Magic: The Gathering playing cards price $300,000 stolen earlier than Gen Con

Thieves took off with “upwards of $300,000” price of Magic: The Gathering playing cards days earlier than the beginning of main tabletop conference Gen Con, based on Indianapolis police. Two unidentified males walked off the Indiana Conference Heart ground in Indianapolis, the place Gen Con was held, with a pallet stuffed with containers. Pastimes Comics & Video games supervisor Zack Reiter informed Polygon the playing cards had been Magic: The Gathering playing cards from the Niles, Illinois retailer.

Pastimes Comics & Video games is each a retailer and a tabletop match organizer. Regardless of the theft, the corporate hosted occasions all through the conference, which happened from Aug. 3 to Aug. 6. The playing cards stolen had been stolen on Aug. 2, when exhibitors had been organising for the occasion. Police, in a Fb publish asking for assist figuring out the duo, mentioned the 2 males “acquired a pallet jack” earlier than taking a pallet stuffed with plastic-wrapped containers. The alleged thieves walked off with the playing cards, which haven’t been positioned.

The pallet was piled excessive with pricy Magic: The Gathering Commander Masters and Collector Booster units, Pastimes Comics & Video games wrote on Fb. The duo appeared to have stolen greater than a dozen containers of those units, which they appear to have faraway from the plastic wrap in some unspecified time in the future in the course of the heist. “Detectives are nonetheless looking for assist in figuring out each people,” police mentioned.

Police declined to remark additional on the alleged Magic: The Gathering card heist.

Shortly after information of the stolen playing cards went public, Gen Con attendees and onlookers started to invest that the playing cards stolen had been the extremely wanted Disney Lorcana playing cards. The sport doesn’t launch till Aug. 18, however Disney and recreation writer Ravensburger hosted a particular pre-sale on Aug. 3 — an occasion that drew lengthy traces that some mentioned had been unsafe for attendees. Nevertheless, Ravensburger shortly confirmed that each one its playing cards had been accounted for.