Actually all the guys were using sleeves in casual play and practice matches. In LA we even had special sleeves called Frenchy sleeves.

Andrew sd I think he's using clear ultra pros

None of those cars are really worth anything even today

Even the lands are like 30 bucks in NA so you are wrong

ql Crane , no they’re still just pocket money. Even your ridiculous «30 bucks» is still pocket money, but they’re only 0 bucks except the city of brass at 8 bucks.

@@Skjeggspir Beta lands are about 20 each, and there was definitely at least 1 black bordered Wrath that I saw. These cards have value regardless of what you think.

He was known as a dueschbag and was a highly suspected cheater. So he was certainly a villain.

@@RellimDaMonkeyMan *JINO

those were the days

Feels like pub magic in a way

ya pros bloom player from like KC

and 2019, sadly.

@@karimbauer8720 you don't even imagine 2020

@@kelyarsky welcome to 2023

I thought you could only activate it once per (your own) turn, got 2 out of 8 boosters and traded them away for 2 uncommons. Different times, different times

Back then, I traded my Baron Sengir forna playset of force of wills... And i was pissed! I thought i was getting cheated. I thought force of will sucked, but it was in the inquest deck list so i was forced to get them lol. My friends mocked me for losing the Baron too hehe.

Mike Long "perching" in his chair like a bird to intimidate opponents. While also blatantly cheating which was pretty rad.

Oh you thought that was the worst? Check out kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gMCGi6yTu9OphnU.html and see Rade play out 8 lands despite playing Stormbind AND playing against Jokulhaups!

He was playing armageddon though. Its the same reason justice is holding back land... Now... holding the COP black in hand is a much tougher thing to explain... DOH!

He was probably nervous because the cameras made it harder to cheat. Justice was one hell of a scumbag.

If Zoomers didn’t know, it was incredibly easy to cheat in MTG back at it’s Pro scene infancy. People did stack their decks, used actual sleight of hand magic tricks to hide extra cards, purposely marked their cards and used dirty bluffs. Not to mention tons of unprescribed adderall (as seen with all the fidgeting and ridiculous amounts of water/soda that they wouldn’t normally drink). Ice Age was notorious for having “lighter blacks” on the print run, and you could easily spot an Ice Age card by just looking at the black frame on the card back. Without sleeves, it made it far more easier to spot. You also had players that would hide key duplicate sideboard cards in their shirt sleeve, pocket, and use a simple party trick and slide it into their hands when needed. There were several known pros caught cheating during this time period of MTG, including Mark Rosewater defending them (IE: spectator games needed a villain).

I believe the rules were different then. Taking an action in 'response' to something was only possible with 'interrupt' cards before the 6th edition rules change. Of course, I didn't start playing until Masques so I might be wrong.

He could have do that, it is/was possible.

He says I'll eat it to the zuran orb

@@deviaan nope, that's incorrect. With the 'batch' you were able to respond with instants and interrupts, but you could only respond on interrupts with interrupts. As soon as nobody wanted to add anything to the batch, you wouldn't have a chance to add any new instants until the batch was fully resolved. So it was different for sure, but not in the way you describe

He's one of the first players to have been introduced in the Hall of Fame, in 2005.

Mwahahaha! (Takes a sip of beer).

Because it wants to make you happy.