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It's always fun to check in on MtG and see what cards are still trading for thousands of dollars! (I also started playing in late 1993 before it took off, but I pooped out around Ice Age... I'm old enough now to just chuckle at how we treated what would one day be 10's of 1,000s of dollars of cards.)

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At the place I played as a kid someone had pinned a black lotus to a notice board with a dart. I was too young so I don't remember the full story, but I remember it was funny because the card would've been worth over a hundred dollars if it hadn't been destroyed. I bet now someone would pay hundreds for the novelty of owning a destroyed black lotus.

I don't have my original cards, because I did a lot of buying/selling on eBay around 1999 when that was a pretty new thing to do with MTG cards. An older kid taught me to do it.

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