The Magic: The Gathering Youtuber Tolarian Community College, also known as The Professor, has raised more than $400k for the non-profit Trans Lifeline, a peer support and crisis hotline that helps transgender people in America and Canada.
There’s still one day left before the fundraiser closes, and those who donate have the chance to win some awesome Magic themed prizes – especially since scores of other creators have tossed boxes and rare cards onto the giveaway pile.
The Professor began the fundraiser earlier this week, on February 12, releasing a video to raise awareness the following day. His initial plan was to give out a box of each Masters set, from Modern Masters to 2023’s Commander Masters, to ten lucky donors. These Masters MTG sets are reprint-stuffed collections that are traditionally characterized by high price tags, so it was a pretty great prize already.
But since then, the prize pool has swelled immeasurably, with what seems like every Magic influencer and content creator under the sun joining forces to add extra items that can be won by donors. In fact, there are now well over 100 prizes, from collector boxes, to playmats, to some seriously expensive MTG cards. Highlights include about six serialized cards – including a Cyclonic Rift!
We should explain, quickly, how this giveaway works. Each $4 donated gets you one virtual raffle ticket in this ever-growing prize draw, so the higher the donation, the greater the chance of winning something.
The Professor shouted out many creators in his video on February 13, but since then plenty more goodies have been added. The most up-to-date list is found in a social media comment left by The Professor, which we’ve reproduced for you here:
- 10 People To Receive 1 Sealed Masters Box
- 6 People To Each Receive 1 Innistrad Remastered Play Booster Box
Additional Donors To Receive The Following:
- Throne of Eldraine Booster Box
- Commander Legends Baldur’s Gate Collector Booster Box
- Set of sealed Warhammer Commander Decks
- Reap The Tides EDH deck and a Quiver Nexus deck block
- Sealed box of RTR
- Mana Crypt (MB1), The One Ring (LTR 246), Sword of Light and Shadow (Invention), and a Mystery Booster 2 booster box
- JP nonfoil Winter Diva Hatsune Miku secret lair
- Innistrad Remastered Box
- Collector Box of Zendikar Rising x3
- Draft Box of Commander Masters
- Graded Mana Confluence
- Two playmats, a Living Energy precon and a Lil Legends SL
- Game Shell XL x7
- SidekickPRO
- 2 XL Bastions
- Squire PLUS
- 3 Cube Pockets
- Dungeon (GameGenic) Card Storage
- The Academic XL
- Infinitokens Ultimate Bundle x2
- Grand Larceny precon
- Italian legends booster pack
- Revised Counterspell signed by Mark Poole
- Secret Lair Karlach’s Rage
- Chaos Draft Set
- Pixel Snow Lands Secret Lair
- Metal Oversized Darkstar Augur
- Judge Foil Phyrexian OG Elesh Norn
- 24 Vegas Festival in a Box
- Revised Volcanic Island
- Revised Underground Sea
- 313 Serialized Cyclonic Rift
- Sealed Box Bloomburrow Play Boosters
- Asst. Box Toppers, Boosties, Neon Yellow Cavern of Souls
- Vesuva, Yoshimaru, Arlinn, Ryusei; Asst YuGiOh Cards, AFR Booster Packs, Welcome to Dungeon Game
- Foil Phyrexian Sheoldred Apoc & Oil Slick Elesh MoM
- SL 30th Anniversary Countdown Kit
- 2 Dr. Who Commander Decks + Chaos Draft
- 10 Packs DragonShield Sleeves x10
- MagicCon Chicago Exclusive Fallout Playmat
- Commander Legends Battle of Baldur’s Gate Set Booster Box and a Sheldon’s Spellbook Secret Lair
- 1 of each AFR commander deck
- Leather Playmat, Gilded Foil Atraxa, Serialized Seal of the Guilpact, and foil Everybody Lives!
- Wilds of Eldraine set booster box
- Dominaria Remastered Draft Box
- A box of Conspiracy 2
- Playset of signed Blood Moons
- 4 Serialized Cards
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail Vol. 1 Secret Lair
- Khans of Tarkir Box
- Foil copy of the Bob Ross secret lair
- Flesh and Blood Dash Armory Deck
- The Dark and Fallen Empires Pack
- Signed Raiyuu Storm’s Edge and a Signed Cookout Playmat
- Eternal Might, Paradox Power, Ruthless Regiment Precons
- Sealed Dr Who secret lair
- Magar of the Hidden Strings deck
- Deep Clue Sea Commander precon
- Set of 4 Altered Cards
- MagicCon Vegas 2024 Playmat and a Sheldons Spellbook Secret Lair
- Astarion Secret Lair
- 1x Foil Mana Drain from Double Masters, 1x of each Marvel Secret Lair!
- Aetherdrift Play Booster box
- Signed CGB playmat, Sheoldred foil Phyrexian, Llanowar Elves Japanese Foil, Liliana of the Veil foil ptq promp
- Collector Booster Box x10
Good gravy!
Tolarian Community College has been running annual fundraisers for Trans Lifeline for several years, and it appears that in the last two his donation drives generated between 5-10% of the organization’s annual revenue.
But this is looking like the most successful money-maker yet. The 2024 campaign made $418,000 and the current fundraiser is fast approaching that figure, with more than 24 hours left on the clock!
It’s a heart warming show of support from the Magic community – both creators and fans – during what has obviously been a stressful and worrying month for many. It also comes just a week after Magic’s head designer Mark Rosewater reasserted Wizards of the Coast’s commitment to representation, in a very polite and professional rebuttal to a comment on his blog.
The Tolarian Community College Trans Lifeline fundraiser comes to a close on February 15, 9am PST.
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Source: Wargamer
