The lack of sleeves is killing me

Thanks for the upload. I could tell you all some great stories about how this all went down, and how audience interference between bathroom breaks caused me to misplay my own deck. :-(

Wastelands were like $2 back then. Duals were $10 and I got most of mine for $5 before they got "expensive." Ah, the good ol' days.

Imagine playing Magic against the Dark Confidant himself.

it's kinda easy to forget re watching this sometimes that Brian Davis is only 15 right here. dude was still a kid.

This is straight up the most interesting match of magic I've ever seen broadcast

This video takes me back! Loved playing the game and riffle shuffling without sleeves and not thinking about card value and just having fun

I love the laughs, it's like a MTG sitcom

back when sleeves where unecassary, now people have double sleeves.

Now I know where Reid Duke got his hair style inspiration

These classic looking cards look pretty badass. They look almost like they came out of an ancient tome with so much knowledge

Here we are 20 years later

Anyone else cringe while watching Bob shuffle those legacy duals without sleeves?

Brian Davis- The only man to loose a pro tour final 5-0

Somehow the production value of this is way higher than it has been for the last decade.

Thanks for posting. I was there and part of the English hoard. Tony Dobson got into the top eight and I watched that live. Rules were very strict then. It was a good venue at the Hyatt hotel. I also went to the 2000 one again at the same place.

Rudy must be going nuts watching this match without sleeves being used.

And that is how magic is meant to be played.

2am... and still watching... why did I start? need sleep...but it's to great to watch 😀👌 gotta love mtg!!!

The tensions are so high, everyone laughs at any hint of nervousness. The crowd erupts in joy at the excellence in knowledge and skill, as well as luck displayed by both players... meanwhile the announcers roast everyone 😂

He has a beanie baby on the table, how 90s can this get.

No sleeves, greatness at any cost.

A few things I noticed in this match that may explain why Davis made the choices he did but I am in no way justifying said choices: 1. Davis didn't Waste Bob's land because he was playing around Disrupt. Which was dumb because Bob played 1 copy of Disrupt and 4x Force of Will. 2. Davis discarded Wasteland when he was getting smashed by Villages because he didn't realize that Sacred Ground's effect would be triggered after disk blew. 3. Davis figured after not seeing Disrupt go off the whole match, after playing around it early, that he would maximize his Drain because only threat is a Force, which wouldn't matter if he tapped out anyway. Ends up getting Disrupted instead. 4. Worst misplay of the match, Davis forces Bob to discard Counterspell over Force of Will thinking that if he forces Bob to use a remaining Counterspell to cast Force of Will then he will have eliminated 3 of the 4 counters in his hand. Obviously he didn't realize that card advantage obtained via that route is no different then taking away Bob's ability to counter the first Drain and getting card advantage through Necro instead. 5. When Davis left four mana available before the Swords to Plowshares went off, he just went for it thinking he only loses to a hard counter because at this point he stopped playing around Disrupt. If he were playing around Disrupt he would have left one mana up instead of four. He was obviously clueless that Swords was not sided completely out of Bob's deck. In short, Davis' biggest downfall in this match was thinking too much about what Bob could be holding and being afraid of the wrong cards.

I feel for Davis after that first game, all the confidence left him in a matter of seconds

Oh, the 90's! Back when music was soft and Magic was heavy.

12:43 Brian doesn't Wasteland 16:10 Bob draws Ivory Mask 22:36 Bob gets Null Rod 46:40 Brian's Drain Life for 4 1:17:46 Bob's pump fake

People asking why no sleeves etc in like 500 comments on this video. 1.) Sleeves were banned at a certain point of magic- they thought it would stop cheating or something to that extent. 2.) The cards they are playing with at that time are worth a max of 10$... dualands - 10 bucks, force of wills maybe 5 to 10 bucks. 3.) Also the game was no where near what it is today of more than possibly triple the player base, no magic online back then, the internet was only mainstream for 2 years when this tournament was held 1999... and to be honest the internet sucked back then.... Hell if we had any video's of people playing magic in 1993-- if any even exist-- you would see Alpha black lotus and power 9 and the original dual lands being done the exact same way as in this video..... Just goes to show you how times change...... my ohhh my how times change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryan Gosling plays very well.

I played there myself in 99, still remember meeting maher after this final (i played a similar oath deck)

I’ll be honest, the craziest parts of this video are the moments the players slammed cards down especially when Maher slammed the ivory mask and slammed the null rod in game 1 😂😂

This video always gives me the best nostalgia

Hey, we know that it's easy for them, and us, to judge when we can see what's in both players' hands; you can tell us, from experience, that it's a whole different ball game when you're sitting at the table. You did extremely well for a first visit IMO.

watching in 2019!

Oh god it hurts me so much seeing unsleeved dual lands 😭😭

In game 1, Brian should not have discarded swamps. He needed to hit every land drop to power his Drains to fuel Necro. I also think it was a mistake to use Wasteland to destroy a land when Bob's hand was already decimated. He needed to continue to develop his mana.

Watching this in 2016

Damn, I wish I would've played MTG back then, it looked insane; I was 18 back in 1999.

I love how you can hear the crowds reactions in this tournament, i hope they would mic the crowd sounds in upcoming pro tours.

That's some serious shuffling haha Omg those cards are done x'D

Wow the quality on this is better than some of the 2000's stuff. I swear i can't find a good video for the lightning helix topdeck :l

I’m watching this in 2019 😎👌

Watching this in 2019

Watching this in 2018. MTG is the best!

The troll at the end of game 4 there was so good.

This is a great match, and its great for two reasons, for one is it really cool to see these old cards we have never heard of in action alongside these busted cards we know and love today like FOW and Enlightened tutor, and secondly in all these matches one of the players (usually brian davis) makes a mistake that compiles onto itself for future decisions, and it really shows how punishing your poor decision making can be in this game, in the last game when he didnt take the FOW if he took the FOW, he would have had more spells to bait the counters, and he also likely would have been able to define the gamestate much sooner, instead he took the counterspell, and if he had that extra 3 life, it very well may have saved him from being necro-locked not to mention it may have drawn him a discard spell to pick apart his opponents hand

What a vid.. great final

1:17:40 has gotta be one of the funniest moments of MtG history. "Activate Treetop Village..... Nah, I'm dead!" XD

The shuffling is hilarious. Game pieces. Love it

I find this to be FAR more entertaining than any tournament feed nowadays.

19:35 - Look how beat up that top card on Brian's deck is. That, my friends, is why sleeves have basically become mandatory.

What pains me about the no sleeves isn't the damage being done to the cards, it's the simple fact that some of their cards are *SO* badly mangled that they're marked. When you look at your opponent's library and there are cards with straight-up creases all over the place...

that laughtrack in the background is always on cue :P

"Alright, so Bob has a land and a card... Brian's only got two permanents, right?" pffffffft

OG duals and FoW played without sleeves. Hurts my feeling everytime.

the pain the pain

Dark confidant playing unsleeved duals wastelands and fows what else can i ask for

Believe it or not, I actually interviewed Brian Davis @ PT Chicago 99 for a school project & straight up asked him if he had taken any bribe(s) in exchange for taking a dive in this series

the pain of watching this video is large

It's been said multiple times already, but the lack of sleeves hurts my soul.

This is the most beautiful black deck, jeez

It's not only the lack of sleeves, but the cards (at least from Brian Davis' side) look almost like they got wet, really warped at the edges

hey the camera quality is the same as the 2018 world champs.

In those days sleeves were considered a way for deck marking. Thus to prevent any sleight of hand or any tricks, no sleeves were allowed in the finals of the tournaments, until they realise with sleeve many more things can be controlled =)

This is how its meant to be played

THIS! MUST! HAPPEN!

Those Force of Wills being just man-handled 😲😲😲😲

Lol @ the tag protector on that beenie baby. Man that brings me back

3:16 The referee "What am I doing with my life?" Lol!!

what card did he use at the end to win?

Why is he in his hand At Demonic Consultation Whether it's a disc or another valid card？

Noob question guys... exactly how does necropotence work? And the other cards on the deck? How does it beat the opponent?

I never knew that Tim Dillon was playing mtg during Urza's Block!

I wish cards were still a correct value so I could play without sleeves

I got this all confused, must have been a different pro tour where the player accidentally drew 4 cards off brainstorm to lose the finals.

OMG this hurts so much to watch them play without sleeves..

Maher oath is so much fun to play. Back in the GP trials following this event I was in the finals playing oath and this was the exact match up. Came down to him Spinning Darkness-ing his own Skirge to Draw into the win. So I lost a GP Trial, but god, that was magic at its finest. This match up to me is one of the pinnacles of magic. Shame Oath of Druids of banned in Legacy.

they did on espn, they moved it to live streaming because then you can have everything in one place for easy access

I am... confused by the seemingly random untapping? He casts ritual, then untaps that land to cast his drain, and at the very end, he consults for a swamp, untaps the swamp used on consult and drops the swamp to cast corrupt?

nice a hard cast force of will. I have literally never seen that before today. lol

2018 funny to see those cards get shuffled like this without sleeves

Whats the point of necro when you can't do much until you hit 5-6mana . There's very little 1 for 1 trade spells to utilize necro. I don't get Davis deck at all.

are there decklists existing somewhere? im really curious

Brian must have been scared as hell for a few moments at 1:17:45... nice prank!

oldschool!!

The shuffling though. I cry.

Remember the days when you play with dual lands without sleeves and not give a shit?

I like these commentators WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than the current ones, the guy clearly knows what cards do etc etc, what players should do.

Now this is Magic

Reminds me of high school

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How did he drain for four when it takes two mana to play drain life and he only has five mana on the board? He would drain for three not four or am I looking at it wrong??

Love the commentators asking the crowd about cards

How come Bob didn’t get a warning when he looked at an extra card by accident, but Brian did?

36:33 "he can plow his own creatures" lol

This video makes my heart crying... All that shuffling is a crime

Seeing this, I'm really glad Wizards decided to make creatures relevant. I mean, the best creatures in this match are Faerie Conclave and Treetop Village... That says something. (Oh yeah, there's a Morphling in Bob's deck too, but still...)

When I played in 94 my local game shop wouldnt allow sleeves in their tournaments. We always asked why and never got a real answer.

That first game was brutal!

Sup bro? I don't know how to respond on KZfaq directly. I still play; currently Top 10 in the MTGO Player of the Year. User: "Royal". I run a coaching site as well.

Riffle Shuffling duals without sleeves... XD