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Mark Justices deck was fire that year too, he played a red artifact control and splashed green. I'm sure he had a good run with it! Henry Sterns was pretty similar too, although he had different lines.
I know I'm a bit late to the party here, but seeing some of these old decklists with that much LD and that few lands makes me... suspicious. As unreasonable as it may seem to suspect the *unimpeachable* integrity of the mid-late 90's Magic player, I fear you may not have played these games entirely "accurately". Much like period appropriate all-American heroes Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire, some of these numbers may make more sense with the involvement of a Balanced Breakfast. Like, you mentioned the decks being better if the SB's were just 15 basics, but maybe they were just keeping a few basics in the other *other* sideboard, you know?
All these’s years I’ve been wondering what Serra’s Angel’s wheenie lookes like. Amazed how woke and inclusive they were back in the day, ahead of their time. Kuddo’s!
This is my surprised face that Patrick Sullivan did not pick Spike Feeder as coolest card in the set, a tournament staple against mono red aggro decks...
I actually disagree about City of Brass in that Starter deck. I think that's the *perfect* place to put 1 copy of City of Brass. Assuming the new player plays a few games with that deck, they're gonna have the wrong basics for their spells a bunch of the time. Then they'll realize, when they have City of Brass, they *always* have the color they need, and paying 1 life each time they need it is almost always worth it.
Remember buying homelands and ice age packs for under $1.50, fallen empire packs for around $0.50. The dark and revised were still standard 2.5ish. Yeah they were underpowered but you could tell overprinted. Even mirage was overprinted and you could get at times for under $1 a pack. Star wars had similar issues with unlimited and cloud city
A lot of people saying Fallen Empires, but I’m going to disagree. As sets from that time period go, it’s probably among the more playable. Very little removal, but at least there are plenty of creatures and they’re mostly not terrible on rate. Compare that to the draftability of a set like Antiquities or The Dark; just full of stuff that doesn’t do anything.
Coldsnap, Fallen Empires (2x for card count), Saviors of Kamigawa. if we stick with sets designed to be drafted, replace the Fallen Empires packs with Rise of the Eldrazi becuase like Coldsnap it doesn't work well unless it's all 3 packs For anyone who hasn't ever tried to draft Fallen Empires: Thallids is the only viable archetype and there is zero removal
Get Bosh and Roll to build decks given the format in that year to beat the given meta Then have each of the decks in this video fight a deck that we build with modern deck theory
I think legends should be in There, while maybe not fair as is wasn't intended to be drafted the combo of a third of the set being unplayable e en by 1994 standards and a third being wildly over powered coupled with a non functional level of diversity seems crazy
If all the boosters have a low power level, playability of individual cards will be higher relatively speaking. Maybe to make the whole draft miserable, add a very powerful booster so that the other two really don't matter.
It’s easy to hate on the early non-interactive mechanics like protection but they played well in ABU. They started becoming an issue when they started printing more and more of the same so you could play up to 12 pro-white or black knights. Add the removal of the OG dual lands from the base set to make splashing more difficult and that was a problem.
Alara Reborn is also dogshit in chaos drafts, you might get a pack with nothing you can even reasonably cast. Power level might be there, but its still pretty low, and every card has a very demanding mana requirement.
I have to imagine if you ignore the wow factor of it existing and getting to open it, adding an Alpha pack to a chaos draft has to be awful with the high chance of getting five lands and a majority of the other cards being highly unplayable
Homelands, Fallen Empires, The Dark. For obvious reasons, not the least of which include a complete lack of power of any kind and small pack sizes. You might not even be able to cobble together a playable 40 EVER.
Just found this (after a couple of weeks of binging your traditional videos). This was absolutely amazing. You two have so much knowledge, and matching that with paper gameplay is just the best thing ever. Can't wait to watch the rest and all the future ones. Thank you for your work and this great content!
I miss the old days, that’s why I play 93/94 old school and premodern, too many mechanics and abilities on new creatures. That being said, can’t wait for bloomburrow draft. I still love limited.
I feel like I'm one of the only oldheads who's just kinda universally up on this set. I think mechanically it looks extraordinarily fun, if not the most creative thing ive ever seen. I think the flavor is super on point, if a bit more youth oriented. None of those ifs are real detractors to me, and all of the preceeding statements are just points of hype. Really looking forward to otter storming someone into next month.
I started playing with Ice Age, have been really down on Universes Beyond and some recent themes like OTJ. But I am hyped for Bloomburrow because it is both cute and has legit fantasy vibes.
@@cdadamlyprecisely how I feel. "Magical animal plane that polymorphs you" is great fantasy flavor. The art is beautiful, and the cards just look fun. After super smash brothers cowboy plane and a deluge of UB I'm happy to see a nice-looking, mechanically interesting fantasy setting.
the "enters" instead of etb i cant stand. the simple verb Enters is too ambiguous; having the information of Where something enters into i think is important. without previously understanding the mechanics of the game, you literally read the card to understand the card. okay, the card enters - enters What?..
Ehh I think you’ll get over it. There’s really no other zone for a permanent to “enter”. Things “die”, “go to”, or are “put into” a graveyard. They “get exiled” or “returned to” a player’s hand. The only place to enter is the battlefield. It sounds weird to you, because it’s new, but tweaking game terminology is just part of Magic. Enters the battlefield itself used to be called comes into play. Not having to write “the battlefield” over and over sure saves a lot of text space. I feel like it’s overall a sensible change.
They needed to do that. Cards need to have more and more abilities. This takes away words so cards can have more abilities fit in the text box. I think it’s ridiculous this is why, but that’s why.
@@christopherlundgren1700, right but for new players and people whose native language isnt english, it's a headache. permanent & spells moving from zone to zone given the current terminology makes sense. the life/death cycle is easily understood as we all lige and die. exiling things is also suggestive to what happens to the card. but just enter? its too ambiguous. things technically enter the graveyard, enter the exile zone, enter the ante zone if you're living life dangerously, so i dont like the shortcut for this. magic is a Very Detailed Upon the Language game. something that can be said nearly the exact same way can actually be two seperate actions entirely. it's a lot of like law/learning law. omitting things like this might for you and me, seasoned magic players be a mild nuisance, but for new players - there is zero direction on the card without previously understanding any of the game rules. this is also why people say english is a difficult language. we have many words that dont give any indication how they're actually pronounced & non native speakers hate this. the same could be said about this change
@@christopherlundgren1700, heh...well let's be thankful they didnt take any cues from the past & shortcut 'comes into play' to 'Comes' 🤣 id be able to handle "nicol bolas Comes" exactly once before reverting back to the sense of humour of a six year and laughing out loud at that everytime
