Gaming Trading Cards Valued at $300,000 Stolen during Gen Con 2023 by Thieves

A pair of thieves waltzed into Gen Con 2023 and stole as much as
$300,000 of gaming cards in Indianapolis (via
IndyStar).

The cards, which were sitting in boxes on a pallet, were stolen using a pallet jack while vendors were setting up for the
long-running yearly gaming convention that
Dungeons and Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax started.

As for what cards were taken, that’s unknown.
IndyStar reported that a worker at a local Indianapolis board game store thought the packaging resembled that of
Magic: the Gathering,
Pokémon Trading Card Game, and the unreleased
Disney Lorcana. Ravensberger, the company that makes
Disney Lorcana, tweeted that
all of its product is accounted for. Convention-goers waited for
as much as 16 hours for the card game, which Ravensberger used Gen Con 2023 as a pre-release venue for.

Indianapolis Police issued a pair of tweets Friday and Saturday asking for help from the public in identifying two people
caught on surveillance video taking the pallet:

This isn’t the only recent card game theft in the Indianapolis area. In May, local media reported a thief broke into a gaming store in Indianapolis suburb Brownsburg and shoved an estimated $15,000 worth of Magic: the Gathering cards
into a pizza delivery bag.