I won an auction for two Quinton Hoover signed cards, and I'm still not entirely sure what I paid for.
The pair: an Amrou Kithkin from Legends and a Nameless Race from The Dark. Both signed. Both illustrated by Hoover. Total damage: $150.
The plan — at least on paper — is to sell the Kithkin and use whatever it brings in to cover the cost of the lot. Signed Hoover cards have carried a premium ever since he passed in 2017, and the Kithkin is a card people actually know and look for. There are comps out there. It's findable. I feel reasonably okay about that half of the equation.
The Nameless Race, though? That's a different story entirely.
I've done my homework. I've searched everywhere I know to search. Completed sales? Nothing. The only trace I could find was a mention in a private Facebook group where someone simply called it "money" — no price, no context, just that. I also reached out to a contact in the autograph collecting world, and the word there was that it's a highly desirable piece specifically because so few were ever signed.
Which, honestly, tracks. The unsigned version barely clocks in above $4 at retail. It's a Reserve List card that nobody plays and few collect. But a signed copy from a deceased artist on a 30-year-old card with almost no market presence? That's not a $4 card. I just genuinely don't know what it is yet — and neither, apparently, does anyone else.
That's either exciting or terrifying. Probably both.
For now, I'm sitting on it. If the Kithkin covers the $150, then whatever the Nameless Race eventually brings is pure upside. I'd rather wait for the right buyer than take the first number someone throws at me on a card with no real comp to anchor against.
No listings anywhere. Just a couple of whispers that it might actually be significant.
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