Post Malone on collectibles: what the evidence says · JRE #2018

FACT CHECK // JRE #2018 // EXHIBIT LOG
EPISODE AIRED AUG 8, 2023 · THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE
CLAIM CMRGC3IXSTATUS: PUBLISHED
SUBJECT: COLLECTIBLES
Timestamp2:37:36
Aired
// 00 · ABSTRACT

The short answer

Post Malone says the card is from the Lord of the Rings Magic: The Gathering collaboration, that only one exists across all packs sold, and that a man in Toronto pulled it from a pack. Wizards of the Coast released a single serialized one-of-one The One Ring card in the June 2023 Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth crossover set, the first time a unique Magic: The Gathering card could be pulled from a booster pack.

RulingNeeds Context

Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.

// THE CLAIM · ON TAPE
So it's a Lord of the Rings Magic the Gathering collab they did and um there's only one of them there's only one card mhm there's only one of so out of all the boosters all the collector packs they sold that was the one and a guy in Toronto his name's Brooke
Post Malone@ 2:37:36
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What the evidence says 01 / RECORD

Wizards of the Coast released a single serialized one-of-one The One Ring card in the June 2023 Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth crossover set, the first time a unique Magic: The Gathering card could be pulled from a booster pack. The card was pulled from a collector booster in June 2023 by Brook Trafton, a retail worker in Toronto, and authenticated in mint condition by PSA. Trafton then sold it to Post Malone, a longtime Magic player, for a reported price around 2 million US dollars. Post Malone (who bought the card directly from Trafton) is recounting his own transaction, and every element (the LotR collaboration, the single one-of-one card, the Toronto finder named Brook) matches the reporting.

Correction
· Cosmetic ASR correction, audio-verified against YouTube captions: Published quote fabricated extra "only one" repeats (5x) and formatted Jamie's "mhm" as a separate Q&A turn ("There's only one card? Mm-hmm."); captions actually show 3 natural repeats spoken continuously by Rogan with "mhm" as an absorbed interjection, not a dialogue exchange. Corrected quote matches the deduped caption text verbatim (also fixes lowercase "toronto"/"brooke" to proper-noun caps as captioned).
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