A DAD-of-two is hoping that his giant collection of Pokémon cards is going to see him quids in at auction.
Gordon White, 58, has been hoarding the rare trading cards for 16 years and has amassed thousands.
The delivery driver from Livingston, Scotland, started his obsession after his children asked to join a Pokémon league.
He has already cashed in by selling half of his collection, which fetched a whopping £200,000 when it went under the hammer in November last year.
And now Mr White is hoping to rake in an additional £60,000 by flogging the rest of his 'treasure trove' of Magic: The Gathering cards.
Magic: The Gathering – know as just 'Magic' or MTG – is considered the very first trading card game which pre-dates Pokémon and was a forerunner of the genre.
It was released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast and is since believed to have been played by at least 35 million people.
The collection will be sold by Richard Winterton Auctioneers in Lichfield, Staffs, in an online auction.
Mr White said he decided to part with his massive hoard of trading cards after realising it was finally time to quit playing the game after 16 years.
He said: "For me, the fun is the completing, not the collecting.
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"And as far as I'm concerned, I've completed it so it's time to pass it all on."
Dad-of-two Gordon first began amassing Magic: The Gathering cards as well as those from the popular Pokémon Nintendo franchise in 1998.
They featured sealed booster boxes, first editions, promotional cards, ones showing rare errors along with rare cards handed out to staff at Pokémon tournaments.
Over the years, he has ran a Pokémon league and has acted as a judge in UK events while 'mixing with the highest echelons in the Pokémon world.'
Auctioneer Richard Winterton said Magic: The Gathering cards would also be as highly sought after by collectors as it was a 'landmark' in trading card games.
He added: "Magic is the first trading card of its type where you collected cards and then sent them off to do battle.
"It's an absolute landmark in the early days of trading cards.
"Wizards Of The Coast became a big name from Magic: The Gathering.
"It was after Magic that Wizards Of The Coast got the licence to do Pokémon for the west.
"This is the first time we've had full sets of Magic: The Gathering.
"A collection of this magnitude does not come up for auction very often.
"Gordon initially chose to sell his collection through us as he saw how we had marketed other important Pokémon collections and the team has been painstaking in their attention to detail cataloguing these incredible cards."
Highlights of the auction are said to include a Magic: The Gathering Seventh Edition foil set in excellent to mint condition, estimated to fetch up to £10,000.
Other Magic foil variant sets include the complete Urza's Legacy with the Beast of Burden set to fetch between £3,000-£4,000.
The auction also features highly collectable Pokémon set to sell for thousands of pounds.
When it pays off, selling things at auction could appear like a quick way to make a few quid, but it does come with some risks.
It is very much a gamble on the day, and depends how valuable your item is to the bidder, and if the right person is there on the right day.
If more than one person is bidding on your item you could get lucky and get the asking price or higher.
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However there is also the chance that your item may not sell at all.
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