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They are similar to the five |basic lands (the cards that provide the primary resource to play most cards) in that they cost nothing to play and can add one mana of a specific color to their owner's resource pool. They are colloquially known as 'Moxen' or 'Moxes'. In March of 2023, a graded 10 Alpha copy sold for $540,000. In January 2021 a ' gem mint' Alpha version of the Black Lotus in a case signed by the artist was sold for US$511,100 (equivalent to $551,960 in 2022) in an eBay auction. The first Scrye price guide from June 1994 listed the Alpha Shivan Dragon as the most valuable card in the game at a median $22 to Black Lotus's $15. Although Black Lotus was highly-sought after early on it took a while for it to become the consensus most valuable card in the game. The Alpha version of Black Lotus is the rarest and most sought-after, with an estimated 1100 ever printed, followed by the Beta version, with 3300 ever printed.

Its Alpha and Beta versions in particular are considered to be extremely valuable, due to the more limited print runs and black borders of those sets. īlack Lotus is usually considered by collectors to be the most valuable non-promotional Magic card ever printed. The reason this powerful card is a flower is attributed to Richard Garfield liking the idea of a lot of power being contained in a flower, a transient object in contrast to more permanent objects like rings or amulets that are often depicted as sources of power in other fantasy settings. It has since been banned from all official tournament formats save for Vintage, but even there, it is limited to one copy per deck, compared to the normal allowance of four. Former Pro player and Magic writer Zvi Mowshowitz has declared Black Lotus as the best card of its type of all time, claiming every deck in the history of the game is better with a Black Lotus in it. Thus, the card gives the player an enormous jump in the early stages of a Magic game. The 'Black Lotus' card can be played at zero cost, and grants three mana (the game's primary resource) when sacrificed (discarded from play).

The Black Lotus, signed by artist Christopher Rush

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