• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 年前

      10K at the low end.

      If it makes you feel any better, the wood grain in the hole doesn’t line up with the wood grain of the rest of the table. It’s a slightly sloppy photoshop.

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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          2 年前

          You can also tell by zooming in and looking at the focus/detail/resolution difference between the card’s art and the wood of the table along the edge of the cut-away hole. That slightly jarring difference of resolution is a dead giveaway for a photoshop.

          • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            2 年前

            Come on, that’s literally just JPEG artefacting because it’s a meme and it’s been shared a bunch. There are so many fakes of this card out there, it’s not that far-fetched and it’s likely not a $10k+ card that was destroyed.

  • scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 年前

    I know Black Lotus is one of the most (the most) valuable MTG card, but why is that so?

    It’s a nice card, but not all that extremely powerful or special, is it? Was it just super rare? It’s from one of the first series, I believe?

    • Ahdok@ttrpg.network
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      2 年前

      This is often cited as the most powerful card ever printed.

      Very few cards are strong enough that they form part of a first-turn-kill, with the vast majority of decks, it’s not remotely possible to get enough mana to play the kinds of cards that would end the game before your opponent can even do anything. Black Lotus gives you three mana, without having to play a land. If you’re trying to build a hyper-broken combination, it’s much easier to do if you have a black lotus.

      Even outside of hyper-broken combinations, black lotus contributes heavily towards mana ramp, a mechanic that a large number of decks rely on to get going.

      MtG has a lot of extremely powerful cards, but most of those are still somewhat situational. Black Lotus is a card you could add to almost any deck and improve that deck. It’s so universally broken that it’s impossible to build a deck that can’t be improved with a black lotus… unless that deck already has four black lotuses.

      As for it’s value… they printed 500 of them. Total. The cost you’d pay for a black lotus is “highest bid at auction” - they don’t really have a list price, because it’s determined entirely by “is there one for sale right now?”