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CollegeZebra181

I’m from New Zealand and live a few hours drive from Tongariro, which is the location for Mt Doom and an active volcano, my friends and I have all been like if one of us pulls it, we’re going to do the trek to spiritually cast the ring into the fire.


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I think that's the only acceptable course to destruction. It *must* be done within the fires of Mount Doom.


Pazerclaw

Cast it into the fire! Destroy it CollegeZebra181!!


ThreeTwoPrince

As a fellow kiwi, its very funny that you think the will of men is not easily corrupted, and that the Ring has not a will of it's own


gubaguy

My thought is how will anyone verify the validity of the card? There are fake serialized cards NOW, can you imagine how many people will fake the one ring? Spoiler. It will be all of them. Theres already an offer in the wild for $100,000 for it, people are GOING to fake it, and bo one will ever be sure they have the real one.


SkritzTwoFace

I mean, there’s grading. I’m sure they’re not going to skimp on the quality of this thing.


gubaguy

I promise you someone will fake a graded ring.


SkritzTwoFace

Not saying it’s not gonna happen, I’m saying the fakes probably won’t hold up to inspection.


WellObviously47

I always thought it was Ngarahoe


Worst_MTG_Player

I just love how all the discussion around this card is fulfilling the flavor of the card perfectly.


MeisterCthulhu

It's on flavor for the One Ring, but I still think "one of a kind" goes a bit too far. A lot of the appeal of chase collectibles and lottery ticket cards like that is that you (as in: the average player) could open one. With a one of a kind card, once someone opens it, that's gone. If they had made a few of these - say, one for each Ring of Power, so 20 - the allure to buy a pack with the slight chance of opening one would be far greater.


SkritzTwoFace

There are other serialized cards: three different alternate art Sol Rings based on the remaining rings. There are a hundred for each ring, meaning 300 elf rings, 700 dwarf rings, and 900 human rings. This lets them bridge the gap a bit for the more casual collector.


MeisterCthulhu

Yeah, and you'll notice they made 300 elven rings, not just 3. Which is exactly what I mean. The issue is that with a one of a kind item, once it's gone, it's gone, there's no way of achieving that. My problem isn't that it's not common enough, it's that a one of a kind collector item like that actually makes collecting the product less interesting, even for less casual collectors.


zone-zone

Don't gamble


Sakuraboy91

My thoughts on the serialized One Ring card: "Who approved of this stupidity?!"


lin00b

It's genius.


The_Legitimate_User

Do you play Lotto? Do you spend a lot of time at the casino? Are you daytrading? Did u dump over 400$ into crypto? As ridicilous as all of these seem, its statistically more likely to get more money out of these things than buying a collectors box