[hsndmoose]

https://www.mtgstocks.com/lists

IMO you'd get a lot of mileage from the "Reserved List" or "Vintage Staples" but site is decent for a general price lookup as well.

Feel free to shoot follow-up questions. There are a few cards that went from trash to treasure since you've been out of the game. Lion's Eye Diamond probably the most extreme example, but basically anything on the Reserved List has gone insane in the past few years.

[herodoturtle]

Heya, mind if I jump in here - this comment has piqued my interest.

I've got an old collection from the early 90s as mentioned in my comment further up.

Are my black bordered cards indeed Beta?

I'm going through this list you shared for the Beta edition cards and some of these prices are ridiculous.

I'm pretty sure I'm misinterpreting something.

[scubbo]

> Are my black bordered cards indeed Beta?

https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/bsvg6h/an_updated... is the best way for you to answer "what set is this Magic card from?"

[aardvark179]

Your cards are almost certainly worth a lot less. Maybe they are beta, but they probably aren’t nearly as good condition as you would like to think.

[herodoturtle]

I'm sure you're right.

I played these cards to death and didn't really care for their condition aside from just sticking them in plastic sleeves.

Anyway this was a fun little trip down memory lane.

Maybe they'll be worth something in another 20 years?

[hsndmoose]

Even "pretty bad" condition Beta is still worth a pretty penny. Lots of people just want to have complete sets, or play "1994" League which allows only cards from that era. There will definitely be a market if you do indeed have Beta :)

[paulpauper]

this cannot be real. how is a dual land worth thousands of dollars

[YeGoblynQueenne]

They are dual lands with basic land types without any abilities (other than the mana abilities they inherit from their basic land types) which also means without any drawbacks. They're just "Swamp Forest", "Mountain Forest", "Island Swamp", etc. See here:

https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Dual_land

And they are literally what their type lines say. So you basically get two lands with a basic type for the price of one (i.e. one card, or one land drop; card and tempo advantage, 2-in-1). Their only limitation is that they are not basic lands so they are subject to the restriction of number of copies per deck (4, in most formats).

Every dual land created subsequently has some kind of drawback or limitation (other than the number of copies restriction): "Enters the battlefield tapped", paying some amount of life or taking damage, sacrificing a permanent, discarding a card (I think), printed as bouble-faced card, and so on.

[hdctambien]

The original dual lands are very powerful in the game and haven't been reprinted since Revised so there aren't a lot of them. And people pay that much for them.

Modern dual lands come with restrictions/penalties for taking advantage of their dualness (time delays, damage, choosing which version to use when played, etc) and they are often some of the most valuable cards in a set.

[gpderetta]

They were already expensive, but this year they spiked further. There is also a very large price difference between Alpha/Beta/Unlimited/Revised.