It's insane how much fast mana existed and was legal back then. Nowadays you'd probably just do everything find a way to end the game either that turn or the next turn. But back then "everything" is mostly "play a big dude" or "play a big spell" and pass. Truly just a different era
I mean, legacy Stompy decks are still a thing (and a powerful one at that). Slamming Sheoldred the Apocalypse or an Initiative card on turn 1 often wins games
The powerful effects and fast mana broke the format on several occasions, but it also resulted in some of the most original and interesting gameplay at the same time. When they slammed on the brakes in Mercadian Masques and the Urza block stuff rotated out, standard was changed, with Mercenaries and Rebels taking over as more creature based decks. I started playing more competatively at the tail end of this, during Invasion block, when drafting started to be a thing. We had these grinding 2-for-1 style effects in standard, I hope we get to see some of this in future videos.
We used to buy all these World Champ decks back in middle school and pit them against each other. Everybody always wanted to play with the Wildfire artifact deck. I wish WotC would bring these precons back. They were great for kids with no money that still wanted a taste of true power.
It's what they should do instead of challenger decks. Just full decks for 35$ on lgs shelfs for everyone to walk in and buy they want to revitalize standard that's how you do it.
also hit gold from that viewer who gave them like 300-500 dollars worth of decks. Many of those championship decks have cards worth $10-60 EVEN in gold border.
I absolutely love this - and it is so fun seeing how much Frank clearly loves reminiscing about the old days of Magic. This was a fun match - especially with the opening turn 1's, haha!
Living in a small city in Brazil, this exact black deck was the only contact to meta MTG that I had back in 2000. That`s when I realized those dark ritual cards that I had a bunch of were actually good. I only have a Yawgmoth`s Will today, because I traded for one back in the day after seeing it on this deck. Fun times!
I have a ton of respect for the Brazilian magic community. Card availability and pricing has been an issue for you guys for what seems like the entire magic history. Still, you produced some of the best pro-players in the world and set a standard for how well magic can be played.
That is really cool, as he also used game math and statistics in his own scientific work (He has a PhD if I am not mistaken) it's fun to see that such things can be used by others as well
Frank Karsten is an absolute icon to me...and I barely saw him during his pro career! His statistical analysis of the game is second to none. His articulate analytical mind comes across just as well in his play.
As someone who usually just watches Arena gameplay this was an amazing change of pace! It was great seeing you play Worlds' decks and Frank Karster contextualizes and explains everything so well, it's a pleasure to watch him pilot a deck, hope to keep seeing him! And please do keep making these old school deck showcases!!
Commenting for the algorithm because I love these videos. I wish I could have played Magic back then. These meta seems so much more interesting than the borderline non-games we get to see in competitive Magic today.
That Wildfire opener showing why old artifacts were so crazy. My Jhoira cedh deck still loves Monolith (Grim or Basalt) + Key (Voltaic or Manifold) to this day.
Oh man that game one was such a treat. Urza’s block was truly a magical time to be an MTG player. I wish I were born sooner to be able to experience it. Can you imagine a modern day standard format having such iconic and game warping cards and yet still somehow being somewhat balanced?
Oh man, the memories. This was around the time when I was playing Magic the most as a kid. Between 1998-2004/5 or so. Middle school through high school. Seeing Yawgmoth's Will there was nostalgic.
Near the end, when activating Masticore to kill the rats before having to sacrifice it, Jamin used the dinamo to add 3 mana and used 2 on the Masticore's ability, so he should of taken one mana burn damage, right? Didn't mattered at the end but it's fun to imagine how these wild mecanics used to work in the ancient times XD Really nice games, really fun to watch and probably to play too
FFS THAT was Magic. I was in high school at that time and Mono brown Wildfire was the first competitive deck I tried to build (by trading and pack opening because of course there was no online shopping so I never finished it). The feeling of making a ton of mana and blowing up everything during class breaks was incredible even with my incomplete version of the deck... I don't care if I sound like an old fart yelling at the clouds, the feeling and atmosphere and whimsy that MTG had in those days will never again be replicated... Certainly not while Hasbro has its dirty claws all over the game.
I think the concept of mana burn was the idea of a planeswalker over committing. You are drawing on to much power. If you had a card that didn't empty mana between phases, you wouldn't take mana burn, but that was relatively rare.
This video has almost everything I enjoy in magic: A knowledgable pro-player that I respect, extremely interesting and powerful decks with cards that are both nostalgic and fun to play, coupled with an extremely professionally edited video, going into a bit of the story behind those decks. Despite playing Magic at the time, I was too young and not seriously invested enough in the game, when these decks were featured in the World Championship. But I did have cards from this time and played often. It is really fun seeing these back in decks that were more streamlined and powerful than my budget homebrews. Seriously, I like seeing Frank in these videos, he adds some depth to the video and as a player that has experienced some of these older formats it makes total sense to have him. A sharp mind, excellent at explaining complex concepts (verbally or in written form) and a very chill and likeable personality that works well with the fun guys from the Cardmarket channel. Thanks a lot for posting, hopefully there is more to come!
Both decks have pretty amazing comeback potential. Outside of cube, we rarely get to play these kinds of powerful effects nowadays. It is extremely hard to balance, but it makes for amazing gameplay. Being so extremely fast, it is more akin to a Yu-gi-oh style of play, but also the potential to have grinding late game matches that are mostly seen in Magic. I love early magic and these decks in particular come from a time that magic exploded with powerful effects and new interactions, paving the way for later things to come.
LOL - you guys crack me up. I started playing magic when it first came out in EARLY 90's. I always loved mono black. In 1995 my deck consisted of: 4 Brain Maggots, 4 Hypnotic Specters, 4 Mindstab Thrulls, 4 NIghtmares, 4 Abyssal NIghtstakers, 4 Terrors, 4 Dark Rituals, 4 Millstones, 2 No Mercy, 2 Leech, 2 Black Lotus and the rest black mana. (4 Sengir Vampires and 2 Lord of the Void) were backup cards. As you can see, my opponent was discarding cards every turn.
I’ve been playing Magic for 30 years. That’s crazy to think about. I remember getting packs of Alpha (or just “Magic” then) and hanging out opening up packs in homeroom. The era of Saga was so much fun.
this is gloriously nostalgic for me. I started playing around 4th ed/Ice Age so seeing this time capsule of my most active time playing magic is so fun. Currently trying to dip my toes back into the game with pauper, cube and commander but the amount of product that has been added to the game it's really overwhelming to try and see what still holds up or what has been power crept into the world of chaff.
Pauper is a format that feels a lot like old Magic :) I'd also recommend pre-modern if you can find people to play with! And cube will always be great. I wish you a lot of fun!
I think there was a stat at some point, that though he didn't win all the pro tours he played in, if he got to the top 8 he won the event, every time. I guess that stat broke at some point but it was true for far far longer than should have been possible. (I checked the history, for Worlds and Pro tour events from 1999-2003 he made top 8 nine times and won eight of those events!)
I love how Frank explains how stuff used to be back then. I would love him to show a deck with Rhystic Study from the old days and explain about that card when it got released
It's always great to see Frank Karsten! Those games were sweet!! If it's possible I'd love to see videos like this being best of 5, it's so fun to watch these old decks!
Unfortunately we cannot make these best of five. These videos already take half a week to make, making them longer would mean we would have to post less videos in general
wow, what a nostalgic game to watch. brought me back to my first games in magic and the mastering os the stack rules with combat damage! i was playing with my pile cards with my friends of childhood! sooooo many good feelings throughtout the video! thank you, guys!
What a fun video! I love revisiting old decks like this. I would love to see more of these. Wildfire in particular is a favorite deck of mine. I've tried to make it work in a number of formats. My favorite was a modern version using that 7 mana wildfire, some other mild land destruction, and planeswalkers. Another way to dodge mana burn is with Grim Monolith - each tap-untap cycle drains one mana!
Love to see Frank again, always a joy to watch him play and talk about magic. Also, shoutout to cardmarket for making sure we understand manaburn and damage on the stack😊
Just showing the matches would've be great "classic mMagic" gameplay footage. But you went over the top again by explaining the old rules and context via the interviews. And you invited Frank Karsten for this, who may be the single best conversationalist when it comes to talk about playing Magic. As we say in Germany, this video is a "absoluter Hammer!" Can't wait to see the rest of the series. Thank you so much!
When I just got into Magic we still played with damage on the stack. It made my beloved sacrifice/dredge decks absolutely bananas, it was awesome. Keep up the great work, this video was fantastic 🥳
Huzzah for more historical games! I think this match really showcased how much value there is in backing up raw power with recovery. While Red Artifact Wildfire obviously had a board state with all its artifacts, it was still able to recover very quickly from no creatures/no lands. And Mono Black Control came within spitting distance of a win from a no permanents position!
Yessss. Please give us more of what my friends and i use to describe as the era of 'silly magic'. I am _all_ for it. And frank is a pretty chill dude :D
I don't even play Magic anymore because of the cost, but I did back in the 90s and 2000s - seeing these pop back up hit me like a brick right in the nostalgia. Good stuff!
Man, I could watch Frank reminisce about the olden days for hours. The gameplay was also great this match. I love your "history of magic" videos like this one.
Man...this series brings so much back to high school tournaments, with me playing R/G scryb sprites and grizzly bears+lightning bolt/giant growth, against U/R counterspell, earthquake, fire & water elemental decks
Frank's insights into these relics of the past is wonderful :3 It really helps explain why certain rule differences make a large impact, especially if the current decks might not get to show something off (although that was no issue in these matches).
This brings back memories :D - i was so shocked after getting back to magic that they removed damage from stack and most of my friends still joke about mana burn.
I remember playing Kai Budde's deck at a standard tournament in 1999 as a 13 year old and winning 1st place. Won a booster box of Urza's Destiny!!!!! Still probably my favorite deck of all time despite commander being a thing now. Thanks Kai for the deck :)
Jakub Slemr is back! Creator of 5C Control from recent “the best deck of all time” videos. 😊 His Black Control from 1999 standard was so powerfull that it was basically played in Extended too only with like 4 different cards in main 60 for very short time (until the Will and Ritual got banned). I cannot imagine basically bringing Standard deck to Modern and compete on the highest level. But that is how good was this Monoblack Control. ☺️ Thank you for the video! I am huge fan of your work guys! ☺️🤝
Masticore is a 4 mana artifact that does a bunch of different things and was considered broken, was played in most decks, but lost in the finals to a deck without it. Truly some things never change.
Frank is a very chill, knowledgeable, dude; keep inviting him!
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Ye more Frank please
We filmed a whole series of these with Frank. 5 in total. And if they do well we plan to invite him back for more :)
+1 for frank fuckin Karsten. thanks so much for making content with him.
He is absolutley right
It's insane how much fast mana existed and was legal back then. Nowadays you'd probably just do everything find a way to end the game either that turn or the next turn. But back then "everything" is mostly "play a big dude" or "play a big spell" and pass. Truly just a different era
Tempest/Urza block Type 2 (Standard) was SO FAST. Mercadian Masques really slammed on the brakes after all the combo nonsense took over.
I mean, legacy Stompy decks are still a thing (and a powerful one at that). Slamming Sheoldred the Apocalypse or an Initiative card on turn 1 often wins games
The powerful effects and fast mana broke the format on several occasions, but it also resulted in some of the most original and interesting gameplay at the same time. When they slammed on the brakes in Mercadian Masques and the Urza block stuff rotated out, standard was changed, with Mercenaries and Rebels taking over as more creature based decks.
I started playing more competatively at the tail end of this, during Invasion block, when drafting started to be a thing. We had these grinding 2-for-1 style effects in standard, I hope we get to see some of this in future videos.
To be fair the 6-drops back then were also less scary than today's 1 and 2 drops .. 😂
@@user-od3yc8mr6w yoooo so many damn ETBs
This first game was wild.
"I will follow up my turn 1 5/5 with an 2 mana 1/1."
Magic back than was Something else.
We used to buy all these World Champ decks back in middle school and pit them against each other. Everybody always wanted to play with the Wildfire artifact deck.
I wish WotC would bring these precons back. They were great for kids with no money that still wanted a taste of true power.
They did that with 30th Anniversary boosters
@@Fallerisyou mean the $1,500 proxies? Yeah nobody bought those
@@Falleris No.
Would be even better if they were black border reprints
It's what they should do instead of challenger decks. Just full decks for 35$ on lgs shelfs for everyone to walk in and buy they want to revitalize standard that's how you do it.
Uncle Frank and his 2 nephews sitting down for some story time magic.
Oh boy its a series with Frank Karsten, this is awesome.
You guys have really hit gold with this series, informative for younger players but nostalgic for us elderly.
also hit gold from that viewer who gave them like 300-500 dollars worth of decks. Many of those championship decks have cards worth $10-60 EVEN in gold border.
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I absolutely love this - and it is so fun seeing how much Frank clearly loves reminiscing about the old days of Magic. This was a fun match - especially with the opening turn 1's, haha!
Living in a small city in Brazil, this exact black deck was the only contact to meta MTG that I had back in 2000. That`s when I realized those dark ritual cards that I had a bunch of were actually good. I only have a Yawgmoth`s Will today, because I traded for one back in the day after seeing it on this deck. Fun times!
I have a ton of respect for the Brazilian magic community. Card availability and pricing has been an issue for you guys for what seems like the entire magic history. Still, you produced some of the best pro-players in the world and set a standard for how well magic can be played.
god, the amount of editing work gone into this with the cards in hand having hard corners and the manaburn animation. I'm loving it!
I love Frank Carsten. I made my bacholor's thesis with his articles about probability in card games.
That is really cool, as he also used game math and statistics in his own scientific work (He has a PhD if I am not mistaken) it's fun to see that such things can be used by others as well
Love that the graphics displaying the hands are using the old card frame. Immediately aesthetically pleasing. Shoutout to whoever did that.
This became instantaneously my fav series. It's just great to have Frank giving background story and then the games were just insane! Please do more!!
Frank Karsten is an absolute icon to me...and I barely saw him during his pro career! His statistical analysis of the game is second to none. His articulate analytical mind comes across just as well in his play.
That start is why I loved old school artifact decks
As someone who usually just watches Arena gameplay this was an amazing change of pace!
It was great seeing you play Worlds' decks and Frank Karster contextualizes and explains everything so well, it's a pleasure to watch him pilot a deck, hope to keep seeing him!
And please do keep making these old school deck showcases!!
Commenting for the algorithm because I love these videos. I wish I could have played Magic back then. These meta seems so much more interesting than the borderline non-games we get to see in competitive Magic today.
That Wildfire opener showing why old artifacts were so crazy. My Jhoira cedh deck still loves Monolith (Grim or Basalt) + Key (Voltaic or Manifold) to this day.
Oh man that game one was such a treat. Urza’s block was truly a magical time to be an MTG player. I wish I were born sooner to be able to experience it. Can you imagine a modern day standard format having such iconic and game warping cards and yet still somehow being somewhat balanced?
"You mean unaffected by summoning sickness." lol fun watch. These old decks and era of mtg is something special
Oh man, the memories. This was around the time when I was playing Magic the most as a kid. Between 1998-2004/5 or so. Middle school through high school. Seeing Yawgmoth's Will there was nostalgic.
21:30 Frank really felt like a kid again after that, that was such a genuine reaction
Near the end, when activating Masticore to kill the rats before having to sacrifice it, Jamin used the dinamo to add 3 mana and used 2 on the Masticore's ability, so he should of taken one mana burn damage, right? Didn't mattered at the end but it's fun to imagine how these wild mecanics used to work in the ancient times XD
Really nice games, really fun to watch and probably to play too
FFS THAT was Magic. I was in high school at that time and Mono brown Wildfire was the first competitive deck I tried to build (by trading and pack opening because of course there was no online shopping so I never finished it). The feeling of making a ton of mana and blowing up everything during class breaks was incredible even with my incomplete version of the deck... I don't care if I sound like an old fart yelling at the clouds, the feeling and atmosphere and whimsy that MTG had in those days will never again be replicated... Certainly not while Hasbro has its dirty claws all over the game.
If you by chance wanna go back to that classic MtG felling there is a format called Premodern that only contains cards from 4th to Scourge.
I think the concept of mana burn was the idea of a planeswalker over committing. You are drawing on to much power. If you had a card that didn't empty mana between phases, you wouldn't take mana burn, but that was relatively rare.
It makes a lot of narrative sense as well given how insanely powerful oldwalkers were as well pre mending
Temporal Aperture is one of my all time favourite cards. It's always an auto include in my commander decks.
Recently I've been watching a lot of Magic videos. This was the one I enjoyed the most.
The first game was insane. Its like cube/edh/vintage.
Love watching old magic being played.
Frank is awesome. Its very cool to see these older games, still explosive but in very different ways.
This video has almost everything I enjoy in magic: A knowledgable pro-player that I respect, extremely interesting and powerful decks with cards that are both nostalgic and fun to play, coupled with an extremely professionally edited video, going into a bit of the story behind those decks.
Despite playing Magic at the time, I was too young and not seriously invested enough in the game, when these decks were featured in the World Championship. But I did have cards from this time and played often. It is really fun seeing these back in decks that were more streamlined and powerful than my budget homebrews.
Seriously, I like seeing Frank in these videos, he adds some depth to the video and as a player that has experienced some of these older formats it makes total sense to have him. A sharp mind, excellent at explaining complex concepts (verbally or in written form) and a very chill and likeable personality that works well with the fun guys from the Cardmarket channel.
Thanks a lot for posting, hopefully there is more to come!
I'm really happy you enjoyed it :) we are indeed hoping to do one of these with Frank for every year
@@CardmarketMagic Sweet!
These decks look so fun, it feels like any player can just turn around the game in a moment! Like with Yawg's Will after Wildfire.
Both decks have pretty amazing comeback potential. Outside of cube, we rarely get to play these kinds of powerful effects nowadays. It is extremely hard to balance, but it makes for amazing gameplay. Being so extremely fast, it is more akin to a Yu-gi-oh style of play, but also the potential to have grinding late game matches that are mostly seen in Magic.
I love early magic and these decks in particular come from a time that magic exploded with powerful effects and new interactions, paving the way for later things to come.
Wow Magic was very fun in the old days!
I haven't heard "damage on the stack" in so long. It brought back Mogg Fanatic flashbacks.
Love the frequency of Cardmarket videos lately ❤️
Gameplay and game history are great to watch here. Gotta watch it again to soak it up. 👍
Love this new series you guys are doing. I hope you will continue to the 2004 Championship decks.
LOL - you guys crack me up. I started playing magic when it first came out in EARLY 90's. I always loved mono black. In 1995 my deck consisted of: 4 Brain Maggots, 4 Hypnotic Specters, 4 Mindstab Thrulls, 4 NIghtmares, 4 Abyssal NIghtstakers, 4 Terrors, 4 Dark Rituals, 4 Millstones, 2 No Mercy, 2 Leech, 2 Black Lotus and the rest black mana. (4 Sengir Vampires and 2 Lord of the Void) were backup cards. As you can see, my opponent was discarding cards every turn.
I’ve been playing Magic for 30 years. That’s crazy to think about. I remember getting packs of Alpha (or just “Magic” then) and hanging out opening up packs in homeroom.
The era of Saga was so much fun.
That tutor at the end could have changed everything if Frank had just one more HP left. Man, I really wanted to see this continue. Awesome match!
this is gloriously nostalgic for me. I started playing around 4th ed/Ice Age so seeing this time capsule of my most active time playing magic is so fun. Currently trying to dip my toes back into the game with pauper, cube and commander but the amount of product that has been added to the game it's really overwhelming to try and see what still holds up or what has been power crept into the world of chaff.
Pauper is a format that feels a lot like old Magic :) I'd also recommend pre-modern if you can find people to play with! And cube will always be great. I wish you a lot of fun!
This serie is a tremendous add to an already stellar channel ! Keep up !
Frank Karsten is the man, you gotta keep inviting him!
That was a lot of fun! Please keep it going! :)
Nice! Another Flashback episode. These are always a super interesting watch.
That person who sent in those decks are MOST MVP!
I've always loved the story of Kai causing someone to literally eat their hat. There's a full article with photos somewhere out there, what a story!
I think there was a stat at some point, that though he didn't win all the pro tours he played in, if he got to the top 8 he won the event, every time. I guess that stat broke at some point but it was true for far far longer than should have been possible. (I checked the history, for Worlds and Pro tour events from 1999-2003 he made top 8 nine times and won eight of those events!)
It was fun watching mono black beatdown vs mono red control
I love how Frank explains how stuff used to be back then.
I would love him to show a deck with Rhystic Study from the old days and explain about that card when it got released
It's always great to see Frank Karsten! Those games were sweet!! If it's possible I'd love to see videos like this being best of 5, it's so fun to watch these old decks!
Unfortunately we cannot make these best of five. These videos already take half a week to make, making them longer would mean we would have to post less videos in general
This is really cool. I'm a big fan of Frank as a guest. Love this type of video and would love to see more decks from MTG's past!
wow, what a nostalgic game to watch. brought me back to my first games in magic and the mastering os the stack rules with combat damage! i was playing with my pile cards with my friends of childhood! sooooo many good feelings throughtout the video! thank you, guys!
That first game was one of the coolest magic games I’ve ever seen
What a fun video! I love revisiting old decks like this. I would love to see more of these.
Wildfire in particular is a favorite deck of mine. I've tried to make it work in a number of formats. My favorite was a modern version using that 7 mana wildfire, some other mild land destruction, and planeswalkers.
Another way to dodge mana burn is with Grim Monolith - each tap-untap cycle drains one mana!
what an absolute blast - magic at its purest, back then when control decks were actually fun
Love to see Frank again, always a joy to watch him play and talk about magic.
Also, shoutout to cardmarket for making sure we understand manaburn and damage on the stack😊
We in the Premodern community thank you guys for the content.
i had the time of my life watching those matches!!! thank you for the flashback
Just showing the matches would've be great "classic mMagic" gameplay footage. But you went over the top again by explaining the old rules and context via the interviews. And you invited Frank Karsten for this, who may be the single best conversationalist when it comes to talk about playing Magic. As we say in Germany, this video is a "absoluter Hammer!" Can't wait to see the rest of the series. Thank you so much!
That was a lot of fun! Thanks for explaining about the old rules, too!
When I just got into Magic we still played with damage on the stack. It made my beloved sacrifice/dredge decks absolutely bananas, it was awesome.
Keep up the great work, this video was fantastic 🥳
Huzzah for more historical games!
I think this match really showcased how much value there is in backing up raw power with recovery. While Red Artifact Wildfire obviously had a board state with all its artifacts, it was still able to recover very quickly from no creatures/no lands. And Mono Black Control came within spitting distance of a win from a no permanents position!
This series + Best deck series are both chef's kiss, incredible work cardmarket team!
Frank was awesome on Staple or Stinker, always glad to see him!
This series of videos has been an amazing trip down memory lane. Thank you for that and most definitely keep them coming.
That YawgWill turn was ridiculous...
The video title says it all
I'm digging the hell out of this historic stuff, especially the gameplay!
Thank you!
Greatly enjoy this series. I loved the World Champ decks from back in the day. It's sad they don't still do them.
Yessss. Please give us more of what my friends and i use to describe as the era of 'silly magic'.
I am _all_ for it. And frank is a pretty chill dude :D
I don't even play Magic anymore because of the cost, but I did back in the 90s and 2000s - seeing these pop back up hit me like a brick right in the nostalgia. Good stuff!
Man, I could watch Frank reminisce about the olden days for hours. The gameplay was also great this match. I love your "history of magic" videos like this one.
Something like a podcast would work, I hope he considers it.
I love these videos of old school magic, mostly because it’s the magic I remember (but definitely didn’t understand) from my elementary school days!
Man...this series brings so much back to high school tournaments, with me playing R/G scryb sprites and grizzly bears+lightning bolt/giant growth, against U/R counterspell, earthquake, fire & water elemental decks
I love Frank Kirsten and this channel is quickly becoming my top favorite mtg channel! Awesome, please keep it up!
Loving this series! Greetings from México!
Hola! :)
Kais budde was my first deck ever. I really loved it, to me is one of the best decks ever in history of magic. It goes soo smooth
Love it when Frank is on! I never enjoyed history so much 😅
Best mtg channel on UA-cam. Been watching since the beginning.
Nice video!
It filled my evening with chill atmosphere and some positive retro vibe, so I felt that I’d like to play MTG with my family again)
Frank's insights into these relics of the past is wonderful :3 It really helps explain why certain rule differences make a large impact, especially if the current decks might not get to show something off (although that was no issue in these matches).
I’m a magic zoomer but, despite not ever being a thing in my time, mono black control is one of my favorite archetypes
My favorite graveyard-order card has always been Volrath's Shapeshifter. That card is hilarious.
I started playing around that year and I even have one golded card but I never knew how competitive Magic was back then. This is awesome!
I would love to see more Legacy content, even if it's legacy standard like this, or legacy legacy.
Amazing “back in the days” serie, thanks for this!
I LOVE the HUD, it's so good!
I havent played a game of magic since 2006 - but this was awesome to watch!
Thanks for the edited and explained game play. :-)
This brings back memories :D - i was so shocked after getting back to magic that they removed damage from stack and most of my friends still joke about mana burn.
Great video, brings me back, with that said, go further back!
We plan to do one of these for every year :)
I remember playing Kai Budde's deck at a standard tournament in 1999 as a 13 year old and winning 1st place. Won a booster box of Urza's Destiny!!!!! Still probably my favorite deck of all time despite commander being a thing now. Thanks Kai for the deck :)
Jakub Slemr is back! Creator of 5C Control from recent “the best deck of all time” videos. 😊 His Black Control from 1999 standard was so powerfull that it was basically played in Extended too only with like 4 different cards in main 60 for very short time (until the Will and Ritual got banned). I cannot imagine basically bringing Standard deck to Modern and compete on the highest level. But that is how good was this Monoblack Control. ☺️ Thank you for the video! I am huge fan of your work guys! ☺️🤝
I love all of your videos, they are just so entertaining!
I'm happy you enjoy them :) we put a lot of effort into them
Must have been laundry day for Jamin. Love the content!
I love these old magic videos, it show how at the very same time it was much more powerful and hilariously underpowered at the same time!
Old Magic had a different feel to it. Miss those days.
that was an amazing journey back to my high school / college days !
Keep doing these. These are so much fun!
The plan is to hopefully do one of these for every year :)
The golden years of Magic.
Masticore is a 4 mana artifact that does a bunch of different things and was considered broken, was played in most decks, but lost in the finals to a deck without it.
Truly some things never change.
Kai won......