I started playing magic when i was still in school in Buxtehude and Kai schooled the professional magic scene. For me as a german and rven though i never played magic competitively you have been the biggest inspiration in my early magic years. You might have heard thousands of times how much of a Vorbild you are but be assured that you inspire much more people than you can imagine, still up to this day. All the best
Best Wishes to Kai. The one and only Seald Deck Pro Tour was without Ante but it‘s correct that we could only get 5 Basic Land in addition to the Land from the Seald Box. And I Made 2nd place in the teamevent with the finnisch Team Frank Adler
Kai nailed the critique of regional championships. Getting my friends together and traveling to a PTQ are some of my best memories of competitive Magic. They really were weekend Magic vacations. When WotC dropped PTQs, that left us with the annual schedule of Grand Prixes to pick from, then they dropped those too. The whole thing's a bummer now and has lost the sense of community and comradery. That's just my perspective coming from a player that prefers competitive Magic over casual Magic, but never made it to the big show. If Wotc brought back PTQs or Grand Prixes, I'd be calling my friends and making plans.
The whole competitive tournament structure back then, with Regionals (and Regional-Qualifiers! :)) and Nationals, with PTQs and GPs was actually amazing. In germany, we also had a national team league. I was lucky enough to experience this between 1999 and 2006. Not so much as a player, but as a judge. Possibly the best time of my life.
Always a pleasure to listen to the Best. I played a lot when he was around the world winning pro tours, had the chance to what him live at the Worlds in Paris. I had used, lost, and gave all of my "pro" cards (that was a thing back in the day), but my bind folder still holds one of them. Kai Buddle.
Tomi Walamies! I played his deck “Operation Dumbo Drop” back at Grand Prix Las Vegas 20 something years ago. I remember emailing him asking him what he would change in the deck and board. Cashed my first Magic event.
One of the coolest parts about MTG is its history, and especially as both a newer player, and someone who was born on the same day as magic onlines release lmao theres a lot of really cool stuff.
And on the MTG competitive necessity vs pandering to casuals, I think its a super fair take and I think a big example about it is with Flesh and Blood which tbh does not appeal to me at all but it felt like the main appeal of the game on launch was it trying to be the new mtg pro scene.
WOW Kai totally called the ending of EURO 2024! England losing to Spain in the finals 2-1 at the very end! I hope that “Ideal outcome” brought him great joy.
i love you kai. we just ran into each other at magicconamsterdam.but i didnt get my juggermaut from a friend right in time. if we ever see us again. pls sign it. it will stay in a cube foorever. but the most importantt thing is that you enjoiy life thank you for playing magic
ua-cam.com/video/VTO9OSTulnM/v-deo.html CovertGoBlue played in the Junior Division for the very first Pro Tour, the one where you just needed to call a number to qualify. His mother called for him and his sister. If I recall the story correctly, they missed the first couple of rounds because flights were delayed due to poor weather. Finkel made the top 8; Kibler and the O'Mahoney-Schwartz's made top 32.
Best wishes, Kai in your battle with cancer. I'm glad you feel healthy now and are going to get some time to travel.
I started playing magic when i was still in school in Buxtehude and Kai schooled the professional magic scene. For me as a german and rven though i never played magic competitively you have been the biggest inspiration in my early magic years. You might have heard thousands of times how much of a Vorbild you are but be assured that you inspire much more people than you can imagine, still up to this day. All the best
absolutely loved this btw. the old stories bring back so much nostalgia at all times for us old guys. all the love guys.
Alles gute auch von mir! Bleib stark! Liebe Grüße aus Köln :)
Best Wishes to Kai. The one and only Seald Deck Pro Tour was without Ante but it‘s correct that we could only get 5 Basic Land in addition to the Land from the Seald Box.
And I Made 2nd place in the teamevent with the finnisch Team
Frank Adler
Kai nailed the critique of regional championships. Getting my friends together and traveling to a PTQ are some of my best memories of competitive Magic. They really were weekend Magic vacations. When WotC dropped PTQs, that left us with the annual schedule of Grand Prixes to pick from, then they dropped those too. The whole thing's a bummer now and has lost the sense of community and comradery. That's just my perspective coming from a player that prefers competitive Magic over casual Magic, but never made it to the big show. If Wotc brought back PTQs or Grand Prixes, I'd be calling my friends and making plans.
The whole competitive tournament structure back then, with Regionals (and Regional-Qualifiers! :)) and Nationals, with PTQs and GPs was actually amazing. In germany, we also had a national team league. I was lucky enough to experience this between 1999 and 2006. Not so much as a player, but as a judge. Possibly the best time of my life.
Always a pleasure to listen to the Best. I played a lot when he was around the world winning pro tours, had the chance to what him live at the Worlds in Paris. I had used, lost, and gave all of my "pro" cards (that was a thing back in the day), but my bind folder still holds one of them. Kai Buddle.
The deck at the beginning of this interview is one of my favorite decks in magic history.
Tomi Walamies! I played his deck “Operation Dumbo Drop” back at Grand Prix Las Vegas 20 something years ago. I remember emailing him asking him what he would change in the deck and board. Cashed my first Magic event.
One of the coolest parts about MTG is its history, and especially as both a newer player, and someone who was born on the same day as magic onlines release lmao theres a lot of really cool stuff.
And on the MTG competitive necessity vs pandering to casuals, I think its a super fair take and I think a big example about it is with Flesh and Blood which tbh does not appeal to me at all but it felt like the main appeal of the game on launch was it trying to be the new mtg pro scene.
I really miss these old days playing or just watching games with Kai, Mello, Lührs and other pros.
At Stephansplatz in Hamburg 😂
@@shaftlamer exactly ;-)
@@martinhieronymus8743 ich seh lührs noch ab und zu beim vorbeigehen bei Connie's spielekiste an der holstenstraße :D
@@martinhieronymus8743 hab lührs noch manchmal im vorbeilaufen bei connie´s spielekiste/holstenstraße gesehen. xD
@@martinhieronymus8743 Ich war da 1996-1997 also leider etwas zu frueh um Euch zu treffen glaubich...
played with him back in cologne, i was like 13. absolute solid dude.
Awesome. Thanks for posting this. Thanks Kai for doing it.
Great interview!
Great Interview!
great job from the interviewer, super prepared!
Thank you. I prepared by doing pretty much nothing else than play and study Magic from 1994 to 2004.
@@WalamiesAwesome job Tomi!
WOW Kai totally called the ending of EURO 2024! England losing to Spain in the finals 2-1 at the very end! I hope that “Ideal outcome” brought him great joy.
Can't wait to hear more about the🐐
i love you kai. we just ran into each other at magicconamsterdam.but i didnt get my juggermaut from a friend right in time. if we ever see us again. pls sign it. it will stay in a cube foorever. but the most importantt thing is that you enjoiy life
thank you for playing magic
Great interview
Kai!🥰🥰🥰amazing person and true inspiration!
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CovertGoBlue played in the Junior Division for the very first Pro Tour, the one where you just needed to call a number to qualify. His mother called for him and his sister. If I recall the story correctly, they missed the first couple of rounds because flights were delayed due to poor weather.
Finkel made the top 8; Kibler and the O'Mahoney-Schwartz's made top 32.
that's crazy. I would've guessed that he's way younger than that.
Kai Budde ❤
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41.00 so true!
what is with the weird distracting blur stuff behind Kai
German privacy laws
@@IamVerilance what?
he just doesn't want people to see his home? quite understandable.
@@IamVerilance BS, that is not a law. He just want to protect his privacy
@@C42ST3N blur settings for you background. Also you can add individual background picture. Fuckin hell