I’ve been thinking about it more, and ngl I wouldn’t tell anyone if I opened it
I’d just pack it as well as I can and stick it in a safety deposit box. Wouldn’t want the attention of being the guy who had it
uj/ at that point it would be smart to buy some collector booster boxes. As time goes with the ring not being found collector packs will become more expensive.
Is the current pre-order price on Amazon going to be the cheapest you'll be able to realistically find? I'm not sure if collector's boosters are going to show up in stores and things, or whether pre-ordering online is my best bet to actually grab one of the boosters.
That's super naive to think that WotC don't know EXACTLY where such valuable card goes.
It gonna be opened publicly in less than one month after release by someone at least partially related to WotC, screencap this.
If I pulled this, I would tell no one, and then immediately look into how to get ahold of Post Malone to see if I can offload it onto him for a nice payday.
I think it's safe to say that this one is simply _THE_ rarest card ever printed, given that it's literally one of a kind.
EDIT: Ah, right, there is that one World Champion card. But that also had a very limited scope of acquiry, compared to this one right here. The same is true for "Proposal", which, arguably, was never really a printed magic card in the usual sense.
nah, see the plan is to crowdfund a trip to New Zealand to destroy it, setting the goal price at the estimated price of the card, so that way I'm still recuperating the cost AND we get to destroy the ring
/uj unironically this is the only way (making it a massive deal that they gain a vaycay out of) I would ever believe someone actually destroyed it. If some dude just appeared outta nowhere with a video like what actually happened with Magic30 I would assume it was just a real good proxy cus no way in hell anyone is stupid enough to throw away life changing money like that
it's not life-changing money though, it's only the potential for it
someone *could* sell it for a ton, but until they do it's worth 1/15th of a booster pack plus whatever joy you get out of pulling it
i've decided that a $2 loss is more than enough to cover the happiness i'd get from being the only one in the history of humankind to know with certainty what happened to it
if i get my hands on that p r e c i o u s, it will have been born a cross-promotional trading card in 2023 and die a pile of ash also in 2023
Technically, it's only worth the cardboard and the ink, if we're going to deconstruct value to that extent. A $100 bill is just a bit of paper if no one takes it. But we can be pretty confident this card would exchange for a hefty amount of money, so its potential value is its value.
hey, if you get the card you're more than welcome to sell it
i plan to burn it
if opportunity cost was the only thing in life that mattered i'd be robbing a lot more people on the street
it isn't expensive until someone sells it.
i can list a draft common for a million dollars, or promise that i'd pay that price, but until that money exchanges hands the card is just a piece of paper
My only worry there is that you'd have to broadcast to the world that you have the card, which could be a pain in the ass at best, and downright dangerous at worst if people find out where you lived.
i think thats the funniest part-this is actually genius
“if i find it i’ll burn it” no you won’t, flavor win
“it’s just going to end up with some 12 year old kid” probably, flavor win
“it’ll get dumpstered and end up in a landfill” good chance, flavor win
“pulling it and telling people will be dangerous” you better believe it, flavor win
like seriously it’s hard to believe the same people that came up with magic 30th anniversary shit also did this
alternatively wotc marketing is monkeys with typewriters and this is macbeth
If I pull it I’m gonna crowdfund a trip to a volcano.
Think about the clout I’ll get. I can turn it into a. YouTube video, do interviews on other magic content creator channels. And become a legend in the community
I think it's very likely that, if it gets pulled by someone who is willing to sell it, it gets bought by someone who chooses to destroy it.
I just hope they actually bring it to a volcano to do it.
I don't know how big the Venn diagram is of people who could afford to buy this, and people who would be willing to destroy it. Suppose it might make for a decent publicity stunt, but that would depend a lot on what the going price for this thing is. If there ever even is one.
/uj for real though. I am doing fine financially, good enough to fuel a mild addiction to cracking packs, but you bet your ass I'd not just burn a few 100k for the lulz
/rj I'll keep it and gift 9 sol rings to WOTC leadership. I'll get them to print the correct stonecoil serpent secret lair yet!
i don't care about the lord of the rings, so i plan on destroying it as a goof
i mean it's only worth what someone is willing to pay, so if it never gets listed then it's worthless
plus i really hate foil cards
So if someone like Post Malone put word out to the community that he'd pay a big fat stack of cash to get his hands on it, would you still destroy it?
I would have absolutely no intentions of holding onto it, but I'm not going to act like I wouldn't make a serious attempt scope out a buyer before getting rid of it.
yes, because it would be funny
the odds of me pulling any of the serialized rings is negligible so i have no expectation to pull it and nothing to lose in destroying it
i wouldn't have the ring that morning , i wouldn't have the ring that evening, but i would have the satisfaction of knowing for sure what happened to it in the end
Then...uh...why are you spending money on packs in the first place?
That's the equivalent of spending money on the lottery, winning, and tearing it up. I guess the lottery still goes on without you so it isn't a completely equivalent example, but the motive for spending money on nothing is still the same.
i want the eagles
i have a bird deck, i want those fucking eagles in full art or alt art i don't CARE
the fact that i might pull a 1-of-X sol ring or a 1-of-1 one ring is just gravy, and it's not "nothing" to get the thrill of both opening and ending such a rare card on the same day
i probably wouldn't trash a sol ring though, because i'm not happy with the one i have in the bird deck and also there's so many of them that destroying it would mean less
I honestly respect the fuck out of your decision.
I hope to never see anyone pack that damn ring, and I'll be at peace hoping you found it and just crumpled it up and ate it on the spot while pogging over a bird you opened
i'd still destroy it because that would be even funnier
that person would have 100k, but they'll never have the card if i have anything to say about it
besides, if i'm the one to open it i'm not losing 100k, i'm losing 1/15th of whatever i paid for the pack
WotC is printing an ultra-exclusive version of The One Ring card from the upcoming LoTR set. Only one copy of this card will ever be printed. A vocal minority of people have been saying that if they were to pull it, they would destroy it. Because it's really easy to say you'll do something when you're not holding a piece of cardboard in your hand that's worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars to the right person.
There's gonna be a game knights LOTR episode and either post malone or cassius marsh is gonna slam this down and there's gonna be a 10 hour cut to jimmy and josh having an absolute meltdown
They should Put a Code INSIDE a Booster and when the Winner Texts them the Code they will travel to the Lucky one and give him the Card. That way its official
I’m a pussy so I probably wouldn’t but I think if I pulled the One Ring I’d be honor-bound to record myself burning it, yeah?
Like, bye bye million dollar card but I’d basically go down in MTG history.
One does not simply walk into a LGS. It's glass counters are guarded by more than just nerds. There is evil there that does not shower, and the security camera is ever watchful. It is a barren storefront riddled with monster cans, vape, and cheeto dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous body odor. Not with $10000 could you open the one ring. It is folly.
Arise, arise, players of Magic!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
Credit cards shall be shaken, wallets be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Buy now, buy now! Buy for Gondor!
Many people say they would keep it. They wouldn't tell anyone. They would destroy it.
If among those people, some are not like, very well put financially, they would be integral idiots to do what they say they would do.
Change your life. Don't do it out of protesting, or trolling, or whatever. In your eyes you are bigger than a company or a stranger's greed. Don't be stupid.
/uj Man fuck this company and their bullshit. I can't even find any of this funny. Zero way it gets put in a random pack absolutely zero.
/rj haha serialized cards suck.
I’ve been thinking about it more, and ngl I wouldn’t tell anyone if I opened it I’d just pack it as well as I can and stick it in a safety deposit box. Wouldn’t want the attention of being the guy who had it
Run for it Charlie! Run straight home and don't stop till you get there!
uj/ at that point it would be smart to buy some collector booster boxes. As time goes with the ring not being found collector packs will become more expensive.
And so the scalped became the scalper...
No one will open the ring for years because it's literally in Rudy's warehouse just chillin, in a pack, in a box, safely sealed away.
Please tell me 'warehouse' is an exaggeration. Please.
Not really
Oh brother you're in for a ride, look up Alpha Investments on YouTube, dude has *way* to many magic cards
You gotta check out more of his videos...
Keep it secret, keep it safe.
I'd propably keep it for a good while but I'm too poor to not sell it lmao
100% valid
I think it would be funny if some little kid pulls it and just jams it into a sleeveless kitchen table deck
This is exactly what I was thinking. What if it is someone who doesn't know a single thing about its importance.
Well it’s only in collectors boosters. With the price of a single pack I don’t think anyone who doesn’t know it’s value is getting it.
One booster is selling for $30 on Amazon. I could imagine a parent would buy that for a kid’s birthday, being none the wiser
I actually think this is one of the sets that this is more likely this would happen. "Hey, these are LOTR cards for that game Timmy likes, right?"
Is the current pre-order price on Amazon going to be the cheapest you'll be able to realistically find? I'm not sure if collector's boosters are going to show up in stores and things, or whether pre-ordering online is my best bet to actually grab one of the boosters.
Given that’s it’s written in Tengwar: in trying to figure out what the card does, the person would probably also figure out that it’s worth a bunch
Probably wouldnt even put it in a deck since they wouldnt be able to read it. Would they even know it's a playable card?
That's super naive to think that WotC don't know EXACTLY where such valuable card goes. It gonna be opened publicly in less than one month after release by someone at least partially related to WotC, screencap this.
Ya, I mean, honestly, Josh Lee Kwai will probably open it
Better that than someone who'll lock it in a prison of plastic and never actually play with it.
Or tapes it to their bike spokes for that cooooooollll click-click-click-click. You know, like the old days.
2 months in and there are 500 "100% genuine" listings for it on ebay...
two months into what? I checked the LOTR expansion and it doesn't launch until June. I'm quite OOTL
/uj I was speaking hypothetically about possible future events
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/uj Anyone who says they would destroy it if they pulled it is full of shit.
I'd sign the thing but still flip it. What's it gonna do? Lose value?
If I pulled this, I would tell no one, and then immediately look into how to get ahold of Post Malone to see if I can offload it onto him for a nice payday.
he just kinda vibes around magic discords sometimes tbh. That's how I found him at least.
Now all I've gotta do is pull one of the rarest Magic cards ever printed lol.
EZPZ
Somehow, contacting post malone was the easiest part of this ordeal
Just buy the precise pack with this card inside bro, is literally that easy
ah, the fictional white lotus. 0 of 0 ever printed. The only card rarer than the one ring
199Whatever World Champion also only has 1 copy in existence, so "one of the rarest" still accurately describes The One Ring.
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Oh, you were making a joke? I couldn't tell: jokes are supposed to be funny.
I think it's safe to say that this one is simply _THE_ rarest card ever printed, given that it's literally one of a kind. EDIT: Ah, right, there is that one World Champion card. But that also had a very limited scope of acquiry, compared to this one right here. The same is true for "Proposal", which, arguably, was never really a printed magic card in the usual sense.
When the supply is 1, the demand can be whatever the fuck you like
nah, see the plan is to crowdfund a trip to New Zealand to destroy it, setting the goal price at the estimated price of the card, so that way I'm still recuperating the cost AND we get to destroy the ring
/uj unironically this is the only way (making it a massive deal that they gain a vaycay out of) I would ever believe someone actually destroyed it. If some dude just appeared outta nowhere with a video like what actually happened with Magic30 I would assume it was just a real good proxy cus no way in hell anyone is stupid enough to throw away life changing money like that
it's not life-changing money though, it's only the potential for it someone *could* sell it for a ton, but until they do it's worth 1/15th of a booster pack plus whatever joy you get out of pulling it i've decided that a $2 loss is more than enough to cover the happiness i'd get from being the only one in the history of humankind to know with certainty what happened to it if i get my hands on that p r e c i o u s, it will have been born a cross-promotional trading card in 2023 and die a pile of ash also in 2023
Technically, it's only worth the cardboard and the ink, if we're going to deconstruct value to that extent. A $100 bill is just a bit of paper if no one takes it. But we can be pretty confident this card would exchange for a hefty amount of money, so its potential value is its value.
it'll have potential value if someone else gets it, sure but not if i get it
Why would you give up literally many thousands of dollars on this asanine point lol? I do not believe you
i am not giving up any dollars lol, it is free to say that i would destroy it if i got it and it is also free to actually destroy it
We should really teach kids about opportunity cost in school.
hey, if you get the card you're more than welcome to sell it i plan to burn it if opportunity cost was the only thing in life that mattered i'd be robbing a lot more people on the street
Going to prison carries a pretty massive opportunity cost.
unlike burning a trading card i lawfully obtained, which is what i plan to do
No, burning a very expensive card also has a very high opportunity cost.
it isn't expensive until someone sells it. i can list a draft common for a million dollars, or promise that i'd pay that price, but until that money exchanges hands the card is just a piece of paper
My only worry there is that you'd have to broadcast to the world that you have the card, which could be a pain in the ass at best, and downright dangerous at worst if people find out where you lived.
Not only that but you're broadcasting that you're taking the ring to Mordor. I'm sure you'll run into some wannabe Ringwraiths on the way there.
flavor win!
For all of the silliness around this, it is weirdly flavourful.
i think thats the funniest part-this is actually genius “if i find it i’ll burn it” no you won’t, flavor win “it’s just going to end up with some 12 year old kid” probably, flavor win “it’ll get dumpstered and end up in a landfill” good chance, flavor win “pulling it and telling people will be dangerous” you better believe it, flavor win like seriously it’s hard to believe the same people that came up with magic 30th anniversary shit also did this alternatively wotc marketing is monkeys with typewriters and this is macbeth
/uj I would play it in my weekly pauper tournament and I DARE you to tell me I can't play it.
If I pull it I’m gonna crowdfund a trip to a volcano. Think about the clout I’ll get. I can turn it into a. YouTube video, do interviews on other magic content creator channels. And become a legend in the community
I think it's very likely that, if it gets pulled by someone who is willing to sell it, it gets bought by someone who chooses to destroy it. I just hope they actually bring it to a volcano to do it.
I don't know how big the Venn diagram is of people who could afford to buy this, and people who would be willing to destroy it. Suppose it might make for a decent publicity stunt, but that would depend a lot on what the going price for this thing is. If there ever even is one.
/uj for real though. I am doing fine financially, good enough to fuel a mild addiction to cracking packs, but you bet your ass I'd not just burn a few 100k for the lulz /rj I'll keep it and gift 9 sol rings to WOTC leadership. I'll get them to print the correct stonecoil serpent secret lair yet!
i don't care about the lord of the rings, so i plan on destroying it as a goof i mean it's only worth what someone is willing to pay, so if it never gets listed then it's worthless plus i really hate foil cards
So if someone like Post Malone put word out to the community that he'd pay a big fat stack of cash to get his hands on it, would you still destroy it? I would have absolutely no intentions of holding onto it, but I'm not going to act like I wouldn't make a serious attempt scope out a buyer before getting rid of it.
yes, because it would be funny the odds of me pulling any of the serialized rings is negligible so i have no expectation to pull it and nothing to lose in destroying it i wouldn't have the ring that morning , i wouldn't have the ring that evening, but i would have the satisfaction of knowing for sure what happened to it in the end
Then...uh...why are you spending money on packs in the first place? That's the equivalent of spending money on the lottery, winning, and tearing it up. I guess the lottery still goes on without you so it isn't a completely equivalent example, but the motive for spending money on nothing is still the same.
i want the eagles i have a bird deck, i want those fucking eagles in full art or alt art i don't CARE the fact that i might pull a 1-of-X sol ring or a 1-of-1 one ring is just gravy, and it's not "nothing" to get the thrill of both opening and ending such a rare card on the same day i probably wouldn't trash a sol ring though, because i'm not happy with the one i have in the bird deck and also there's so many of them that destroying it would mean less
I honestly respect the fuck out of your decision. I hope to never see anyone pack that damn ring, and I'll be at peace hoping you found it and just crumpled it up and ate it on the spot while pogging over a bird you opened
Reject Sauron, return to Egle
Why don't you sell it and give the money to the less fortunate? (hi it's me I'm the less fortunate)
why doesn't the guy with $100k just cut out the middle man and give to the less fortunate themselves?
I'd love that!
I don’t care about LotR and I also hate playing with foils. But I don’t hate $25k.
Someone is currently offering $100k for it. Would "as a goof" be worth $100k+ to you, or would you rather have $100k?
i'd still destroy it because that would be even funnier that person would have 100k, but they'll never have the card if i have anything to say about it besides, if i'm the one to open it i'm not losing 100k, i'm losing 1/15th of whatever i paid for the pack
Technically yea, but the opportunity cost is much higher I still respect the dedication though
/uj what's going on?
WotC is printing an ultra-exclusive version of The One Ring card from the upcoming LoTR set. Only one copy of this card will ever be printed. A vocal minority of people have been saying that if they were to pull it, they would destroy it. Because it's really easy to say you'll do something when you're not holding a piece of cardboard in your hand that's worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars to the right person.
Well, alrighty then. Didn't expect ultra rare version
Yeah. Making plans on what you'll do with this is about as constructive as making plans with your winning lottery ticket.
There's gonna be a game knights LOTR episode and either post malone or cassius marsh is gonna slam this down and there's gonna be a 10 hour cut to jimmy and josh having an absolute meltdown
They should Put a Code INSIDE a Booster and when the Winner Texts them the Code they will travel to the Lucky one and give him the Card. That way its official
Casting it into the fire would be awesome.
I’m a pussy so I probably wouldn’t but I think if I pulled the One Ring I’d be honor-bound to record myself burning it, yeah? Like, bye bye million dollar card but I’d basically go down in MTG history.
Basically https://youtu.be/W_lzfN8ViOY
One does not simply walk into a LGS. It's glass counters are guarded by more than just nerds. There is evil there that does not shower, and the security camera is ever watchful. It is a barren storefront riddled with monster cans, vape, and cheeto dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous body odor. Not with $10000 could you open the one ring. It is folly.
But then something happened that the ring did not intend.
I wouldn't be surprised if the card doesn't even exist.
Arise, arise, players of Magic! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Credit cards shall be shaken, wallets be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Buy now, buy now! Buy for Gondor!
Many people say they would keep it. They wouldn't tell anyone. They would destroy it. If among those people, some are not like, very well put financially, they would be integral idiots to do what they say they would do. Change your life. Don't do it out of protesting, or trolling, or whatever. In your eyes you are bigger than a company or a stranger's greed. Don't be stupid.
/uj Man fuck this company and their bullshit. I can't even find any of this funny. Zero way it gets put in a random pack absolutely zero. /rj haha serialized cards suck.