Old School Magic Spotlight - Interview with Olga - From EDH to OS. Alpha 40 and the Beauty of 93/94
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- 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! - Hry
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!
Great interview. Always a pleasure to play games with you Olga !! 😊
Thank you Jeff, I agree! :) It would be really nice if you we could do an interview like that with you, I know you have some cool stores about Magic to share
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.
i dont believe it
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.
Incredibly cool to hear that story from yo since you experienced it first-hand, I do remember reading about Black Summer. As for Juzam, I can imagine that back when decks were not so streamlined, Serendib Efreet, which is now a staple, was also far from being a star.
It would be great to let more people know about that, maybe you would like to do an interview with me? I know you've got amazing things to share
@@mtgphil42 Maybe one day! Also, it was not a staple but it was prominently featured in the deck of the French Champion Bertrand Lestree who was the Finalist in the first World’s where, in my opinion he should have won. 1994. 4x Serendib on the sideboard. It shouldn’t be a staple card, although it’s played like it is in current 93/94, but it hits a lot against control/permission.
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👌👍💪
A few of us dealer-types (I knew, worked with a lot of Magic dealers in 1994-96-ish as I was a comic dealer) all agreed that if you stood across a room and held up any random Magic card, we would get like 98% correct. The art was that iconic.
@@Rorschachqp I was born in Portugal in 1996, in my countrie MTG was not something easy to find out if you lived in the countrie side, So i still remember the first day i saw MTG cards, i had a friend in school that his mother owned a shop who selled newspapers, tabac and she selled mtg boosters, so my friend had an older brother that was in love with magic and gave my friend(his brother) a small but still large plastic Treasure box full off MTG cards that he did not use, so my friend bringed the box to school, and i still remember the feeling when i saw my first magic cards and the magic i felt inside of me, i was 6 years old, and i remember spending almost 2 hours just looking at the different arts and enjoying myself, the element symbols, the lands, everything got my attention, old school Magic the gathering really fills magical
@@joaoalves-rn3yj Sounds good! Yes during that time of 1996, a huge amount of Magic cards left Los Angeles/Southern California and went to Europe.
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).
You're are ok, indeed, just like me 😂 we're in the same boat