Magic: The Gatheringhas been around for quite a while now, meaning there’s a bevy of rare cards out there that will net anyone who kept their old collections in pristine condition an awful lot of money. However, there’s no controlling what you might have done to your cards when you were a child, so it’s possible that you may have accidentally done something very silly on a whim back in the day, only to find out how horrible a mistake you’ve made years later.
In steps u/MobNamikaze, a Magic: The Gathering fan who recently shared their local shop owner’s grave mistake with the MagicTCG subreddit. In a post made earlier this week, u/MobNamikaze shares an image of a selection of old Magic: The Gathering cards placed in some kind of display in a shop. To the naked eye, it doesn’t look bad, but experienced players will immediately spot the value of these cards is pretty high, as they’re all land cards currently on the Magic: The Gathering reserved list.
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This essentially means that these cards will never be reprinted and, at the time of writing, they’re worth a pretty massive chunk of change. Just from the stuff in the middle, we can see that there are four Tropical Islands, five Volcanic Islands, 6 Underground Seas, and four Taigas, which add up to roughly $21,000. Unfortunately, the cards pictured in the post below are worth nowhere near that, as the owner laminated them when they were younger.
For those that don’t know, laminating a card in pretty much any TCG is a big no-no. Not only does it drastically reduce the card’s value as the laminating process could potentially damage the card or smudge the ink, but it also means that it’s incredibly tricky to use them in tournaments too, as it’s much easier for someone to mark a laminated card to give themselves an unfair advantage. Basically, you should never laminate your cards.
Unfortunately, nobody told this poor store owner not to do that when they were younger, and they’ve doubled down on their mistake by laminating some of the most valuable Magic: The Gathering cards out there at the moment. To really drive home the tragedy of the entire situation, you can even see a little plaque next to the display begging those who see it not to make the same mistake that they did, along with a valuation of the non-laminated versions of these cards which just reads “LOTS”. If only we could turn back time.
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