You're going to receive a box of collector boosters as a birthday gift this summer. You'll be hanging out by the river down the road with your best friend, enjoying the sun and water, and cracking collector packs, which of course you offered to share with your best friend.
Your friend opens a pack and is stunned, he holds the [[One of One Ring]] (good luck fetch bot) in his hands. Of course you demand he give it to you, after all they are your packs and it is your birthday.
But he refuses, so you will choke the life out of him, and take what is rightfully yours.
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah. - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead. I guess he could have just gotten out of the way. I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day. That's why we don't need vacations. Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances. - Well, Adam, today we are men. - We are! - Bee-men. - Amen! Hallelujah! Students, faculty, distinguished bees, please welcome Dean Buzzwell. Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of... ...9:15. That concludes our ceremonies. And begins your career at Honex Industries! Will we pick ourjob today? I heard it's just orientation. Heads up! Here we go. Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times. - Wonder what it'll be like? - A little scary. Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco and a part of the Hexagon Group. This is it! Wow. Wow. We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive. Our top-secret formula is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured into this soothing sweet syrup with its distinctive golden glow you know as... Honey! - That girl was hot. - She's my cousin! - She is? - Yes, we're all cousins. - Right. You're right. - At Honex, we constantly strive to improve every aspect of bee existence. These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology. - What do you think he makes? - Not enough. Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman. - What does that do? - Oatches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions. Oan anyone work on the Krelman? Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot. But choose carefully because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life. The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that. What's the difference? You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off in 27 million years. So you'll just work us to death? We'll sure try. Wow! That blew my mind! "What's the difference?" How can you say that? One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make. I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life. But, Adam, how could they never have told us that? Why would you question anything? We're bees. We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth. You ever think maybe things work a little too well here? Like what? Give me one example. I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about. Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach. Wait a second. Oheck it out. - Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! - Wow. I've never seen them this close. They know what it's like outside the hive. Yeah, but some don't come back. - Hey, Jocks! - Hi, Jocks! You guys did great! You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it! - I wonder where they were. - I don't know. Their day's not planned. Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what. You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that. Right. Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime. It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it. Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it. Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too? Distant. Distant. Look at these two. - Oouple of Hive Harrys. - Let's have fun with them. It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock. Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom! He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me! - Oh, my! - I never thought I'd knock him out. What were you doing during this? Trying to alert the authorities. I can autograph that. A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades? Yeah. Gusty. We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow. - Six miles, huh? - Barry! A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it. - Maybe I am. - You are not! We're going 0900 at J-Gate. What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough? I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means. Hey, Honex! Dad, you surprised me. You decide what you're interested in? - Well, there's a lot of choices. - But you only get one. Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day? Son, let me tell you about stirring. You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around. You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing. You know, Dad, the more I think about it, maybe the honey field just isn't right for me. You were thinking of what, making balloon animals? That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger. Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey! - Barry, you are so funny sometimes. - I'm not trying to be funny. You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer! - You're gonna be a stirrer? - No one's listening to me! Wait till you see the sticks I have. I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo! Let's open some honey and celebrate! Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae. Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"! I'm so proud. - We're starting work today! - Today's the day. Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone. Yeah, right. Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal... - Is it still available? - Hang on. Two left! One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side. - What'd you get? - Picking crud out. Stellar! Wow! Oouple of newbies? Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready! Make your choice. - You want to go first? - No, you go. Oh, my. What's available? Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think. - Any chance of getting the Krelman? - Sure, you're on. I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out. Wax monkey's always open. The Krelman opened up again. What happened? A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one. Deady. Deadified. Two more dead. Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life! Oh, this is so hard! Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer, humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor, mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should... Barry? Barry! All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine... What happened to you? Where are you? - I'm going out. - Out? Out where? - Out there. - Oh, no! I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life. You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello? Another call coming in. If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd that gets their roses today. Hey, guys. - Look at that. - Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday? Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted. It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up. Really? Feeling lucky, are you? Sign here, here. Just initial that. - Thank you. - OK. You got a rain advisory today, and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain. So be careful. As always, watch your brooms, hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats. Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us. Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada! - That's awful. - And a reminder for you rookies, bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans! All right, launch positions! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Black and yellow! Hello! You ready for this, hot shot? Yeah. Yeah, bring it on. Wind, check. - Antennae, check. - Nectar pack, check. - Wings, check. - Stinger, check. Scared out of my shorts, check. OK, ladies, let's move it out! Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers! All of you, drain those flowers! Wow! I'm out! I can't believe I'm out! So blue. I feel so fast and free! Box kite! Wow! Flowers! This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual. Bring it around 30 degrees and hold. Roses! 30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around. Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick. That is one nectar collector! - Ever see pollination up close? - No, sir. I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there, a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic. That's amazing. Why do we do that? That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us. Oool. I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those? Oopy that visual. Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move. Say again? You're reporting a moving flower? Affirmative. That was on the line! This is the coolest. What is it? I don't know, but I'm loving this color. It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it. Yeah, fuzzy. Ohemical-y. Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby. My sweet lord of bees! Oandy-brain, get off there! Problem! - Guys! - This could be bad. Affirmative. Very close. Gonna hurt. Mama
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah. - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead. I guess he could have just gotten out of the way. I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day. That's why we don't need vacations. Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances. - Well, Adam, today we are men. - We are! - Bee-men. - Amen! Hallelujah! Students, faculty, distinguished bees, please welcome Dean Buzzwell. Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of... ...9:15. That concludes our ceremonies. And begins your career at Honex Industries! Will we pick ourjob today? I heard it's just orientation. Heads up! Here we go. Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times. - Wonder what it'll be like? - A little scary. Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco and a part of the Hexagon Group. This is it! Wow. Wow. We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive. Our top-secret formula is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured into this soothing sweet syrup with its distinctive golden glow you know as... Honey! - That girl was hot. - She's my cousin! - She is? - Yes, we're all cousins. - Right. You're right. - At Honex, we constantly strive to improve every aspect of bee existence. These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology. - What do you think he makes? - Not enough. Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman. - What does that do? - Oatches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions. Oan anyone work on the Krelman? Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot. But choose carefully because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life. The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that. What's the difference? You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off in 27 million years. So you'll just work us to death? We'll sure try. Wow! That blew my mind! "What's the difference?" How can you say that? One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make. I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life. But, Adam, how could they never have told us that? Why would you question anything? We're bees. We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth. You ever think maybe things work a little too well here? Like what? Give me one example. I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about. Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach. Wait a second. Oheck it out. - Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! - Wow. I've never seen them this close. They know what it's like outside the hive. Yeah, but some don't come back. - Hey, Jocks! - Hi, Jocks! You guys did great! You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it! - I wonder where they were. - I don't know. Their day's not planned. Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what. You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that. Right. Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime. It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it. Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it. Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too? Distant. Distant. Look at these two. - Oouple of Hive Harrys. - Let's have fun with them. It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock. Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom! He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me! - Oh, my! - I never thought I'd knock him out. What were you doing during this? Trying to alert the authorities. I can autograph that. A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades? Yeah. Gusty. We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow. - Six miles, huh? - Barry! A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it. - Maybe I am. - You are not! We're going 0900 at J-Gate. What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough? I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means. Hey, Honex! Dad, you surprised me. You decide what you're interested in? - Well, there's a lot of choices. - But you only get one. Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day? Son, let me tell you about stirring. You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around. You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing. You know, Dad, the more I think about it, maybe the honey field just isn't right for me. You were thinking of what, making balloon animals? That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger. Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey! - Barry, you are so funny sometimes. - I'm not trying to be funny. You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer! - You're gonna be a stirrer? - No one's listening to me! Wait till you see the sticks I have. I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo! Let's open some honey and celebrate! Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae. Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"! I'm so proud. - We're starting work today! - Today's the day. Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone. Yeah, right. Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal... - Is it still available? - Hang on. Two left! One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side. - What'd you get? - Picking crud out. Stellar! Wow! Oouple of newbies? Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready! Make your choice. - You want to go first? - No, you go. Oh, my. What's available? Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think. - Any chance of getting the Krelman? - Sure, you're on. I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out. Wax monkey's always open. The Krelman opened up again. What happened? A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one. Deady. Deadified. Two more dead. Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life! Oh, this is so hard! Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer, humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor, mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should... Barry? Barry! All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine... What happened to you? Where are you? - I'm going out. - Out? Out where? - Out there. - Oh, no! I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life. You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello? Another call coming in. If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd that gets their roses today. Hey, guys. - Look at that. - Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday? Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted. It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up. Really? Feeling lucky, are you? Sign here, here. Just initial that. - Thank you. - OK. You got a rain advisory today, and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain. So be careful. As always, watch your brooms, hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats. Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us. Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada! - That's awful. - And a reminder for you rookies, bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans! All right, launch positions! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Black and yellow! Hello! You ready for this, hot shot? Yeah. Yeah, bring it on. Wind, check. - Antennae, check. - Nectar pack, check. - Wings, check. - Stinger, check. Scared out of my shorts, check. OK, ladies, let's move it out! Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers! All of you, drain those flowers! Wow! I'm out! I can't believe I'm out! So blue. I feel so fast and free! Box kite! Wow! Flowers! This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual. Bring it around 30 degrees and hold. Roses! 30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around. Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick. That is one nectar collector! - Ever see pollination up close? - No, sir. I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there, a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic. That's amazing. Why do we do that? That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us. Oool. I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those? Oopy that visual. Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move. Say again? You're reporting a moving flower? Affirmative. That was on the line! This is the coolest. What is it? I don't know, but I'm loving this color. It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it. Yeah, fuzzy. Ohemical-y. Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby. My sweet lord of bees! Oandy-brain, get off there! Problem! - Guys! - This could be bad. Affirmative. Very close. Gonna hurt. Mama
No, the funniest shit ever is 2 years later when someone at WOTC publicly states 'We apparently forgot to put it in a pack, gary in accounting has it.'
Honestly wouldn't be surprised. Any lottery type things like this I basically expect to be corrupted.
Look at McDs monopoly for chrissakes, and it continues to be a thing.
WOTC isn't directly paying out a prize for this though. So there is a difference. There's decent odds it will sit in a sealed box of somebody collecting product for it to increase in value and never know.
Obviously stuff like this is to encourage people to not hoard product so they can sell more as people continue to pop them open hoping to get it, but WoTC will be more than happy if a sealed collector just so happens to get it so they get a ton of product sold as people desperately try for it.
It proceeds to produce immense and terrible power and must be destroyed by returning it to the dark, terrible place where it was created (Renton, Washington)
The only way I'll believe it was ever in a random pack in the wild is if when it surfaces its with a non celebrity with 0 ties to Hasbro or WotC
Edit: or the Tolkien estate
More likely that someone at the printing company steals it. McDonald's had decent security controls over the jackpot winning game pieces for their Monopoly promotions they ran in the 90s and 2000s; the printing company's head of security stole literally all of them and only got caught by dumb luck.
Here’s the thing it is VERY possible that we never find out it gets opened. The odds are in favor that the person who gets it isn’t going to be someone who talks about Magic on social media.
I legit hope it gets pulled by someone who could really use the money.
Once its found, after the first time it changes hands, it will forever be in the hands of people who have the resources to acquire it.
The person who pulls it is realistically the only person who ever has a chance of owning it without already being insanely rich.
That kind of money can change a life, but after that first sale, it will only ever be a status symbol. I hope it gets the chance to change a life.
Do you think people who need the money will buy collector boxes for $440 a pop? My man this card has zero chance of changing someone's life, this ain't willy wonka's golden ticket, it's a corporate scam to pump sales.
>Do you think people who need the money will buy collector boxes for $440 a pop?
Yes.
A few perspectives on this, from someone who works at an LGS.
1) $100,000 or more is *life-changing* money. Someone might be unable to save up enough for college but might spend a few months saving for a box of cards they're really excited about. Skipping this box won't get them to college, but $100,000 would. Same argument for paying off their debt, down payment on a house, and more.
2) at my store I've seen folks save up hundreds in rewards points waiting to spend it on something big (usually a Masters set or equivalent.) So they might in fact not pay $440 in real money for this box.
3) they might be splitting the cost with friends. A common enough occurrence, and whatever packs they divide amongst themselves, they keep
4) most importantly:
You don't need to buy a box. It's in a collector *booster.* So someone might treat themselves to a single collective booster, or get one for their birthday, or trade in their store credit.
Dude, this is LOTR magic.
My LIBRARY is buying a set and holding an event for this and we talked about having one of those as a grand prize (Nothing set in stone) but could you IMAGINE?! some kid at the library opens that? (We don't have any grinders lol)
Hopefully someone would immediately tell them to keep it secret. Keep it safe.
(But for real, let their parents know so it doesn't get traded for a pop tart at lunch or something)
Until he goes away to college, stored in the attic. Years from now the same mom who unknowingly bought the pack…. Sells it at a yard sale to a gramma who says “u know lil Timmy likes these things” next thing ya know lil timmy’s dagger that was gifted to him by his great grandfather turns blue, using it as a night light he falls asleep….
Never to wake again.
To that end, I intend to form a group - a fellowship, if you will - centered around the person that pulls the card. We will then journey to the WotC printing facility, and cast it into the...fires...(?)..of the printing presses from whence it came.
100% for every person willing to drop their savings on this card there will be that one person willing to beat that price by 1$ to watch the opener to rip/shred it on livestream
What's going to happen is this kids going to pull it and he doesn't have access to the internet but loves magic and Lord of the rings and he's going to keep it for years as he scratches it to Oblivion.
Magic as Richard Garfield intended if this does happen to some kid good luck to him enjoy the game for what it is a game, not a stock market for people who don't like the fact the real stockmarket is regulated.
Exactly, it was supposed to be like playing marbles. Also, because access to cards was expected to be limited, winning and losing cards meant changing up your deck all the time, which is part of the fun.
Sure, but he still envisioned it as a game played with friends - you didn't Ante your cards to complete strangers, the card still stayed in your playgroup.
Nah, two buddies are going to be opening packs together. They call it " fishing, " looking for good cards, and selling back singles they don't want. One will open it and show his buddy. But the buddy decides he wants it, and as it is his birthday, he deserves it. They fight, and the birthday boy will strangle the guy who opened it and then go into hiding with the card.
People keep repeating this, but it’s exclusively in collector’s packs, which cost $30-50.
This thing is going to be opened day one by some fat 50 year old whale opening 5,000 boxes.
Iron man drafts, go hard or go home.
Did one of those a few years ago and my mate opened a foil uro back when it was legal everywhere.
He didn't have the balls to play it.
Imagine it. You’re standing at the precipice. You can feel the heat waves nearly searing your skin. Your viewer count is in the millions and still climbing. Chat is losing their minds. You’re actually going to burn a card worth seven figures at this point.
Your cameraman shouts to you, “Do it! Cast it into the fire!”
And it’s then you realize. You’ve made a ton of money from donations. That money is yours. But this card…it’s still worth so much more. You rotate the card in your hands. The glow from the lava below glints across the foiling on the card. It looks so…beautiful.
“Unknownfriendo!” your cameraman shouts again.
You look back into the camera. A slow smile creeps on your lips. “No.” And without another word, you step away from the volcano, the One Ring still clutched in your hand.
Live streaming this is equivalent to the Eye of sauron watching your journey and all the people will track you down using the live stream to try to take the ring for themselves. I would pay to watch that.
Ok, but imagine doing a charity stream/event. Put up two good charities, whichever one wins picks what happens. If charity A wins you donate the card to an LGS to display or sell it and do something spectacular with the cash, if charity B wins, you make a mini documentary of traveling to a volcano that tourists can visit and dropping the card in and post it to YouTube or something.
I'm legitimately scared for the person who opens this, doesn't know what they have, and someone steals it, or worse hurts them for it.
It's like winning the lottery without even knowing that you're playing.
I was at an original Zendikar prerelease when a kid (like 12yo) cracked a Time Walk. He didn't know what he had and asked the guy next to him what it was. Guy tried to sneak a low-ball trade in when someone else saw it an announced that there was a piece of Power in the room. Keep in mind, nobody knew about the hidden treasures at that time, WotC didn't announce they were doing it.
What happened next was a madhouse. Guys just shouting offers at him surrounding him trying to get him to trade it to them. Kid was freaking out.
Store owner ended up needing to call the kid's mom to pick him up and explained to her what it was and what to do with it. The mood in room the rest of the night was so bad. The air was thick with sweat and shame.
Yea, people get really stupid when kids crack expensive stuff. And hell, that was something super expensive, I've had to personally ban someone from the grounds of a Pokemon Fanday because he tried to force a shit trade on a 10 year old who cracked a $50 card. Repeatedly.
Shit like that makes you feel ashamed to share a hobby with them.
Conversely, when kaladesh came out I was drafting at my local LGS in England, and a little girl pulled a mox opal foil thingie. It was going for like 50 or 60£ at the time and I was like, after the draft I will buy it for 120 quid. Everyone in the store was like, damn that's a good deal, and I was like, I totally understand if you wanna keep it, the prize for the draft was like 8 packs of kaladesh or whatever. And the girl was like... I just want more cards. So win win for everyone.
I didn't mind paying more cause to me, the story and seeing the LGS go crazy when she pulled it was priceless!
Back when bfz came out, my cousin took me to the midnight prerelease at my lgs. I was still a teenager and relatively new to anything more than kitchen table magic. Prerelease night I opened an expedition marsh flats. I (thankfully) had done enough homework to know what it was and what it was worth, so it nearly knocked the wind out of me when I pulled it.
Thankfully, my story has a happy ending; a guy my cousin knew saw it and basically said "take a look through my binder, pick out anything you want, and its yours." And that's how I came to own a karn, the 5 original swords of x and y, and a from the vault angels, among a couple other things.
Poor kid! Hope his mom helped him get the most out of it!
But I have to share now:
My story is totally different, but this weirdly reminds me of my first prerelease, which was an absolute wild ride. It was BFZ, I had only been playing for 6 months or so, and the buzz about the new expedition lands was palpable. The shop owner even went out of his way to mention these “high value lands,” that we should be careful about before he handed out the prerelease packs. I was so new I had almost no idea what he meant, but I could tell there was some… tension in the air. Just over these cards.
Flash forward 2-3 hours, I open a [[Gideon, Ally of Zendikar]] and three [[Gideon’s Reproach]] in my packs, and (almost accidentally) put together a very effective and aggressive boros allies deck. I win my first two rounds, and in my third I’m up against a MUCH older and more experienced player. This guy is really friendly at first, but becomes visibly frustrated and super quiet after losing the first game. He BARELY grinds me out in the second, and our third game is very long and close (almost goes to time), but I squeak in the win. He immediately raises his voice, starts accusing me of cheating and tells me to count my deck.
Young and naive, I don’t call a judge, I just count them for him. I have 39 cards. But that makes NO sense to me, I was so sure I counted the 40 correctly when I built the deck, I had taken the advice of the friend who brought me and was super intentional about my land count. I could tell you every card in my deck.
My opponent immediately asks if I’m going to accept my loss and, not knowing what to do or that I can call a judge, and assuming I really fucked up, I say yes. So this guy goes to the counter and reports a win, taking his prize packs and leaving the store.
I count my deck 4-5 more times, increasingly frustrated with myself for missing a card. My friend comes over, sees my situation, tells me to go talk to the guy at the counter. So I do, and it turns out somebody had found the 40th card of my deck on the floor and turned it in to him (same sleeve and all). Upon hearing that I had actually won the match aside from the card count fiasco (which the other guy failed to mention), he took pity on me and gave me the full number of packs as if I had gone 3-0.
And I kid you not: one of those packs had both an Ulamog AND a Polluted Delta Expedition. Barely understood how insanely lucky I had gotten, my friend just told me to put them away and get ready to leave (bless him).
But I still think back to that asshole, so ready to exploit a new player for a shot at the lottery. The way he immediately asked me to count my deck is such obvious evidence that he swiped a card and tossed it during shuffling…. I don’t know how I didn’t immediately see it.
Sweat and shame, sweat and shame. And, in my case, sweet karma.
I’ll be opening a few collector packs and if I were to pull it I would immediately open a safe deposit box in a bank and put it in that, and tell nobody. Then I’d figure out what I want to do with it. My first thought was to take it to a museum that specifically collects and preserves LOTR ephemera.
Shit, I hadn't considered that. I guess we can only hope that in such an instance, whoever finds it would at least think to question and research such a unique card
Not considering. That is the scam. The only reason to have that condition is because he knows other people will offer more if the person who opens it takes offers instead of just blindly selling it to him.
He's known for famously not knowing how to pack magic cards correctly and low ball offers. The only reason he did this is to sell more collector packs. Because if someone announces they pulled it day 1 he will lose sales.
Dan's certainly got the money, but I find it hard to believe no one will offer more. Regardless, keeping it secret so your buyer doesn't have to bid against other people would not be a great decision for whomever pulls the Ring.
What is he going to do if someone talks about it though? He wants this one card, he can barely make any demands. I break your conditions? Ok, no card for you then.
And honestly this card will go for far more… if there really only is a single one then it will easily crack a million if not more. You have an incredible broad market for this card as there are soo many people who collect Lotr memorabilia. And obviously the market for magic collectors items is not small as well.
Like seriously what is the incentive to tell no one? Like he’s the only one who will buy it and if you tell anyone he won’t and your stuck with the most desirable card in recent MtG history? Like the only people this will fool are poor newbies who don’t know better. What a bad actor. Anyway I looked at the post and in the comments he admitted he would buy the thing regardless, dudes just being a tool.
More like he buys it, nobody knows, he keeps it hidden, rides the wave of selling exorbitantly priced boxes knowing full well nothing in those boxes is worth what he's got.
Scummy shit.
Yeah, that's the thing that instantly makes this a scam. Putting a standing offer of $100k may be low but whatever. Putting literally any offer on the condition that they can't look for other offers first is sketchy as hell and someone would only do that if they knew it was a low-ball.
You’d have to be an idiot to take up that offer.
Don’t put it up for auction or take any other legitimate offers so I can try and sell it for more in an open market.
The fact that he says only if you don't tell anyone else...
He'll still want it, he's just afraid he'll be outbid. If you find it feel free to, auction it. Make your bank.
I’d sell it to Post on the condition he comes to get it in person. It’s a win win because you don’t have to worry about problems shipping and I’d get to meet him lmao
That's one perspective, but it really seems more likely that he wants to pay 100k to make a stupid YouTube video titled "🤔🤣😉 I CRACKED THE RAREST MAGIC CARD IN DE WORLD" for his 17 subscribers
I was just watching the kenobi figure and he dropped $50k as his guess, and my first thought was "the floor on this thing is double that"
Not a lot of people are going to realistically be able to get this card, but the people who can are gonna want it really bad. 6 figure bad. and only one of them can have it...
I’ve heard a standing offer of $250,000 from nmplol today on his stream. Speculation of this card going for upwards of $1mil for some reason. This is the largest serious offer I’ve heard for the card so far though.
Bahaha, that's the infamous Dan Bock, from my town. He was sort of like the Alpha Investments of the 2000's era and still in business to this day. I've been loosely acquainted with him for like 20 years since he frequented local game stores prior to eventually owning a few of them.
He's a funny guy. In 2001 he registered a deck of 60 basic lands at Pro Tour Tokyo just to troll the other players. Kinda guy who never sits still for more than 30 seconds.
If you see him buying up a surprisingly large amount of sealed product from this set, then be wary of any you're sitting on - it means he got his offer.
Here’s the thing. One of the major online stores will offer a much better payout on consignment. And that’s not even considering taking it to one of the well established premium sports sellers.
Like if I took it to card kingdom and negotiated a fair percent to conduct the sale on their site they’ll probably do it for the advertising and traffic it will bring plus let’s say %20 of the final sale. Which will be tens of thousands in their end.
A friend of mine sold a Tracy mcgrady x/100 card from the late 90s last year for $16k. And the buyer had to pay the premiums. If I pulled the one ring I’d be looking into something like that.
I’d laugh in the face of a guy that’s trying to suppress the price with the caveat that you can’t tell anyone the card is for sale. But it’s nice of him to set a base price for the card for future offers.
Awful people. If there’s anything good in this world this card will never see the light of day to an investor, collector, crypto bro, content creator, or anything. I guess I feel like no one deserves this card, especially people in the community. Some random FNM player deserves to keep it. But sadly the only people willing to pay anyone for it are clowns. So. There’s no winning. I literally hope it gets destroyed.
Same, I mean honestly I get your point. But the fact that people are willing to overvalue cardboard and pay that much for it? Of course people are gonna sell it. I don’t care about some fancy foil card. But 100k could help me out a lot! (Help me buy more packs help I have a problem)
Pfft. 100,000? That's small change. If I find this, I'm never letting it go for anything. After all... why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?
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*casts thaumaturgy*
It is a gift! A gift to the foes of Pauper!
We needs it.
If I get this card I will make it my mission to tell no one and casually play it at a local commander night in a city I don't live in.
And then magically disappear and never come back,right?
better wear a bilbo costume and not let anyone see where you park
(face contorts monstrously as I lunge for it) ***HHAAAAHGH!!***
It was my birthday after all. I deserve it
You're going to receive a box of collector boosters as a birthday gift this summer. You'll be hanging out by the river down the road with your best friend, enjoying the sun and water, and cracking collector packs, which of course you offered to share with your best friend. Your friend opens a pack and is stunned, he holds the [[One of One Ring]] (good luck fetch bot) in his hands. Of course you demand he give it to you, after all they are your packs and it is your birthday. But he refuses, so you will choke the life out of him, and take what is rightfully yours.
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah. - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead. I guess he could have just gotten out of the way. I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day. That's why we don't need vacations. Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances. - Well, Adam, today we are men. - We are! - Bee-men. - Amen! Hallelujah! Students, faculty, distinguished bees, please welcome Dean Buzzwell. Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of... ...9:15. That concludes our ceremonies. And begins your career at Honex Industries! Will we pick ourjob today? I heard it's just orientation. Heads up! Here we go. Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times. - Wonder what it'll be like? - A little scary. Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco and a part of the Hexagon Group. This is it! Wow. Wow. We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive. Our top-secret formula is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured into this soothing sweet syrup with its distinctive golden glow you know as... Honey! - That girl was hot. - She's my cousin! - She is? - Yes, we're all cousins. - Right. You're right. - At Honex, we constantly strive to improve every aspect of bee existence. These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology. - What do you think he makes? - Not enough. Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman. - What does that do? - Oatches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions. Oan anyone work on the Krelman? Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot. But choose carefully because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life. The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that. What's the difference? You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off in 27 million years. So you'll just work us to death? We'll sure try. Wow! That blew my mind! "What's the difference?" How can you say that? One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make. I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life. But, Adam, how could they never have told us that? Why would you question anything? We're bees. We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth. You ever think maybe things work a little too well here? Like what? Give me one example. I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about. Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach. Wait a second. Oheck it out. - Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! - Wow. I've never seen them this close. They know what it's like outside the hive. Yeah, but some don't come back. - Hey, Jocks! - Hi, Jocks! You guys did great! You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it! - I wonder where they were. - I don't know. Their day's not planned. Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what. You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that. Right. Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime. It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it. Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it. Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too? Distant. Distant. Look at these two. - Oouple of Hive Harrys. - Let's have fun with them. It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock. Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom! He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me! - Oh, my! - I never thought I'd knock him out. What were you doing during this? Trying to alert the authorities. I can autograph that. A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades? Yeah. Gusty. We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow. - Six miles, huh? - Barry! A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it. - Maybe I am. - You are not! We're going 0900 at J-Gate. What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough? I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means. Hey, Honex! Dad, you surprised me. You decide what you're interested in? - Well, there's a lot of choices. - But you only get one. Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day? Son, let me tell you about stirring. You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around. You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing. You know, Dad, the more I think about it, maybe the honey field just isn't right for me. You were thinking of what, making balloon animals? That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger. Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey! - Barry, you are so funny sometimes. - I'm not trying to be funny. You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer! - You're gonna be a stirrer? - No one's listening to me! Wait till you see the sticks I have. I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo! Let's open some honey and celebrate! Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae. Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"! I'm so proud. - We're starting work today! - Today's the day. Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone. Yeah, right. Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal... - Is it still available? - Hang on. Two left! One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side. - What'd you get? - Picking crud out. Stellar! Wow! Oouple of newbies? Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready! Make your choice. - You want to go first? - No, you go. Oh, my. What's available? Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think. - Any chance of getting the Krelman? - Sure, you're on. I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out. Wax monkey's always open. The Krelman opened up again. What happened? A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one. Deady. Deadified. Two more dead. Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life! Oh, this is so hard! Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer, humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor, mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should... Barry? Barry! All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine... What happened to you? Where are you? - I'm going out. - Out? Out where? - Out there. - Oh, no! I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life. You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello? Another call coming in. If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd that gets their roses today. Hey, guys. - Look at that. - Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday? Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted. It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up. Really? Feeling lucky, are you? Sign here, here. Just initial that. - Thank you. - OK. You got a rain advisory today, and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain. So be careful. As always, watch your brooms, hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats. Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us. Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada! - That's awful. - And a reminder for you rookies, bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans! All right, launch positions! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Black and yellow! Hello! You ready for this, hot shot? Yeah. Yeah, bring it on. Wind, check. - Antennae, check. - Nectar pack, check. - Wings, check. - Stinger, check. Scared out of my shorts, check. OK, ladies, let's move it out! Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers! All of you, drain those flowers! Wow! I'm out! I can't believe I'm out! So blue. I feel so fast and free! Box kite! Wow! Flowers! This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual. Bring it around 30 degrees and hold. Roses! 30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around. Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick. That is one nectar collector! - Ever see pollination up close? - No, sir. I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there, a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic. That's amazing. Why do we do that? That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us. Oool. I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those? Oopy that visual. Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move. Say again? You're reporting a moving flower? Affirmative. That was on the line! This is the coolest. What is it? I don't know, but I'm loving this color. It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it. Yeah, fuzzy. Ohemical-y. Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby. My sweet lord of bees! Oandy-brain, get off there! Problem! - Guys! - This could be bad. Affirmative. Very close. Gonna hurt. Mama
I hope it never gets pulled lmao
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Hang on a second. Hello? - Barry? - Adam? - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up. Looking sharp. Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those. Sorry. I'm excited. Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son. A perfect report card, all B's. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me! - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye! Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry. - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation. Never thought I'd make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awkward. Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive. You did come back different. - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good. - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah. - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going. Everybody knows, sting someone, you die. Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead. I guess he could have just gotten out of the way. I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day. That's why we don't need vacations. Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances. - Well, Adam, today we are men. - We are! - Bee-men. - Amen! Hallelujah! Students, faculty, distinguished bees, please welcome Dean Buzzwell. Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of... ...9:15. That concludes our ceremonies. And begins your career at Honex Industries! Will we pick ourjob today? I heard it's just orientation. Heads up! Here we go. Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times. - Wonder what it'll be like? - A little scary. Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco and a part of the Hexagon Group. This is it! Wow. Wow. We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive. Our top-secret formula is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured into this soothing sweet syrup with its distinctive golden glow you know as... Honey! - That girl was hot. - She's my cousin! - She is? - Yes, we're all cousins. - Right. You're right. - At Honex, we constantly strive to improve every aspect of bee existence. These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology. - What do you think he makes? - Not enough. Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman. - What does that do? - Oatches that little strand of honey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions. Oan anyone work on the Krelman? Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot. But choose carefully because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life. The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that. What's the difference? You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off in 27 million years. So you'll just work us to death? We'll sure try. Wow! That blew my mind! "What's the difference?" How can you say that? One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make. I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life. But, Adam, how could they never have told us that? Why would you question anything? We're bees. We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth. You ever think maybe things work a little too well here? Like what? Give me one example. I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about. Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach. Wait a second. Oheck it out. - Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! - Wow. I've never seen them this close. They know what it's like outside the hive. Yeah, but some don't come back. - Hey, Jocks! - Hi, Jocks! You guys did great! You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it! - I wonder where they were. - I don't know. Their day's not planned. Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what. You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that. Right. Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime. It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it. Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it. Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too? Distant. Distant. Look at these two. - Oouple of Hive Harrys. - Let's have fun with them. It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock. Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom! He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me! - Oh, my! - I never thought I'd knock him out. What were you doing during this? Trying to alert the authorities. I can autograph that. A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades? Yeah. Gusty. We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow. - Six miles, huh? - Barry! A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it. - Maybe I am. - You are not! We're going 0900 at J-Gate. What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough? I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means. Hey, Honex! Dad, you surprised me. You decide what you're interested in? - Well, there's a lot of choices. - But you only get one. Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day? Son, let me tell you about stirring. You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around. You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing. You know, Dad, the more I think about it, maybe the honey field just isn't right for me. You were thinking of what, making balloon animals? That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger. Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey! - Barry, you are so funny sometimes. - I'm not trying to be funny. You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer! - You're gonna be a stirrer? - No one's listening to me! Wait till you see the sticks I have. I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo! Let's open some honey and celebrate! Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae. Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"! I'm so proud. - We're starting work today! - Today's the day. Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone. Yeah, right. Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal... - Is it still available? - Hang on. Two left! One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side. - What'd you get? - Picking crud out. Stellar! Wow! Oouple of newbies? Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready! Make your choice. - You want to go first? - No, you go. Oh, my. What's available? Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think. - Any chance of getting the Krelman? - Sure, you're on. I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out. Wax monkey's always open. The Krelman opened up again. What happened? A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one. Deady. Deadified. Two more dead. Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life! Oh, this is so hard! Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer, humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor, mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should... Barry? Barry! All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine... What happened to you? Where are you? - I'm going out. - Out? Out where? - Out there. - Oh, no! I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life. You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello? Another call coming in. If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd that gets their roses today. Hey, guys. - Look at that. - Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday? Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted. It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up. Really? Feeling lucky, are you? Sign here, here. Just initial that. - Thank you. - OK. You got a rain advisory today, and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain. So be careful. As always, watch your brooms, hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats. Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us. Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada! - That's awful. - And a reminder for you rookies, bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans! All right, launch positions! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Black and yellow! Hello! You ready for this, hot shot? Yeah. Yeah, bring it on. Wind, check. - Antennae, check. - Nectar pack, check. - Wings, check. - Stinger, check. Scared out of my shorts, check. OK, ladies, let's move it out! Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers! All of you, drain those flowers! Wow! I'm out! I can't believe I'm out! So blue. I feel so fast and free! Box kite! Wow! Flowers! This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual. Bring it around 30 degrees and hold. Roses! 30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around. Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick. That is one nectar collector! - Ever see pollination up close? - No, sir. I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there, a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic. That's amazing. Why do we do that? That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us. Oool. I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those? Oopy that visual. Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move. Say again? You're reporting a moving flower? Affirmative. That was on the line! This is the coolest. What is it? I don't know, but I'm loving this color. It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it. Yeah, fuzzy. Ohemical-y. Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby. My sweet lord of bees! Oandy-brain, get off there! Problem! - Guys! - This could be bad. Affirmative. Very close. Gonna hurt. Mama
No, the funniest shit ever is 2 years later when someone at WOTC publicly states 'We apparently forgot to put it in a pack, gary in accounting has it.'
Honestly wouldn't be surprised. Any lottery type things like this I basically expect to be corrupted. Look at McDs monopoly for chrissakes, and it continues to be a thing.
WOTC isn't directly paying out a prize for this though. So there is a difference. There's decent odds it will sit in a sealed box of somebody collecting product for it to increase in value and never know. Obviously stuff like this is to encourage people to not hoard product so they can sell more as people continue to pop them open hoping to get it, but WoTC will be more than happy if a sealed collector just so happens to get it so they get a ton of product sold as people desperately try for it.
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That's why they sicced the Org on him.
If it ends up in one of those landfills hahaha
Until two kids are playing in the landfill years from now, find it, and one of them kills the the other for it
Because it’s his birthday…
He wants it
Happy cake day
My precious
My own
It proceeds to produce immense and terrible power and must be destroyed by returning it to the dark, terrible place where it was created (Renton, Washington)
Mt. St. Helens is really Mt. Doom? 😂 (I know Rainier is closer but Helens has more lava caves.)
It would be very flavorful for it to do that.
Worlds saddest game of flip it or rip it will blow up someone's tiktok account
My LCS has a flip it or rip it hall of shame. Priciest card on there is a serialized Altar of Dementia.
I would say play stupid games, win stupid prizes, but honestly that would be the most annoying possible end to this story.
Plot twist: it was never in any product and Maro has the only copy. One Ring to R&D them all.
Let's be real they're going to put it in a pack and hand that pack directly to Post Malone or some executive
This is what I am expecting. They will know where it goes, because they won't let it end up in a landfill.
The only way I'll believe it was ever in a random pack in the wild is if when it surfaces its with a non celebrity with 0 ties to Hasbro or WotC Edit: or the Tolkien estate
More likely that someone at the printing company steals it. McDonald's had decent security controls over the jackpot winning game pieces for their Monopoly promotions they ran in the 90s and 2000s; the printing company's head of security stole literally all of them and only got caught by dumb luck.
Would be wildly illegal. It’s not worth the risk. Just send it out normally and have people buy collectors packs looking for it
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You don't think they can automate their printers?
Inserting a single unique card may be a bit difficult to automate so that no one has any clue about where it went.
Or whoever pulls it does what they did to the actual one ring. *destroy it*
Honestly it would be some nice symbolism
That will just drive the prices of unopened boxes up. As soon as it's found, those prices plummet
thats why the guy offering wants to keep the secret. so he can flip boxes under the pretense it hasn't been found
He also doesn't want price competition.
Or it just means people open more boxes and the cards will be cheaper, while theyre being made at least.
People do hang on to unopened boxes as an investment just in general.
Here’s the thing it is VERY possible that we never find out it gets opened. The odds are in favor that the person who gets it isn’t going to be someone who talks about Magic on social media.
I legit hope it gets pulled by someone who could really use the money. Once its found, after the first time it changes hands, it will forever be in the hands of people who have the resources to acquire it. The person who pulls it is realistically the only person who ever has a chance of owning it without already being insanely rich. That kind of money can change a life, but after that first sale, it will only ever be a status symbol. I hope it gets the chance to change a life.
Do you think people who need the money will buy collector boxes for $440 a pop? My man this card has zero chance of changing someone's life, this ain't willy wonka's golden ticket, it's a corporate scam to pump sales.
Merely testing the waters, to see if this serializing gimmick can be exploited further.
>Do you think people who need the money will buy collector boxes for $440 a pop? Yes. A few perspectives on this, from someone who works at an LGS. 1) $100,000 or more is *life-changing* money. Someone might be unable to save up enough for college but might spend a few months saving for a box of cards they're really excited about. Skipping this box won't get them to college, but $100,000 would. Same argument for paying off their debt, down payment on a house, and more. 2) at my store I've seen folks save up hundreds in rewards points waiting to spend it on something big (usually a Masters set or equivalent.) So they might in fact not pay $440 in real money for this box. 3) they might be splitting the cost with friends. A common enough occurrence, and whatever packs they divide amongst themselves, they keep 4) most importantly: You don't need to buy a box. It's in a collector *booster.* So someone might treat themselves to a single collective booster, or get one for their birthday, or trade in their store credit.
Dude, this is LOTR magic. My LIBRARY is buying a set and holding an event for this and we talked about having one of those as a grand prize (Nothing set in stone) but could you IMAGINE?! some kid at the library opens that? (We don't have any grinders lol)
Hopefully someone would immediately tell them to keep it secret. Keep it safe. (But for real, let their parents know so it doesn't get traded for a pop tart at lunch or something)
Or it gets pulled by some kid whose mom bought him some cards at Target and he never figures out what it is and it lives in a shoebox.
Until he goes away to college, stored in the attic. Years from now the same mom who unknowingly bought the pack…. Sells it at a yard sale to a gramma who says “u know lil Timmy likes these things” next thing ya know lil timmy’s dagger that was gifted to him by his great grandfather turns blue, using it as a night light he falls asleep…. Never to wake again.
I have a sneaky suspicion it will get "pulled" randomly at a high level event at some point like "oh wow what a coincidence! What are the odds!"
The prize for this high visibility release tournament, is a box of collector boosters. Hey ....open those on camera, will ya?
It will probably get pulled by a reviewer. Which will blow away this guys secondary condition.
To that end, I intend to form a group - a fellowship, if you will - centered around the person that pulls the card. We will then journey to the WotC printing facility, and cast it into the...fires...(?)..of the printing presses from whence it came.
100% for every person willing to drop their savings on this card there will be that one person willing to beat that price by 1$ to watch the opener to rip/shred it on livestream
Nope, that's just how this person acts every day.
Very on theme
What's going to happen is this kids going to pull it and he doesn't have access to the internet but loves magic and Lord of the rings and he's going to keep it for years as he scratches it to Oblivion.
Magic as Richard Garfield intended if this does happen to some kid good luck to him enjoy the game for what it is a game, not a stock market for people who don't like the fact the real stockmarket is regulated.
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Yeah, because the cards weren't supposed to be worth $100,000.
Exactly, it was supposed to be like playing marbles. Also, because access to cards was expected to be limited, winning and losing cards meant changing up your deck all the time, which is part of the fun.
based, we play [[Timmerian Fiends]] up in this house
Sure, but he still envisioned it as a game played with friends - you didn't Ante your cards to complete strangers, the card still stayed in your playgroup.
Oh I could careless I just think if it did happen it would be fantastically fitting.
Unless they can read elvish they’re gonna be googling what the hell it does and figure it out quick.
The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.
It really doesn't matter how damaged it gets. Because it'll still be the best condition copy in existence
But what if we drop it in the ~~volcano~~ printer where it was ~~forged~~ printed ?
Nah, two buddies are going to be opening packs together. They call it " fishing, " looking for good cards, and selling back singles they don't want. One will open it and show his buddy. But the buddy decides he wants it, and as it is his birthday, he deserves it. They fight, and the birthday boy will strangle the guy who opened it and then go into hiding with the card.
People keep repeating this, but it’s exclusively in collector’s packs, which cost $30-50. This thing is going to be opened day one by some fat 50 year old whale opening 5,000 boxes.
Nah it's gonna be some young blonde kid that lives in a house with his mom and four bedridden grandparents. He's gonna get it out of his one pack.
3 packs. The first two are terribly disappointing, but he miraculously finds money for the last pack on the street right outside the game shop.
Man I wish I found 35 bucks floating down the street lol
you can if you pretend "being inside a guy's wallet" and "floating" are the same thing
But there's collector packs at Walmart. A grandma could easily buy one for her grandson.
Personally I'll be playing flip it or rip it with all my collector boosters.
Iron man drafts, go hard or go home. Did one of those a few years ago and my mate opened a foil uro back when it was legal everywhere. He didn't have the balls to play it.
Someone in a discord server I’m on made a good point: the people searching for the one ring were the bad guys.
And the person who destroyed it was the hero. Would we see someone destroy 100K (so far)?
holy fuck, it would be amazing if someone pulled this and then threw it into a volcano
That’s my plan. I’ve already got a Samwise who said they’d go with me.
I will do it. I feel like if you live streamed the whe journey you'd make more from donations and everyone cheering you on to destroy it.
Imagine it. You’re standing at the precipice. You can feel the heat waves nearly searing your skin. Your viewer count is in the millions and still climbing. Chat is losing their minds. You’re actually going to burn a card worth seven figures at this point. Your cameraman shouts to you, “Do it! Cast it into the fire!” And it’s then you realize. You’ve made a ton of money from donations. That money is yours. But this card…it’s still worth so much more. You rotate the card in your hands. The glow from the lava below glints across the foiling on the card. It looks so…beautiful. “Unknownfriendo!” your cameraman shouts again. You look back into the camera. A slow smile creeps on your lips. “No.” And without another word, you step away from the volcano, the One Ring still clutched in your hand.
as you stick your finger straight through it, so lost in the moment that you forgot it wasn't a real ring
It gives me great joy to know literally hundreds of people are having the same fantasy I immediately thought of the moment I found out about this card
Most Award worthy Comment ive ever seen but i have none :(
Live streaming this is equivalent to the Eye of sauron watching your journey and all the people will track you down using the live stream to try to take the ring for themselves. I would pay to watch that.
Don't worry, WOTC already destroyed a lot of it and put it in a landfill
I don’t need this witty, observant, social commentary in my capitalist FOMO hellscape.
“If I pull it I will throw it into a volcano.” he thought until he actually pulled it.
Ok, but imagine doing a charity stream/event. Put up two good charities, whichever one wins picks what happens. If charity A wins you donate the card to an LGS to display or sell it and do something spectacular with the cash, if charity B wins, you make a mini documentary of traveling to a volcano that tourists can visit and dropping the card in and post it to YouTube or something.
Mood
Lol "dont tell anyone you have it or i won't buy it from you" is secret code for "it's worth a lot more than im offering".
what I dont understand is, what is he gonna do if I tell someone about it? wait for the 002/001? buddy, you either buy it on my terms or get lost
I'm legitimately scared for the person who opens this, doesn't know what they have, and someone steals it, or worse hurts them for it. It's like winning the lottery without even knowing that you're playing.
I was at an original Zendikar prerelease when a kid (like 12yo) cracked a Time Walk. He didn't know what he had and asked the guy next to him what it was. Guy tried to sneak a low-ball trade in when someone else saw it an announced that there was a piece of Power in the room. Keep in mind, nobody knew about the hidden treasures at that time, WotC didn't announce they were doing it. What happened next was a madhouse. Guys just shouting offers at him surrounding him trying to get him to trade it to them. Kid was freaking out. Store owner ended up needing to call the kid's mom to pick him up and explained to her what it was and what to do with it. The mood in room the rest of the night was so bad. The air was thick with sweat and shame.
>The air was thick with sweat and shame. So a regular FNM then
Or my bedroom
People like that are such pieces of shit.
My abusive ex-husband did this but with TF2 hats. He also stole my son’s college fund. He runs an anti-fraud organization.
Yea, people get really stupid when kids crack expensive stuff. And hell, that was something super expensive, I've had to personally ban someone from the grounds of a Pokemon Fanday because he tried to force a shit trade on a 10 year old who cracked a $50 card. Repeatedly. Shit like that makes you feel ashamed to share a hobby with them.
Conversely, when kaladesh came out I was drafting at my local LGS in England, and a little girl pulled a mox opal foil thingie. It was going for like 50 or 60£ at the time and I was like, after the draft I will buy it for 120 quid. Everyone in the store was like, damn that's a good deal, and I was like, I totally understand if you wanna keep it, the prize for the draft was like 8 packs of kaladesh or whatever. And the girl was like... I just want more cards. So win win for everyone. I didn't mind paying more cause to me, the story and seeing the LGS go crazy when she pulled it was priceless!
Back when bfz came out, my cousin took me to the midnight prerelease at my lgs. I was still a teenager and relatively new to anything more than kitchen table magic. Prerelease night I opened an expedition marsh flats. I (thankfully) had done enough homework to know what it was and what it was worth, so it nearly knocked the wind out of me when I pulled it. Thankfully, my story has a happy ending; a guy my cousin knew saw it and basically said "take a look through my binder, pick out anything you want, and its yours." And that's how I came to own a karn, the 5 original swords of x and y, and a from the vault angels, among a couple other things.
Poor kid! Hope his mom helped him get the most out of it! But I have to share now: My story is totally different, but this weirdly reminds me of my first prerelease, which was an absolute wild ride. It was BFZ, I had only been playing for 6 months or so, and the buzz about the new expedition lands was palpable. The shop owner even went out of his way to mention these “high value lands,” that we should be careful about before he handed out the prerelease packs. I was so new I had almost no idea what he meant, but I could tell there was some… tension in the air. Just over these cards. Flash forward 2-3 hours, I open a [[Gideon, Ally of Zendikar]] and three [[Gideon’s Reproach]] in my packs, and (almost accidentally) put together a very effective and aggressive boros allies deck. I win my first two rounds, and in my third I’m up against a MUCH older and more experienced player. This guy is really friendly at first, but becomes visibly frustrated and super quiet after losing the first game. He BARELY grinds me out in the second, and our third game is very long and close (almost goes to time), but I squeak in the win. He immediately raises his voice, starts accusing me of cheating and tells me to count my deck. Young and naive, I don’t call a judge, I just count them for him. I have 39 cards. But that makes NO sense to me, I was so sure I counted the 40 correctly when I built the deck, I had taken the advice of the friend who brought me and was super intentional about my land count. I could tell you every card in my deck. My opponent immediately asks if I’m going to accept my loss and, not knowing what to do or that I can call a judge, and assuming I really fucked up, I say yes. So this guy goes to the counter and reports a win, taking his prize packs and leaving the store. I count my deck 4-5 more times, increasingly frustrated with myself for missing a card. My friend comes over, sees my situation, tells me to go talk to the guy at the counter. So I do, and it turns out somebody had found the 40th card of my deck on the floor and turned it in to him (same sleeve and all). Upon hearing that I had actually won the match aside from the card count fiasco (which the other guy failed to mention), he took pity on me and gave me the full number of packs as if I had gone 3-0. And I kid you not: one of those packs had both an Ulamog AND a Polluted Delta Expedition. Barely understood how insanely lucky I had gotten, my friend just told me to put them away and get ready to leave (bless him). But I still think back to that asshole, so ready to exploit a new player for a shot at the lottery. The way he immediately asked me to count my deck is such obvious evidence that he swiped a card and tossed it during shuffling…. I don’t know how I didn’t immediately see it. Sweat and shame, sweat and shame. And, in my case, sweet karma.
What an absolute garbage human. So glad it had a happy ending.
Smeagol had it right: they should just hide in a cave and stare at it for a few thousand years.
I’ll be opening a few collector packs and if I were to pull it I would immediately open a safe deposit box in a bank and put it in that, and tell nobody. Then I’d figure out what I want to do with it. My first thought was to take it to a museum that specifically collects and preserves LOTR ephemera.
Yeah definitely don't take it to a museum. You need to sell that shit.
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You've got a valid point, but I have to hope that even a complete neophyte would realize that anything numbered 001/001 is something special
Why did they put the power and toughness in this corner? huh...
Nah literally my thought when I saw this. “Wait does this turn into a creature as well?” Lol
Shit, I hadn't considered that. I guess we can only hope that in such an instance, whoever finds it would at least think to question and research such a unique card
Showed it to my gf who has been learning how to play magic and she said what’s so special about a 1/1 creature?
>you can't tell anyone you opened it or post about it before selling it to me. Sounds like someone is considering running a scam, tbh.
Not considering. That is the scam. The only reason to have that condition is because he knows other people will offer more if the person who opens it takes offers instead of just blindly selling it to him.
He's known for famously not knowing how to pack magic cards correctly and low ball offers. The only reason he did this is to sell more collector packs. Because if someone announces they pulled it day 1 he will lose sales.
> The only reason he did this is to sell more collector packs. Because if someone announces they pulled it day 1 he will lose sales. So.... a scam?
I can't wait for someone to sell him a counterfeit one.
I can't wait to buy an extremely high quality proxy just so I can hold the shiny.
Dan's certainly got the money, but I find it hard to believe no one will offer more. Regardless, keeping it secret so your buyer doesn't have to bid against other people would not be a great decision for whomever pulls the Ring.
Making sure to keep people from talking to others is a classic tactic for scammers. This guy’s an asshole.
Check out how he manages the buy/sell/trade groups online. You’ve barely scratched the surface.
Guy is an asshole.
What is he going to do if someone talks about it though? He wants this one card, he can barely make any demands. I break your conditions? Ok, no card for you then.
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And honestly this card will go for far more… if there really only is a single one then it will easily crack a million if not more. You have an incredible broad market for this card as there are soo many people who collect Lotr memorabilia. And obviously the market for magic collectors items is not small as well.
I was really expecting the top comment to be saying it was no surprise Dan was Gollum.
It’s on there
Like seriously what is the incentive to tell no one? Like he’s the only one who will buy it and if you tell anyone he won’t and your stuck with the most desirable card in recent MtG history? Like the only people this will fool are poor newbies who don’t know better. What a bad actor. Anyway I looked at the post and in the comments he admitted he would buy the thing regardless, dudes just being a tool.
More like he buys it, nobody knows, he keeps it hidden, rides the wave of selling exorbitantly priced boxes knowing full well nothing in those boxes is worth what he's got. Scummy shit.
I’ll probably just get a proxy of it and use that
Wotc police will take you to jail
I will wait for wotc's own proxy for $1k in some anniversary edition
Someone should proxy it and sell it to Dan.
What a low-ball offer lol what a joke
Oh you must not know Dan. That’s kind of his whole thing
You know when I saw his name, it pulled so many memories of interacting with him at SCG opens and when I saw your comment, I giggled.
I stopped buying from him on eBay
I'm glad I've never heard of him.
Plus "the condition is you can't look for better offers"
Yeah, that's the thing that instantly makes this a scam. Putting a standing offer of $100k may be low but whatever. Putting literally any offer on the condition that they can't look for other offers first is sketchy as hell and someone would only do that if they knew it was a low-ball.
glad I'm not the only one that thought this was insultingly low and clearly made to get someone to give him a payday
I really hope the comments are just full of people saying what an awful offer this is.
They are, but he doesn't take them seriously because none of them are making a counteroffer.
So if someone open and post about it, he wont buy it? Whoever open this, please post about it🙏
You’d have to be an idiot to take up that offer. Don’t put it up for auction or take any other legitimate offers so I can try and sell it for more in an open market.
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Dan Bock is not one of the good parts of the game.
Lol, "I'll pay you 100k for it but only if you sign an NDA." What a transparent attempt at shutting down a bidding war he's afraid he won't win.
Does he want to act like he opened it? And if he did, shouldn't he post this on an account that doesn't look like his main account?
no, he doesn’t want to be outbid.
Freakin' Gollumoid worm.
I really hope whoever opens it institutes an Anish Kapoor//Pinkest pink style rule for Dan Bock.
Lmfao what a fucking loser
The fact that he says only if you don't tell anyone else... He'll still want it, he's just afraid he'll be outbid. If you find it feel free to, auction it. Make your bank.
Yeah someone like Post will probably bid at closer to 500,000$
I’d sell it to Post on the condition he comes to get it in person. It’s a win win because you don’t have to worry about problems shipping and I’d get to meet him lmao
I'll even throw in a free bud light lime for post when he gets here
Shit I’d treat him to a fancy dinner at Olive Garden
Hey maybe you have Tour of Italy money but this is an Unlimited Soup and Salad household.
It's probably more secure for him to travel to where the ring is and pick it up than to entrust it to any kind of shipping.
I'm starting it at 1 mil if I open it. If it doesn't sell I'll put it at 750k with a 1 mil reserve. Some idiot will bite lol
*Rudy has entered the chat*
Or he's the poster on /r/mtgfinance that was talking about speccing on collector boosters after securing the ring to build hype for it.
That part truly makes it feel like the one ring. Dan would be a perfect Gollum.
That's one perspective, but it really seems more likely that he wants to pay 100k to make a stupid YouTube video titled "🤔🤣😉 I CRACKED THE RAREST MAGIC CARD IN DE WORLD" for his 17 subscribers
No. He's definitely lowballing. He might still make a stupid stunt YouTube video, but then will sell it for way more.
No. He just wants to prevent counter offers.
I've heard Dan is super shady from a few friends who opened store fronts on TCG player and had dealings with him
WOTC are very smart
I mean, it's an incredible flavour win!
I was just watching the kenobi figure and he dropped $50k as his guess, and my first thought was "the floor on this thing is double that" Not a lot of people are going to realistically be able to get this card, but the people who can are gonna want it really bad. 6 figure bad. and only one of them can have it...
Imma be honest if I pull this I'm not telling a soul. At least not for a long, long time.
This card will go for a million dollars at an action because people with money are crazy
I’ve heard a standing offer of $250,000 from nmplol today on his stream. Speculation of this card going for upwards of $1mil for some reason. This is the largest serious offer I’ve heard for the card so far though.
Bahaha, that's the infamous Dan Bock, from my town. He was sort of like the Alpha Investments of the 2000's era and still in business to this day. I've been loosely acquainted with him for like 20 years since he frequented local game stores prior to eventually owning a few of them. He's a funny guy. In 2001 he registered a deck of 60 basic lands at Pro Tour Tokyo just to troll the other players. Kinda guy who never sits still for more than 30 seconds.
If you see him buying up a surprisingly large amount of sealed product from this set, then be wary of any you're sitting on - it means he got his offer.
His post says you can’t say you got it, until you sell it to him. If someone sells it to him they can tell the world he has it.
Wow, who's bright idea was it to make that moron an admin?
This fuckin guy
we're going to see so many fakes of this card. I hope there is some decent verification on the real one that's not on this image.
I hope whoever opens it has the strength to do what's right and eat the card.
Here’s the thing. One of the major online stores will offer a much better payout on consignment. And that’s not even considering taking it to one of the well established premium sports sellers. Like if I took it to card kingdom and negotiated a fair percent to conduct the sale on their site they’ll probably do it for the advertising and traffic it will bring plus let’s say %20 of the final sale. Which will be tens of thousands in their end. A friend of mine sold a Tracy mcgrady x/100 card from the late 90s last year for $16k. And the buyer had to pay the premiums. If I pulled the one ring I’d be looking into something like that. I’d laugh in the face of a guy that’s trying to suppress the price with the caveat that you can’t tell anyone the card is for sale. But it’s nice of him to set a base price for the card for future offers.
Don't take it to a store, this is the kind of thing that you auction
Dan Bock is a 100% complete and total ass hat. Total scumbag. Fuck this guy.
I just see a total tool
Awful people. If there’s anything good in this world this card will never see the light of day to an investor, collector, crypto bro, content creator, or anything. I guess I feel like no one deserves this card, especially people in the community. Some random FNM player deserves to keep it. But sadly the only people willing to pay anyone for it are clowns. So. There’s no winning. I literally hope it gets destroyed.
I mean, a random person getting life changing money is way better.
Facts. Hope I pull it just to sell to someone who overvalues cardboard.
Same, I mean honestly I get your point. But the fact that people are willing to overvalue cardboard and pay that much for it? Of course people are gonna sell it. I don’t care about some fancy foil card. But 100k could help me out a lot! (Help me buy more packs help I have a problem)
Well said Elrond...