Recent Theft of Some 6,000 MtG Cards

[notsofasteddie]

My good friend and fellow collector of MtG cards recently had a large portion of his collection stolen by a "friend." As you might imagine, he is devastated. He is trying to get the word out to the members of our community so that this thief may be caught and punished appropriately.

Here is an email my friend is circulating around:

"My name is Sean Dugas. I am writing you this letter as a result of having a large portion of my Magic collection, nearly six thousand cards stolen from my house Wednesday afternoon.

If you see this man (Photo Attatched) come in and try to sell you Magic the Gathering cards please call the police! He is under investigation for stealing nearly $20,000 worth of cards from Pensacola Florida.

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We believe he was heading to Warner Robins Georgia where he has family, or the Sacramento California area.

Any help in this matter would be appreciated.

Thank you
Sean Dugas
850-287-1385

The cards taken include the following:

All cards were contained in one of the following:
2 Four Page Ultra Pro Softcover zip binders with nylon strap
Black Binder with computer printed picture of Serra Angel slid into front cover
Black Binder with no front cover
3 Nine Page Blue flat hardcover Ultra Pro Collectors Albums (One with a pokemon sticker of Picachu and and image of a jester in silver drawn by magic artist Dan Frazier)
3 Colored "Fat Pack" boxes (Labeled with masking tape Red Blue rares ABC order, Black rares by set, and Green and White rares by block)
4 White Cardboard Card boxes labeled: Uncommons the better ones, Personal Cards, Two labeled Five Color
1 Brown Leather Jansport Backpack
1 Canvas Messenger bag with side pockets and zipper flap
5 Anime Deck boxes (Pink, Purple, Blue, Orange, Green) with cute girl on front
1 Fantastic Four Card Tin
1 long 900 count white card box with Handrawn art of Howl from Beyond, Creature Bond, as well as a horned demon figure.
2 Dozen other deck boxes all containing 60 card decks
1 of the Blue 9 Pocket page books was full of a card called Ophidian (only that card 180) 9 were Foil and about half were asian. In the back of the binder was a half of an Artificial Evolution

Unlimited Black Lotus signed by Richard Garfield
*Unlimited Mox Jet
*Unlimited Mox Pearl
Unlimited Mox Saphire
*Unlimited Mox Ruby signed by Richard Garfield
Unlimited Mox Emerald
Unlimited Ancestral Recall signed by Mark Poole
Beta Time Twister signed by Mark Tedin
Unlimited Time Walk
3 Mishra's Workshop one signed by Kaja Folio
1 Bizarres of Bagdad signed by Artist
Library of Alexandria signed by Mark Poole and Richard Garfield
18 x Force of Will (4 signed in black by the artist, 4 signed in silver 2 of which are French and one of those is altered to look like a football player)
1 Foreign Black Bordered Sol Ring signed and altered by Mark Tedin (Looks like Kenny from South Park)
1 Alpha Sol Ring signed and altered by Mark Tedin (looks like the Eye of Soron from Lord of the Rings)
4 Swords to Plowshares altered to resimble the members of the band Korn with the initials D.S. at the bottom.
4 Artist Proof Brainstorm signed and dates Gencon '04 (White Back)
4 Artist Proof Accuulated Knowledge signed by artist (White Back)
8 Mana Drain (4 English, 4 Italian signed by Mark Tedin)
5 Guru Islands 2 or 3 signed in Gold by Theresa Nielson
13 Burning Wish 4 Signed in Green by artist Scott Fisher, 1 Signed in Black
Beta Winter Orb signed by Richard Garfield
16 Polluted Delta
12 Flooded Strand
8 Windswept Heath
8 Wooded Foothills
6 Bloodstained Mire
3 Foil Watery Grave
5 Watery Grave
4 Foil Overgrown Tomb
4 Overgrown Tomb
3 Breeding Pool
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Plateau
3 Scrubland
3 Savannah
14 Tundra, (Borders of two cards colored with a black marker)
12 Underground Sea
8 Bayou
10 Tropical Island
10 Volcanic Island (4 Signed by Bryan Snoddy)
6 Taiga
4 Badlands
6 Chrome Mox
6 Mox Diamond
2 Chains of Mephistopheles
1 Foil DCI Balance
2 Balance signed by Mark Poole
3 Foil Platinum Angel
3 Japanese Oath of Druids
1 Chaos Orb Altered and signed with Mickey Mouse ears and a Castle in the background
1 Forest painted to look like the Riddler ffrom Batman
1 Foil signed Patron Wizard with my bite mark in it
1 Powersink initialed S.D. and S.S. and dated with "A night to remember"
4 Darksteel Ingot altered to look like mushrooms with S.D. and S.S. initials
1 Signed Goblen Welder
4 Signed Gobline Piledriver by Matt Cavatta
1 Foil Signed Memory Jar
4 Pithing Needles
5 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Signed DCI Promo Psycatogs
1 Signed Foil 8th Ed. Birds of Paradise
16 Counterspells signed by Mark Poole
3 Desolation Angels signed by Brom
4 Mog Fanatics signed by Brom
6 - 8 Squirrel Tokens signed by Matt Cavatta
1 Verdant force signed by Ditrilizzi
1 Beta Contract from Below
1 Signed Fastbond by Mark Poole
12 Wastelands
4 Portugese Meddling Mages
4 Meddling Mages
4 Intuitions signed by April Lee
4 Lotus Petals signed by April Lee 2 in Gold and 2 in silver
1 Foil Darksteel Colossus
3 Portal Wrath of God
3 Foil Promo Wrath of God
1 Exalted Angel with the words "Red Bull Gave Her Wings" written on it
7 Exalted Angels
2 Termagoif
16 Unglued Swamps signed by Mark Zugg
4 Alluren signed by April Lee in Silver
4 Pernicious Deed
4 Birds of Paradise signed Mark Poole
14 Birds of Paradise
4 Deranged Hermit (1 Signed by Kevin Walker and 1 Pack Crimped)


1 Blue Duelist Abacas
1 Deck called Madness that was entirely Foil cards (except land)


4 of almost every playable rare in vintage, legacy and extened (i.e: Dark Confidant, Meddling Mage, Goblin Welder, Cunning Wish, Stifle, Living Wish, Oath of Druids, Orim's Chant, etc}

Collection also includes dozens of Foil, Promo, Arena cards and hundreds of signed cards that are not listed.

[magic-belgium]

If the cards were sold on Ebay or any other card online store, it would be difficult to know it's him.

It would be good to mention his name too.

Stealing from a friend is quite ugly...

[bigfatkitty]

Since you know who he is and what he looks like, can the police not help?

[l0qii]

If the cards were sold on Ebay or any other card online store, it would be difficult to know it's him.

It would be good to mention his name too.

Stealing from a friend is quite ugly...

Or if you know his ebay name (if he has one) that would be good

[equi-nox76]

I received this from an Ebay member some days ago:

Hallo equi-nox76,

Chris, Thank you for your interest. Shipping & handling to Germany would be $15.00 via Priority Mail no matter how many you purchase. All of the Magic cards I have listed right now are MINT. These are from a collection of a former Wizards of the Coast employee. I have about 200 of each of the cards listed. I understand your caution. I would encourage you to buy a couple sets, check them out, then contact me and purchase more if you'd like. You will not be disappointed. If you are interested in buying in bulk we can work out a discount.

He seemed to have many cards and wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible... a day later all of the cards were taken out of Ebay

Might be a track?

Chris

[random]

The guy actually looks pretty shady

It's always sad to read about these major thefts, like that one in New York.. Hope it has a good outcome!

[Spectral_bears]

If he is heading towards GA, you might want to look up some of the Atlanta shops and pass this along. The Gaming Pit in Deluth is one of the more prominent shops that he may try to move some of this stuff to. I'll try to copy this in an email to them.

EDIT: I emailed this to The Gaming Pit. I'll try and dig up some of the other smaller shops and pass it along to them too.

[mahdishain]

My sympathy to your friend. Having had thousands of dollars of cards stolen by people i invited into my house I understand what he is going through. It changed the whole way I approached collecting magic. good luck.

[notsofasteddie]

The Police are involved although they've turned up nothing yet. The thief's name is Richard "AJ" Jeffries.

Thanks for your suggestions and for the support! My friend Sean is experiencing something that each of us has hoped would never happen to us.

[notsofasteddie]

The thief, Richard "AJ" Jeffries, was taken into custody today in Glendale, California. Unfortunately, the police didn't have an active warrant so they released him. If you're playing in a West Coast Morningtide Pre-Release event this weekend, be aware of any deal that is, "To-Good-To-Be-True" the cards may well be stolen so check the list that was added to this post earlier.

The good news is that some of the cards were sold locally so they have been recovered; the bad news that the cards may have to be re-purchased so that the un-knowing buyer doesn't end up short.

[magic-belgium]

Wasn't your friend insured for these cards ?

[notsofasteddie]

In truth I don't know. Even if he was, it will be difficult for him to document and prove the value of the cards to his insurance company.

This should be a sad lesson to all of us who collect as this has happened before, will happen again, and could happen to YOU!!

[random]

This should be a sad lesson to all of us who collect as this has happened before, will happen again, and could happen to YOU

Depending on who your "friends" are...

I was in Glendale today myself! He would likely go to Franks (today) cause it's close and the best place to sell a bunch of cards cause the main dealers have lots of cash with them. Pre Release dealers are lame across the board when it comes to selling stuff..

[magic-belgium]

In truth I don't know. Even if he was, it will be difficult for him to document and prove the value of the cards to his insurance company.

This should be a sad lesson to all of us who collect as this has happened before, will happen again, and could happen to YOU!!

I have kept all the Ebay invoices of all the things I have bought so far. All I would need is print them.

The value of the cards is either based on an invoice or on the current market value (Ebay completed auctions for instance), or Inquest Gamers/Scrye pricelists.