Summary
- It's been announced that a Black Lotus MTG card has sold for a whopping $3 million, becoming the game's most valuable card.
- The card's buyer recently reached out to Kotaku, claiming the transaction is legit and what they paid "feels right".
- Some MTG fans still have their doubts though, disputing the grading credentials of the company Certified Guaranty.
When it comes to the most valuable cards in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering right now, chances are you'll have heard of the Black Lotus. It's gained a very well-earned reputation for being one of the most expensive cards in the collectibles market, routinely selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars, with two high profile examples being 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:⛎a Black✃ Lotus that sold back in 2023 for $540,000, and a signed version t𒉰hat was bought by MTG celebrity enthusias🌼t Post Malone for $800,000.
Those two Black Lotus cards used to be the most valuable of their kind, but the record seems to have been completely ꩵobliterated last month after Florida-based grading company Certified Guaranty (CGC) announced that . That not only makes this Black Lotus the most valuable of its kind, it also makes it the highest-priced Magic: The Gathering card ever sold.
Given that no Black Lotus had ever sold for over $1 million prior to this announcement, there are . However, the buyer of the card recently about the sale, claiming that it was a completely legitimate transaction and that he feels $3 million is "about right" in today's market. They also admit that they may have "overpaid a bit", but explain that they're not all that bothered as they're not buying the card to immediately flip it.
Magic: The Gathering's The One Ring Is No Longer The Most Valuable Card
With this sale, the title of "most valuable MTG card" no longer belongs to the single print variant of The One Ring that was released as part of the Tales from Middle-Earth crossover set that launched last summer, which was bought by Post Malone for a whopping $2 miไllion. Being the only version of that card in existence, it was previously thought that it would remain the most valuable card almost indefinitely, but this Black Lotu🦂s sale has smashed that record to pieces.
There are still some doubters, of course, including those that don't rate CGC's credentials as a certified grading company, but that doesn't really matter if the sale is legitimate. Black Lotus is once again the king of the Magic: The Gathering collector's market, and it's difficult to see anything else beating that record any time soon.
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