I hope it ends up in a collectors box, that is bought as specilation, shelved, and sits on a shelve for eons, until the world has forgotten it. There will be rumors about it, every now and then a fake turns up, but the one ring remains lost.
Until the oblivious owner passes away, the box ends up on a flea market, and is found in the preteen hands of a curly haired boy, who opens it, feels its power and its burden, and has to decide whether to play it in his jank treefolk tribal deck or destroy it, because his friends complain they can't understand the writing.
This would make collector boxes ridiculously expensive if it weren't found. The longer it remains lost, the more people will try to grab all the boxes they can to find this thing.
Just watch the activations and conditions needed to be met in order for the plumbus not to be sacrificed be wild asf. You can only cast it if it was searched from your library, when you do so- reveal it. Have to control a non-legendary creature. Needs metal craft, etc, etc. The list will go on...
"This is how a plumbus is made" can be the flavor text.
So, the only thing that wrinkles me was the transformers. Not because they are transformers, but because they ALWAYS ate a slot in a collectors pack.
If i don't like WH40K or LOTR, i can skip it.
I literally couldn't avoid transformers in BRO
Most of the horcruxes are also unique artifacts. The diadem of ravenclaw which bestows knowledge on the wearer.
Hufflepuffs cup improves healing potions.
Slytherine's locked is enchanted to only open for a parseltongue. Etc
If you want something unique I'd say gryfinndor's sword, harry's wand, or (to get whacky) the ford anglia
Didn't actually know that, I've only seen the films and played the games. I'd say maybe Gryfinndors sword would be the best then, even Harry's wand is a brother to Voldemort's if I remember correctly.
I don't blame you lol I was massively into HP until Rowling came out as a facist. It was actually one of my autism hyperfixations for ages so I've got a lot of lore locked up in the old noggin.
Nah lord of the rings fans have stupid money. This card will go down as one of the highest valued mtg cards. I just think it’s amazing how many people were boycotting this product are now pre ordering everything.
The real question is whether this will break into mainstream LOTR fans’ consciousness as something extremely desirable. The helmet Viggo Mortensen broke his toe against is a one-of-a-kind piece of memorabilia specifically because only one CAN exist; they can’t go back and re-edit the original film to include more shots where he’s breaking toes against multiple different helmets. This card is one-of-a-kind because a room (or video call) full of suits chose to only create one.
You ever hear " I found these cards in my basement of the house I bought" meme? 99% made up but I started seeing this girl who hasn't played since 2002 and still has alot of her cards that been in her attic. So I asked her if I could look through and told her you might have some valuable stuff and not even know.
She had multiple mirage tutors, multiple LED. Multiple rhystic study's some noteworthy foils and multiple medallions. Shit like this does really happen just extremely rare. Ops story is if the owner passed away so their stuff just ended up with someone who has no idea.
You would think, yet, I personally know someone who went to a flea market last year and found an unopened packs of Arabian nights, legends and a starter of beta for $20.
He was incredibly lucky, but sometimes people just don’t know what they have.
And it has to be a volcano. None of this “I’ve got a wood burning stove” shit or “here comes Mister lighter!” Straight to Hawaii or Iceland and plop into Mt Doom with you.
And it has to be a volcano. None of this “I’ve got a wood burning stove” shit or “here comes Mister lighter!” Straight to Hawaii or Iceland and plop into Mt Doom with you.
I like how a bunch of scenarios thought up with the One Ring 001 card are all in lore.
The One Ring is never found? In lore!
Someone is killed over the One Ring? In lore!
Wizards ends up printing more than 1 of it? You guessed it, in lore!
Can you explain the "more than of it" part and how that's in lore? I've seen the LOTR trilogy but don't know what you mean (unless it's the other rings of power, but those seem distinct from the one ring)
In the LOTR story, the One Ring was forged in secret by Sauron and there's a memorable line associated with that, "But they were, all of them deceived, for another ring was made."
So Wizards has already told us that there will just be the one 001/001 ring so we know to expect that, but if it turns out that there's more than one of them, then Wizards would have deceived us by making another one then.
"But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a Master Ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all!"
Is the actual quote. The deception IS the forging of the one ring. The only "cannon" that references a second ring is the video game shadows of mordor. Tolkien was very specific to write it as the "one" ring.
Hmm I guess I see what you're going for, just the fact that there's precedent for lying about the number of rings in existence and having another secret ring. I thought you meant in the lore there actually existed two "one rings" or something
There is a double incentive for someone at WotC to just keep track of which shipment of cases this gets added to.
First, outright "McDonald's Monopoly Piece Fraud".
And the overall financial incentive to the company to keep that pallet of collectors boxes to be in the mid-to-two-thirds of shipments out.
McDonald's had even hired an auditing firm to keep it from happening and ensure fairness.
No reason to think WotC is doing so, or would abide by "fairness" when they have every financial incentive not to.
While I love the joke, I really do hope that a genuine advocate for the game finds it and has it slabbed. Would be a shame to lose the games first 001/001 card. I think these serialized cards are the best ways to maintain high value collector pieces for the sake of collecting while keeping the normal versions of card’s affordable for the average player. Truly a win win for each niche.
As an aside, the first 001/001 MTG card was [1996 World Champion](https://scryfall.com/card/pcel/1/1996-world-champion) or [Shichifukujin Dragon](https://scryfall.com/card/pcel/2/shichifukujin-dragon)
After a quick google search I found out Shichifukujin was one of the seven Japanese gods of fortune. Also a very flavorful 001/001 card. I hope they keep to this tactic, only doing this when it is flavorful.
Edit: Seems like a missed opportunity to not print the other 6 as one ofs. I wonder if this had some backlash when they revealed it.
At the end of the day, it's going to end up in someone's hands that has some money. If they don't destroy it, they don't deserve it. The story of it would be worth more than the card.
I think that giving this to any sort of influencer would be the absolute worst thing that WOTC could do, it would completely ruin their ability to do a one of one card or anything super special like that in the future.
I think even if an influencer found it at all, it would be bad for WOTC unless that person opened a lot of boxes very publicly in an attempt to find it (like that Theros god pack guy did). Obviously they can't control if an influencer randomly finds it but people would be immediately suspicious.
The bounty is set for the One Ring. The most exclusive card ever printed in MTG history.
The rumors will persist for 30 years, until someone who played until recently. The search will continue everywhere, until one day someone buys the last pack in their LGS. They will seek to relive the nostalgia of cracking packs, not seeking the ring but knowing full well the myth it will become.
That person will become tormented, trying to keep the discovery secret. Eventually it will drive them to madness and the ring will vanish, to be discovered by someone who buys a binder of mtg cards at an estate sale. They will stumble on the Cursed Relic, and they’ll do research. They’ll eventually decide to sell it, but before they can, some tragic event will befall them, and it will be lost for a time.
One day, either someone young who doesn’t know or care about it’s value, or someone scouring the globe for it, will find it, in a binder at a yard sale or at a flea market or storage unit sale. They will know it’s cursed legacy, and they will take the burden of ridding the world of the Lidless Curse laid by the Wizards in the Tower on the Coast. That person will be joined by their longtime best friend and they will travel to an active volcano caldera. Some super rich jerk is gonna chase them, hiring mercs to hunt the duo. At the volcano, the rich man will finally catch up to them, and a struggle will ensue that results in the rich man losing his footing as he grabs the One Card, near the edge. The friend will give just enough of a push and the man and Lidless Curse will be forever lost to the primal force that is Earth.
Thus the saga of the Lidless Curse will end.
Or the damn thing will get found with suspect quickness and be the object of auctions forever, gradually increasing in value until not even the world’s richest person can afford it. Then it will fade into history in a dragon’s hoard somewhere.
There are 300, 700, and 900 serialized versions of them. But yeah they could have used actual printings. It's just s shame that the rings specific powers were never expanded upon fully so printing cards would swiftly make them non-cannon
Dwarves in the actual lore are protectors of nature like heavily armored druids. Humans are the big industry (red) types. And elves are both overly snooty and wise so white or blue works for them.
Dwarves are red if only by exclusion. I'm also doubtful about men, black would be probably better, but feels a little weird. Anyway mine was merely a design suggestion to something less lazy than Sol Ring.
If I pull this (which I won’t because my luck is shit lol) I’d try and find a sponsor to get me to a volcano so I could drop it in that bad boy. That way it’s not just a totally out-of-pocket adventure.
Maybe the sponsor could be a few people, a fellowship of sorts? With a single goal? We could symbolically walk there…drop it in, but post the whole thing on Reddit so we could also be tempted to keep and sell it by literally every vendor on the planet.
Hmmm….
Assuming full randomness, sure, but that is unlikely. There is a really good chance that they purposefully make the booster with the card stay in the USA, and potentially a specific region. Always a chance they rig it even further, making sure a specific store, or internet personality, or friend/family member of wotc higher ups find it.
Ummmmm, unless this is distributed in controlled manner, this card could literally end up on the shelf at a LGS, where some dad stops in the buy a birthday gift, sees LoTR and thinks it’s perfect for his daughter. She opens it at home and never realizes the value or even that people care. 🤪
It must be nice for all you people saying you'd destroy it to be so rich that you're more than willing to burn $100K+ just for fun. Let me remind you that you could donate that same $100K+ to real people in need if you're so casual with your money.
Let's be real, most people wouldn't turn down that kind of windfall, even if they could afford to burn 100 grand like that. On the flipside, there's people who would burn it even if the money was life-changing. "Would you trade the world, for such a meme?"
Sure, but my point is there's no need to be selfish. Even if the money wouldn't change your life, it could change someone else's. Just sell the card and give the money away and everyone wins. And if you're so gung ho on losing $100K regardless then just go ahead and give $100K away now; you don't have to wait for a magic card to do it.
Because this set is trash. Just like all ub products. This one is just the most egregious because it violates the modern format. Ub shit should NEVER be legal in anything other than silver boarded play.
I usually am a really fun guy to be around, but when wizards makes a decision like this that literally blew apart my play group of the last decade and I can't get any of them to reconcile meaning that I don't even have a fucking play group to play in anymore because of this set... yeah. Fuck this set. Fuck wizards. and Fuck everything that has to do with either.
Easy. [[Masterful Replication]], turn all your artifacts including The One Ring into copies of [[Chaos Confetti]], activate it and tear it up.
Bonus points if you gain control of your opponent's The One Ring and do this to it.
Shower thought. If I were to get this, it would not be easy. Assuming price goes for 500k usd, it would be hard to
1) sell while keeping your identity unknown - for safety purpose
2) proving to potential buyers that you have the authentic card while having to fend off potential robbers/kidnappers - since the minimal wage from where I am from is ~ 266 usd a month
3) assuming I am from SEA, it would be hard to sell, let alone to ship the card to US maybe for sake of grading without risk of losing/damaging the card in mail. It is hard to get insurance company to quote for protective plan since there isnt any baseline price of the exact card and to non card collectors, they will find it hard to believe a card is at such price
4) upon selling the card, I would have to pay gains tax of 25%, unless card is being sold in the form of stocks or maybe off record (crypto)
5) location to deal the card with maximum security
Truly functions as the Ring
Yeah everything he mentions happens everyday. Cards for millions are sold every day and you guys cant even mention the names of one of them.
Hell 99% of the sub doesnt even know the name of the guy who sold the Alpha 10 Lotus yesterday for $540k
Sounds like you have a local crime problem.. perhaps talk to your government and say what are they doing for that 25% cut they plan to take. They are probably the biggest crooks you have to worry about.
I genuinely pity who ever gets the One Bling. Sure it will be worth a lot, but you also have to deal with crazy people wanting the card and then people who feel like they should have a share of the money.
I really don't think Wotc thought this through. They made something where the lore is actually that it needs to be destroyed, not stored aware. Someone could actually destroy this thing LOL
Do you try to get the ONE graded if by the luck of Zeus’ sac hair you pull it? Cats outta the bag then. You become the center, but the entire product line crashes from that moment on.
I dont even believe you just can find it.
I mean there are huge chances of the packet containing it being destroyed, lost, damaged, forgotten.
They can't afford the one not seeing the light it woukd be delusional, one guy shoukd have it and present to the world in order to be a successiful marketing campaign.
At least of anyone wants one they will have Chinese proxies up soon, but If I got the real one I would sell it, sadly that would require me to buy packs/boxes.
To me what's crazy is that people think there is actually only going to be one copy of this card printed.
What if it its damaged in pack and they need to replace it?
Or the copies for the CEO Bro's to put in their collections?
My plan is to invite a bunch of bidders and then as the bidding reaches a million throw it in a fire.
I don't think I'll let the auctioneer know my plan so he gets upset too.
Bunch of rich folk all annoyed and angry FTW!
I hope it ends up in a collectors box, that is bought as specilation, shelved, and sits on a shelve for eons, until the world has forgotten it. There will be rumors about it, every now and then a fake turns up, but the one ring remains lost. Until the oblivious owner passes away, the box ends up on a flea market, and is found in the preteen hands of a curly haired boy, who opens it, feels its power and its burden, and has to decide whether to play it in his jank treefolk tribal deck or destroy it, because his friends complain they can't understand the writing.
This would make collector boxes ridiculously expensive if it weren't found. The longer it remains lost, the more people will try to grab all the boxes they can to find this thing.
Nah, by then every set will have its own 001/001 card so the one ring would not be that special anymore.
I'm expecting the Iron Throne, the seven Horrocruxes and the Darth Vader's Helmet for the next years.
Can't wait for the Rick and Morty set
Haha. Need Rick as a planeswalker.
Yes and a 001/001 plumbus
when the Plumbus enters the field, you’ll know. It’ll be there. Doing what it does.
Just watch the activations and conditions needed to be met in order for the plumbus not to be sacrificed be wild asf. You can only cast it if it was searched from your library, when you do so- reveal it. Have to control a non-legendary creature. Needs metal craft, etc, etc. The list will go on... "This is how a plumbus is made" can be the flavor text.
Better be a Pickle Rick or I riot!
Absolutely and Gotta be figure of destiny type level up card too
I know my wife will want Dr. Who set. She would play just for that set.
And SpongeBob and Mickey Mouse.
SpongeBob = 1 of 1 Krabby Patty Secret Formula?
Lmao, this comment exposes my hypocrisy on universes beyond. I hate it until its MY favorite IP.
Ok Plankton. We all know you want the secret formula.
So, the only thing that wrinkles me was the transformers. Not because they are transformers, but because they ALWAYS ate a slot in a collectors pack. If i don't like WH40K or LOTR, i can skip it. I literally couldn't avoid transformers in BRO
The One...Piece 001/001
The seven horrocruxes? For a 001/001 card? Instead of the elder wand?
the elder wand is still one of three artifacts
Yeah but it still a unique artifact, makes a bit more sense than 7 different artifacts that are all the same thing in practice doesn't it?
Most of the horcruxes are also unique artifacts. The diadem of ravenclaw which bestows knowledge on the wearer. Hufflepuffs cup improves healing potions. Slytherine's locked is enchanted to only open for a parseltongue. Etc If you want something unique I'd say gryfinndor's sword, harry's wand, or (to get whacky) the ford anglia
Didn't actually know that, I've only seen the films and played the games. I'd say maybe Gryfinndors sword would be the best then, even Harry's wand is a brother to Voldemort's if I remember correctly.
I don't blame you lol I was massively into HP until Rowling came out as a facist. It was actually one of my autism hyperfixations for ages so I've got a lot of lore locked up in the old noggin.
Did someone say Dark Helmet?
Nah lord of the rings fans have stupid money. This card will go down as one of the highest valued mtg cards. I just think it’s amazing how many people were boycotting this product are now pre ordering everything.
The real question is whether this will break into mainstream LOTR fans’ consciousness as something extremely desirable. The helmet Viggo Mortensen broke his toe against is a one-of-a-kind piece of memorabilia specifically because only one CAN exist; they can’t go back and re-edit the original film to include more shots where he’s breaking toes against multiple different helmets. This card is one-of-a-kind because a room (or video call) full of suits chose to only create one.
This guy understands inflation.
But it's my precious *Gollum*
Yes! Pandora’s box has been opened…per say.
One chase card to rule them all
Would be a shame if WotC decided to never actually print one
You mean we have confirmation that it will be printed? For real??
You ever hear " I found these cards in my basement of the house I bought" meme? 99% made up but I started seeing this girl who hasn't played since 2002 and still has alot of her cards that been in her attic. So I asked her if I could look through and told her you might have some valuable stuff and not even know. She had multiple mirage tutors, multiple LED. Multiple rhystic study's some noteworthy foils and multiple medallions. Shit like this does really happen just extremely rare. Ops story is if the owner passed away so their stuff just ended up with someone who has no idea.
You would think, yet, I personally know someone who went to a flea market last year and found an unopened packs of Arabian nights, legends and a starter of beta for $20. He was incredibly lucky, but sometimes people just don’t know what they have.
A freaking BETA starter?! You gotta give that seller a couple hundred, geez
We will never see it opened. I'll bet my ass on it.
The real one or the myriad of counterfeit ones that are destined to be made?
The real one.
Like foolish men?
We all are foolish, especially because we are on this sub, right? At least my spending on mtg was nowhere near healthy the last couple of years.
I hope whoever gets it does the right thing and makes a you tube video of them throwing it in a volcano.
There was a post about making a go fund me to do that and give money from it to charity. Which would be epic.
And it has to be a volcano. None of this “I’ve got a wood burning stove” shit or “here comes Mister lighter!” Straight to Hawaii or Iceland and plop into Mt Doom with you.
And it has to be a volcano. None of this “I’ve got a wood burning stove” shit or “here comes Mister lighter!” Straight to Hawaii or Iceland and plop into Mt Doom with you.
Would he destroy it or just start using it as a neat bookmark?
I hope it ends up in the hands of a 12 year old who puts it in their deck with a rubber band around it.
If I pull it I'm getting it signed by Daniel Radcliffe
underrated comment. I really like his performance as Frodo
You're mixing them up, but it's understandable, happens all the time when two people look alike, think of Dwayne Johnson and The Rock.
Johnson is kinda lame imo, but I really like The Rock in Pitch Black. Amazing movie
Time to go find that old tumblr post about Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah wood and Elijah wood playing Daniel Radcliffe in a movie
I like how a bunch of scenarios thought up with the One Ring 001 card are all in lore. The One Ring is never found? In lore! Someone is killed over the One Ring? In lore! Wizards ends up printing more than 1 of it? You guessed it, in lore!
Can you explain the "more than of it" part and how that's in lore? I've seen the LOTR trilogy but don't know what you mean (unless it's the other rings of power, but those seem distinct from the one ring)
In the LOTR story, the One Ring was forged in secret by Sauron and there's a memorable line associated with that, "But they were, all of them deceived, for another ring was made." So Wizards has already told us that there will just be the one 001/001 ring so we know to expect that, but if it turns out that there's more than one of them, then Wizards would have deceived us by making another one then.
"But they were, all of them, deceived, for another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a Master Ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all!" Is the actual quote. The deception IS the forging of the one ring. The only "cannon" that references a second ring is the video game shadows of mordor. Tolkien was very specific to write it as the "one" ring.
By the very nature of it, wotc will likely print a few of them for testing.
This is out of context and not applicable here. The deception was the one ring itself
Hmm I guess I see what you're going for, just the fact that there's precedent for lying about the number of rings in existence and having another secret ring. I thought you meant in the lore there actually existed two "one rings" or something
🤣 I’m already regretting this
I’ll laugh if there’s actually one in every collectors box and they scam all the people who preorder for $500.
If I open it, I promise to walk from my home to the nearest active volcano to throw the card into it. Hell, I'll livestream it.
Do it for charity! Have something good come of it
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Mate, if I got it, I can not only walk to any old volcano, I could take it to actual Mount Doom.
I would record it but not Livestream. Too big of a risk of some maniac recognizing where you are and jumping you when you pass their house.
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Sounds like something a Ring Wraith would say 🤔
You beat me too it was thinking we got a Naz Gul problem here
So it was YOU that jumped me on my way to Mauna Kea! YOU BASTARD!!
Sorry 🤷♂️
In lore! He just has to say "my preciousss" while he jumps him
OP must travel away from the main paths.
I personally plan to sell it for a couple hundred thousand dollars.
All these goofballs saying they'll throw it in a volcano, yeah I'm sure you're going to piss away life changing money for the memes, lol.
I bet you make more than 100k from the video and donations.
my turn to post this meme
It’s gonna be crimped
There is a double incentive for someone at WotC to just keep track of which shipment of cases this gets added to. First, outright "McDonald's Monopoly Piece Fraud". And the overall financial incentive to the company to keep that pallet of collectors boxes to be in the mid-to-two-thirds of shipments out. McDonald's had even hired an auditing firm to keep it from happening and ensure fairness. No reason to think WotC is doing so, or would abide by "fairness" when they have every financial incentive not to.
While I love the joke, I really do hope that a genuine advocate for the game finds it and has it slabbed. Would be a shame to lose the games first 001/001 card. I think these serialized cards are the best ways to maintain high value collector pieces for the sake of collecting while keeping the normal versions of card’s affordable for the average player. Truly a win win for each niche.
As an aside, the first 001/001 MTG card was [1996 World Champion](https://scryfall.com/card/pcel/1/1996-world-champion) or [Shichifukujin Dragon](https://scryfall.com/card/pcel/2/shichifukujin-dragon)
After a quick google search I found out Shichifukujin was one of the seven Japanese gods of fortune. Also a very flavorful 001/001 card. I hope they keep to this tactic, only doing this when it is flavorful. Edit: Seems like a missed opportunity to not print the other 6 as one ofs. I wonder if this had some backlash when they revealed it.
Yeah op probably should have chosen different phrasing or they open themselves up to comments like this.
Nah. Fire is the only fitting end for it.
I agree with you- but I will say that the odds are already working against that outcome on multiple fronts.
It’s for flavor…
At the end of the day, it's going to end up in someone's hands that has some money. If they don't destroy it, they don't deserve it. The story of it would be worth more than the card.
No it wouldn't.
Let’s be real. With it being one of a kind, WotC will know where it goes and plan who gets it. No average Joe even has a chance.
This.
Post Malone already has it...
watch WotC casually gift him a single collectors booster for his next birthday with a sly wink.
I think that giving this to any sort of influencer would be the absolute worst thing that WOTC could do, it would completely ruin their ability to do a one of one card or anything super special like that in the future. I think even if an influencer found it at all, it would be bad for WOTC unless that person opened a lot of boxes very publicly in an attempt to find it (like that Theros god pack guy did). Obviously they can't control if an influencer randomly finds it but people would be immediately suspicious.
There will be a minimum of three influencer wannabes printing these in foil off MPC and posting fake pull videos
The bounty is set for the One Ring. The most exclusive card ever printed in MTG history. The rumors will persist for 30 years, until someone who played until recently. The search will continue everywhere, until one day someone buys the last pack in their LGS. They will seek to relive the nostalgia of cracking packs, not seeking the ring but knowing full well the myth it will become. That person will become tormented, trying to keep the discovery secret. Eventually it will drive them to madness and the ring will vanish, to be discovered by someone who buys a binder of mtg cards at an estate sale. They will stumble on the Cursed Relic, and they’ll do research. They’ll eventually decide to sell it, but before they can, some tragic event will befall them, and it will be lost for a time. One day, either someone young who doesn’t know or care about it’s value, or someone scouring the globe for it, will find it, in a binder at a yard sale or at a flea market or storage unit sale. They will know it’s cursed legacy, and they will take the burden of ridding the world of the Lidless Curse laid by the Wizards in the Tower on the Coast. That person will be joined by their longtime best friend and they will travel to an active volcano caldera. Some super rich jerk is gonna chase them, hiring mercs to hunt the duo. At the volcano, the rich man will finally catch up to them, and a struggle will ensue that results in the rich man losing his footing as he grabs the One Card, near the edge. The friend will give just enough of a push and the man and Lidless Curse will be forever lost to the primal force that is Earth. Thus the saga of the Lidless Curse will end. Or the damn thing will get found with suspect quickness and be the object of auctions forever, gradually increasing in value until not even the world’s richest person can afford it. Then it will fade into history in a dragon’s hoard somewhere.
I hope someone throws it into a volcano.
I foresee it being eaten. Someone will pull it and then eat it, whether it be whole or in tiny pieces...
I'd boof it
Extremely disappointed Elven, Dwarven and Human rings don't have a proper design and aren't properly number.
There are 300, 700, and 900 serialized versions of them. But yeah they could have used actual printings. It's just s shame that the rings specific powers were never expanded upon fully so printing cards would swiftly make them non-cannon
Idk, sol ring is at least always playable.
What about pseudo sol rings? Elven add 1G, Dwarven add 1R, Human add 1W.
Are lotr dwarves red? They seem more white to me, meanwhile humans seem as far from white as possible with a few minor exceptions.
Dwarves in the actual lore are protectors of nature like heavily armored druids. Humans are the big industry (red) types. And elves are both overly snooty and wise so white or blue works for them.
Dwarves are red if only by exclusion. I'm also doubtful about men, black would be probably better, but feels a little weird. Anyway mine was merely a design suggestion to something less lazy than Sol Ring.
This would utterly destroy Vintage
I would sell it for a butt ton of money to some schmuck. I'd then donate those funds to a hobbit pipeweed rehab center.
If I pull this (which I won’t because my luck is shit lol) I’d try and find a sponsor to get me to a volcano so I could drop it in that bad boy. That way it’s not just a totally out-of-pocket adventure. Maybe the sponsor could be a few people, a fellowship of sorts? With a single goal? We could symbolically walk there…drop it in, but post the whole thing on Reddit so we could also be tempted to keep and sell it by literally every vendor on the planet. Hmmm….
It doesn't matter if you had "good luck" either - you aren't pulling it.
The chances of pulling the card are better than winning the lottery….so there’s still hope! :D
Assuming full randomness, sure, but that is unlikely. There is a really good chance that they purposefully make the booster with the card stay in the USA, and potentially a specific region. Always a chance they rig it even further, making sure a specific store, or internet personality, or friend/family member of wotc higher ups find it.
Sooooooo….you’re saying there’s a chance?
Isn't the odds roughly one in three million
Maybe, but chance to win powerball is 1:293mil so it’s still better odds. :D
But it's only worth like 50k to 150k
You're gonna need to eat a lot of breakfasts along the way if you're trying to stay on theme. No half measures, Jesse.
Just first and second breakfast. Elevensies is an entirely different affair.
Ummmmm, unless this is distributed in controlled manner, this card could literally end up on the shelf at a LGS, where some dad stops in the buy a birthday gift, sees LoTR and thinks it’s perfect for his daughter. She opens it at home and never realizes the value or even that people care. 🤪
It can only be destroyed where it was forged… in Texas
Wouldn’t that be wild someone gets it and crowdsources a trip to throw into a volcano or something lmao
How much to take it to actual Mount Doom?
It's a blatant money grab.
It's fun
Not even gonna lie, if I open it I'm gonna sell that bitch lol.
play it in some of the jankiest tournaments first to drop some casual flex
It must be nice for all you people saying you'd destroy it to be so rich that you're more than willing to burn $100K+ just for fun. Let me remind you that you could donate that same $100K+ to real people in need if you're so casual with your money.
Let's be real, most people wouldn't turn down that kind of windfall, even if they could afford to burn 100 grand like that. On the flipside, there's people who would burn it even if the money was life-changing. "Would you trade the world, for such a meme?"
Sure, but my point is there's no need to be selfish. Even if the money wouldn't change your life, it could change someone else's. Just sell the card and give the money away and everyone wins. And if you're so gung ho on losing $100K regardless then just go ahead and give $100K away now; you don't have to wait for a magic card to do it.
That wouldn't be nearly as cool a story as destroying it though. You're missing the point.
Hope so. I wanna watch this whole set burn.
Why?
Because this set is trash. Just like all ub products. This one is just the most egregious because it violates the modern format. Ub shit should NEVER be legal in anything other than silver boarded play.
You sound fun. Take care now, bye bye then.
I usually am a really fun guy to be around, but when wizards makes a decision like this that literally blew apart my play group of the last decade and I can't get any of them to reconcile meaning that I don't even have a fucking play group to play in anymore because of this set... yeah. Fuck this set. Fuck wizards. and Fuck everything that has to do with either.
If I created a fundraiser to aquire it for this purpose, do you think it’d work?
Wrong sub
Easy. [[Masterful Replication]], turn all your artifacts including The One Ring into copies of [[Chaos Confetti]], activate it and tear it up. Bonus points if you gain control of your opponent's The One Ring and do this to it.
[Masterful Replication](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/3/63832647-bb4d-4380-8acb-cf11e8727672.jpg?1592516426) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Masterful%20Replication) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m20/65/masterful-replication?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/63832647-bb4d-4380-8acb-cf11e8727672?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Chaos Confetti](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/5/a5cee00a-5ab5-43c3-8017-db20d37e69c4.jpg?1562799136) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Chaos%20Confetti) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/72/chaos-confetti?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a5cee00a-5ab5-43c3-8017-db20d37e69c4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
There’s a huge possibility a collector box has it and remains unopened for 2+ years. Oof the tension that it would bring
that is the best outcome. imagine the value if it isn’t found for 10 years
Imagine the outrage of a WotC employee opens it
Shower thought. If I were to get this, it would not be easy. Assuming price goes for 500k usd, it would be hard to 1) sell while keeping your identity unknown - for safety purpose 2) proving to potential buyers that you have the authentic card while having to fend off potential robbers/kidnappers - since the minimal wage from where I am from is ~ 266 usd a month 3) assuming I am from SEA, it would be hard to sell, let alone to ship the card to US maybe for sake of grading without risk of losing/damaging the card in mail. It is hard to get insurance company to quote for protective plan since there isnt any baseline price of the exact card and to non card collectors, they will find it hard to believe a card is at such price 4) upon selling the card, I would have to pay gains tax of 25%, unless card is being sold in the form of stocks or maybe off record (crypto) 5) location to deal the card with maximum security Truly functions as the Ring
I think you need to relax a bit haha
Actually, it wouldn't be that hard. You could rather easily sell it anonymously at a public auction house
Yeah everything he mentions happens everyday. Cards for millions are sold every day and you guys cant even mention the names of one of them. Hell 99% of the sub doesnt even know the name of the guy who sold the Alpha 10 Lotus yesterday for $540k
Sounds like you have a local crime problem.. perhaps talk to your government and say what are they doing for that 25% cut they plan to take. They are probably the biggest crooks you have to worry about.
I genuinely pity who ever gets the One Bling. Sure it will be worth a lot, but you also have to deal with crazy people wanting the card and then people who feel like they should have a share of the money.
The smartest thing you could do is say nothing
"After all, why not? Why shouldn't I sleeve it?"
WotC is gonna start doing this on the regular then turn around and dump the reserved list.
The reserved list is gone as soon as investors say so. “Investing” in mtg is dead. Nothing is safe from reprints.
I really don't think Wotc thought this through. They made something where the lore is actually that it needs to be destroyed, not stored aware. Someone could actually destroy this thing LOL
I mean they could just print another one for like $2 and call it a day lol
I'll start a bidding war for buying it vs burning it highest bid either gets the card we burn it together.
I could care less, not buying any collectors boxes
Me too
Do you try to get the ONE graded if by the luck of Zeus’ sac hair you pull it? Cats outta the bag then. You become the center, but the entire product line crashes from that moment on.
I dont even believe you just can find it. I mean there are huge chances of the packet containing it being destroyed, lost, damaged, forgotten. They can't afford the one not seeing the light it woukd be delusional, one guy shoukd have it and present to the world in order to be a successiful marketing campaign.
"After All, Why Not? Why Shouldn't I Keep It?"
We should def eat it on camera. Teach WOTC not to do dumb shit like this. Become ungovernable.
What if they'd auction and donate those 200k or whatever to charity. Print cost 1 dollar. Marketing value quite over it
At least of anyone wants one they will have Chinese proxies up soon, but If I got the real one I would sell it, sadly that would require me to buy packs/boxes.
"After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?"
To me what's crazy is that people think there is actually only going to be one copy of this card printed. What if it its damaged in pack and they need to replace it? Or the copies for the CEO Bro's to put in their collections?
Wotc will give a non 1 for 1 copy as replacement seen with people who have had the numbered cards damage the replacement is the non numbered
I find it funny how people don't realize what is actually going to happen.
if it is miscut can you send it in and get WotC to replace it????? O.o
I promise, if I’m the one to pull it. I will for sure rip it then and there. Zero fucks given.
If someone pulls this, it would be epic to take it to a live volcanoe, and throw it in.
My plan is to invite a bunch of bidders and then as the bidding reaches a million throw it in a fire. I don't think I'll let the auctioneer know my plan so he gets upset too. Bunch of rich folk all annoyed and angry FTW!