One of Magic: The Gathering’s rarest cards was bought for $87,000

One of Magic: The Gathering’s rarest cards was bought for $87,000

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https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/28/17625830/magic-the-gathering-black-lotus-auction-sold

Magic: The Gathering is a card-collection game of course, so it makes sense some of its cards would be, well, collector’s items. One just fetched more than $87,000 in an eBay sale.

As noticed today by Kotaku, the Black Lotus card from Magic: The Gathering’s original launch — August 1993, so, happy upcoming 25th anniversary, while we’re at it — went for $87,672 after bidding closed this week. The Black Lotus, which officially “adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool,” showed up in three printings of Magic: The Gathering card sets from 1993.