Thanks for the videos of cracking packs and sharing collections. Those videos have been a source of fun and laughs for me in this uncertain time. I am not a collector or investor I just love playing commander, pioneer, modern, and pauper, however I did manage to pick up a Metal Worker in foil when some sellers were dropping prices significantly in February. He is lightly played and beautiful. Hope you are safe and healthy Rudy. Be encouraged and have a blessed day.
Thanks, Rudy! I will forever watch your videos, because, I'm a MTG nerd at heart that left the hobby many many moons ago! Your videos bring me back to when life was all about breaking the grips of reality; collecting your favorite cards, constructing decks, and, playing battle circles with your friends! Nothing more satisfying than making your own deck, and, winning a battle circle with all of your friends! Forever, a nerd at heart, JD!
Nice First again! It's definitely a strange time with all the bands. Some of these cards, you really have to dig into a name or even the artwork to see something uncouth, or not PC.
"Aparently this card is bad now so it's price has gone trought the roof". It's stupid banning art, it always have the reverse effect you wanted it to have.
More than that, it's a non-action. It's something that won't affect the business in any way or form, that won't do any good for the battle against racism, it's just a way of saying "yeah, we're against racism, so let's do this thing that no one was asking for and call it a day".
Wow, Magic cards that aren't foil, art extended, box topper, mythic, showcase frame. With that being said, the 4 Horseman sets are the real collector's edition cards
I don’t understand the banning of jihad. This whole set was a celebration of the middle eastern culture. Anyone who was around back then would probably agree with me. I certainly didn’t hear folks screaming racism back then. I personally think the picture on Jihad is badass. It looks incredible. Same with Crusade.
They're trying to portray Islam in a good light by censoring their horrible past, while other sites like Twitter censor the their horrible deeds in this day and age.
MGX93dot Of course they have horrible deeds in the past. So do the Europeans who crusaded. That doesn’t make the cards racist though. It’s just history. All social media are trying to control the freedom of speech, the bastards. Eventually other site that doesn’t ban speech will out perform fb, Twitter etc. You mark my words.
Actually it is a twisted interpretation of a bible verse. And WOC cannot have any reference to anything that might be confused as assigning guilt to someone.
One does not simply disrespect Sorceress Queen! I couldn't run a black deck without having at least 2 queens and 2 assassins in my oldschool decks. They were necessecitys to me!
Viewer: kind words Rudy the taco: theyre not for sale Viewer: sell me 93 94 cardboard Rudy the taco: NO . . mine. I needs them. I gots to have them... PRECIOUS.
Rudy: 'i'll have Terese Nielsen playmats in my videos for the foreseeable future!'. Two days and two videos laters, wait, when did Terese change her name to Jeff Laubenstein?
I've owned a lot of vintage cards in my day. Of all of them, I really wish I had my arabian nights mountains. I don't know what it is about them, but they're great. I wish I had the mint Beta underground sea I sold for waaaay to little too, but yeah. those mountains.
Stupid thing is, most of the banned cards were already on the ‘reserved list’ so they weren’t going anywhere anyway. And people didn’t really play with them in tournaments either. A lotta band (banned) wagon jumpers out there ; )
PLus the whole meaning behind the stone throwing devils is that in the bible Jesus supposedly said " Let him who is without sin, cast the first stone" But devils would be the ultimate trolls and seek to stone people to death. Lotta biblical stuff in the early mtg sets.
The Number one takeaway is Rudy ain't selling these for life or money. He is taking them to the grave because his cost is zero because timmys are buying new product like wild fire.
Wotc should just make new land cards that do basically the same thing that the dual lands do/say and give them different art and text.......it would not be a reprint of reserved list cards!
Stone Throwing was different variant of light and dark on the mana symbol. I also think it was a stretch when they announced this one was banned because everyone would have to research for an hour to figure why....
I think he’s only doing that for his opening videos, I’m assuming he does different types of videos in different locations, as he always uses this playmat for collection audits so he probably does all his collection audits at a different location to where he does all his openings which I’m assuming is where all his Terese Nielson artwork playmat’s are. Also Rudy just squeezes in a video whenever he can so he may not have been prepared with his playmats. Also this could have been filmed way in advance. Sorry for the long response but just thought I’d share some thoughts.
Jihad isn't inappropriate for any reason other than the name. The cards artwork looks like some kind of Asian dynasty, the name references something with origins from the middle east, and the card pumps white creatures which even if you want to argue are white people they still have nothing to do with jihads or Asian culture.
Disclaimer: This is just from my last 7+ years only now of studying topics and subjects of historical evidence for contextual criticism against different 'religious' text. I am in no means trying to project or push an ideal or world view to *anyone* here especially. But I thought I would leave some information regarding the reasons and why, and things that go on beyond the normal perception. Stay the course & Much love
Just because you are jealous and bitter at Europeans for inventing the world and being reminded you need them, while Europeans don't require you. Its not their fault.
