I remember Lord of the Pit being a big deal at casual tables before we even knew a competitive scene existed. It was huge, really difficult to block, and realistically would kill your opponent in three hits. It also didn't have a mana upkeep but sacrificing a creature instead, which you can keep up on and still have mana available for your turn.
Yeah I remember including spiders in my casual deck just so I could slow down Lord of the Pit if my opponent had the time to play it before I had my big green creatures
I was at my local comic con and Dan Scott was had a booth there. He had a binder with all the magic cards that he drew art for. I ended up buying one (Memory Plunder) and had him sign it. Not until after the con I noticed the back blank. I asked my friend at my LGS and he told me that it was an Artist proof.
Most I've ever spent was $350 for a lot of 3 cards. Won an ebay auction for a tropical island, volcanic island and taiga, all from revised and Italian (gotta love the foreign black border). This was back in 2015, around the same time guilded Drake was worth $15 (I bought 2), so idk if it was a good deal then.
I remember when I first got into MtG, my friend's dad gave me a bunch of cards that "didn't matter". I wish I had foresight cause one of those cards was Time Twister, and at the time, I didn't think it was good.
I remember when I bought a Hellkite Overlord for $8 and at the time it was the most money I had ever spent on a Magic card. I remember thinking "this is the absolute most I'll ever spend on a single card". Currently it's Sheoldred for $70 lol
Old checking in here: I remember the days where sleeves were that revolution. I have a few reserve list cards these days, and I love that they've been played.
@@liamfoote7164 arguably LOTR doesn't really ruin the flavor, LOTR and MTG have similar high fantasy themes and you don't need to suspend your disbelief much to imagine middle earth being a plane in mtg. I forgot about vintage 💀
One of my biggest regrets is not buying an Alpha Black Lotus for $300 back in the late 90s. Every weekend I played in a tournament I'd look at it inside the display case but just couldn't justify pulling the trigger on it
My dad doesn't even know what MtG is but he brings up Post Malone buying that one ring at least once a week, usually accompanied by general grumbling about how dumb it is to spend 2 million on a card and how he'd invest it in gold instead...
I LOVE Lord of the Pit, when i first saw it, i was blown away and the art is simply amazing, still one of my favourite pieces. I still have it i a green/black scrifice/reanimator deck. Its not too great, but i cant bring myself to exclude it.
The intro reminds me of when I was a real little kid and a friend was selling some of his cards for cheap. He had 4 phyrexian dreadnoughts, sellling each for a quarter, and I was like nah, I don't wanna spend that on those, I already have one! Also, funny that the Subscribe button light-up thing didn't actually work at the end, at least on my end.
I remember about 25 years ago I used Lord of the Pit in combination with breeding pit and it was pretty powerful. Granted I never went to tournaments, but in my friend group and relatives on the kitchen table, if I got the combo off I pretty much always won.
At the time, Lord of the pit was very powerful. I remember my brother playing it with Breeding Pool when Fallen Empires came out, so it just made tokens for him to sacrifice every turn, and he had a 7/7 with flying and trample.
I think you can use Lord of the Pit in Old School, but in my case I use it with Fallen Empires cards, so I have Breeding Pits and Soul Exchange to get a Lord out. It's a fun deck, because if I get desperate I can stick a few Storage lands and hard cast Lord!
You'd have a hell of a time shuffling them though. I had a similar dumb idea with top loaders, I almost have enough of them for a full top loaded commander deck.
When you show prices in Dollars, please also include the type of dollar. Obviously we assume it's USD, but Australians and Canadians (and surely many more) hate the assumption thst Dollars means USD.
That's a good point :) it's easy for Europeans to forget that other countries have the same word for different currencies. We'll try to use USD in the future 👍
Lord of the Pit was nearly unstoppable at the time. Seven wasn't so hard when you could perform a Dark Ritual (or two!) to get you there quickly. As a 7/7 BLACK creature it was next to impossible to remove (Sword to Plowshares maybe) and flying made it hard to block while trampling meant that even if you did you almost always say damage go through. Sure you needed to feed your Lord of the Pit a time or two but you only needed to attack with it a couple time.
When the top card of this list was sold hit the news at the point that in my appointment with the psychotherapist some days later she welcomed me talking about it because she knows I'm a Mtg player. 😅 😂
Where do you get your prices ?| I checked on some online mtg stores and it goes (for the sites who had a Lord of the Pit (alpha) in stcock) from 2,320$ (Cad) to 2,900$ (Cad) is it because of the grade?
There is an INSANE price difference between a normal card and a PSA 10 graded card. Hell, even the difference between a 9.5 and a 10 grade is probably 1000%
Unfortunately, I bought it in a thrift shop in Bavaria, I wouldn't be able to find another one like it if my life depended on it, which is too bad because I love it :)
My budget for cards is slowly creeping up... Bought 2 copies of Urza Lord High Artificer for 13 euros each and now im like hmmm, i could use a couple atraxas
I think the 1996 world champion card is up for sale again (and this time it looks real)... And I think Post Malone also has the artist proof black lotus.
Honestly, I personally do not like card gradings. It's just such a sad thing. This beautiful card, that was meant to be played with, is now imprisoned in this plastic casing. And noone is ever taking it out and using it for it's meant purpose. Also how sad is it, that Magic, with it's rich history of 30 years, now has a most expensive card, that isn't even their own property? It's just sad! And that One Ring isn't even used to play with! But good and interesting video guys! It's not your fault, that this whole collector thing is just so sad and so desruptive to our game :(
@@Luke-nk6iy thats a first for me, never heard of a 14 mio one, The Malone Black Lotus was the most expensive i ever heard from ;P. (In Terms of Lotus)
I know you listed the Illustrator as the most expensive card ever sold, but I think I would be remiss to not mention baseball cards The most expensive baseball card ever sold is not Honus Wagner (at least not anymore) at $7+ million, it is actually a Micky Mantle Rookie card that sold for $12.6 million in 2022. So if you want a real hit for a rare card, go to baseball cards. The rare stuff there can sell for quite a pretty penny.
Post Malone bought the one, one of one ring and the Jeff Ferreira Collection artist proof Lotus as well lol. He will likely have the most expensive collection until the day he dies as I know he won't ever part with them. Hearing how he talks about the hobby and the passion he's always had for it leads me to believe he will forever be known as THE MTG fan boy, genuinely
And each time Carl wears a Heavy Metal shirt it raises me a few questions. What's the name of the band? Is it another Carl's friends band? Why not use shirts of bands we know????!!
That's a weird request. Unfortunately, it's not really possible. Jamin has Alopecia and I (Carl) use medicinal shampoo and still can't do anything to prevent my skin from doing that. It's not out of lack of trying
Y'know, if the owner of the 1996 World Champion card owner wanted to be really cheeky, they could offer to sell it now to Post Malone. We've seen what he'll pay for The One Ring; what would he pay for one of the only other cards printed a single time, and this time a card that doesn't have lesser versions of it?
its funny cuz this is just public sales, theres stuff like 8th edition test print misprints and what not that go for 6 figures in private sales or between trusted hands most people dont even know exist
It's unbelievably unlikely that any private sale was sold for more than at least the top 3 cards in this video. We simply know how much most misprints sell for and it would not make sense for one random misprint to jump out of the margin by that much without it being straight up bribery :)
Didn't Posty tell on Joe Rogans podacst that he bought a Black Lotus for 800k (this was before the LotR Set)? This should have made the list too, then.
for me it' a top 4 and not top5 video because i will never acknowpedge the one ring as a magic history piece. it's a collab cash grab meant for the rich, it was never meant for casual players. for me, the one ring is just a mtg card styled bag of money, not a real mtg card... if i was rich like post, i'd buy it and rip it as a sign of defiance towards hasbro for what they did to this once awesome game
Find the most expensive card ever sold (in any game) here: bit.ly/3O5ZzmF
It’s fine. I have 120 copies of Colossal Dreadmaw. I’m set for life.
Really?
You could have 121.
Ive got about 300
Damn, more than 3?! I envy you.
I only 20 😢
" Do you think we'll see even more expensive cards in the future ? "
" mm, I mean, given inflation... "
Lol, Thoralf, you're such a smart guy ;D
I remember Lord of the Pit being a big deal at casual tables before we even knew a competitive scene existed. It was huge, really difficult to block, and realistically would kill your opponent in three hits. It also didn't have a mana upkeep but sacrificing a creature instead, which you can keep up on and still have mana available for your turn.
Yeah I remember including spiders in my casual deck just so I could slow down Lord of the Pit if my opponent had the time to play it before I had my big green creatures
LotP was super fun in standard...back when I played standard. Miss those days.
@@EzullofWhen Breeding Pit came out it was a godsend for Lord of the Pit!
It was all fun and cake until Wrath of God or a single Swords to Plowshares was drawn by the mono-white guy :D Ah, sweet old times.
I was at my local comic con and Dan Scott was had a booth there. He had a binder with all the magic cards that he drew art for. I ended up buying one (Memory Plunder) and had him sign it. Not until after the con I noticed the back blank. I asked my friend at my LGS and he told me that it was an Artist proof.
How much is it worth
I would never have expected a lord of the pit to surpass a power 9 card
The thumbnail reminding me of ERB so much I thought it was going to be Toffel vs Carl.
..Now I want a Toffel vs Carl ERB ft Jamin!
Most I've ever spent was $350 for a lot of 3 cards. Won an ebay auction for a tropical island, volcanic island and taiga, all from revised and Italian (gotta love the foreign black border). This was back in 2015, around the same time guilded Drake was worth $15 (I bought 2), so idk if it was a good deal then.
I remember when I first got into MtG, my friend's dad gave me a bunch of cards that "didn't matter". I wish I had foresight cause one of those cards was Time Twister, and at the time, I didn't think it was good.
Tbh it is kinda sad that MtG's most expensive card is not even from magic's lore but from another IP entirely.
On the other hand, Lords of the Rings is probably the best non-Magic universe it could be from. Not the worst, at least.
@@Ezullof yeah lol at least it isnt like a one of one "Rick Grimes"
@@Ezullof Wait until they do the one of Infinity Gauntlet... :(
I remember when I bought a Hellkite Overlord for $8 and at the time it was the most money I had ever spent on a Magic card. I remember thinking "this is the absolute most I'll ever spend on a single card". Currently it's Sheoldred for $70 lol
Jamin, I run Lord of the Pit in my Jon Irenicus commander deck. It's a great card when you can give it to your opponent.
Old checking in here: I remember the days where sleeves were that revolution. I have a few reserve list cards these days, and I love that they've been played.
there's gonna be 001/001 copies for the 6 infinity stones.
I wanted to write exactly the same. stones or gauntlet
great more non MTG IPs that ruin the flavor, can't wait.
@@QuixoticCowboyso far they've only been in commander and not any of the magic formats
@@abjoernuh legacy? And lord of the rings?
@@liamfoote7164 arguably LOTR doesn't really ruin the flavor, LOTR and MTG have similar high fantasy themes and you don't need to suspend your disbelief much to imagine middle earth being a plane in mtg.
I forgot about vintage 💀
One of my biggest regrets is not buying an Alpha Black Lotus for $300 back in the late 90s. Every weekend I played in a tournament I'd look at it inside the display case but just couldn't justify pulling the trigger on it
Ahhh, I love these videos seeing MTG back in the day; I mean, it's great now, but so nostalgic seeing old cards and combos.
One of the things that made Lord of the Pit better is that way back in the day, a lot of black creature removal only hit non-black creatures.
My dad doesn't even know what MtG is but he brings up Post Malone buying that one ring at least once a week, usually accompanied by general grumbling about how dumb it is to spend 2 million on a card and how he'd invest it in gold instead...
Tbh, I think the card might be the better investment 😂😂😂
There were a couple cards I wanted to get back in the day, but I was like "I can't imagine spending $20 on ONE Magic card".
I should have, though, lol
Hahaha if I could go back in time I'd have bought all those dual lands I thought were pricy at still under 30€
I LOVE Lord of the Pit, when i first saw it, i was blown away and the art is simply amazing, still one of my favourite pieces. I still have it i a green/black scrifice/reanimator deck. Its not too great, but i cant bring myself to exclude it.
There's at least one more expensive Black Lotus sold, Post Malone said he paid 800k for his Christopher Rush signed Beta Lotus.
No that was an artist proof, wasn't a card per se.
I think he actually bought the card in this video after it originally sold for the $500k.
The intro reminds me of when I was a real little kid and a friend was selling some of his cards for cheap. He had 4 phyrexian dreadnoughts, sellling each for a quarter, and I was like nah, I don't wanna spend that on those, I already have one!
Also, funny that the Subscribe button light-up thing didn't actually work at the end, at least on my end.
Post bought both the top 2 most expensive magic cards. Dude is dedicated.
Dude is over-compensated and over-compensating.
@@stephenfox6032 Dude is just rich and likes Magic it aint that deep
I remember about 25 years ago I used Lord of the Pit in combination with breeding pit and it was pretty powerful. Granted I never went to tournaments, but in my friend group and relatives on the kitchen table, if I got the combo off I pretty much always won.
I've played Lord of the Pit in a Jon Irenicus, Shattered One commander deck, and it's fantastic there!
At the time, Lord of the pit was very powerful. I remember my brother playing it with Breeding Pool when Fallen Empires came out, so it just made tokens for him to sacrifice every turn, and he had a 7/7 with flying and trample.
I think you can use Lord of the Pit in Old School, but in my case I use it with Fallen Empires cards, so I have Breeding Pits and Soul Exchange to get a Lord out. It's a fun deck, because if I get desperate I can stick a few Storage lands and hard cast Lord!
The One Ring for sure is here
I spit out my coffee with the reveal of the prize of the Timetwister
Post bought it for 2 million us which is 2.6 million canadian, the country in which it was found.
Ah that makes then
Still disappointed that nobody threw the One Ring into the volcano that Gavin Verhey fell down
We are as well
I'd find it funny if someone went and made a deck made entirely of sealed, graded cards. The cases are pretty much just stronger, thicker sleeves.
You'd have a hell of a time shuffling them though. I had a similar dumb idea with top loaders, I almost have enough of them for a full top loaded commander deck.
When you show prices in Dollars, please also include the type of dollar. Obviously we assume it's USD, but Australians and Canadians (and surely many more) hate the assumption thst Dollars means USD.
The listings are in Holy Roman Imperial Thalers.
That's a good point :) it's easy for Europeans to forget that other countries have the same word for different currencies. We'll try to use USD in the future 👍
Would be so cool to see you guys at the professor playing magic!! :D
Lord of the Pit was nearly unstoppable at the time. Seven wasn't so hard when you could perform a Dark Ritual (or two!) to get you there quickly. As a 7/7 BLACK creature it was next to impossible to remove (Sword to Plowshares maybe) and flying made it hard to block while trampling meant that even if you did you almost always say damage go through. Sure you needed to feed your Lord of the Pit a time or two but you only needed to attack with it a couple time.
I was lucky enough during university to go to a prerelease where Rebecca Guay was signing cards and drawing on proofs.
This can't be right. What about the blue hurricane from summer magic, for example?
That card sells for 100000€ on cardmarket
@@CardmarketMagic wouldn't that be more expensive than some of the top 5? this video feels poorly researched.
Is the blue hurricane the only card that was omitted? Seems plausible
I checked and it seems like card market made a typo in the above comment; blue hurricane is 10k not 100k. The video is looking well researched now
@@josephmathes yes I meant ten thousand 😅 it was a lot of 0's to write, I made a mistake
back in the days of fallen empire we used the ole breeding pit/lord of the pit combo and when ur only 11 that is a combo that wins a lot of games!
What is this song at 4:40?
To be fair, Post did pay 2.6 million Canadian Dollars, which is roughly 2 million USD, so the people who reported 2.6 weren't necessarily wrong
When the top card of this list was sold hit the news at the point that in my appointment with the psychotherapist some days later she welcomed me talking about it because she knows I'm a Mtg player. 😅 😂
Could you please do another Video were you Go to a tournament with a 200€ buget modern Deck
Where do you get your prices ?| I checked on some online mtg stores and it goes (for the sites who had a Lord of the Pit (alpha) in stcock) from 2,320$ (Cad) to 2,900$ (Cad) is it because of the grade?
There is an INSANE price difference between a normal card and a PSA 10 graded card. Hell, even the difference between a 9.5 and a 10 grade is probably 1000%
I have Lord of the Pit in a commander deck - jon irenicus - you can even gift it so everyone can enjoy how great the card is
can we see a video on cards that increased with value the most? eg $0.50c-$50 etc
thx for the vid!!!!
Carl, where did you get that cardigan? Looks really good on you, and now I want one 👍
Unfortunately, I bought it in a thrift shop in Bavaria, I wouldn't be able to find another one like it if my life depended on it, which is too bad because I love it :)
@@CardmarketMagic Ah, too bad. Thanks for getting back to me either way! Figured it was a thrift store find :)
Keep up the great content!
Joke's on you, I'm already subscribed, so I didn't get to see your fancy lights 🤣
Well thank you for being subscribed then :)
My budget for cards is slowly creeping up... Bought 2 copies of Urza Lord High Artificer for 13 euros each and now im like hmmm, i could use a couple atraxas
We have all been there..
Me, a european with no gamestore within 2hrs of driving: sadly no 😢
I built a Jon Irenicus for my friend for Christmas. Lord of the Pit is and ALL STAR.
I think the 1996 world champion card is up for sale again (and this time it looks real)...
And I think Post Malone also has the artist proof black lotus.
There is no link in desc, looks like it was skipped on the template!
You should make a deck around dnd characters like sheshra trelassara and drizet
Already Subscribed, didn't get to see the button light up repeatedly
I guess the feature did not last long 😅 now I look a little silly. But thank you for being subscribed :) it's very kind
I feel they should have mentioned the Shichifukujin Dragon, though it is mentioned in the pinned link
Isn't post also the one who bought the half mil black lotus artist proof?
Honestly, I personally do not like card gradings. It's just such a sad thing. This beautiful card, that was meant to be played with, is now imprisoned in this plastic casing. And noone is ever taking it out and using it for it's meant purpose.
Also how sad is it, that Magic, with it's rich history of 30 years, now has a most expensive card, that isn't even their own property? It's just sad! And that One Ring isn't even used to play with!
But good and interesting video guys! It's not your fault, that this whole collector thing is just so sad and so desruptive to our game :(
Someone in Nebraska just summoned lord of the pit & is sending him to whoever the hell has 105,000$
One question tho - did Post throw a paela into the deal or not?
Didnt post malone buy the Black lotus artist proof for 850.000$, atleast i remembers it that way from malone telling the story on the joe rogan show 🤔
Yeah he did, also didn’t a PSA 10 Black Lotus selled for 14 Millions? Or i am stupid
@@Luke-nk6iy thats a first for me, never heard of a 14 mio one, The Malone Black Lotus was the most expensive i ever heard from ;P. (In Terms of Lotus)
I know you listed the Illustrator as the most expensive card ever sold, but I think I would be remiss to not mention baseball cards
The most expensive baseball card ever sold is not Honus Wagner (at least not anymore) at $7+ million, it is actually a Micky Mantle Rookie card that sold for $12.6 million in 2022.
So if you want a real hit for a rare card, go to baseball cards. The rare stuff there can sell for quite a pretty penny.
We were talking about TCG and not TC, we don't sell baseball cards on our platform so we'd never claim to know anything about them :)
Post Malone bought the one, one of one ring and the Jeff Ferreira Collection artist proof Lotus as well lol. He will likely have the most expensive collection until the day he dies as I know he won't ever part with them. Hearing how he talks about the hobby and the passion he's always had for it leads me to believe he will forever be known as THE MTG fan boy, genuinely
I use lord of the pit in my john iriticus commander deck not the best but gets the job done.
And each time Carl wears a Heavy Metal shirt it raises me a few questions. What's the name of the band? Is it another Carl's friends band? Why not use shirts of bands we know????!!
It's not a band shirt 😅 it's a MTG paupergeddon shirt. It's the biggest pauper event in the world :)
@@CardmarketMagic Fair enuf then, I'm not a pauper enjoyer. My fault!!
Hell of a cool art tho
All you really need is 40 Cuombajj Witches and 20 mountains
I have never purchased a magic card, and I plan to keep it that way
i do own 2 phyrexian dreadnoughts, one in excellent condition and one in mint XD
love the videos, really fun to see your ideas. my wish is that Karl and Jamin fix their hair/dandruff situation...
That's a weird request. Unfortunately, it's not really possible. Jamin has Alopecia and I (Carl) use medicinal shampoo and still can't do anything to prevent my skin from doing that. It's not out of lack of trying
@@CardmarketMagic hey well thanks for taking the time to explain, i apologize for being insensitive. i was wrong.
Didn’t PM pay 800K for a signed artist proof Lotus? Should be #2 I think
Oh wow i wonder what number 1 and 2 are gonna be, truly a mystery
Y'know, if the owner of the 1996 World Champion card owner wanted to be really cheeky, they could offer to sell it now to Post Malone. We've seen what he'll pay for The One Ring; what would he pay for one of the only other cards printed a single time, and this time a card that doesn't have lesser versions of it?
People should anounce card grades in a similar way they do in the brazilian Carnaval, I could bet that some videos would go viral 🤣
Justice for Lord of the Pit!
So you're telling me there's The One Ring (countless copies in existence) the 500 The One Rings, and also the one The One Ring.
Yes
is it worth psa grading my mint phyrexian dreadnought idk
Haven't watched it yet, but I think that
SPOILERS?
1. The one ring
2. Black Lotus
3. Ehm idk the rest
Shoulda had them guess. Wasnt that a format previoysly?
its funny cuz this is just public sales, theres stuff like 8th edition test print misprints and what not that go for 6 figures in private sales or between trusted hands most people dont even know exist
It's unbelievably unlikely that any private sale was sold for more than at least the top 3 cards in this video. We simply know how much most misprints sell for and it would not make sense for one random misprint to jump out of the margin by that much without it being straight up bribery :)
@@CardmarketMagic yea the top 3 are likely locked in, spots 4 and 5 are different stories :)
Post also has a black lotus artist proof 👌
Posty purchased a signed AP Black Lotus for $800k in 2022...
Didn't Posty tell on Joe Rogans podacst that he bought a Black Lotus for 800k (this was before the LotR Set)? This should have made the list too, then.
why is that one guy not shaving his hair...
Didnt a Black Lotus 10 sell for 750k?
Lord of the Pit is actually 25% more than Timetwister!
Or Even another Video were you showcase Dome buget Decks
This has been a crappy Tuesday, thanks for helping it get better bros.
Hope it gets better :) I wish you a solid wednesday!
Wait a minute, how you gonna claim that a bid from a fake ebay auction qualifies as a sale?? The sale price of 1996WC is $17k until it sells again!
We are not claiming it is a sale. But it's pretty standard to claim that what something is worth is what people have offered to buy it for 👍
1 on 1? Tsk, wait to see the 0 on 0! Or wait, why not the -1 on 0!!
for me it' a top 4 and not top5 video because i will never acknowpedge the one ring as a magic history piece. it's a collab cash grab meant for the rich, it was never meant for casual players. for me, the one ring is just a mtg card styled bag of money, not a real mtg card... if i was rich like post, i'd buy it and rip it as a sign of defiance towards hasbro for what they did to this once awesome game
I have lord of the pit in my jom irenicus deck
Lord of the Pit is better than Carl or Toffel deserve. Only Jamin deserves the power it possesses.
Jamin roots for me! I run lord of the pit!
always like lists like this.
So they made one ring to rule them all
Timetwister, never should have been in p9
Many people would agree with you :P
It’s pretty good now with newer cards now .
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Wow
so expensive!
Let me guess: 5. Alpha Black lotus. 4. Alpha Black Lotus. 3. Alpha Black Lotus. 2. Alpha Black Lotus. 1. The One Ring. Like that?
wild