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Alpha Black Lotus Sells For $3 Million, Breaks Record For Most Expensive Magic Single Ever Sold (articles.starcitygames.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Were there different version of this card? I feel like I had one of these at some point

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

There's Alpha, Beta and Unlimited. It's on the reserve list so won't be reprinted again. But there's been a lot of lotus-style cards over the years

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They can reprint it as a ~~judge promo~~ or official unplayable card like in the 30th edition lol.

Edit: A previous version of the policy allowed premium reprints but that's no longer the case. My mistake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@JackbyDev @MysticKetchup judge promos are completely playable. That one's out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You're correct. My mistake. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/official-reprint-policy

Premium Cards

A previous version of this policy allowed premium versions of cards on the reserved list to be printed. Starting in 2011, no cards on the reserved list will be printed in either premium or non-premium form.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@JackbyDev @MysticKetchup judge promos no longer exist and after a few reserved list judge promos they did a reserved list promo in a wider distribution and the reaction caused WotC to update the policy to not allow those printings to happen again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I mentioned elsewhere on the thread after a different user corrected me but it might be hard to see from Mastodon. I'm not sure why I had the wrong impression because I began playing after that change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Alpha, Beta and Unlimited

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, correct, I mixed up Unlimited and Revised