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　　The /r/Dota2trade subreddit broke internal records today by a large margin when its user PAADA sold his ethereal flame pink War Dog dog for $38,000. The buyout price was met by a user named July who used another Redditor named silentboycd representing him.

　　Over in /r/dota2 a user named ColtonisWright explained why the War Dog was worth what it was. He noted, "Legacy couriers are a term coined for couriers opened within the first few weeks of unusuals being able to be unboxed. These couriers could come in many different effects, ethereal flame being the most sought after." He went on to add that the originally couriers could cover the entire color spectrum using RGB values from 0 - 255. Eventually black couriers started appearing and causing bugs, so Valve patched and limited the them to ten preset colors.

　　ColtonisWright finished, "The Wardog is the most sought after courier type, ethereal flame is the most sought after effect, and the shade of pink is very sought after. This combination makes it extremely rare, and one of a kind. There are only 4 other known pink ethereal flame wardogs."

　　Photo Credit: Reddit's PAADA