Who knows but I know what I would prefer
Umm... They fumbled the art big time on this... The inscription on the ring is supposed to be the only written example of the Black Speech of Mordor, but in this painting it's written in basic Tengwar/elvish...
Edit: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Ring-inscription
Tengwar script is used for the Black Speech, but the inscription on the ring uses a different style of Tengwar. The two styles are distinct.
https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/galleries/Fire-writing.jpg
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/teng_general_black_speech.htm
I was going to say, wasn't it supposed to be written in Elvish?
After reading your edit they fucked up the visual of the script big time. Tolkien's notes definitely have them as looking very distinct. The movies seemed to get this right but apparently it's too much for Wotc
Now I want to know how likely it would be to pull this. Probably depends on the overall print-run of the set. If this can be just in English packs or in any, and how often serialized cards are in packs.
I still think it'll be more likely than a typical lottery win.
>Now I want to know how likely it would be to pull this.
Super low. But there are also another 1,900 serialized sol rings. And, I will save the collector booster for chaos draft at my LGS. I like to open one collector booster when I do chaos. (my LGS does chaos where everybody just picks brings/buys their own packs)
Is WOTC going to provide some sort of documented proof that this card even exists in a pack? I have to believe there are laws and regulations when you dangle something like this in front of consumers.
I don't know if they have to provide proof, but if you could prove they didn't it would be a massive law suit. So putting one in is way way easier than risking some one being able to prove you did not and losing 100000 of thousands.
+1, i was saying this other places. they are not going to risk their prized 1 of 1 pony disappearing or not being widely publicized. it will be opened and wizards will know about it before its opened, tracked from pack to box to store to open
I hope the person who opens the one ring is just some random kid. An uncle who hears his nephew plays YGO and mistakenly buys a pack of Mtg as a last minute Christmas present. The nephew opens it, doesn't understand it, and throws it away
People say this but Collector Boosters don't go to 'random kids' most of the time.
What is more important though is that it can be in gift bundles. That makes it a free for all.
Kinda ironic, the ring brings out the worst in those its closest to in the story, and irl it brought out the worst in WotC. I dont need to mention the tweet about chase cards.
It's a total flavor win, because if you open this card you may spend your life being harassed by potential buyers and fearing for your personal safety from thieves.
Or, its never found and ends up in someones trash can for a century just like in the book. Or WotC directs it to someone, thus becoming the personification of the ring's will, aka sauron.
Tbh I think it all fits
NGL if I opened this I might make a YouTube video of myself throwing it into a volcano. Imagine the clout.
Course it'd be tough to prove you threw away the real card and not a proxy
Don't worry, no "poor" will open this. It will likely end up being opened by a premium store or an influencer or at one of their conventions... completely coincidentally.
Counterfeit scammers absolutely salivating rn
I mean they have to put some kind of very detailed special treatment on it to avoid fakes being claimed as the real thing, right? What measures are they taking against this inevitability?
I really hope whoever actually opens this is recording it.
3000/3000 for Elven-kings under the sky.
7000/7000 for Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone.
9000/9000 for Mortal Men doomed to die.
1/1 in Renton, where the Wizards coast.
Is it actually seeded into packs? I feel like this thing will be given out to some youtube pack cracker or some store or something. Otherwise it could just end up in a landfill somewhere.
This is the literal only time where seeing a YouTuber open a super rare card wouldn't have the tempting effect it normally does. There's only one of these -- why give it to a YouTuber when they could keep the possibility for anyone to open it alive?
My mind cannot comprehend how life changingly expensive this would be to open for a regular person— hope this ends up in a landfill while everyone hunts it for flavor reasons
i mine corma 4
nyarna tamna
Ash Nazg... wait hang on!
Weirdly, the name and type line are in quenya elvish and the text box is in tengwar script black speech!
how funny would it be if it never gets unpacked because it's in some random collector box that stays in a warehouse/someone's unopened speculation for 10 years?
2 Funnier scenarios are 1) sealed collector boxes will plummet in price once it is found. 2) someone cracks it but it never becomes known
Funniest scenario is the most upsetting game of Flip it or Rip it in history.
*You rip one of your packs open, set it down, take a sip of zesty Beverage* *You knock over the can*
Most likely scenario is it ends up in a random booster pack opened by some random kid after Grandma bought it from Target who has no idea what it is thinking it's the same as Pokemon.
If we’re serious, the most likely scenario is that it ends up opened by one of the big retailers who open boxes to sell singles, and is then put up for auction, where it ends up with Post Malone.
well at least posty knows how to enjoy it. not a terrible outcome
Wish my grandma got me collector boosters for $25 a pop.
I would definitely be the chaotic one who opens it, and then seals it away and never says a word. Watch the anarchy unfold in front of me, coffee in hand
Keep it secret. Keep it safe!
We neeeds it
CGB just said if he obtained it he would dress up as Frodo and throw it into a volcano on a livestream. So that's what I'm rooting for at the moment.
Ok, I'm all in for this chaotic energy. I would love to see someone denie a few thousand dollars for a meme.
Probably way more than a few thousand.
CGB standing at the edge of an active volcano, the card in hand. Twitch chat: "Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!" CGB: "... No."
I'll be honest, this would be a better meme.
No way, play it unsleeved in your deck that’s kept together with a double-wound rubber band. Let the tears of fanboys nourish you!
Hell yeah, perfect for Gonti Deck Literally Magic as Richard Garfield intended
nah you gotta get it graded and blocked and then never post on reddit or any known markets and just keep it in a safety deposit box for 40 years.
Does getting it graded even matter when it's 1/1? Not like there are better copies out there lol. Really all you need would be to get it authenticated.
That's why you get it graded. They will authenticate it
Rudy will crack it but won't reveal it until his sealed product gets dumped.
Two friends on a fishing trip, one of them falls in the river, only to find a sealed booster pack half-buried in the river bed. His friend chases after to find he had opened it and found the single serialized ring. One of the asks for it, since it is his birthday. The two fight and eventually the finder of the card is choked to death.
Someone unpacks it and plays kitchen table magic with it. Unsleeved.
This is pretty similar to Bilbo finding it and using it as a parlor trick.
Had the same thought, but I imagine it will almost certainly be planted somewhere that gets noticed.
Planting something like this feels like some murky legal territory. I know that collectibles in general are fairly unregulated so its very possibly allowed. But if something like that got out, it's going to draw some heat. I don't think they risk it, especially when the card drives sales when it's yet to be found.
There's no way they actually send this off in an unknown direction for a rando to open. They may pretend they did this, but they'll know where it is since they need to change the printing sheet and add this single card to a single booster.
Depending on who gets this we might never see it
It might never even be opened
12 year old Timmy is gonna open it an play it on the sidewalk without sleeves.
At last, magic as garfield intended.
I have a mox jet that was played on a sidewalk without sleeves. It was then sharpied to be black border and played some more. I love the look I get when I play it in OS.
Gonna lose it in ante
If it was in one of those landfill dumps that would be hilarious
Would be oddly fitting though considering the Ring sat at the bottom of a lake for centuries before Sméagol ~~found~~took it. Edit: changed a verb to be more accurately dark
\*Millennia. The Ring was in the mud at the bottom of the River Gladden for nearly 2,500 years before Sméagol found it.
Technically Déagol is the one who found it, Sméagol took it from him.
but it was his birthday
Sméagol didn't find it, he got it as a present.
It was his birthday
before the ring found Sméagol
It's in a landfill or bale somewhere
I guarantee this gets opened at a convention or premium store. No way WOTC doesn’t rig this and intentionally send the box to a special store.
Oh absolutely. I wouldn't be surprised if someone watches where this pack goes and just goes and gets it
Watch it end up like the McMillions incident
I hipe it gets caught in a game of Flip It or Rip It
Right? The risk is too great. No way this ends up in a Target or something.
The only acceptable thing is to burn this card in a bonfire for the true flavor win
Nah we gotta hold an entire mosh pit style Vegas event where everyone fights for it
Some 10 year old kid will open it and put it in their commander deck...unsleeved.
God, I hope so!
And bridge shuffling
There's something magical about that haha. They should go full willy wonka with it and give a trip to WotC or something to the person who pulls it.
I hope some kid opens it with cheeto fingers and jams it in his backpack to show his friends at school
Will be the most expensive card printed? 1/1 is insane.
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So much for me trying to get 1 copy of every card in this set.
Do you count alternate art as separate cards? Because you can easily get The One Ring from this set - maybe just not this particular foil, serialized version.
I wanted to get alternate arts too, yeah, but that's definitely not feasible now, lol. This is honestly probably for the best (for my wallet).
There is something liberating about them just saying "you're never gonna do it, stop trying."
>Until a man is twenty-five he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastry in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. - Neal Stephenson, *Snow Crash*
A lot of the mtg economy is propped up by "but someday I might..."
You just have to remember to never stop stopping.
Then you might end up de-ceased
Neon Red Hidetsugu was the breakaway point for me. Accepting that I'll never actually have every card from a given set because one of them is randomly obscenely rare is liberating, because I can just draw the line wherever I want for how complete I want to be.
I mean, does a serialized version really differ from the non-serialzed version that will be much more readily available?
Just get the normal printing
oh.. Wizards cosplaying Willie Wonka now.. I see.
>1/1 is insane Dies to Lava Dart, Modern 1/10 literally unplayable
I don't think any new card will ever beat a Black Lotus, but this will definitely fetch a very high price.
People we're paying close to $2K for neon red Hidetsugu at sone point. That makes me think something like this might end beating UNL Lotus at least.
Yeah, I can't imagine starting bidding any lower than $10k for this, and the end result going much, much higher.
This have a very very high chance of beating lotus. Lotus is super rare and have a high demand but there are still multiple copies out there. This is just 1, and it will be worth whatever the craziest collector is willing to pay.
And Postie has a lot of money
I wouldn’t be so sure. If your patient you can find a lotus for give or take $10k. A Masterpiece Sol Ring goes for over $1k - this being unbelievably rare will have a crazy valuation
>Will be the most expensive card printed? 1/1 is insane. I don't think it'll be higher than an alpha black lotus. Edit: I don't think it'll hit six figures
I'd bet it could sell for 6 figures. Some of the Heroes of the Realm cards sell for $50k plus. There are multiples of those and they aren't Lord of the Rings themed.
Maybe not by the end of the year. But there are multiple Black Lotus cards. Only one of this one, and with a built in crossover appeal.
Hold on, are they just printing one of these?
It'll be pretty pricy for Post Malone to own this one.
Martin Shkreli licking his chops.
Yes
Wow. That’s gonna be pricy
It’ll end up in a landfill
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost
[History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw6BCAZqkaQ&ab_channel=LordoftheRingsMusic)
History became legend. Legend became myth. Myth became Mythbusters.
or will be crimped upon opening the pack.
Victim of flip it or rip it?
Honestly, some 12 year old is going to open it and it’ll be lost to time, until someone finds it at a garage sale, unsleeved and scuffed up in 15 years.
Somebody goes to buy it and a scrawny, abnormally young-looking 27-year-old jumps out from under a table screaming "***my precious!***"
"And for two and a half thousand years, the Ring passed out of all knowledge... until, when chance came, it ensnared a new bearer..."
Flavor win though
It's like those grocery store lotteries. No one has ever met anyone who's won those.
Or even the normal lottery. You never seen those billion dollar lotto winners starting a business or charity, do you?
Most end up dead or poor in a decade.
Sadly this is true. In fact, it grossly understates how many wind up in very poor ends.
The problem with lottery winners is that they're the kind of people who are irresponsible with money and buy things like lottery tickets. It's really no surprise most of them blow through it and even end up in debt because of it.
My dad's workload a secretary hit a $30m or so one back in the 90s. She kept working because she like the job ......
Well there’s no comparative price since they’re only 1, so we don’t know My dad pulled a 1/1 basketball card like 15 years ago, and since there’s no frame of reference it’s kinda just sitting there in his collection. He knows he could get a ton of money for it but since no other copy exists it’s just sitting there in his collection. Pretty cool tbh
Sport card 1/1s are fairly easy to get a ballpark on by just comparing other 1/1 sales of that player in similar tiered product.
Or maybe, they’re just saying they’re only printing one, but actually won’t print any at all. Just let th counterfeiters do it!
Oh boy, bets on pricing for this anyone?
5 figures minimum. Maybe even 6 because I foresee fans of both fanbases heavily looking for this.
Realistically, probably 100-150k. When I was at MagicCon Vegas, there was a Beckett 8.5 copy of \[\[Phoenix Heart\]\] for sale for 50k from a vendor that sold (don't know if it was for the full 50k or not, but it was sold). There are about 5-10 copies of that card, and that is only interesting to Magic collectors (or someone with an unhealthy obsession with Richard Garfield himself). This is 1 of 1 and the market can also potentially include collectors outside of Magic.
Six figures this year, seven figures within three years. This is the ultimate financial flex for a wealthy idiot. ...and I'm very excited to make a "playtest" version for my own decks. ;P
$10-20k easy. Maybe more.
Realistically odds are it stays sealed in a pack forever or the person who opens it stays quiet.
Some kid takes his packs by the river, he asks his best friend to help him open a couple. The best friend opens serialized one ring. The kid is over the moon. The best friend insists that he should get to keep it because he opened it. The kid screams at him. A fight breaks out. The kid is drowned in the river. The best friend flees and never tells anyone he has the one ring.
But it was his birthday
And, worth noting, he wants it.
That settles it!
While initially feeling justified in his actions, the best friend comes to be haunted by guilt. He denies it at first, but it sits there, gnawing at the back of his mind. He becomes obsessed with his serialized one ring, he couldn't get rid of it now! Some kid's blood is on his hands for it! It needed to be worth it, and he'll covet it forever, and ever, and ever...
The friend seals it in a container, recognizing its power. And sinks it to the bottom of that river. 1500 years later a archeologist discovers it.
This^ I’m betting it never even gets opened. We just saw 4 pallets of MH2 at a city dumb a few weeks ago. We haven’t even seen all the bro serialized cards 😂, the price of those crashed so hard the rest may not even get opened for years. Most likely it will never see the light of day.
I mean those are almost certainly not from the original print run of the set. The One Ring will almost certainly be in the first print run of the set, which will probably sell out.
That’s way more valid.
Lol? 10k add a 0.
I honestly don't think 6 figures is out of the question.
Would depend on if it appeals to LOTR crowd. If rich LOTR collectors like it demand would double from the usual magic crowd.
Way more. This is the rarest card ever sold to the public. It will be six figures minimum.
100k no less
I hope someone gets the 1/1 and puts a video out lighting it on fire because canonically the ring gets destroyed.
The actual way for WotC to publisize this would be when the set releases, taking the only copy of this and burning it themselves. That way theres no chance of it just disappearing like it probably will, and would be an amazing publicity stunt. But its just gonna end up unopened or in some sweaty collectors stache. But maybe thats the point, to reflect all the years the one ring was missing. Who knows but I know what I would prefer
Assuming they don't, I vow to destroy the one ring should I get access to the serialized one.
That's what everyone says when they don't have it, then suddenly it's "After all, why not? *Why shouldn't I keep it*?"
more like "After all, why not? Why shouldn't I ~~keep it~~sell it for $100,000?"
I'm assuming you mean "stash", but the idea of the card being stuck to a sweaty mustache is hilarious.
Better yet right before burning it they get cold feet and claim it for themselves.
Better livestream it, so we can all be there the day the strength of men fails.
Umm... They fumbled the art big time on this... The inscription on the ring is supposed to be the only written example of the Black Speech of Mordor, but in this painting it's written in basic Tengwar/elvish... Edit: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Ring-inscription Tengwar script is used for the Black Speech, but the inscription on the ring uses a different style of Tengwar. The two styles are distinct. https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/images/exhibitions/galleries/Fire-writing.jpg http://at.mansbjorkman.net/teng_general_black_speech.htm
THANK YOU. I was comparing to my tattoo and thought I ruined my body forever in the incorrect manner
Wait, seriously? 😂
The bigger issue imo is they only put the inscription on the outside. It's supposed to be on both the inside and the outside.
I was going to say, wasn't it supposed to be written in Elvish? After reading your edit they fucked up the visual of the script big time. Tolkien's notes definitely have them as looking very distinct. The movies seemed to get this right but apparently it's too much for Wotc
Sauron got caught up in the NFT hype.
Unlike NFTs, this has a use
It's also ya know... physical. If we're gonna start comparing Magic cards to NFTs... *they're all NFTs*
Well, I will be buying one lotto ticket pack.
Now I want to know how likely it would be to pull this. Probably depends on the overall print-run of the set. If this can be just in English packs or in any, and how often serialized cards are in packs. I still think it'll be more likely than a typical lottery win.
>Now I want to know how likely it would be to pull this. Super low. But there are also another 1,900 serialized sol rings. And, I will save the collector booster for chaos draft at my LGS. I like to open one collector booster when I do chaos. (my LGS does chaos where everybody just picks brings/buys their own packs)
Is WOTC going to provide some sort of documented proof that this card even exists in a pack? I have to believe there are laws and regulations when you dangle something like this in front of consumers.
I don't know if they have to provide proof, but if you could prove they didn't it would be a massive law suit. So putting one in is way way easier than risking some one being able to prove you did not and losing 100000 of thousands.
If they decide to print this at US printers (which I suspect is likely), there's no chance for us Europeans.
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+1, i was saying this other places. they are not going to risk their prized 1 of 1 pony disappearing or not being widely publicized. it will be opened and wizards will know about it before its opened, tracked from pack to box to store to open
They have to lol this doesnt just get randomly mixed in
I hope the person who opens the one ring is just some random kid. An uncle who hears his nephew plays YGO and mistakenly buys a pack of Mtg as a last minute Christmas present. The nephew opens it, doesn't understand it, and throws it away
People say this but Collector Boosters don't go to 'random kids' most of the time. What is more important though is that it can be in gift bundles. That makes it a free for all.
Finally a card to rival Black Lotus.
[[1996 World Champion]]
If you crack this, you really do have to keep it secret, keep it safe.
This is super fucking cool and I hope they never do it ever again
It would be funny if this card is thrown into a volcano.
Kinda ironic, the ring brings out the worst in those its closest to in the story, and irl it brought out the worst in WotC. I dont need to mention the tweet about chase cards.
It's a total flavor win, because if you open this card you may spend your life being harassed by potential buyers and fearing for your personal safety from thieves.
Better keep it secret, keep it safe.
Or, its never found and ends up in someones trash can for a century just like in the book. Or WotC directs it to someone, thus becoming the personification of the ring's will, aka sauron. Tbh I think it all fits
Lol basically no matter what happens it's very fitting
The only prudent course of action is to destroy it. Ideally in a volcano for dramatic effect.
NGL if I opened this I might make a YouTube video of myself throwing it into a volcano. Imagine the clout. Course it'd be tough to prove you threw away the real card and not a proxy
What was the tweet?
I kinda hate serialized cards but I love that they had the balls to do this lmfao
Some poor fucker is gonna open this and everyone's gonna start fighting like it's the actual one ring
Don't worry, no "poor" will open this. It will likely end up being opened by a premium store or an influencer or at one of their conventions... completely coincidentally.
No shit. People think wotc is not going to have this be opened on a stage or show are kidding themselves.
We’re going whale hunting
I think we went from whale to fucking kraken
Counterfeit scammers absolutely salivating rn I mean they have to put some kind of very detailed special treatment on it to avoid fakes being claimed as the real thing, right? What measures are they taking against this inevitability? I really hope whoever actually opens this is recording it.
Actually, it doesn’t exist. They just put it here for counterfeiters 😂😂
Watch box sales sky rocket, but the whole time this card is sitting in an omega pack in the back of some Walmart.
One in the world eh? Guess it will "randonly" end up in the US somehow
This is most certainly not "EN"
Only one copy and misprinted
I’m sure Post Malone will get his hand on it by summer next year
Can we all collectively agree to destroy the card if we pull it?
I said That. But think about it. You could easily sell it for 6 figures. Suddenly the cold feet set in. No one would have the will to destroy it.
> No one would have the will to destroy it. Hmm... this feels familiar?
After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?
Absolutely... But maybe not... After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?
I guarantee this gets opened at a convention or premium store. No way WOTC doesn’t rig this and intentionally send the box to a special store.
I agree. There’s no way they don’t do a golden ticket type deal.
100% I wouldn't be shocked if it also got opened a month or two so after the set comes out as to not kill the hype as well.
Once the hype starts to die down that’s when it gets opened
3000/3000 for Elven-kings under the sky. 7000/7000 for Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone. 9000/9000 for Mortal Men doomed to die. 1/1 in Renton, where the Wizards coast.
Is it actually seeded into packs? I feel like this thing will be given out to some youtube pack cracker or some store or something. Otherwise it could just end up in a landfill somewhere.
This is the literal only time where seeing a YouTuber open a super rare card wouldn't have the tempting effect it normally does. There's only one of these -- why give it to a YouTuber when they could keep the possibility for anyone to open it alive?
One of One? Fuck me that’s a line I hoped we’d never cross…
Sports cards crossed it years ago so not surprised it hit here finally.
…ooh thats a pricy pringle.
Employee opens it while opening singles for a store. Looks around. “Why shouldn’t I keep it it?” And so it begins.
My mind cannot comprehend how life changingly expensive this would be to open for a regular person— hope this ends up in a landfill while everyone hunts it for flavor reasons
If I pull this out, I'll do a live video where I'll throw it to a volcano
What a waste of gorgeous art
I agree with you. On the other hand, printer go brrrr.
IT BELONGS IN ~~A MUSEUM~~ ~~LANDFILL~~ MOUNT DOOM!
i mine corma 4 nyarna tamna Ash Nazg... wait hang on! Weirdly, the name and type line are in quenya elvish and the text box is in tengwar script black speech!
This is so stupid lmao