What is the rarest mtg card you have seen in real life?
Bonus points if you own it.
Look at the chubby fingers stuffed into those gloves like blue sausage links.
>>48076718
I have a one-of-a-kind misprint. It's not really worth anything, but it would be tied for rarest with any number of other one-of-a-kind cards.
>>48076718
Summer Hurricane.
I wish I owned it.
>>48076718
Power nine. I don't own them.
A playset of Beta Taigas some guy traded in. He also had one of the Power Nine but I didn't handle it.
I went 15 years without playing when I picked up the game again during Theros block. I had sold a lot of my better stuff when I quit back around 99, but when I went back through my older cards, I found a few lands that looked pretty weird. Apparently I owned 3 Guru lands. They helped fund my cardboard crack addiction the past couple years.
I have a friend who has crazy luck when opening booster packs. Once he opened two planeswalkers in a single pack, one of which was foiled. I have seen his collection and I cant remember the cards off of the top of my head, but I do remember him having Liliana of the Veil, among other planeswalkers.
>>48076802
>grossed out beyond belief by fat fingers
>literally cannot watch tabletop battle reports
>>48076718
I own Beta Mox Pear and a Moat from my ancient "white stax" deck I just found early this year.
>>48076845
Why is a Metroid leeching on that poor Imp?
>>48076845
my friend has 3 of those exact misprints.
This $500 piece of shit popped up in a commander game at my LGS.
had an ancestral recall as a kid.
i never knew much about the competitive aspect game.
threw it into a recycling bin with a thousand other cards
>>48077895
WHY is it $500? ($400 on tcg)
>>48077954
Low print count.
>>48077979
That I understand, but there are cards that do the exact same thing or better for the same cost or cheaper.
>>48077954
Very rare, Portal wasn't printed in big numbers. This is also why Imperial Seal is about ten times as expensive as Vampiric Tutor, even tho it's strictly worse.
>>48077993
The rules on the card mean less than the rarity. Don't forget the first c in ccg is collectible.
>>48077993
In a singleton format (like Commander) it's effectively having a second copy of Time Warp.
Expedition godless shrine opened it in my first booster ever and sold it to some rando at my legs the same day.
I had moxes back in the day. They're probably in a box of my mom's ex that's just sitting in a garage or some shit.
Recently a foil avacyn (the best version of her) my roomie owns. Keeps bragging about how he pulled it from a booster. I went through his box and stacked all his value cards one day, probably around 400 dollars.
>>48077921
NM basically pack-fresh Gaea's Cradle. I almost sniped a foil Japanese rishadan port off a guy who owed me a fuckton of money but he paid me back.
>>48077824
Oh yeah, my dad works at Wizards!
>>48078245
It's a good chunk of a paycheck but I got over it. I wasted far more money waffling in college before I figured shit out
My friend owned a foil Jace, the Mind Sculptor before selling it and getting a regular one.
>>48076718
Vizzerdrix white border. Still have it now
Has there ever be a worse thread on /tg/? I think not. Anything that devolves into a dick waving contest among actual fedora wearing "m lady" men's rights activists over how has witnessed the most expensive piece of cardboard is a new low, even by the board known for its Waifu quests.
>>48078655
You haven't been here very long, have you?
I pulled a foil ema force of will, nothing too special or interesting
>>48078655
We literally just had a thread about an autist who thinks the male race is obsolete and every fictional character should be female.
>>48077824
Show me, faggot.
>>48078926
Dude that was a total bait thread. I feel half of /tg/ is so autistic that they'll take the easiest bait.
Me included. Just like this thread.
Own Juzam Djinn and have a Beta Icey Manipulator... or maybe its unlimited? IDK, I forget. Also have a forcefield.
probably the most expensive things I own.
funny thing though. I don't even play it any longer.
saw this in japan a month ago, definitely the coolest.
other than that its power 9 stuff at GP vendors
>>48077954 Portal was a low print set.
It was mostly for the orient, the only english pack went to Australia.
>>48076718
I've seen a Black Lotus and Summer Hurricane in a display case.
I own a NM foil Polluted Delta (from Onslaught)
I also know a guy who owns a Black Lotus, though very worn out.
I have a BGS 9.5 graded Mishra's Workshop.
I bought it from someone who opened 6 of them when Antiquities was first released and had kept 2 of them, sleeved in a binder, ever since. They'd sold one already and I bought the other for $300 before having it graded.
I own an MMA Goyf, that's about it. Have the expedition lands gone down in price much? Petty sure the GB expedition fetchland I cracked and traded for was worth more.
>>48078004
I used to have an imperial seal. My mom gave my whole collection away to a bunch of retards as a gift.
>>48077993
it gets run in edh in decks that already run time warp and whatever the buyback one is
>Rarest owned?
One Expedition Wooded Foothills, One Expedition Ancient Tomb. Both pulled within a month of the other.
>Rarest seen?
It is a tie between watching one dude at a sealed tournament pull a foil Gideon then pull a normal Gideon the very next booster (which I've never even heard of happening) and some vintage deck which had a mox ruby and mox pearl.
>tfw a guy with the whole power 9 is playing at the magic-club where I live, where there's not even a LGS anywhere.
saw a Mox Pearl once.
I had a Frankenstein's Monster from The Dark that had suffered an error while the pack was being bound. The packaging press crenellated part of the bottom of the card, making it a marked card unusable in tourney.
I owned an unlimited Black Lotus about 15 years ago, as well as three Chaos Orbs, a Mox Emerald, and a few assorted other Alpha/Beta/Unlimited rares. Sold them all off a long time ago. I hate thinking about it, especially seeing today's values.
>>48076718
Seen? I guess sets of Power 9 cards at a GP from vendors.
>Bonus points if you own it.
would never happen unless i win the powerball.
mox ruby and a time walk
my friend traded a ton of shit for the ruby back in the day and won the time walk in a sealed tournamentwhen he moved he left his cards in the closet, the house had changed hands twice since then and the cards were no longer there
Not counting obvious P9 from GP vendors, my expensive pile consists of EXP Arid Mesa, Sacred Foundry, and Rugged Prairie. I pulled two EXP's and traded for the RW versions. Bought the Mesa though.
Also have a White bordered Plateau.
I prefer playing my one commander deck and pimping the motherfucker beyond belief. Its easy because RW is on the cheap end of things.
I played with a powered cube that a guy brought to my lgs once, it had beta power 9 and every card that had a foil printing was foil. That thing must have been worth close to 100k.
>>48076718
1. Saw a guy playing with a vintage deck with a) full power and b) no sleeves, full on regular shuffling. Fuck him.
2. Friend owns an artist proof mishras workshop, one of 32 printed.
>>48083053
My friend managed to pull a Vensor and a foil Vensor in the same pack at an FNM draft. We share a collection and he had to pass to me, so that was pretty nice too.
>>48083053
>>48089193
Also, gf did the same thing with Damnation back in Future Sight, not drafting though.
>>48078543
My nigga
>>48076718
>What is the rarest mtg card you have seen in real life?
OP, I owned a shit-ton of the rares from the original 'Legends' series as well as the original dual-lands. Hadn't played MTG in nearly two decades so I sold them all for mucho $$$$. Now have a massive board game collection that I get a lot more use out of. I kept Dakkon Blackblade because I liked the art and it wasn't a high dollar card.
I've seen more pow-9 then you can shake a stick at. As for the rarest I own....hmmmm....maybe Zodiac Dragon. It took awhile to track down.
>>48076914
Oh shit. I recently acquired a box of old 3ed and ice-age era stuff. I picked it clean for anything of value and sold the rest for bulk. There were several hurricanes in there and I'm 95% sure they were all green but now I am paranoid as fuck that I missed one of these...
Got a Bayou, that's it.
>>48089165
>Friend owns an artist proof mishras workshop, one of 32 printed.
Please tell me he has double sleeved it at least
>>48089165
>mfw my friend has a Lotus signed by Christopher Rush
>>48079652
>English pack
So was it meant for China, sounds interesting.
>>48090234
If I had something like that I's have it double sleeved encased in silicon in a temperature controlled vacuum sealed case.
>>48076718
>pay to win card games
I had an orginal Ali from Cario which was from the first expansion set back in the 1990s. I only played magic for 2 yrs sold everything and dedicated myself to RPGs and Warhammer 40K, Necromunda, WFB, Blood Bowl et Al.
>>48078543
>white boarder
so does that mean it was a misprint?
Gotta be a scrubland or Goblin Sleigh ride
Seen
Black Lotus
>>48089325
Oh wow that art is beautiful!
>>48091330
Not if you pulled it in a booster I guess
Is there a chance that wizards would ever publish the power 9 again? If they did, would that even de-value the original power 9 cards?
>>48091874
>Is there a chance that wizards would ever publish the power 9 again?
Not unless they both ditch the reserve list and lose their minds entirely, and the latter is much more likely to happen than the former.
I shouldn't even be showing you guys this. It's literally priceless
>own
Revised Tropical Island
>seen
Beta Mox Jet
Kinda unrelated, but if I were to buy one of FTV: Exiled and an Expeditions Scalding Tarn now, and the other in a few months (up to a year), which should I buy now? Which do you think will go up more, first?
>>48093718
OH FUUUUUUUUUUUCK
>>48076718
A guy who used to be in our group had a beta time walk. Brother-in-law has 2 of each the original dual lands. Personally I own a tropical island from revised and had owned an expedition polluted delta until I sold it for $288 on eBay.
>>48076718
>seen
Black lotus... tons of them... Why is that a question?
Rarest own? Probably my foil Jace or foil bob, which I think is nice, but not fantastic.
>>48093718
I still have this in mint condition
I don't care it isn't worth much, it's worth much to me
>>48078065
i have one of those, t pretty sweet.
also got a foily liliana of the veil.
rarest card i've seen is up back a few years ago i saw a black lotus signed by richard garfield, that was worth an absolute fuckload.
This is probably my rarest, not worth a lot but ive never seen another one in the flesh.
>>48093718
>Lose it at some point
>Find it again a few years ago
>Immediately lose it again in the following week
Still feels like a dream, but I'm sure I had it there.
I'm not sure which card actually is expensive as fuck, but I had a friend open a fate reforged booster next to me with two Ugins.
>>48076718
Had: Ancestral altered by Poole, Black Lotus, Time Walk, and Timetwister. was especially proud of the timetwister because i bought it for 75 bucks at gencon the summer before vintage prices went apeshit insane. sold them all at a GP 2 years ago for a hefty stack of hundreds.
Still Have: Playset of Dual lands, NM chaos orb , 4 Christmas cards, a moat and a Library of Alexandria
>>48094104
Any guesses? I'm not much of a financial type.
>>48076802
I had a fat friend once who was in complete denial over how his fingers were also fat. Like, he'd post a photo of his hand holding something somewhere and people would respond with
>gee, that's some really fat fingers
And he'd be completely dumbfounded as to how they were able to see that he was fat when all they could see was his hand. They fucking told you dude, it's because you're fingers are fat, because you are fat, so you have fat fucking sausage fingers.
>>48095935
are you going to use the cards or sit on them?
I'd probably say the tarn first. then the FTV. im not a fan of opening FTV sets since they warp like mother fuckers.
>>48076718
I've seen two black lotuses made into a coaster, and have every reason to believe it was real based on the person who's house it was.
>>48095992
The only factor for me is which will go up the most in roughly a year. Both'll probably get played with, and most unused FTV cards I've got I keep back-to-back in a binder and their urges to warp cancel out.
>>48076718
I've seen all the legacy stuff because my store, in the middle of the fucking ghetto, is home to a shit ton of 40 year olds that have been playing since the beginning that taught me a lot
One guy showed me 4 alpha underground seas that had "Shivan Dragon" written across them which was really funny to see
>>48096227
Im pretty new to magic. Can you clarify "legacy stuff?"
>>48096024
literally why?
holy fuck those are expensive ass coasters.
>>48096485
He's lying. Anyone that rich knows growing away $40,000 for a coaster is just stupid beyond belief/
>>48076718
I watched a guy pull a Black Lotus a few years back when they randomly packed crazy stuff in boosters.
Personally, back in the early days I had two Moxen (Red and White) and a playset of Plateau's. I sold them along with all my cards shortly after The Dark came out and I quit Magic.
>>48078655
That hasn't happened anywhere in the thread anon...
Literally you're the only one talking about that
>>48091748
White border means it was reprinted in a core set back when core sets were all white bordered except foils (this is why 7th edition foils can be really expensive).
>>48095699
>your Mew keeps disappearing and reappearing
>you have the real Mew trapped in cardboard
I've only been playing since right before theros. Rarest i own is probably the alter art Ugin from the prerelase that I pulled. Put it in a deck without sleeves for a week before realizibg ny idiocy.
I also had a scalding tarn expedition. Traded it for a playset of baby jace right before the price drop. I'm still very sad about it.
Seen all of power nine.
Rarest I've owned was foil tarmogoyf I pulled from a Future Sight pack.
I'm going to go play some MTGO, but I'll check this thread later.
>>48096987
>I sold them along with all my cards shortly after The Dark came out and I quit Magic.
Ouch. I got into Magic with Tempest, and even then Lotus was only worth a few hundred. Not that I had that much money as a kid.
Interestingly, the most expensive non-power card back then is still worth about the same (Juzam Djinn). It is value riding entirely on nostalgia?
>>48099248
Djinn is played in 93/94.
>>48099212
>blue Hurricane
Man that takes me back.
>>48095606
Its like something off of clickhole
>>48099303
>there was a time when Juzan Djinn, or creatures like it, were considered "too powerful" to print
>>48099212
How much are all these worth
>>48099470
>How much are all these worth
Roughly:
$3k for each 8th edition test print
$18k for the Beta Lotus
~$10k for the P9
~$10k for the Summer Balance (because of the condition)
~$3k for the Fastbond
~$8k?? for the Hurricane
~$4k? for the Sol Ring
??? for the Efreet (depends on grade)... but if it's a BGS 9, it's something like $10k
~$3k for the Shops
~$2.4k for the Bazaars
~$10k for the FBB duals
Roughly about $80k total.
$90k, I meant.
>>48099582
holy moly anon-kun that's a whole lotta money yo, impressive
>>48099655
It's what happens when you hold on to things.
I bought a lot of those cards in the 90s and early 2000s.
>>48076718
I pulled a Expedition Marsh Flats from a random BFZ pack around Christmas, immediately came here to celebrate and ask what it's actually worth. I was perfectly happy buying the occasional pack and dinking around casually with my friends, now I sleeve everything and pay attention to the prices like a good little goy.
>>48076718
My FLGS actually has a few black lotus up for sale. So there you go.
>>48078065
> go to prerelease
> pull expedition steam vents
> don't even play red blue
> trade some guy I know for this
It's probably my favorite card I own by far, it looks so fucking good
I played against a guy who had a MINT tabernacle in his EDH deck, that was pretty cool.
>>48099212
now we're talking
Will there ever be magic cards as rare and expensive as the power 9, etc again? I guess predicting the value of cards in the future is similar to predicting the stock market in five years, but are there any ways of picking out long-term value in cards?
Also, the video that the header pic is from is pretty fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRxCeO2KIS8&feature=youtu.be
>>48102101
They could if they wanted to.
It wouldn't surprise me if they gave the player of the year something unique, similar to the 1996 world champ.
If I was in charge, I would cut corners on cash payouts and give out premium cards for all sorts of things (PT top 8s, player of the year, world champ, etc).
>>48099582
is that sol ring really worth that much? i have on in my closet sitting in a pile of random rares..
>>48102945
There are 3 BGS 9.5 Summer Sol Rings.
There's over a million like the one in your closet if it's Revised.
I only started playing last year; so far I have an ugins fate Ugin, a scrubland and a savannah both from 3e. I think I'm doing ok so far.
One guy I play with owns two moats, and the guy who owns a local store owns every card from beta, keeps them in these real thick plastic cases
This and >>48077895 in Japanese.
>>48102945
>>48103046
Says "summer edition", which was an aborted set that some boxes were accidentally shipped. It is extremely rare.
>>48076718
A boss I worked with had all power 9's.
I got to hold them all with my hands.
It was my proudest nerd moment ever.
>>48077824
Does he also have a cousin whose dad works for nintendo
>>48076802
Literally every single time someone has posted their hands on 4chan, someone has called them fat
Every single time
You cant tell someone's weight by their hands. Unless theyre REALLY fat
I own a playset of foil Onslaught Polluted Delta's and Flooded Strand, that were altered and signed as a set by the artist.
Individually they look like they're just scribbled on, but when you line then up they make a picture.
Most valuable card Ive had in my trade binder was a HP Mishra's Workshop. Was really instrumental to getting my trade collection started. I pulled a foil Dack Fayden when it was still $300. Through a series of trades it turned into the Workshop and a good condition Invoke Prejudice. Then those turned into about $1000 in modern and EDH staples. Most valuable cards in my trade binder right now are a signed Prerelease Promo Ugin, a NM foil Mercadian Masques Brainstorm and a revised Tundra. Not the best stuff ever, but Ive got loads of $50-100 cards like a foil Scourge of the Throne in there as well.
Ive been into Magic since Journey Into Nyx and have never had a job. I live off of social security, meaning I dont have shit for disposable income. Its all about trading.
>>48094104
The expeditions are rare, and very volatile to buyouts. Get the tarn.
>>48103943
It's either fat hands or dirty nails. We need a hands of /tg/ thread to settle this shit senpai.
I used to hang around with some rich assholes because they'd occasionally give stuff they didn't want to me. They would do stuff like carefully customising a Manta, getting it priced, and then sledgehammering it. They weren't that onto magic, but one of them used a judge promo Norn to light a joint.
>>48099212
What are those lands in the top left? I've never seen anything like them before. Some kind of test print?
Anyway, I'm impressed.
>>48090465
The P3K set was a Magic intro as told through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Rarest as opposed to most expensive? Probably some garbage card from beta on the reserve list, cyclopean tomb was ostensibly printed the same number of times as other rares from beta, but people haven't been putting effort into preserving them so more have been destroyed.
Highest monetary value would be time walk.
One of my friends plays 12post, so probably candelabra
I'm currently sitting on both of these but am struggling to find a buyer for the strip mines.
Sorry for quality
>>48103943
Wow, this sounds personal. You got chubby fingers, fatty?
>>48099212
Damn
>>48099212
>foreign black border
Still mirin doe
>>48106203
>What are those lands in the top left?
8th edition test prints.
Personally owned: English Tabernacle or Moat, or a playset of each Revised Dual.
Someone I knew had a Timetwister though.
>>48099212
!!!
A spanish Wrath of God that is misprinted and it reads "Ira de DDDios"
>>48103501
what the.
what is that?
>>48093718
I had two of these. My cat peed on them.
>>48076914
No way you've seen one of those
>>48099451
>and yet cards like necropotence existed
>>48077921
One of my old friends have timewalk, unfortunately we used to play in the dirt as kids, so is heavily damaged.
It's in our communal cube now.
>>48111338
Super promo Elesh Norn printed in Phyrexian
>>48103501
My dream, my waifu.
>>48093718
I have one of these still in plastic sitting on a shelf. Are these actually worth money?
Nothing super special, but the rarest is probably my alpha counterspell. I dont think I'll ever care enough to get it graded but its probably a 7.5-9. Its in pretty damn good shape.
>>48103501
Holy fucking shit I need that for my EDH deck
dude at my lgs has a signed Sylvan Library and a playset of signed Blighted Agents.
>tfw only SigFags will understand
>>48076845
I have a misprint like that too.
>>48113586
Signed by who? Harold McNeill?
>>48115363
yup, in all his white supremecist glory
>>48117428
Holy shit
I have the judge promo Crucible of Worlds. Not the most expensive but one of my favorites.
I have expeditions and foil Ugin the spirit dragon. Tarmogoyfs for Jund. Foil vampiric tutor
>>48076718
Question - an alpha deck black lotus sold for 30k last year, and a beta deck is listed for 100k.
Nothing about these cards are unique, ie no unique identifiers, so what if I invest 15k into an extremely good forgery?
Whats going to stop me reproducing some shitty trading card?
>>48113586
>>48115363
>>48117428
0/10 for lack of Invoke Prejudice
>>48093718
Have like 12 of them. Too bad they ain't worth shit
>>48118464
Easier said than done. You would basically need to find and buy the same equipment used in the original printing, not to mention the same paper and ink. If it were reasonably possible to make counterfeits that passed a close inspection, Chinaman would alreqdy be doing it. There is one group that nearly has revised duals done right. They just need additional equipment to print the black text and borders more sharply and they will be nearly perfect.
>>48103943
I once posted my hand, someone called them cute and said they will masturbate to it
It's the most flattering thing anyone has ever told me
