Below is a list of some of the stuff we had stolen. We're not exactly sure on the details, since you've got our binders, but we got down what we can remember. I'll be updating this as I remember more things you scored.

$100+

1 Ancestral Recall (UL)
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale (Italian)
1 Mana Drain (Italian)

$50-100

9 Force of Will
5 Tropical Island (REV)
4 Volcanic Island (REV)
3 Scrubland (REV)
3 Dark Confidant (Russian)
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Savannah (REV)
1 Bayou (REV)
1 Plateau (REV)
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Mana Crypt (altered - Pac-Man)
1 Wasteland (Player Rewards Foil)

$20-50

11 Wasteland
9 Snapcaster Mage
6 Mox Diamond (SH)
5 Hallowed Fountain
4 Watery Grave
4 Exploration
4 Rishadan Port
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant (2 EvT)
3 City of Traitors
3 Entomb (2 PDS: Graveborn)
3 Maze of Ith (1 Italian)
3 Arcbound Ravager
3 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Polluted Delta
3 Vindicate
2 Crucible of Worlds (1 Russian)
2 Lion's Eye Diamond
2 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Sword of Fire and Ice
2 Sword of War and Peace
2 Doubling Season
2 Wooded Foothills (1 signed)
2 Cryptic Command
2 Thoughtseize
1 Foil Stoneforge Mystic
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Godless Shrine
1 Engineered Explosives (Foil)
1 Damnation
1 Azusa, Lost But Seeking (Foil)
1 Karakas
1 Survival of the Fittest (French)
1 Angel's Grace (Russian Foil)
1 Lord of the Undead (Russian Foil 9th)
1 Dralnu, Lich Lord (Russian Foil)
1 Windswept Heath
1 Dark Confidant (Portugese)
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Tooth and Nail (foil)
1 Mutavault
1 Blood Moon (Russian BB 9th)
1 Forest (Guru)

$10-20

9 Spell Snare
9 Aether Vial
8 Enlightened Tutor (Mirage)
8 Hero of Bladehold (5 promo)
8 Stifle
8 Blood Moon
7 Arid Mesa
7 Ancient Tomb
7 Mox Opal
7 Life From the Loam (3 Russian)
6 Verdant Catacombs
6 Sensei's Divining Top
6 Marsh Flats
5 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
5 Magus of the Moon (1 Italian)
5 Misty Rainforest
5 Ethersworn Canonist
5 Ratchet Bomb
5 Glimpse the Unthinkable
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Pernicious Deed
4 Chrome Mox (Mirrodin)
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Chord of Calling
4 Tooth and Nail
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought (Mirage)
4 Lightning Bolt (Beta)
4 Chain Lightning (Italian Legends)
3 Seachrome Coast
3 Consecrated Sphinx
2 Darkslick Shores
2 Vampiric Tutor (Visions)
2 Maelstrom Pulse (1 GP foil)
2 Knight of the Reliquary (KvD)
2 Engineered Explosives (1 Chinese)
2 Phantasmal Image
2 Bribery
2 Dark Depths
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Mishra's Factory (Winter Antiquities)
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Propaganda (Korean)
1 City of Brass (FBB Italian)
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Grim Monolith
1 Gravecrawler (Buy-A-Box foil)
1 Raven's Crime (Russian Foil)
1 Pact of Negation
1 Batterskull
1 Olivia Voldaren (Foil)
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
1 Tower of the Magistrate (Japanese)
1 Lord of Atlantis (JSS Foil)
1 Marit Lage Token (Foil with Vertical Cutline)
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (Promo Foil)

$5-10
10 Phyrexian Metamorph
9 Sealed Dark Ascension Booster Packs
8 Sol Ring
7 Surgical Extraction
6 Time Warp
6 Wrath of God
5 Kitchen Finks
5 Green Sun's Zenith
5 Sunken Ruins
5 Demonic Tutor (1 Altered)
5 Isochron Scepter
5 Etched Champion
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Mystic Gate
4 Horizon Canopy
4 Gilded Lotus
4 Chaos Warp
3 Geralf's Messenger
3 Mirari's Wake
3 Chalice of the Void
3 Ichorid
3 Smokestack
3 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
2 Strangleroot Geist (Game Day)
2 Manabond
2 Humility
2 Trinisphere (FTV foil)
2 Debtors' Knell
2 Extirpate
2 Isolated Chapel
2 All is Dust
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Seedborn Muse (Russian FBB 9th)
1 Desertion
1 Summoner's Pact
1 Goryo's Vengeance (foil)
1 Academy Ruins (Russian)
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Mishra's Factory (Spring Antiquities)
1 Drogskol Captain (Foil)
1 Fetid Heath
1 Ponder (Textless)

1 Artist Proof Skull Collector (Thomas Baxa, original art on backside of card)
1 Artist Proof Masako the Humorless (Ben Thompson, original art on backside of card)

5 Altered Lightning Bolt
1 Altered The Mimeoplasm
2 Altered Animar, Soul of Elements,
1 Altered Riku of Two Reflections
1 Altered Intet, The Dreamer
3 Altered Beta Island
1 Altered Ghave, Guru of Spores
1 Altered Return to Dust
1 Altered Kresh the Bloodbraided

The Apathyhouse total for all of our stuff is $8,516.20. And you all know very well that Apathy doesn't account for alters or foreign foils very well, and half of the data is months old. It most definitely doesn't account for the fact that it took us a lot of time to get these things together. So in addition to stealing multiple playsets of top-tier Legacy, EDH, Modern, and Standard staples from us, you grabbed things that took us incredible effort to find. I already traded everything I had to make Lands once. Thanks for making me do it again. I really doubt you're going to appreciate my set of Russian Tolaria West the same way I would, and you definitely aren't going to play my friends' EDH decks with a fraction of they passion they played with. You also managed to take hundreds of other things of value - not just the piles of $1-4 cards we had, but also the beautiful altered cards done by my friend Eli Lisseck. I was taking them to the Grand Prix as an opportunity to show off his work, and to maybe help him get some recognition. You stole that from him, too, and you stole the cards that we were trading for our friends. They're out money now, and they were back home in Ohio.

You broke into my friend's car. You stole all of the cards we needed to play with and trade with, and you stole everything from our bags as well. That included Dave's house keys and car keys, his $70 work bag, his $300 Ray-Bans, his $150 Beats earbuds, my $90 camera, my $150 Russian textbook, and all of our playmats and boxes and dice. Thanks, man. I'm 18. I'm a college freshman, and I can't even do my homework tonight because you stole my backpack and my textbook. I'm going to have to rebuy everything, and I can't even sell cards to pay for it. Jacob is going to have to pay $300 to fix the window your elbow so kindly shattered.

At Grand Prix Baltimore, you stole Justin Parnell's cube and you smashed people's faces into bathroom walls so you could mug them for their cards. Maybe you didn't hurt us physically this time. And $10,000 divided amongst three people is a lot easier to work with than $20,000 for just Justin. But we are not going to stand for this anymore. All of the dealers in the area and in the area are on the lookout for you and our cards. Our very distinctive cards, which you were so smart to steal. Many people at the GP had heard about this by the time the day was over, and people are going to just keep hearing about it. A lot of people helped us out today. They said they'd keep an eye out for our stuff, and they helped us get started on our collections again. We thank them for that; it means more to us than anything that some players really do care, really are honest. And we're going to find you. Me, Dave, Jacob, Justin, and all of the other honest players out there. The Magic community as a whole is not going to stand for thievery any longer. Eventually, we're going to catch up with you. And you're all going to regret what you've done.

Please spread this message to everyone you can. Thank you.

I feel for ya as I have lost cards as well to people stealing at conventions and even at casual play.

I have no idea on where you put your cards, but would suggest to all to put your stuff away in the trunk of your car and not visible from your windows. Gives people a reason to break windows and steal your stuff (I left a bag for work visible in my front seat - looked like a laptop bag - and had the ole smash and grab done on my car). Luckily the only thing they stole was my checkbook and inconvenience of cleaning the mess, window replaced, and switching to a new checking account.

Again, sorry for your loss and hope they catch the thieves!

I have scans of some of the alters posted on this same thread here, on MTGTheSource.

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Originally posted by Malacoda:

Thank you all for your support. We called the police immediately after the incident occurred, and they showed up within 10 minutes. Unfortunately, as is often the case with these kinds of thefts, there wasn't much for them to go on. You can't get prints off a pile of glass. No cameras in the hotel parking lot

I have scans of some of the alters posted on this same thread here, on MTGTheSource.

Thank you all for your help. I really appreciate it.

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People need to start treating these cards like cash and ask themselves would I leave $XXXX amount of dollars or turn my back on $XXXX for a short bit of time. Most of us would say no, but we have no problems leaving these cards around. I took stock of my two legacy decks and I'm very aware that I have $3000 pretty liquid on me and I NEVER carry that around in cash. If I do i'm SUPER paranoid and I live in like the safest area in the country.

Maybe because i'm kind of older now, but I'd never leave $10,000 just lying in my car like that for any amount of time. Hopefully you can recoup your losses, but this is just a warning to everyone out there. Treat it like cash because that's what those thieves did.

I think at card shops people let their guard down because there is a a sense of reputation and the fact that if you do something shady you may never be able to come back and you need a place to play and stuff like that. However, at a GP or SCG whatever people are anonymous and there is no chance of repeat visibility so you have to be even more careful.

I would bet these criminals just traded them off instantly to get rid of the stuff and so be able to put the evidence far away from them.

Back in the day, shortly after FE came out, I was working on separating and sorting all of my "better" cards. Had all of my stuff with me in the trunk of my car at work (was doing it at work....family business). Walked out from the building and saw a bunch of MTG cards all over the street and thought to myself "wow, somebody dumped alot of good cards on the road". Then it clicked, and I go over to my trunk and see it was smashed in. A mess of loose cards on the road and thrown around the trunk.

Lost all of my Alpha, most of my Beta other than normal commons and Uncommons, Everything good from Unl, Rev, and so on.... Thousands of cards of you name it.

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Originally posted by flophaus:
Or if they are not complete morons they would just never try to sell that stuff and just perhaps junk it?

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Wait, what.

They broke into a car window and stole 10k worth of playable cards so they could... junk it?

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Originally posted by Sovarius:
Wait, what.

They broke into a car window and stole 10k worth of playable cards so they could... junk it?

Trust me, they're playing selling and trading them. Aside from alters, for the most part it will be very hard to trace. All they haave to do is split up the cards between everyone involved in the theft, or simply not even be from that area and never go back.

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Originally posted by Sovarius:
Trust me, they're playing selling and trading them. Aside from alters, for the most part it will be very hard to trace.

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The first part of this post said this:

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Be careful not to just automatically assume that a person selling these easily identifiable cards is the same person that stole them.

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First off, yes it sucks to have stuff stolen, I had a $6k binder stolen from me at a PTQ in like 2006. It taught me to be careful and not bring more things than I need.

However, I feel like only half the blame can be given to the thief and the other half has to go to the victim (me in the past and you now).

I left my bag out where some one to get to it, just like you left your bags out to be seen in your car. Although, in my case thievery was not as rampant as it is now. You even had the knowledge that just 1 week or so earlier in Baltimore something redic. like that cube being stolen happen.

That being said, I think that the magic community needs to be more proactive in preventing the opportunity for theft more so than finding the thieves after they have struck.

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Originally posted by broiler1977:
One of my college roommates stole my entire collection in '95. It's value today makes me want to puke. I understand how you feel. It gutted me.

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Did he do it right before he moved out? And you never heard from him again?
Just weird how that would work since your on a college campus.

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Originally posted by smash:
Sorry to read about this. Had nearly the same thing happen to me a long time ago. Only my story is a bit harsher.

Back in the day, shortly after FE came out, I was working on separating and sorting all of my "better" cards. Had all of my stuff with me in the trunk of my car at work (was doing it at work....family business). Walked out from the building and saw a bunch of MTG cards all over the street and thought to myself "wow, somebody dumped alot of good cards on the road". Then it clicked, and I go over to my trunk and see it was smashed in. A mess of loose cards on the road and thrown around the trunk.

Lost all of my Alpha, most of my Beta other than normal commons and Uncommons, Everything good from Unl, Rev, and so on.... Thousands of cards of you name it.

It gets better, not only did I have all of the cards, I also had copies of Scrye, listing the values and places that bought the cards in with all of the stuff. Boy do I wish I would have left them at home instead. I don't play anymore and I surely don't leave cards unattended in the car or trunk.

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Originally posted by ryan2754:
Did he do it right before he moved out? And you never heard from him again?
Just weird how that would work since your on a college campus.

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Originally posted by broiler1977:
Because of the theft, I stayed completely away from magic until about 5 years ago when I found some cards that weren't with me at my apartment. All of the value was gone, but magic came back for me. It sucked, and I feel bad for all the people with similar stories.

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For me, this is pretty much the same feeling except that mtg seems way too complicated now.