Thieves in Indiana walked out of a gaming convention with a pallet of Magic: The Gathering cards worth more than $300,000

• Police say someone stole more than $300,000 worth of gaming cards from Gen Con, a tabletop gaming convention.
• The Magic: The Gathering sets that were stolen sell for $300 to $400 a piece, according to Kotaku.

Two people in Indiana walked out of a gaming convention pulling a pallet carrying more than $300,000 worth of Magic: The Gathering cards in broad daylight, police said.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that the theft took place at Gen Con, an annual tabletop gaming convention, before the event was set to open on August 2.

Gen Con is a massive convention that attracted more than 70,000 visitors this year and had an estimated economic impact of $75 million on the economy of Indianapolis, according to a local NBC affiliate.

According to police, the two people took a "pallet jack" from the venue where Gen Con was being held and loaded it with $300,000 worth of "gaming cards" before walking with it out of the venue. The police department's statement was accompanied by five photos of the two suspects, one of which shows the two people pulling a dollie with several boxes stacked on top of it.

The cards were initially believed to be from the highly anticipated Disney Lorcana card game which is scheduled for release on August 18, but were later determined to be cards from Magic: The Gathering, according to Kotaku.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on Thursday, but the department told Kotaku that it has not identified the suspects and that the theft case is "still active."

Pastimes Comics & Games, the retailer which the cards were stolen from, said on Facebook that most of the cards stolen were Commander Masters Set and Collector Boosters. The card sets typically sell at retail for $300 to $400 and usually contain multiple rare cards, Kotaku reported.

Magic: The Gathering also made headlines last week when artist Post Malone bought the one-of-a-kind "One Ring" card from a "Lord of the Rings" crossover off a TikToker who found it in a deck of cards he bought. Malone paid $2 million for the card, making it the most expensive Magic card in existence and outdoing a Black Lotus card that Malone purchased last year for $800,000.