MTG: Guy pulls an Alpha Black Lotus from sealed booster pack

[BrokenVisage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRxCeO2KIS8&feature=youtu.be&t=490

Couple years old now but I've never seen this. Just imagine, that sealed booster would probably sell for a few grand easy, but he opens it and gets the most valuable MTG card in existence, plus a solid 2nd rare in Tropical Island. Insane pull to get on camera, I would've flipped out too.

 

[Ichinisan]

Sounds exactly like agent # 21.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfjj7Y9N27c

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I'll sell you my POKEMAN Charizard FIRST EDITION card for $500,000!

 

[kt]

I'll sell you my POKEMAN Charizard FIRST EDITION card for $500,000!

I'll buy it for $1,000,000.. your choice of Monopoly edition the money comes from.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Damn do people get that giddy over a Black Lotus now? Dude was shaking and screaming. I guess in retrospect it would be nice to still have all of those cards but I really needed all of that money in college.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Damn do people get that giddy over a Black Lotus now? Dude was shaking and screaming. I guess in retrospect it would be nice to still have all of those cards but I really needed all of that money in college.

Hard to tell if he's giddy because he's a dork/collector or because the card's probably worth upwards of $30,000 at the time of pulling it and is the rarest non-promo card from the rarest edition.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Alright, I've heard a lot about MTG so what's special about an alpha black lotus? Is a a super rare card? How much do they go for?

 

[Fingolfin269]

Hard to tell if he's giddy because he's a dork/collector or because the card's probably worth upwards of $30,000 at the time of pulling it and is the rarest non-promo card from the rarest edition.

That's awesome. I had no idea an Alpha lotus was worth that much now. To be honest, I never actually owned an Alpha version but did have a few rare Alpha cards. Most of the good ones I had were unlimited if I'm remembering the sets correctly. Hard to believe that game is 20+ years old now.

 

[Matthiasa]

Alright, I've heard a lot about MTG so what's special about an alpha black lotus? Is a a super rare card? How much do they go for?

As already pointed out something like $15,000-$30,000.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Alright, I've heard a lot about MTG so what's special about an alpha black lotus? Is a a super rare card? How much do they go for?

Alpha is the original set. I'd say ~1993 or so? Black Lotus was rare in that set and also banned pretty early on due to being so OP. That card and a few others haven't been in original print since ~1994-1995. I can't remember the set release dates and really don't want to look it up. Basically whenever 3rd edition came out the Lotus, Mox, Berserk, and maybe a few others were removed from print.

 

[DAGTA]

Hard to tell if he's giddy because he's a dork/collector or because the card's probably worth upwards of $30,000 at the time of pulling it and is the rarest non-promo card from the rarest edition.

This particular card was listed on Ebay fro $100,000 at one point, if I remember correctly. I don't know if it ever sold for that amount.

It's probably the best condition Black Lotus in existence.

 

[arcenite]

Rare, huh?

*goes on ebay*

Black Lotus... Black Lotus everywhere

 

[emperus]

What did I just watch? Feels like I just lost come cool points.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

There is one in worse condition than this selling for $38k, one slightly worse signed by the artist for $25k, one in near perfect condition/print for $200k (doubt that will sell, probably for attention)

Most in this condition seem to be at least $20k.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Rare, huh?

*goes on ebay*

Black Lotus... Black Lotus everywhere

Except this one is from the first edition ever released (Alpha) and only a little over a thousand were ever printed I think.

 

[rh71]

What did I just watch? Feels like I just lost come cool points.

it explains why chicks dig ATOTers

 

[DigDog]

alphas are useless. due to the different rounding of the borders, you cannot play Type1 tournaments with them.

prolly still worth a few bucks though.

 

[Anubis]

alphas are useless. due to the different rounding of the borders, you cannot play Type1 tournaments with them.

prolly still worth a few bucks though.

you can, you just use a proxy, no one sticks the power 9 in an actual deck they are too valuable


the one that sold for 100k or whatever was a 10 rated Beta lotus, a 10 alpha is basically impossible because of how the rares were packaged in alpha, they were on the front so the cellophane wrapping was touching them which almost always damaged them

 

[zinfamous]

 

[BrokenVisage]

you can, you just use a proxy, no one sticks the power 9 in an actual deck they are too valuable


the one that sold for 100k or whatever was a 10 rated Beta lotus, a 10 alpha is basically impossible because of how the rares were packaged in alpha, they were on the front so the cellophane wrapping was touching them which almost always damaged them

Besides that, when I played people would almost exclusively put their deck cards in shaded sleeves that would hide the alpha corners. And believe it or not I knew a high-level DCI dork judge who actually did play with the power 9 (everything but Timetwister I think) in one of his decks. It was some convoluted look-at-me-make-infinity-mana-and-millstone-you-to-death show-off deck that of course would be banned in any format but dudes like him don't care.

 

[WelshBloke]

Hard to tell if he's giddy because he's a dork/collector or because the card's probably worth upwards of $30,000 at the time of pulling it and is the rarest non-promo card from the rarest edition.

When you say "worth upwards of $30,000", how many have been sold for that?

 

[DigDog]

it doesn't matter, alpha cards are not allowed in T1, not with sleeves, not with proxies.

btw; back when we used to sell unlimited edition packs, you could buy a lotus for fifty bucks (and we thought it was too much), or even trade it. i remember trading a mox black for a lord of the pit.

 

[WelshBloke]

it doesn't matter, alpha cards are not allowed in T1, not with sleeves, not with proxies.

btw; back when we used to sell unlimited edition packs, you could buy a lotus for fifty bucks (and we thought it was too much), or even trade it. i remember trading a mox black for a lord of the pit.

Just wondering how much it would cost to print your own. :hmm:

 

[BrokenVisage]

When you say "worth upwards of $30,000", how many have been sold for that?

Just check eBay, $30,000 is a conservative floor for a card in this condition too. It got $45k+ from an auction in Oct 2015, the exact same card might even be this particular one in the video.

http://auctions.beckett.com/1993_Magic__The_Gathering_Alpha_Black_Lotus___Powe-LOT19275.aspx

 

[Darwin333]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRxCeO2KIS8&feature=youtu.be&t=490

Couple years old now but I've never seen this. Just imagine, that sealed booster would probably sell for a few grand easy, but he opens it and gets the most valuable MTG card in existence, plus a solid 2nd rare in Tropical Island. Insane pull to get on camera, I would've flipped out too.

On the other hand he probably hasn't seen real life vagina since he came out of one.... I'll take years and years of vagina over the chance of coming upon some rare MTG card any day but that's just me.