Trying to Do a Pack Opening Battle but Getting Nostalgic

Double Masters 2022 has two rares in each pack! So Thoralf & Jamin are doing a pack value battle and giving away the contents to a commenter whilst telling stories of the cards they open along the way.
01:02 Commons
6:30 Uncommons
9:36 Rares
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[@CardmarketMagic]

Find all the cards opened in the video (and don't forget to sub and comment to get a chance to win them) here: bit.ly/3zvvKF9

[@pietroforghieri9177]

Simic growth chamber reminds me of all the hydroplants, counters and cool experiments I was trying to make using a Simic pre-constructed deck when first Ravnica came out. I think I lost every single game, but it was way too much fun to evoke beast I never ever dreamt of as a child. Simic were really boosting my imagination back then. In the following Ravnicas I switched to Golgari because of the love for graveyard interaction. Thank you for the video (and hopefully the cards!). My name on Mkm is pietrodipietra (Pietro Forghieri).

[@shmerelize]

Is it too late?

[@CardmarketMagic]

@@shmerelize No we are picking a winner tomorrow!

[@shmerelize]

@@CardmarketMagic do I post here or on your website link?

[@zuppello]

Who won the cards?

[@luukbouchee633]

I have a great memorie with all these cards. I was watching a video called: "Trying to Do a Pack Opening battle but Getting Nostalgic". And I loved every minute of it! Every card made a big impact on me as I was watching Jamin, and Thoralf open these packs! This will forever be a fond memorie! Thank you for the gift that is this video!

[@heinzmaulwurf8054]

best story ever, plz ship him the cards :)))))

[@casbox2667]

Emrakul always reminds me of when me and my friends first started playing magic. We started magic in middle school, and even though we played modern, our decks looked more like standard because we would just open packs and slam together cards we liked. At some point we found out that a teacher played as well, so we got him to play with us during lunch break. At first out teachers deck seemed strange, only creating 1/1 tokens. Then he played an artifact: proteus staff. He smiled, sacrificed a token to the staff and claimed “I have no creatures in this deck, except…” he revealed Emrakul. All of my friends had the same reaction as Thoralf in the video. The legendary Emrakul, which we always made jokes about pulling from a booster, suddenly was on the battlefield. Of course he won eventually, but seeing such a powerful card in real life fascinated me and all of my friends back then. Now I have my own proteus staff deck, although not with Emrakul. It would be fun playing against my teacher again.

[@magica3526]

you should try and contact him - i'm sure he'd love it

[@leviaustin4009]

The moment I learned how to read, my dad introduced me to magic. He had been anxiously waiting for my brother and I to be able to play his favorite game with him. My first deck was a mono- green big creature deck. I played the deck with no sleeves at all and therefore even 10+ years later when I’m looking through my collection I can tell exactly which cards I had in that deck. The point of the deck was to play as many forests as I could or get lucky and draw channel to cast Krosan Cloudscraper. For my birthday my dad gifted me an emrakul he got in a draft at work and ever since it’s been my favorite card. I used to sneak it Into my hand when he wasn’t looking. Ahhh such good memories

[@nerdblue99]

I love Thoralf’s stories

[@ChrisRyu2024]

Cleave 1ww I love Thoralf ['s stories]

[@illiacvie]

About two month ago, my friends just started playing magic with TTS. Since he new in the game, like every night I'm always bring new deck to the table so he can learn many type of magic deck. One day I bring a deck with only one creature in my deck which is Emrakul, and cheated it out by using transmogrify on my goblin token. He was cursing for a full minutes.

[@notmyrealnamesorry3118]

I have always played budget decks in modern/pioneer tournaments (because im broke lol). At the time (before the lurrus banning) I played dimir mill. For budget reasons I played cards such as fabled passage instead of polluted delta. In the deck I had a smal subtheme of rouge tribal to support my replacement for mishras bauble, merfolk windrobber. These cards where a playset of thieves guild enforcers and two soaring skythieves. I ended up winning round one so for round two my opponent sided in a bunch of stuff, most notebly A FULL PLAYSET OF EMRAKUL. During sideboarding I saw his smug grin indicating how I was about to loose. But little did he know that my sideboard was filled with utility rouges and a few lordes. Eagerly I sideboarded out all my non rouge mill exept for ruin and hedron crabs. Game two he sat there with three Emrakul in hand while a bunch of standard rouges beat his life total lower and lower. In the end I didint win the tournament but knowing how in game one he only saw one windrobber from my deck and no other indication of rouge tribal made my day. It really goes to show how strong that standard deck was….

[@s.406]

That scream for Emrakull got me x) My only "good" story is actually a bad one for me. I've bought 8 boosters of Hours of Devastation for a draft. My friends forgot and we agreed to play commander with a booster as a Price (the winner just need to repay me). I've lost in less than 20 min. The winner open the pack and got a Special Locust God. Every other pack was crap. Still, I'm happy for him but I couldn't remove the card from my mind x)

[@GenCavox]

Big oof.

[@Leandrikovega]

I have a great memory of the first time I discovered Emrakul... I was watching two people playing and when the Tron player casted an Emrakul. I was really shocked about the power of this creature. But somehow the opponent survived the extra turn and managed to draw and land an oblivion ring over it. Everyone went nuts!

[@transegg7780]

I remember soon after starting magic (around late zendikar rising) and opening packs from the newest set which at the time was Strixhaven. Got an Inquisition of kozilek from my mystical archive slot. It also inspired me to build a discard themed commander deck which was my first properly working deck. Been running it in many commander decks ever since. Great video!

[@edwardliddell501]

I love this channel and its content creators! You all are very entertaining. My best story is one familiar to many, I imagine. I was in limbo with MtG due to having moved away from my friends, and then the scourge that is COVID-19 hit. The biggest silver lining of that time, for me, was that we all started getting together on Spelltable to play, and are still doing so even now. I've played many a game of Commander and Pauper, and even did a sealed league during the lockdowns. The growth of online paper play has been wonderful.

[@TheSkipye]

i love when thoralf start talking history of magic. I would watch many other opening (old/recent) booster with card history with all his know

[@aitorloyola766]

This is quickly becoming my favorite magic channel. I love the mixture of formats played and the energy between the members

[@CardmarketMagic]

Wow, thank you!

[@FloydMcRyan7]

Wow, this was fun! I love Thoralf's and Jamin's dynamic. Jamin's pack brings back so many good memories of my first true love in Modern: Mono Blue Tron. I started out with that after seeing The Prof's video on it back then and realizing that I have most of these cards. Since then, I tried out so many different versions, and at one point I had two Gifts Ungiven mainboard and one Emrakul, The Aeons Torn sideboard. It was so fun, but so difficult to pilot correctly. But when I did it felt great to go for two tron pieces, Academy Ruins, Crucible of Worlds to finish Tron or for 4 different counter and removal spells to load up on action or find 4 finishers. And hardcasting Emrakul against a control player makes you feel like being on top of the world. :D Thanks for the memories

[@morgunkorn_]

Aaah good old Emrakul, played it T1 a few weeks ago in a vintage cube, always a classic (that's the only game I won all night). Thanks for the cool video guys, love your style and complicity

[@patrick4444a]

What a set. And what stories! I remember building my first blue deck with random cards, playing Gifts Ungiven and my friend thinking for 5 minutes trying to decide what to give me. Good times:)

[@brentmackie5334]

The more of these videos I see the more I love this channel! Drafted some fun 2x masters so far, prerelease blink deck my favorite of all time!

[@CardmarketMagic]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@komplettichselbst]

Always nice to see Emrakul, she (and the Eldrazis as a concept) was the card that got me into Magic. Got some fond memories of trying to cobble together my first deck, I really wanted a full colourless Eldrazi deck, but quickly realized I was in over my head ^^. In the end I grabbed an EldraziTron decklist from somewhere and just changed some things around to see what would happen (and also to make it a bit cheaper)

[@notmyrealnamesorry3118]

The Aethervile story I was not aware of. The lift being pretty much useless is super funny. It makes you wonder how cards will look in like 20 years.

[@dumbo1917]

Really nice content as always! Besides the classics as EMrakul or Gifts,I have really good memories from the Ixalan Block because it brought me back to Magic after a break from few years. It was so magical to have a plane based on mesoamerican cultures and the flavour of the set felt so incredibly familiar and original, that I just jumped back into the game! At the first draft with that set I got four Seekers' Squire for a really good explore deck, which felt a pretty good welcome back!

[@huuzarka]

The ruling are really funny, when you understand all the rules you can use them at your advantage ! I learn something today ^^ It happens to me also when i do something to my best friend (who was teaching me at the time) and actually got the point on the ruling ! Great packs, great video

[@sircrocus9839]

The first deck I build was a black green modern deck which was made of a bunch of random cards. I decided to add Lotleth troll but I did not know how regenerate work. In the first three matches I’ve played, according with my opponents (beginners too), we used different rules for regenerate. That was fun because every time it was a surprise.

[@SenpuuNoMa1]

I used to run a brew in modern about 6 years ago using descendant's path to cheat emrakul into play, but with the cast trigger. It used topdeck manipulation to make sure there were eldrazi on top of your library, but specifically congregation at dawn, so that you could set up a win with emrakul -> take extra turn -> emrakul -> take extra turn. It used creatures such as nest invader and mutavault to activate the descendent's path. I think i lost nearly every match i ever played with it, but every individual game i won was like the best thing ever. Man, what a horrible deck, but fun times!

[@datboi2526]

the mircadian lifts story made me laugh and then led up to the Emrakul!! what an amazing pull, what a great idea for an episode.

[@TaisxD]

When I first read Aether Vial, I remember hating it for a while. As a lover of fair magic, it made all of my fair creature decks cheat on mana. Of course, it didn't take long to realize that Aether Vial makes fair creature decks actually able to contest with the unfair strategies. Today it is one of my favourite cards!

[@llWzmll]

I am quite new to magic but i specifically remember how Emrakul was one of those cards that just shocked me in size and power and it definitely gave me first dose of the dopamine to start/keep playing magic :)

[@johannesdauner6553]

Especially Aether Vial, Gifts Ungiven and Simic Growth Chamber remind me of the time when my childhood friends and I started to play Magic and to do drafts. Our first draft was actually the Mirrodin block. The Aether Vial playset in my collection is from that time :)

[@DrakeF.]

Cool episode! Cool stories! More please!! The way Thoralf was looking at Emrakul - xD so full of love That reminds me of my emotions at the time when I was buying my first FatPack back in the day which started my journey of reading all the novels. The WOAH effect must be the same. The lore back then was so epic. The arc of the Eldrazi similar epic. Hope to see them again some time.

[@matteomarchiorato1012]

I still remember the command zone dragging me into the abyss years ago, and i remeber buying smothering tithe for like 7 bucks because "it looked decent" at the time :' ) Good ol days

[@Cloudgp1989]

I remember when I won a card market give away and got a full art emrakul and an aether vial, it was so cool..... (still new at magic but I would love those cards). It's cool to hear all the stories of older standard formats and how certain cards really were the big deal back then.

[@the_be_oioi]

Exciting opening - nice to see that attention is also paid to the commens. My story: When my work colleague showed me Mtg for the first time, I was thrilled and started with Modern. My first deck was an Eldrazi deck (which I still play today, just adapted a bit) I was able to play Emrakul at my first tournament and thus finished the game. A great card - I hope there will be more on Eldrazi soon. Cheers

[@giuseppedurso9113]

You, Cardmarket guys, really put on a very good magic channel. I started to buy card from you, 3 years ago and i loved mkm! But now i really love your channel too! Really really incredibile! Good job!

[@CardmarketMagic]

Great to hear!

[@vivagotit]

when my stepbrother wanted me to start playing magic with him way back when, he was finally able to convince me when he gifted me a mono green ramp deck that included a lone emrakul as the biggest and bestest finisher. it was the foil promo version and it was spanish, but still it just drew me in to the game with its art and flavor. those times of kitchen table magic busting out emrakul with elvish pipers were just awesome:')

[@techpriest8965]

Okay, here is one. My kitchen table group decided to start playing commander about maybe a month ago. Most of us bought a precon and worked from there, some built their own. I got myself Mind Flayers precon from Baldur's gate. I had several horrors on the board along with Grell Philosopher and Psychosis crawler. I had Pull from Tomorrow in hand with one of my friends having mana vault on board, trying to setup his combo. I copied the Mana Vault ability and then I resolved pull from Tomorrow for massive damage with psychosis crawler, ending the game. Very fun way to end the game. Now we are jamming games of commander and making our own brews. My decks for regular formats are gathering dust now :)

[@villesaari]

Gifts Ungiven is a card that has stuck to me the most. The reanimator twist really made me read the cards more and try to understand what can be done with them. I loved how you can break cards by using them in a way that was not intended.

[@zago18585]

Deep analysis reminds me one of my favourite decks 'BU psychatog'. It was a control deck which was using upheaval to destroy the lands and psychatog to damage the opponents.

[@nathanboyer6266]

I'm excited to play with this artwork of Monastery Swiftspear in Pioneer ! Great stories from Thoralf !! I don't have stories to tell already, i'm not that old into Magic ^^

[@nikolamatasin3877]

7:18 Bounty of the Luxa gave me one of my favorite Draft memories. Played a multicolored cube with a friend, where each card in the cube had 2 or more colors, be it Hybrid or regular colors. I've picked a few cards along the way and decided to make a 5 color deck, my friend was playing 3 color deck, I've somehow won 2 first games, and in the 3rd game, on turn 6, I've cast Zacama thanks to Bounty of the Luxa. Friend Conceded. But we've continued the turn, just to see what would happen when I cast Etherium-Horn Sorcerer, I've Cascaded into Boros Reckoner.

[@Marc-bx6hy]

Really love the effort you guys put in the videos. The editing and fun facts about cards and nostalgia makes this opening pretty nice. My Emrakul Story is about the first time I played limited at a masters set draft, where I opened her and Through the Breach. I took down everyone at my locals in that draft but felt kind of bad for steamrolling my friends though :p

[@CardmarketMagic]

Our pleasure!

[@tcr7]

I was doing a booster draft tournament back around 2000. The store actually had some Ice Age boosters (about 4 years old at this point) and I just had to use those. My friend was sitting to my left so I'd be passing to him. I opened up a pack and saw some pretty darn good creature (I don't remember the name, but it was a prodigal sorcerer that pinged for 2) for this format and also a Zuran Orb (artifact, sac a land to gain 2 life). My friend loves Zuran Orb. I look over at him and say, "I guarantee that this card is so good you'll take it without looking at the rest of the cards" and I had the Zuran Orb away from the rest of the pack. He laughed and gave the usual, "No way, it's important to know the others, no card is that good, blah blah". He picked up the Zuran Orb, went "Pffftttt" and just passed the rest of the pack without looking at it. haha. I ended up playing him later in that tournament and that Zuran Orb was annoying AF and he was able to delay delay delay because of it. I still won, though. :p

[@Amor13267]

I remember Disfigure of all cards just really impressing me all the way back when. It was so simple but felt powerful, could remove a creature outright or mess up combat in any number of ways-- and I really liked the art, as a fan of the grotesque and the macabre

[@joshuanolet8679]

The story with Gifts ungiven was where I learned to really read the cards carefully. In pioneer I can cast a pieces of the puzzle and choose only one card to put in hand or even none of I wanted to turbo full the graveyard. Definitely relevant in some matchups.

[@markuspreine316]

At the end of 2019 we got new neighbors. And one of them told me about this cool card game called Magic the Gathering. I laughed out loud because I knew Magic and played and loved it in school. However, that was 24 years ago. Back then I almost always played the color combination red and green. Meanwhile I found out that this is now called Gruul. I started to deal with the new and older cards and also got to know the different formats. I found Pioneer the most suitable for me. My first deck after 25 years was a Gruul Aggro deck in which Burning-Tree Emissary played a major role. The curve of Peltcollector in turn 1 into Burning Tree Emmissary and Voltaic Brawler or Stomp from Bonecrusher Giant in turn 2 always gave a very explosive start. As a result, I've developed a special connection to the Burning Tree Emissary and I still enjoy playing the card in all sorts of red and red/green decks.

[@loui299e]

When me and my friends started playing, one of my fellow newcomer friends settled himself into a mono black discard deck, very similar to a deck the veteran player who introduced us to mtg already had. I will never forget the agony of getting double inquisitioned/duressed before my first turn every game. Those guys are the reason i now value player hexproof in the sideboard.

[@alessandrocalzavara6695]

Great work as usual! My story is about a friend of mine who didn't even play magic; a night we told him: it would be amazing if you bought a booster and you would find a fetch inside (Kahns of Tarkir was the last released set at the time); he actually bought it and found a foil flooded strand...it was amazing, his first and last booster and it was almost better of any booster that I opened 🤣

[@pskovien2606]

Terminate was a card that got me into MTG story. I saw it first not long time after i started playing (around 2 years ago), and even though i didn't know many cards i imidiately connected terminate with Sun Titan. The way both arts and flavour text work together really got me into MTG story, even though these cards weren't really connected to other stories (as far as i know). To this day terminate is one of my favourite removal spells.

[@CelticMTG]

I have been playing my fair share of Emrakul and Gifts in Vintage in Oath and Storm decks respectively, for over a decade, so these cards are making me feel very nostalgic

[@Crimson2Head]

My story revolves around Monastery Swiftspear. After I bought some starter stuff my very first card i ever bought was Monastery Swiftspear. I loved it ( and still do). I was a beginner so my first Deck was a Mono Red aggro deck. I thought it was cool to throw spells at my opponents face. I started MTG with some friends ( we came from Yugioh). After a couple of matches none of my friends wanted to play against me cause my deck demolished everyone haha. There was much anger in the air ( very fitting for a red deck). One of them never played magic ever again. I never mained a red aggro deck ever since. For the last few weeks I´m getting more and more into pauper. And as soon as i saw Swiftspear as a common i was really hyped to play her again! So yeah Monastery Swiftspear is very dear to my heart. Definetely the best pull from your packs (but Cthulhu is pretty neat too :D ) Fun fact: Right now i teach some Kids MTG. All the girls like the original swiftspear better and the boys prefer the alternate Artwork.

[@andreagazzola2289]

I remember in 2014 the first commander deck i built on my own was a kruphix, eldrazi deck. I don't remember how much emrakul was worth back then, but i was a kid and i desperately wanted her in my deck. After a few months of savings i finally got her. The satisfaction, the first time i got to cast her, was immeasurable

[@schnuckelpeter]

We played Magic in the early 2000s for quite some time but quit a few years later. Then, 11/12 years later we started again with some pretty underwhelming precons. A mate of one of our friends joined on our first MtG night in over a decade and started to play with Ulamog, Emrakul and Kozilek... We were not amused. :D

[@FFLDeadSpace]

I loved the tidbit about Swiftspear and Prowess, back than people flipped and now Prowess ist basically an all-star keyword!

[@martinmutzell3375]

I got to draft double masters 2022 on release week, picking up some bounce lands. In one of the rounds I was facing a friend and I played out a bounce land on my turn two. As I did that I checked with him that he didn't have white mana available. He asked why and I explained that if he played flickerwisp on the following turn it would remove my only land from the battlefield (by flickering the bounce land, forcing it to return itself to hand). His reaction to that interaction was priceless. Yesterday, he played in another draft of double masters 2022 and he told me today that he was VERY close to pulling off that disgusting play. So close to glory.

[@michalsliwczak]

Simic Growth Chamber, while a humble bounce land, reminds me of my first steps in Magic. My first 'proper' deck ever was an original Ravnica precon - and while it was an Orzhov one, a friend of mine picked up a Simic - which after many years found its way to my collection ;)

[@flpn2275]

Great content! I remember when Emrakul the aeons torn was printed, I thought it was bonkers! Bought myself a foil copy and a Prerelease version but didn’t get to play standard with them. Figured I’d at least use them in vintage at some point. Years later I didn’t even realize how sought after Emrakul was. I was super hype about DoubleMasters but unfortunately can’t afford to buy any. It was fun watching your reaction to opening an Emrakul!

[@carl74z]

When I was a kid and I just started playing mtg a friend of mine had a goblin deck, mogg fanatic and all, and he opened a newly released aether vial in foil together with a darksteel colossus. He fell in love with the vial and swore it was the best card ever, me on the other hand, loved the big beefy beater, but proceeded to lose countless times to my 7 yo friend with the foil vial. Love your contents, keep it going!!

[@LionellSK]

My favorite memory involving these cards involved two of these cards. We were playing at a modern FNM and I was on Merfolk and my opponent was on Jeskai Nahiri. Due to them only drawing creature removal and nothing that could hit face, I was still at 20 when they ultimate their Nahiri and go find Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. They move to combat and I only have 6 permanents in play, including an Aether Vial with 2 counters on it. In response to the Annihilator trigger, I activate my Aether Vial and put in a Phantasmal Image and have it enter as a copy of Emrakul. I sacrifice all of my other permanents leaving just a phantasm spaghetti monster. No blocks. Go to 5. End of turn he bounces his Emrakul back to his hand and the next turn I swing in, wipe all of his permanents and sing for lethal. Only thing left on the battlefield was a phantom squid monster.

[@toooobiased]

Aether Vial was one of the first cards I ever opened. Then, when I started playig again, I was so happy to find it in the box of old cards I used to play without sleeves. It's condition is pretty bad but I still play some of the old cards in my EDH Decks and Cubes -- for nostalgia's sake.

[@behemoth1158]

When I was much smaller my brother had a random selesnya deck and played a few deadly recluses, and I always thought it was broken how one small spider stopped my big red green dorks. Now I play combo's and edh

[@samuelwiler5654]

In these packs with powerful cards like monastery swift-spear, Emrakul and aether vial, the card I have the best memories with is disfigure. I remember it was in my first deck ever (which was a throne of eldraine challenger deck) and me and my brothers played a million games with the same decks, and I loved the versatility of killing small creatures and messing up combat for only 1 MANA! We also didn’t understand how adventures worked and we thought u could keep sending ur creatures on adventures, which made Murderous rider the best card in the game. Truly the most fun I ever had playing magic

[@guffe5813]

One of my favorite draft stories is with emrakul. Was doing an unstable draft and had drafted a Spike, Tournament Grinder. Which allowed me tutor up multiple Sol rings and a mana vault and then finally a emrakul, which i hardcasted to win the game.

[@andresenriquezgomez6910]

So many memories with inquisition of kozilek. Playing modern a few months ago with GDS (before lurrus ban) that card was a nightmare for most opponents. Taking their instant speed removal spell out of their hand in the first turn and then start dashing Ragavan and getting incremental advantage that eventually made me win felt really great.

[@shmerelize]

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to comment here or on the website, so: Bounty of the Luxa reminds me my first prerelease I attended - Amonkhet, which incidentally also marked my return to Magic since Mirrodin. I loved the Egyptian flavour, and didn't really find it as weak a set as others did. (probably because I missed a lot of more powerful sets between 2002-2016). It was a post-release prerelease at a friend's house, and we were about 20+ friends. Good times. I loved the warrior and the zombie themes, and Bounty of the Luxa was a decent card-advantage engine in sealed. "I hope I win!" -Mr Bean, Rat Race

[@smokyprogg]

I do appreciate the flavor on Mercadian Lift. Just slowly hauling some big monster onto the battlefield over the course of multiple turns rules from a non-gameplay standpoint

[@Orelusz]

That WHAAAT! was amazing! Such an exciting way to close the pack opening an Eldrazi!

[@kelvinprosman6109]

Ah yes, Inquisition of Kozilek. Fond memories! It was the first (nonland) card ever played against me in a tournament setting. I had recently got into mtg (Hour of Devastation era), spending my 120 euros I got for my birthday on a deckbuilders toolkit, a Bolas planeswalker deck, a Nissa planeswalker deck, and blew the rest on booster packs (little did I know about buying singles). Then, I went home, turned my Bolas planeswalker deck into 4-colour soup because I had pulled a Gideon of the Trials, which couldn't lose me the game (AHHHW YEEAHHHHH), and thought my deck was the bomb. Then I went to a Friday night magic tournament where they were playing.... Modern... The dude at the counter said that their decks were powerful, but I could still sign up. I payed the 5 euro entry fee, and got assigned my first opponent. He was playing BW Eldrazi and Taxes. Turn one, he drops a marsh flats, cracks it for 1 life, then finds a Godless shrine, paying 2 life to have it enter untapped. Meanwhile I'm thinking "wow, this dude is killing himself. I haven't even done anything and he's already at 17!" He then proceeds to cast Inquisition of Kozilek. I reveal my hand, and he takes some random card I can't recall because my deck was utter crap. I didn't think that was fair, since he got to take one of my cards. He then proceeded to take another card with tidehollow sculler, and another on turn 4 with a thoughtknot seer. He trashed me. I don't think I even got to cast anything that whole game. Ever since then, Inquisition of Kozilek has been branded in my mind as a powerful card.

[@92berek]

When I was still a university student, I was quite new to modern but very keen to learn and play it. I built myself a Rakdos 8rack deck with Blightnings, Pyroclasms and, most importantly, Terminates from Player Reward (one of which is on the video). I have always had a weak spot to bling cards, even back then, hence I deeply cherished those Terminates. When I was travelling back from my home town to where I studied, I spilled an orange juice on my backpack with that deck in a train. Thankfully I had it double sleeved and the juice didn't even get to the cards. I was still quite a poor student back then so you can imagine my relief. 😄 Always double sleeve!

[@ZighNation]

Aether vial was the card that got me into magic. Never played before, and a friend lent me a humans deck for modern. Didnt understand the rules at first but loved the aether interaction so much that I started buying cards to build a deck around it

[@thedancingpikachu]

My story for Emrakul is more over Eldrazi in general. When i got into magic I only really played kitchen table with a monored goblin deck I made using some random stuff from starter decks and random stuff from garage sales. So it was things like Goblin Arsonist, Mudbutton torchrunner, goblin grenades, and stuff like that. Didn't know about any card stores or anything in my area at the time, and got the starter decks at a convention. Had a friend who I managed to beat a lot just because my stuff while not great was fast enough to outspeed most of his stuff. He then made an Eldrazi tron deck to beat me, and threw in a circle of protection so I couldn't touch him with my creatures or spells. So my first experience against Eldrazi was someone who decided that was the best answer to goblin rush.

[@axeltalt9452]

While I'm still a fairly new player without a story to tell for alot of cards in double masters, I still deeply enjoy the set as I'm being given the opportunity to join others in glancing back at other times, other metas and exciting stories. It's always fun to sit down, grab a game and see what experiences my opponent happen to have with the cards we're playing, at the same time as I'm creating my own.

[@johnmedicsoriano8593]

Nostalgia for days haha awesome vid guys!

[@oskardanigsecher9906]

My story is about back when me and my mates was getting into magic, back then we were playing 60 card decks multiplayer and they were all scavenged together of whatever cards we had laying arround. I played a mono white souls attendant deck. But one day mate tells us he bought a deck online asking if he could play it instead of our normal jank. That deck was a variant of the modern Ursatron deck at that time and boi we were blown away by the power of the deck. It quickly turned into a 3v1 situation and we were barely keeping it together, that is until Emrakul hit the table. We got our asses handed to us so quickly it was stupid. I think back on that game very fondly and consider it a turning point in how we as a group approach MTG even today when we are hitting up commander games over spell table. You might even say that Emrakul pushed all of us to become better players just so we could banish her back to the void. I really think its sad that such an iconic and fun card is banned in commander. Please Wizard consider revising your commander banlist.

[@JonnMcDude]

Our kitchen table group once decided to homebrew an EDH game with 4 decks led by 3 commanders per deck. One of my friends assembled a deck with all 3 Eldrazi Titan and that Emrakul was just freshly cracked from an Eldritch Moon pack. He obviously won.

[@heribo1781]

I remember playing RtR prerelease, choosing to be Golgari and opening Lotleth Troll along with Corpsejack Menace. It was one of the sickest decks that ive ever build in limited.

[@onnotheunissen2963]

Always fun to draft emrakul in the vintage cube my playgroup uses from time to time. Especially when you can cheat it in with through the breach or show and tell.

[@WhoNoOneKnows]

At the beginning of my magic-"career" I played a thopter-deck. A friend of mine only updatet his deck to be better against mine, since we 2 were the only ones in our neighborhood, that played mtg. One day, he went to a game store to buy some cards for his mono-green giants deck that are good against small flying creatures. He asked for advice and the employees told him to buy a playset of Sporeweb Weaver. He did this and when he changed his deck to a white one with a few flyers, I updatet my green deck with a playset of Deadly Recluse. :)

[@riccardogrossoni2795]

one of my most fond memories was casting playing emrakul with elvish piper in a super junky deck, loved that card

[@golDroger88]

I have a Modern Mono Red Prowess deck that features Monastery Swiftspear that I use to teach people how to play because it's easy to understand how it plays but it also allows you to explain interaction to a certain degree. I used it with both my brother and my colleague.

[@stefanodecurtis263]

Good and recent one to tell! Day one of GP Bologna, double masters sealed. 200 people sign up, then another 160.we'd end up learning that we were using all three days' worth of boosters, but that's besides the point. Anyways, while I'm getting absolutely wrecked by a player far better than me despite my bounceland packed pool, I hear excitement from the table right next to ours. The player sitting right beside me had just cheated into play AN EMRAKUL with and EoT Aethermage's touch. It was magical. We all pulled out our phones to take a picture like tourists in front of the Sistine Chapel. And what's funnier is, just two hours earlier I was chatting with my friend about the weirdest stuff we'd be able to pull at the event, and we both agreed that flashing an Emrakul thanks to that 4 mana UW instant would've been among the craziest.

[@Chivajd]

I remember my first commander deck that I built, it was a mutation deck, since I start playing with ikoria... Of course, as budget player I bought simic growth chamber for my deck and I love those bounce lands

[@Bombadil83]

I fondly remember playing with Deadly Recluse back when me and my friends where first starting to play magic, as it was one of the best ways to stop their pesky flying creatures wich used to give me nightmares back then.

[@luanBes4]

I love this channel, the diversity of content is amazing

[@wuttsy]

I just started in Magic a wekk ago, bought a Precon deck for commander thanks to a friend's suggestion. During the last days we have been checking cards and he has been explaining me the ones that are fun. He showed me the card Deep Analysis and as I'm still very new and take long to play my turns, we end up doing the Deep Analysis Pose in order to pressure the others and then we laugh.

[@roactheraven]

I mostly play limited and only have one 'real' modern deck: merfolk. One of the most essential cards in it is Aether Vial. I've always had a soft spot for tribal decks and the vial is a key piece in making a lot of them work, so it is great to see it getting another reprint!

[@lorenzklug3354]

My story goes with burning-tree emissary. After I "stopped" playing at the age of around 10 I got back into magic around dominaria because of a good friend of mine but In 2019 I was quite bummed out because my friends and I couldn't play due to me leaving my hometown. Then I found a website where we could play together and I enjoyed playing the unbound wealth deck so much against my friend that it fully re sparked my joy for magic. It is a complete powerhouse by enabling you to get a lot of devotion quickly and later on if you have a board state it simply pays for the shrine of nykthos activation cost. Other than that a fairly recent story I have is with monastery, quite similar, during my studies I met new people to play with but I left that city now too and again am unable to play more often than once every month but after monastery swiftspear got downshifted to common fairly recently a friend of mine that I met during my studies started playing pauper with me and we now play almost every friday which is a blessing and a lot of fun. It is funny how magic got less relevant within one group of friends and we just do different things now together and on the other hand with the other group of friends it formed the bridge to actually get to know each other better. Im glad I got back into magic even though there are less expensive hobbies. So in the end, my nostalgia at least for these two cards is all about actually rekindling my joy for magic, having a good time with friends actually playing the game and it led to me stopping to question if I should sell my cards on cardmarket and instead buy some :p

[@Pathoslogical]

Loved the mercadian lifts comparison!

[@seasunk5891]

One of my favorite memories of playing magic is using my old school squirrel deck with chitter spitter and squirrel mob to steamroll my buddies!

[@ThePuolimieli]

I always had thought that magic is just a really silly nerdy card game and I will probably never play it. 8 years ago my roommate got me to buy Khans of Tarkir duel deck pack to try it out against him and I was playing the mono red aggro. I beat the mono blue morph control deck so many times in a row I got excited about the game. I started upgrading the red deck to a goblin deck (within a tiny budget ofc) and was super happy how it started turning out, as I was beating my roommates other decks with it as well. I spent all of my spare time looking into magic and weird card combos and rules. I was getting really good at the game, I thought... I met another magic player in a pub and asked him to join us next weekend to play some magic, he happily agreed. What I did not know, was how Legacy combo decks worked. We started playing and immediately I got my butt handed over by turn 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn deck. I'll never forget that as that was the day I learned that I need to know way more of the game because it is so silly. Nowadays I've teached many people how to play magic and I am referenced as "MTG encyclopedia" within my friend groups. That is how I got into playing silly nerdy card game called Magic the Gathering. I would never take a step back.

[@crimsonfire4451]

A fair few Khan's cards there, which was the first set I bought a booster box for. Really loved the themes of that plane.

[@davidedimatteo6826]

Well, i'm new to the game so i haven't really played with these cards yet (except some, like monastery swiftspear which, unfortunately, i played many times against in pioneer ahah), but i really like the gift ungiven story mentioned by Thoralf! It was such a creative play and i loved hearing about it in one of Sam's video from rhystic studies!

[@markusd9759]

Ah that deadly recluse … such a Classic … and the curse haunting me in my nightmares. This tiny spider locked so many of my battlesteps ah the good old times 2014. Btw. keep up the good work I love your videos - refreshing ideas, fun to watch - keep on growing. Greetings from Germany

[@MareczqZglos]

I playd a lot with Deadly Recluse in my "School" (over 20Y agoo....) - i had a green control deck that was focus on Tangle Wire, Saproling Burst and Overrun (with a lot cards that destory enemy lands):) I love that deck ... and Deadly Recluse was like my "defence" net vs. agroo decks :)

[@kingsinnlos2934]

When I started playing magic (Coreset 2019 was the newest set) I soon got my hand on an Emrakul (I traded an Omniscience to a friend to get her). Later on the same day we drafted Unstable. I opened "Spike, Tournament Grinder" (activated ability for 4 black phyrexian Mana: "Reveal a card you own from outside the game that has been banned or restricted in a Constructed format and put it into your hand."). Since Emrakul is banned in Commander I did the only correct thing and build a ramp Deck around that. I hardcasted her three times on that day. The other games I mostly lost, but it was worth it. I remember a game against the same friend, that tradet her to me, where he had a rules lawyer on the board (State based actions don't apply to you or other permanents you control). I had to attack fiveTimes until he finally had to sac that thing to the annihilator Trigger (token Decks, am I right?). He was at around -40 Life and had no permanents in play when he died. I believe I set a record for most Emrakul attacks in one game from the same player at that day. It was a good day! 15/15 can recommand

[@lugarial]

When I came to my first FNM ever in 2016, I got my first deck : a GW starter given for free by the shop. It was my first FNM ever. First opponent was a guy with a weird tron deck, with sol rings and lots of eldrazis. He got T3 Ugin, T5 ultimate and found... Emrakul the aeons torn, Ulamog the ceaseless Hunger, Karn and another Ugin among 7 cards. Years later I still play GW decks and use Ghost Quarters in it :)

[@jscire625]

Speaking of Emrakul (nice pull by the way!) I used to play a Mardu Nahiri midrange deck circa 2017. I had followed the "calculated" deck building decision of playing Bob in a deck with one copy of Emrakul. At a local event, I was against Affinity Game 3 and had a commanding board state. I had a Nahiri, a few lingering souls tokens and Stony Silence all on board, effectively nullifying my opponent. I also had a Bob which I played on turn 2 and had gotten immensely lucky, only revealing lands up until this point (it was turn 5). I had 19 life to play with, what was the worst thing that could happen? On turn 6 upkeep I flipped over Emrakul, taking 15 damage. My opponent who was dead to rights, had the biggest grin on his face as he revealed a Galvanic Blast from his hand, payed for with his untapped Glimmervoid. That night I replaced the Bobs with Wall of Omens and never looked back.

[@jamesbeaton4354]

- dying on turn 2 to a t1 - forest, arbor elf then t2 - utopia sprawl, burning tree, buring tree, nykthos, Garruk, tooth and nail into double striking Emrakul and I fondly remember Getting an aether vial from thoralf and Jamin, what a lovely memory that was

[@MCsorlotron]

I recently got back playing magic in paper again and it has been so hreat to be accepted into a new community. I recently took place in a 2X2 draft and manage to make it all the way to the ginal even though i had no R/M big pulls. I did however draft 4 Gnarlback Rhino's and absolutely smash it to the final by just low droping creatures and dropping down at least 3 Rhinos in every game. Lost the final 2 games to 1 so missed out on the big prize but dang did those Rhino's carry me 👏 i also got a foil one and although just a common it was a flex to beat better decks with them! 🙏 send the me the cards it would me awful lot to get those card down to my local lgs and beat people down with the Eldrazi 💣 Awesome channel and great website. Keep up the great work! A staple of our European MTG community.

[@justinkietzman]

Deranged Assistant brings me back to college with a self mill deck using Laboratory Maniac. The first time I played that my friends where confused why I was milling myself so hard until I dropped the Lab Man. Good times.

[@loug1454]

Well, Sidisi was my First Commander deck and The mimeoplasm was the first deck of a friend who started with me. So we Always hat weird Sultai graveyard mirror games^^ Then Muldrotha was released we both secretly build a new Commander deck, got to Play against each over and revealed the new Muldrotha decks against euch other :) Now having all 3 in Alt art or Edged foil in one set was just so awesome. Best draft decks in years I got with all 3 of them.

[@rocklaudiobisio]

Inquisition of Kozilek is one of my favourite cards ever... at my first modern tournament I was playing Jund and opened game 1 with FOUR Inquisitions against delver... You can guess my opponent was not impressed as I was as they scooped on the cast of the fourth. Love that card and would like to get a play set of the new full arts eventually!

[@manadorkjohn]

I started playing around oddysey block and remember really mesmerised by the weird art of deep analysis in Torment. It sort of reminded me of horror movie set