I was 17, not 16! 😉

All those unsleeved cards being loved and abused was peak magic.

I would LOVE to see an “Anatomy of Card Advantage” Pretty Deece video. The way luck itself was broken down in that entire sequence between Nassif and Chapin was absolutely perfect. I’d kill to have another one of that caliber.

I see a Pretty Deece video, I like and comment for engagement. This content is the best, keep it up!

God, I hope Pretty Deece is just going to become a kind of History Channel for Magic. Top-notch script, engaging delivery, great editing with an eye for the most amusing and human moments of the subject: fucking love it. Thanks for another banger.

Best magic content being made these days and it's not remotely close.

Oh man, another episode this soon??? Keep them coming! My favorite MtG series on youtube!

Even when the format is bad, I love seeing old tournament footage.

This historical angle you've been taking has been awesome, as has the further step up the production has taken on the visual side. Really excited for this new series!

any day with a new pretty deece is a good day

15:20 - What you are describing there isn't really exponential. I think the term logarithmic makes much more sense. Even though they are kind of inverses of each other, I think logarithmic makes more sense for what you are trying to prove. That being that the early increases matter a lot, then later ones are less important.

Omg raw shuffling duals 😩

I've almost exclusively an EDH player for nearly a decade now, so pretty deece is a good insight to what happened in the formats I wasn't playing

The soothing sounds of that sweet, sweet narration.

God, these decks are like Midwestern emo mixes, making me nostalgic for a time I wasn't around for. It makes me want to care about being a fan of competitive magic.

So happy you're getting the time & support to continue making these. Pretty Deece is right up there with Rhystic Studies as my very favorite MtG content on KZfaq. Your level of detail, presentation style, and choice of topics are truly second to none.

Pretty Deece is always awesome! The videos are so finely edited, and it’s always nice to listen to! I’d put them all the way up there with Rhystic Studies!

Easily the most quality channel for mtg on KZfaq. Keep up the work you’re an amazing historian

Thanks for all the effort you put into these, always a watch priority when one of them comes out. Hope you can keep making them :)

Man, so much memories. I started playing back in 1994, and here in Spain the game was introduced first in Barcelona, because the owner of a local games shop went to a board games con in EEUU, and brought with him 2 boxes of Alpha, 6 boxes of Beta and 12 of Unlimited, and january 1994 we started playing 👏. And that same owner closed a deal with a retailer in new york to ship him away every new set coming out, 12 boxes of the game. Until in 1995, the game was franchised in Spain by a company (Devir) and then came regularly to the entire country. Those days was amazing as a teenager, playing Magic, D&D, Vampire, Warhammer, playing in benches in the street because the local shop was so small that we cant be more than 10 people playing inside. Playing at the local library too... I missed those days so much.

I started playing in Aether Revolt, so I am loving these "retro" videos focusing on the game in the 90s! Keep em coming :D

As always, another excellent video. As someone who is still relatively new to the hobby you all do a great job presenting historical Magic information in an incredibly digestible manner. Looking forward to future episodes!

Love the work you put into these pretty deece episodes. Keep it up Jon, you're doing gods work.

how crazy is that, just last week I stumbled upon a video talking about the history of competitive YGO right from the beginning and I was wondering if there was a similar video series for MTG... then I see this! Great video, loved the commentary! Hope there will be more of this content.

Please keep these coming, I adore learning about the history of games and that bit about the side event almost pausing the pro tour is absolutely an amazing bit

Pretty Deece has consistently been interesting and educational. Love your stuff

I audibly gasped when I saw a new Pretty Deece in my subscriptions. I am so happy more of these are being made. Keep it up!

I've been so glad to see Pretty Deece back, I would replay the Masks block and Phyrexian mana videos a ton. Thanks again for the quality videos!

This is awesome, I love watching anything about the history of pro magic and Pretty Deece does it best. Thank you Jon, thanks a lot.

Real happy to see this. I was recently looking for old ProTour and World Championship footage and it's unfortunate how hard some of it is to come by.

Could watch these videos all day. Great work.

Great video. I was playing back in the early days and the nostalgia factor for this stuff just blows me away.

This was incredible. Thank you so much for this historical Magic videos. It's amazing how Wizards went from severely underprinting to severely overprinting sets. Jyhad, Richard Garfield's first game after Magic, was also overprintend and you could still find decently priced packs recently.

This series got me hooked on magic, ty for another awesome video.

Love pretty dece. Thank you oreo kid for making these videos. Always will watch and rewatch them for so long

As long as you keep making Pretty Deece, I'll keep watching it. Great as always.

Love these videos. Can't ask you to put more cards on screen just because I started playing in 2017, but I still appreciate the content. Waiting on some more.

Another top notch video. I love the tiny minutia that you get into in your videos. As always, more please.

This was an amazing video. It's so cool to see how similar Magic was back then, to now!

My daughter works at TCG Player , and i tell her about my getting into Magic , Neutral ground was the big sponsor around the northeast , i would even play at Tales Twice Told where Cheddy worked , i started around The Dark set but would soon be trying for pro tour events, i didnt do great but it was some of the most fun i have ever had in my life. My pride and joy of Magic the Gathering is 2 alpha and 2 beta lightning bolts signed by Richard Garfield

First five minutes of this video is some of the best MTG content I've EVER seen. Keep it up!

Great Video! Comment for engagement and also to point out that it's great to see a well-made series with proper subtitles.

just finsihed watching all your pretty deece vids. thank you very much for the informative content which is fun to watch!

That whole thing with the store owner, the kid, and the sales rep made me cry with laughter. Holy shit.

these videos are why i'm subscribed to this channel, please keep it up!

I appreciate the high quality analysis of something many people would never come across on their own.

If this becomes a series i'm gonna be so happy, old pro tours and standard decks are my jam.

I find it funny that as a newer player, born and raised on commander, Jon makes me care about formats I otherwise would never even think about looking into.

Excited to finally get these regularly again!

It was called Type 2, which became a variation of standard, and then there was type 1 and type 1.5

Solid vid, really fun seeing how magic (as a game and as a product) used to be compared to nowadays

I literally stopped halfway in this video; saving it for tomorrow’s dinner 😂

This was awesome. Thanks, my dude. Time to put in an order for some more cards.

Pretty Deece not having its own channel and patreon is a crime

Everytime a new Pretty Deece video is released my day gets way better.

This was super fun to watch! It gives me vibes of an MTG version of Jon Bois over at SB Nation. Are you guys planning on covering more years of the pro tours? It would be sick to watch the recap and history of each season, or even just some of the more notable seasons!

Wooo, I love these, keep em coming!

Pretty Deece is the content I look forward to the most. I always get unreasonably excited when I see an upload.

I need more of this. Much more.

Amazing video, great amount of research done here. I know you said 📼 but is that original footage of the 1st PT online anywhere?

I played in the late 90's and early 2000's. It was amazing. Miss those days sometimes.

YESSS PRETTY DEECE. This made my week. Thank you sir

it’s pretty simple, when you see pretty deece, you drop EVERYTHING to watch pretty deece

Great video, love this series!

YAY! Thank you all for the steady stream of Pretty Deece!

Always some of the best quality videos for mtg

Man I would buy the hell out of some pretty deece merch

I haven't played Magic in 10 years but I always watch every Deece video. Top tier content.

Always an excellent job! Chill music too

Yes. Keep this kind of content coming. Magic history is super cool

Gosh this show is so good, keep the great work bud 👍

By the way, Wizards calls PT2 as PT Los Angeles. Back in 1996, it was called Pro Tour Long Beach.

This was brilliant to see. Thanks.

The little touches in this video are fantastic. The cards used to represent Urza block were great.

Corrections on the format of booster draft and the PT2 booster draft format. Normal 444 draft is 45 cards (not 42, 15+15+15) because each 4th Edition pack is 15 cards, which you calculate correctly in the 44H you proposed (15+15+8). Originally, Revised draft was also 45 cards, same as 4th...only problem was there was basic land cars possible in both Uncommon and Common slots...that's probably why they thought they could get away with 38. In the LA/Orange County area, we had more sealed product than any other place in the Magic playing world, way more than Europe. And naturally, that play group was way ahead of the curve. Other US players also played well as there were stores all over that had cards since 1993 while Europe was just getting its first sets at the time, Italian Legends and Italian Revised. At our major play areas such as South Coast Games and Costa Mesa Women's Club, we played and practiced for Pro Tour Long Beach since it was local. Day 1, almost all of the non-US players scrubbed out.

I love your series, and this was a great edition to it. Your videos about phyrexian mana and about the anatomy of luck are some of my favorite magic videos on this entire platform. One small bit of feedback: your graph at 14:50 really really needs to have axis labels. I am really struggling to understand and interpret this graph. I cannot understand what either axis represents. Is one power and the other toughness? Is one mana cost? I think the graph would be better with some labels

These videos are absolutely amazing

It is fascinating learning about the game's history that happened way before my time.

Slight of Mind makes sense -- he's running 12 "knights" that have protection from black. Being able to flip the "black" to another color at instant speed could counter removal and make the creature much harder to deal with.

oh my goodness gracious more pretty deece!!!! my favorite magic videos of all forever

best magic the gathering content on youtube full stop. seriously no one makes videos about the game as a whole like you

I love the Pretty Deece series. Please keep making them

The only series I actually press like on every time because I want to see more

Pretty Deece is one of the few video releases I look forward to

As someone born in massachusetts, i love that a massachusetts guy won the first ever pro tour

Always love to see a new Pretty Deece video

I am going to be late to FNM because of this video... but it's alright! Great video as always! Gotta go!

Love it! Keep up the great work!

You should do a video about the magic worlds championship from khans, when either the Swedes or the Dutch used duneblast to win it all! Love the content!

I just love these videos.

21:38 - Lol, there is a sleight of mind in the maindeck too. That must have felt pretty bad every time he drew that.

I wish this was its own channel instead of videos that come out on a sporadic basis. I really enjoy the narrative side of the competitive game.

"Homelands, released in October 1995, is the seventh Magic expansion. It was the second expansion of the Ice Age block until July 2006," You neglected to mention Homelands was, for a time, part of the Ice Age Block.

I'm in the middle of the fallen empires skit and god what did we do to deserve such a great video.

Dude, dude, you are a kindred spirit. I need you on my podcast. We're booked with guest hosts for a few months. BUT. I. NEED. YOU. SOON. Your style fits like Umawaza's Jitte in my slender hands.

Feeding the algorithmosaurus. Excellent work as always.

What a wonderful history look back. I owe you a drink and/or a duel in the format of your choice good sir

Another banger from pretty deece 10/10 and I havent even seen the video yet

This is an awesome video. Holy smokes

"I would love to see games raised to the stature of intellectual sports" *video of man holding swamp upside down*