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I brought in magic cards my husband
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played magic in the 90s okay and at the
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time he made a concerted effort to get a
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whole set he played with his friends and
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played in tournaments okay but then I
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think he wanted to have a complete set
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and so he would buy individual packs of
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the at the store and until he was able
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to put together a complete set he traded
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for some of the cards as well Magic the
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Gathering was created in 1993 by Richard
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Garfield in collaboration with Wizards
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of the coast and it was actually
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considered the first trading card game
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that started the craze so like Pokemon
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yugioh all those card games came
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afterwards after the influence magic had
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on the collected community now when
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magic came out it was the first alpha
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limited set now the Alpha set consisted
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of 295 cards and then there was a second
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reissue called the beta limited set in
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which you have here all cards for the
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beta set which it was limited to three
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hundred and two cards now you've never
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played magic or anything like okay so to
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give you the image just pretend you're
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two dueling wizards and you're gonna be
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summoning some spells you're gonna be
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put bringing outs of creatures and the
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whole point is each player starts with
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twenty life points and the whole goal is
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me as a competing wizard I want to say
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oh I want to drain your life points so
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the first person to bring the other
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opponent to zero wins do you know why we
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have the binder open to this page with
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these nine particular cards no I don't
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okay
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that's like much this is referred to as
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the power nine and the reason why we
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call the power 9 is these are literally
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the most powerful cards in existence in
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the magic world now today the power nine
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are not allowed to be played in decks or
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anything like that unless it's a vintage
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tournament so all of these cards were
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printed in 1993 as part of the beta set
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and after that they went into an
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unlimited printing they just printed and
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printed and printed so by seeing the
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black border the rounded corners and
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these little white dots in the printing
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on each edge of the image that's how
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we're able to tell these are printed in
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1993 part of the original set if you had
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to guess what do you think of value on
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nine cards is a couple hundred dollars a
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couple hundred dollars now because
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they're ungraded now the grade and
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condition of a card significantly
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affects the value that's why we left it
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right in the binder because I don't even
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want to breathe on them let alone touch
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it because the slightest Nick the
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slightest crease all affects the value
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looking at both sides of the cards
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judging the wear I would say they all
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probably range around an 8 out of 10
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condition you might have a 7.5 in there
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but they've all been well taken care of
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for the power 9 right here as they sit
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without professional grading at auction
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you'd be looking at 50 to 75 thousand
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dollars right so out of that 50 to 75
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the Black Lotus which is like the creme
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de la creme
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that's the card everybody wants is 15 to
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20 thousand in its current condition
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okay the second card right here the MOX
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emerald which is one of the five jewel
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cards that you could see here is the
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rarest of them all in its current shape
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you'd be looking at about 8 to 12
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thousand now that's just this page of
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nine cards when it comes to the other
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cards that you have here if you look
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here this card right there volcanic
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island now that is what we refer to as a
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duel land or a duel mana card the cool
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part about that card is it was not
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included in the Alpha set it was only
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issued in the beta set so that's its
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first issue that card alone at auction
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in its current shape would be between
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five and ten thousand dollars in the
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remainder of the binder for all the
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pages that because they're all beta
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cards they're all early 1993 beta cards
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you're looking at an additional ten to
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fifteen thousand dollars so cumulatively
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you're looking at at auction in between
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sixty-five thousand and a hundred
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thousand dollars in trading cards yeah
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so see aren't you happy to lose them in
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your back would you have ever expected
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your husband's trading cards just like
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big cards to me yeah now this is like
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let's send the kids to college kind of
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money right yeah it's literally the best
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culmination of magic cards I've ever
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seen in one setting like it's absolutely
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ridiculous that's why when you came up
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to this town looking at the looking at
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the binder as a clue in the marketplace
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this is hotter than fired the demand for
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these cards is uncontrollable and you
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would absolutely sell them individually
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because if I'm at home and I have five
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out of the nine cards I don't need to
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buy all nine that's a
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ton of money I just need that one or two
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extra card power nine baby unbelievable
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for me this is like looking at a
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painting like you go to the museum it's
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like Oh a red wire
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