#mtghighend

So, I have a sad story to tell, that involves me ripping up a real Savannah for Magic: the Gathering.

I know many people are already upset by my opening sentence, and yes, it did happen. So, the night prior to the incident, my friend, who we will call Steven, had an Invoke Predigest that I could have used for my deck. So, I asked him what does he want for it, and he says to look through my trade binder. He’s looking and he’s asking me about a few cards and I say they are all for trade. That’s when he looks at my Savannah, it was in the back of the binder for future use and he asked about it. Since he’s a friend, I thought that it would be fine to trade it away, I could see if maybe he wouldn’t trade it away in the future and maybe trade for it back.

So the trade happens and I’m ecstatic. At this point, everything is alright. The next day, while I’m at work, I get a message from him saying that it was fake and that him, myself and the shop owner who I bought it from and see what what we could agree on to correct the issue. So I meet him at the shop, I look at the card and I think he’s right, so I go up to the owner and tells him that I think it’s fake. He tells me that it’s real, but I’m not sure. I wouldn’t think that Steven would lie to me, for any reason. I insist that it’s fake and the shop owner asks if it’s okay to rip a small portion on the side of the card. The reason for ripping it is because the cards are glued with a blue colored glue, to protect from counterfeits. So I let him and I don’t see a blue line. To me that seals it and I go back to my seat really bummed.

I decided to fully rip the card in half, still thinking that it’s fake. Yea, I know I could have used it as a proxy, but I was upset that I lost out on roughly $85 or something like that. So I rip it and to my surprise, it had the blue line. Now I’m starting to get mad at my friend for telling me it’s fake when it was actually real. It was at that point that I realized that you can't​ just believe a few people who say one thing.

I know I should have checked with more people. I know I screwed up and I know that I’m a terrible person. Now I don’t know what to do. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever done and now will actively go out and make sure that expensive cards like those are checked out.