1995 - Ice Age - The Year Magic The Gathering FAILED
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The art style from this period will always be what magic is for me.
Agree I started playing during 4th/Ice Age and I would bet most other 30 something MTG players did the same. Icy Manipulator + Royal Assassin was the bomb, only thing better was Necropotence.
I started at m14 but I'm in love with old cards arts, I won the entire set of ice as a champion of a tournament at local store, was so happy and I really wanted the prize ^_^
I like Godzilla more
That's unfortunate
I agree but I have none
When Rudy says "everybody" I imagine he is talking to a bunch of stuffed animals he has found on the sides of roads over the years.
They were only stuffed after he found them.
@@elducky9574 He filled them all up with the pack wrappers from Hosetown boxes.
Stuffed with Tim's hopes and dreams.
My mother bought me a pack of Ice Age when I was a kid to give me something to look at while she shopped. I opened a Lhurgoyf, its still one of my favorite cards. I've been collecting and playing ever since.
Your mom's cool.
Ach Hans run! has to be one of my Top Ten flavor texts.
anybody else got ticked off that swords to plowshare was not set aside with the iconic cards?!!!
Yes
YES.
Kinda. He would have set it aside if it had showed earlier. He really was running outta room.
But as least he stopped aand spend the time to talk about it, tho.
I didn't even notice till I read the comment, then was like... wait what he didn't... but the pestilence rats made me cringe each time as well.
Every single card he set aside was a common, swords is an uncommon...
One of these days Rudy is gonna slip up when he's in his basement and we're gonna catch a glimpse of the imprisoned wotc employees that went M.I.A. chained up in his basement.
plz send halp... 😭
"It wasn't a bad set".
Every other card: "I hated this card".
I think they made up for it in volume and flavor. The card mechanics though.... Still have a soft spot for this set as it was the one I started playing in.
Exactly what I was about to say. Every card he points out is bad, but the set is not bad. I'm confused.
I started in Revised / Antiquities. I hated Ice Age and it was the start of me stopping playing for years. Too much text in small font, cumulative upkeeps, etc. I actually think the game is better now than it was then, at least mechanically. I do remember the Jester's Cap hype, man did we all want to get one. It seemed like it was even more rare than rare (the first mythic? lol).
If you only played with Ice Age cards and ignored the busted stuff from ABR, it was a very fun to play set.
You cannot compare it with the most busted editions ever produced (Power 9, Real Duals) or stuff that came after 25 years of powercreep (:
I THINK OF SPEAK ON BEHALF OF ALL 4000 PATREONS AND 271K SUBSCRIBERS (INCLUDING 3.6969696% WOMEN) WHEN I SAY, MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS PLEASE. NOSTALGIA RUDY IS THE BEST RUDY. Ok I'm done - carry on with the rest of the comments...
Agreed, as somebody just getting into the hobby, it's fascinating to learn this type of oral history that would ordinarily be lost.
I vote for more Vintage openings too. The vibe and flavor is just too cool.
Started playing In ice age. Dropped $25 bucks at the local sports card shop for a red Mana battery. My fireballs were HUGE!
Same here man, I remember paying 13 for a Jester's mask
Good ol' days of magic...
4:18 I played a deck with 4 Fyndhorn Elder (Ice age) and 4 Gaea's Liege to combo with Instill Energy back in the days. The plan was to ramp with Fyndhorn Elder to get Gaea's Liege out and make opponents lands to forest. It was so slow and I always lose against my friends goblin deck.
I love the Ice Age block and the Mirage block. 95/96 was my favorite time in MTG! They may not have been overly powerful but the deck types were very balanced.
I have to disagree with you as a teenager that lived this era and was heavily into the game. The dud sets that came out during this time made people appreciate the power of the older cards which were already quite rare and hard to come by. I think this was by design with Wizards, create some iconic overpowered sets like Legends, and Antiquities, make a limited release of those sets then mass print a bunch of garbage sets basically Fallen Empires to Weatherlight. It worked, it set into motion the collectibility train and thirst for the original cards that hasn’t stopped to this day. And as a teenager playing 4 player games at hobby shops where Serra Angels, and Shivan Dragons ruled the roost, Magic was fun and interesting during these times. We all had janky cards playing janky decks, lucky to own one Savannah and a couple of Serras in a green white, backed up by a couple of Wrath’s, Disenchants, Regrowth, Sol Ring, Ressurection, Lhurgoyfs and Swords. No one had Workshops and Moats. Even during this time collectors had snatched up these cards and they were expensive ($30-50 and Juzam was pulling $100 already) and hard to come by for the average player. And just as today the collectors were not the ones playing in the shops. Hoarding has been going on in Magic for a long time.
think its more of a case that they didn't anticipate demand so much, I mean 80 million legends cards ended up being printed so only 20000 of each rare. They could have asked for another print just like they did with beta and unlimited but they were already printing new sets and maybe didn't want to take the risk of flooding the market when they were a small company (but they eventually did anyway at the wrong time, when the power level had tanked).
I think they realized the power of some cards in the original sets and ratcheted this power level back down to give themselves some more design space and ensure that creatures were not as underpowered compared to non creatures (should have just bumped up creature power a bit). They weren't involved in the secondary market and would not stand to make any money from creating the reserve list so no point creating "investor" material from the early sets.
No
I find soooo much Ice Age when I buy old collections. It must have been printed into oblivion
Tragic MTG it was and love your videos btw
Ice Age and 4th was the foundation of so many's mtg collection. Our player base that time grew from 3-4 to over 20 ppl in our local area. And all were buying the available stuff: Ice Age and 4th like crazy.
@@stefosonager1214 true I started in 4th and ice age, and boy did that set just suck lol
Man that bring me back ice age was the very 1st pack of Magic I ever bought
I am so thankful for someone also appreciating the old school cards. 95-2001 is my favorite sets - Thanks Rudy for doing this box unpacking. So many memories
I got into magic right when revised was on its way out. Fourth edition and especially ice age are what I’ll always think of when I think about magic as kid.
>1995
>22 Years
Rudy, bad news, that's 25 years.
He's been sitting on this video for 3 years
I guess he had a bad Taco today.
Brian Millwood It’s clearly appreciated in value so it was a smart move
MarcusDrall 😜😜
Started playing MTG at the end of Beta/Beginning of Unlimited. This set, Ice Age, is when I quit. Yes, Im old.
Sucks being you, dude. You missed both Alliances *AND* Tempest, before Exodus came and signaled the End of the Good Times.
LOL, I started at Alpha (actually bought a starter & 4 boosters of Alpha pre-sales/test marketing) and was all-in through Legends. Legends burnt me out; it's when the aftermarket convention wheeling and dealing really ramped up, stressed me out and I had to get out. I was there to play games, not to deal, yet that's all anyone wanted to do, interrupting your play when they heard you had a good trade binder (which I did). Almost came back in with Ice Age since it was kind of a refresh/reboot set and maybe I could just enjoy the game again without the baggage, but it didn't stick. Yes, we're old.
Started playing Unlimited, our play group went from D&D to MTG overnight
10:08 scaled wurm was my jam
I still play with Jester’s Cap when I’m playing with friends. Love that card!
Lovely, I started playing 4th/IceAge. So cool! This Ice Age box opening is an A+ considering all those pulls (in 1995 it sure would have-and I guess even now)
Oh, also note the massive power creep between then and now. It was quite a shock to rejoin mtg in 2018 after not playing since about 2001.
Love it! I’ve only been playing since 2010 and this is still my favorite set. Love the flavor.
A green deck with ramp and Scaled Wurms to go with the Craw wurms and Force of Nature. Was my favorite deck in middle school.
Box costs $400, value of singles $26.55
Rudy: What a great opening!
In fairness that was a home run box for Ice Age, that’s why paying $400 a box is insane.
@@rjz2 Counterspell is easily 2 bucks along with Brainstorm. So you're absolutely correct. This is pretty much the best possible opening one could ask for.
I honestly loved this set when it came out. Where I lived in Canada this seemed to be the only set that was available for a long...long time. People became sick of it after a while though. This was before sets where pumped out every few months :)
I remember opening 3 boxes of Ice Age when it came out. Your box would have been a home run back in the day! Thanks to bring back good old memories.
Upsides of living in Europe:
Pretty decent economy
Not too many conflicts lately
Infrastructure is quite neat
Cons:
RUDY ISNT ALLOWED TO SHIP OUTSIDE THE US!
Except Braxton deal, French riot and a dwindling population only held up be horrible immigration and refugee law. Its call the world economy....what a timmy
@@jfkshouldofducked4348 Meanwhile, the richest country in human history allows people to die because they don't have health insurance.
@@felizginato12 Not true...Nobody is denied healthcare
Also a con: MTG is not popular in my country. And that makes me sad.
Mystic the $5 fish.
Ice Age was buried the minute The Rath Cycle came out. Everyone that played in the Ice Age era hated Tempst because the power level. Buyback’s and Slivers buried the set known for Walls and Banding.
I hated Tempest. Went to a tournament and literally every player except Jamie Wakefield was playing Tradewind Riders. This is also the era when you could drop Disk, pop it, then bounce it back to your hand with Capsize to completely stall the game forever. This got errataed out though.
Ice Age will always hold a special place in my heart since it was the first cards I've ever owned. First three rares I ever cracked: Veldt, Flow of Maggots, and Mercenaries. That was 1996.
I remember the Jester's Cap. When I was 12, I bought the last Starter deck at my LGS. One of the rares was a Cap. The guy who worked there told me to buy three packs from a fresh box and I got another Cap. At the time, it was one of the craziest pulls I ever got. I always enjoy seeing Ice Age box openings.
Rudy my dude, I was born in 95 and had to check my age after watching this
Rudy trying to move his shed full of ice age again?
The most damaged boxes first.
Watched the video 45 mins ago and didnt reliase it was new till now. Love the videos i don't play magic but i love the box openings, your life advise and overall just your energy for the game. keep up the good work you fricking floppy taco
I pulled a Jesters Cap and still own it :D
The nostalgia that just washed over me was magical. But when you hit that cap, that's when i sat up straight. That card. It was my white whale for so long. I finally got one just to have one. Didn't even play with it in my decks, i just wanted one to have one. This video was amaze-ballz!
Your experience was mine! I never opened a Jester's Cap as a kid so I bought one recently for a couple of bucks. Great memories.
I want to smell it. I want to smell the cardboard, Rudy.
A Rudy Patreon here: What a box! props to Seth for bringing this to us. It hit all the big iconics of that time for sure, and awesome memories. Ice Age was the first box I was able to "afford"; I remember my friend and I split it and pre-ordered it for something like $100, and we were thrilled to just get the ICY back then. Def crappy rares, but indeed tons of commons has aged well and are staples for EDH. Makes me want to open one !! Great video Rudy.
I love my ice age cards, but those boxes are so expensive today, the is so much cool artwork in the old sets i even buy cheap ones for the art, its magic for me
Started playing in the era of Revised, but it was hard to find product (L.A. area). For a while, all we could get was Fallen Empires. Then came the flood of Ice Age !!! We did not know at the time that it was a massive knee-jerk over print, but we were so starved for new product, we didn't care. We ate it up with a spoon.
Thanks, Rudy. Great box opening and great memories !!!
Man I loved skeleton ship too. This was the era I played tournaments more, I was running green/red and using tinder walls and lumberjacks to fling ball lightnings and dragons around constantly. Balduvian hordes when they came out (holy crap it's like a red juzam on turn 2!)
Good stuff, loving the nostalgia kick lately.
DoctorDistracto that card is like $5 dollars
Rudy!!! It’s been too long, I’m back and I’m glad to see you’re still here because you used to say you weren’t doing TH-cam long term my first set was throne of eldraine! Spent $15k+ in 1 year then wizards started pumping out soo much I couldn’t keep up got annoyed and stopped playing but recently picked it up again I would be eternally grateful to the taco gods and maybe even play with your phyrexian tower if you give me a good deal on a box of throne of eldraine 😂 I just want a box to have and keep sealed or possibly draft if the right time ever presents itself it’s the first pack I ever cracked and I had amazing luck with that set! The art has always been my favorite the mechanics were perfect I just love it all! I’ve also been enjoying your videos again! Hope you’re sticking around on TH-cam for the foreseeable future!
I came into magic from Ice age and it was my core set. I still adore the artwork and feel the cards gave off and is most of the reason I got into it
😍 every time I see Melissa Benson artwork. My favourite old school magic artist.
The Foglios had a certain art style that was rather cartoonish, and a bit of a throwback to the Ralph Bakshi animated movies of the late 70's. Definitely an acquired taste.
Always kinda hated their style and like two days ago i realized i like it. Acquired taste for sure but how does that even work!
The intros are almost worthy of a stand alone series
I wish hasbro would go back to a more adult, high fantasy. Rather than the cartoony stuff they do now. Plus, theres no uniformity in magic anymore, like a dozen dif versions of the same card with every set, just feels so... watered down or something, hyper-commercialised.
That's, really not fair? The artwork in general has a much greater uniformity (pretty much to a fault one could argue), except for the premium/collector/alt-art versions which are completely optional - and many of them are really gorgeous, like the alternative frames in Eldraine, and the comic book styles of Ikoria too imo. I don't like the Godzilla stuff but, it's just 'skins' really.
You're absolutely right. The game felt more adult back in the day and the artwork was so good. I feel in order to expand and make money Wizards made it more kid friendly.
I blame the art changes on mtgo. The art styles of old clash with their outdated client used in digital age. Hence the current direction for mtg and Arena
I sitll remember first seeing ice age. It was the first real set with not only artwork, but that icy blue frosted look of the package. I still love so many of the cards in it; jesters mask and cap, the frostbeast, Soldevi Golem is still one of my top 2 fav cards alongside that badass Order of The Ebon Hand spiked armor card. Mmm
It seemed like every marvel comic book had ads for ice age in the 90s
I pulled a jesters cap, but now I live in a society
Thanks for the time trip buddy really really enjoyed this video!
The amount of opened boosters in that trash bag made my hands feel so dry I had to put on lotion
Really enjoyed this video. I'm missing opening boosters so much I'm watching you Rudy, open packs. This was really fun as well as I started playing around 96-97 ishhh. And Ice Age was still making waves and I just wanted soooo many cards from it. This was really really fun and I know I'm a bit late coming to your channel but thanks for all the fun old school openings, it's really helped me over the last 24 hours. :)
Merieke Ri Berit is hands down my favorite commander, I have so much fun with that deck.
Thank you so much that was amaizing. Brought back loads of fantastic memories
I love the art work for swords to plowshares from this set, definitely think its the best artwork for that card
The game is meant to be played not collected for financial value. This set was great!
I love when you go through the backlog, like inbetween realities...
Dude, Seth, thank you. I started playing in the fourth edition, ICE age time. Watching this took me back to where I was and what I was doing. Memories.
hol up Rudy, with this improvement on editing skills Hollywood will stole you from us.
The reason that mtg came out with the jester cap is becuase in 1995 people wore jesters caps instead of winter hats to public and high school.
Rudy, would you ever do a video talking about the “deck master” on the back of the cards, what wizards other deck master games were, and other kinda cool stuff about Back of the card, wizards plans vs reality, etc?
First run of Net Runnner was also Deckmaster.
Awesome content Rudy. New to MTG and I am loving your channel.
Thanks for bringing back Memories, Rudy!
Hey Rudy! Just curious, what kind of camera/lens do you use for these videos?
I pulled a Jester's Cap in my LGS in ´95 and everyone went mental.
Oh man, I got attacked by so many Illusionary Walls. I always thought that was weird.
super awesome relaxing video, blast from the past! My time with MTG started with revised and ended with 5th. Great memories this vid brought back. I used to love to lotus recon, recon, mahamoti on first turn with a couple unholys or unstables lol, or i had my fav creatureless deck and would sharazad and howl my friends to frustration. Thanks!!!!
Ah, good old piece of history there. 90s magic was something else back then. What a great time that was.
Been waiting for this Rudy. It's about time you dropped the temperature in here. As cold as the vintage market has been, I think it's only fitting to open some snowy cards.
Those were the days. I didn't even collect or play Magic back then, but I remember Ice Age on the shelves.
The set did has an incredible amount of cards that still see eternal format play today, orcish lumberjack for Belcher, songs of the damned for cycling toads, the pyro/hydroblasts, the ubiquitous braimstorm, snow lands, demonic consultation, necropotence.....
I remember rollerblading to the mall with my brother to buy Ice Age boosters.
We didn't know how to play we just looked at the art lol
Mystic Remora is still holding at $5 while Demonic Consultation is around $10 now.
This was the set I started playing Magic in. Nobody really likes this set but it's very nostalgic for me. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Great video! A lot of great art on those cards, just got into magic and now actively hunting the best art (what I think is best)
Actively sorting through a boatload of Iceage bulk and the nostalgia is top tier for me..I was buying Iceage packs when I was 7 years old at my local shop.
i had a shop selling magic in Holland in 1995 called the magic friends they even did a story in the duelist
This is unbelievable, Alpha. What an amazing collection you have. Cheers.
I was born in ‘95...let that sink in Old Man Rudy.
Hey Rudy, great channel. Recently a friend of mine and I found my old magic cards from when i was young. They were in a tupperware bin and honestly i don't think i've seen or remembered having those since around 1994 maybe 95. I'm sure you get this all the time. Anyway, love magic, dont play it, played hearthstone for years (i know), now want to get into magic, youtube destroyed hearthstone's creative space. My magic cards were played probably for 5 minutes when i was 8 or 9 so somewhere around 94 95 maybe 96?, had no idea what was going on. My late dad bought the cards with me at the local hobby store. So, they've sat for about 25 years, probably 200, 300 cards somewhere in that range. No damage, obviously a few fingerprints and such, no bent corners or anything. I looked at some of the cards all i can remember is Arcades Sabbath, Chromium another dragon or two like them, and a bunch of insanely cool art lands. A ton of white bordered cards where the swamps look super cool with neon color on them and the mountains have snow and the plains look super basic. So, i want to play with these cards bc to me having non reprint cards that weren't purchased nowadays is cooler than winning, know what i mean? I don't care if i get destroyed from some 2021 meta youtube opponent, i want to play with style and non-reprint, non-repurchased cards. I don't know if the cards are ice age or what, could you offer 2 seconds of your time at what set the white border is and Chromium and such? And should i put these in sleeves since they're so new and roll up to a magic store and be like i dont care if u all have youtube decks im playing with soul! (id have to play nirvana unplugged on the way to match the times no question about that). Thanks sorry for wall of text. I ended up giving my friend a mountain of his choice for free to be nice.
What a great birthday present. Opening the first set I ever acquired cards from when I was in middle school.
This was my entry set to MTG.... Friend shared the rulebook and we played a few games with his cards. What really hooked me was when i bought my first booster pack, and got Jester's Cap.....
I didnt even play in this time period but your passion for this box made me officially love ice age haha! Thanks Rudy!
Loved this video, still remembering opening my first ice age starter deck!
Unrevised got me interested, Ice Age made MTG accessible for me. If it weren't for Ice Age, I probably wouldn't be teaching my son MTG today. Great stuff :-)
8/10 box 👍
I love this set and it's history. Absolutely one of the most powerful sets ever printed. Brainstorm literally defines Legacy as a format.
Guys, thanks to COVID, my mother just called me and she found my old Magic collection. I am getting the cards later tonight. They are mostly Revised from what I can remember. I'm so excited! i don't know what I have all I know is I sold my Shiven Dragon for $20 back in those days.
Turned out to be mostly 3rd revision and some Fallen Empires. Best card was Zombie Master. I made a pretty nice JUND deck. Cant wait to use it.
Haha I was just talking about this exact topic and this channel with a mutual friend yesterday!
This is the set my first pack of MTG cards came from...Which I still have in my collections
Rudy put a jester's cap on and that is actually you on the jester's cap artwork. Even giving the same smirk.
I remember walking around in the snowy pine forest pretending to be a shambling strider when I was a kid lol
This was my fault I started playing in ice age. I was 12 and they didn't have age 13+ recommendations on the boxes yet.
Hey same for me !
Oh wow a glimpse at the trashbag with all the wrappers!!!!!! It’s massive and bursting out the sides!!!
To speak to your point about 4th ed/fallen empires/ice age boxes going up in price - I started started playing when fallen empires/4th ed/ice age came out, I was 10 years old then. Now I'm in my mid 30s with a job that provides me with disposable income. And most of my friends are the same age. And those of us who began back then have a nostalgia for that run of sets and do really enjoy going back and visiting them. So I agree with you 100% on the notion that prices will continue to increase.
My smile got bigger and bigger as the video went on. Classic. Coming off of Fallen Empires, Ice Age was a breath of fresh air. Had lots of fun with it back in the day. Jester's Cap was the hotness. I went through nearly a whole box of packs by trading in the rares for more packs.
You mean you can put those booster pack wrappers in bags and use them as pillows?!🤯 Nice to go all the way back to Ice Age for that cool artwork and a history lesson from Rudy👍
it's funny hearing Rudy talk about what cards he played with. You can tell he wasnt playing tournaments competitively.
Mountain Goat is quite seriously one of my all-time favorite cards.
Very nostalgic box opening thanks to Rudy and his Patron
Wasnt Necropotence from Ice Age?
Necropotence is badass!!!
Edit: i wrote this before seeing you totally pulling one!!!