This is an old story. Long ago, during Urza's Saga, Wizards printed Tolarian Academy. Shortly after Saga came out, Wizards banned the Academy from Standard and Block constructed (I can't remember if they banned it from extended). A lot of players complained, with good reason. The Academy was useless in limited, and illegal in most constructed formats. If you got one in a pack you basically didn't get a rare. A lot of people complained so Wizards set up an exchange program. If you mailed in an Academy, they'd send you an unopen pack of Saga. It sounded like a good deal, but a lot of work. You had to mail in each Academy and it seemed like a huge waste to mail them one or two at a time. Naturally, we decided to mail them in 36 at a time. We started trading for Academy's at our LGS. I can't remember how many we ended up with. They where so easy to trade for. People where more than willing to trade them off for next to nothing or throw them in on another trade just to sweeten the deal.

Here's where the story gets tragic. We never got around to sending them in. My buddies and I where getting burnt out on magic and we all sorta stopped playing right before the Masques block rotated in to standard (back when Dark Ritual was a standard staple and damage went on the stack, and stacks resolved in batches). I know you're probably thinking "That's good that you didn't send them in, they're worth a decent amount now" and you're right. The tragic part is that we gave them away one day. I think we had 30 of them but since we weren't gonna be playing for much longer none of us wanted to deal with the hassle of mailing them in, so we gave them all to some kid at our LGS. It made his day (we basically gave him 30 packs of Saga) so it wasn't all bad.