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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 Magic: The Gathering set (the game released its 86th expansion this month), now known as 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.
In an eBay auction that closed on January 27th, a Black Lotus that had been graded and enclosed in a protective case signed by the artist who created the illustration on the card, Christopher Rush, sold for $511,100. That more than triples the previous record-setting sale of a Black Lotus card for $166,000 in 2019.
This Black Lotus card was rated as a 'GEM Mint 10,' meaning it is essentially a perfect card printing. That grade, plus it coming from the Alpha set, helped elevate the auction's value above the previous record, with Rush's signature on the case being an extra flourish.
Black Lotus's card text reads, 'Adds three mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.' As an artifact card with a casting cost of 0 mana, that essentially gives a player three mana for free. In an anything goes format like Vintage, a player with a Black Lotus in their opening hand is often capable of setting off a chain of spells that leads to a first-turn victory.
0commentsBlack Lotus is part of the 'Power Nine,' an informal collection of nine cards printed in Magic: The Gathering's earliest sets (Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited). These cards are considered among the most powerful ever released in Magic's 28-year history and would be regarded as broken by today's game design and balance standards. Thus they are only legal in the Vintage format, where only one copy of each can be played in a deck. The cards are Black Lotus, Time Walk, Ancestral Recall, Timetwister, Mox Emerald, Mox Jet, Mox Pearl, Mox Ruby, and Mox Sapphire. A Power Nine set is considered the pinnacle of Magic: The Gathering collecting. A complete Power Nine set was even appraised on an episode of PBS's Antiques Roadshow in 2019 and given an estimated value of $65,000 - $100,000.
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© Image: Dani Pendergast/Wizards of the CoastAlongside the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, the tabletop gaming community had its own series of reckonings with injustice. Voices throughout the hobby games industry called for recognition of racism and its impact on Black, indigenous, and people of color. Some of the most vocal criticism was levied against Wizards of the Coast, whose marquee products include Magic: The Gathering.
In June, the publisher of Magic banned several cards that included racist language and imagery, and issued a formal apology for its past misdeeds. The company also hired Jontelle Leyson-Smith to be its first director of diversity, equity, and inclusion. On Monday, Wizards makes its most visible step yet with the launch of a new series of cards called Secret Lair: Black Is Magic.
Secret Lair is a new kind of product from Wizards of the Coast first launched in 2020. It’s a print-on-demand series of alternate-art cards that are only available for a limited period of time. Black Is Magic, presented by game designer Sydney Adams, focuses on Black artists and Black subjects. Proceeds will benefit Black Girls CODE.
“The first time I saw Secret Lair: Black Is Magic,” Leyson-Smith wrote in early February, “my mind was flooded with memories of no-bake desserts with Grandma; trips to the corner deli with Grandpa; feelings of inadequacy in high school because I looked different from my peers; the strength of my mother and sister; and my growth as a youth to embrace my identity as a Black and Asian woman. I hope you also find (and share) personal connections with the release.”
The set includes seven cards in total, and runs $39.99 for regular finish and $49.99 for foil. Cards are available from Feb. 22 through March 31, making this one of the longest Secret Lair series ever launched. From designer Adams, writing on the official Magic: The Gathering blog:
Is it a 28-day shout that ends in 337 days of silence? A million stories lost to time and oppression? A necessity for progress? I don’t think there’s a right answer, but I came to my own conclusion as a guiding light for this project. I’d say Black history is the reflection of the lives Black people live. An accurate, unflinching look into the darkest corners of our legacy to find the brightest examples of human excellence. To understand that the past informs our present and that to acknowledge it is to do more than survive its consequences. It is about thriving. It is the celebration of lives well-lived and a profound connection that all Black, African, and African American peoples share. Black stories are global stories.
You’ll find high-resolution samples of the original art below, as well as links out to the artists.
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