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You say Dingus Egg gains life, but in the card it says that it deals damage... Am I missing something? .-.

Sharahzad was unbanned for some months somewhere in the 2000s. People would put it in the sidedeck to stall the second game if the won the first one to lock the 3 point victory. Of course it got banned again...

hold up, late game ali, dingus egg, armageddon, think about it.

Regarding the ante cards, I understand they were also banned because having that gambling factor in the game made MtG illegal in some countries, and since they wanted to expand the game as much as possible, decided to do away with that.

Actually, 1001 Arabian Nights was not the source of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves or Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. Both of those stories originated elsewhere, but were added to the Arabian Nights in compilations in the 17th-19th century.

I'd love to hear more about MTG's history. Please continue with this series.

I love how he forgot what dingus egg did while talking about it....who GAINS life again?

Very informative and a great start to what should be a great series.

I love this concept. Especially since I have some friends who began to play magic much more recent than I did (I started around Ice Age, they started around Scars of Mirrodin), that sometimes fail to understand why certain mechanics and design decisions (often shown in the banned cards) isn't wise to have in Standard and certain non-rotating formats. I actually think people will have a better understanding of how magic and metas are formed, if they learn which cards got banned and the context they got banned in throughout the history of magic!

Dingus egg makes players LOSE life. Dingus

This is such a good video. I love learning other historical aspects of MTG. Great job bud. This makes me excited to keep doing my Card Anthology series!

great idea and sweet production, keep it up!

I really hope you continue this ... love learning more about the lore and reasons of MTG.

Very cool and unique concept, original since i never seen it on YT before, or at least not in this cool format. I vote for more, thanks for the awesome videos :)

I'm really looking forward to more of these. this was awesome

Very cool series. Love learning about the history of the game and cards! The Shahrzad flavor explanation was particularly interesting! As was the explanation of how the literal text on the Rukh Egg was exploited. Keep em coming!

Great idea for a series, keep em coming!

Dingus egg was a card i used to play in my casual group. It DEALS damage to someone that loses a land not gains

Really enjoyed this video! Hope to see ?more soon!

I kinda like your explanation of these bannings. Do continue this series:)

Wow, I still remembered most of this announcement from back in the day. I would definitely like to see more MTG memory lane videos. Nice work!

Please continue this series by doing the next wave of restricted and banned cards. This is awesome, and something i wanted on KZfaq for a long time. Thanks!!!

Very interesting... I would love to see more like this.

Brings back many memories but I didn't know most of what you said in your video. I look forward to the next

This is great content. Nostalgia for sure. I want more please!

Dude this is awesome keep going!!!

Love the history lesson, thanks! More please!

Very cool! Just stumbled upon this.

Enjoyed this video. Would like to see an updated one as more banned cards all the sudden.

I like this series. I think it is super interesting and would like to learn more.

love it very cool keep the episodes going. good idea.

You messed up your wording with Dingus Egg. The text says deals 2 damage, but you read it as gained 2.

Great video!

I love magic vids like these that talk about it's past. I would love to see more.

I enjoyed this. Good work.

I would love to see more videos like this

This is awesome, more please :D

Great series!

Great Stuff Dude!

Love the content. I started playing with ante. How many times I had to trade away valuable cards to get back my beloved dragon whelp after getting mana screwed!! Keep up the good work.

I liked the video a lot: really interesting!

Nice video!

First time seeing you and this is a great idea

Please continue this series, really enjoy facts for this game

Love it, make more!

keep it up. i like how you explained shaharazad as more than a card but of the book too. i didn't know that about it. dingus egg seems like with armageddon you could win really quickly dealing 8+ damage to opponent if thats all you need to finish them off.

I like the video. Speculating on the future is fruitless without understanding the past and present. Cheers

Good stuff keep it up

props for using the phrase "avoid going off on a tangent" while discussing Shahrazad, ha!

Icy Manipulator was another OP product of the environment it existed within. It coexisted along side brutal prison cards like winter's orb. In those sorts of decks you could use the Icy Manipulator to turn off all those oppressive prison cards at instant speed and make them essentially one sided.

Subscribed for historical videos of Magic.

I definitely want to see more of these. I've looked into the history of the Banned & Restricted list a few times but not many lists give the reasons or context for the bannings. I'd love to learn more about them. By the way, wasn't Chaos Orb on the initial ban list? Or was it actually tournament legal for a time?

this serie would be awsome!!!

This was nice. Really looking forward to the Mind Twist episode. I recall that it was a Very Big Deal at the time.

Loved this SOOOO much. Have been playing long enough to lose (and win) some great cards to ante cards (looking at you Contract From Below) as well as being able abuse multiple Sol Rings (so restriction worthy). It's always great fun hearing about the early days of the game. More please. As always fantastic job, can't wait for your next video.

Your knowledge in history reflects in the depth and breath of your analysis

if i get the writing right, berserk is an 1 mana removal too. Or did i miss something? Sure it has to be cast during the attack phase to do so, but based on the Situration you prefer some extradmg before an card surviving. (Example Dark confident attacks while you having no blockers)

Great video! I wanted to do something like this, but you beat me to the punch lol

My first ever MtG tournament had an Ali from Cairo as part of the prizes. And there was a Black Lotus for sale in the display case for $30. Sigh...

I love the way you say, 'oriflamme'. Keep up the good work!

Braingeyser was restricted because all the fast mana wasn't banned, just restricted. Every deck had access to great ramp for no cost, so this card won games.

I liked it. It's nice to have these views on Magic's history

Gr3at content. I hate having to fast forward to get to the good stuff

Love the video. Would like to have a read out loud of the cards texts, as I keep stopping to read the text to be 100% on what they do, but I also don't want to miss the explanation. I get that the explanation includes what the cards do, but it's more interesting to read it, then have it explained.

Run a deck with 4 shaharizard and 4 enter the dungeon. Games within games!

I love MTG LORE, you are doing a great job.

Excellent job. The Ante cards being banned reminds of actually playing with ante cards back in the day. My original play group played that way for years, it wasn't until I went to college and met new players that i stopped using ante. To this day one of my friends has a revised black lotus that i used to loudly vocalize my desire for him to flip it as the ante card every game.

Fantastic video you showed the cards, explained them very well, the script is clean, all I would ask is you drop wizards for players.

Fascinating video.

This was great. I enjoyed it. I have been thinking about digging into the history of foreign language cards. I'm a huge fan of them (if you couldn't tell by the theme of my channel!) and I want to know more about when/why they started/stopped languages, why they don't do others, etc.

please at least re- do this video...... you messed up on dingus egg, and completely misunderstand icy manipulator. Icy had a colon and no tap symbol and mono-artifact was misunderstood so many people, even the first judges assumed that you could use the effect as many times as you could pump it. so you could lock down an opponent if you had more mana than them. Also Mind twist was restricted.

The ante aspect was what both.scared me away frim the game yet intrigued me and pulled me into it as a child when I heard about it.

Very much enjoyed. Varied meta is always welcome, I say.

honestly id really love this series

Great idea for a video

please do more vids like this

I Love this!

Neat, retrospective. I know you are talking about the first run of restricted cards. However, it sounds like you were not there in the mid 90s playing Magic. I played with and against decks that had all of those restricted cards. Comparing the meta game going on then with quality of cards now and why the old cards were restricted is a little unfair. 2 Dingus egg were hard to get around and would kill someone with in the BK/R decks with Dark Ritual, Stone Rain, Sink Hole, sedge troll, hymn to torach, mind twist......etc. Keep in mind we had Mox's, Sol Ring, consecrate land, and often played team games in tournaments with 4 players. Also, berserk was nuts with unstable mutation and giant growth. We played Ali from Cairo with spectral cloak and if you weren't playing red or green (earthquake, cyclone, tranqulity), you were out of luck and only having to counter 4 disenchants is pretty easy when you can have 2 Alis out. Red blue protect Ali was a thing and often decked the other player. These cards were the first 'Combo Decks' Wizards was more likely trying to encourage the game play with no interaction or one turn kills. It was an up and coming game. If it wasn't fun to play then it would be hard to get new players. "Oh, just buy 4 of these and you'll win the game almost every time..." 4 mind twists anyone.......

keep this up!!!!! i love this pls pls pls keep doing this!!!!

Ha ha Icy Manipulator.. I still remember the evening long arguments when one person tried to turn off someone else's Icy Manipulator, forcing us to bust out the rule book.

Spicy af do more please

Ante helps fighting bully from power nine decks. It has its reason of existence according to Richard Garfield:- ante allows you to own cards that you wouldn't normally own and promote card flow. Who is scaring who now?

Braingeyser+mana flare+high tide=make a player draw their deck. High tide palinchron was a thing, which is why stroke of genius was also put in the same boat since it was an X draw spell. Prosperity was NOT because it was each player, meaning you it was good/dangerous for everyone since they would be drawing at exactly the same time. Have you seen the market price of Gauntlet of Might these days? It is wicked expensive! Do you know why? Nothing printed since has done what this card does for red decks better than this card. Gauntlet of power costs 5 and caged sun costs 6. Even back in 1994, goblin tribal was a thing. I know you are called Aether Hub, but I'm sure you've at least heard of Channel Fireball. Channel and Fireball or two early cards that in the right hand would grant you a turn 1 win. Double just a red deck's mana output when fireball and distintegrate were widely used (mana flare did it for everyone) and with a land drop each turn, turn five is a blaze effect for 9, which for a red deck even back then is typically enough to end the game since they would have already dealt that much damage, unless of course it was mana flare turn 3 and gauntlet turn 4 for blaze effect for 14 on turn five. Could they have played a Mon's goblin raider on turn 1, swung every turn and lightning bolted on turn 2? of course. Dingus Egg DEALS DAMAGE. Post a popup comment to fix it so you don't have to take down the video. You were close with Armageddon but missed it with the gain life bit. You are better than this but you can easily fix it.

Ante for show was the best way to play. Also we used to have a sealed deck ante game that we all put in for.

For the Icy and why it was so strong and played it not only shut off artifacts but tapped creatures that were not attacking dealt no damage. So you could tap a blocker effectively getting a removal effect pretty often.

I don't play MTG, but I love card games, especially the study of lore, set synergy, and banlists, so this video and future videos would definitely be appreciated by me

Ali From Cairo + Spectral Cloak along with no one playing mass removal is why Ali was restricted.

I was playing MTG in early 94 and actually played many games for ante before it was removed from the game. I remember I won a Roc of Kher Ridges in an ante game that I still have to this day. :)

I don't remember subscribing to this channel...I subbed to an mtg lore channel and then it went missing. I miss that channel

You lost me when you couldn't read Dingus Egg.

Hey... what's up with Shahrazad's thumb on their left hand? Looks like it's their right hand

i like this.. want more.. just don't tell my friends I'm learning on the internet

The guy that came up with ante deserves to be fired and then is forced to put up his next job for ante in a mtg match.

I miss the old 'turn off' artifact rules. I also miss mana burn.

LIked it. More please.

What was this channel called 2 years ago?

Take note Blizzard, this is something you can do with jade Druid...

What is the Oracle text?

ball lighting + blood lust + berserk on turn 1 = game over. know someone who did this in a tournament way back in the day.