Surprising no one, the most valuable card from Alpha is the Black Lotus. Similar to the Mox artifacts, Black Lotus costs zero mana, so you can play it on your first turn along side a land, ...

An Alpha print of Black Lotus, a rare Magic: The Gathering card, has broken the record for the most expensive Magic card ever, selling for $3 million.

Magic’s most valuable card, the Black Lotus, is up for auction again. The Gem Mint 10-graded card is signed by the artist and could easily go for more than $500,000.

The Black Lotus card dates back to the first Alpha printing of Magic: The Gathering in 1993. Not only is it a rare card — only about 1,100 were printed — it’s a powerful one.

American Express <AXP.N> and Dutch-Belgian bank Fortis <FOR.BR> won permission from EU competition regulators on Friday to modify the existing joint venture Alpha Card into a full-function joint ...