I quickly found the nuances of collecting and value here to be as interesting as any list I could build. What I found as I dug into the market was a niche of card collecting that had a number of ways in which you could build a traditional 'top 20' styled list and there was a lot to consider in refining a list. When I sat down to pen this article, researching Magic: The Gathering cards in more detail, my goal was to put together a list of the most expensive cards from the game organized 20 to 1. I was a collector in the early days and recently sold my cards for a wonderful windfall of cash. Still in production and actively played today, it is estimated that there are over twenty million players and more than 13,500 cards to collect as of 2015 with an annual revenue of 250 million being generated by the game. In the game, typically using a deck of 60 or more trading cards, players take on the role of combat wizards and square off against each other using the spells, artifacts, and creatures featured on those cards to combat opponents. You can just feel the Dungeons & Dragons influence here, which Garfield does credit (Wizards of the Coast would later acquire the brand). Created by Richard Garfield, Magic: The Gathering is a trading card game that was first published in 1993 and leaned heavily on traditional fantasy elements.

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