Last week Seattle
Seahawks defensive end Cassius Marsh lost something that most collectors can
relate too, either through having a similar situation or knowing someone that
has gone through it.
Marsh’s girlfriend used
his SUV to go out with friends to a nightclub in Seattle and someone broke in
to the car and stole two backpacks he had in the back seat. One backpack contained
his team issued iPad and the other contained a number of his Magic: The
Gathering collection. You wouldn’t think that a pro football player would be
such a serious collector and gamer but he estimated that the cards stolen are
valued around $20,000-25,000. I know nothing about MTG but he must have some
seriously rare cards in his collection.
He has made a number of
tweets asking for help, he even offered that if the person who stole the cards
would return them he would give them tickets to a home game, no questions
asked.
I have never had cards
stolen but I did have a large portion of my collection tossed in the trash by a
vindictive ex, I call this loss “The purge”. It broke my heart and I lost about
75% of my collection but in comparison to what Marsh lost, mine was minimal in
value.
