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I like how Frank was genuinely excited to "combo" Rogue Elephant with Harvest Wurm. It's such a derpy strategy hahaha

That green deck is so creative, using the downsides of the creatures to play around the winter orb is so cool to see. I love seeing throwback standard games.

Frank is an incredible guest, CardMarket is an incredible organization and group of people. Keep up the great work and great videos.

Rogue Elephant into Harvest Wurm was my first Pauper deck :) The whole Mirage block has some of the best art, flavor, and feel in MTG ever.

Fantastic! Love seeing these historic decks and standard formats face off. Like you said it’s so hard to find old coverage videos and just imagining how they’d play from reading deck lists isn’t nearly as fun as this! I’d love to see more of these videos

Your production quality is the best I've seen ever for 1v1 magic I'm glad you guys are back can't I can't wait for more videos

Wotc made these as world championship decks for 1997 and for 8 other years in gold borders, they were amazing and so fun to play still.

That was really exciting, can we get more of these for us newer players to see some of the old classic matchups?

You guys took the time and effort to animate snow flakes falling when the outpost was played. Such level for details makes your channel great. Oh and Toffel of course

Love Frank Karsten as a guest, he is really pleasant to listen to. Great matchup too, thanks for the vid.

Karsten is a great guest he looks so passionate about the whole game!

I legit popped when frank got the damage on the stack ruling correct. What a magic gangsta

This makes me want to build a collection of top tournament decks through the years to show how power levels changed

Having started in '98, this really takes me back to the old days. 🤩

I love Thoralfs reaction at 39:05 So much frustration about something he loves to play himself.....

Absolutely felt nostalgia kick in, started 1996 and remember being absolutely amazed about stompy. I still think Standard was more fun than today, power creep of creatures is the bane of the game nowadays

Abeyance used to consider tapping a land for mana as an activation cost. This ment it was a white Timewalk in your opponents turn, they could untap, draw and attack but couldn't cast any spells. Amazing in mirror matchups.

Yes, more historic matchups please! I’d love to see a match with damage on the stack.

Wildfire Emissary was one of the Top 10 creatures in Magic in its day. It survived Lighting Bolt AND Swords to Plowshares, the only creature that could do that. That was a really big deal, especially at the 4-mana cost it had. Further, it could close out games because of the pump ability. That's just how slow Magic was.

at first cardmarket was just my go to site for singles, but now its also my favorite mtg channel, keep up the work guys I love this

Very cool idea for a video. I am super interested in how Thoralf will deal with this matchup :D I really adore how the overlay that shows the players hand cards is using the old font. :) Attention to detail as always

Frank while holding winter orb: I will allow you to use thawing glaciers twice per turn

What a great idea for a video! Definitely worth the repeat. Great content as always.

I LOVE this! As someone who started playing in 95’ as a kid, I remember these decks, but not having the money to buy the more expensive cards. Seeing the dojo again was a nostalgic trip. It was so cool back in the day when you could go online for content instead of only being relegated to magazines like Scrye or inquest. I still looked forward to those magazines every month.

I'm enjoying watching to seasoned pros play "classic" decks! They have a wealth of knowledge to share on the cards and how the game has evolved over time. Lots of fun!

That green pump spell had me much more hyped than it should have lol

Honestly this has been my favorite episode. The last game was so good it could have been scripted. Play block constructed from certain eras of magic. (Kamigawa block constructed)

This is an extremely good idea for almost unlimited future content

That was a super fun blast from the past. I didn't even know that there was a "green version" of force of will...now me and Thoralf definetely know 😂

That was really fun! I started playing in 2004, so it's cool seeing decks and rules from even before I started. (And from such great and knowledgable players!)

This Video had everything, enterntainment, education, nostalgia (even for people who didnt even play anywhere close that time period). Loved everything about it, keep stuff like this coming

Love this content. I started playing in '98 and this is how I remember magic. :)

Really cool to see some old school magic! Love Frank Karsten as a guest

Wow! That was such cool back and forth gameplay! I wish they would make the game more like this, with all the creatures with wield downsides and the stax pieces and things.

I love the Magic history Carl's been doing and this is a great continuation of that! Seeing these cards used in the original context they were created and played in is not only a cool way of learning Magic history but also, I think, helps teach people how to evaluate what is actually a "strong card" in context. (It certainly helps me think about it in new ways!) More please! 😁

This was really fun to watch, the interaction between Frank and Tolrof was really cool to listen to them discuss (even small things like when the stack came in) i'd love to see more

I just love the overlay and the way everything is laid out and clean, simple and easy to follow with all the relevant info being there all the time. BIG props to the editing team.

Señor Stompie is my childhood, and I'm glad to see it win this match. My dad recently gave me his gold-bordered proxy deck I used when I first learned Magic. I don't play anymore, but I'm glad to have it for nostalgia reasons. One day i might pick up the other three decks from that series for the sake of playing them against each other.

I love these videos that take a trip down history lane. I only know the basics of modern Magic, so seeing how magic was played in the past is really interesting, and I would love to watch a series of videos like this one, going back in time year by year with Magic.

27:44 Before the internet Magic was actually a lot more fun. We got our info from the Duelist and Scry magazines. When a new set came out, we didn't no the cards, every booster was a surprise, it was such a cool time to play the game! Many combos and strategies developed in the store. The game was really in development and we as players were also discovering the possibilities.

I started in 94 and sleeves weren't a thing for the first few years, your opponents could make you unsleeve once they were available and Mirror Universe was one of the best decks because with the rules at the time, you could go to 0 in your upkeep and switch life before state based effects (pre-damage on the stack). Ernham-geddon and Erham and Burn 'em were two popular decks and so was white weenie. It was a very fun time to play and the game just felt so much different back then. I miss it honestly. Great video, and it was nice to see Frank! If you can get Bernard Lestre I'd be very impressed!!!

I sooooo want this to be a proper series; just mad old school competitive Magic.

this was great! what a throwback :). I remember seeing the goldbordered version of the green deck as a kid and having the same reaction that Frank talked about. As for future content, I know frank is known for doing a lot of statistical maths on magic. Would love to see a video (series) where he gives a masterclass on it.

As someone who played Type 2 at the time these videos are such a blast to watch! I played both decks in tournaments. Great to see "newer" players discovering these cards and keep the content coming!

Do more "decks back then", it's really fascinating to see them play out since most of us were not there at the time and the ones that were will definetively feel nostalgic.

The "back in the day" Emrakul is probably Colossus of Sardia! Love this vid! More old school games please!

This was great, I love seeing the really old cards/formats, please do more of this!

I love Frank and Thoralf's nostalgic banter. Definitely one of my favorite vids on the channel!

I was too young in 97 to understand magic but this makes me think of the time i was introduced during 7th edition. These old school strats really make me wish i could have been part of the era. Would love to see other decks that played in this era

YEEEEEES, i love exploring strange old format, more of thisssssss

This gave me chills, it reminded me of when I first learned to play! Nicely done.

This video was great - great energy from both Thoralf and Karsten. I hope to see more "historic" content like this!

At first I was like "Oh shit, Frank Karsten!" but I'm extremely impressed with the quality of the production by 5:52, so shouts out this was supposed to be something to put in the background but this has captivate me to the extent that Magic the gathering has the potential to do! Definitely subscribing so I don't miss out on more dope stuff like this!!

This was perfect. Would be great to see more of this type of content. Things like the classic matchups-- 1999: Brian Davis vs Bob, or 2000: Finkel vs Bob.

My first deck was a mono green stompy deck that ran the rogue elephant / harvest wurm combo. I had almost all of the cards in that deck, except for the ghazban ogres and winter orbs - instead I ran fallow wurms and main decked the river boas. Decks were so much cheaper then. My deck was all commons and uncommon and still managed to be competitive.

Ok the old border on the little card names for the hand is a great touch, amazing job editor!

This and pauper play really remind me of the types of games we played when I was a kid. This kind of content is great, thank you!

Very enjoyable. I started in 1996 and 1997 was when I really dove into the game playing at the local game store.

Seeing these retrospectives with gameplay accompanied by guests that were there at the time are my favorite videos on this channel. Please get Frank back for moar!

Wow! This video flashback me to when I started playing magic as a child! What a nostalgia! (and how beautiful the old cards and illustrations are

You should play some premodern. It is quite an interesting and diverse format, and there are a number of classic decks as well as some unique brews

Very nice games. The Jeskai Control Deck was actually a deck i owned because of the gold border tournament decks. Please do that with more tournament top 8 decks

Fun fact. Back in the day the black ihsans shade from homelands was commonly played because it was one of the few big bodies around at 5/5 with no downside. It had protection from white which made it immune to most white removal and could not be terrored or banished and could soak a lot of red damage. That made spectral bears naturally viable.

These classic matchups are the best. Would love to see more.

Loved seeing you folks play with old sets; 10 year old me was going wild to see those cards being played again! You should definitely do that again!

Frank and Thoralf are rallye charming and entertaining to watch! Please invite him more often. Video idea: give some old decks like ProsBloom or Trix to the gen z guys

oh yeah. please more of this! late 90's was the time i played with my friends kitchen table magic. 4th edition, mirage, visions, homelands, urzas block, tempest. and this game showed the power of artifacts back then. and why disenchant was a must have in every white deck (or at least side board). fun video 😄

Very nice editing this episode with the sort of digital hand interface, showing us end of/start of turn effects etc.

I love Frank Karsten so much, what a joy he is, whenever he shows up.

Man, MTG Dojo is such a massive nostalgia hit. I loved that site! I remember workshopping Gruul aggro MiViLight block decks through the site, IRC, and appr, that was cutting edge shit in the late 90s.

Karsten is a gem. Thanks for this content guys you're the best at showing paper pro stuff !

This content was a blast! Great match, cool topic, excellent guest. Cheers!

oh man, when he brought up the dojo i felt a part of my brain near the back activate that had been shuttered for at least 20 years.

Thanks guys, that was beyond awesome 😎

I love that this is a old player playing magic since before 2000 so cool thanks for that video and thanks they accept invitation.

We need more channels that play paper comp magic, whether it is tournament matches or just friends playing. Watching paper magic is so much more enjoyable then watching digital gameplay

This was absolutely right up my alley. I'd love to see more games from older times like this.

Maybe make a series with Frank slowly working through his years in magic and the decks he played or was excited by! Would bbe a blast to watch!

Great pairing of guests, love the channel.

I played at the time, and as an oldschool player today, I really enjoyed watching this. To be honest, I could watch games like these all day. Combo Winter, Necro. So much stuff that defined Magic, and how game mechanics were invented and improved. Thank you for this content

It's cool to see all of these old cards i had when i started playing!

I had to comment on this, because I really love this video format, Frank and Thoralf were great at delivering the feel of the decks. Back then, the resources (money, internet, coverage, general knowledge) about the game were really scarce, so thank you Cardmarket for these awesome hosts and shows, you all are doing an amazing job! I still felt a bit old when Thoralf thought you could use damage on the stack, ah ah. Seeing old decks I couldn't afford at that time (or know because I didn't buy the magazines) in action is awesome. I started playing in late 1995 with 4th edition, and Visions was the only set I ever managed to collect entirely... Until I sold my set around 2003. I only got access to Internet in march of 2000, at that point I was not playing anymore, as I found that the game was too much of a "pay to win". But even I knew that elephant/wurm combo, both cards are from the same set. That whole era is captured in a manga named "Destroy All Of Humanity: It can't be regenerated" for those interested. Anyway, thanks for the nostalgia shot, because I never got to play these decks. My son is 5 years old, and old school magic and premodern seem like a good way to start playing in a few years. I've almost completed in the last 2 years a playset of each card in Visions (mostly through cardmarket), because nostalgia striked back 🙂.

This is so cool. Thank you for the nostalgia hit for those who were there, and informing those who weren't

This is far and away my favorite MTG+ KZfaq channel.

I love this! Please do more! Frank is lovely!

Really enjoyed seeing these old decks and would love to see more of them. It's very hard to imagine how the crappy green deck with 4 giant growths could beat a deck playing legacy cards, or how wildfire emissary was one of the best creatures, but this is a great way to show that.

This was when Abeyance was Time Walk + draw a card. I traded a playset of Abeyance for a set of 5 (fairly heavily played) Moxes at US Nats that year. Also you could flip coins with Frenetic Efreet until you won a flip and it phased out, because... well, just because. Bad judge rulings were the way of the world during MTG's Wild West period.

Im crying!! I played Lomoros Stompy as my first competitive deck back in 98 or so, similiar to this one, but with Rancor and Land Grant. Elvish Spirit Guide and Quirion Ranger are still my favourite cards ever.

After 30 years I still have nightmares of Winter Orb and Stasis. So glad to see some of my favorite cards like Abeyance, Frenetic Efreet, and Thawing Glaciers. From the discussion on the Efreet in the video, at the time the ability was purely to dodge removal, or Swords to Plowshares/Lightning Bolt since they were 99% of 1 for 1 type removal at the time.

I really like how Thawing Glaciers looks- that purple border is nice

Great idea for a vid! My first exposure to magic was around 1997, it's great to travel back in time.

I would love to watch a whole series of these type of matches! Could call it something like "Flashback"!

What a treat! Toffel is always completely amazing but Karsten also adds so much knowledge and fun. I could watch hour upon hour of content with these two (mixed up with jamin and karl once in s while ofc). Also a fun idea for a matchup. Keep up the great work!

This format is so much better than anything that's done out in the last 3 years. Game is so much slower and more reasonable

This was a great video and love seeing Frank Karsten.

This is the best content you guys have ever made!.. I love the player commentary within the gameplay. So cool.

This was awesome, please more of these! Content ideas: limited from old sets (like Innistrad Block Draft plus gameplay), Extended from the last legal rotation, Lorwyn Shadowmoor Block constructed

this was so much fun to watch. I almost can't believe how bad creatures used to be.

34:40 it shows Toffel has Kjeldoran Outpost in his hand, it’s actually Thawing Glaciers though