Over the weekend, Reddit person LATIN0 posted some pics on the web of one thing neat they noticed whereas on the dump. They’d noticed a bunch of containers, all in pristine situation, that have been stuffed with Magic: The Gathering playing cards.
They’d merely thought it was attention-grabbing, and wished to share the curiosity. “Somebody threw away 6 pallets of Magic TG playing cards at my native metropolis landfill”, they wrote. However not lengthy after, all hell broke free. The publish obtained tens of hundreds of upvotes. Web sites began posting information about it regardless of figuring out nearly nothing about what was truly in them. YouTube conspiracy movies began popping up, spending hours poring over the images looking for out the reality behind all of it. WHY WOULD THIS HAPPEN, they contemplated, WHAT COULD IT MEAN.
The “why?” questions have been kinda pointless. Stuff will get dumped in landfill on a regular basis by freight firms if it’s not signed/paid for, can’t be held and may’t be returned. The “what was in them?” questions have been extra attention-grabbing, and will truly be answered as a result of LATIN0 managed to seize some and open them up.
Seems they have been containers stuffed with stuff like Unfinity and Trendy Horizons II units:
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The following questions people began asking have been what number of playing cards have been in there, and the way a lot have been they value? Going by the retail value of the playing cards, and multiplying by the amount of the containers and what number of containers it regarded like there have been within the picture, estimates ranged all over the place from $100,000 all the way in which as much as $250,000 (and doubtlessly even extra, relying on what precious playing cards have been contained inside).
A part of the rationale there was a lot hypothesis over the playing cards was the truth that LATIN0—who says they’re not followers of the sport, and solely learn about it in any respect “due to Reddit posts I’ve seen over time”—initially solely posted the one picture of the landfill, which is positioned someplace in Texas. The primary motive, although, is the truth that we’ll now by no means know, as a result of having obtained 24 hours value of frantic messages from Magic collectors and followers, they drove again out to the landfill a day later solely to seek out that the containers had been fully destroyed.
“The playing cards are all below layers of trash, every day 2-4 layers are being added”, they stated earlier immediately. “Don’t attempt to come and search for some. They’re all broken”.
LATIN0 expresses a bit little bit of regret that they didn’t know the way a lot the playing cards have been value once they posted the pics, and can hold the few they did handle to salvage “to remind myself of a woulda coulda shoulda second of my life”.
“I’m not going to kill myself over this publish or these playing cards. I’m going again to work like everybody else.”
For those who can deal with extra of the horror of seeing these playing cards in such a state, there are movies right here exhibiting the dimensions of the devastation.