The opening music would be hilarious with like an early 2000s sitcom with Rudy just opening a beer looking at the camera and the rest of the characters are just old booster boxes
The fact that you passed the Blastoderms and Lin Sivvi like passing a Grizzly Bears, or called Volrath, Greven Il-Vec or Crovax just "that guy" made me sad somehow.
nolife Snorlax exactly I just wrote a big comment about Lin Sivvi she was banned from block constructed and rebels was 6 of the top 8 at that PT she was insanely powerful
Same. I was like blastoderm and burst became major players when invasion dropped with fires and Sivvi was literally a race to drop her first lol. Nemesis had some powerful cards in it for that time
Brian Cook 👌😂for sure.? That card was everywhere and even got a ban in Bkock constructed showing you the power of the card with 6/8 top 8 decks being Rebels was dope deck. I played counter rebels during standard when invasion block came out and it was really good.
You don’t remember Linn Sivvi or Rootwater thief those cards were some of the best ones from this era. I believe the thief was a invitational card from winning an event and you got to design the card and have your likeness on it. Then Linn Sivvi was the most powerful card in block constructed as she was completely dominate in the rebels deck that was 6 of the top 8 of the pro tour that year and got banned in block constructed. Those days the legend rule was much different and don’t quote me but I think the first person to play the Linn Sivvi was the only one allowed to play it your opponent wasn’t allowed cause there could only be 1 legend with the same name on the whole battle field. Or if they played a copy then both copies would die but you had yours out first so you would just tutor up all your rebels. The card was powerful in standard as well in many deck like counter rebels with absord when invasion came out and was one of the best cards until she rotated!!!
Mike Churchill ya, second person couldn’t even play his Lin-Sivvi. Then a few years later during champions block they changed it so the second legend played kills both in play
Exactly...anyone who paid any attention at all or played at all knows Lin Sivvi, it was everywhere for a while. Also his disrespect towards blinding angels ability makes me think he’s never seen it in action, stealing a whole game from an aggressive creature deck
I haven’t even watched you open a single pack yet and I am already entertained..nice addition of music to the intro..good touch. You should do that kind of weird thing with the camera to different obscure music for every intro to a box opening. Lol
James Langston yup, one of the most played rares from the set along with Lin-sivvi, blinding angel, and parallax wave/tide, the cards Rudy laughed at and/or didn’t remember...
I loved that intro way more than I should have haha the classic Rudy-cheese with this weirdly out of place polished beat which makes everything cheesier. Perfect.
Moggcatcher was always a great card Rudy! Even now every goblin commander deck must have! So happy that you opened it in the almost last pack!! So many memories!
How can you not remember Lin-sivvi? It was probably the most famous card from the set in magic history, next to daze/AK. Rebels with Lin-Sivvi owned standard for a while and it was an annoying mirror match because whoever played Lin-Sivvi first basically won the game, since the other player couldn’t play theirs. It led to one of the first Legends rule changes, that the second legend can be played, and it kills them both. So if u are 2nd to play lin, it at least functions as a kill opponents Lin, instead of useless unplayable card clogged in ur hand.
the legend killing both didn't happen until later. that was after lines-ivvi was already gone so you didn't get to kill the opponents with yours, younwere just stuck with a very neutered deck and a uncastable stuck in hand until you lost the game. I liked rebels quite a bit back then. Vie always liked WW decks tbh. I didn't play counter rebels though. much later the rule changed
Parallax tide and Wave really stirs up memories (with Opalescence of course) or Wave + Ankh of Mishra:-). Also Blastoderm, Blinding Angel, Kor Haven, Flame Rift. I could go on. Great set:-)
I liked the old seals in that set. But i LOVED Raths Edge. Im german and nobody knew the 2 mana version was an misprint. So yeah, my Raths edge made 2 mana on tapping. No downside.
Hey Rudy from Spain! Counterfeits. I know you have talked about this issue before . Could you please center in a video about maybe some basic equipment to inspect and analyze cards and be able to tell if what we are about to buy is original or not? I am very reluctant to buy in cardmarket for that Counterfeiting problem . I don't want to buy 5 duals and then realize they are fake! Thanks in advance!
Manuel Amperio he has done this in countless videos. Just go back through his videos or search on RUclips. Easiest ways to tell is the texture and how light reflects off of the back.
@@DeeJaysWord Thanks for taking the time to reply . I appreciate it. I wanted to know if there is any special model or type of device to check the texture and so on. thanks again!
The power creep is real - I didn't play much magic between 2004 and 2019 (starting to get back into it) and my first impression of the modern stuff was that like 90% of the cards are overpowered.
Hey Rudy, I love what you did with the intro. Too bad the rest of the video was just static.. hold on I'm getting a phone call.. Me: Hello? Rudy's voice on the phone: SEVEN DAZE
The idea behind the "Spellshaper" monsters was that each one could turn any card in your hand into a specific spell. You would pay the mana cost (usually a bit higher than the spell you were mimicking) and then tap the spellshaper and discard a card. Then the effect would mimic the effect of a particular spell. Some of the more popular ones were "Waterfront Bouncer" and "Undertaker" which mimicked the effects of "Unsummon" and "Raise Dead". If it sounds like discarding all of those cards would be really bad, keep in mind that when these came out "Squee, Goblin Nabob" was still legal and his ability returned him to the hand if he went to the graveyard from anywhere. You didn't even have to be playing red to keep getting him back over and over again. This made Spellshapers considerably more powerful back in their day.
Funny how you don’t remember or like the 3 most played and iconic rares from this set: Lin-Sivvi, Blinding Angel (whos ability is game breakingly strong back then), and to a lesser extent rootwater thief.
10:21 dramatic moment, Rudy “Ohhhhhh! Finally, a flipping daze man! I didn’t think we were gonna get a flipping daze in the box!”....Rudy....you still had to 2 rows of the box left to open....lol
I just watched this video (a year late) and I got triggered when Rudy mentioned that he wasn’t familiar w Lin Sivvi, and I see here in comments that umpteen people also got uppity that he did not recall LS. So I gave it some more thought, but I still think if you played magic in 2000 it would be impossible to not recall that card. That said, I don’t think it’s a bad thing if Rudy did not play magic in 2000. People in comments are reacting like that discredits him. I started playing in 1998 and was playing MTG 30HPW during Lin Sivvi’s heyday. So does that make me an expert on everything about MTG? Not really - it just makes me an expert on Lin Sivvi. But I took a break from MTG shortly thereafter and didn’t return till Time Spiral. I’m sure there will be some video about Mirrodin block where I’m not as nuanced as others, shrug. And I’m sure there are sets pre-1998 where Rudy knows them inside out, whereas I don’t cuz he started before me. Point is folks, chill out. As for newer players being unfamiliar w Lin Sivvi. I can totally appreciate them looking at the card and moving on without giving it a second thought. The power creep MTG has seen with respect to creatures makes Lin Sivvi uninteresting to new players. Old farts like me recall that it was format warping, but those are old stories most new players couldn’t give a rats ass about.
Yeah I played heavily from ice age to weatherlight and for whatever reason, life stuff (I was in 5th grade lol so no idea what was so important) I missed Tempest through Urzas Legacy. Then a friend invited me to a booster draft of Destiny and I got hooked again! Played all the sets till about Odyssey, kind of lost interest with the change in flavor, then totally dropped out when they changed up the card designs. Then took a 17 year break and got back in. Thanks for listening to my boring story. My point was that Fandom has its ups and downs and magic is an expensive hobby with a niche player base so sometimes life circumstances force you to dip for a while
Production value is rising. Maybe one day this will be a real youtube channel!
I know right, I dont remember the last time Rudy used music in any of his videos.
Not just a crazy man begging for a haircut.
The opening music would be hilarious with like an early 2000s sitcom with Rudy just opening a beer looking at the camera and the rest of the characters are just old booster boxes
Music Is Therapy just like Al Rudy
The fact that you passed the Blastoderms and Lin Sivvi like passing a Grizzly Bears, or called Volrath, Greven Il-Vec or Crovax just "that guy" made me sad somehow.
Lin Sivvi and Rebels where the bane of the format back in the day right? Rudy confirmed yoglioh and pokimans player :D
nolife Snorlax exactly I just wrote a big comment about Lin Sivvi she was banned from block constructed and rebels was 6 of the top 8 at that PT she was insanely powerful
Same. I was like blastoderm and burst became major players when invasion dropped with fires and Sivvi was literally a race to drop her first lol. Nemesis had some powerful cards in it for that time
Real talk. Once Rudy said, "I've never heard of Lin-Sivvi" was when I knew that Rudy doesn't know how to play this game.
Brian Cook 👌😂for sure.? That card was everywhere and even got a ban in Bkock constructed showing you the power of the card with 6/8 top 8 decks being Rebels was dope deck. I played counter rebels during standard when invasion block came out and it was really good.
Hearing Lin’s name brings back nightmares
You don’t remember Linn Sivvi or Rootwater thief those cards were some of the best ones from this era. I believe the thief was a invitational card from winning an event and you got to design the card and have your likeness on it. Then Linn Sivvi was the most powerful card in block constructed as she was completely dominate in the rebels deck that was 6 of the top 8 of the pro tour that year and got banned in block constructed. Those days the legend rule was much different and don’t quote me but I think the first person to play the Linn Sivvi was the only one allowed to play it your opponent wasn’t allowed cause there could only be 1 legend with the same name on the whole battle field. Or if they played a copy then both copies would die but you had yours out first so you would just tutor up all your rebels. The card was powerful in standard as well in many deck like counter rebels with absord when invasion came out and was one of the best cards until she rotated!!!
Mike Churchill ya, second person couldn’t even play his Lin-Sivvi. Then a few years later during champions block they changed it so the second legend played kills both in play
The fact he doesn’t remember Lin sivvi is proof he doesn’t know how to play magic
Yeah one of the most standard warping/determining cards of all times
Exactly...anyone who paid any attention at all or played at all knows Lin Sivvi, it was everywhere for a while. Also his disrespect towards blinding angels ability makes me think he’s never seen it in action, stealing a whole game from an aggressive creature deck
I play magic weekly and have never heard of it.
He knows he’s just trolling all of us to the max
@@Ragnarok691 because you're a new player probably, that card was in ever competitive deck in standard many years ago.
5 seconds in and I’m like yo what’s with the lit tracks fam 🤣
I remember buying a box of this back in the day. It was considered lucky to get 5-6 foils in a whole booster box if I remember right.
I can't take these intros, the production value is out of this world. You're spoiling us Rudy.
I haven’t even watched you open a single pack yet and I am already entertained..nice addition of music to the intro..good touch. You should do that kind of weird thing with the camera to different obscure music for every intro to a box opening. Lol
Ah, Rootwater Thief. That guy was an all-star back in the day.
James Langston yup, one of the most played rares from the set along with Lin-sivvi, blinding angel, and parallax wave/tide, the cards Rudy laughed at and/or didn’t remember...
The card Mike Long designed (he is the guy in the boat)
I loved that intro way more than I should have haha the classic Rudy-cheese with this weirdly out of place polished beat which makes everything cheesier. Perfect.
Moggcatcher was always a great card Rudy! Even now every goblin commander deck must have! So happy that you opened it in the almost last pack!! So many memories!
Rudy not remembering both Lin Sivvi and Rootwater Thief, a friggin Players Reward card, hurts my soul lol
Rudy; “Lin Sivvi? Who remembers this card.
Mercadian mask block: “Am I a joke to you?”
How can you not remember Lin-sivvi? It was probably the most famous card from the set in magic history, next to daze/AK. Rebels with Lin-Sivvi owned standard for a while and it was an annoying mirror match because whoever played Lin-Sivvi first basically won the game, since the other player couldn’t play theirs. It led to one of the first Legends rule changes, that the second legend can be played, and it kills them both. So if u are 2nd to play lin, it at least functions as a kill opponents Lin, instead of useless unplayable card clogged in ur hand.
the legend killing both didn't happen until later. that was after lines-ivvi was already gone so you didn't get to kill the opponents with yours, younwere just stuck with a very neutered deck and a uncastable stuck in hand until you lost the game. I liked rebels quite a bit back then. Vie always liked WW decks tbh. I didn't play counter rebels though. much later the rule changed
Ryan McLain ya, the rules change didn’t happen until it was already out of play, but it was the main reason that change was made
Accumulated Knowledge is good but Skyshroud Claim is much better so is Flame Rift
Skipping past Blastoderm also hurt.
Parallax tide and Wave really stirs up memories (with Opalescence of course) or Wave + Ankh of Mishra:-). Also Blastoderm, Blinding Angel, Kor Haven, Flame Rift. I could go on. Great set:-)
Rudy has gotten his masters degree at Taco Bell University for computer programming now...he added music!!!
I liked the old seals in that set. But i LOVED Raths Edge. Im german and nobody knew the 2 mana version was an misprint. So yeah, my Raths edge made 2 mana on tapping. No downside.
This was my favorite set until m25. I loved sorting these while watching Buffy. I suppose I still do.
I love the old frames and artwork so much. That's why I collect them even if they're worthless. Just something tasty looking about the old cards.
Hey Rudy from Spain! Counterfeits. I know you have talked about this issue before . Could you please center in a video about maybe some basic equipment to inspect and analyze cards and be able to tell if what we are about to buy is original or not?
I am very reluctant to buy in cardmarket for that Counterfeiting problem . I don't want to buy 5 duals and then realize they are fake!
Thanks in advance!
Manuel Amperio he has done this in countless videos. Just go back through his videos or search on RUclips. Easiest ways to tell is the texture and how light reflects off of the back.
This is an excellent suggestion.
@MDSsystems Great suggestion " buy a loupe" Mastermind ...
@@DeeJaysWord Thanks for taking the time to reply . I appreciate it. I wanted to know if there is any special model or type of device to check the texture and so on. thanks again!
Wish u would do Onslaught and open some of the Original Fetch lands
Energy Gaming I may purchase a box next month if he has for a fair price
@@tapnslapmtg7432 Onslaught is such a nice set i wasn't playing then i started right around Original Zendikar
The power creep is real - I didn't play much magic between 2004 and 2019 (starting to get back into it) and my first impression of the modern stuff was that like 90% of the cards are overpowered.
Hey Rudy, I love what you did with the intro. Too bad the rest of the video was just static.. hold on I'm getting a phone call..
Me: Hello?
Rudy's voice on the phone: SEVEN DAZE
Blastoderm, tanglewire, saproling burst... this set was epic
Those fucking groovy ass jams at the beginning had me going, thanks creepy papa Rudy always love the videos.
FUNK. Wow, I really appreciate the artwork in this set.
Blastoderm in my stoppy deck was sooooo good back then. Fading and echo were great mechanics imo.
Those cinematic shots at the start are waaay to high quality for this channel
Mathew Chubey it’s a brave new world
The idea behind the "Spellshaper" monsters was that each one could turn any card in your hand into a specific spell. You would pay the mana cost (usually a bit higher than the spell you were mimicking) and then tap the spellshaper and discard a card. Then the effect would mimic the effect of a particular spell. Some of the more popular ones were "Waterfront Bouncer" and "Undertaker" which mimicked the effects of "Unsummon" and "Raise Dead". If it sounds like discarding all of those cards would be really bad, keep in mind that when these came out "Squee, Goblin Nabob" was still legal and his ability returned him to the hand if he went to the graveyard from anywhere. You didn't even have to be playing red to keep getting him back over and over again. This made Spellshapers considerably more powerful back in their day.
Oooo nice intro Rudy sounded really professional seriously loved it
I remember opening a few boxes of this back then. I still have all the bulk in a box in storage.
Funny how you don’t remember or like the 3 most played and iconic rares from this set: Lin-Sivvi, Blinding Angel (whos ability is game breakingly strong back then), and to a lesser extent rootwater thief.
1:38 "losing track of time" and then rudy from the future calls
The year of our Rudy, 2000 was a damn fine year.
Wow also music intro from now on? AND the travelling phone,wow i love alllllll of this amazing,thank you Rudyyyyyyy
I love the music in the beginning, kind of reminded me of Terminator before the be at dropped 😂
@@RyanMclain 😂 damn I meant to say beat lol I'm not going to edit it bc of your comment, thanks for the laugh
i wanted to pick up a older set for a holiday draft but apparently these are 1k boxes now wtf
Omg that synth intro was amazing.
10:21 dramatic moment, Rudy “Ohhhhhh! Finally, a flipping daze man! I didn’t think we were gonna get a flipping daze in the box!”....Rudy....you still had to 2 rows of the box left to open....lol
Nemesis was my first set and the laccoliths were my favorite creatures.
Still have alot of my nemesis cards and have beefed up versions of the premade decks I liked this set alot
Love the old school art!
i like how the music guided you thru the maze of neverending booster boxes
Sooo what exactly WAS that song during the intro?? anyone? lol
Ah, those lovely old cards. I miss those boarders...
i remember i first got into magic with the time spiral set, first pack i cracked was a time shifted Bolas
The intro was big fuego rudy
damn that was a good box= blinding angel, kor haven, tangle wire, sap burst, lin sivvi...what did i forget?
Liked immediately for the music/intro lol
In my day we were happy to get one foil per box
can you pay that song whenever someone pulls a foil mythic.
please fuck off
@@thatdudebro awww I wanted to fuck off. whys that lucky bastard get to instead when i been wanting to fuck off for ages now. God!
@@thatdudebro Can I fuck off too? I want to get all the fucking I can get.
Holy shit my floppy taco just dropped out agape. Very nice intro.
You don't remember Blastoderm and Lin-Sivvi? You didn't play during Nemesis, Rudi!
He doesn't know how to play.
@@blastbeatindustries3191 I agree.
Cool that you picked a box from 2000, today is my birthday and i was born in 2000
The intro made me feel like I was in an elevator with glass panels descending the levels of Rudy's basement
Oh snap, Taco slapping music to start the video!
Now that was a QUALITY intro👌👌👌
Didn't take out reverent silence or skyshroud claim.....missing out on those extra quarters!!!
more than quarters, skyshroud claim is averaging above $1.25 for the nemesis versions.
It's like we are on a safari with Rudy through the jungle of booster boxes
Apparently Ruby forgets (or doesn’t know) how broken Rebels we’re back in the day.
Lin siv is a BEAST! Counter rebels!!! Come on rudy!
I just see tons of EDH shenanigans here. Fading counters with proliferation seem like it could be a thing here (Karn's Bastion is so underrated)
Love Rudy not realizing that the Parallax Inhibitor is one of the top money cards of the set and then getting more excited about Daze # 5.
"I used to look like that in middle school"
Rudy, my dude, that's still you!
Rudy, that box art guy was Crovax. He got a Rathi upgrade.
Lin Sivvi... only the most powerful card in the set. So powerful it was banned in Mercadian Block.
Just bought all of Troll & Toad’s stock of Plague Witch for about 20 bucks. Over 70 copies. That’ll be a cool binder
I never made the binder
Niceeee editing Ruby!!!
Music!!!... is this the 2020 Rudy from Timmy’s basement investments
@AlphaInvestments Hey Rudy, I wanted to start up my collection of older sealed packs, how much would it cost for like 10 random old sealed packs
I went through my common box the other day out of boredom and because I rarely do, found a foil Accumulated Knowledge. Nice $50 find lol
Rudy's mixtape is lit.
That Merfolk card was actually pretty good.
Omg haven’t seen that set opened in so long
A blast from the past
Lin Sivvi was everywhere at that time, rebels ftw!
Volrath was my first rare in the first pack I opened...
THE CINEMATOGRAPHY!!!!!!
It's so weird that 2000 was 19 years ago. Thank god we all survived Y2K.
We didn't, we all died and this is hell
I just watched this video (a year late) and I got triggered when Rudy mentioned that he wasn’t familiar w Lin Sivvi, and I see here in comments that umpteen people also got uppity that he did not recall LS.
So I gave it some more thought, but I still think if you played magic in 2000 it would be impossible to not recall that card. That said, I don’t think it’s a bad thing if Rudy did not play magic in 2000. People in comments are reacting like that discredits him.
I started playing in 1998 and was playing MTG 30HPW during Lin Sivvi’s heyday. So does that make me an expert on everything about MTG? Not really - it just makes me an expert on Lin Sivvi. But I took a break from MTG shortly thereafter and didn’t return till Time Spiral. I’m sure there will be some video about Mirrodin block where I’m not as nuanced as others, shrug. And I’m sure there are sets pre-1998 where Rudy knows them inside out, whereas I don’t cuz he started before me. Point is folks, chill out.
As for newer players being unfamiliar w Lin Sivvi. I can totally appreciate them looking at the card and moving on without giving it a second thought. The power creep MTG has seen with respect to creatures makes Lin Sivvi uninteresting to new players. Old farts like me recall that it was format warping, but those are old stories most new players couldn’t give a rats ass about.
Yeah I played heavily from ice age to weatherlight and for whatever reason, life stuff (I was in 5th grade lol so no idea what was so important) I missed Tempest through Urzas Legacy. Then a friend invited me to a booster draft of Destiny and I got hooked again! Played all the sets till about Odyssey, kind of lost interest with the change in flavor, then totally dropped out when they changed up the card designs. Then took a 17 year break and got back in.
Thanks for listening to my boring story. My point was that Fandom has its ups and downs and magic is an expensive hobby with a niche player base so sometimes life circumstances force you to dip for a while
Damn Ruds, dem some phat beats! #80'ssynthftw
Rudy is giving us hints in which boxes we need to invest in his intros!!!!
This was the first set to come out after I started playing.
I thought I had a background ad when I first clicked on this video, I am not gonna lie, I was freaking out a little.
SWEEEEEEEET!!!! Old school box yo!!!!
Awesome intro ruby
Love volrath have a deck based around him still
came for the cards, stayed for the music
Good foil rare except for the fact that it's unplayable.
I could watch this intro for hours :)
I used to have a deck built around volrath
Nemesis was one of my favorite sets I also like the ice age I like Exodus I miss some of the older cards cuz they were better
Last night I had a dream that Rudy did Guitar Hero reviews. I hope that dream comes true one day.
wow finaly a find my new dubstep channel :P
opening of this had me thinking The Chainsmokers getting lo-fi with their new videos.
yet another great video by RUDY!!!!
Oh man, music!? Amaze