Never had any of my cards stolen, thank god. After reading these "horror stories" I'll be keeping a closer eye on my cards. I just valued my most valuable EDH deck (Grand Arbiter) and it was very close to 500 dollars on Cardkingdom.com. Yes, I know it ain't a lot but hey I've been playing seriously for about 1.5 years so.
Okay.. this didn't happen to me.. But I remember it, because it was hilarious. About 4 years ago, can't exactly remember but, right after Guildpact when duals were still the New thing and everyone was popping packs like no tomorrow to get Dual lands. There was one guy that had the Rock Deck at the time (Green/Black/White I think it was) and he was the type who having the power deck wasn't enough, but he needed the BEST, power deck. At a time where people were paying 30$ for a dual land he bought foils, not just of Duals.. but every single card in his deck.
Anyways, he goes to a Pro Tour Qualifier, and he's doing hot, great job blah blah blah, well he's just finished eating and he's sorting his deck for everyone to see how great it is. Not that he was intentionally doing it to show everyone how much money he spent.. but there were people who were like "Woah~!". But he was a complete jerk, about it (I played him with the U/R Tronfires at the time and won 2-1 but after he insulted me by saying if he had drawn a whatever. ANYWAYS.)
He's sitting there talking about how his deck is just perfect for the metagame and he goes to show off his foiled Wrath of God, and tips over his soda.
The soda poured out from the Styrofoam cup and just SOAKED, each and every one of his cards in cola.. Sleeves didn't help.. pretty much locking in the moisture. We're talking a torrent here, the soda is all over his cards and flooded them into his lap and onto the ground where more soda poured onto them.
He eventually got them all unsleeved, but he had to concede his next match up to blow dry all the cards.. and even after they became so warped.. like they were curved BAD. Like so bad not even the in between a dictionary for a week trick would help.. The kind of warped foil that Is like \___/ bent.
But at the time, he was screaming, shouting at everyone who's fault it was, blaming the person who asked what edition the Wrath of God was from.
Anyways.. I found it completely funny that someone who invested so much.. and was such a jerk, had a rude awakening.
It was on that day I realized.
If you play a budget deck, or a Pro Deck.. they are all weak in the eyes of Coca Cola.
I've never had a stranger steal any of my cards. When I had a collection (back in the Onslaught days) I watched my binder like a hawk.
However, when Kami-block came out I decided to quit magic and sell most of my collection. I kept 3-4 decks because they were favorites. This included a full foil RG LD deck (with BoP) and promo lands, a casual reanimator deck, and a mostly foil (4 Ravager) Affinity deck (pre-bannings build). I also kept sets of what little awesome cards Kami-block had to offer (Tops, Pithings, all the Dragon's, and more importantly about 10 Jitte, 4 being foreign and 2 being foil).
Anyway, I started dating this guy who was also a magic player and a secret drug addict. He was at my place and I let him see what was left of my collection and it quickly disappeared before I realized. He had replaced my deck boxes with a bunch of commons from his box of cards he brought with him. He also straight up stole a bunch of CDs and stuff as well. Only thing I had left was my John Avon collection binder and a bunch of very useless commons (to make it worse, commons from Kami-block).
I found out later that he was a heroin addict who was pretty much stealing anything that wasn't nailed down from his "friends".
Zippers, rook box lids, velcro closures, slideouts - no. They can all be opened and rifled without physically moving your bag.
Keep all cards in a standard white box with the kind of lid you have to be holding the box on a table or in your lap to lift. The kind with tabs that insert into the side walls of the box. And keep them in a bag, wheeled case, or Fellowes case that you have to pop a latch and lift to open.
That way, thieves can't move in behind you, and unzip a compartment, and slide things out of your bag that you dutifully placed under your chair with a chair leg through a shoulder strap.
I've seen how easy it is to come into a tournament wearing flip-flops and even unzip bag compartments with the toes. Then you just maneuver binders and deck boxes out onto the floor with your feet, drop a slip of paper or a pen on the floor, and reach down to collect your loot that you've maneuvered out into the open. Summer tournaments are bad for this sort of thing. During winter, the coats hanging off the backs of chairs get nailed.
The cargo pants idea is best, as they usually have to physically touch you at some point to undo the clasp on the pocket and remove the deckbox.
It also leaves your hands free to do stuff without leaving loot out on the table.
A small 4x4 card binder is ideal if you have a large hoodie pocket or coat pocket to slip it into between trading opportunities. Make sure it's against your body. Putting it in your coat and then leaving your coat slung over a chair while you run to buy a hot dog is not doing much to protect your cards. That said, the smaller the binder, the easier it is for a thief to conceal as well.
My best advice is if you don't need it to play in the tournament, don't bring it. My second best advice is, no food or drink around cards at all, whatsoever, period. When it's lunch time, put your deck away. Or spend your lunch time trading/talking shop, and go hungry. Sorry, but I've seen enough cola-meets-duals encounters to know that even the most careful, humble, and organized person will attract bad luck by not following this rule.
A little nourishment does wonders for your mental stamina. A lot of food, especially the starchy and greasy crap you get at tournament venues, leaves you cognitively dulled and not very sharp. Hunger, within moderation, keeps your attention sharp and your focus on the game.
Bringing a healthy lunch (sandwich, fruit, bottle of water) does 3 things to help you avoid theft. It keeps you from going into a carb coma halfway through the fifth round. It keeps your wallet in your pocket and your money in your wallet. It keeps you at the gaming table where your stuff is, and not wandering off to buy food.
All the way back in high school, I had one of those little binders stolen from backpack. Luckily, I didn't lose too much. I recall losing a Savannah (Revised), Bayou (Revised), and Stangg. I know there were other cards in there too but nothing as memorable as my two Duals.
Okay.. this didn't happen to me.. But I remember it, because it was hilarious. About 4 years ago, can't exactly remember but, right after Guildpact when duals were still the New thing and everyone was popping packs like no tomorrow to get Dual lands. There was one guy that had the Rock Deck at the time (Green/Black/White I think it was) and he was the type who having the power deck wasn't enough, but he needed the BEST, power deck. At a time where people were paying 30$ for a dual land he bought foils, not just of Duals.. but every single card in his deck.
Anyways, he goes to a Pro Tour Qualifier, and he's doing hot, great job blah blah blah, well he's just finished eating and he's sorting his deck for everyone to see how great it is. Not that he was intentionally doing it to show everyone how much money he spent.. but there were people who were like "Woah~!". But he was a complete jerk, about it (I played him with the U/R Tronfires at the time and won 2-1 but after he insulted me by saying if he had drawn a whatever. ANYWAYS.)
He's sitting there talking about how his deck is just perfect for the metagame and he goes to show off his foiled Wrath of God, and tips over his soda.
The soda poured out from the Styrofoam cup and just SOAKED, each and every one of his cards in cola.. Sleeves didn't help.. pretty much locking in the moisture. We're talking a torrent here, the soda is all over his cards and flooded them into his lap and onto the ground where more soda poured onto them.
He eventually got them all unsleeved, but he had to concede his next match up to blow dry all the cards.. and even after they became so warped.. like they were curved BAD. Like so bad not even the in between a dictionary for a week trick would help.. The kind of warped foil that Is like \___/ bent.
But at the time, he was screaming, shouting at everyone who's fault it was, blaming the person who asked what edition the Wrath of God was from.
Anyways.. I found it completely funny that someone who invested so much.. and was such a jerk, had a rude awakening.
It was on that day I realized.
If you play a budget deck, or a Pro Deck.. they are all weak in the eyes of Coca Cola.
that's karma. who said that bad things only happen to good people?
I've never had a stranger steal any of my cards. When I had a collection (back in the Onslaught days) I watched my binder like a hawk.
However, when Kami-block came out I decided to quit magic and sell most of my collection. I kept 3-4 decks because they were favorites. This included a full foil RG LD deck (with BoP) and promo lands, a casual reanimator deck, and a mostly foil (4 Ravager) Affinity deck (pre-bannings build). I also kept sets of what little awesome cards Kami-block had to offer (Tops, Pithings, all the Dragon's, and more importantly about 10 Jitte, 4 being foreign and 2 being foil).
Anyway, I started dating this guy who was also a magic player and a secret drug addict. He was at my place and I let him see what was left of my collection and it quickly disappeared before I realized. He had replaced my deck boxes with a bunch of commons from his box of cards he brought with him. He also straight up stole a bunch of CDs and stuff as well. Only thing I had left was my John Avon collection binder and a bunch of very useless commons (to make it worse, commons from Kami-block).
I found out later that he was a heroin addict who was pretty much stealing anything that wasn't nailed down from his "friends".
a magic player AND a heroin addict? ouch. those are some expensive "hobbies". How long did it take you to realize it? And what did you do once you did??
As for me, i dont think i've ever had anything stolen since i dont usually drag my stuff around with me anyways. Basically i found if im playing an event, i dont bring traders and just the one deck i need (assuming its a constructed event). If im trading, i only have my trade binder. Luckily i only have 2 decks that are valuable (dual lands, really...) so im not THAT worried about it.
People who drag around their entire collection around with them are just setting themselves up for thievery.
a friend of mine had his car broken into about 4 weeks after zendikar had came out. he was just getting back into the magic scene after about a 5 yr hiatus(sp). he had managed to collect a TON of nice cards, most of which were fetch lands, a few foils. he left his cards in his car for the night, and came out the next morning to find that everyone he lived with had their cars broken into. one of his roommates had a work laptop stolen, others had some small change taken, and in his car, they didn't steal his cards...they just decided to dump them out on the lawn, where it happened to be raining...the whole night. needless to say, about half the cards he had at the time were completly ruined. un-usable in any game, whether they were in sleeves or not. it was awful!
When I was much younger and first starting out, I had a very nice rare binder. At the time not too many money cards but now they would have made me a lot. Anyways I left my binder beside my waterbed....well when I got home from school I went to take a nap. Next thing I know I am soaked and my binder is too. Somehow the bed sprung a leak. Safe to say every card was water damaged....2 Playsets of Replenish, many other money cards. I even had a FOIL FOIL!!! I was so upset when I lost that to the bed!
How long did it take you to realize it? And what did you do once you did??
I realized it shortly after he left. I had this eerie feeling because he was acting kinda shifty and left pretty quickly. Once I found out I tried to call him and contact him in various ways, he never spoke to me again. I tried talking to his friends, but most of them were looking for him too.
But I from what I learned from his friends, he got little from me compared to what he stole from others. His "best friend" had a massive collection (I'm talking huge amounts of duals, P9..etc) and he broke into his place one night when he was at work and cleaned him out. So I'm hoping that wherever he is it has bars and a big man named Bubba.
I had a ton of cards from Alpha, Beta, Revised, Ice Age, etc. when I was kid in a cardboard box in my backpack, and a Capri Sun exploded and mixed with some loose Ritz Bitz sandwiches in the bag and really messed my whole situation up. I sure do miss those cards haha
Good god, reading this thread is giving me a stomachache.
I've only been in Magic for 5 months, so nothing bad has happened to me, for now at least.
Though 9 years of Yugioh without any accidents may mean that I might be lucky with Magic as well.
Same here...
Kinda hard to believe burglars gave just taken cards and ripped them up. Iran, why would they do that? just to hurt someone?
Guess my story about Xth edition cards left in the hospital is nothing compared to this lot.
My brother had a brain bleed a few years back.. He was in the hospital for several months, rehab etc. One of our card buddies bought him a box of Onslaught boosters as a gift.
Once he finally got home, at some point, he remembered them but couldn't find them. He was still a little touch-and-go mentally, and was a little on the paranoid side. He thought someone stole them. It was really tough.
Few months later I'm talking to him and he says "Oh hey, guess what I found!" (They were cleaning the house and they found them stashed under one of the sofas.) Sweet.
And one time, this kid at the local store tried to walk off with one of my Beatdown set d20 spindowns (of which I have collected 2 complete sets of 5). They're unique to that set and could be worth 'something to someone, some day'.
It was patently obvious to everyone there he was the only person who could possibly have it, and yet he wouldn't come clean. Finally, the store owner (who was probably sick of hearing the commotion) storms over, grabs the guy's bookbag, turns it upsdie down, dumps the contents, and guess what comes rolling out on the floor at his feet. Hrrm.. I just said "OK buddy, I'm sure it got in there by accident. No worries, let's shuffle up, k?" (He was like 12..I didn't want to make him cry or something.) I just hope he learned something that day.
maybe about 10-11 years ago I had a counterhaups deck. I brought it on a trip with me and I think I left it on the plane. I ended up loosing like 2 Force of wills a buncha burn and jolkulhoups. I really didnt mind though, since I remmember not really liking the deck that much anyways.
The worst thing thats ever happened to me though involved the Decipher Star Wars game. When the game first came out I bought loads of boosters and only ever pulled a C-3P0, on day on my way to a tournie I dropped it in the street and before I could recover it , it got ran over multible times. I was soooo upset. When I got to the tourie I went to go try to trade for another one, but I guess the store had one and my Step-dad go it for me with out me even knowing until he just slipped it on top on my deck. I was Extatic!!
sorry i know long story, but I just HAAAAAD to tell it
A couple of years back I walked out to my car to find my Two Boxes of magic cards on the road and my car broken into and the cd player stolen outta my car, well my friend was with me and was wondering why i wasn't that mad. . . . I had a playset of mishra's factory and all the revised duels among other awesome cards in the boxes and the guy didn't even know and he took the alpine cd player instead!!! how lucky was I!
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This didn't happen to me but we had one of the younger members of the local store have his entire rare folder stolen at the Grand Prix.
Was pretty disappointing to have something like that happen.
If I go with them all next year I'll be folder babysitting while they compete. I hate stuff like this happening.
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Personally though, I had my rares and my 'will never trade sentimental cards & the like' folder in my parents lounge while we were watching a movie. I left the house for a few hours and when I'd returned found them all out of the folder and stuffed into the couch and under the chairs.
My mentally impaired grandmother had seen them and wanted to look at the pictures and so took them out of the folder and once being told they were my 'special cards' and not to play with them she paniced and tried to hide the ones she'd removed.
Only a couple of junk rares were damaged, and although don't blame good ol' grandma, they go into a draw when I visit now.
It's relatively minor, but some of my EDH deck, including my general, did get mysteriously wet in my backpack.
As for close calls, I went to my first prerelease in Kansas City, and had a great time- except when I found out my prerelease sideboard and fat pack full of cards were missing. I was more worried about the box- which contained a playset of Garruk, about seven fetchlands, a playset of Lotus Cobra, and basically my entire playing career's worth of valuable cards. Fortunately, there are still honest people in the world, because I did get the box back. As for the prerelease cards- in my leather jacket pocket. I had forgotten I had put them there because I was wearing two coats. I went around the entire room and must have asked two-hundred people if they had seen anyone using a Sorin Markov- it wasn't life-breaking, but I wanted my sideboard back, and I figured whoever had my Sorin had the rest of my cards.
A friend of mine was playing All-In_Green, and he had gone through and foiled it. Promo basic lands, probably less than ten cards not foiled. Not as super impressive a foiled tier deck, but still pretty and not cheap.
A few months after Future Sight was released, one of my Tarmogoyfs went missing. I was pretty mad that I lost $25 worth of cardboard, but at least I'm still alive.
Oddly enough, in that sae week, someone had their foil Godless Shrine go missing in the same store that I "lost" my Tarmogoyf.
Then a few weeks later, at another store a few miles down the road, one the local Magic players was trading and some of the traders noticed that the cards he was trading looked very similar to the cards that went missing. So they took a look through the binders of the suspicious dude, ask him a few questions and he confesses. Shortly thereafter they dump out all his cards, take back what they lost and then some. The thief never came back again.
Unfortunately I was away when this happened, but I wasn't too angry that someone now had a $25 Tarmogoyf of mine. Flash foward a few years later and Tarmogoyf is now $100
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had a dude steal a page out of my binder once that had a playset of revised birds of paradise, 2 forces of nature, a shivan dragon, playset of ernham djinn in it. this was back before mirage when those cards were worth money.
come to find out he was banned from another shop because he stole an unlimited time walk and htey caught him. he was stealing cards for drug money. scumbag.
Right around the same time a friend of mine lost his blightning beatdown deck-he hasn't played t2 since as he's on a budget-and I lost my rare binder, though it didn't have anything noteworthy in it at the time. Still need a new binder, though, as I've just got a pile of rares now.
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My friends' collection was stolen once a few years ago at regionals. The three of them lost, like, $600 worth of cards. >_<
After that I vowed never to let my backpack/binder out of sight, and I've never had anything stolen.
Once at a draft, a friend of mine tried to secretly keep an Ancestral Vision he'd picked when we were drafting off the rares at the end. I'm not sure why, because we knew he'd drafted it. It was kind of lol.
18 years old. My life savings of $3,100, invested in my first large online M:TG purchases, 2 separate lots totalling exactly $3,100. Both lots arrived, one was a brick in a box, the other was a box of commons, and both had coerced me into paying with a non-CC method.
Ahahah, I'm glad you got your money back from the idiots that tried to scam you, great job, but that just made me laugh. I just got the image of a kid who'd just spent his life savings on something, and it finally arrives. He excitely tears off the wrapping, opens the box with eyes full of excitement.. and it's a brick.
Still, though, good job getting it back, I'm glad you did
My counter rebels deck got stolen in middle school, I had two Mageta the Lion and 4 Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero in there, what a beastly card. I really should remake that deck in fact. Rebels were such an amazing tribe
I am a massive man who walks around everywhere with a keylocked backpack strapped to his back. I'd like to see someone make an attempt to steal from me and leave with their face intact. What's the floor ruling if someone tries to steal your stuff and you bust their face open, anyway?
EDIT: ah yes, I had my UW Elspeth Control jacked back in the days of Xth-Alara T2. 3 Elspeths, 4 Textless Cryptic Commands, 4 Unlimited ***s...
Not a good day for me. Left it on the table next to some friends at a draft and said "HERE, WATCH THIS FOR ME I NEED TO POO," and 10 minutes later they were out for a smoke and my deck was gone.
EDIT2: Ah yes, and Laguilde ripped me off. a DoJ, KotR, and some other crap for 2 Mutavaults. I messaged him on here and he ignored me when I told him what my purpose was. If you're going to rip someone, don't do it so blatantly. God.
Foil Overgrown Tomb, Godless Shrine, Temple Garden, Foil Jitte, Foil Pithing Needle, Foil Hyppies, Foil Dark Confidants, Cranial Extraction, Kokusho, and Senseis' top.
Foil. Unhinged. Basic Land.
His entire deck panned out to about 4,000$ or so.
Anyways, he goes to a Pro Tour Qualifier, and he's doing hot, great job blah blah blah, well he's just finished eating and he's sorting his deck for everyone to see how great it is. Not that he was intentionally doing it to show everyone how much money he spent.. but there were people who were like "Woah~!". But he was a complete jerk, about it (I played him with the U/R Tronfires at the time and won 2-1 but after he insulted me by saying if he had drawn a whatever. ANYWAYS.)
He's sitting there talking about how his deck is just perfect for the metagame and he goes to show off his foiled Wrath of God, and tips over his soda.
The soda poured out from the Styrofoam cup and just SOAKED, each and every one of his cards in cola.. Sleeves didn't help.. pretty much locking in the moisture. We're talking a torrent here, the soda is all over his cards and flooded them into his lap and onto the ground where more soda poured onto them.
He eventually got them all unsleeved, but he had to concede his next match up to blow dry all the cards.. and even after they became so warped.. like they were curved BAD. Like so bad not even the in between a dictionary for a week trick would help.. The kind of warped foil that Is like \___/ bent.
But at the time, he was screaming, shouting at everyone who's fault it was, blaming the person who asked what edition the Wrath of God was from.
Anyways.. I found it completely funny that someone who invested so much.. and was such a jerk, had a rude awakening.
It was on that day I realized.
If you play a budget deck, or a Pro Deck.. they are all weak in the eyes of Coca Cola.
However, when Kami-block came out I decided to quit magic and sell most of my collection. I kept 3-4 decks because they were favorites. This included a full foil RG LD deck (with BoP) and promo lands, a casual reanimator deck, and a mostly foil (4 Ravager) Affinity deck (pre-bannings build). I also kept sets of what little awesome cards Kami-block had to offer (Tops, Pithings, all the Dragon's, and more importantly about 10 Jitte, 4 being foreign and 2 being foil).
Anyway, I started dating this guy who was also a magic player and a secret drug addict. He was at my place and I let him see what was left of my collection and it quickly disappeared before I realized. He had replaced my deck boxes with a bunch of commons from his box of cards he brought with him. He also straight up stole a bunch of CDs and stuff as well. Only thing I had left was my John Avon collection binder and a bunch of very useless commons (to make it worse, commons from Kami-block).
I found out later that he was a heroin addict who was pretty much stealing anything that wasn't nailed down from his "friends".
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Zippers, rook box lids, velcro closures, slideouts - no. They can all be opened and rifled without physically moving your bag.
Keep all cards in a standard white box with the kind of lid you have to be holding the box on a table or in your lap to lift. The kind with tabs that insert into the side walls of the box. And keep them in a bag, wheeled case, or Fellowes case that you have to pop a latch and lift to open.
That way, thieves can't move in behind you, and unzip a compartment, and slide things out of your bag that you dutifully placed under your chair with a chair leg through a shoulder strap.
I've seen how easy it is to come into a tournament wearing flip-flops and even unzip bag compartments with the toes. Then you just maneuver binders and deck boxes out onto the floor with your feet, drop a slip of paper or a pen on the floor, and reach down to collect your loot that you've maneuvered out into the open. Summer tournaments are bad for this sort of thing. During winter, the coats hanging off the backs of chairs get nailed.
The cargo pants idea is best, as they usually have to physically touch you at some point to undo the clasp on the pocket and remove the deckbox.
It also leaves your hands free to do stuff without leaving loot out on the table.
A small 4x4 card binder is ideal if you have a large hoodie pocket or coat pocket to slip it into between trading opportunities. Make sure it's against your body. Putting it in your coat and then leaving your coat slung over a chair while you run to buy a hot dog is not doing much to protect your cards. That said, the smaller the binder, the easier it is for a thief to conceal as well.
My best advice is if you don't need it to play in the tournament, don't bring it. My second best advice is, no food or drink around cards at all, whatsoever, period. When it's lunch time, put your deck away. Or spend your lunch time trading/talking shop, and go hungry. Sorry, but I've seen enough cola-meets-duals encounters to know that even the most careful, humble, and organized person will attract bad luck by not following this rule.
A little nourishment does wonders for your mental stamina. A lot of food, especially the starchy and greasy crap you get at tournament venues, leaves you cognitively dulled and not very sharp. Hunger, within moderation, keeps your attention sharp and your focus on the game.
Bringing a healthy lunch (sandwich, fruit, bottle of water) does 3 things to help you avoid theft. It keeps you from going into a carb coma halfway through the fifth round. It keeps your wallet in your pocket and your money in your wallet. It keeps you at the gaming table where your stuff is, and not wandering off to buy food.
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that's karma. who said that bad things only happen to good people?
a magic player AND a heroin addict? ouch. those are some expensive "hobbies". How long did it take you to realize it? And what did you do once you did??
As for me, i dont think i've ever had anything stolen since i dont usually drag my stuff around with me anyways. Basically i found if im playing an event, i dont bring traders and just the one deck i need (assuming its a constructed event). If im trading, i only have my trade binder. Luckily i only have 2 decks that are valuable (dual lands, really...) so im not THAT worried about it.
People who drag around their entire collection around with them are just setting themselves up for thievery.
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I realized it shortly after he left. I had this eerie feeling because he was acting kinda shifty and left pretty quickly. Once I found out I tried to call him and contact him in various ways, he never spoke to me again. I tried talking to his friends, but most of them were looking for him too.
But I from what I learned from his friends, he got little from me compared to what he stole from others. His "best friend" had a massive collection (I'm talking huge amounts of duals, P9..etc) and he broke into his place one night when he was at work and cleaned him out. So I'm hoping that wherever he is it has bars and a big man named Bubba.
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Same here...
Kinda hard to believe burglars gave just taken cards and ripped them up. Iran, why would they do that? just to hurt someone?
Guess my story about Xth edition cards left in the hospital is nothing compared to this lot.
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Once he finally got home, at some point, he remembered them but couldn't find them. He was still a little touch-and-go mentally, and was a little on the paranoid side. He thought someone stole them. It was really tough.
Few months later I'm talking to him and he says "Oh hey, guess what I found!"
And one time, this kid at the local store tried to walk off with one of my Beatdown set d20 spindowns (of which I have collected 2 complete sets of 5). They're unique to that set and could be worth 'something to someone, some day'.
It was patently obvious to everyone there he was the only person who could possibly have it, and yet he wouldn't come clean. Finally, the store owner (who was probably sick of hearing the commotion) storms over, grabs the guy's bookbag, turns it upsdie down, dumps the contents, and guess what comes rolling out on the floor at his feet. Hrrm.. I just said "OK buddy, I'm sure it got in there by accident. No worries, let's shuffle up, k?" (He was like 12..I didn't want to make him cry or something.) I just hope he learned something that day.
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The worst thing thats ever happened to me though involved the Decipher Star Wars game. When the game first came out I bought loads of boosters and only ever pulled a C-3P0, on day on my way to a tournie I dropped it in the street and before I could recover it , it got ran over multible times. I was soooo upset. When I got to the tourie I went to go try to trade for another one, but I guess the store had one and my Step-dad go it for me with out me even knowing until he just slipped it on top on my deck. I was Extatic!!
sorry i know long story, but I just HAAAAAD to tell it
BRLyzolda the BloodwitchBR
BUSygg, River CutthroatBU
GGGOmnath, Locus of PowerGGG
URNiv-Mizzet, the DracogeniusUR
BWObzedat, Ghost CouncilBW
RWGisela, Blade of GoldnightRW
GBGlissa, the TraitorGB
GRUlasht, the HateseedRG
UUUMemnarchUUU
BBBKorlash, Heir to BlackbladeBBB
UWHanna, Ship's NavigatorUW
UWRasputin DreamweaverUW
GWSaffi EriksdotterGW
BWURGSliver OverlordBWURG
Was pretty disappointing to have something like that happen.
If I go with them all next year I'll be folder babysitting while they compete. I hate stuff like this happening.
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Personally though, I had my rares and my 'will never trade sentimental cards & the like' folder in my parents lounge while we were watching a movie. I left the house for a few hours and when I'd returned found them all out of the folder and stuffed into the couch and under the chairs.
My mentally impaired grandmother had seen them and wanted to look at the pictures and so took them out of the folder and once being told they were my 'special cards' and not to play with them she paniced and tried to hide the ones she'd removed.
Only a couple of junk rares were damaged, and although don't blame good ol' grandma, they go into a draw when I visit now.
As for close calls, I went to my first prerelease in Kansas City, and had a great time- except when I found out my prerelease sideboard and fat pack full of cards were missing. I was more worried about the box- which contained a playset of Garruk, about seven fetchlands, a playset of Lotus Cobra, and basically my entire playing career's worth of valuable cards. Fortunately, there are still honest people in the world, because I did get the box back. As for the prerelease cards- in my leather jacket pocket. I had forgotten I had put them there because I was wearing two coats. I went around the entire room and must have asked two-hundred people if they had seen anyone using a Sorin Markov- it wasn't life-breaking, but I wanted my sideboard back, and I figured whoever had my Sorin had the rest of my cards.
Yeah, someone jacked it at an FNM.
Oddly enough, in that sae week, someone had their foil Godless Shrine go missing in the same store that I "lost" my Tarmogoyf.
Then a few weeks later, at another store a few miles down the road, one the local Magic players was trading and some of the traders noticed that the cards he was trading looked very similar to the cards that went missing. So they took a look through the binders of the suspicious dude, ask him a few questions and he confesses. Shortly thereafter they dump out all his cards, take back what they lost and then some. The thief never came back again.
Unfortunately I was away when this happened, but I wasn't too angry that someone now had a $25 Tarmogoyf of mine. Flash foward a few years later and Tarmogoyf is now $100
Modern:
Something new every week
Legacy:
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come to find out he was banned from another shop because he stole an unlimited time walk and htey caught him. he was stealing cards for drug money. scumbag.
UUUJin-Gitaxias, Core AugurUUU
Modern
WWWHatebearsWWW
After that I vowed never to let my backpack/binder out of sight, and I've never had anything stolen.
Once at a draft, a friend of mine tried to secretly keep an Ancestral Vision he'd picked when we were drafting off the rares at the end. I'm not sure why, because we knew he'd drafted it. It was kind of lol.
Rasputin Dreamweaver EDH
Ahahah, I'm glad you got your money back from the idiots that tried to scam you, great job, but that just made me laugh. I just got the image of a kid who'd just spent his life savings on something, and it finally arrives. He excitely tears off the wrapping, opens the box with eyes full of excitement.. and it's a brick.
Still, though, good job getting it back, I'm glad you did
EDIT: ah yes, I had my UW Elspeth Control jacked back in the days of Xth-Alara T2. 3 Elspeths, 4 Textless Cryptic Commands, 4 Unlimited ***s...
Not a good day for me. Left it on the table next to some friends at a draft and said "HERE, WATCH THIS FOR ME I NEED TO POO," and 10 minutes later they were out for a smoke and my deck was gone.
EDIT2: Ah yes, and Laguilde ripped me off. a DoJ, KotR, and some other crap for 2 Mutavaults. I messaged him on here and he ignored me when I told him what my purpose was. If you're going to rip someone, don't do it so blatantly. God.
I am petitioning to get players to stop complaining about mythic rarity. Sig this to join the cause.