"Please! What do I do!? My degree is in English Literature! I have no useful skills whatsoever! I am too old to retrain, and they've already shut of my water." That is the funniest thing I have heard in a while Professor, thanks for that!
THIS IS MY FAVORITE VIDEO YOU HAVE EVER PUT OUT. But yes, in all honesty, I have always appreciated the professor's amazing personality and how he implements it in kits. The first minute of the video was just absolutely amazing. I wish I could make seven accounts just to like this video a bunch of times.
This has saved me so much money, I didn't realize that Vintage was cheaper than EDH. In my mono-green deck my basics cost me 5100 dollars, but now that I switched to Vintage, I only had to shell out 170 bucks for my basic land. What a savings considering I play 8 EDH decks stocked to the brim with basic lands. I literally laughed out loud at that part, nice video!
Hi All, Gabe here. Just wanted to clear a few things up: •Yes, I did make this video just to show off my new painting. •Vintage is actually a very fun format, and many tournaments allow 10-15 proxies, making it quite affordable. Proxying the expensive cards in dredge, for example, makes the list cost about $30. •I only run one copy of Brainstorm in my vintage Grixis Control deck. See the video description for my decklist. •No, this is not an April Fools joke. Does anything in this video seem unreasonable or expensive?
Holy Kharns you got me so good!!!! I actually clicked thinking "wow is this even possible??? finally!" it wasn't until the P9 that I realized it was a joke, ggwp professor
what's cool about this video is that even though it's an april fools joke, it also gives decent advice for making a vintage deck for less expensive then usual (although still ungodly expensive).
MotoritzAnimeList if you plan on playing standard for 10 years, 30*52*10, that’s 15,000$. That’s a lot of money, but still about the same cost as this deck. Buuuuuut since there’s no more organized play for vintage, you can pretty much get all the way away with counterfeit cards, usually costing about 2-3$ apiece, spending a total of 120$ MAX on the deck. Best way to play high power formats without playing ludicrous prices for otherwise useless cards for a dead format. Still fun to play proxied vintage with friends though
back in the mid nineties, when I was in Jr. high and just getting into Magic, there was this kid who had a Mox Sapphire and a Lotus. Card sleeves weren't really a thing then, besides the basic penny sleeves. It still makes me cringe thinking about sitting in the hallway at lunch and him scraping the back of his unprotected black lotus across the concrete walkways to put it in his GY when he sac'd it. Oh god the fever dreams!
Reminds me when my Dad and his friend used to play MTG like that. My dad says his friend played with a Mox Jet, digging that thing sleeveless into the dirt and ashes. I think he said he only made $80 out of it. Yikes.
Technically, in the format, is considered budget a deck that does not run Power, Workshops, Bazaars and Mana Drain, so Dredge is not "budget", but among the Top tier decks, it's by far the cheapest to put together
MTGMaster Point is you can put together a competitive dredge list together fuck under 4k instead of 14k. So....yeah, it is budget as far as vintage goes even if it doesn't run powers and such.
DCAMM720 Being real fair, now a days we have Powerless Eldrazi as a budget deck for Vintage. And Damping Sphere should go a long way to helping make the deck better
watching a lot of your older videos lately, as i only really started watching your videos at all very recently. I love them! keep up the good work, or uh the old work. Yes, don't stop what you did already :) A happy viewer
*Applause* HAHAHAhahaha. I almost snorted out my drink when he mentioned the deck was the price of a ford focus. Great video! about killed me. hahahaha
To be fair, Vintage Dredge is actually not that expensive. The only really pricey card it runs that I am aware of is 4x Bazaar of Baghdad at $400 each. That being said, you could probably get a higher end Legacy deck with cheapest-edition staples for the same price or less, and ... you know ... actually have a bunch of people to play against.
Just to think that, back in the old days, I used to have (Also my friends) lots of mox cards, dual lands and all those crazy vintage cards that everybody hypes a lot. But then, no one really knew card value around that time here in Brazil. I think I remember a friend with a Italian Black Lotus, but no one knew what that card was suppose to do.
I send a chinese friend the decklist, he told me he has all those cards and would only take 50 bucks for it! I guess chinese people really liked to buy magic boosters so they have way more cards and they are cheaper over there!
Just have to say if your in a non competitive vintage game you can always play mono coloured and save a ton of money. my fun vintage/legacy deck costs no where near what a competitive deck costs and its usually pretty decent in most games.
Some of us purchased our power and duals long, LONG ago, so it is not the same for everyone. I am confident most vintage players rather have more new people to play with even if the new people uses proxies compared to not having more people join the format. Same goes for the 93/94 format.
Prof, I do hope you make a real serious video about Vintage. That would show players of how the format really is and to show them that Vintage isn't a turn 1 kill format like everybody believes.
The savings on these cards is astounding, all I have to do is aquire a Ford Focus, and I am off to my game store with my vintage deck currently worth more than myself.
back in 2005 I went 5-0 with an unpowered burn deck at the time cost barely $80 (wastelands were still kinda cheap back then), the only reason it was even that expensive was the cursed scroll. It was called "controlled burn" because it wasn't just dumb "to the head" burn, it used massive amounts of artifact removal and other types of utility removal to thin their artifacts, even used Artifact Blast to counter Black Lotus (which I did that in the tourney on one occasion, I did win that game). It was a fun, powerful deck that none of the decks there could match with any of their moxes, libraries, or workshops. The big key was Gorilla Shaman, it killed many MANY moxes.
At GP Memphis Lengthy Xemit had a friend with Vintage Hate Bears. He let me play a few games with it. Deck was a blast and had game against blue decks. It was still expensive (2 Mox, Lotus, Duals etc), but it was maybe $5000 if you got MP stuff. Still a ton of money, but 1/3rd the price of the deck in the video. Also, 50 of the cards would run under $1000 and a lot were Modern or Legacy legal. Again, Vintage decks aren't cheap, but something to be said for them never rotating. BTW, I also can't wait to hear your opinion on the new event deck.
And sense all the daily's are on Magic online, but most tournaments are in paper, you will probably have to build this deck twice! But it's ok because it's such a steal!
I have to admit I was skeptical coming into this, but about halfway through the video I was sold. After thinking about it at length I sold my car, several organs, and my entire magic collection. I know own this deck, but am a wandering magic playing hobo. So budget!
Azreal Dragon I got it from Christopher Rush. He makes lots of appearances at conventions and tournaments, is a super nice guy, and will sign the print for you when you buy it. He's also on facebook: facebook.com/pages/The-Art-of-Christopher-Rush/1401503043423639
Title of this video is amazing, I was looking for just a budget vintage build, then...then this happened...I felt like I got next leveled so hard, but I can't stop laughing. So confused...well played sir, well played. Thumb up well deserved.
What’s funny about these prices is these prices are so far out of date it’s crazy. If you’d have bought this deck five years ago you could have bought twenty ford focuses today!
LOL, I am sooooo glad I started playing magic when I was 13 years old (2nd oct 1993). Jeez kids today have almost NO chance of getting all the old great magic cards unless they have a ton of money, kinda sad I think... Myself play a lot of Legacy/Vintage paper magic with my friends, who also sarted back then (we are a gang of 8 boys and 2 girls). Real cool that after all these years of magic, it's still fun to play like hell! (can't belive it's soon 24 years ago)...soon 40 *gulp*. Hope I get a kid one day that will play magic and can inherit my collection, that would be so fucking awesome! I'm sure Magic the Gathering is here to stay! We get together atleast a few times a week me and my friends and play for hours and testing out different decks and trying to mix in new stuff that comes out in the newest sets. Best card game ever you ask me! Just LOVE Magic the Gathering! Thx a lot Wizards of the Coast!!! I will NEVER sell my collection thats for damn sure! PS: Sell 1 of your kidneys lol, mabye you can afford to play also ROFL!
Understanding of course that this is satire, there is a cheaper way to play super competitive vintage if you don't have the money for a set of power. Vintage Dredge is still expensive, but it doesn't break $2k, which is pretty great for competitive vintage. It's really the deck to beat too, so around $1900 for tier 1 is pretty great.
olaying vintage if not for official tourmaments can be extremelly cheap,just follow these simple steps. 1 - Get your whole vintage deck as proxies. 2 - Have fun.
Really, really, nice deck. Also worth noting the MTGO version can be gotten for around 800, what savings! (Though playing UR Delver in Legacy is only $100-150, IMO more worth it)
There should be a just for fun format that's just straight up anything goes. The only limitation is that you can only have 4 of the same card name except for things like basics and shadowborn apostle and you both start at 20 life. But other than that, every card is open to use, no limitations whatsoever. Even un sets and cards from commander sets would be allowed. No bannings or restrictions of any kind. That would be so cool to watch.
You should post an actual budget vintage deck sometime, they exist but only if you are playing in a heavily meta vintage environment as you can cut powers and run null rods and such. Great video regardless.
