…Are people up in here still acting like these are actual cards that were actually defaced?

@mercurypony  
It’s not that they’re a MTG card with something drawn on it; altered arts are common. It’s also not about the altered art being pony. It’s that they are on 12 grand worth of cards. They are now worthless other than a piece of art, as they are no longer tournament legal and aren’t good for collectors.

are the card now ruin with the pony on them or that a seperate layer of art on the card?

@Background Pony #02BB  
Wow you must be really young

@Background Pony #02BB  
Someone would buy it. Less likely with alters like this (it’s a toss up whether an alter raises or lowers value. In this case, I’d say lower.) More likely collectors rather than someone who’ll actually play with it, but the market is there. (And unlike the things you listed, these are likely to appreciate in value.)

So the guy wants to sell these cards for $12,000? …Yeah, good luck finding a sucker that’ll be willing to spent that much money on playing cards rather than a cool car, truck, motorcycle or yacht. Seriously, you could buy any one of these things for that much money.
 
If the whole collection was about $50 to $100 for the whole set. I might be willing to buy it. But $12,000? Hell, no. Go find some another sucker to sell those cards to.
 
Besides they already made a few videogames based on this card game and it has all of the cards on CD-Rom for only $30.00. Get that videogame and save yourselves the trouble of spending the extra $11,970.00.

It’s hard to describe just how big a deal the Power 9 are to someone who doesn’t play. It’s sort of like if you could get a chess set that let you turn all of your pawns into queens. And move twice every turn.

@Background Pony Number 17  
the idea that people would pay > $10,000 for game cards  
THOSE TULIPS HAVE PRACTICAL VALUE, YOU ONBESHAAFD ZWIJN

@eastwestian  
Neither do I. I figure that money will go back into the economy and eventually into the pockets of more sensible people.

@Background Pony Number 17  
They’re allowed to spend their money on what they’d like. I’d never spend this much on Magic, but I have no problem with others doing so.

I’m sorry, but the idea that people would pay > $10,000 for game cards fills me with too much schadenfreude to sympathize with them. Fools and their money…

@Background Pony #6880  
Yes, the earliest white borders was a set called Unlimited. They were reprints of the Beta set. Alpha, the first set, had black borders but were easily identifiable from Beta due to having much sarper corners. The following white border set was Revised and they removed the Power Nine so the earliest set these Pony Power Nine could have come from is Unlimited.

@Background Pony #6880  
White border means that it was from Unlimited which had a much higher print run. An Alpha Black Lotus is worth 30,000 and an unlimited Black Lotus is only worth 4,000. It’s still a ridiculous amount of money for cardboard, but not nearly as much.

This hurts me so much.

Bwahahahahahaha what a loser!!!!!!!!!

I actually found a year old reddit thread about these very same cards.
 
Apparently they had white borders that were painted black. Could someone familiar with magic say if the white borders made them less valuable? I imagine they were from a different edition or something?

wait wait, is that the black lotus card that celestia is on? that thing is like a 30,000$ card. Looks a little different still they look oldddd, so its probably gen1 magic and they drew on them so not only are they rare, but also one of a kind. So in some ways i get the price.

I love mtg, been playing since I was 13(I’m 27 now) and I think this set is awesome. If I had the cash I’d buy this in a second, Would love this in my collection.
 
I don’t understand the buthurt on shit like this. Just because somethings old u can’t have fun with it anymore? Cards like this are just like anything else, eventually nobodys going to give a shit so u might as well play with them while u can.
 
Besides most of the people bitching are tryhards that just look at monetary value anyway…

I love ponies as much as the next brony but there’s a place for pony art and I am sorry but it is not on collectible cards worth a huge chunk of change. It’s like drawing a mustache on the faces tha appear on pre-Civil War money. Deface a 2015 dollar bill if you have to scratch that itch, ya know?.

@Background Pony #47D5  
Who’s to say there not bootlegs or reproductions though?

@Dr. Rabbit  
Those are expensive cards, like REALLY expensive cards. They are also incredibly rare nowadays.

@MeshGearFox  
I just went there….They’re drawn on the actual cards

I feel like I saw this a few years ago, it may have caused some major drama in MTG circles.
 
Kinda like how that Rainbow Dash gun caused a bunch of gun enthusiast butthurt.

@Background Pony #47D5  
So?

oh dear lord… As much as I love pony related things seeing this actually kinds hurts.