It was only a matter of time before someone spent an insane amount on the ultra rare card from the recently released The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth card set. That someone happens to be rapper Post Malone who has spent $2 million for the One Ring which was found back in June shortly after the release of Wizards of the Coast’s controversial The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set.
A video posted on Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok shows Malone with the card’s original owner Brook Tafton who becomes emotional when Malone agrees to take the card.
In the video’s description Trafton writes,
“When I found the One Ring, the first person who came to mind was Post Malone. I have played MTG since I was a kid and obviously it would be amazing to keep this card. But for a guy like me, being able to sell it is life-changing. I just really hoped it would go to someone who would appreciate it as much as I do.
This is my dream come true, meeting Post Malone and him buying the One Ring card from me is literally a moment straight out of a fairytale. Post Malone Magic: The Gathering you have changed my life. Things like this don’t happen to people like me, I guess it’s magic. I am forever grateful.”
The One Ring card was graded by grading company PSA which rated it a Mint 9 and posted a photo of the authenticated card on its Twitter page. While there are regular versions of the card, this particular One Ring card is serialized and covered in gold foil with the ring’s inscription written in Black Speech prominently displayed.
Of course, no one can begrudge Trafton for selling the card. Especially for $2 million which is, as he says, a life-changing amount. The real tragedy is that people are buying the card set at all considering the disrespect The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth card set has shown towards JRR Tolkien and his world. Specifically, the race-swapping of iconic characters such as Aragorn, Galadriel, Merry, Eowyn, and Faramir among other changes.
It could be that neither Trafton nor Post Malone are aware of what Wizard’s of the Coast is responsible for and that they are simply just Magic: The Gathering fans.
Yet, this isn’t the only recent controversy from the parent company Wizards of the Coast as there has been major upheavals over the Dungeons and Dragons intellectual property with the latest example involving the opinion that half-breeds in the game are “inherently racist.”
But for Tolkien fans, what Wizards of the Coast has done spits in the face of the author and his work. Like the One Ring was cast into the fires of Mount Doom to be destroyed, Post Malone would do well to destroy the MTG One Ring card in a similar fashion for it represents a perversion of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings.
At the very least, Wizards of the Coast doesn’t get any of that $2 million and, hopefully, the card’s discovery quickly quelled any further hype for MTG’s The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth card set.
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