Jesus Christ, you have an AWESOME collection! Thanks for sharing the video. Mine is much more humble, but I also have some good cards; not on the level of the Alexandria Bookstore or Tabernacle, of course. Greetings from Spain...!!!!!

Late comment but Ive gotten into premodern thnx to you and brightdaysmtg. Also now might have a friend hooked on it too! Thanks for your vids on these formats

Don't eat too much of that sugar-free stuff, it will give you diarrhea. 💧👄💦

Thanks MtgPhil ! 👌💪

I played with so many of those in the 90s.

I love white wennie

Nice deck

sleight of mind = big brain

Thx again mtgphil for showing this pre modern decks, it really helps me learning and builiding some funny decks to play with my girlfriend 👍😁💪🇵🇹

Thx again mtgphil! 💪

Red Elemental Blast and Blue Elemental Blast are quite the staples in Old School Magic 93-94 - destroying a permanent at instant speed or countering a spell for only 1 mana is definitely a good deal! They are solid cards for sideboard and can even see some main deck play. However, there is no guarantee that your opponent will play Red (they will most likely play Blue, but perhaps only as a splash color), so what do we do? Paint! Use the Alpha rares that nobody wants to open in a pack - Chaoslace and Thoughtlace (as well as Dwarven Song and Sea King's Blessing) to paint the spells and permanents blue and red and then blast them! Another strategy here is to use Sleight of Mind to make our Beasts of Bogardan, Spinal Villain and even Elder Spawn more relevant!

The dark expansion: my personal favorite expansion....anyway cheers from Philippines...

After playing out 5 or 6 lands, would it be better to just hold the rest of them to help power your Psychatog? At one point I was seeing about 11 lands on the table and room for 6 of them in your hand; that would be like an extra 9 power and toughness plus the opponent might think they still need to overcome a full grip of counters and removal.

I have an android phone and I downloaded this as well as the pics. But I can't find the forge app or access the data due to android 14 restrictions. Do you know how I can add pics of cards ?

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Awesome video! But it’s painful to see your mismatched counterspells and foreign mana leaks!

Here is more Premodern content for those of you who are into this kind of thing! Sorry about my voice, I recorded it a couple of weeks ago, now things are finally better. :)

Great interview. Always a pleasure to play games with you Olga !! 😊

I definately are a Johnny 😅🔫 I’m so happy with a 3/3 record 💪 Close to playoff! Almost always loose after sideboard when my opponents has seen the interactions. 1/1s for three mana with a decent effect? Bring me on, Druids, Sorceresses, Enchantress, Assassins, Imps, Tims… ❤️‍🔥

Old cards cannot be sold. When I thought about selling some original OS cards to buy more playable OS lands, I felt them staring back at me through the album (hope I'm ok).

Hi Phil! I would like to see a deck with Electric Eel. I know it's strage but it's a card I really like. Thanks for all the videos you make about the old school format, I really love them

I just realized her shirt brings out her eyes. 👁‍🗨👁‍🗨

Every old school mtg card is a piece of art! Vintage is difficult to find because of prices and their use, but also pre modern art was always amazing to me, some new cards have nice art but old school is the best👌👍💪

So for rarity, several factors are in play that will make a card "rare". And I'm talking ABU mostly because as time goes on, people change in WOTC and they may change the design philosophy. 1) What is it? (Creature, Spell, Land, Artifact) 2) How often is it encountered? Power is not necessarily a consideration. Fireball can be very powerful but it is a common. For example, we all know the color pie and what each color does. If a card does something that is totally color pie, it is often a common. If the card does something in color pie but also in an allied color, it is uncommon. If the card does something of an opposite color, it is a rare. There is also a food chain philosophy for creatures. A commonly found creature that is designed for just within the color is a common. You can have a 1 mana Llanowar Elves that taps for G. But you can also have a Craw Wurm 6/4 for 6 mana. Both are normal green creatures despite one being much bigger than the other. But then Birds Of Paradise is also 1 mana that taps for one mana but it's rare because it also can tap for opposing colors of mana, not just same color green. Then you have Thicket Basilisk, smaller than Craw Wurm but is Uncommon because it has Deathtouch (It should be rare but at the time, they hadn't figured out what color DT belonged to...I think it's black but don't quote.), a special ability where Wurm is just a big dumb green creature. Then compare Cockatrice to Thicket Basilisk. Why is Cockatrice a rare? It's because it has Flying, normally a blue ability, along with Deathtouch. Thicket Basilisk is more useful but the Cockatrice is weirder. Force Of Nature having Trample is normal, being 8/8 makes it uncommon but dealing damage to it's owner (or breaking owner's permanents, sacrifice, etc.) is a black characteristic, like Lord Of The Pit, so it's rare. Another condition is also there for artifacts and lands. Both are similar as the weirder the card, the rarer it is. If the artifact grants pure color ability to any target like Helm Of Chatzuk, then it is rare. If it works within one color, it is uncommon, like Iron Star. Sol Ring and Basalt Monolith generate only colorless so they are uncommon. Black Lotus and Moxen generate colored mana AND cost 0 mana so they are rare. Mana Vault damages you like a black card so it is rare. Last thing to consider is some abilities are exclusive to a color while other abilities are usually in a color but can mildly be shared with allied colors. Flying is mainly a blue ability and any power and toughness. Blue's allies white and black can have flyers but they are like 1/1 (common like Mesa Pegasus), 2/2 (uncommon like Hypnotic Specter), etc. If any other non-allied color card has Flying, like Cockatrice and Shivan Dragon, they will for sure be at least uncommon and if it's a big body, then rare.

Juzam is interesting to find in played condition. At one time, 99% of the Juzam's were pack fresh back in 1995. Then I played mono black and destroyed the entire local meta in Los Angeles, after Fallen Empires came out. After that, many people played mono black in LA and then in one day, one show, Juzam Djinn went from a junk Arabian U1 into a $70 card, like the price of a Mox Jet. Eventually another player added Nevinyrral's Disk as many people played black vs. black, and Disk controlled tempo. Then, a few months after Ice Age came out, Necropotence, a junk Ice Age rare, was added in and it worked great with Disk. Juzam was dumped since it had poor synergy with Necro and the Type 1 and Type 2 formats were created. So, Juzam was mostly unplayed due to the mental block most players had at that time due to losing life from your own creature and by the time it was played, most people knew about sleeves. However for a few years, official WOTC tournaments had people playing with no sleeves so many worn down Juzams were worn down due to tournament play.

Welcome to Old School Magic Spotlight, where you tell the world your Magic story! Today we have our first guest, Olga, who has been playing exclusively Old School 93/94 for several years. What started for Olga with the interest in Arabian Nights after getting an Ifh-Biff Efreet for her EDH deck, turned into a passion for Old School, its unique art, gameplay and the community. Watch the interview to learn more about Olga's Old School Magic story, decks and collections!

Fantastic deck! I've build one that kinda a mix between this and the wombat deck from brightdaysmtg. It is BWG and uses black removal like yours combined with white for spirit link. Enchantress is powerful if she sticks around. Never thought about underworld dreams though! Gotta try it out

Phil is back 🎉👌👌

Avoid fate to protect the enchantress from swords and bolt. Demonic tutor to tutor for enchantress.

Good to see you Phil! I like this version of enchantress. I never had much luck with the more standard version of the enchantress deck. This version looks better and I'll have to try it out.

And what about Unholy Strength, Hyppies, Rabid Wombat and Paralysis?

I made a deck like this but I ran 4x Howling Mine, with Time Walk and Timetwister and used Fastbond, Dark Heart Of The Wood and Gaea's Touch.

Please support me on Patreon, let's get from Camel to Leviathan! www.patreon.com/mtg_phil Verduran Enchantress is a creature that started the whole Enchantress archetype that spanned over decades, and while the most intuitive thing is to play some buffs on your creatures in a White, Green and Blue deck, this just makes them even more vulnerable. However, here we are taking a look at the Evil Enchantress in Black and Green, with Cursed Land, Warp Artifact, Underworld Dreams and Wanderlust that will damage our opponent every turn as well some card advantage and control elements, it is a truly unique archetype in how it plays and what it is based on.

This is one of my all-time favorite decks! I was first exposed to Magic back in 1997 but didn't get seriously into it until the Odyssey block. I have SO much nostalgia for this era of Magic

Id swap out the three floods for three more worms

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Thx again phil, hope um get better 👍

I miss your videos

Nice video 👌💪

Leviathan for the win!! 👌

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Good to find someone with the same taste and appreciation for old school mtg 💪 thx for your videos 💪

Anyone wondering you can go into the settings and change the theme to magic to modernize the look. The black background and the change of font really makes it look great

Before Fruity Pebbles there was Frosted Flakes. Always loved Enduring Renewal combo, good to see it given a new life in a new format!

This is played where? what are you using to play?

I tend to run Aether Burst over Unsummon. Unsummon is more efficient, but it feels soooo good to cast Aether Burst and have it put the lift on 2 or even 3 creatures!

I basically have this same deck! I run Mana Leak over Counterspell. Because sometimes it’s hard to get UU left open.

I really would like to have acid rain :) it seems to be sold out everywhere

Great Collection!