Usually, half-million-dollar TCG cards take months if not years to sell. But, sometimes, the planets and stars all align and a couple of record-setting sales happen just a week apart from each other. Case in point, the Black Lotus card from Magic: The Gathering sold for $540,000 on March 16 only to be auctioned off for $615,000 just days later.
The first of the two cards, a PSA 10 Graded Alpha Black Lotus, was the leadoff lot in the PWCC March Premier Auction.
Late artist, Christopher Rush, signed the case of the card in 2014. It's a one-of-two owned by David Edwards, a well-known avid card collector. Over two weeks, the "perfect" Black Lotus card started selling for $1,000 before eclipsing the previous record holder, another one of Edwards' signed Black Lotus, which sold for $511,000 in January 2021.
After the record-setting sale was finalized on March 16, another Black Lotus card fetched nearly $100,000 more on March 24.