{"id":1920770,"date":"2023-04-28T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-senate-hopeful-lucas-kunce-owns-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-magic-the-gathering-cards\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T14:18:53","slug":"missouri-senate-hopeful-lucas-kunce-owns-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-magic-the-gathering-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-senate-hopeful-lucas-kunce-owns-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-magic-the-gathering-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Senate Hopeful Lucas Kunce Owns Tens of Thousands of Dollars Worth of Magic: The Gathering Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissouri-senate-hopeful-lucas-kunce-owns-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-magic-the-gathering-cards%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Missouri Democrat&#8217;s Magic: The Gathering Card Collection Worth Tens of Thousands of Dollars<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>Magic Nerd Lucas Kunce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Move over, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-first-100-days-promote-big-government\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s first 100 days promote Big Government\">retirement savings<\/a>! Missouri Democrat Lucas Kunce has a rare and expensive collection of wizard and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-senate-hopeful-lucas-kunce-owns-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-magic-the-gathering-cards\/\" title=\"Missouri Senate Hopeful Lucas Kunce Owns Tens of Thousands of Dollars Worth of Magic: The Gathering Cards\">goblin-themed trading cards<\/a> that could be worth over $50,000. Kunce, who is running to unseat Sen. Josh Hawley, has been a lifelong fan of the fantasy-themed tabletop game Magic: The Gathering. But his dedication to the game isn&#8217;t just a hobby, it&#8217;s also a lucrative investment.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s in Kunce&#8217;s Collection?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Two items that retail for up to $25,000 each<\/li>\n<li>Individual cards with asking prices of $2,000<\/li>\n<li>Decks worth thousands of dollars<\/li>\n<li>A framed, uncut sheet set of original Magic: The Gathering cards from 1994<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These magical investments could hurt Kunce&#8217;s chances of connecting with voters in deep-red Missouri. However, Kunce&#8217;s campaign emphasizes his lifelong commitment to the game, stating that he bought most of his cards for nickels as a kid in Missouri and has been trading them ever since. Kunce even played the game while serving in the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<h3>What Experts Say<\/h3>\n<p>Magic: The Gathering expert Jason Alt says that Kunce&#8217;s collection is &#8220;not only rare but also expensive.&#8221; Alt adds that &#8220;it&#8217;s actually sort of difficult to judge something that rare and expensive.&#8221; The total value of Kunce&#8217;s collection is hard to appraise, but one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/xi-jinping-finally-addresses-chinas-coronavirus-crisis-barks-at-underlings-to-stick-to-lockdowns\/\" title=\"Xi Jinping Finally Addresses China's Coronavirus Crisis, Barks at Underlings to Stick to Lockdowns\">expert estimated<\/a> it is in the tens of thousands of dollars, if not more.<\/p>\n<p>Kunce&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-cheers-as-homeless-group-seizes-hotel-near-tacoma-city-leaders-negotiating-with-group-as-police-refuse-to-intervene\/\" title=\"Far Left Cheers As Homeless Group Seizes Hotel Near Tacoma; City Leaders Negotiating With Group As Police Refuse To Intervene\">card collection<\/a> has made him a minor celebrity in the Magic: The Gathering community. One competitive player who spoke with the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> on condition of anonymity was floored by the value of Kunce&#8217;s cards, although jabbed that the collection &#8220;definitely points to a collector more than a serious competitive player. Most of their value really just is as a collector&#8217;s item or an investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Hawley challenger&#8217;s card collection is &#8216;rare and expensive,&#8217; Magic experts say Magic Nerd Lucas Kunce. The average American has just over $35,000 saved for retirement. Missouri Democrat Lucas Kunce holds considerably more than that in wizard and goblin-themed trading cards. Kunce, who is running to unseat Sen. Josh Hawley (R,. Mo.), has not hidden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1920771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8722,3674,5352,18430,4566,25358,25357,7661,8584,3828,3740,4286,5502],"class_list":["post-1920770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-tens","tag-cards","tag-dollars","tag-gathering","tag-hopeful","tag-kunce","tag-lucas","tag-magic","tag-missouri","tag-owns","tag-senate","tag-thousands","tag-worth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}