Vintage Magic: The Gathering Pack Openings | Revised Masters Of MTG Boosters
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- It is time to crack open some Magic The Gathering booster packs! I'm opening a pack of Revised, as well as the ORIGINAL Modern Masters, Weatherlight, Mirage, Journey Into Nyx, and Scars Of Mirrodin! Lion's Eye Diamond and original dual lands await? Probably not, but better click and find out!
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That was super fun. Sometime, I'd love to see you do some more videos that are trips down memory lane. Whether it is pack openings or just story time, I'd like to hear it.
Me gustaría abrir un "booster pack" de Saga de Urza ya que yo empecé a jugar con esa edición, además tengo la colección de Saga de Urza completa, las 350 cartas + la carta pre-release foil
If I could open any booster packs, it would be Urzas Saga. I started playing with the Pestilence pre-con, and while it is an extremely controversial set for the impact it had in the games history, USG is my absolutle favourite.
Mercadian Masques...this was the turning point, where a hobby became something a little more special....
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Ah, I still remember my first set:
Throne of Eldraine.
Lol, having started with M20 I feel inadequate to say that I'm nostalgic of my first pack opening ^^
And mine:
War of the Spark
Well technically Dragons of Tarkir, but I didn't actually play the game until WAR.
Guilds of Ravnica for me
Return to Ravnica was my first pre-release. Beautiful set, and I don't think I could've asked for a better one to start my journey with
Dominaria for me, but only started buying packs at M19
It takes great force of will to have not cracked all of these open about ten years ago
And those pulls have officially balanced the scales for that *Force of Will* he pulled from that Alliances pack!
Anger
My dad owns an LGS in Washington, and I remember one day a few years ago when he was closing up shop, he had two packs of a Japanese box of M12 left unsold. He said we each got to open one, and in that pack I pulled a foil Japanese primeval titan. It's one of my favorite memories in general because we were both so excited! It's the most treasured card in my collection still to this day.
My dad owns an LGS, that is like the coolest sentence a person can say.
Prof sacrificing his own value to give us entertainment during this tough time, whatta champion
Leaving a comment here for the algorithm. Something about seeing the actual value of each card on the pack was an excellent touch. Not sure if that's par for the course, but I sure appreciated it.
He always shows the prices
You should watch his Booster box game videos. He cracks a full booster box, and shows prices for every rare mythic and uncommon worth more than $2.
Sorry about the Journey into Nyx pack, I slept in this morning.
Damn, $11.02 is nice value from a pack.
Not a revised pack, sure, but let's pretend it was Ikoria.
Florian W Ikoria will age much better than you think
@@bsmith3095 not if they ban all the good cards
@@antoniobush4560 Casual play makes up significantly more of the market than competitive
Ixalan is where I started Magic a few years ago. My friend got me a crappy Jace planeswalker deck, but I eventually upgraded it into a merfolk tribal deck since some of the cards were already in that theme. The game store me and my friends used to play at all the time shut down about a year ago, now, and every time I see or open a pack of Ixalan cards, it always reminds me of those amazing times, sitting at a table, playing Magic and messing around with my friends.
Prof just proving why we need to buy singles
I mean the packs costing more than the cards prove that lol
But i’m still addicted to booster packs
Paweł Kowalski people call it cardboard crack for a reason lol
Opening packs is for CZcams channels, single sellers and gamblers only :)
Opening packs itself is a very good experience though
Imagine spending 250 bucks a pack to get several basic lands 😭😭😭
You can buy a few secret lairs
imagine spending over 250 bucks and get no more then 5 lands...
They're like the only playables form that set though
@@daanmeulendijks3511 i doubt there are people on this planet that buy revised and open them to get dual lands when dual lands cost the same amount as the pack
daan meulendijks funny how some things never change :p
Ice Age... I bought an Ice Age starter deck back when I started playing - it was one of my first purchases - and I'd love to transport myself back to that time, just once. I believe nostalgia is high during these troubled times...
I'd go Ice Age as well. My first magic cards were from an Ice Age booster. I got what is still my favorite card from that booster: Zuran Spellcaster.
After the Invasion block I stoped playing and eventualy I gave away most of my catds, but some of my favorite that survived this Magicless era are from Ice Age, including Brainstorm and Mystic Remora (both in my Merfolk Commander deck).
I love how much that revised pack means to him. The time when Antiquities, Arabian Nights, Legends, The Dark, 4th Edition and Revised where still on shelves was my favorite time of Magic. I'd love too open a few of those old school packs again. I'm all about the nostalgia and I personally don't care about the value of the cards because I'll never sell any of mine.
Also started during Revised - thanks for that shot of nostalgia and fond memories.
In middle school when school was done , one of the parents picking up there kid would sell us revised booster packs. There daughter didn't even play mtg there was only 3 of us. Ahhh the good ol days
Journey into Nyx is actually the first set I ever opened, so watching you open one brought back SO many memories!! 😭❤️
It's nice to see the professor using the packs for what they were created, to be opened
Anything from the Alara block, it was when I started playing magic outside my family, one of my earliest drafts I pulled Nicol-Bolas, Planeswalker and that set had a really solid take on collector's packs that no one ever really acknowledges
I have a revised edition booster pack and a revised edition starter deck that I have been struggling not to open during quarantine. Thanks for doing this prof, you've saved my collection by giving me the satisfaction of seeing revised opened and by reminding me how much I could lose by opening mine.
Thanks for sharing the experience. As someone who didn't get an opportunity to experience this wonderful game in it's early days, watching you open these older packs was a real treat.
I started with revised as well! In fact I still play a revised cube with my family on a regular basis. I can’t tell you how great it was to watch you open a revised booster!
I sure miss playing with my friends back in the mid 90s with our 300 or more card decks. Those games would go on for many hours sometimes. Thanks!
Even though I didn't really start playing MTG until Guilds, I was taught how to play in early 2008. The Lorwyn cards were fairly new at the time, and the guy showing me how to play was using decks from Kamigawa. I'd love to open packs from either set.
"But look at what might be in here!" - and probably isn't, because those old packs were searchable. As far as I'm concerned, any loose packs of revised or other old sets are a scam and I wouldn't buy them for anything. But people tend to get caught up in the "But what if-" a lot.
Still, I can appreciate a nostalgia trip.
I love that this pack opening is about personal experience instead of monetary value. Thanks for keeping the heart in the cards!
What a great video! Thanks for sharing this experience with us!
I started buying Magic cards before I really knew what they were so a lot of the early packs I opened I just loved how pretty the artwork was. I think that Tempest or maybe Mirage was where I really started to understand the game. Still, I cracked so many packs of Homelands and Fallen Empires. When I actually met people who played Magic my collection was seen as completely inadequate and hilarious. Those early years I got hosed real bad, traded so many things without any idea of their power(ended up with a bunch of those adorable Lemurs), and lost more to games with ante. I would love to go back and open a pack from the Rath cycle and start trying to see a deck built from those cards.
I am not an OG MTG player, but I love watching the prof sheer passion for the game. Now a days I prefer to spend my money on Magic Arena although I have my Commander Decks and my Modern/standard deck (?) It's always fun to play with friends face to face.
"Spend my money on Magic Arena".... They got me at the start, spent 50$ on some gems, but since then I haven't had to buy any more. The gold you get from just playing is usually enough to buy 100 packs buy the time a set comes out. That and I have so many wildcards saved up I get whatever I don't open. Nothing compares to having cards to collect in a binder and make decks with.
@@patmacrotch5611 I agree with that, but they take too much space in my house. Now I only keep the ones I use. The rest I tend to donate to my local game store, and even then they sometimes won't accept them.
I would absolutely love to open any Lorwyn-Shadowmoor pack. I didn't play back then but I love the plane more than anything else. The art, especially the flavor, and of course, Merfolk.
Loved the video prof, it’s great to see your passion for the game and nostalgia for the older sets in Magic’s history. For me I’d love to open a pack of original Mirrodin again. That’s when I first started playing at a day camp I attended over the summer when I was a kid. There are so many memories of me building my first deck (a very bad mono red goblins deck) from that era and the cards are a huge part of that. That set and time period is the reason I still enjoy playing modern to this day so I can play with the cards I am nostalgic for from when I began to play.
I started on revised and it’s why I love white bordered so much.
I always smile when I see a white bordered card.
This value loss made me physically ill.
Magic the Gambling
I know right ? He didn't play draft with those booster for max value !
My first foray into MTG was a Revised Starter Deck gifted time me by my Uncle when I was 11 years old. Still have most of those cards to this day. Couldn’t play a decent game with the deck, but the memories and hours spent pouring over their artwork and abilities was (and still is) precious to me.
I gave up my old cards when I was a kid during one of those fated "spring cleaning" weekends. Everything in me has always regretted not saving them, not speaking up and saying they meant something to me at the time instead of just being things taking up space. Thanks for your videos like these, it's awesome to get a blast from the past seeing you open up packs and having my memory jog and go OH I REMEMBER THAT ONE!
Refreshes youtube... oh a video from prof i havent watched yet! 5 seconds its been up!!
haha epic
The pack I had opened up on one of my birthdays in the past, I believe 4 years, was a Dragons of Tarkir pack which my mom had bought for me. As I was slowly looking at each card I joked about "It would be cool if a Foil DragonLord Ojutai would be EPIC to find in the pack." I forgot what each common and uncommon was, but, and if there was a regular rare, but my wish was geanted and in that pack there was a FOIL DragonLord Ojutai I was SOOOOO Ecstatic and my jaw was almost ti the floor. My FAVORITE pack I ever opened bought from my mom. I am 36 years old currently and only began playing and collecting MTG in 2011
Thank you for sharing with us an experience from your own Magic origins! The white-border cards remind me of when I was just getting into magic (around 5th), and all the friends I made during those times. And while I've learned my lesson and seek out the singles I need, I will never forget eagerly going down to my local game store with my friends and snagging boosters from the latest set - white border or no. At that point, it was just exciting to see what was coming out and how it would spice up our games.
Watching you talk about revised was so lovely and I thank you for sharing that with us. For me, Journey into Nyx... My first ever booster opened
Original Ravnica: City of Guilds was the set I started collecting in. Lots of good memories
One of the best
I would open a set of Throne of Eldraine. Who doesn’t remember the from the storybook charm the set had. With adventure to put your favourite characters on. Even the big bad wolf and huntsman were in the set. I remember collecting knights until I had enough to put together a knight tribal brawl deck. I still have that deck to this day.
I will never forget some of my packs. But, When I was arround 8-9 yo I bought myself a Nemesis booster. I remember cracking it in store and finding Volrath the Fallen. Everything about this card just resonated with me. The art, the mechanics, the flavour text. I remember crafting my own mono black Volrath deck and smashing my class mates with it during breaks. Great, great memory.
I love the format you have for these videos, it's great!
Somehow this is painful to watch. It just feels like my luck every time I opened a booster
Mirrodin.
It was the first set I started with and I still enjoy the sentient machine planet that it used to be, rust and all.
Mirrodin meant more to me than the value of the cards but rather was about each individual entity and the pathways that crossed between them intertwining into a tapestry of a world rather than a simple story or piece of cardboard.
LOVED this video. GREAT for people who are new collectors like myself. Thank you thank you Prof!!!
I've only been playing for 5 years, but looking back at all the history of cards for this game is truly amazing. Makes me want to go out and draft.
Favorite product = revised starter deck. Loved the shade of the white border and lighter contrast/saturation of the art. Seems like the white borders of later sets were too bright and have always thought the artwork in later sets looked too dark - oversaturated & too highly contrasted. And with the starter deck you could use the box as a deck box. Also loved the artwork of revised and the ability to play a randomized deck. The smell of the cards was also really unique and memorable. As a kid I remember being confused when discovering that favorite revised & 4th edition cards that I hadn’t yet acquired were suddenly out of print due to 5th edition. I remember thinking why wouldn’t they just release new cards in expansion sets and continue making the original base set with all of the original cards. It was a mysterious time when you couldn’t easily look up the answer to your questions.
Those packs bring me back of when I first started to play magic. Nostalgia at its finest
I started playing Magic in the Return to Ravnica block. I fell in love with the atmosphere, the story, the guilds, the mechanics of that edition. I enjoyed that block so much that my boyfriend and I made a cube with all the Ravnica sets to revive those good moments whenever we want. I think I‘d love a booster pack of any of the Ravnica editions, they never let you down.
The first booster pack I ever bought with my own money was from Ravnica: City of Guilds in 2005. I had played casual Magic with my friends for several years, but I had no idea what Ravnica was, or even that it existed at all before I walked into the store. As I opened the pack, I began to piece together the fascinating mythos of this world: an entire city-world, populated with vibrant guilds with sparkly brand-new mechanics!! The original Ravnica block was by far my favorite place to visit in Magic, and it still is to this day.
To the best of my memory, that booster pack contained Boros Recruit, Thundersong Trumpeter, Bathe in Light, Lightning Helix (it had a lot of Boros cards), Muddle the Mixture, Centaur Safeguard, and Nullstone Gargoyle (a bit of a disappointing rare at the time, but I still liked the pack anyway.)
Excellent choice. Perfect timing.My Wife and I love your unboxings. It's really great in these trying times especially as I'm trying to introduce her to the game. I love what you do and i love your Life. Stay safe and thank you!
Great to see these openings, takes me back.. I also started in the revised era and would love to open more. For me opening Antiquities would be priceless. I have never opened that particular set, but it was the first set that I collected and I was only 12.
My pick for favorite pack experience would probably be Conspiracy. The fun our group had drafting, reading, interpreting Conspiracy cards and joking around was one of the best experiences I can remember. I've had thoughts about building a Conspiracy cube in the back of my head for a while.
Thanks for sharing the opening of the Revised pack with us Prof.
Great pack openings Prof! Thanks for sharing your Revised opening with us!
For me, it's opening a pristine booster of Ice Age. That's the set that takes me back to my youth, THAT gives me all the feels.
Weatherlight was a special set for me. The first one I completed and I still have. I remember many an opening like yours though. Thank you for sharing this!
Lorwyn for sure. It's my favorite set and the first set that came out when I started playing at game stores and not just at the kitchen table with friends. Its the set I learned to build real decks in, draft with. I'll always have a special spot for it because of that.
Two nostalgic favorites, actually, and both for the art: Arabian Nights, when opening my very first booster of the set and finding Shahrazad smiling out at me (Kaja is my favorite Magic artist), and Revised, when, after opening 40 or 50 boosters and a couple of starter decks, I finally got my first Lord of Atlantis, which was the card that, seeing it sitting on a table at a convention, is what dragged me kicking and screaming into this game in the first place. I still have both of those cards, a quarter century later, and a full playset of Revised Lords in my Merfolk deck. :)
Man, my favorite pack opening has got to be my first one. It was in the rakdos intro pack for m15 and I got what was a really sweet pull for somebody just getting into the game. A Garruck, Apex Predator. It was worth a bit at the time (not like I knew that), but it was also just a big, flashy, expensive spell that got me just that much more excited about the game. As I’ve played over the years, from “kitchen table” on Scout campouts, to prereleases my parents dropped me off for at my LGS, to finding a commander playgroup in college, I’ve only grown to love this game more and more. And among all the great experiences that I have had the privilege of having in this great game, that pack, that card, but more importantly, that memory, feeling, and experience will always hold a special place in my heart.
When my friends got me into Magic I started with the core set with the X symbol and avacyn. So seeing that X and playing angels always reminds me of those great times when me and the bros would game together. Love your channel, thank you for all you do!
Thank you for sharing, Prof! I found Magic just before Weatherlight was released. I was captivated by Richard Kane Ferguson’s art in the Mirage block. Love the art on that Wildfire Emissary you pulled!
Urza block! God I miss those days!!! That was the first set where magic really began to click and I really got the grasp of deck building! Not to mention the art in that set is my all time favorite!
My very first set of Magic was Scars of Mirrodin. My sister had been playing since Cold Snap and she wanted to teach me how to play as we came from Yu-Gi-Oh. I got an intro pack and some packs while my sisters and I were in California visiting my cousin who had been playing since Alpha! He was excited that my sister was teaching me and that I had picked up an intro pack. We scoured his random collection to try and upgrade my deck. Scars just has a lot of memories. From a set perspective, the artwork was and still is incredible. It's my favorite set for artwork. And yes...I play infect haha...it may also be a pet mechanic I try and use whenever I can in my commander decks. honestly, Scars of Mirrodin is to me what Revised is to you Professor! Seeing you open Scars really hit the nostalgia feels.
I have never played MTG but your channel is just so entertaining and informative I cant help but watch. You should be so proud of everything you have built thus far, you are a voice for the MTG community, a fan of the game, and to some extent its gatekeeper. I cant wait to see what the future holds for you and this channel, keep up the outstanding work!!
Started with Urza’s Legacy, favorite to open had to be Urza’s Saga. I remember the Embrace enchant creatures were so cool. Also, the distinct smell of freshly opened old MTG packs.
Thanks for giving that pack-cracking rush during quarantine! I can never go wrong with an Aether Revolt pack, as it's where I started.
Well. After i watched this i remembered my school days when i started being a part of this community. I didn't start from revised or another oldest set to me, Battle For Zendikar is the set when i begin building my izzet eldrazi deck which is a junk to this days, but i have enjoying the gameplay mechanic & conversation with my opponents which of them becomes my best friends today. Thank you for your content, Professor. About a cracking the my nostalgia pack it would bzf obvious. Thanks again & have a good one :)
Leaving a comment here for the algorithm. Something about seeing the actual value of each card on the pack was an excellent . Great content. Thanks
For our first anniversary me and my boyfriend ordered a box of champions of kamigawa and those are the best boosters I have ever opened. Kamigawa-boosters had that amazing ability to transport you to another world entirely, unlike the boosters of today which I feel look almost exactly the same as one another. Modern cards are so wordy, similar mechanics and similar action-filled artwork between sets. The cards of today feel way more streamlined, which I mean I prefer to play with BUT I really like opening boosters and living in the old wonky sets with very specific flavour. The kamigawa sets and the Lorwyn-sets are my favourites for their very unique feeling. The Kamigawa-boosters were my all time favourite booster to open but if I could wish for any booster, I would LOVE to open any from the Lorwyn sets since I haven’t ever had the opportunity to do so.
If i could back to being a kid again and open my first pack. Well I'm proud to say it was Antiquities. Good memories of that pack. I didn't play the set, I randomly bought it with sports cards. The art drew me too wondering what Magic was then years later I saw my friends played and I was hooked. Thank you Magic the gathering. My life and childhood wouldn't have been as rich with fun if it wasn't for this beautiful game.
Classic 6th edition was my first set. I remember my dad giving me a few bucks at the end of each week to run down to my local card shop and buy a pack. Still brings me found memories of my childhood..
I'm pretty new to magic and started with Guilds of Ravnica, so (even though I am a very fresh newcomer) there is something about seeing certain Dimir and Golgari cards that bring back a particular nostalgia. I wish I had come into magic so much longer ago to get all the feels
I don't like to comment, but your candor and pose is unrivaled in the MTG community. Glad to see your lovely locks are growing back!
Champions of Kamigawa was my first set and I opened a lot of those packs. I get nostalgic looking at them. After that Timespiral brings me joy. Such a fun set
I would definitely go back for some of the Khans boosters, any of them really. The moments I had with khans was pure joy, from opening my first horrible mythic to getting my first fetch... it was bliss and it always is a nostalgia trip when one goes back to it.
I started playing in Revised, too. Seeing that pack open was really nostalgic. I can only imagine the adrenaline rush of cracking that pack these days. lol
Thank you sharing these openings with us Prof! For me, it would be a Lorwyn pack which is the edition I really started learning how to play Magic with. It was highschool for me at the time Lorwyn got out, great memories from games with friends at every break, terrible trades because I knew nothing of the secondary market back then, and slowly upgrading my deck with each booster pack bought with pocket money. Great times :)
I loved opening packs of Khans. I was really into commander and starting to brew modern. Felt great saying "theres a fetch in there" and being right
For me it would be Amonkhet as a special Booster or Set in general. I basically started with this set by buying a fat pack years ago. I am happy that I got into this awesome card game and I am stuck in the EDH Format after a Friend at school introduced me to it. I joined his playgroup back then and I stayed Friends with them until this day and made even more friends along the way. Getting together with friends for a round of Commander is very special to me.
Thank you for this awesome content and sharing a passion for such an awesome World like Magic: The Gathering.
I said the same thing when I sold my Godsend.
Revised was the first pack I ever opened. The white border sets and lands have a special place in my heart.
Mana Flare! Great group hug card. That pack brought my back to grade school pack cracking.
Jurney into Nyx... those intro packs were my first magic decks ever, and i was just a kid back then plpaying with my brother..and 1 year ago when i started magic again, i brought one of those to a kitchen table match with some new friends and destroyed their planeswalker decks!!
Before knowing anything about sets or official formats the first cards I got were mostly from the core sets. I can still remember the excitement of discovering cards like Stuffy Doll, Crusader of Odric, Pacifism, and Soulmender. Of all the sets in existence, opening a booster pack of M13 or M14 would definitely offer the most nostalgic enjoyment.
I know its wrong to crack for value but the feeling of opening packs takes me back and always makes me smile. If i could open any pack again it would be the first one i opened with my now wife when we played together
Rise of the Eldrazi! That was MY SET. I only bought a couple packs back then, but I pulled a Kozilek and an Ulamog and I fell completely in love with Zendikar and the Eldrazi and the remain to this day one of my favourite parts of the MTG universe.
Thanks for sharing this, that was a lot of fun!
I believe the prof and i both share a great love for this set. Innistrad will always be a pack and set i place on the highest pedestal. Even just seeing old Innistrad packs on LGS shelves gives me the brings back the good times. its was my first set, my favorite set, and ill never forget the day i bought my first couple packs and one single, Angelic Overseer. I was enamored by the art and design of the card. Sure it might never have been great but it was my first true magic card and i have nothing but the fondest memories of playing with those first few innistrad packs i bought
Revised was the first Magic set I ever opened and there's a lot of nostalgia there for me. The funny thing was that back in the day my brother and I would just trade cards as needed. We had no idea what was rare and what wasn't. For us, the thrill was opening up a big splashy creature like Shivan Dragon, Rock Hydra, Serra Angel, Sengir Vampire, Mahamoti Djinn, Force of Nature, etc. We had no idea that dual lands were rare because, well, lands were common. I mean you got a bunch of basics in a pack so it seemed like the duals were common, too. So we traded them for basics that we needed. Once we found out they were rare (by picking up the original Magic Player's Guide), we were a little more cautious. I remember also going into a gaming store for the first time to find those rare Legends and Dark booster packs that it seemed no one had. I remember looking through a a binder of cards they had for sale. And there was good old Timetwister for $20. And I was like, who would pay $20 for a Magic card? Ah, those were the days. I wound up getting my hands on a beta Timetwister years later but if only I would have just dropped some of my hard-earned allowance money I got as a Freshman in college (or what I earned from working in the mall), to buy that Timetwister, I'd have regretted the day I traded it for something stupid later. Oh well.
One pack I would open from my past is Return to Ranvica. Return to Ranvica has a special place in my heart. It was the first set I started playing Magic the Gathering. When I was in college afew years ago, I noticed I saw a group of college students playing Magic. I asked them if I can join in the fun and they allowed me to draft Return to Ranvica with them. Sure I was a new player that didn't know the game really well, but I had fun with them. I feel like for me, Return of Ranvica has more of a higher value because I got to play with the college students which one became a good friend of mine. Thank you Professor for this video
I would open a pack of Oath of Gatewatch. It was the first set I ever drafted and the first packs I ever opened. My friends had gotten me into the game and as life goes we've drifted apart because of moving, college, what have you. I would happily open another pack of that set just for the nostalgia and the fun memories. Thanks Prof.
Dominaria was my first set and even now I have a lot of nostalgia for the set. It had lots of legendary cards (creatures, sorceries, artifacts, oh my!) and for a first set that was something magical to me.
At high school aftershool clubs I was taught how to mana dork in amono green deck. Then I played commander with ny older brother's friends. Then I did some research, made a request, and waited for the holidays.
Three boosters of Theros and one fat pack of Khans. My firt two packs both contained some instant lifetime memories.
Oh, and a core set. Got a Chandra planeswalker as my first one. First Khans pack was Sidisi, and she is still my go-to as my actual commander for edh despite having literally a dozen better leaders in there.
Good stuff. I dug fat packs. Eventuslly moved to draftig but, fat packs were fun.
I have a couple openings as well as a booster box here on this channel! College roomate shenanigans- precious stuff. You get to watch us struggle to make that colorless land expedition just like... any kind of hype over actually getting an exp- was a strange feeling.
I totally wish I could open a pack of scars of mirrodin right now. I started with cigars. It was so much fun learning about the different mechanics and even seeing the excitement over the newer mechanics added at that time. So many awesome cards.
Back when I was in high school I bought decks rather than packs. And I never got that into the game. But when I started again a little while ago it was with War of the Spark at a draft night. Not an experience I want to repeat. But Throne of Eldraine was the first set where I really had fun with it and felt I could make something with what I had. So either that or Mystery, the first for a good memory that isn't old enough to be nostalgia and the second because they are just fun packs to play with, especially as components of a chaos draft.
I would open an original Ravnica pack. That was the first new set release I remember, and I was hyped for it. And I've been hyped every time we went back to Ravnica because it reminded me of the first time, which was when a deep love for the game was shoved into my heart.
Cool video, 4th edition was my first introduction to Magic, I see the starter decks going for 100 quid and booster packs going for 22 quid. Always fun to look back at the old stuff.
Kahns was just so much fun. I had my best prerelease then. Learned how to build commander decks from scratch rather than upgrading a precon. I mean, yeah yeah get the fetchlands, but I loved the flavor and playable cards outside those
Hey, thank you for what you do! I got into your channel because my girlfriend introduced me. I enjoy your videos, they're positive and fair and well-thought out.
My fave set to open is the original Ravnica, City of Guilds - I started going to events with Kamigawa, but with Ravnica I got to see the Golgari for the first time, and played a deck with Grave-shell Scarab to top 4, iirc (which was huge for a twelve year old!). A few years later my brother got me one pack each of the Ravnica sets for my birthday, what with the 2nd Ravnica block coming out, and I got some cool cards including an original Sacred Foundry. That land especially has a tremendous amount of sentimental value and I still smile everytime I draw it.
Oh my God my favorite would be opening a pack of revised and getting all lands because I too play revised in high school and those lands bring me back 20 years
I remember Scars of Mirrodin. Started during that block. The first rare I ever opened was from Mirrodin Besieged, Hellkite Igniter. Still own it. The first legendary creature I ever owned was Skithiryx. That set and block brings back so many memories.
I first got into magic when the OG Theros set came out. I was in high school and didn't have lots of money so I played magic up until Journey Into Nyx and stopped playing because I couldn't afford it. I even had to sell my collection to make back what I spend on the game. Now, I am older and got back into Magic thanks to Theros Beyond Death so I am happy I decided to come back. I would love to get a box of the OG Theros and crack some packs of that for a nice nostalgia trip.
Nostalgic set: Scar of Mirridon
I got back into magic after a few year gap from Ravinca: city of guilds, and really love the artifact themed set.