Fan unwittingly scores new Magic: the Gathering cards early before Wizards of the Coast gets 19th century on his ass: 'The Pinkertons took everything.'

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First reported by Polygon(opens in new tab), a Magic: the Gathering fan and content creator with the handle oldschoolmtg(opens in new tab) had a rude awakening on April 23 when employees of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (yes, those Pinkertons), showed up at his front door to seize unreleased Magic: the Gathering products he'd happened upon in a recent haul.

Oldschoolmtg primarily does unboxing/overview videos for new Magic sets and limited edition products, and in a recent video (since taken down) sat down to cover some March of the Machine collectors' boxes he'd acquired. Included among the 22 boxes, however, was one set of March of the Machine: Aftermath booster packs, a follow-up to March of the Machine that doesn't release until May 12. Oldschoolmtg theorizes that the Aftermath set got mixed in at some point in distribution due to the similar-sounding names (I'm getting confused just writing this), while the contact he acquired the product from «is more of a Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh! guy» according to oldschoolmtg, and didn't realize what he'd stumbled on.

Oldschoolmtg showed off this effective early preview on his YouTube channel, which got picked up by other MTG content creators and eventually came to the attention of Wizards of the Coast. That's where the Pinkertons, contracted by Wizards, come in. The private detective agency is infamous in US history as a source of union infiltrators and violent strike breakers in the first great waves of labor unrest in the 19th century. Gamers may be familiar with them as Booker DeWitt's employer or perhaps the archnemeses of the Van Der Linde Gang (a portrayal the agency sued over(opens in new tab), for the record). They declined in relevance as law enforcement practices evolved,