Magic in 2002 Was Truly Something Else | Psychatog vs Squirrel Opposition 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Just play Magic Arena. You can easily play top decks for free.

@@achdetoni5008 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.

@@achdetoni5008 "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.

I laughed so hard there.

Agree. I have moved on from playing magic. I prefer the way it used to be and love these videos!

Was thinking the same thing. That was one of the coolest play sequences I've ever seen.

That's probably why he's in the MTG Hall of Fame.

I would love to see them make this unironically. Just let them decide what to power creep and play a deck like that.

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Didnt they make a future set? That was semi an joke

Xzikomfdfhj's Scorn: R, sorcery, You win the game, unless a player pays 20 life, then you lose the game instead ... red is still OP in the future

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Psychatog madness was my first ever competitive deck and I will always love it too

That's such a nice story to hear man :3, my first love of card games beyond casually playing was Dino Rabbit in 2012 Yu-Gi-Oh! and the subsequent formats with Wind-ups, Mermail, Spellbook and Dragon Rulers. A format for which I was too young to play at the time was DupeTroop which entailed a bunch of different decks with varying playstyles but all centered around the card Card Trooper.

for me that deck was the perfect storm when I was ~11 years old. We had a guy in my card-shop that had all the vintage-staple decks and had no problem with handing a noobie like me a full powered deck just so he could giggle at the way I played them in the beginning. Joke was on him really quickly tho, as I became very good with them :D

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)

you rock!

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!

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