MTG Player Ruins $21,000 Of Cards By Laminating Them

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Magic: The Gathering has been around for quite a while now, meaning there's a bevy of rare cards out there that will net anyone who kept their old collections in pristine condition an awful lot of money. However, there's no controlling what you might have done to your cards when you were a child, so it's possible that you may have accidentally done something very silly on a whim back in the day, only to find out how horrible a mistake you've made years later.

In steps u/MobNamikaze, a Magic: The Gathering fan who recently shared their local shop owner's grave mistake with the MagicTCG subreddit. In a post made earlier this week, u/MobNamikaze shares an image of a selection of old Magic: The Gathering cards placed in some kind of display in a shop. To the naked eye, it doesn't look bad, but experienced players will immediately spot the value of these cards is pretty high, as they're all land cards currently on the Magic: The Gathering reserved list.

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This essentially means that these cards will never be reprinted and, at the time of writing, they're worth a pretty massive chunk of change. Just from the stuff in the middle, we can see that there are four Tropical Islands, five Volcanic Islands, 6 Underground Seas, and four Taigas, which add up to roughly $21,000. Unfortunately, the cards pictured in the post below are worth nowhere near that, as the owner laminated them when they were younger.

For those that don't know, laminating a card in pretty much any TCG is a big no-no. Not only does it drastically reduce the card's value as the laminating process could potentially damage the card or smudge the ink, but it