Old TIME SPIRAL Tournament Boxes - How many Black Lotuses will we get !?

One of the most innovative and creative Magic Sets in Trading Card History
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[@yahboi1029]

Rudy it is i from 2019 and yes slivers do come back. In a set called modern horizons

[@TheFixer710]

They came back before that too. M14 or M15 had them. Its where hivelord came from.

[@JesseCracksMTG]

I was just about to comment exactly what you did lol :)

[@EonHSD]

Wait what slivers come back?!?!

[@justinreidy8729]

They make a second come back in 2021 in a set called time spiral remastered

[@jarrybryant718]

Thank you. Sorry I'm stuck in the past and can't leave

[@derykfrank]

Notable (over $1.00 or close to it) According to TCG Player: Scion of the UR-Dragon - $0.93 [X2] Living End - $9.94. [X2] Vesuvan Shapeshifter - $0.95 Lord of Altantis - $5.98 Chromatic Star - $0.99 Quilled Sliver (foil) - $1.08 Kaerverk the Merciless - $2.50 Sudden Shock (foil) - $7.61 Lim-Dul the Necromancer - $1.71 Hypergenesis - $2.42 Magus of the Disk - $1.40. [X2] Norin the Wary - $5.40 [X2] Restore Balance - $6.33 Paradox Haze (foil) - $7.98 Might of Old Krosa - $0.94 Walk the Aeons - $5.79 Ancestral Vision - $29.04 Kher Keep - $1.41 Flagstones of Trokair - $20.48 Resurrection (foil) - $1.34 Jaya Ballard, Task Mage - $0.76 Saffi Eriksdotter - $5.63 Gemstone Mine - $5.98 Mystical Teachings (foil) - $6.59

[@Lilamma-]

ooooo now i dont have to watch ty..

[@NICOTHATKID]

Triple Debt thanks you for your hard work. Saves me 20 mins

[@bobdole7292]

how much was it worth sealed??@Daniel Wilson

[@Nightwishmaster]

@Daniel Wilson I believe you're thinking of Gemstone Caverns, not Mine.

[@ConnorDMoody]

Lol. Chromatic Star 0.99. I wish it were that in 2019. Also, first pack Mwonvuli Acid Moss was $2 when this was posted. What else did you miss? 😜

[@Inspirawesome]

Every Invasion card Rudy sees, "That's from Mirage!" :D

[@indysu6089]

Aww nostalgia. 2006 is when I started playing magic when my boyfriend built a deck for me and it consist of a lot of Time Spiral cards. We're married now. And we still play magic together.

[@Black7apex23]

Its Okay Rudy. You can make longer videos, i dont mind. I like to put them in the background as i am falling asleep, listening to your soothing voice. =D

[@SplashAttackTCG]

Rudy, I don’t know anything about Magic, but I’ve been watching you for so long that I went out and bought an Ixalan Box the other day. I recorded it and got some AWESOME pulls! Today I bought an Amonkhet and Hour of Devastation Box. What have you done to me you asshat? I have no clue what I’m pulling!

[@koblfricker278]

Splash Attack TCG how'd things go with the boxes?

[@Welverin]

Whelp, you now have a whole bunch of cards, grab someone else and start playing.

[@edrispro]

Splash Attack TCG ouch, that's a bad box to buy.

[@Camelotsmoon]

That's the best part though, that reminds me of being a kid and buying LOB yugioh packs at a gas station and not knowing what anything was lol. We'd get a foil and be like omfg lol.

[@SSJFutureGohan62093]

The Wanderer The good old days lol

[@plukkfisk8934]

18:49 "Eron, your rent is overdue man, cough it up" "Thou art mistaken. I shall not pay rent, for I am... Eron, the Rentless!"

[@LordSathar]

We used to just call that card Brett Michaels

[@JoeyMossBBG]

I'm guessing 3 Black Lotuses

[@anthonyreyes7179]

You’re a legend joey !! I always recommend your channel to all my friends who play mtg.

[@veronicamorrow4386]

Hey man I'm sorry for how you were treated. Good on you for staying strong and keepin' on keeping on. You seem like a good person and you still deserve an apology from another certain KZbinr.

[@madbear3512]

@@veronicamorrow4386 What happened did he get rape

[@veronicamorrow4386]

Time Spiral was excellent to draft. This is when I came back to Magic. Time Spiral, Futuresight and Planar Chaos draft pools were insanely fun. You never knew what you'd run into. SO much nostalgia. Definitely my 2nd favorite block after Urza's.

[@atlas8572]

Really fun to watch old school openings like this.

[@christophergraham6557]

I don't know a single thing about what you are doing in your videos but I still like to watch...

[@JBBost]

According to the MTGSalvation forums: "Tourney Box = 36 rare, 120 uncommon, 384 common, 360 basic land [72 each]; Booster Box = 36 rare, 108 uncommon, 396 common." So, for sets like Ravnica, you definitely want the Tourney Box.

[@Enchurito]

If they are roughly the same price, yes you do.

[@SuperSecretTechMTG]

This was an amazing Block to play. I miss it. This was the block before the dreaded planeswalkers were made.

[@Zenith8924]

Time Spiral is when i started collecting! :D Loved this set so much!

[@TheMr02drop]

To me they killed Slivers when they made them "Your slivers get X" instead of "All sliver get X".

[@darthkatdair4661]

Slivers where blessed for a long time but alot of mtg players I remember been either I love them or hate them much lile infect XD

[@Tru3Spart3n]

Why would that kill sliver for you isn't that a positive thing? now u don't benefit your opponent if they have something with all creature types or when you try to change and take an opponent's creatures using things like amoeboid changeling and sliver overlord.

[@TheMr02drop]

@@Tru3Spart3n Because it was a double edged sword that added player interaction. Made the game more interesting and thinky.

[@Rhoney716]

loved this set, this was when I made a sick sliver deck, used some good old ones and some new. The foils were insane, got a ton of them

[@HobbitCrom]

Man it takes me back. I wasn't ever good at the game but I collected the cards. I still have a few at home... I remember I loved "Force Of Nature"... Can't explain why but I loved that card :)

[@empurress77]

My 1st rare i ever pulled from a pack was 'Force of Nature'. :)

[@jonboyd4856]

Dude, back in the day I used to play Green/white and throw spirit link on Force of Nature... brutal attacker and no need to pay the upkeep. In before "dies to removal" comments...

[@peacebuds530]

I dont even play magic and I still watch all your videos~!

[@CHRISG612]

@Mmm 333 i do too

[@humanwreckage4563]

The art you're talking about around 12:00 is Rebecca Guay's art. Her stuff is phenomenal.

[@JBBost]

Even phenomenal is an understatement.

[@Shatamx]

I have all her cards. Easily my favorite as well.

[@williamwinn948]

She lived in the same town i did when i was growing up in Massachusetts. she's older than me I never knew who she was because I never played magic as a kid I never played magic at all I do collect the cards now because of the art and hers is some of my favorite

[@JBBost]

Aaron: well yeah but you don't have to say it out loud.

[@eirikastokes9652]

Her Lorwyn art specifically is absolutely enchanting.

[@mrivera6975]

So much damn nostalgia Rudy. I was like. 10 years old. I still remember spending my allowance on these packs.

[@richardboss2892]

We really need time-shifted cards again. I would love to see more modern cards with old school borders. Shock-lands, filter-lands, planeswalkers, etc.

[@windmuhlfred7903]

actually , what does this time shifted mean?

[@richardboss2892]

Back in Time Spiral there was a sub-set of cards that were reprints of older cards. They had the old frame, but got the Time Spiral set symbol in purple. Each booster pack included one and the tournament starter decks had 3. I just think it would be cool to see that again, only kinda reversed with modern cards getting the old-school treatment.

[@cloneman5236]

They are sort of doing that, not in the timespiral way, but by basic reprints. Battlebond has an 80 card printed like 10-11 years ago

[@juliankirby9880]

Don't forget, we got teaser cards of new sets in that block too!

[@andykapsar4667]

yes, i agree. we need old cards timeshifted onto crappy new stick ✌

[@martintaylor570]

Man, I love these boxes. As an older player, these openings with the timeshifted cards and the foils in particular are just amazing :) Also I guess the last time we saw Dominaria and of course the card references and easter eggs are the best!

[@johnc6497]

Storm was Onslaught block. Such a fantastic block / period of MTG (gotta love old school type 1 and 2 classifications back then)

[@TheValorious]

That moment you remember having an Ancestral Visions back in the day. But know not what happened to it.

[@tyelarson4778]

Thank you for the blast from the past. The last time I actually played MTG was in 2006, so these cards took me back. Have a good one buddy!

[@ninjastarz7]

I remember being a kid playing Time Spiral block sealed leagues at my library. It was ran by two people and we regularly had 12-24 people show up. The timeshifted cards were really fun to experience as a novice, and the higher complexity of the block made literally every game feel different because every card was different. It wasn't like today's limited of Aggro, Control, or 70% Midrange, it felt like a complex story with many different outcomes. The art was also much darker than previous years, both in a setting and depiction kind of sense. I'm hoping Wizards restores that feeling in Dominaria. Amonkhet was a really Dominaria-feeling world, now we just need new lottery cards. As for "Man, wizards would never do this anymore" they definitely do. They just raise the price, call it a "masters" booster, and make it a lottery card in there once a set at mythic.

[@simoncosh3654]

I wish they would bring back starter decks.

[@TheMystcast]

Simon Cosh yea Alpha/beta starter decks. :/

[@RoyInverse]

PW decks are pretty much starters.

[@turbosaxophonic6210]

deckbuilder's toolkit is pretty much that

[@zero2583]

I was just talking to my son today about discontinued starter decks. All time fail story right here, I opened a lot of Tempest starters and was lucky to pull either Cursed Scroll, Scroll Rack, Time Warp out of nearly every one i bought. If i didn't get one of them i always got a damn benthic behemoth. Long story short i ran into a kid one day at school and he wanted all 12 of my cursed scrolls (which were $20 back then) and handed me an Unlimited Ancestral Recall as his trade offer.......which i declined......and still regret it to this day. Funny how a simple thought about starter decks always brings up that sore memory.

[@damonblack1495]

When this stuff was current was about the time I stopped collecting and playing. Morningtide was the last set i bought from. Pretty nostalgic. Watching him go through these is like looking through a few of my folders.

[@lion123]

So much memories.. Time shift was when I started playing MTG. I had no idea what those purple-iconed "shifted" cards were :)

[@troyphillips82]

There were no power cards time shifted in that set. It was zendikar that had power etc inserted in the packs. Only the first print run of Zendikar had them which is what makes the original Zendikar Fat Pack so expensive. They are made from the first print run and then discontinued. If you want to go power/big card hunting, get some Zendikar fat packs and go from there.

[@sempre8135]

lol

[@SJD904]

This came up 6 years later!!! How time flies!!!

[@groovemedium]

That one pack had Merfolk Assassin and War Barge in it. Nasty combo.

[@Arturhorn]

i just watch these for Rudy's commentary and oldschool artwork nostalgia. These cards are just breathtaking,

[@FriendlyLuck]

This entire set is amazing in EDH. These pulls made me so giddy :P

[@CommanderReplay]

Yeah TSP and PLC are awesome for EDH. I think we are due for a time spiral like set. It was very unique and and complex set. This was back before WOTC built your standard deck for you.

[@sandwichboy1268]

EDH Slivers

[@themetadaemon]

Dear Rudy, Somewhat recently, somewhere in Mesopotamia, someone invented "Scissors". They greatly simplified the opening of plastic-encased items, like MTG packs. Highly recommended tool for any household.

[@joerawls7370]

That was my all-time favorite set ! My introduction to slivers !

[@BoredGamer6]

Rudy: do you think they'll ever being back slivers? WOTC 2019: hold my elixir *makes modern horizons with the first sliver*

[@widra444]

Oh the good times...remember buying original Ravnica, Time Spiral and Lorwyn Tournament packs in a town near me for 4-5 dollars a pack...damn the nostalgya. :')

[@alenp5187]

This guy is so happy never saw more happy person in my life for a deck of cards made of paper

[@DarthG33k]

Those Tournament pack boxes were great for storing decks, too

[@nathandeushane5947]

I love watching all your old set pack openings Rudy, really wish i got into magic more back when i was a kid

[@yggdrasilygg]

why do i always find myself watching you? idgaf about mtg. i just listen to you in the background like an audiobook you fool. thx old man rudy

[@FinalManaTrigger]

Merfolk Assassin and War Barge had to be put together intentionally. Nice old school combo right there!

[@pilsplease7561]

I have old cards somewhere, in storage, I cant remember where but ill have to dig them out. I havent touched magic since i played in tournaments. Which was probably 5-8 years ago. Not that long but still a long time. Its always been fun. Shadowmoor specifically holds a special place for me.

[@Pazuriel]

Merfolk Assassin and War Barge in the same pack! Combo assembled!

[@FunktapusGaming4Lyf]

This makes me want to sort through all my all Timespiral again! I bought shed loads because i loved the theme of the set and the Slivers! 15 yr old me didnt care about value.

[@ArticWolfv]

I miss those days. did that prerelease at a card store thats now closed. was so much fun. there was printing errors, but only the coloring

[@EMSWK]

I'm pretty sure you are thinking of Zendikar for the reserve list cards, time spiral just time shifted old cards, planar chaos did alternate color reprints, future sight had the future shifted cards that could or couldn't maybe be.

[@dhzero6990]

"Ancestal vision, omg didn't it spike to 20" Rudy I was waiting for it to come down from 50-60 range for the last 7 months 😂😂

[@ProfessorWaifu]

I remember these, loved them back in my MtG prime. Yes the foil is always in the back.

[@MrSkyfish7]

Played in highschool during the Ice-age-5th-Mirage era. Stopped with Tempest. Started playing again with Time Spiral and holy crap was that a fun block for someone that had so much nostalgia for the game. Characters quoted but never had a card like Lim Dul, or Saffi. Then the Time-shifted bringing back cards I remembered playing when I was a freshman. After this was Planar Chaos and all the alternate versions, altered history. What if Crovax was good? What if Braids wasn't insane? Colorshifted spells like Wrath of God becoming Damnation. Prodical Sorcerer becoming red. I quit(and haven't really played since) with Future Sight. I think it really was the nostalgia that got me playing during that time, was the perfect time and then that time was past.

[@TheTrudgingTech]

Ha! I remember playing a korlash black control deck in tournaments during this block. So fun.

[@pokebobnhalebop5595]

Yes I remember this set it was the year I graduated and it was my favorite set of playing at the time

[@Cosper79]

War Barge and Merfolk Assassin in the same tournament pack! That's old school The Dark combo goodness.

[@AoiKaze2000]

32:00 Oh man, that pull of the double foil Ancestral Visions was nuts.

[@zealous944]

awe man timespiral was my jam in the day. I still think paradox haze is one of the coolest cards. I had a friend who pulled both Acromas in the same pack, one time shifted.

[@KiddyB]

I am here in 2021 and this is the most entertaining Rudy in history

[@aaronjessome1032]

Man what an awesome video!!!! I didn't know these existed!!! You and Unsealed are 2 of my favorites!!!

[@crimson90]

Time Spiral block is my favorite block of all time.

[@jamesbates5163]

Chromatic Star is a $3 common, pushing $20 for the foil. Used primarily in Pauper Tron, I think. That's what I was buying copies for, at least.

[@NoLessThanAGod]

Merfolk Assassin and War barge in the same pack? I know whose winning this sealed tournament.

[@FinalManaTrigger]

I came here to say this too, that had to be intentional!

[@Xh4L3]

i just posted the same thing! surprised Rudy didn't catch it!

[@PBehr]

Ancestral visions lol and you gave yourself away singing those songs we all know you were an eighties fan lol! Keep opening those packs my man!

[@xaer0knight]

it's awesome to see the original artist that did the doppelganger do that shapeshifter.

[@700NitroXpress]

Rudy, the storage lands are actually good with Atraxa and Inexorable Tide. You almost never have to pay into them after you put the first storage counter on it.

[@TimmytheSorcerer]

That foil Resurrection looks so sweet! Loved to play that card with my Wrath of Gods.

[@zero4391]

Rudy has been taking his memberberries with how much he "remembers".

[@brandons1411]

Time Spiral is probably one of my favorites only because I enjoy fungus and saprolings a lot and it's one of the few times they were a legitimate thing.

[@themonkeyhand]

I used to have a spike deck, turned into my WBG Ghave EDH deck, still use the Spike Weaver and, I think, Spike Feeder. btw, charge counter lands work good with proliferate once you buy into one counter.

[@Falcrist]

*_"Whispers of the Muse. If your buyback was lower, bro, it wouldn't be that bad."_* Mizzix of the Izmagus sends her regards...

[@cg17409]

Nice, Merfolk assassin and a War Barge in the same sealed deck.

[@BionMTG]

Can't believe you blew past one of the coolest combos out of the dark @ 24:48... the old Merfolk Assassin, and the War Barge combo... I forgive you Rudy, being that you're "not a player"... Great packs, had fun watching!

[@KeepExpanding]

Rudy's comments alone make any of these opening videos more than worth it, HAHAHA! Laughed my brains out with the "epic trailer voice comments"

[@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli]

Can't believe it's been 10 years since Time Spiral. But at least it feels like a long time ago for me since it was when I graduated high school. Innistrad came out like 7 years ago and I feel like that shit just came out because I have no sense of time as an adult without a yearly progression to my existence.

[@DrJ247]

"3 and a half day adventure of holding hands" thx man

[@returnoftheduelist9790]

That card “snapback” is a free return creature to hand. Very underrated uncommon imo

[@2Infinit2]

Rudy missing the foil land in that pack triggered me hard.. lol

[@berndb3141]

That was amazing! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, MTG Unsealed and Rudy.

[@johnnyscifi]

PS: ghost ship is from the dark. Skeleton ship is from ice age. Its the buw legend card, with the skeleton riding a dolphin like a horse. It pretty much rules!!

[@khurgar8120]

I think that the deal with these tourney packs compared to boosters were that a tourney pack couldnt contain duplicates whereas a booster could include stuff like goyf + foil goyf in the same pack. I'm not saying that its plausible to draw 6 high value rares from 3 boosters, but you actually could do it.

[@christopheraadland8365]

Haha you where right mr rudy!! Slivers made a great come back

[@alphabetaomegainvestments3444]

2006 was a emotional year. Key word being emo.

[@blinkingred]

Another masterpiece from Halfwayinthebox Rudy

[@Gyousel]

Mystical Teachings is one of the best common foils to hit, its played in one of the strongest pauper decks around

[@goodshipzion]

KSIphatmatt45 Mystical Teachings pauper decks are a step too slow since Burning Tree Emissary was downshifted to common.

[@sorinfayte5]

good to note that the foil mystical teachings is worth like 7 bucks. pretty popular in pauper

[@paweropa1533]

This video is special for me. It was Time Spiral, when I started playing MTG and it was my first ever prerelease event. Recently I returned to play Magic: Arena, wish I could afford to buy real paper cards. Great video nevertheless, brought back sweet memory!

[@MrDustinperry]

need to go back to some of that style artwork, look so awesome. that and Lorwyn artwork.

[@drewdeviller7754]

I love that the Merfolk Assassin was in the same pack as the War Barge

[@HaydenX]

Sees Auratog "Now we're getting trolled." Auratog is aactually just good enough to see some Modern play in decks that could be top tier in the future. It comboes so well with Hatching Plans, the ordeals, and Rancor that it is swimming in potential.

[@ultimateo621]

Azusa, Walk the Aeons, Crucible of Worlds

[@NamathCB]

LOVE the foil Resurrection! Ahh the mammaries...

[@vaylik]

Packaging loose as fuck and foils still are not curled. G fucking G wizards

[@nicoavila7614]

you should take a closer look to the lands, they are similar to the old days lands of invasion and other expansions, but aged

[@Clonekiller66]

Rudy should crack a box of Vintage Masters :^)

[@stevelantz4684]

That 'Soul Collector' made my month. Wow, gotta have that art.

[@agusyosafat]

Thank you for share this.. expecially your "sound effects" !!!

[@Chapterhouse86]

Pretty sure that Ancestral Visions is worth about 40$ (that's what it was at when I looked a couple weeks ago), it dropped down from $60 after it was released in a duel deck I believe. Love that card, and this set. I was around opening packs of a lot of those time shifted cards, if not all of them. Makes me long for the old days :( Love your videos and your channel Rudy! Thanks for all the great content!

[@Narwhalecraft]

Chapterhouse86 its being reprinted in Iconic Masters

[@Chapterhouse86]

Ohhhh shit. Yeah I totally forgot they were reprinting it again in the new Masters set. Good, we need the stupidly expensive Modern staples to be reprinted, and often. The cost to get into Modern is prohibitively expensive, though when compared to how much it costs to play standard for a decent length of time its not much more, and the cards dont rotate. Regardless I would love to see more reprints, especially using new sets to reprint modern staples. The Masters sets help bring the price down, but in the case of the Zendikar fetches, it didnt help that much, the print run (and MSRP of packs/boxes being high) is too small.

[@Welverin]

And that duel deck reprint was a long time ago, not too long after Time Spiral itself, probably shortly after Lorwyn (it had Jace after all).

[@Chapterhouse86]

Yeah I realized that after I remembered it was being reprinted in Iconic masters. I payed $60 fucking dollars a piece for 2 of them this spring, wish I had waited, but who knew they would release a second masters set this year.

[@simonwillig5316]

The foil mindstab looks freeeeakin awesome!

[@GG-bi8tb]

in the 90s tournament decks were cheaper because they had lands in it. don't know about more recent like expansions like Time Spiral

[@cyborgtemplar1989]

ah i miss that set. slivers were one of the strongest, but i played g/b thallids abusing death spore's -1/-1 as a kill mechanic early on. with doubling season and call to arms as the essential kill cards

[@TheOlsonOutfit]

Rudy is feeling the love for the Rebecca Guay art.