A new-ish video from MTG Breakdown I find this incredibly interesting to see, what is most likely, the earliest recorded major Magic Tournament.
Hearing it from someone that was there brings a great insight in what Magic was long ago. Seeing pairing by megaphone, Black Lotus outside of a sleeve, people shuffling in various ways with dual lands and Moxen, using Fissure and Fireballs for 1 and 2, and so much more is incredible to see. Has anyone else seen this? What are your thoughts into this early eye of this game we enjoy.
A new-ish video from MTG Breakdown I find this incredibly interesting to see, what is most likely, the earliest recorded major Magic Tournament.
Hearing it from someone that was there brings a great insight in what Magic was long ago. Seeing pairing by megaphone, Black Lotus outside of a sleeve, people shuffling in various ways with dual lands and Moxen, using Fissure and Fireballs for 1 and 2, and so much more is incredible to see. Has anyone else seen this? What are your thoughts into this early eye of this game we enjoy.
Takes me back. I started playing not long after this. And a few years after that, ESPN started broadcasting events
A new-ish video from MTG Breakdown I find this incredibly interesting to see, what is most likely, the earliest recorded major Magic Tournament.
Hearing it from someone that was there brings a great insight in what Magic was long ago. Seeing pairing by megaphone, Black Lotus outside of a sleeve, people shuffling in various ways with dual lands and Moxen, using Fissure and Fireballs for 1 and 2, and so much more is incredible to see. Has anyone else seen this? What are your thoughts into this early eye of this game we enjoy.
Takes me back. I started playing not long after this. And a few years after that, ESPN started broadcasting events
I thought that last match was interesting, even if a bit funny with some of the things that were going on. Fireballs for one and two, the guy complaining someone copied his deck (although back then it meant far more), and the reactions to seeing cards that are so expensive now be shuffled like that.
I never caught any ESPN broadcasts, but then again I started playing back during 7th Ed. and Odyssey. I didn't know it was such things existed for something nerdy like that.
Takes me back to my beginnings in the game in Spring of '94.
Hope the game in paper is still around in another 25 years.
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I'm a little surprised. I started playing magic in August of 1994, which would have been 3 months prior to this event. I didn't compete, but I had friends who did. I do remember them going up to NYC on weekends to participate in tournaments. A brother of a friend of mine even ran urzatron. Can you believe that?
By november of 1994, mtg was...I'm not going to say mature, but it was already pretty popular. I'm surprised there's no footage of earlier tournaments.
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Hearing it from someone that was there brings a great insight in what Magic was long ago. Seeing pairing by megaphone, Black Lotus outside of a sleeve, people shuffling in various ways with dual lands and Moxen, using Fissure and Fireballs for 1 and 2, and so much more is incredible to see. Has anyone else seen this? What are your thoughts into this early eye of this game we enjoy.
I thought that last match was interesting, even if a bit funny with some of the things that were going on. Fireballs for one and two, the guy complaining someone copied his deck (although back then it meant far more), and the reactions to seeing cards that are so expensive now be shuffled like that.
I never caught any ESPN broadcasts, but then again I started playing back during 7th Ed. and Odyssey. I didn't know it was such things existed for something nerdy like that.
Yeah, no netdecking yet during those times. So a copied deck accusation is a little bit more serious.
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Certainly. Back then was the wild west of deck creation.
Takes me back to my beginnings in the game in Spring of '94.
Hope the game in paper is still around in another 25 years.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
By november of 1994, mtg was...I'm not going to say mature, but it was already pretty popular. I'm surprised there's no footage of earlier tournaments.