+Brian Weissman thanks for all the casting in the early years, enjoyed you

You are very welcome! It was a really fun time for sure, Chris Pikula was an awesome color commentator to work with :)

On the other hand, duals were relatively cheap back then. About 12 dollars if memory serves me well. If card hoarding for profiting in the secondary market was a factor, he could have bought a bunch of duals then, along with some other 1997 gems (like wasteland, FOW, etc...) not only to compensate the damage inflicted to the deck, but to speculate a bit. By the way, that's why cards became so expensive in the first place. FOW was like 50 cents. But anyway, it's a great pleasure to reply a comment from such a legend.

FOW was never 50 cents in new york magic..

You realize back then, no one was thinking about that. I used to slam black lotuses on the school’s cafeteria table without sleeves

@@manatutormtg Looks at card underneath the card he draws to complete his opening hand. Also, I didn't notice this until re-watching, but one of the cards was upside down, a warn-able offense. David Mills was known to be a notorious cheat.

watch out for 90s dudes with bandanas or reversed baseball caps :D

Psych ops

1:18 For real

There are actual *several* advantages that you gain from shuffling your hand around instead of keeping it in one place all the time - and *none* have to do with "annoying your opponent". For example, if you keep shuffling your hand before and after you draw for your turn, your opponent can't tell if you are going to play the land you just drew or another you might have kept in your hand from your opening 7 - thus, your opponent doesn't know if trying to "mana screw" you with stuff like a Tectonic Edge is likely going to be worth it. Another upside is that shuffling your cards around pretty much "forces" you to keep looking at different cards - and that *can* actually prevent tunnel-visioning on a particular spell on occasion.

Most people don't get that Buehler was trying to confuse Mills with this move. Check out the MTG Rewind where Buehler tells Marshall Sutcliffe about this ;)

Hermann Mann so what

+Swell exactly they're just trading cards ....just piece's of cardboard

Money is also just paper and metal.

Lol you're right thats exactly what money is...

Those pieces of cardboard are woths hundreds each to collectors

We didn’t use sleeves back then, no one gave a damn about sleeves

Why?

+Eyeforaneye Even better, Taiga was tied with Tundra for the most sought after dual lands and they were still less valuable than lake of the dead.

Dual lands would be played in every format if legal…

@@tylerloving7132duh

You have no idea how it was back then do ya?

No one cared about sleeves. I’d throw a black lotus on the table without a sleeve and I owned 5 of them in 1994

he was at 14 or 12 live from what I can tell, rushing into necro seems like a poor play when you are constrained on mana and are facing a frenetic efreet, there isn't any rituals or free spells in this version of necro.

At the time he still had 4 life and was looking forward to winning on the next turn with that bolt to the dome..