Bill Fridge, a Magic: The Gathering content creator and streamer, went live recently to walk his audience through one of the more painful collector stories in the MTG community — a near-perfect counterfeit card purchased for $900 from Facebook Marketplace that hit every failure point in the peer-to-peer collectibles market at once.
He didn't purchase that card to play Magic. He purchased it to sell later on to some other speculator or three until some Magic the Crackening whale loser buys it, imagining all the games he COULD win with it while it sits in some plastic sarcophagus, like Snow White, for fear some mote of dust, or the touch of an actual person might reduce its "value."
This human parasite needs to get a real job producing something of value to society.
Speculators are, apparently, an important part of the customer base. WOTC knows this is part of the market and they intentionally create cards and sell them to cater to this group.
Yeah, this site reported on Lorcana's collapse once the speculators pulled out.
But doesn't the need for speculators tip off that the whole thing is a scam? MtG is a scam masquerading as a game and WotC uses every tactic imaginable to squeeze money from the pay pigs.
I just don't understand it. MtG is a great game, but it is not good enough to justify thousands upon thousands of dollars and a lifestyle centered around it. Every "serious" player I ever met spent drug addiction money on it and way too much time and emotional investment on top of that.
Selling fakes is shit behavior, not to mention illegal. He can and should sue.
That being said, if you are a serious collector and pay $900 via friends and family option, you are doing it wrong. Either you are incredibly naive or dont know what you're doing. Should have taken necessary (and honestly very common) precautions.
Not all Magic cards do, but some are quite collectable. The most famous case would be a 1 of 1 special card “The One Ring” from the Lord of the Rings set, famously bought by Post Malone for 2 million $. That’s the extreme case though, but rare versions of highly sought cards can get pretty high in value. 900$ would still be on the rather high end I suppose.
Oh no, a speculator got burned speculating.
Me fewl so sowwy.
He didn't purchase that card to play Magic. He purchased it to sell later on to some other speculator or three until some Magic the Crackening whale loser buys it, imagining all the games he COULD win with it while it sits in some plastic sarcophagus, like Snow White, for fear some mote of dust, or the touch of an actual person might reduce its "value."
This human parasite needs to get a real job producing something of value to society.
And you MtG people who pay into this nonsense?
YOU JUST MADE THE LIST!
Speculators are, apparently, an important part of the customer base. WOTC knows this is part of the market and they intentionally create cards and sell them to cater to this group.
Yeah, this site reported on Lorcana's collapse once the speculators pulled out.
But doesn't the need for speculators tip off that the whole thing is a scam? MtG is a scam masquerading as a game and WotC uses every tactic imaginable to squeeze money from the pay pigs.
I just don't understand it. MtG is a great game, but it is not good enough to justify thousands upon thousands of dollars and a lifestyle centered around it. Every "serious" player I ever met spent drug addiction money on it and way too much time and emotional investment on top of that.
Selling fakes is shit behavior, not to mention illegal. He can and should sue.
That being said, if you are a serious collector and pay $900 via friends and family option, you are doing it wrong. Either you are incredibly naive or dont know what you're doing. Should have taken necessary (and honestly very common) precautions.
So is it normal to pay this much? Do they grow in value over time ?
Not all Magic cards do, but some are quite collectable. The most famous case would be a 1 of 1 special card “The One Ring” from the Lord of the Rings set, famously bought by Post Malone for 2 million $. That’s the extreme case though, but rare versions of highly sought cards can get pretty high in value. 900$ would still be on the rather high end I suppose.