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This was a heart breaking video. Much luck to you Greg and thanks for sharing your story with us all. Good news is people around the world are working tirelessly to find a cure and just 3 months ago researchers in Toronto may have found a breakthrough in treatment for Huntington's disease. Maybe some day in the near future we may see a cure. My hopes are high but like anything it will take time and a lot of trial and error.
Not to be that guy, but your comment is not actually true. First, the disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion (i.e., one copy is sufficient), however, it is only guaranteed if both parents are carriers (this was not specified, so cannot be certain. All the same, if the mother is not a carrier, there is a 50% chance to pass it on to the next generation.
Second and final, he only said he tested positive - this is not a death sentence. While the CAG repeats needed to test positive at (what I assume to be) an advanced (non-juvenile) age usually means you will show symptoms, there is no way to know when, how serious or how aggressive the transformation will be.
All the same, agree that it is heart-breaking, but just be aware that there is an equal likelihood of his children carrying the gene as not carrying it.
Oh, I meant that they may not be carriers at all. Importantly, much of the active research in this either tries to capture the mRNA prior to the creation of the protein leading to aggregation or attempts to disrupt the aggregation event entirely.
Go read about Mendelian genetics and how autosomal dominance works in disease when only one parent is a carrier. You do counseling to avoid both parents having the same genetic disease as that guarantees the passage to their children.
so bottomline of this discussion is: people with this kind of disease, please stop breeding so you won't contaminate the world by inheriting your unfortunate genes and stop the vicious cycle of unpreventable death?
Man some times I feel like CZcams comments are always an extreme spectrum of good and bad people, you sir are a good people
Greg's dad was the *MAN* , he had some basic meta decks, but he also had a goblin deck knowing full well that goblins where just stupid fun even if they sucked.
I find myself revisiting this video so often.. The story is heartbreaking, yet uplifting at the same time. Many prayers to you and your family Greg.
Im literally crying right now....ya never know when youll click on a video and suddenly , pow right in the feelings.
i always skip the intro
He really gave us a science lesson
This is so crazy.. my brother has a collection that I'm currently going through. He also has huntingtons disease and I was in shock when you read that letter.. I feel for you Greg keep your head up!
The fact that a fan trusted you on this level speaks volumes. You are good people, and I am proud to follow you. Thank you for sharing your collection with all of us, and thank you for the integrity you inspire.
Just for the record. As a kid I was fortunate enough to play with the creators during their development of this game. I was a kid and they were very good to me. The integrity you inspire is at the core of their intentions when they made this game. Something quickly fading but, you and few others work hard to maintain the creators intentions. Thank you.
That computer paper list is incredible but also heartbreaking. Anything uncompleted that had so much work put into it from someone who has passed is so crazy. You complete that set, Rudy, and you print out a completed setlist on the same paper
Those are 90s cards, and he passed away in 2009, though. Lets be honest, he had mora than time to complete it.
He passed in 2009, but it doesn't mean he was healthy up until that point. Just rewatch the beginning of the video. Huntington is a bitch.
I was an active collector during that same period. Completing a Legends set back in the day was essentially impossible. I was far closer than he was and never completed my set either, was short 2 rares when I finally sold my collection.
@Sempre That was a cold hearted comment, man. Geesh!
Sempre, cmon man. Maybe his life goal wasn't to collect them all... but it was just a hobby. Have some respect.
It's so beautiful that you get to show the decks and then draw a sample hand, Greg's father gets to show the world his personal favorite decks and how he used to play.
Best of wishes to Greg's family, and thank you Rudy for this great video.
Man seeing those handcrafted Decks so so personal that was really hard to watch...maybe it was just me but my eyes got super watery when he showed his decks. Decks (especially at this time without a only competitive meta background) are something super personal for me.
If those decks arent particularly valuable I feel like he should sell them back to the kid as a keepsake.
No one gives a fuck about his dad tho. I skipped that shit lol
@@TheDeathOfLucifer No one will remember you.
@@jamesm1 No one will remember any of us in a 1000 years. Its fine
20:45 I had that moment. I got back into Magic about 10 years ago and broke out a couple of my old play decks from the early 90s in my LGS. Had a bunch of people playing around me and I broke out my deck with my friends and immediately went to do the shuffle like I used to. No idea of the value of the cards and what had become of the game. Cutting the deck, one half in each hand, bending them with my thumbs and the sound of those cards slapping one another as I shuffled them. The sounds that came from the people in that room, I can still remember it. I actually had a person come over to me and ask me to not do that anymore. This part of your video really reminded me of playing back in the day.
that's awesome
This is an example of why we love Rudy.
You love a con-man? What kind of gullible idiot are you?
@@21inchwide why is he a con man?
@@21inchwide 296 people like and love...Guess we're crumble
I'm quite amazed Rudy didn't know the Counterspell and Incinerate aren't media promos but promos given to "Legends DCI members", that's also where the poker deck and italian Legends booster are from :).
Can't know everything all the time
@@GoldenOvO not with that attitude he wont
@@snailvomit3477 lol you're right
Rudy is good at finance and good at running a youtube channel , he is not really good at magic or history.
Greg, "I'm selling my dead dad's collection so I can buy a house."
Rudy, "Unfortunately, most of this is bulk."
Man had 10 duel lands and a recall
@@maplz9314 how much would that be worth? i heard rudy gave him 100 bucks for the lot. evil rudy
Mana drain is a great pull and demonic tutor
psykikninja in the video he said 2k alone for the collectors box.
Chains of Mephistopheles is like 500+ dollars
This looked like every kid's collection from my school back in 95-96ish! Thanks for bringing back some awesome memories, Rudy. My sincere condolences to Greg, and we appreciate you sharing your story. I certainly wish you the best of luck in your endeavor to spread awareness of such an unfortunate ailment.
Wizwar?! That was an amazing game!
It still is! It's been reprinted by another company, and has some expansions even!
yeah
got my FFG reissue
its awesome
Played it last night with my son who is 9 years old! Love the game. He hit me with a large rock for 2 points for the win. Thanks Rudy. Thanks for being a good guy, and helping this guy out.
My family has been ravaged by this disease. My grandfather, uncle, father, sister, and now niece and nephew. My heart goes out to that family with true understanding
Should probably stop breeding then, its not really ethical is it?
@@MagikarpsSplash One would think right
Stop breading doesn’t do anything. It is a chromosome mutation. So any baby born with or without family history could have it.
@@curtisturner8468 random mutations arent a 50/50 though, it is just ignorant to say 'it will happen anyway hurr just let em breed'. grow up.
@@curtisturner8468 ya but if you have a 50% chance of passing it on your odds are shit.
18:00 Just casually strolls passed the $2000 of dual lands =D
Thanks to you and Greg for this video. This was a hell of a throw back to my early magic days in 93-94. Thanks for the nostalgia. Best of luck to you Greg.
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Early Magic brings back memories of teaching my daughter to play and the simple pleasure of building decks with the cards you had. Killer Bees were, well, killer. Nobody had tournament decks, your friends told you how neat your deck was, and when you got that combo to work, life was good. It was a special time when every card had the chance to be good, based on your imagination.
My favorite part was seeing his old decks at the end. Could watch a whole video just on that. I miss those magic days.
Man, that first turn hypnotic... my favorite deck that I ran with until I stopped playing was a black/red discard/destruction deck, with beta dual lands and everything. Even in the early 2000’s when I got back into playing again in college, I for some reason insisted in playing all my vintage cards, raw. I used to buy up beta land so I could fill my decks with them. I beat the hell out of a lot of nice cards but I enjoyed playing them. Still have all my old cards, and decks inside of worn out 3rd edition revised boxes. That image really was 90’s magic decks. I remember the revised boxes were thinner than the newer boxes so I kept all my decks in those vs 4th edition or ice age boxes which were prevalent at the time. The early days of Magic brings me a certain nostalgia that I can’t describe. I started at the tail end of revised but I immediately did everything I could as a young teenager to collect the older cards of the time. So I did pretty well but never got ahold of any true very rare cards. But I have a lot of cool alpha, beta, unlimited, dark, 3rd, legends, antiquities, etc. the latest new cards I ever bought was probably homelands. Then I tuned out of following new sets. For some reason the inspiration that the older sets gave me wasn’t there anymore with what was in production at that point. But I did put together a set of ice age, which was probably the best set that was actually being produced during the time that I actively played and purchased but unfortunately even ice age was probably over produced. I always liked the dark as well but they were hard to find once I realized that I wanted the discontinued stuff. It’s great to see that there is a CZcams community for the dinosaur MTG stuff. I collected baseball and sports cards as a younger boy, always interested in the old stuff, but once I discovered magic, that became my only real collecting interest from them on. That artwork man...
Bro I’ve never been interested or played Magic but I find your videos so interesting and you explain things to good detail.
There’s something special about the kind of love us nerds can share with each other over common interests. Much love Greg I hope you have many more good years ahead of you.
Ik this video is 5 years old, but i love that you take care of these sets and enjoy the older cards. I only started playing mtg in 2017. My dad got an old collection of bulk i think 8th and 9th edition cards along with a few other sets around the same year and gave it to me. I immediately called my friends to help dig through it to put valuables in binders and then choose which ones to use, we were kids and didnt care about money value only rarity value, if it was a mythic it went in the binder no matter what and only came out when trading or when going into a deck. Im now graduated from highschool and still play mtg with the same friends.
My college
The Blue Elemental Blast and the Fireball with the copyright on it were from WOTC's first comic series by Valiant comics back in the early 90's. I collected the series.
Yeap, i do remember these printings and the comics. I remember buying the comics sealed with the cards for a dime each at a local comic shop back in the day.
100% correct. I was going to comment the same thing.
What a story, thanks for sharing. Good luck to Greg! I've been playing Magic since 1995 and I always hear stores of gamers helping each other out. Either with cards, travel, or just moral support.
Loved this! Sorry to hear about the Huntingtons. Watching you go through all of these cards was surreal. I was amazed to find that I was recognizing many of the cards as you were sifting through them, and to think, I haven't seen or thought of them in half a lifetime. Very cool.
I like it when you do these kinds of videos, your passion and love for classic magic really shows through. It usually doesn't in the other videos.
Damn, I haven’t touched or seen magic cards for like 20 years but I can practically smell those cards, that’s how memorable magic cards are.
Man. You should play the decks with one of your friends and share it.
I loved it when you virtual play them. That was so exciting.
Thanks for sharing and thanks for sending in the collection Greg, wishing you all the best. Love love love love seeing that old art, kind of wish it was still like that.
There's a man's soul in there! It's the first time I feel so warm from simply watching a card collection.
I just got into magic this week. Played for the first time today. Had a blast! This is the first time I'm watching one of your videos and the whole idea is heartwarming. I'm already loving the magic community
hopfully the stores near you have a good community some dont sadly but a large majority do. and welcome to the club man :)
That black deck is a lot like the deck my uncle still plays against me with to this day. He started in 1994-ish when I was a year old. I'm familiar with the t1 hippie.
Fun fact: according to him, the folks he played with would actually have "ritual urns" on the table and when a card was hit with a "remove from game" effect they would sometimes tear it in half and burn it in the urn. I don't want to think that anything valuable was lost.
My God. That brings me back some memories. I started like in 91-92 and OMG, I did the same things back then. Compile lists and lists and more lists, save everything... so much good memories.
Brings me back to my days in MTG. I joined in around 1995 with 4th Ed thanks to my neighbor introducing me. We played up until I turned 16 (2000) and I gave away all my cards to a friend of mine who still has them all. Since then I've been slowly getting a new collection started and I have a fairly decent amount of cards now, but it doesn't compare to the times I had when I was a kid playing against my neighbor and teaching the neighbor kids how to play. This video was awesome and you've got a new sub not only because your vids are entertaining, but nostalgia as well.
Be well Greg. Thank you for sharing and thank you Rudy for sharing.
I wish you the best Greg! Be strong
Thanks for bringing me back to simpler times! I just heaved up my huge tote of old magic cards and me an my son are back playing again! Cheers mate!
Im going crazy....what a trip back in time...I would love to get my hands on some of these again...lost ALL my cards in a house fire and it always makes me so sad..Id love to just have some of these for the art and nostalgia trip!! Great Vid!
So many flashbacks to my 9th-grade artifact deck that wons me loads of matches. I now love the art so much.
Wow does this bring back memories, I started playing when Revised came out, so much great artwork and quotes on these old sets, I'm glad there's still people out there that appreciate this kinda stuff
It was so kind of you to do this for Greg, Rudy. Absolutely heartbreaking to hear, but I'm glad that you're helping him and his fathers legacy live on. Much love.
Wiz War??? OK, so I started watching this as I play Magic and have played from Revised. Then the vid talks about the owner. I played Wiz War from the third edition and was hooked. It's an amazing game and I played for years and years often thinking that the designers were amazing people. Obviously never having the chance to thank them for the hundreds of hours of pleasure they gave to me and my friends. Your Dad was a genius and affected my life in inspiring me to write rules and a lifetime of wargaming pleasure. Raising a glass tonight in his memory.
Fallen Empires where I started and probably stopped in 2000-2001. Good ol days. Magic now seems so much more complicated lol
Thanks for the video!
Wish the best to you Greg, God speed.
Great collection! I remember those 4th edition German packs coming in a sealed version of Scrye magazine. To this day I still have the "Paradiesvögel" I pulled from way back in the 90's. They're currently pulling heavy duty work in my Marath EDH deck.
Looooved the end decks! Man that reminded me sooo much of my youth. Playing this in high school with my buddies! Way back playback! Just started teaching my wife how to play. Pulled out my old cards!
I love Wiz-War. I love it so much I personally emailed Tom Jolly asking him what edition of Wiz-War best represented the game and he answered!
Serra angel is my favorite card.
The Greg staples artwork, that is. It's the first magic card in ever looked at and held, it got me into the game, and its the reason I run mono white angels.
Yeah, some people just are so dedicated to Serra Angel. I remember back in the very beginning trading 4 Serras (all I had) for a Time Walk and Ancestral Recall. The other guy was loaded beyond belief and had multiple unlimited sets so don’t feel too bad for him.
Huntington’s took my dad too. I’m 40 and have been showing the tremor symptoms. Mad props for sharing your story.
This was a very enjoyable trip down memory lane. I sure do miss mid to late 90s Magic. Swamp -> Dark Rit -> Hyppie was one of the only things to worry about in my blessed life. ;-)
13:25
Your camera was like "No I don't remember, it must be old, let me blur it out to make it more authentic."
I used to buy Magic back in the 90's when I was a teen and I recognised a lot of the cards I used to have in this video. Good Memories! Thanks for making me remember!
Rudy, you show so much respect. We were there, we played those kind of decks at the time. Thanks,, man.
Best wishes to you greg
21:37 "I'm playing a virtual game with myself." -- aren't we all?
The revised decks at the end take me back. Love the Ironroot Treefolk and living lands in the Green deck!
What an awesome video. Thank you for sharing this collection and story, I really appreciated all of it. Great stuff, I love seeing older collections.
I literally know nothing about magic and yet... I keep watching these videos. I got tipped off to rudy when he was selling diablo 3 collectors editions. More video game investments please! ;)
Neat collection! Best wishes to Greg and family. Anyone else wish Rudy had kept playing those decks near the end?
i think he should do a video battle royal betwen them
Unfortunately I pulled a few cards out of them. Ancestral recall was in the card steal deck, and those birds of paradise were in the Big creature (Green) deck. There were also a few sol rings. The coolest part of the red deck was an artifact that kept 3/3 creatures and up tapped, so the little goblins could run free and do their thing.
It's so nostalgic I miss most of my collection I lost most of them to a storage fire a couple of years ago. I had complete sets up until Scourge. Then again with Mirrodin through Ravnica blocks
This video always bring me to tears, not only for the story but for the memories also, me and my friends in elementary school playing blitz Magic during our breaks.
Aaaah the good ol days, the simpler and better days.
Swamp,ritual and specter still a good opening hand to this day I bet,followed by tourach on your second turn,delisciously good.
Greg stay strong man and Alpha Investments im new to magic just started a week ago i mostly started from watching ur videos
Sorry for your loss Greg, thank you for sharing your story and your fathers amazing magic collection with us, stay strong man.
Watching this two years later. All my love to that whole family.
But what was the last Deck's name?!?!
Big creatures. I made the green deck, actually. It relied on force of nature, living lands, dragons, wood elves and birds of paradise. He always played the blue creature steal deck against me. I never won. He always took my creatures.
as i was watching him go thru it i literally said to my girl i guarantee you there is a force of nature in that elf deck LOLOLOL great watch thanks for the nostalgic trip to my teen years and i wish the best to you greg.
@MegaProjectpat or maybe his daughter keep that shit out of mtg comments i dont normally care but seriously just fck off with ur talk about other peoples wives.
Greg Heredia haha! Your dad played my style of magic. I have been building control decks since the mid 90's. Actually have many of the same blue spells in my collection.
@@gregheredia1687 I hope you and your family are doing well! It was a great treat to see your dad's collection!
loved the art work got around 4000 cards from when i was younger haha I'm 53 now .
I've never played Magic before but everytime I bump into one of these videos I actually enjoy watching these old, cool looking cards. The artwork on some of these stimulates my long forgotten child like imagination.
Oh man.. this collection brings me back. I stopped playing in high school and gave my collection to a friend. I do not remember the cards I had but I recognize many in the video.
My buddy's dad had Huntington's he just recently passed and my buddy is afraid to get tested but he's showing signs of it but there is a way to combat it through diet and not drinking not smoking it won't stop it but it'll drastically slow it down
In some communities, Canadian Highlander allows players to use World Champ and CE/IE cards just to increase player accessibility. Unsanctioned tournaments, which is unfortunate, but it gets players playing. Wouldn't it be cool if WotC just started allowing them in tournaments? Increases legacy card pool without breaking the RL. Just a thought.
Everyone uses sleeves now too, which eliminates the card backs actually making a difference.
Can you see or feel the square ass corners through the sleeve though?
Chris Perciavalle yes you can. The pointed corners would still be a problem even with sleeves.
not if the whole deck had to be collectors edition
I love seeing this kind of passion in a person about anything
The feels are strong in this video. What an awesome collection and beautiful cards. This is magic
that was fun-lots of old memories
I really hope you get to live wonderful years with your kid Greg.
That was an emotional rollercoaster. Greg, best of luck to you sir, hopefully they will find a cure soon. I started playing MTG in 1994, and this proves to me that back then, everyone played the same decks! I had a goblin deck, a discard deck, a ramp deck, and some others. Very cool nostalgic trip down memory lane, thank you for that. I still have my unlimited sengir vampires (playset), unlimited Serra Angels (half playset), Hypnotic Specters (playset), and one of my favorite black cards Will 'O'the Wisp! I've left and come back to MTG many times over the years, and it's amazing to see where it has gone since the early days. Such an amazing transformative journey. I love this game, and the seemingly endless possibilities afforded by the number and types of cards. Thanks again for the fond memories of when MTG was much simpler, but still as fun as it is today.
Much Love! Really touched from this, I'm a UE5 Programmer and Game entusiast myself. My granpa' passed away 5y ago from Parkinson so I really feal this story. Best luck Dude
Rudy keeps saying how these cards aren't worth much then flips past a Chains of Mephistopheles which is a $600 card.
Swamp + Dark Ritual + Hypnotic Specter = 90's magic
Great video as someone who collected and played that same era, it was cool to see a collection like that. You should publish those old school decklist, I just made 5 mono singlet decks of a semi-pauper collection I acquired [I sold all my stuff many moons ago and of course my son is into it now].
These are my favorite kind of videos from you. They leave me with a good feeling in my heart. Best wishes to Greg.
None of these cards are warped 😐
and they were unprotected and hella old :O
Nerd freak out
Back when card stock was high quality
They were wrapped in the notebooks?!?
Alot of times the cards protect eachother if they are kept stacked together neatly and never really touched.
i love how every deck has sol ring in it. Just a busted card.
This made me so nostalgic I brought out my Artifact Burn deck just to look at... best wishes and thanks for sharing
May this new year bring health n wealth to you and your family Greg!!!
couple bucks and few pennies, there you go sir, analized!
8:35 wow
I have worked with people that have Huntingsons, terrible condition. Whishing all the best Greg.
Powerplayer i
That was a great video. Forever memorialized. I absolutely loved seeing those decks his father made. Time capsule really. I keep all my old comics (80s,90s) to pass down, even if they aren't worth millions, they have a lot of sentimental value and are a great story to tell one day when I finally hand them off to the next generation to enjoy.
Heart breaking video, all the best to Gregg and his family. I noticed the Gustave Dore books in the background which is very cool I am descended from the dore family
That collection looks like all the valuable stuff was removed first haha
A lot of casual players had these kind of collections. They started to collect something but naturally began with the cheaper stuff, slowly adding a few valuable chase cards whenever they could afford it. This is a very typical collection from somebody who started with revised, just too late to get the beta / unlimited stuff
Shout out to the Timmy's that will never understand why these videos exist.
Seeing your excitement for the old decks made watching this video worth while. 👌
Those decks were so cool holy crap.
It would be such an honor to bust those out and play with them at some stage, I can imagine feeling the memories and energy on them as crazy as that sounds.
Good luck to Greg and family in the future! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Wow, that ending hit too close to home for me. I miss playing magic with my friends and neighbors =/
Wow brings me back. I started playing in 97
Loved the decks. Brings back memories of playing in high school.
first video of yours ive seen as i get back into MTG, touching video! thanks for sharing
This is great so many feels