Depends how you slice it. Note Tavis clearly stated everything in this collection was available to the public. There are definitely people who have cards which aren't "legal" to be in possession of, as they were taken by former employees, etc. There have been people around the tournament scene who will show things sometimes... stuff that was never released and is "technically" the property of Wizards.
@@grandarchon6969 I like the fact his collection is an anthropological study in the history of MTG. So while some may have even more rarer cards or documents (like Joel Mick and other early playtesters) it is the thoughtful curation I admire.
@@ThePenitentSquirrel Just to be clear, his collection is amazing, and wildly impressive. Coolest implies no other cooler ones. Which may not be accurate depending on what you think is cool. And there are some very impressive and unique things out there.
Probably the coolest magic experience i ever had , caught up with friend at gen con that knew tavis and spent the next 2 to 3 hours seeing his collection of magic history. So cool to have video for others to see this collection and stories behind individual cards.
I could watch like a 10 hour video just of the cards in this binder with Tavis talking about each one. He is so knowledgeable about the history of the game and each one of these cards. Very cool video!
Easily one of the coolest videos I've seen about MTG. This collection is basically the whole early history of Magic (apart from the Alpha playtest cards) and it's so cool to see!
That stamp casually stuck in the middle of the binder is worth $2 million and is probably the single most famous stamp in the hobby with less than 100 existing. Insane.
@@gohugo472 but the broken cards needed to work together to be broken, you needed fireball to go with channel, hypnotic specter to go with dark ritual, etc. nowadays every playable new card feels like it takes over the game when left by itself The One Ring, Black Market Connections, Oko before that, etc.
Well, that is what I'd call a "history book" of Magic! Plus Tavis can tell all the stories from the olden days. Thanks for sharing (and great to have it at Edwin's party :D)
Rudy you did a great work sharing this video,Tavis is a King for sure for the whole Mtg comunity and this collection is historic! Thanks so much for sharing this, you guys are awesome!
I remembered when my brothers and I used to play. Sometimes there were cards we didn’t quite understand how they’d play out. There used to be a 1800 # you could call to ask about the rules and how they would play out. Ah good times.
Lots of people didn't understand what cumulative meant. During playtesting it was called Illusory Upkeep. Normally an upkeep cost had to be paid every turn. The Ice Age design team felt that paying 1 mana every turn to keep your card, was about the same thing as just sacrificing a land. They wanted to create an upkeep cost that would become more difficult to pay over time, and guarantee that such cards would only stay in play for a limited time. It was a decent idea, but the cards often weren't powerful enough to be worth the cumulative upkeep cost, and many players avoided them because of the confusion.
We had to use that 1 800 # during a tournament once, to find out if Forestwalk still worked on Snow-Covered Forests. Some people thought you should need Snow-Covered Forestwalk for Snow-Covered Forests, since a regular Forest isn't the same thing as a Snow-Covered Forest. It was the most heated rules debate I ever saw at our LGS, with lots of people taking both sides.
It's so nice to see Tavis continuing to smile and share his beautiful collection all these years later. I remember meeting him for the first time in 2012 or so. He has the same bright and warm personality in this video as he did all those years ago and he wants nothing more than to just enrich people with magic history.
@@tannerannichiarico7255 The major concern of collectors that usually deters them from using a 3 ring ring binder is the risk of binder dings. Binder dings are a type of damage that can happen to the cards in your binder when the page slips over the top of the rings and compression dents the cards that slipped over.
yess I love on location videos with the gang I really miss those videos on the road setting up shop at pro tours with Dan Edwin's hair is phenomenal btw
Rudy, Open Boosters, Edwin, Saint, & myself are all together at SCG Con Tampa this weekend, and we're filming several on location videos, so stay tuned to all our channels. 🙂
Love that in that binder of total insanity he's got the Serendib and the Drudge Swamp. I kept both of those when i pared down my collection to mostly misprints and errors years ago, still have those. He needs a Vodalian Wallfolk in there, that was a cool oddity.
I had a Wallfolk years ago, and sold it in 2014. That was my first Facebook auction, and I invented the "anti-snipe policy" to solve some of the problems I was seeing with Facebook auctions. The Wallfolk is pretty rare, I've only seen a few copies.
I can never get over how interested in the art and lore of MTG I am, while also deeply finding exactly 0 enjoyment in actually playing MTG. Winning feels cheap, losing feels bad.
I have lots of pictures of piece 9, just don't recall seeing one in person. There's at least 3 copies of the rare Lotus piece, and at least 9 copies of the rare Chaos Orb puzzle piece.
Used to collect a ton of misprints and rarities in early 2000s, brings back memories of the Magic Librarities community we had, haven't seen some of these in so long!
Do you still have the cards? I'm a moderator on Librarities. The Rarities section is frequently updated, and the forum has a lot of great reference material, but not nearly as active as Facebook. A lot of the Librarities members are also on Facebook, and there's even a Librarities Facebook group now.
I don’t sadly, I had to sell everything to help fund college back in 2006, I was very active on the site from probably about 2002-2006 back then. Just started catching up on everything almost 20 years later. A lot of my collection went to other members at least.
Pretty sure the kobold pic at 3:45 is a 'Derro' from TSR's Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 2... Funny how a lifted pic by one creative team made its way back home to the parent company that owns D&D essentially, i.e. Wizards of the Coast, and, ahem, obviously Hasbro...
Good eye, yes that artwork is for a Derro, which is a type of Dwarf. The Legends playtest team were huge D&D fans. WotC was originally an RPG company, trying to make roleplaying books that could be used with whatever game system you were playing. MTG was originally supposed to be a quick card game that could be played while you were waiting for everybody in your D&D group to arrive. WotC sold MTG along with their roleplaying books.
Tavis is such a cool dude I miss having him come by my shop and hanging out showing off his different binders. I remember him playing a draft with us and was killing people with crypt rats.
I've got a pretty cool ink error Visions Sisay's Ring that I watched a shop owner pack pull. I got it for a quarter and have held onto it. It looks like someone dragged a black MS Paint airbrush tool around the top of the art.
@@TavisKingsChannel holy crap! I have so many questions about your collection but I will limit it to two. What made you get into collecting oddities like this? What is your holy grail card?
@@sillylung I started collecting oddities like this when the judge at my LGS gifted me an Alternate 4th Edition Benalish Hero. I knew it was special and wasn't sure what to do with it, so I put it into a binder by itself. Then I put a copy of each English Benalish Hero in the binder with it. Then I put a copy of each non-English Benalish Hero in the binder with it. Then I put a copy of each Artist Proof Benalish Hero in the binder with it. Then I started putting misprints and test prints into that binder.
@@TavisKingsChannel that's so awesome. I had started to collect one each basic land that had ever been printed but lost pretty much everything I owned in a wild fire a few years ago. After that I kinda lost interest and I had to many other things to worry about rebuilding. Seeing such a unique collection as yours makes me want to start up again now that my life is getting back to normal
@@sillylung I have many awesome cards, but when you say holy grail, I'm assuming you're asking about something I want that I don't currently own. The first thing that comes to mind, is a normal unsigned Beta Black Lotus in light played condition for my Beta complete set. After that, I'd like to have the Yellow border Revised Reconstruction test print, and a pink backed Antiquities Xenic Poltergeist Make Ready. These last two cards haven't been seen since 1994. The Unlimited/Antiquities double print Make Ready Benalish Hero would be nice, because it's the only one I wanted that I'm missing. I had the opportunity to buy it, but it had a very high price tag, so I passed and someone else bought it. One of the High Gloss "Glossogram" holograms on the back of a Beta Benalish Hero, Samite Healer, Scryb Sprites, Fireball, Ironclaw Orcs, Mons's Goblin Raiders, Blue Elemental Blast, or Twiddle would be really cool, but so far it isn't known to exist on any of these specific card names. Maybe someday one will surface though, because other Beta commons are affected.
This is the stuff i like to see!!!! Its funny to see them with playtest decks. We were playing recently and a guy noticed we were playing with alpha/beta……his jaw fell through the floor. But a playtest deck would have me doing the same thing!
Edwin & Marc played a game with the playtest decks after we were done looking through my binder. Keep an eye out for that upcoming video here on Rudy's channel.
LOL that kobold card is using derro art from, I think, 2nd edition AD&D. I definitely remember that art from way back when. Correction, 1st edition AD&D Monster Manual 2 is where that art came from.
24:46 Looking through the $1 million magic collection when suddenly there's a $2 million inverted Jenny stamp with barely a mention. That's the only stamp I know about (Monty mailed one in "Brewster's Millions") so unsure if its real.
Brewster's Millions is also how I learned about this stamp, way back in the 1980's on TV. I used to have a stamp collection, but I sold it about 20 years ago. This one is fun to have in my misprint binder though. 🙂 This "quick 15 minute video" is 45 minutes long, so there wasn't time for all the stories. 😂
I was wondering if that was real, surely they would spend a little more time on it. Maybe in the context of this insane collection it's just another piece of history, but still.
Fun fact: Tavis is from the 1.0 patch before they added "r" to make the name Travis
He is indeed pre errata
😂
I have the Tavris misprint one
Lmao
That’s right
Tavis is such an important part of the Magic community. Incredible knowledge and very helpful. Thanks for sharing this!
These are cooler than any PSA 10s / power 9s / misprints / you name it. This is literal MTG history. Thanks for sharing this video.
Tavis has easily the coolest MTG collection in the world
check out Keith the Misprint guy
Depends how you slice it. Note Tavis clearly stated everything in this collection was available to the public. There are definitely people who have cards which aren't "legal" to be in possession of, as they were taken by former employees, etc. There have been people around the tournament scene who will show things sometimes... stuff that was never released and is "technically" the property of Wizards.
i like open boosters too
@@grandarchon6969 I like the fact his collection is an anthropological study in the history of MTG. So while some may have even more rarer cards or documents (like Joel Mick and other early playtesters) it is the thoughtful curation I admire.
@@ThePenitentSquirrel Just to be clear, his collection is amazing, and wildly impressive. Coolest implies no other cooler ones. Which may not be accurate depending on what you think is cool. And there are some very impressive and unique things out there.
Probably the coolest magic experience i ever had , caught up with friend at gen con that knew tavis and spent the next 2 to 3 hours seeing his collection of magic history. So cool to have video for others to see this collection and stories behind individual cards.
I've seen Tavis in a few videos, always seems like a very sweet individual. Thanks for sharing his collection Rudy.
Cool seeing a few I sold Tavis many years ago in that binder. Thanks for sharing!
I could watch like a 10 hour video just of the cards in this binder with Tavis talking about each one. He is so knowledgeable about the history of the game and each one of these cards. Very cool video!
Last night I spent 6 hours telling card stories to the Bearish acrylic case crew while they looked through this binder. 🙂
Easily one of the coolest videos I've seen about MTG. This collection is basically the whole early history of Magic (apart from the Alpha playtest cards) and it's so cool to see!
Legend has it that Tavis can tell you what's in a pack of Magic cards before it's even been opened...the original CT scanner.
Duh, he wrapped them
That stamp casually stuck in the middle of the binder is worth $2 million and is probably the single most famous stamp in the hobby with less than 100 existing. Insane.
it's a replica.
@@BlackLotus2How do you know?
I think it's more like $100,000 but I agree that was one hell of a casual mention.
@@BlackLotus2 but your Black Lotus is fake.
I love Tavis and his stuff, wish he posted more often!
Back when the power level was about game building rather than game ending.
To be fair alpha add a lot of broken card
Too true
Urzas saga calling
@@gohugo472 but the broken cards needed to work together to be broken, you needed fireball to go with channel, hypnotic specter to go with dark ritual, etc. nowadays every playable new card feels like it takes over the game when left by itself The One Ring, Black Market Connections, Oko before that, etc.
@@drokhalis3338 I agree with you, I am just saying there is exception card like ancestrally recall and time walk
Well, that is what I'd call a "history book" of Magic! Plus Tavis can tell all the stories from the olden days. Thanks for sharing (and great to have it at Edwin's party :D)
Rudy you did a great work sharing this video,Tavis is a King for sure for the whole Mtg comunity and this collection is historic! Thanks so much for sharing this, you guys are awesome!
Thanks Alberto 🙂
UA-cam randomly served me this video at 2 am, I was absolutely not expecting Andy Schrock to show up 9 minutes in.
What a rare treat and mtg history lesson, absolutely love Tavis King, thx a bunch for sharing Rudy, you rule dude!
Thanks guys for taking the time to make videos like these very cool.
Hi, I'm Chris Wilson from Grinding Gear Games.
I'm in shambles watching this.
So much history in this video I learned so much… thank you both for the museum walk through and history lesson
Always cool to see Tavis! He's super helpfull too every time you need infos in the FB groups ❤
Very interesting, love how he has the background and stories for all the different cards
I remembered when my brothers and I used to play. Sometimes there were cards we didn’t quite understand how they’d play out. There used to be a 1800 # you could call to ask about the rules and how they would play out. Ah good times.
We never understood communulative upkeep and thought it was just paying the same cost every turn instead of it adding to the last lol
@@Chainsawyou we had that same issue 😂
Lots of people didn't understand what cumulative meant.
During playtesting it was called Illusory Upkeep.
Normally an upkeep cost had to be paid every turn. The Ice Age design team felt that paying 1 mana every turn to keep your card, was about the same thing as just sacrificing a land. They wanted to create an upkeep cost that would become more difficult to pay over time, and guarantee that such cards would only stay in play for a limited time.
It was a decent idea, but the cards often weren't powerful enough to be worth the cumulative upkeep cost, and many players avoided them because of the confusion.
We had to use that 1 800 # during a tournament once, to find out if Forestwalk still worked on Snow-Covered Forests.
Some people thought you should need Snow-Covered Forestwalk for Snow-Covered Forests, since a regular Forest isn't the same thing as a Snow-Covered Forest.
It was the most heated rules debate I ever saw at our LGS, with lots of people taking both sides.
@@TavisKingsChannel such good times. Feel so old at 45 🤣
It's so nice to see Tavis continuing to smile and share his beautiful collection all these years later. I remember meeting him for the first time in 2012 or so. He has the same bright and warm personality in this video as he did all those years ago and he wants nothing more than to just enrich people with magic history.
Incredible video of some MtG history. Thanks for posting Rudy. 🎉
Totally awesome. What a collection! Thanks for sharing to both of you
Tavis is the man. A true Magic guru. And super helpful/forthcoming with information when asked. An MTG treasure.
To me, tavis is the wizard in the collecting world of magic the gathering so....
Big respect & thank you for the knowledge man.
You're welcome 🙂
That binder is insane! ❤❤❤
Imagine trying to travel with it, just to show it off
i love how he treats them just as he did in 1993. hes never selling, so he doesnt have a reason to put them in graded sleeves. true player.
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Imagine using a ringed binder with this collection. My heart sank.
tbf they're d-rings
A d-ring is perfectly fine so long as you're not a complete careless moron when browsing pages.
Can you explain why the rings are bad to use?
@@tannerannichiarico7255 The major concern of collectors that usually deters them from using a 3 ring ring binder is the risk of binder dings. Binder dings are a type of damage that can happen to the cards in your binder when the page slips over the top of the rings and compression dents the cards that slipped over.
@@africanveteran7728 D-ring binders are a better option, but they don't completely eliminate the risk of damage.
Love these types of videos! Thank you for sharing ♥
welcome back Tavis! always awesome seeing your collection.
What a crazy binder. Thanks to you and Tavis for showing it off to us!
Anybody else get a huge wave of nostalgia when they see andy schrock roll up?
This was awesome to see, if he has more historical collections to show, he definitely should.
This is like finding your first Playboy.
I own that captains Claw.
Super nice Vid, thank you so much for sharing❤❤❤
That Ebon Dragon is so dope. But Tavis set is insane. He is forever an MTG legend.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing with the community.
What an amazing collection. I especially love the crazy misprints and the artist proofs.
31:47 gotta love the stack of blacker lotus. like they are actually gonna be played lol
yess I love on location videos with the gang
I really miss those videos on the road setting up shop at pro tours with Dan
Edwin's hair is phenomenal btw
Rudy, Open Boosters, Edwin, Saint, & myself are all together at SCG Con Tampa this weekend, and we're filming several on location videos, so stay tuned to all our channels. 🙂
Love that in that binder of total insanity he's got the Serendib and the Drudge Swamp. I kept both of those when i pared down my collection to mostly misprints and errors years ago, still have those. He needs a Vodalian Wallfolk in there, that was a cool oddity.
I had a Wallfolk years ago, and sold it in 2014.
That was my first Facebook auction, and I invented the "anti-snipe policy" to solve some of the problems I was seeing with Facebook auctions.
The Wallfolk is pretty rare, I've only seen a few copies.
This was a magic history moment. What a phenomenal video!
I can never get over how interested in the art and lore of MTG I am, while also deeply finding exactly 0 enjoyment in actually playing MTG. Winning feels cheap, losing feels bad.
Welcome to being a collector, you're not alone. 🙂
this is so cool. love seeing more from the side of the game designers
"These belong to a museum!"
He is the museum!
Happy that Dark Visions made the cut...I opened a box back in the day and ~24 of the Rares were dark (but no Vamp Tutor for me 😭 )
These are cool to see. I have a few cards where the sheet was cut in the middle of the card.
!!! lmao, the oversize Black Lotus piece 9 is so rare, even Tavis hasn't seen one 😲
I have lots of pictures of piece 9, just don't recall seeing one in person.
There's at least 3 copies of the rare Lotus piece, and at least 9 copies of the rare Chaos Orb puzzle piece.
Used to collect a ton of misprints and rarities in early 2000s, brings back memories of the Magic Librarities community we had, haven't seen some of these in so long!
Do you still have the cards?
I'm a moderator on Librarities. The Rarities section is frequently updated, and the forum has a lot of great reference material, but not nearly as active as Facebook.
A lot of the Librarities members are also on Facebook, and there's even a Librarities Facebook group now.
I don’t sadly, I had to sell everything to help fund college back in 2006, I was very active on the site from probably about 2002-2006 back then. Just started catching up on everything almost 20 years later. A lot of my collection went to other members at least.
Such a sick binder, extremely jealous of that 1 of a kind collection
Thanks for sharing that experience
Pretty sure the kobold pic at 3:45 is a 'Derro' from TSR's Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 2... Funny how a lifted pic by one creative team made its way back home to the parent company that owns D&D essentially, i.e. Wizards of the Coast, and, ahem, obviously Hasbro...
Good eye, yes that artwork is for a Derro, which is a type of Dwarf.
The Legends playtest team were huge D&D fans. WotC was originally an RPG company, trying to make roleplaying books that could be used with whatever game system you were playing.
MTG was originally supposed to be a quick card game that could be played while you were waiting for everybody in your D&D group to arrive.
WotC sold MTG along with their roleplaying books.
Loved this so much. Another Alt 4th fan here. Love those glossy cards.
Could not stop watching. Thanks for this!
Great video! Thanks Rudy & Tavis
Hey Mike, great to see you here! 🙂
WTF, OK I love this is a rundown of the history of Magic, but 30 minutes in and we get to Summer Magic. LOL
I'm here for Marc, the curly-haired dude with the hat. Cool dude. I buy cards from him every year. Haha.
what a neat collection very interesting to see the various print errors through magic history!
Thank you Rudy!!
This is why I'm subscribed!
Tavis is such a cool dude I miss having him come by my shop and hanging out showing off his different binders. I remember him playing a draft with us and was killing people with crypt rats.
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I need one of those florida fireballs decks 😱😱😱
Thanks for sharing this
9:14 A wild Andy Schrock appears!
this collection is amazing...so much history. Tavis is the best.
I Know these both of these guys; great folks !
Edwin’s the magic engineer my favorite misfit of the Alpha investments and unhinged magi cohorts-lord Adam
Thanks for showing and sharing!
You're welcome 🙂
That Arabian Nights island is dope
Wow, this was really cool to see. What a fantastic collection.
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
Wow love the history and great video! 💜
I've got a pretty cool ink error Visions Sisay's Ring that I watched a shop owner pack pull. I got it for a quarter and have held onto it. It looks like someone dragged a black MS Paint airbrush tool around the top of the art.
So interesting to see these. Thanks for sharing.
What cool and intresting collection thanks for documenting it.
that's the most summer magic I've seen in one place. that book is magic.
On my channel there's a video of a complete set of Summer Magic that's been graded by PSA.
Tavis really comes across as a great guy.
Lol the meme captains claws + goldnight castigator love that made it to the binder
those artist proofs are insane
This is the kind of MtG content im looking for
Me too !
Sometimes you have to create the content you want.
@@TavisKingsChannel holy crap! I have so many questions about your collection but I will limit it to two. What made you get into collecting oddities like this? What is your holy grail card?
@@sillylung
I started collecting oddities like this when the judge at my LGS gifted me an Alternate 4th Edition Benalish Hero.
I knew it was special and wasn't sure what to do with it, so I put it into a binder by itself.
Then I put a copy of each English Benalish Hero in the binder with it.
Then I put a copy of each non-English Benalish Hero in the binder with it.
Then I put a copy of each Artist Proof Benalish Hero in the binder with it.
Then I started putting misprints and test prints into that binder.
@@TavisKingsChannel that's so awesome. I had started to collect one each basic land that had ever been printed but lost pretty much everything I owned in a wild fire a few years ago. After that I kinda lost interest and I had to many other things to worry about rebuilding. Seeing such a unique collection as yours makes me want to start up again now that my life is getting back to normal
@@sillylung
I have many awesome cards, but when you say holy grail, I'm assuming you're asking about something I want that I don't currently own.
The first thing that comes to mind, is a normal unsigned Beta Black Lotus in light played condition for my Beta complete set.
After that, I'd like to have the Yellow border Revised Reconstruction test print, and a pink backed Antiquities Xenic Poltergeist Make Ready.
These last two cards haven't been seen since 1994.
The Unlimited/Antiquities double print Make Ready Benalish Hero would be nice, because it's the only one I wanted that I'm missing. I had the opportunity to buy it, but it had a very high price tag, so I passed and someone else bought it.
One of the High Gloss "Glossogram" holograms on the back of a Beta Benalish Hero, Samite Healer, Scryb Sprites, Fireball, Ironclaw Orcs, Mons's Goblin Raiders, Blue Elemental Blast, or Twiddle would be really cool, but so far it isn't known to exist on any of these specific card names.
Maybe someday one will surface though, because other Beta commons are affected.
15:37 I knew that Magic was named MANA CLASH but never heard of MANA FLASH...so cool!
This is the stuff i like to see!!!! Its funny to see them with playtest decks. We were playing recently and a guy noticed we were playing with alpha/beta……his jaw fell through the floor. But a playtest deck would have me doing the same thing!
Edwin & Marc played a game with the playtest decks after we were done looking through my binder.
Keep an eye out for that upcoming video here on Rudy's channel.
That Gamma collection 😳😳😳
Thanks for sharing this history with us Tavis!
You're welcome 🙂
This is awesome. The best I've ever seen.
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LOL that kobold card is using derro art from, I think, 2nd edition AD&D. I definitely remember that art from way back when. Correction, 1st edition AD&D Monster Manual 2 is where that art came from.
Yep, a lot of the old playtest art is taken from D&D books & comic books.
They did bring back Kobolds in the Commander Legends set.
This video is so freakin cool.
Tavis as cool as always. Literally a legend.
I still have my the first box I ever got when magic came out
Always good to see Tavis
Mox Crystal is freaking cool! What an awesome collection thank you.
These test cards still manage to have better artwork than metazoo :D
24:46 Looking through the $1 million magic collection when suddenly there's a $2 million inverted Jenny stamp with barely a mention.
That's the only stamp I know about (Monty mailed one in "Brewster's Millions") so unsure if its real.
Brewster's Millions is also how I learned about this stamp, way back in the 1980's on TV.
I used to have a stamp collection, but I sold it about 20 years ago.
This one is fun to have in my misprint binder though. 🙂
This "quick 15 minute video" is 45 minutes long, so there wasn't time for all the stories. 😂
I was wondering if that was real, surely they would spend a little more time on it.
Maybe in the context of this insane collection it's just another piece of history, but still.
@@TavisKingsChannel yeah, it actually its a missprint so made sense!!
Awesome part of history collection❤❤
It’s depressing how many don’t know how old IceAge is. Which is why it’s so so special.
The Plains/Planes are very awesome.