for me it was early type 2.

You only KINDA miss Urza's block? It was the last block we had where the developers could, ya know, make the game FUN! Without having to worry about all that pussy shit like; Is your precious format "BaLaNcEd"?! 3 dozen cards have to be banned?? OOPS! My bad . . .

Play premodern. It is a beautiful old school format.

Yup I miss old magic too and I wasnt even playing at this time lol... Nowadays the game is just meh and the company and community for the most part is way to woke and political smh.. Its all garbage. Miss the days we didnt need to Care about some weird trash pronouns as well.

He really loves the game lol

They have sleeves, but at that time sleeves are not yet matte so its not good for the camera,so they had to remove it

The more cards because money the worse the game became IMO... I don't mind cards being worth something.. But the amount these pieces of card board go for is just stupid and makes more sense to buy counterfeit cards... Double sleeved u can't even tell the difference. Proxies and counterfeits should be tournament legal... There's no reason they aren't. Or WoTC could easily just reprint everything that is worth alot so players can get the game pieces we need for tournaments.. There's no reason my 6 modern decks and my legacy decks cost more the a damn brand new car smh. Miss this game when others could afford it to play and have fun.

Haha, they had to ban so many cards

@@swimcrafters1743 SO many.. And even AFTER the bans there were still something like 3 viable combo decks, stupid efficient sligh & draw go decks... I mean this was a special time in magic, never to be seen again, where you could play creatures like Morphling & Masticore !

Welcome to 2000

Vhs

ESPN coverage lmao

Richard Akers that bugs the hell out of me and I really can't stand people playing without sleeves

Fun fact, they all played with sleeves at this time but you had to unsleeve if you played on stream because of the glare from the sleeves at the time

I would have them set to record on VHS and set my alarm for 1:50am sense they only showed Magic at around 2am. So I would watch and record it. I still have the VHS of Long vs ( I can't remember his name now but will change it when I do.) Long was playing Prosperous bloom And his opponent was playing Mono white. Long lost game one and the suddenly games 2 and 3 he somehow ALWAYS drew a Gloom right when needed it.... Because he lapped them and could just go get one as needed.

@@Str8edgejon name you are looking for is Matt Lindhe playing old school white weenie with emperial armor and cataclysm.

@@skizzik121 and I recall getting a free vhs tape of that event when I attended a prerelease

This isn't a counter argument to your post, but how is this any different from watching poker on TV and listening to them endlessly unstack and restack their fucking chips? lol. So it boggles my mine as to why they would need to mute this. Anyways, again not an attack towards your post just me questioning reasoning haha.

Brian Well... I don't watch poker, for one... Second, yeah... That sounds like it would be annoying. You know what else is annoying? Lots of things, but thanks for the super specific comparison, I guess...

Bongeler That sound is great you baby. Brian’s absolutely right btw. You don’t sound like you like cards why are you here anyway? 😂

It was good, but there were more insane matches. Brian Kibler vs Finkel comes to mind. That ending was so close for Finkel. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMuUpsim3avaqJ8.html

Combo Winter made me quick playing til about Odyssey(6 sets later), Birds for the win!! Ravnica also made me frustrated with its B/U decks.

And then ther was Mirrodin lol

Type 2 was the name for Standard, not Modern, but you're right otherwise. The internet was much different then, netdecking and access to information was much more limited. I think the late 90's, early 2000's era of Magic was, by far, the best era. These old videos got me feeling quite nostalgic.

I miss the days where Morphling was a good creature.

Did you play in the tournament?

No I did not play in the main event, but did play and Win a few side-events. Just returend to playing, most recently GP Utrecht.

I would contend that he is one of the very best commentators of all time, in any game or sport. Incredible passion.

Cool story.

apocchime SPORE FROOOGGGGGG

glen2003 today espn shows MOBAs

It was the deuce

Took like 18 years for them to broadcast mma lmao

Steve Olliff was on the deuce

Joel Monteiro tinker wasnt even good in type ii until they banned academy and megrim jar decks....THEN tinker was played.

@@nickfanzo urh, Megrim-Jar played 4 tinker to get the jar :)

Yamcha Dragonball yes you’re right

Gerardo Ritchey no wizards slacked on this coverage

WLDFLD yes

Tayo Gabriel sleeves werent allowed on camera

He's dead on board. Colossus can only be blocked by three or more creatures. Maher has to tap down all his lands to Tangle Wire, Finkel untaps his Colossus with the 2nd key he topdecked on his turn, blocks Masticore, swings back for lethal.

From what I can tell, his deck has a lot of effects that damage him. So you can use Crumbling to mill instead of hurt yourself, and you can also sacrifice the Crumbling to Tinker when you're ready to go in for the kill.

Sanctuary was there initially as an answer to aggro, Tinker it into play when you are short on life to give you time to stabilize. Also worked well with Processor.

Because they are paying 19 life to make the 19/19. Its a 3 turn clock with sanctuary that also means they aren't dead to a random burn spell.

+Michael Kasif so what? They didn't care. First of all, sleeves weren't allowed. Moreover, they were proplayers, not noobish traders. With their gains, they could have affored a few hundreds rishadans

hapjiwaya If they knew what the price would be now they would have cared.

Michael Kasif You didn't get it... Whatever. Top 8 roplayers back then just didn't think like that. They could afford any cards with their gains and didn't see card market as a business. They were way over it.

hapjiwaya I understand what you're saying. It's all context. Doesn't change that those are unsleeved Rishadan ports being riffle-shuffled though...lol

Michael Kasif Yes, it's hurting when you think at actual prices, from a collector pov. But in that case, cards should be regarded as sport gears, nothing more. It's funny tho how today's playthings can become tomorrow's treasures. Times change.

Lol, they didn't really have any back then. Even if there were, they probably weren't very good.

+CommanderSh!mi X actually, they had to play unsleeved on coverage because the sleeves caused glare

Ultra pro sold sleeves from like 97 on