Legend has it pros figured out Psychatog was incredible by using it as a proxy for Shadowmage Infiltrator and realizing it was actually a better card in almost every scenario.
This is exactly what happened.... I was actually there the day this interaction was discovered at star city games.... We were drafting and several of us were using psychatog as a proxy for infiltrator in an esper control deck that was all in on things like absorb and undermine and mana short original idea was that we would pressure out opponents by playing cards like meddling mage and shadow mage early on backed up by our force spikes and memory lapse and chainers edict or we could play stand still then sit back until we forced the opponent to break standstill and draw the control deck 3 cards that typically gaure teed us a counter spell of some sort we were trying to faceless butcher our meddling mages then cast upheaval which left a meddling mage in play but we kept discarding our hands and being left with a less then optimal board state and huge graveyard that's when it dawned on us that if we had psychatog instead of meddling mage we could use the huge graveyard left behind by upheaval to kill the opponent and that was basically the beginning of the terro that was Dr teeth.... Wizards even printed shock in the following set bc they needed a way to deal with psychatog but all that did was make us add red to the deck 😅
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was one reason. Alternatively, I remember that there was a deck that dominated at state championships that planned to Upheaval into Zombie Infestation. When the first pro level standard event was held afterwards, these Upheaval decks had replaced Zombie Infestation with Psychatog.
@@zigzag2370ok I'm going to call bullshit, Ryan fuller was never at star city games. Stop lying. He's fucking Canadian and he won the San Diego masters. Then the deck destroyed the next weekend of JSS qualifiers in the US. Carlos Romao won the pro tour by not countering fact or fiction and instead saving to fight over upheaval. Ryan fuller is the tog innovator full stop.
I was going to ask, do you think they recorded this before or after Frank's 2 absolute clutch fact or fiction 0/5 splits against Toffal from a few weeks back? If anyone missed it Frank bluffed having the card that did 2/3 damage for each instant or sorcery in their hand that would have been lethal so he gave Toffal a 0/5 split. Toffal was forced to take 0, the next turn he does the same split, Toffal laughs because he already took 0 but seen it was a bluff so he took the 5 this time, only Frank has topdecked the card he needed and snatched victory from the laws of defeat. One of the best plays I've ever seen.
To be fair the FoF split was often relatively easy to do. There is often a powerful card in the 5 that you know they're going to want. You ask yourself, will they take that on it's own in a 1 vs 4 split, if so split like that and they only get one card. If not then the 4 is too strong, which card(s) of the 4 can you put with the powerful one to keep the two sides balanced the best. Job done. There are a few crazy cases like the 5-0 split, but normally the above works and isn't too hard to think through.
It is unfortunately inevitable if you want the game to evolve. That said I wonder what would become of the game if they focused more on reprints and made only like one set of cards a year. Sounds like an interesting format, but other then that I cannot imagine Magic still being around without the increasing complexity. There is just so many cool, innovative and fresh card games and I cannot imagine how magic could stick around without its depth.
Selective memory some old cards have paragraphs of text too, but there are way more cards with more complicated abilities today, they almost never print vanilla creatures anymore
They mentioned the bird every game but the nightscape familiar(s) did so much work. The fact you can play them after your upheaval to get restarted quickly is really good.
I love how, with a simple studio, real people playing real games, and some smart editing choices, you folks are able to produce MtG entertainment that blows the biggest shows like Game Knights out of the water.
This is one of the best ones ever. The decks are so cool, the editing is phenomenal as always and Torralf and Frank are the perfect duo at hyping and reminiscing together. Please do way more of these and please get Karsten back to tell us more about the olden days when magic was about reading and math.
Wow, thanks guys, Psychatog was my very first deck, this really felt like home! That colour screw on Frank's side though: when the opposition deck discards opposition you can tell something went wrong
This is so nostalgic, I love it! I used to play competitively during this era. Was lucky enough to reach top 100 in our country. In one of our practice games, I have 5 cards in the graveyard and needed to put cards there in order to reach threshold, so I casted Fact or Fiction. My friend separated the pile 5-0. I was so stumped. It was one of my fondest memories during that time. Thank you for reminding me of the fun times.
This Videos take me back to my childhood. It feels so good and brings back so much memories. It was a time with no worries. Playing with your friends. Sometimes even drawing from the same Deck. A time where i had no idea, which cards are good, which are Bad. A time, where we younger players always got ripped from older players in Our school-library.
I truly believe the "documentary" bits of these videos are amazing segments that hold an almost archaelogical value from the TCG world perspective. When you also had deep insights as the one provided by Karl and Thoralf over each play you really get an insanely educational product for those who seek a better understanding of the game's history and mechanics, and an highly entertaing one to boot! Just great work guys, keep 'em coming!
This is some of my favorite MTG content on UA-cam right now. I've always loved these World Champ decks, and it's even more fun to watch them with the context of the stories behind the decks and the tournaments. This actually gives me an idea for a series: Like the "Best Deck Ever" tournaments you've done for Standard and Modern tournament winners, but for Duel Decks. Idk if anyone but me would actually be interested in that series, but maybe you could try a couple of the Duel Deck Anthology decks? Those were a lot of fun to play, and they actually could be pretty powerful sometimes.
My older brother got me into magic with a Psychatog deck, he ran a playset of Spell Pierce, Mana Leak and Memory Lapse OG Polluted Deltas, and Accumelated Knowledge and Fact or Fiction for card draw and an Intuition in the main board AND in the sideboard with a full set of Cunning Wish. It was Bonkers. Still the most memorable deck for me
I really like these look back videos. I've been playing magic basically since the beginning, but not playing even semi-competitively until 2008. It's fun seeing just how powerful some of the older cards are.
I was looking forward to see an episode for this year because I remember fondly this time and how standard was so fun. Another reason, besides being super effective, that psychatog decks were so popular was that they were relatively cheap to build, considering they were almost all affordable commons and uncommons, with the only rares being the Upheavals. I also remember very well being totally locked out of the game by those pesky Opposition decks, but if I recall correctly, a lot of them had Static Orb to control even more the untapping on the board. Fun times for Magic that I wish would come back.
One of the junior super series I won when I was 16 was against a psychatog control deck in all 3 of the quarterfinals, semi, and finals because I played a zoo-ish deck, but had the secret tech in the sideboard of 4 phantom centaurs and blew all 3 opponents out with it. Good memories.
I really enjoy these videos, Frank's explanations are great. I also love seeing older cards that I heard were great used in game to see exactly how and why they were so good. It also helps that pretty much every game played in this series really comes down to the wire.
Awesome Video, love it ❤ Frank is so exited and looking forward to the next ones. Also I really love your Video ideas and all the work which is put into it.
I remember this format, played a lot back then. Also played tog in extended, vintage and now premodern. Tog with yawgmoth’s will in vintage was pretty sweet 😂 Suggestion - Replay Frank’s 2005 championship appearances where he plays gifts. Or better yet, you play gifts and give Frank the other decks 😊
The periodic history lessons in the middle of these games are great fun. It's nice getting a little insight into how people thought about cards in earlier eras of mtg. Also decks these days need cooler names like Dr. Teeth!
Frank? A must for the channel! More Magic lore back i time? Knowledge is always good, and allows us zoomers to understand the evolution of this game. You guys make magic history really beautiful to watch and learn. And also please more inside jokes like "a bunch of lands"
I dropped yugioh and started playing magic this year, and i see that as a good thing! When i searched for things i liked to make a deck, there was everything! Ninjas, werewolves, rats (my pet is a rat) and after yugioh, playing with mana is very refreshing. Love the game, love you guys
Amazing game. I started play MTG back in 2003 so UG Madness was my favorite deck when you have to fight against Astral and their Exalted Angels :) So waiting for you 2003 match ;)
The best Fact or Fiction story from a competitive event. Psychatog vs Red Deck Wins. Player casts Fact or Fiction at the end of turn. Reveals 5 lands from the top of the deck. The RDW player splits 5 vs 0. The other player is confused, but takes the 5 lands. Still at the end of RDW Player's turn, they cast Blood Oath and name land. The Tog player reveals their hand with 6 lands in it and lose the game.
Question for the pros here: does the Pro Tour (or GP or whatever) coverage need to be live? And if so, why? Bc I (and I think many others) would prefer to watch it a few days later with this level of high production quality, instead of the shoddy "advantage bar" and commentators guessing what cards are in play. I love the high production effects on this show, and if they just filmed a pro tour on mon/tues/weds and aired it fri/sat/sun it could have this level of quality too! It would of course be a lot of effort but I think it'd be worth it. I would love to hear all of your thoughts on this! Nathaniel
I used to play Psychatog with shenanigans like Breach to get them in. It went alright, and recently got the toothy boi in my new Oskar commander deck that loves it some discarding.
Always glad to see more Frank Karsten and more historical matches! SPOILER Oh, man. Frank whiffing on getting a second blue source (that stuck) in that second match was brutal. If he got it, he woulda gotten off Opposition and I think he would have won handily. Really shows, I think, the impact of good multi-color lands have on deck-building and consistency.
One of the things that upsets me with WotC is how they like to keep really old cards with a protection that they wont reprint cards in the newer sets. Would be such a nod to the olden days of Magic if they could reprint old cards (obviously not the broken ones like the power 9) into newer sets. Might not be as powerful today but would make me smile if they reprinted Psychatog into Standard.
Frank is always such a great guest!! I would love it if you guys could bring in Mengu and Frank at the same time and have them run some kind of MTG gauntlet!!
We brought them together once but then realized the viewers clicked on the videos much less when there wasn't one of the main hosts in it. So now we interchange their visits :)
Man this brings back memories... i still have my World Psychatog deck in my MtG box. Permission decks have always been my jam ever since I got started on the game when my parents got me the first Slivers Precon as a present and my first ever step into MtG. A combination of raging coz I got Okk as my rare TWICE in a row and the meta shifting around the beginning of Kamigawa block to fatty creatures and less "permission" as it was "unfun" culminating in Counterspell no longer being reprinted and we had to make do with the awful Cancel as a substitute meant my interest waned. Though I do find it funny that the power creep with the game has gotten to the point of a lot of overpowered creatures and effects are plenty that end games in 1 to 3 turns meant Counterspell finally wasnt "broken" anymore... and if anything with all the hyper efficient counterspells these days with additional effects it's not even considered as a must for control anymore xD
Psychatog is just decent even if you're not doing a crazy draw or bounce strat to fill you hand first. You can discard, and then double dip by removing cards from the graveyard, or maybe 1.5 dipping because it takes 2 cards in the graveyard.
Always a winning episode when Frank makes an appearance.
exactly my thoughts! but this channel rarely disappoints anyway, keep it up guys.
@@lordmatz3435 that was an inclusive cheer for Frank, not exclusive. The boys know that we love their hard work.
Legend has it pros figured out Psychatog was incredible by using it as a proxy for Shadowmage Infiltrator and realizing it was actually a better card in almost every scenario.
Also heard this! Unfortunately after I got my (very expensive) playset of shadowmage
This is exactly what happened.... I was actually there the day this interaction was discovered at star city games.... We were drafting and several of us were using psychatog as a proxy for infiltrator in an esper control deck that was all in on things like absorb and undermine and mana short original idea was that we would pressure out opponents by playing cards like meddling mage and shadow mage early on backed up by our force spikes and memory lapse and chainers edict or we could play stand still then sit back until we forced the opponent to break standstill and draw the control deck 3 cards that typically gaure teed us a counter spell of some sort we were trying to faceless butcher our meddling mages then cast upheaval which left a meddling mage in play but we kept discarding our hands and being left with a less then optimal board state and huge graveyard that's when it dawned on us that if we had psychatog instead of meddling mage we could use the huge graveyard left behind by upheaval to kill the opponent and that was basically the beginning of the terro that was Dr teeth.... Wizards even printed shock in the following set bc they needed a way to deal with psychatog but all that did was make us add red to the deck 😅
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was one reason. Alternatively, I remember that there was a deck that dominated at state championships that planned to Upheaval into Zombie Infestation. When the first pro level standard event was held afterwards, these Upheaval decks had replaced Zombie Infestation with Psychatog.
@@zigzag2370ok I'm going to call bullshit, Ryan fuller was never at star city games. Stop lying. He's fucking Canadian and he won the San Diego masters. Then the deck destroyed the next weekend of JSS qualifiers in the US. Carlos Romao won the pro tour by not countering fact or fiction and instead saving to fight over upheaval. Ryan fuller is the tog innovator full stop.
@@85mcarnoldyes this coupled with the fact that shadowmage got wrecked by urzas rage.
Happy to see frank again, his excitement for the game is contagious
Karsten is an MTG MVP, can't say it better tbh
I'm such a huge fan of Frank, his knowledge, experience, insights and charisma are absolutely a HOUSE!
That's probably why he's in the MTG Hall of Fame.
I wish they did print runs like this today so casual players can feel what its like to play at the top
Just play Magic Arena. You can easily play top decks for free.
@@Last_Resort991 Well, kinda. You have to spend tons of wildcards and to get those either cost money or a lot of patience and grinding
You can make proxies yourself (print and put in sleeves) or order them printed on (kind of) authentic cardboard for a few cents per card.
@@Last_Resort991 "for free" lmao. its a complete chore to grind arena, if you have responsibilities like work or shit like that.
The end of world championship decks does seem like a missed opportunity for easy money. I believe Pokemon TCG still does it.
Just want to say. I really enjoy segments like where Frank discussed fact or fiction splits.
I was going to ask, do you think they recorded this before or after Frank's 2 absolute clutch fact or fiction 0/5 splits against Toffal from a few weeks back? If anyone missed it Frank bluffed having the card that did 2/3 damage for each instant or sorcery in their hand that would have been lethal so he gave Toffal a 0/5 split. Toffal was forced to take 0, the next turn he does the same split, Toffal laughs because he already took 0 but seen it was a bluff so he took the 5 this time, only Frank has topdecked the card he needed and snatched victory from the laws of defeat. One of the best plays I've ever seen.
To be fair the FoF split was often relatively easy to do. There is often a powerful card in the 5 that you know they're going to want. You ask yourself, will they take that on it's own in a 1 vs 4 split, if so split like that and they only get one card. If not then the 4 is too strong, which card(s) of the 4 can you put with the powerful one to keep the two sides balanced the best. Job done. There are a few crazy cases like the 5-0 split, but normally the above works and isn't too hard to think through.
I really miss when magic cards didnt have 36 lines of text.
Very fun episode guys as usual.
It is unfortunately inevitable if you want the game to evolve. That said I wonder what would become of the game if they focused more on reprints and made only like one set of cards a year. Sounds like an interesting format, but other then that I cannot imagine Magic still being around without the increasing complexity. There is just so many cool, innovative and fresh card games and I cannot imagine how magic could stick around without its depth.
Selective memory some old cards have paragraphs of text too, but there are way more cards with more complicated abilities today, they almost never print vanilla creatures anymore
They mentioned the bird every game but the nightscape familiar(s) did so much work. The fact you can play them after your upheaval to get restarted quickly is really good.
I always forget that Frank Karsten is a PHD mathematician! Looking at Fact or Fiction through a combinatorics lens is so interesting!
I would love to see a Frank Karsten plays magic but with mathematical analysis series.
The Fact or Fiction value talk reminds me of the wild 2x 0-vs-5 Fact or Fiction play on an earlier vid.
Was thinking the same thing. That was one of the coolest play sequences I've ever seen.
Frank Karsten quickly becoming one of my favourite parts of mtg content on youtube!
That last game was really good. Hibernation is one hell of a card.
Yes, I asked myself tho if all green permanents also would mean his green lands? Cuz they didn't return those 😅
@@jana-mariefranke849 Lands are colorless permanents (except for corner cases like Dryad Arbor)
Being 15 is no excuse, Thoralf. In 2004, Julien Nuijten was 15 years old when he won the world championship with Astral Slide.
Frank reading a bedtime story to them is everything
Also, more MTG history with Frank. Love these
As someone whose work is often adjacent to combinatorics and game theory i would love to hear Frank talk about the mathamatics of MTG
Frank is such a gem i always enjoy watching him play these old decks
These episodes are always fun! I never realized just how strong Psychatog was. It looks so unassuming!
I love how, with a simple studio, real people playing real games, and some smart editing choices, you folks are able to produce MtG entertainment that blows the biggest shows like Game Knights out of the water.
This is one of the best ones ever. The decks are so cool, the editing is phenomenal as always and Torralf and Frank are the perfect duo at hyping and reminiscing together. Please do way more of these and please get Karsten back to tell us more about the olden days when magic was about reading and math.
I just love Toffel's energy and hype
🥰
Wow, thanks guys, Psychatog was my very first deck, this really felt like home!
That colour screw on Frank's side though: when the opposition deck discards opposition you can tell something went wrong
This was my childhood! Invasion and Odyssey block all the way!!!
Invasion block was awesome.. the first set ever where 5 color decks were viable. Had so much fun mucking about with those multi color decks!
This is so nostalgic, I love it! I used to play competitively during this era. Was lucky enough to reach top 100 in our country. In one of our practice games, I have 5 cards in the graveyard and needed to put cards there in order to reach threshold, so I casted Fact or Fiction. My friend separated the pile 5-0. I was so stumped. It was one of my fondest memories during that time. Thank you for reminding me of the fun times.
Probably my favourite series that you guys do. Seeing Magic from times that I missed is awesome.
I’m a simple man. I see Frank Karsten, I hit the thumbs up button! 👍
This Videos take me back to my childhood. It feels so good and brings back so much memories.
It was a time with no worries. Playing with your friends. Sometimes even drawing from the same Deck. A time where i had no idea, which cards are good, which are Bad. A time, where we younger players always got ripped from older players in Our school-library.
Frank and this old magic brings back so much nostalgia and history
These series are so great, not just the gameplay portion but the interspersed discussions.
I truly believe the "documentary" bits of these videos are amazing segments that hold an almost archaelogical value from the TCG world perspective. When you also had deep insights as the one provided by Karl and Thoralf over each play you really get an insanely educational product for those who seek a better understanding of the game's history and mechanics, and an highly entertaing one to boot!
Just great work guys, keep 'em coming!
This is some of my favorite MTG content on UA-cam right now. I've always loved these World Champ decks, and it's even more fun to watch them with the context of the stories behind the decks and the tournaments. This actually gives me an idea for a series: Like the "Best Deck Ever" tournaments you've done for Standard and Modern tournament winners, but for Duel Decks. Idk if anyone but me would actually be interested in that series, but maybe you could try a couple of the Duel Deck Anthology decks? Those were a lot of fun to play, and they actually could be pretty powerful sometimes.
I started playing Magic during the Odissey block so this bring back lots of memories! Love these throwbacks to the early 2000s! Keep em coming!
I love the mix of history and gameplay of mtg. Great video, especially with Frank! Keep this going for as long as possible!
I love this series! Frank is such a gem. And so is everyone from the Cardmarket team - onscreen or not. Thanks for blessing us with these uploads.
Frank's explanation of fact or fiction was super insightful.
I love the sound design of the creatures entering the battlefield!
Please more!!! I love Frank! What an incredible player, and just generally awesome guy!
Thanks for bringing back Frank again! Great video guys! :)
My older brother got me into magic with a Psychatog deck, he ran a playset of Spell Pierce, Mana Leak and Memory Lapse OG Polluted Deltas, and Accumelated Knowledge and Fact or Fiction for card draw and an Intuition in the main board AND in the sideboard with a full set of Cunning Wish. It was Bonkers. Still the most memorable deck for me
I really like these look back videos. I've been playing magic basically since the beginning, but not playing even semi-competitively until 2008. It's fun seeing just how powerful some of the older cards are.
I was looking forward to see an episode for this year because I remember fondly this time and how standard was so fun. Another reason, besides being super effective, that psychatog decks were so popular was that they were relatively cheap to build, considering they were almost all affordable commons and uncommons, with the only rares being the Upheavals. I also remember very well being totally locked out of the game by those pesky Opposition decks, but if I recall correctly, a lot of them had Static Orb to control even more the untapping on the board.
Fun times for Magic that I wish would come back.
Picturing what present-day MtG must be like just from the comparisons made in these videos is an experience, it has to be said.
11:00 never thought I'd hear an English Rat Race reference from Toffel
One of the junior super series I won when I was 16 was against a psychatog control deck in all 3 of the quarterfinals, semi, and finals because I played a zoo-ish deck, but had the secret tech in the sideboard of 4 phantom centaurs and blew all 3 opponents out with it. Good memories.
Yes Frank is somewhat such a great addition to you guys!
I really enjoy these videos, Frank's explanations are great. I also love seeing older cards that I heard were great used in game to see exactly how and why they were so good.
It also helps that pretty much every game played in this series really comes down to the wire.
Awesome Video, love it ❤ Frank is so exited and looking forward to the next ones. Also I really love your Video ideas and all the work which is put into it.
I love these old tournament deck videos!
The Psychatog deck has been my favorite deck since 2002.
I loved my squirrel opposition deck. So much fun!
You know we want more. Look at how much fun you are having
I remember this format, played a lot back then. Also played tog in extended, vintage and now premodern. Tog with yawgmoth’s will in vintage was pretty sweet 😂
Suggestion - Replay Frank’s 2005 championship appearances where he plays gifts.
Or better yet, you play gifts and give Frank the other decks 😊
Great game! Great commentary! Great episode! ❤❤❤
The periodic history lessons in the middle of these games are great fun. It's nice getting a little insight into how people thought about cards in earlier eras of mtg. Also decks these days need cooler names like Dr. Teeth!
Frank? A must for the channel!
More Magic lore back i time? Knowledge is always good, and allows us zoomers to understand the evolution of this game. You guys make magic history really beautiful to watch and learn.
And also please more inside jokes like "a bunch of lands"
I started playing around this time and it really did feel like Magic
I dropped yugioh and started playing magic this year, and i see that as a good thing! When i searched for things i liked to make a deck, there was everything! Ninjas, werewolves, rats (my pet is a rat) and after yugioh, playing with mana is very refreshing.
Love the game, love you guys
Amazing game. I started play MTG back in 2003 so UG Madness was my favorite deck when you have to fight against Astral and their Exalted Angels :) So waiting for you 2003 match ;)
Ah yes, 2002 - the year I started playing Magic. That wasn't that long ago, was it? I remember it like it was yesterday.
WHAT? OVER TWO DECADES AGO?
Squirrel opposition! One of my all time favorite decks
The best Fact or Fiction story from a competitive event.
Psychatog vs Red Deck Wins. Player casts Fact or Fiction at the end of turn. Reveals 5 lands from the top of the deck. The RDW player splits 5 vs 0. The other player is confused, but takes the 5 lands. Still at the end of RDW Player's turn, they cast Blood Oath and name land. The Tog player reveals their hand with 6 lands in it and lose the game.
thoralf casually pulled the cleanest win i've ever seen. If I did I would probably brag forever
Question for the pros here: does the Pro Tour (or GP or whatever) coverage need to be live? And if so, why? Bc I (and I think many others) would prefer to watch it a few days later with this level of high production quality, instead of the shoddy "advantage bar" and commentators guessing what cards are in play. I love the high production effects on this show, and if they just filmed a pro tour on mon/tues/weds and aired it fri/sat/sun it could have this level of quality too! It would of course be a lot of effort but I think it'd be worth it. I would love to hear all of your thoughts on this!
Nathaniel
This was amazing! I’d love to see 2003
i still have my squirrel opposition... one of my fav deck ever
Yes! More Frank :DD
I built a 2003 standard gauntlet, it was odyssey block, 7th and Onslaught. I love it.
I really wish wizards would release decks like this again, gold bordered or otherwise.
Literally everyone I know wishes they still did this.
The pause from when you said Force of will and frank just pauses to try and remember if it was legal at the time
Best series on the channel, got to love it.
Competitive decks from old formats (with Frank) is probably my favorite content on this channel, please keep doing more!
I used to play Psychatog with shenanigans like Breach to get them in. It went alright, and recently got the toothy boi in my new Oskar commander deck that loves it some discarding.
Always glad to see more Frank Karsten and more historical matches!
SPOILER
Oh, man. Frank whiffing on getting a second blue source (that stuck) in that second match was brutal. If he got it, he woulda gotten off Opposition and I think he would have won handily. Really shows, I think, the impact of good multi-color lands have on deck-building and consistency.
One of the things that upsets me with WotC is how they like to keep really old cards with a protection that they wont reprint cards in the newer sets. Would be such a nod to the olden days of Magic if they could reprint old cards (obviously not the broken ones like the power 9) into newer sets.
Might not be as powerful today but would make me smile if they reprinted Psychatog into Standard.
would be interesting to see you guys (mostly frank and thoralf) rank/tier the standard formats by how fun they were to play.
I love these history matches!
I absolutely love this series
I personally played the Psychatog deck back then, but I was rooting for the Squirrels!
Great stuff as always
Psychotog would be a card that players had to really look hard to consider it good. Great trip down memory lane.😆
I believe in an interview with ramdy buelher he said they did use sleeves. Though when in feature matches they desleeved to reduce glare.
I remember being at summer camp, playing 'Tog against U/G Madness. (Also losing to both of them with a pre-con I had bought at the store nearby.)
Great video! Love the historic ones!
Frank is always such a great guest!! I would love it if you guys could bring in Mengu and Frank at the same time and have them run some kind of MTG gauntlet!!
We brought them together once but then realized the viewers clicked on the videos much less when there wasn't one of the main hosts in it. So now we interchange their visits :)
Man this brings back memories... i still have my World Psychatog deck in my MtG box. Permission decks have always been my jam ever since I got started on the game when my parents got me the first Slivers Precon as a present and my first ever step into MtG. A combination of raging coz I got Okk as my rare TWICE in a row and the meta shifting around the beginning of Kamigawa block to fatty creatures and less "permission" as it was "unfun" culminating in Counterspell no longer being reprinted and we had to make do with the awful Cancel as a substitute meant my interest waned.
Though I do find it funny that the power creep with the game has gotten to the point of a lot of overpowered creatures and effects are plenty that end games in 1 to 3 turns meant Counterspell finally wasnt "broken" anymore... and if anything with all the hyper efficient counterspells these days with additional effects it's not even considered as a must for control anymore xD
To see my favorit card of all time make me happy. because og flametongue kave a made a kavu-deck that i still up to this date.
Love your videos so much!
The magazine in Spain back in the day was called "Urza" 😂
Seeing the FoF reminded me of the blood oath game last video lol
Awesome video!!
My favorite format.
we want more!
Love this series
2002... one year later and ygo comes out in Germany and i startert to play tcgs :D
Psychatog is just decent even if you're not doing a crazy draw or bounce strat to fill you hand first. You can discard, and then double dip by removing cards from the graveyard, or maybe 1.5 dipping because it takes 2 cards in the graveyard.
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Maybe some fog cards to cast after Dr. Teeth buffs up and they waste their buff-cost cards?
Bird was played - SO MANY TIMES!
Why 1 toothy boi was an absolute monster back then.
psychatog pumps with every part of the buffalo