I was 12 years old when Magic came out. I went to the local comic shop with my good buddy Rick. Our parents let us choose one thing: I was super into learning D&D, so I went the D&D Players Handbook route, my buddy Rick went the Magic route. He told me I should. I am happy with my choice, lifelong D&D guy. I just started playing Magic during Guilds of Ravnica. I love it. I really wish I woulda went the Magic route, at least a bit. Rick has a binder of cards that are gonna pay for his daughters college education :) lol Nice vid Rudy. Ill keep watching ;)
I got a box of this on my 15th birthday I opened the shrink wrap, pulled out the "happy birthday" note out of the sealed, sealed mind you, booster box, and freaked out for the next 10 minutes.
Duplication: the Duplicating - this reminds me of the Urza's Destiny God Pack's from a Pre-release back in the day... the whole room went insaaaane and it was a good time.
Climbing through Ice Age?!?! Love it. I remember buying packs at the card shop as a kid. Legacy was the first time I STOPPED playing Magic. Thanks for this one.
I imagine an intervention episode where they wheel Rudy out in a straight jacket and you see that the foundation of the house is actually boxes of magic.
Weatherseed Treefolk blew my mind when I was a kid. It was my favorite card at the time. Coming back from the graveyard to my hand just seemed unfair. Still one of my favorite cards. Great video as always Rudy
I literally remember the day me and 2 other friends opened some cards from this set when it first came out. One of them said "foil cards look neat, but they will never catch on." The other guy said "Ya, it's just more stuff to collect. Now you can't get a full set unless you have 2 of each foil and non-foil" and both said they were gonna quit the game. LOL
The art in these old boxes is just on another level. I don't really collect MTG but if the newer sets were anything like these older ones I probably would get sucked (giggity) in.
"I think that Memory Jar might be banned everyone." LOL, the damn thing was emergency banned from standard almost immediately and has been banned in every format but Type 1 since.
hah yeah I remember it was like a week from release. I actually sold one and the price skyrocketed right after and I was like "damn"... and then it got banned ) it was actually also promo card for the release. good times.
I mean... in defense of the duplication thing... back then we were buying individual packs from LGS’ duplication wasn’t ever an issue when you only buy 1-3 packs at at time hahaha
Speak for yourself, reserved a box of each new set back then...then greedily packs every weekend at my LGS. Think I ended up buying a case or more of each Saga block box by the time things settled.
Most of us were just kids with no source of income and living in lower middle-class households. You were probably the exception rather than the rule, bro. @@implode3
@@Clabian96 I've been working my entire life---in 4th grade through Jr high I did a paper route everyday after school for 3 hours, on top of homework. In high school I worked fast food job at McDonalds on top of extracurriculars. So presenting things like I was given things and born with a silver platter is deeply offensive to me.
@@implode3 I said nothing about you being handed things... that was the other guy. I was just saying I wish I had bought more Urza's block instead of the newest set back then... Good on you, though. Definitely appreciate things more when you work hard for them.
I thought about that too, and I think he's probably just used to opening more "modern" sets where they've done a much more thorough job of controlling what goes in the packs; nowadays, you basically only get a duplicate rare if one's foil, but you're right, for a small set back in the day it was far more common to get duplicates.
@xxGodx sure the odds are the same as winning the lottery... buying a 1 dollar scratch off and winning $10. There SHOULD be at least 3-4 duplicate cards per 36 booster packs on rares.
@xxGodx Things weren't randomized back then the way you might think they would be. 8-10 duplicates was common because rarity was uneven, about half of the rares had a higher print frequency, and if I recall correctly, there was even a bucket that was more rare.
Rudy being so surprised about the duplication means he never opened any boxes of Stronghold, Exodus, Urza’s Legacy and Destiny. Because only 44 rares in a small set and the rares were randomly inserted in the box, Every box of these sets had multiple duplicates of the rares. Wizards fixed this later.
I opened a box of original Time Spiral when it came out. You got one foil Timeshifted card in the box. Of all the amazing cards it could have been, my foil was a Squire.
Am I the only one NOT surprised by the duplication? I opened a lot of Legacy back in the day (okay, "a lot" is maybe exaggerating, maybe 15 boxes from 2000-2004), and 8-10 duplicates a box was expected (36 packs per box, 44 total rares, and rares not having even distribution are the reasons).
Correct. Time changes everything as well, today this is not a great box, but back then, this would have been a pretty big winner of a box (2 memory jars, 2 hermits? yes please)
Palinchron wasn't even a "big hit" back then (good, but not like it is today). It was only really useful in T1.X and for budget T1 decks, it made almost no appearances in T2
I did so many $9 drafts of Legacy at my LGS. So many good memories. We used to do this thing where 2 people would draft an entire box together and whoever won more games got the entire box.
Why does it feel like Rudy just recorded his Voice over this video lmao i can just picture him trying to think of things to say while watching his random actions on a silent video of the box opening!
Every time you re-count the duplicates it's like i'm watching fucking sesame street all over again in the 80's. Thanks for the nostalgia. Floppy taco out.
@ 0:28 You pointed at Norrit. I have multiple of those cards from Ice Age but I only have 1 that has the swamp mana symbol from fallen empires and all the expansions from further back. Was this a promo from Wizards Magazine?
You can see at 3:46 when Rudy covers the box with the Happy Birthday card the third hairy arm comes from behind and changes the packs out for duplicates. Welcome to hosetown
I remember opening a box when the set first came out and being disappointed I didn't get a Ring of Gix, ironically. How perspectives change after twenty years.
Ya, so much better. I didn’t like when they started doing the banner style on the title, but not as bad as the newer ugly black bottoms, at least put they black bar on top of the colored border frame, looks so shitty now.
I had to go look and see who the illustrator was on Grim because I was getting so anxious every time you showed the artifact illustrator. Chippy is the name of the illustrator. Can only imagine the joke/witty one liner you could've made if you had pulled one.
I bought a case when it came out. I wish I hadn't opened them all. But I did wind up with 5 Grim Monoliths, 6 Palinchron, 7 No Mercy, and 8 Memory Jars. All of which are still NM. None foil, though. Highest value foil appears to have been Crawlspace. 40 foils total.
My knowledge of Magic ended with Fallen Empires so I don't know anything about these cards, but damn I love these videos. Your enthusiasm is infectious lol
I opened a pack of this for a crazy old school booster draft at my LGS and I pulled a Hidden Gibbons. The best card in the pack was Phyrexian Reclamation. Was still a lot of fun.
I opened my legacy booster box on my 15th birthday when it came out and remember all the duplicate rares I got as well, along with a misprinted palinchron!
I loved this era, especially the fat packs with the book in them. Lost all my books when I was homeless, guess I need to buy them again. Yeah, I'm a nerd. Thanks Dr Salty!
you should do a video with a weight comparison of the Urza's block booster boxes because I believe since the foils used a higher grade coating and the boxes with more foils in them would weigh more.
Duplication like this is expected. There were only 143 cards in the set. 55 uncommons, 44 uncommons, and 44 rares. Too few rares to not have a ton of duplicates. EDIT: Urza's Destiny has the same structure. 143 unique cards, 55 uncommons, 44 uncommons, 44 rares.
I'd have WotC and lawyers on the phone if I opened this knowing some other box probably had multiple reserve list cards. 3 grand and you are giving me some rare cards damnit.
Radiant Archangel!! I was 11 when I started playing magic and urza legacy was my 1st set. I got Radiant Archangel foil. And guess what? I put it inside my wallet for show and to replace my id.. silly me.. Its condition got so bad, and I mean very bad. Young hearts.. lol..
