We had a similar situation with one of the regulars. His car got robbed and was deciding to drop the hobby. Everyone gathered up and bought him packs. Gave him the cards he needs. Bought him a new set of sleeves and mats and everything. He was ready to leave, but the community made him stay. He is grateful and cried in store.
Had a similar story in college. A friend met through me college's TCG club had his MTG stuff stolen from his car. Well, the two members who are sort of the the leaders of the MTG portion made a secret discord, invited everyone who played and basically said, "we need ideas, let's build a deck for him." We made a deck list, and all split up working on getting cards. Someone also donated a old commander deck, I donated a double deck box and cards and sleeves, and others donated cards. We made him cry when we gifted the stuff to him. He was very happy and thankful
That card shop worker/owner, is a hero to the community tbh. He saw what was going on, did not panic, kept his cool, and then immediately figured out a solution.
even better morale of the story: Dont live in America That said, I used to leave my doors unlocked since my village was safe but since we had the migrant crisis you can't do that anymore because they try getting into your house. One African guy tried breaking into my house twice in the same night and I dont think he realised my door was already unlocked (during his first attempt), I keep an axe and a Cbow nearby now.
Me I keep nothing at all in my car at all and leave it unlocked. If they want to look and clean it for me, let them. Better than a busted window to get in. If I have to keep something in it for some reason Lock it.
Im not sure I would EVER let legacy decks out of my sight. I have $500 commander decks.. and I NEVER leave them. I cant imagine doing this to decks of that high value.
I had my iphone stolen when I was in my LGS. Immediately, one of my friends called the police. All the Magic players in the shop got together, and stood outside while the thief and I talked in front of the police officer. At first, the thief denied stealing my phone, but eventually, he gave it back. Thanks so much to the magic community for standing together against theft!!
I'd love to see more videos like this! From time to time it's really refreshing to remember there's more to Magic than the never ending flow of new expensive cardboard pieces.
I seem to remember a judge tackling someone he saw actively stealing cards at GP Chicago in 2007. I had heard they got access to the thief's room and rescued a bunch of other stolen backpacks and such.
story time from an LGS worker: Someone reported their CEDH deck as stolen a month ago, gave a description of the deck box, sleeves, cards. Overall, we are looking at almost $6k in cards stolen. Last week, a homeless lady came in with the deck asking to sell for cash. I knew right away it was the deck. I convinced her to drop it off with us for us to "process". When she left, I went through and confirmed all contents of the deck. We called the police and the owner and he came for his deck. He didnt want to press charges and when the homeless lady came back we said it was stolen property and was returned, she left in a hurry lol. This case was lucky but I have heard so many stories of peoples cards being stolen from their vehicles. PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE STUFF IN YOUR CAR EVEN IF ITS HIDDEN. Just bring it inside with you or carry it in a bag on your persons!
Videos like these need to exist. Videos that spread awareness and highlight that anyone can be a victim. More importantly, it teaches us not to give up hope. Take to the community and be proactive.
short sighted mtg thieves is the reason i dropped the cardboard crack. they dont realize that is a tight community and if you suddenly pop up with rare stuff that is super suspicious
I'd never leave my MTG cards in my car. I don't care if I have to put on my backpack and walk into 7/11 like a weirdo. They can stare at me and make sure I don't steal from the store, but my cards don't leave my person.
I find it ironic that he has that poster right over his shoulder lol. However, I'm glad that they got the perps, they should be made an example of. Theft of that amount of value of anything else would have been a felony
This hits extra for me. Back on October my whole car was stolen and the thief ended up running me over next day had my dominate hand just destroyed and still the part that sucks the most was losing like 12k worth of edh decks and the police did nothing. Finally talked myself into restarting my collection again here finally
Nerdom has always been a brotherhood of strange. Also had the same thing happen with my parents SCUBA shop, dude stole like $20k worth of dive gear and tried pawning it at local shops when pawnshops wouldn't take it. Much like any hobby community, they networked and let shops know what was up and eventually they set up a similar police sting. I will say however, that when the thief pulled up it wasn't just cops but at least 5 armed individuals. The SCUBA community has a lot of police and military among it so they didn't wait for the cops, the cops hurried up to avoid real trouble
Honestly love content that shows more sides of magic. While yes, it is a collectable and a game, its also a community. I find myself paying more attention to community discussions over card discussions. Content like this is right up my alley, and very well done to boot.
Christmas Eve 2017, my collection along with several hundreds of dollars or board games was stolen out of my car. This left me feeling so violated and crushed that I never played magic again. Good to see some justice for assholes that do this to people!
14:42 A similar thing, on a much smaller scale, happened to me as well. Thief stole several of my cards out of an edh when I stepped away to use the bathroom. He sold them to an acquaintance of mine still in the same sleeves matching the deck. I had high resolution photos of my deck with those same cards, same wear pattern, from before the theft. The thief still decided to fight it out in court saying he bought them from an online store but "lost the receipts"...
But Kemper has a Che poster on his wall. Doesn't he know he doesn't own those cards. The people own the products and means of production. How can a comrad steal, when everything is provided by the state?
Thousands of dollars in cards for someone with Che Guevara's poster on the wall... Something doesn't add up lol... Good thing he got his cards back anyway.
So glad the guy got his stuff back! Let this be a lesson to everyone in the tcg community: never leave your valuable collection(s) in your car! Thieves will find them even if they’re well hidden. Sadly, not everyone gets their stolen property back. The thieves who stole this guy’s mtg collection had no idea that the whole tcg community would come together to catch them! 2 years in jail was a little lenient, imo
I had a modern merfolk deck stolen at a GP shortly after I finished building it. Really killed my motivation to play Magic for a while since I was so proud of finally trading for and buying all the cards I needed for it, then never got to use it in a tournament. Magic community not always great :(. That said, I'm a prosecutor now and I still see Magic card thefts come through from time to time, though it's normally sealed product from a store. Glad to know this guy got caught.
My favorite part of this story is that after the sting operation happened the magic players basically said " Yeah! That's what you get for stealing magic cards from a player, ya dumbasses!" and then went right back to their games LOL I'd probably have done the same exact thing.
That’s sooo cool!! Sucks when people steal stuff, but it’s more so amazing when people come together to help the one that was stolen from!! Love the mtg community
So the lessons to take home are : Dont be having super valuable cards in your playdecks, dont take them outside the safety of your home, and STOP leaving valuables in plain site in your car. IN fact, dont leave things in your car or trunk at all. Anything about a car can be broken into. I keep hearing people complainng that their gaming laptop was stolen from their car, when it was in the passenger side or the back seat. Thieves look everywhere in a car. Same thing with your hme security: PLEASE please always lock your doors and windows, and your car doors, etc. MOre and more thefts of expensive cards has become a thing in recent years. Stuffs nuts.
This sounds to me like the perpetrator was already on parole or something like that, and even taking that small plea deal would trigger a much larger prison term from a different case.
Lucky. My spouse had an original sliver deck, including a queen, stolen at a tournament. None of the employees or other people saw anything, and apparently nothing was seen on the cameras. We 100% assumed it was stolen by the shop - that is no longer in business. We never recovered the deck and have never seen the cards for sale locally. A sliver queen isn't a common card... Kudos to that shop. We kinda lost interest in playing or rebuilding another sliver deck given the cost to do it was just... not tenable. Sliver queen alone is a 150 dollar card now, not counting other cards in the deck.
What an amazing story and video. As someone who works around the corner from the mentioned Curio Cavern and plays at their other locations for Commander nights. I had no idea this had happened.
Yeah nice community story but how is nobody commenting about the sheer monumental idiocy of leaving a small fortune in decks IN YOUR UNLOCKED CARD DURING THE NIGHT????
Don't leave cards in your car. Don't leave. Cards. In. Your. Car. UNLOCKED. Even outside of theft it is dangerous...I speak from experience. Had a flash flood happen in parking lot overnight with clear weather before and after.
Nothing better than thieves being set up and caught. You can tell how confident these thieves are anymore due to being judges basically slapping their hand only to do it all again when they are caught. Prison's are being over run, police departments losing people, judges are letting repeat offenders get off without any time served until they hurt someone. This was best scenario and make that a learning lesson not to leave shit in your car. Unfortunately, it's not smart/safe to leave your doors unlocked or keep valuables in your vehicle. Happy to hear they got more time for denying the plea.
I am now playing MTG.I recently and quit Yugioh. Yugioh has people in the community that steals and everyone in the community turns a blind eye. Last year April , in the first back to person YCS( or in MTG a big event for standard) I was starting round 6. It was pack full 3k people. I went for my deck and was not there. Stolen right next to me in round 5 when I was just grabbing a paper match slip to sign. That was easssy 2-3k. No one tried to help me. Judges said “we will see if it turns up”. So much for security… This is how ever event rolls at yugioh. Same round big name content creator got is deck stolen too. Happens all the time in Yugioh. Wish started MTG earlier. This is a wonderful story and good luck too others with there items being stolen!!!
Fortunately your average thief doesn't understand the value of Magic cards. My uncle had his apartment broken into once and they took his TV and DVD player, they had clearly found the cards and moved them, but left them behind. The TV and DVD player were barely 400 dollars, the small binder of cards was upwards of 100k, the large binder about 50k, and there was about 30k+ among various deck boxes and storage containers.
I had cards and entire decks and all my rares stolen. By "friends". The one who stole the most (including all of my Sin City comics) is named Kostas. Skinny short blond guy from Greece. Also plays vampire the masquerade and warhammer 40k. His favourite army was tyranids. He has an older brother. I don't remember his last name. He was studying something about biology. Must be in his mid to late 30s now.
Not blaming him at all, but my man left a backpack with ~$20,000 in his unlocked car, like overnight too. My 4 decks are like ~$3,000 total and I guard my bag with my life.
lock your cars folks, that's all I'm gonna say. I have only once forgotten to lock my car, I was thankful nothing valuable was in the car, one lady's entire Christmas presents were stolen from her unlocked car while she went to buy a pizza to eat one night. I know it's idiotic to leave your car unlocked, but Jesus Christ, Christmas presents she had just bought.
Same thing has happened to me with a backpack with a lot of decks, some being EDH luckily the suspect was caught on camera and already on the police's radar, so they managed to recover around 98% of all the cards, luckily the suspect didn't know how to work out the value and only took those that were ether foiled or had high stats, unfortunately that meant my Pre release Emrakul, the Aeons Torn was never recovered yet my Sliver commander with a Sliver Queen was.
We got em boys! Ok nerds we’ll have to keep your Pokémon cards for a few months as evidence. You might get em back in a year or two after the trial. Lol of course Edit: just got to part about trial! Lol that sucks.
god i wish this was my story. i did not have a 8k collection but i had a backpack with atleast $400 or $500 om cards amd a 2k laptop.. some how all my cards but one deck was anonymously turned into the police station but the 2k brand new laptop and backpack with other various items was never found. Q.Q
So when I was 11 I played a game called "mage Knight" well one day one of my units was stolen by a older player, his friends told me what had happened, and since I used to put a little sticker of a panda on the underside of each of my units I walked up, picked it up and said "Thank you so much for finding my wrathe." poor thief looked very confused by the sticker. Moral of the story is panda's and cane's are better then cereal numbers.
10:50 If you tell me to skip on FNM just because of some guys that might be robbers think again lol. I remember fire starting in GPT Prague, most of the players were so focused on the deck building that's organisators had to play fire alarm multiple time for people to finally leave the burning cenie.
Back in the early days of Magic, a friend had his car broken into and his cards were stolen. None of the local shops had the cards brought in. We were all on the lookout, and few enough of us played at the time so all the local players mostly knew each other. His insurance paid and he bought new cards. Our theory is the thief, not seeing baseball cards in the boxes, just tossed them. This was in 1995 if I recall correctly.
Che Guevara demands you socialize the ownership of your cards. You should try to give them away again, by leaving your car unlocked with valuables inside.
One moral of the story: Unless you have a slam dunk case(you probably don't), take the plea deal. Courts don't want to do court, and courts will make you pay for making them do court.
I didn't like it... I loved it, it warned my heart so much. I planned to show my roommate and my wife even before you advised me to do so. Please post any more heartwarming MtG stories you find.
Those prices are why I don't play legacy. I will echo about not leaving valuable in your car. Also it sucks to those that many valuable cards, I would have lost my mind if it happened to me. I don't blame the shop owner for being nervous as anything could have gone down if things had gone bad.
So let me get this straight, you had a backpack in an unlocked car with $8000 worth of magic cards in it left out overnight? I know the people that stole it from you are at fault, but geez man at least do the bare minimum to protect your property!
The only reason I can think of for not taking the plea is, as one person said he was on probation or parole and would've been violated and got a double sentence anyway because of the other case or his lawyer told him usually when people get their stuff back they don't testify against or decide not to press chargers. And then it's up to the DA who I believe can still file/find chargers. But other than that I'm as perplexed as anyone else.
I love MTG, only deck I ever played was a black and red breeding pit deck. My former best friend took it and it's just not worth it to me to reestablish contact with her to try and get it back.
You sure he was sentenced to prison, and they didnt "hold" the time over his head instead. Probation wouldnt matter if he went to prison, because getting out would actually put you on parole. So it makes more sense he got sentenced to two years, but they "stayed" the sentence meaning he doesnt actully have to serve it if he does 2 years probation without fucking up but if he fucks up on probation they have that amount of time they can sentence him to at any violation, up to two years, pending further charges/cases.
I had a deck that I made from exceedingly rare cards that were mostly lands. I made the deck because I wanted to smack with just land cards and it came out to worth more then $1200 dollars in value, my roommate sold them for drugs and I’ve been devastated ever since
had my collection stolen back in 2013 lost my mox emerald and savannah as well as a lot of other things from a lgs. never got it back no one ever found any leads and was gone to the wind. i was going to quite right then and there but my friends got me a theros holiday bundle. i told them ya like this will make it better it all going to be bulk like normal. i opened it and pulled 2 elspeths one foil a heliod and foil perherous. i was like guess mtg gods want me to keep playing. im glad to hear when people get their stuff back.
This sort of thing is exactly why proxies should be used at tournaments because if you don't, your not a magic player, your a target or a victim to a criminal element that wants an easy payday.
Lol that guy has a Che Guevara flag hung up in the background. I bet he has zero clue about the real Che Guevara. If he did, I’m sure he wouldn’t have it hung up hahahaha
To be fair, the thief was safer _outside_ that locked door with the police than he would have been _inside_ the store, holding a bag of stolen Magic cards in a room full of MtG players.
Had a similar story in college. A friend met through my college's TCG club had his MTG stuff stolen from his car. Well, the two members who are sort of the the leaders of the MTG portion made a secret discord, invited everyone who played and basically said, "we need ideas, let's build a deck for him." We made a deck list, and all split up working on getting cards and such. Someone donated a old commander deck, I donated a double deck box and cards and sleeves, and others donated cards. We made him cry when we gifted the stuff to him. He was very happy and thankful
Dude got caught with the stolen cards literally in his hands and was only facing a month in jail. And he still took it to trial lol. That's a brand new evolution of stupid.
We had a similar situation with one of the regulars. His car got robbed and was deciding to drop the hobby. Everyone gathered up and bought him packs. Gave him the cards he needs. Bought him a new set of sleeves and mats and everything. He was ready to leave, but the community made him stay. He is grateful and cried in store.
That is so sweet👌
Had a similar story in college.
A friend met through me college's TCG club had his MTG stuff stolen from his car. Well, the two members who are sort of the the leaders of the MTG portion made a secret discord, invited everyone who played and basically said, "we need ideas, let's build a deck for him."
We made a deck list, and all split up working on getting cards. Someone also donated a old commander deck, I donated a double deck box and cards and sleeves, and others donated cards.
We made him cry when we gifted the stuff to him. He was very happy and thankful
Heartwarming
Deodorant and body wash should be included in these sets too
Lol got’em
That card shop worker/owner, is a hero to the community tbh. He saw what was going on, did not panic, kept his cool, and then immediately figured out a solution.
Morale of the story: dont leave valuables in your car.
Better morale of the story: dont leave your car unlocked with valuables in your car.
Actually leaving it unlocked will probably save you the cost of a new window. If they want to get in they’re going to get in unfortunately.
even better morale of the story: Dont live in America
That said, I used to leave my doors unlocked since my village was safe but since we had the migrant crisis you can't do that anymore because they try getting into your house.
One African guy tried breaking into my house twice in the same night and I dont think he realised my door was already unlocked (during his first attempt), I keep an axe and a Cbow nearby now.
Even better morale of the story: Dont steal from the Magic community cause i know people who will wreck shit if their cards get nabbed
Me I keep nothing at all in my car at all and leave it unlocked. If they want to look and clean it for me, let them. Better than a busted window to get in. If I have to keep something in it for some reason Lock it.
Im not sure I would EVER let legacy decks out of my sight. I have $500 commander decks.. and I NEVER leave them. I cant imagine doing this to decks of that high value.
I had my iphone stolen when I was in my LGS. Immediately, one of my friends called the police. All the Magic players in the shop got together, and stood outside while the thief and I talked in front of the police officer. At first, the thief denied stealing my phone, but eventually, he gave it back. Thanks so much to the magic community for standing together against theft!!
I'd love to see more videos like this! From time to time it's really refreshing to remember there's more to Magic than the never ending flow of new expensive cardboard pieces.
Glad you enjoyed it!
wdym magic is mad cheap if you just dont give a fuck about teir 1 meta ultimate competitive ultra omega Spike 2-0 every game decks.
@@beckeliasson8465 I don't give a fuck about that and it still isn't cheap
If thats all you think about mtg maybe thats where your brain is
@@brendans1983 25$ commander quarter
Curio Cavern is my LGS and I couldn't be more proud of the Mtg community coming together for one of their own.
I really enjoyed this documentary style video you guys should do more there are plenty of other stories out there.
That's the plan!
I seem to remember a judge tackling someone he saw actively stealing cards at GP Chicago in 2007. I had heard they got access to the thief's room and rescued a bunch of other stolen backpacks and such.
story time from an LGS worker: Someone reported their CEDH deck as stolen a month ago, gave a description of the deck box, sleeves, cards. Overall, we are looking at almost $6k in cards stolen. Last week, a homeless lady came in with the deck asking to sell for cash. I knew right away it was the deck. I convinced her to drop it off with us for us to "process". When she left, I went through and confirmed all contents of the deck. We called the police and the owner and he came for his deck. He didnt want to press charges and when the homeless lady came back we said it was stolen property and was returned, she left in a hurry lol. This case was lucky but I have heard so many stories of peoples cards being stolen from their vehicles. PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE STUFF IN YOUR CAR EVEN IF ITS HIDDEN. Just bring it inside with you or carry it in a bag on your persons!
Videos like these need to exist. Videos that spread awareness and highlight that anyone can be a victim. More importantly, it teaches us not to give up hope. Take to the community and be proactive.
Double edged sword tho, it also informs thieves to become more cautious with their stolen loot
Anyone dumb enough to leave valuables in their car can be a victim. FIFY.
short sighted mtg thieves is the reason i dropped the cardboard crack. they dont realize that is a tight community and if you suddenly pop up with rare stuff that is super suspicious
For someone with a Che Guevara flag in his room he sure does love capitalism.
because he has nice cards?
I want you to try and explain capitalism.
@@nevermorebouquet3681 Explain Socialism
@@wesjaguar "Our" nice cards comrade.
Sure... As Karl Marx said capitalism is about TCG
I'd never leave my MTG cards in my car. I don't care if I have to put on my backpack and walk into 7/11 like a weirdo. They can stare at me and make sure I don't steal from the store, but my cards don't leave my person.
I find it ironic that he has that poster right over his shoulder lol. However, I'm glad that they got the perps, they should be made an example of. Theft of that amount of value of anything else would have been a felony
This hits extra for me. Back on October my whole car was stolen and the thief ended up running me over next day had my dominate hand just destroyed and still the part that sucks the most was losing like 12k worth of edh decks and the police did nothing. Finally talked myself into restarting my collection again here finally
Good luck with your life dude! Hope your hand recovers as best as it can!
Having shopped on this store numerous times, the fact that this happened is wild lol glad he got his stuff back
Nerdom has always been a brotherhood of strange. Also had the same thing happen with my parents SCUBA shop, dude stole like $20k worth of dive gear and tried pawning it at local shops when pawnshops wouldn't take it. Much like any hobby community, they networked and let shops know what was up and eventually they set up a similar police sting. I will say however, that when the thief pulled up it wasn't just cops but at least 5 armed individuals. The SCUBA community has a lot of police and military among it so they didn't wait for the cops, the cops hurried up to avoid real trouble
Honestly love content that shows more sides of magic. While yes, it is a collectable and a game, its also a community. I find myself paying more attention to community discussions over card discussions. Content like this is right up my alley, and very well done to boot.
thank you for that, we couldn't agree more about the community. and thank you for the positive vibes!
Christmas Eve 2017, my collection along with several hundreds of dollars or board games was stolen out of my car. This left me feeling so violated and crushed that I never played magic again. Good to see some justice for assholes that do this to people!
That's why you don't leave stuff like that in your car 💩
14:42 A similar thing, on a much smaller scale, happened to me as well. Thief stole several of my cards out of an edh when I stepped away to use the bathroom. He sold them to an acquaintance of mine still in the same sleeves matching the deck. I had high resolution photos of my deck with those same cards, same wear pattern, from before the theft. The thief still decided to fight it out in court saying he bought them from an online store but "lost the receipts"...
This was a crazy story but this is amazing turn out. Thanks Joel for doing an overview of this happening
Police: Alright guys we just need you to carry on like usual and keep cool
Players: sounds easy. Anyway I cast my commander
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Why would you leave anything worth of value in your car for someone steal.... especially a $ 8000 backpack... so dumb.
But Kemper has a Che poster on his wall. Doesn't he know he doesn't own those cards. The people own the products and means of production. How can a comrad steal, when everything is provided by the state?
Thousands of dollars in cards for someone with Che Guevara's poster on the wall... Something doesn't add up lol... Good thing he got his cards back anyway.
So glad the guy got his stuff back! Let this be a lesson to everyone in the tcg community: never leave your valuable collection(s) in your car! Thieves will find them even if they’re well hidden. Sadly, not everyone gets their stolen property back. The thieves who stole this guy’s mtg collection had no idea that the whole tcg community would come together to catch them! 2 years in jail was a little lenient, imo
I had a modern merfolk deck stolen at a GP shortly after I finished building it. Really killed my motivation to play Magic for a while since I was so proud of finally trading for and buying all the cards I needed for it, then never got to use it in a tournament. Magic community not always great :(. That said, I'm a prosecutor now and I still see Magic card thefts come through from time to time, though it's normally sealed product from a store. Glad to know this guy got caught.
When my car was broken into and my stuff was stolen, over a few grand. The cop told me tough luck
Che guevarra poster in the back and has a collection of mtg cards worth thousands . 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Curio Cavern should become a MTG card.
This is a awesome investigative journalism. You should do more of these. I shred this to 15 people man. I love this stuff.
Wow, thank you! More to come!
I wouldn’t mind seeing more of these videos from time to time. Their entertaining.
more on the way!
Whoever keeps a backpack with thousands of dollars worth of cards in there car over night shouldn't be surprised when its broken into
Man with che guevara flag sad his $21,000 magic card collection was stolen, lol.
Nicely edited, love to have more story time videos like these
Thanks! Will do!
MTG soy boy with communist poster in background. Classic
Maybe dont leave 23 thousand dollars worth of cards in your car? Just a thought.
Does that guy really have a poster of Che Guevara in the background? Oof.
4:38
“Stoneforge Mystic with top hat and cane.”
I love that.
Sorry, but who is so stupid to leave such a backpack in the car? 🤷♂️
My favorite part of this story is that after the sting operation happened the magic players basically said " Yeah! That's what you get for stealing magic cards from a player, ya dumbasses!" and then went right back to their games LOL I'd probably have done the same exact thing.
That’s sooo cool!! Sucks when people steal stuff, but it’s more so amazing when people come together to help the one that was stolen from!! Love the mtg community
Thank you for watching.
You stole my cards. I ACTIVATE MY TRAP CARD.
Che poster guy concerned about HIS property, but not yours.
Crime & Magic, my two favorite types of content all rolled together. Great video!
Thank you for taking the time to watch!
Curio is my local store. I am glad you could bring light to this.
So he left $8k of magic cards in his car overnight?
this is cool! we live in Arlington county and I've been looking for a store, seem like good guys so I'll have to check them out
Simple Solution do not leave valuables in your cars.
All I needed to see is the Che poster to know it’s a pretentious beta.
So the lessons to take home are : Dont be having super valuable cards in your playdecks, dont take them outside the safety of your home, and STOP leaving valuables in plain site in your car. IN fact, dont leave things in your car or trunk at all. Anything about a car can be broken into. I keep hearing people complainng that their gaming laptop was stolen from their car, when it was in the passenger side or the back seat. Thieves look everywhere in a car. Same thing with your hme security: PLEASE please always lock your doors and windows, and your car doors, etc. MOre and more thefts of expensive cards has become a thing in recent years. Stuffs nuts.
This sounds to me like the perpetrator was already on parole or something like that, and even taking that small plea deal would trigger a much larger prison term from a different case.
And now...time for the jokes: Thieves go to trial and say " I PLEAD THE 5th EDITION!"
Lucky. My spouse had an original sliver deck, including a queen, stolen at a tournament. None of the employees or other people saw anything, and apparently nothing was seen on the cameras. We 100% assumed it was stolen by the shop - that is no longer in business. We never recovered the deck and have never seen the cards for sale locally. A sliver queen isn't a common card...
Kudos to that shop.
We kinda lost interest in playing or rebuilding another sliver deck given the cost to do it was just... not tenable. Sliver queen alone is a 150 dollar card now, not counting other cards in the deck.
New to the Magic community. This is just gold. Thanks for the story. Happy to be a part of this awesome community. 🙏❤️
Thanks for watching!
What an amazing story and video. As someone who works around the corner from the mentioned Curio Cavern and plays at their other locations for Commander nights. I had no idea this had happened.
Yeah nice community story but how is nobody commenting about the sheer monumental idiocy of leaving a small fortune in decks IN YOUR UNLOCKED CARD DURING THE NIGHT????
Don't leave cards in your car.
Don't leave. Cards. In. Your. Car. UNLOCKED.
Even outside of theft it is dangerous...I speak from experience. Had a flash flood happen in parking lot overnight with clear weather before and after.
That's my brother's store! What a wild time that was there.
Nothing better than thieves being set up and caught. You can tell how confident these thieves are anymore due to being judges basically slapping their hand only to do it all again when they are caught. Prison's are being over run, police departments losing people, judges are letting repeat offenders get off without any time served until they hurt someone. This was best scenario and make that a learning lesson not to leave shit in your car. Unfortunately, it's not smart/safe to leave your doors unlocked or keep valuables in your vehicle. Happy to hear they got more time for denying the plea.
I am now playing MTG.I recently and quit Yugioh. Yugioh has people in the community that steals and everyone in the community turns a blind eye. Last year April , in the first back to person YCS( or in MTG a big event for standard) I was starting round 6. It was pack full 3k people. I went for my deck and was not there. Stolen right next to me in round 5 when I was just grabbing a paper match slip to sign. That was easssy 2-3k. No one tried to help me. Judges said “we will see if it turns up”. So much for security… This is how ever event rolls at yugioh. Same round big name content creator got is deck stolen too. Happens all the time in Yugioh. Wish started MTG earlier. This is a wonderful story and good luck too others with there items being stolen!!!
Fortunately your average thief doesn't understand the value of Magic cards. My uncle had his apartment broken into once and they took his TV and DVD player, they had clearly found the cards and moved them, but left them behind. The TV and DVD player were barely 400 dollars, the small binder of cards was upwards of 100k, the large binder about 50k, and there was about 30k+ among various deck boxes and storage containers.
I had cards and entire decks and all my rares stolen. By "friends". The one who stole the most (including all of my Sin City comics) is named Kostas. Skinny short blond guy from Greece. Also plays vampire the masquerade and warhammer 40k. His favourite army was tyranids. He has an older brother. I don't remember his last name. He was studying something about biology. Must be in his mid to late 30s now.
Enjoyed the format of the vid with the exception of the background music. Takes away from the gravity of the story and distracts.
Not blaming him at all, but my man left a backpack with ~$20,000 in his unlocked car, like overnight too. My 4 decks are like ~$3,000 total and I guard my bag with my life.
Everyone after watching this video, Goes through collection…..finds a stoneforge mystic…..draws a top hat on it 🎩…..continues on with life.
lock your cars folks, that's all I'm gonna say. I have only once forgotten to lock my car, I was thankful nothing valuable was in the car, one lady's entire Christmas presents were stolen from her unlocked car while she went to buy a pizza to eat one night. I know it's idiotic to leave your car unlocked, but Jesus Christ, Christmas presents she had just bought.
Same thing has happened to me with a backpack with a lot of decks, some being EDH luckily the suspect was caught on camera and already on the police's radar, so they managed to recover around 98% of all the cards, luckily the suspect didn't know how to work out the value and only took those that were ether foiled or had high stats, unfortunately that meant my Pre release Emrakul, the Aeons Torn was never recovered yet my Sliver commander with a Sliver Queen was.
We got em boys!
Ok nerds we’ll have to keep your Pokémon cards for a few months as evidence. You might get em back in a year or two after the trial.
Lol of course
Edit: just got to part about trial! Lol that sucks.
god i wish this was my story. i did not have a 8k collection but i had a backpack with atleast $400 or $500 om cards amd a 2k laptop.. some how all my cards but one deck was anonymously turned into the police station but the 2k brand new laptop and backpack with other various items was never found. Q.Q
So when I was 11 I played a game called "mage Knight" well one day one of my units was stolen by a older player, his friends told me what had happened, and since I used to put a little sticker of a panda on the underside of each of my units I walked up, picked it up and said "Thank you so much for finding my wrathe." poor thief looked very confused by the sticker. Moral of the story is panda's and cane's are better then cereal numbers.
10:50 If you tell me to skip on FNM just because of some guys that might be robbers think again lol.
I remember fire starting in GPT Prague, most of the players were so focused on the deck building that's organisators had to play fire alarm multiple time for people to finally leave the burning cenie.
Back in the early days of Magic, a friend had his car broken into and his cards were stolen. None of the local shops had the cards brought in. We were all on the lookout, and few enough of us played at the time so all the local players mostly knew each other. His insurance paid and he bought new cards. Our theory is the thief, not seeing baseball cards in the boxes, just tossed them. This was in 1995 if I recall correctly.
then later on joe Biden finds them at a dump and played it with his fellow president pals.
When you steel something. Wait half a year before selling. Just a thought. Or better yet, DON'T STEEL!
Che Guevara demands you socialize the ownership of your cards. You should try to give them away again, by leaving your car unlocked with valuables inside.
One moral of the story: Unless you have a slam dunk case(you probably don't), take the plea deal. Courts don't want to do court, and courts will make you pay for making them do court.
This is a great story and love the way you guys did it. Great job.
I would never leave my Backpack filled with my Decks in my Car .. especially when it's not locked.
I didn't like it... I loved it, it warned my heart so much. I planned to show my roommate and my wife even before you advised me to do so. Please post any more heartwarming MtG stories you find.
Those prices are why I don't play legacy. I will echo about not leaving valuable in your car. Also it sucks to those that many valuable cards, I would have lost my mind if it happened to me. I don't blame the shop owner for being nervous as anything could have gone down if things had gone bad.
So let me get this straight, you had a backpack in an unlocked car with $8000 worth of magic cards in it left out overnight? I know the people that stole it from you are at fault, but geez man at least do the bare minimum to protect your property!
The only reason I can think of for not taking the plea is, as one person said he was on probation or parole and would've been violated and got a double sentence anyway because of the other case or his lawyer told him usually when people get their stuff back they don't testify against or decide not to press chargers. And then it's up to the DA who I believe can still file/find chargers. But other than that I'm as perplexed as anyone else.
I love MTG, only deck I ever played was a black and red breeding pit deck. My former best friend took it and it's just not worth it to me to reestablish contact with her to try and get it back.
You sure he was sentenced to prison, and they didnt "hold" the time over his head instead. Probation wouldnt matter if he went to prison, because getting out would actually put you on parole. So it makes more sense he got sentenced to two years, but they "stayed" the sentence meaning he doesnt actully have to serve it if he does 2 years probation without fucking up but if he fucks up on probation they have that amount of time they can sentence him to at any violation, up to two years, pending further charges/cases.
Lmao 🤣😂 brought mine to the LGS he looked for hours said worth thousands didn't want to buy anything value was 0
I had a deck that I made from exceedingly rare cards that were mostly lands. I made the deck because I wanted to smack with just land cards and it came out to worth more then $1200 dollars in value, my roommate sold them for drugs and I’ve been devastated ever since
Yeah, the most unreal thing about this is still that the cops actually did something. Un. Fucking. Believable.
One of those pics in the intro is a local LGS for me, WIndsor Ontario! CGRealm!! old location though:)
had my collection stolen back in 2013 lost my mox emerald and savannah as well as a lot of other things from a lgs. never got it back no one ever found any leads and was gone to the wind. i was going to quite right then and there but my friends got me a theros holiday bundle. i told them ya like this will make it better it all going to be bulk like normal. i opened it and pulled 2 elspeths one foil a heliod and foil perherous. i was like guess mtg gods want me to keep playing. im glad to hear when people get their stuff back.
This sort of thing is exactly why proxies should be used at tournaments because if you don't, your not a magic player, your a target or a victim to a criminal element that wants an easy payday.
I had my decks stolen from my car once and my LGS owner gave me a box of MM1 as a “I’m sorry” the cards never showed up
Lol that guy has a Che Guevara flag hung up in the background. I bet he has zero clue about the real Che Guevara. If he did, I’m sure he wouldn’t have it hung up hahahaha
How do you guys play a game where decks cost's thousands to complete??? I cant even afford hearthstone.
To be fair, the thief was safer _outside_ that locked door with the police than he would have been _inside_ the store, holding a bag of stolen Magic cards in a room full of MtG players.
You mess with a Magic player's cards... You feel the wrath of the gathering :D
Had a similar story in college.
A friend met through my college's TCG club had his MTG stuff stolen from his car. Well, the two members who are sort of the the leaders of the MTG portion made a secret discord, invited everyone who played and basically said, "we need ideas, let's build a deck for him."
We made a deck list, and all split up working on getting cards and such. Someone donated a old commander deck, I donated a double deck box and cards and sleeves, and others donated cards.
We made him cry when we gifted the stuff to him. He was very happy and thankful
Nice sting set up ngl lol but you def werent the first person to think of zenith for dryad arbor lol xD
great vid otherwise tho fuck thieves
This was an incredible video! It really sets you even further apart from the rest of content creators. Two huge thumbs up.
Thanks for the kind words!
18:07 should have said exiled 😂😂😂
Dude got caught with the stolen cards literally in his hands and was only facing a month in jail. And he still took it to trial lol. That's a brand new evolution of stupid.
Moral of the story: draw on your magic cards. And that store owner? Don't play him at poker
Lol...MTG community playing the wrath of God card...