Magic Game Day Scavenger Hunt

All right - something odd. I have recently been editing many of my listings on eBay, because I had to update the shipping options (see my earlier rant on the USPS changes). One of the listings I updated was for the Legends Rules card. This was a card included in every single booster pack of Legends that explained some new rules introduced with that set. Because every pack had one, and both Alan and I had bought lots of Legends, I have well over 100 copies of this thing

Shortly after the listing was updated, I started getting several orders for it (I had only gotten 3 or 4 in the previous year). Several people bought just one copy, some bought four, some bought one copy of this plus another single card (Spanish Lord of the Pit or Stampeding Wildebeests). Almost 10 purchases within a week-and-a-half. I could not figure out what had suddenly made this card so popular.

So, off to Google, answerer of all that is mysterious. A quick search finally revealed the answer. As part of the celebration and kicking off of 10th Edition next month (July 14 to be exact), Wizards of the Coast is sponsoring a Magic Game Day Scavenger Hunt. The link takes you to the official rules page, but here's the short version: be the person to bring in the most of 30 items to a participating retailer on 7/14/07 and win a nifty Magic Backpack. And, of course, the Legends rules card is one of the 30 items!

So, mystery solved...and new worked created. Why? Because I have a LOT of the other items on the list, that's why! And many of them are things I had never thought to put up before. Empty booster packs, display boxes, starter deck boxes, rule books...all these things that I've had lying around, many from Alan's collection ("Lot 4" as it's known around here). So, quick scramble to get these up - after all I have to sell them immediately if they are going to have any chance to get into people's hands in time for the contest. I actually created a new Store category called Scavenger Hunt to highlight these items.

My (educated) guess is that any of the specific individual cards they ask for (like Nekrataal or Mogg Fanatic) are going to be reprinted in 10th Edition.

Here's the list of the 30, with comments and/or links to the items if I have them available:

1. Arabian Nights Fishliver Oil card - I used to have several, but all have sold
2. Empty booster display box of any expansion from Alpha to Mirage - I have ones from Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires, Ice Age and Mirage available
3. An Alpha, Beta, Unlimited or Revised Starter Pack deckbox - I have Alpha/Beta, Unlimited and Revised all available
4. Booster pack wrapper of Arabian Nights, Revised, Unlimited, Beta or Alpha - unfortunately I have none of these
5. Magic rulebook with Bog Wraith on the cover - up for auction at eBay
6. Magic rulebook with Shivan Dragon on the cover - up for auction at eBay
7. Arabian Nights Mountain card - none; bummer
8. Legends Rules card - as mentioned, available at eBay
9. Invasion Reya Dawnbringer card - I've never had one of these. I'd like one, though!
10. Exodus Paladin en-Vec card - none :-(
11. Onslaught Festering Goblin card - available at donsmagicandsundry.com
12. Visions Nekrataal card - up in eBay
13. Lord of the Pit card illustrated by Mark Tedin - from Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Revised, Fourth Edition, or Fifth Edition. I have several up.
14. Tempest Mogg Fanatic card - available at donsmagicandsundry.com
15. Alliances Guerrilla Tactics card - both versions available at donsmagicandsundry.com (thus the two separate links)
16. Scourge Siege-Gang Commander card -
17. Giant Growth card illustrated by Sandra Everingham - from Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Revised, Fourth Edition, Anthologies, or as a DCI FNM Promo; I have several available at donsmagicandsundry.com, including Chinese Fourth Edition
18. Visions Stampeding Wildebeests card - up at eBay
19. Mirrodin Platinum Angel card - never owned one :-(
20. Fifth Dawn Crucible of Worlds card - I'm afraid not :-(
21. Urza's Legacy Treetop Village card - don't have it :-(
22. Ice Age Adarkar Wastes card - not this one either (I used to!) :-(
23. Apocalypse Caves of Koilos card - one of the pain lands I've never owned :-(
24. Largest collection of 1 single non-basic land card - this one's kind of up to the individual, I think
25. Duelist Issue Number 1 - thanks to Alan I have this!
26. Entrant with Lowest DCI Number - up to the individual
27. An officially licensed Magic comic book - I've sold all of mine already!!!
28. Clothing with Magic artwork on it - I don't have any myself, let alone some to sell
29. Four different Friday Night Magic cards - I've never done FNM :-( I do, however, have a couple of promo cards that I've gotten in Lots!
30. Three spin down Magic life counters with different expansion symbols on them - never owned any

Anyway, many of these are special auctions that end on this Saturday night (June 30, 2007) so they'll only be up for a limited time. Others are regular store inventory items, and will remain up if they don't sell soon.

Here's hoping people are actually interested, and I'm not going crazy!