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Originally Posted by Iwatasan
Ha! Yeah I did hear that story a while back on the radio and sat there thinking the whole time how relevant it was to amiibos.  With amiibo cards coming out now it's more relevant than ever.
The gist of it as I remember is that the manufacturer became aware of how expensive this one special card had become on the secondhand market, and they realized right then and there that they had to make a decision between: doing nothing about it and allowing hype (and short term riches) to build around outrageous resale prices until their then-new game turned into a flash-in-the-pan fad; OR they could start printing more of the Black Lotus, keeping a close eye on the secondhand market until supply and demand naturally brought down the price to something like $25 instead of $1,000. They choose to do the latter, which was obviously the right choice in the long run since MTG has been around for a long time now and is still successful and popular today. |
Yeah I used to collect MTG. Had 3 or 4 complete sets of some of the rarer editions too! I remember finding a guy at a local flea market that I swear he took the common cards out of his packs and put the rare ones in. EVERY SINGLE weekend I would find 2-5 rare cards when I purchased a few of his packs. I never got a Black Lotus because Beta wasn't one of the editions I was trying to complete (though I DID have a complete "Revised" edition or "3rd Edition" set and nearly a complete "Dark" edition iirc). The total worth at THAT time was well over $10,000 for all my cards.
I don't necessarily mind the extremely rare cards being in a set like that as long as there's a CHANCE that a reasonable collector could get one (unlike say, the Kid Icarus cards that NOA never sold to the regular public or the one rare cards that was only available in one place at one night and as a tournament prize). Fooey on that!
