MTG Players Track Down Over $250,000 Worth Of Cards In Texas Landfill
You can bet your bottom dollar that someone somewhere out there is wanting more Magic cards. In fact it's pretty much guaranteed considering the enduring popularity of the game and the number of would-be collectors. So it is immensely sad when cards end up in landfill. This is the case of recent sets that are worth a pretty penny and one MTG fan was able to track down exactly where the cards ended up. This is a story of a modern treasure hunt.
On the pics subreddit, someone posted a picture of boxes of MTG cards in a landfill in the United States. It is six pallets of cards. Doing the math: six layers per pallet, 12 cardboard boxes per layer, four display boxes per cardboard box, and so it's around 1729 display boxes in the six pallets. At $150 per box, for a conservative estimate, then this is close to $260,000 worth of product (thanks u/Mirrormn). It's an astonishingly valuable find just sitting there in the landfill. Magic fans were on the case.
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After the photo of the pallets was shared, within hours the precise location of the landfill was determined, and it was discovered that it was Modern Horizons 2 booster packs, which is one of the most valuable sets of late. That over $250,000 worth of cards are just sat there unopened and unused flabbergasted many on the forum.
Someone threw away 6 pallets of Magic TG cards at my local city landfill
by u/LATIN0 in pics
But why would such valuable cards, and so many, end up on landfill I hear you ask? While we won't know the exact answer, there is good speculation. It is possible that someone (a collector and/or seller) ordered this big haul but the delivery company could've
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