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they really thought they were playing with house money, a shame that dragonstorm didn't take the crown in the end but this is really where everyone wants to be in tournament

I’m going

this looks like a BKC tthumbnail

painting sliver players as underdogs is peak mtg comedy

Fantastic videos!!

It's wild your channel is so small. This shit is so cool

Sylvan safekeeper has a story!

This is one of my favorite games of magic ever played. Every time I see mentions about it, it makes me grin ear to ear.

Ive been out of playing and keeping a collection for like 10 years now, but i love these videos of early coverage back when i was still playing. Good memories!

6:11 flashbang

stuffy doll

Gah, just the opening background music made me remember the Orb of Creation... Must hold back...

This brings me so much joy... The first deck I played when I was in high school was a green elf deck, but I fell out of the game after about 2007. I came back to it when the core 2014 set dropped and what do I find but several slivers (and realizing what these guys could potentially do), which it what I crafted my second deck into. In our little group we didn't have any restrictions on old card except some obvious cards (P9, Tolarian etc), so I went out and found the old slivers to compliment the 2014 set... and one of them was Virulent (along with Queen and Overlord to be cheeky). My deck became unbearable to play against within my group because of the multitude of ways it could win, but the poison counter was the killer and I effectively retired that deck because no one wanted to play against "braindead mode" So for me, seeing these guys go "I have an idea!" and run with it all the way to the top when everyone else is going "How tf is this better???"... that's what brings me joy :)

It was a war of attrition. By being able to keep wiping the board, the was always the option of turning the game into "He who has the most cards, wins". The actual 'heap of cards' was a part of the strategy as well.

I thought there would be more gameplay footage.

I've seen commentary on this game before, especially this moment, but this is the best. Your notes and explanation are thoughtful and really add to the moment. I love the background of going into the match and actually seeing what happened during the game. Thank you.

I gave my friend all my cards back in highschool…….. id probably be a millionaire by now😭

So cool. I was late to the party, starting play in 2014, playing blue/black control and mono block devotion, but I was always tinkering with the M14 and M15 slivers. Super cool to hear about them actually forming a successful strategy at the highest level

Great vid, ending feels a bit rushed tho

Stop speed talking 😑

He keeps calling Deadly Insect a 4-mana 6/1. Isn't it 5-mana, or am I missing something?

lets gooo!

Luckiest game in magic history was my opponent last night top decking into a board clear that draws him cards

I absolutely loved using slivers when I was playing in middle school, and virulent sliver was indeed a 4x in my deck, it was indeed a card that got me wins that i would otherwise not been able to get. I'm floored theses guys were able to do it at the highest level of play. Fucking legends

imagine playing with Dual lands back in the day and using sleeves

Hmm, some of the math I'm seeing here needs a bit of work... 9 life, 5 total Grapeshot or RoF with at least 2 being RoF only for 8 damage or less to survive. For 2 RoF, that's (1/3)^3 from 3 Grapeshot and (1/3)^2 for 2 RoF, with [5 choose 2] = 10 possible combinations. (1/3)^3 * (1/3)^2 * 10 = 4.12%. For 3 RoF: [5 choose 3] = 10, (1/3)^2 * (1/3)^3 * 10 = 4.12%. For 4 Rof: [5 choose 4] = 5, (1/3)^1 * (1/3)^4 * 5 = 2.06%. Finally, for all 5 RoF = (1/3)^5 = 0.41%. Total probability of survival = 4.12% + 4.12% + 2.06% + 0.41% = 10.7%, not exactly the "Luckiest Moment", but still pretty cool to capture live.

6:10 Wadsworth applies here.

Great videos! I just got done with the Olle vid, and saw he was in the comments. Another cool story before my time and the persons talked about are in yhe comments again. That must be pretty cool!

2:42 what webpage is this?

So every deck is terrible, and if this kid lost you would have done a video on the other guys deck. You destroyed the point of your video in the first 2mins. At least save it for the end lmao

I love the card they created for him. Brilliant

patrick got screwed over by arena's rng algorithm so hard here

Complimentary engagement

Man, imagine having such a hate boner against you in the final round where the opponent will take all the cards from you and you still came out on top. Fucking legends.

What I love most about this entire sequence is how much fun Nassif and Chapin clearly had during that match-up and especially that situation. They were teammates, both playing the same deck - and the way they handled the situation was just perfect. I miss those more goofy interactions in tournaments nowadays.

Kids these days. Silvers were huge when they came out. That and turbo white weenie dominated the meta in the late nineties.

the stormbind-gargoyle interaction is so nasty, i love it

ive never even played magic but these videos are awesome, keep it up

Wild that MTG tournaments were once televised, by THE sports network no less. They treated it like a true pro sport, even if not one on the caliber pro football, MLB, etc.

I simulated the probabilities. As paradoxical as it might seem, there are more chances of surviving the ignite the memories than to die. The probability of surviving is 63%. It actually doesn't require all that luck. Check first comment below for the link to the code. EDIT: My calculations were wrong as I simulated with only 3 extractions and not 5. The actual probability of survival is 10.7%. The code was (unfortunately) removed by youtube. I attached the math that explains the result in one comment below, I hope this doesn't get removed.

Me and the gd both have a sliver deck and we team up agest other. We also have a mean goblin deck we do the same thing with

Slivers are op

What up bro's. I have a silver tattoo on my arm. I would like to find the newest silver bick

The biggest card you missed imo is Behemoth of Vault 0 from the fallout decks. Yes it's 6 mana, but it etbs for 4 energy, is a 6/6 trampler, and sacs itself to blow something up if cloned, which is almost guaranteed seeing as cloning it gives you minimum 6 energy.

Love these retro MtG videos! I specialize in the history of competitive Pokemon, so it's really cool to learn about this game's competitive history as well!

lol the flood of tears

Oh wow ANOTHER channel covering this same match. My count is at 7 now.