Also, 4 basics in a row.

Didn't they map all the boxes and extract all possible value out of these packs already? And they still try to sell packs for that price. What a racket!

@@Kryptnyt I wouldn't expect Card Kingdom to do this, but there's no need to map a box, when you can just push cards up into the seam and see them through the material. I wouldn't ever buy a loose pack from back then for anything other owning a sealed pack or from a reputable seller.

Card kingdom may not have but whoever they sourced these packs from may have

$800 in value you do not have to directly pay for a sponsored video is a decent deal. They (obviously) are hoping people that click the link spend more than that to get a return on investment or are doing it to hopefully get more sponsorship deals for less later on. You know, typical business stuff. They could also just be nice and like the show. Not unheard of.

speaking of mapping is this possible with the mapping like does this happen or is this an oddity with how many lands they were given?

Because Banding was evergreen! It was a baseline mechanic that everyone was expected to know off the dome.

Also the reminder text for banding is basically an essay and literature doesn't fit most of the time

Don’t worry each revised started deck included an easy to lose rules pamphlet that explained banding!

Just consult the handy rule book that came with your Starter Deck! Hope you can read 2 pt font.

For those interested in an abbreviated explanation of how Banding works, it's essentially two abilities: When attacking, you may form a band with any number of creatures with banding plus one without. Then if any creatures in the band become blocked, all creatures in the band are blocked. Finally, during the combat damage step the band's controller determines how the blocker's damage will be assigned and may divide the damage up however they choose. The final damage assignment must be legal. When blocking, you may form a band with at least one creature with banding and any number of other creatures. During the combat damage step, the blocking band's controller determines how the attacker's damage will be assigned and may divide the damage up however they choose. The final damage assignment must be legal.

Could be worse, Alpha starters can have a rare replaced by an Island.

Rudy, rubbing his claws together: Gooood. Goood.

So this is what they meant by "moist Jund"

@@alexthethu yea, a singular drop of water is perfectly moist

Oh great, now somebody needs to go through the intros of all 100 episodes and see if he's called us a legendary creature, otherwise this bit doesn't work. That somebody is not me, btw.

@@StefanWB Revised: Pirate Ship CTC: Volatile Chimera ELD: Gluttonous Troll HRD: River hoopoe CSNC: Aerial Extortionist RIX: Resplendent Griffon SNC Broker: Masked Bandits MM1: Puppeteer Clique AER: Something in German? AFR: Gelatenous Cubes SOI: Gibbering Fiends UNS: Dirty Rat KLD: Frostpeak Yeti SNC Collector 2: Expendable Lackey SNC Collector 1: Snooping Newsie AMK: Festering Mummy PTK: Trained Jackal DOM Pinfinity: Reality Augmenter SNC: He called us just "streets" as the cards weren't out yet UNG: Scissor Lizards ALR: Marrow Chomper WRS: Challenger Troll RVA: Junk Trawler JIN: Squelching Leeches CHR: Giant Slug FAE: Feral Thallids ELD: Gilded Geese SOK: Godo's Irregulars MM1: Plaxcaster Frogling DOM: Mammoth Spider C20: Something in German again BTK: Waxmane Baku ONS: Symbiotic Worm THE: Gary, Merchant of Asphodel THD: Whipperwills STX: Relic Sloth BTB: Loreweaver Xth: Bog Wraith RVA: Rakdos Roustabout Kamigawa x Pinfinity: Pokey bits of metal (sadly not a card) KLD Collectors: Old-Growth Troll ATR: Reckless Racer MID Theme U: Component Collector ODY: Nut Collector TBD: Nessian Hornbeetle ELM: Permeating Mass WRS Japanese: Raging Kronch REN: Fleur de la Flam(?) MYSTERY Con: Stinkweed Imp Arena Starter: Cyclone Summoner OAG: Saddleback Lagac CRV Promo: Cemetary Desecrator CTC: Sinious Vermin DOM German: Excavation Elephant FAE: Feral Thalids, a repeat CRV Pre: Gluttonous Guests CRV AR: Rubberized Nubins, again, not a card AMK: Ancient Crab Totally Real: Phantom Tiger CRV Promo: Overcharged Amalgam MYSTERY CON: Gunk Slug GRN: Pelt Collector UNS: Adorable Rocket RIX: Ravenous Chupacabra RVA: Galloping Lizrog DOM: Skittering Surveyor C19: Demanding Dragon Forbidden Booster: River Bear M25: Reef Worm KTK Pre R: Mantis Rider BTB: Charging Binox MBS: Dross Ripper UNG: Rock Lobster IXA: Colossal Dreadmaw D&D Nerds: Oompa Loompas (not a card... yet) MID Pins: Locking Pin backs (not a card) WRS (JPN): Flux Channeller GTC: Daring Skyjek C11: Relentless Rats ICA: Pale Bear ZDR Gift Bundle: Canyon Jerboa IKR: Mysterious Egg MHO: Cordial Vampire DOM: Mammoth Spider (again) MM1 Fake: Helium Squirter THE Secret Lair: Demigod (not a card) DRM: Feral Animist ELD: Resolute Rider Dollar Store: Elvish Mystic FAE: Homarid Warrior DND Summer Puzzle Box: Clattering Skeletons Secret Lair: Howling Mines JIN: Sigiled Skink ELM: Wretched Gryff AFR Pre: Hulking Bugbear TBD Collector: Discordant Piper KTK: Longshot Squad ALL: Phantasmal Sphere WRS: Spellgorger Weird Vth: Prodical Sorcerer I think there are 8 cards missing, and then we just need a legendary with all colours to pilot it! Addendum: Don't purchase from Card Kingdom until they recognize their union, never cross a picket line! Even if it is inconvenient, we have to have solidarity.

But but but! If the workers form a union how will the profit in half a decade from the employer ownership scheme i cooked up which i inexplicably insist will be somehow impeded by the presence of a union

So many things went wrong with that one card.

Was it supposed to b blue background or green mana?

@@mattconw It should be blue. If you look up Serendib Efreet from Arabian Nights you'll see how it should have looked.

On the other hand, the vanilla test wasn't a thing in 1994 and Craw Wurm was almost always the biggest creature in any given pack it appeared in, so it impressed a lot of pre-teen Timmys.

Though consider, it doesn't die to bolt.

That's the thing, passing the vanilla test back then was almost considered an upside with how infrequent it happened. Craw worm rules because there were so few creatures that could trade with it, and forget blocking profitably, 6 power took whatever your opponents bomb was down in a mass of craw and wurm

Revised was a *terrible* set as far as overall card quality goes. Even by 1994 standards it was just chock full of junk rares once you got past the duals and as shown here you could open basic lands in *any* rarity slot. However, WotC were having so many problems keeping their expansions in stock that frequently it was the only type of pack available when you managed to drag your parents to the nearest hobby store that carried MTG which was at least half an hour away so you ended up buying nothing but Revised anyway.

That a real stax player point of view

It was worth more than the first pack.

It didn’t! Draft didn’t become something they designed and arranged packs for until Odyssey [Thank Artemi7 for the correction, it was Mirage, not Odyssey] I believe.

@@00Clank It was Mirage actually, way back in '96! That was the first set with limited in mind, both Sealed and Draft. Sets before that were... very poorly designed. Setting aside the basics in packs, things like common creatures in every color simply weren't a consideration. Mirage was the set that, while a bit rough and unpolished today, laid down a lot of the 'rules' they'd follow when trying to design sets for limited.

@@artemi7 Oh, yes thank you. I thought I remember it being the first set Rosewater worked on and for some reason said Odyssey which is comparatively much later, mixing the names up. Unless I see the palm tree I usually forget Mirage is the name of a set.

Same feeling about a gorillion other companies too

This is still true!

It was Jordynne this time ;)

Yep, I recently used it to win a couple games in an Alpha - Revised cube draft.

Yeah a 3/4 flyer for (3) is WAY above rate for a 1994 creature.