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By Wang Kuan-jen and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerAn avid card collector has a message for parents: Do not throw away cards you find in your children’s rooms while cleaning, as they could be coveted rare collector cards.
An avid card collector has a message for parents: Do not throw away cards you find in your children’s rooms while cleaning, as they could be coveted rare collector cards. Some cards that appear to be worthless are worth more than a luxury car, said Kai, chairman of trading-card retail chain Cat Footprints. Citing an example, Kai said that a copy of the Black Lotus — one of the nine rarest and most valuable Magic: The Gathering cards — signed by the original artist sold at auction for US$500,000. Magic, which is one of the most popular tabletop card games played worldwide,
Americans have become obsessed with collectibles, bidding up prices for trading cards, video games and other mementos of their youth. The frenzy has brought small fortunes to some, but a deep frustration for those who still love to play games or trade cards as a hobby.
Magic: The Gathering Card Sells for Over Half a Million Dollars ✖ Magic: The Gathering's rarest card broke its own record by selling for more than half a million dollars. Black Lotus is a powerful rare card from the first Alpha, published in 1993. It is so powerful that, of the three formats it could be legal in, Wizards of the Coast banned the card in two of them and restricted it to one copy per deck in the other. As one of the cards of the game's "reserved list," Black Lotus will never be reprinted in a future Magic: The Gathering set, which has helped keep its value high for years.