I googled the booster box number and it brought me to a 10 minute long video of Rudy eating tacos. When the video was over my phone rang. It was creepy Rudy and he told me I would die in 7 days.
I started playing around the zendikar block. My favorite standard timeframe was innistrad & rtr, by far. No other standard format comes close. I also religiously collect diregraf ghouls and drogskol captains, because theyre dope.
This was the first set to come out after I started playing. Absolutely my favorite set! First ever pack I opened was an Innistrad pack and I pulled a foil Snapcaster Mage.
Same! I loved New Phyrexia, Scars of Mirrodin, and Mirrodin Beseiged too, but Innistrad was the first prerelease I ever went to. I think Innistrad has to be my favorite set ever.
I remember my innistrad box from 2012. Had only 3 mythic: past in flames, reaper from the abyss and balefire dragon, but I had 4 foiled rares: Snapcaster, kurrin outlaw, charm breaker devils and daybreak ranger and also a regular snap caster.
I'm walking down memory lane right now. I'm seeing how much my Innistrad Token deck is currently worth as I watch this. 4x Parallel Lives (1 Foil), 4x Intangible Virtue (2 Foil), 4x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, 4x Garruk Relentless, 4x Lingering Souls, etc lol I had SO MUCH FUN with this set! I was just getting off drugs at the time and switched addictions to MTG. I'll never forget Innistrad, or sell my token deck lol
I remember this edition fondly. I loved it. It was great for draft and great for magic standard decks. The fluff was thick. Thx for bringing back good memories rudy.
This is when I started playing magic. I started collecting cards and getting interested in the game during the phyrexia block, but I didnt know how to play yet. Right as I learned how to play, innistrad came out. This block will always be my favorite🖤 I'm not a fan of standard these days. But this was the best time for standard by far. Dark ascension Friday night magic was JUICY.
I agree with you. the cards from standard are SO BORING. looking back at these innistrad cards made me realize what a shitty t2. EDH is great if everyone is looking for fun, because there are decks out there which are awful to play against
Innistrad was my absolute favorite set. It was the age when i could finally afford to buy booster boxes and let me tell you, the spoils were fruitful. Amazing set. Tons of great artwork, tons of utility, just bravo.
i loved pairing old 2012 core set with these cards. my standard UB control deck had karn liberated, grave titan, batterskull, and consecrated sphinx as bombs. and strong innistrad cards like snapcaster, tragic slip, think twice, sever the blood line, and forbidden alchemy. lovely time to play magic
Innistrad is where me and my friends first got serious playing magic the gathering.Great starting spot with some fun artifacts from the previous Mirrodin set.I wish I could unbox some more sets.One of mg favorite moments was unboxing a Mirage set years ago that I physically fit for $200.
During Dark Ascension is when i really got back into magic and i remember playing a blue green mill myself deck with splinterfrieght boneyard wurm that dumb blue mythic spirit and going wide with kessig cage breakers...it was one of my favorite decks to play way back when
Innistrad is the set I started with. I regret not drafting it more what a fantastic set. Looking back the art is 10x better than I remember, especially compared to today's. Who else drafted Innistrad MTGO all weekend? I usually don't play MTGO but that changed everything.
Innistrad was the first pre release I got to go to. The best memories I have is from this set just inviting all my friends and having a really good time with all our shitty 60 card decks. So much fun. I miss the attention to detail wizards used to have, and how much they cared about players having fun. We’ll get back to that I am sure.
Innistrad was the set that got me back into MTG. I honestly miss those days. I just used to draft every week with my friends and Innistrad will always hold a special place in my nerd heart.
@@andrewwybert9976 Me and you both. My first real set of actually playing was around world wake then I came back again at innistrad. It was thanks to this set that around 2107 I bought a new graphics card. I was running a snapcast delver deck in standard during innistrad. Fun times for sure.
You didn't open up that pack backwards, I think it's mapped that way to specify that you're going to get a badass card because I looked back at the video and it does turnout the pack was opened up right and that's kind of crazy, pretty cool!
i miss this set. was so solid just hanging out with my friends in high school ripping open packs on the weekends to play with each other. the card art was so good and the vampire, werewolf, zombie theme was so great. they should make another block like this, i bet it would sell hard.
Thank you for doing this. I was just getting into magic the first time when this set was out. This and later Return to Ravnica will always have a place in my heart.
Dark Ascension was the reason I started and I built a deck but kind of gave up after that. Your right it was a great said I love the white green decks and the red black dicks those are the old some Windex for me and I loved playing them and building them they were so fun! I love your knowledge Rudy keep up the hard work I love you bro!
Dang, this set looks so great. I really wish I could have started around OG Innistrad. The art, the flavor, the value, man... It's all dark and perfect for Halloween and... maybe I'll open one next Halloween.
Easily my favorite set of all time. Started playing right before this and did sooooo many Innistrad drafts. The price of the box today would easily be worth the nostalgia alone to draft, forget about the actual value.
I started playing when Avacyn's Restored came out, but obviously that was part of the Innistrad block so I spent a lot of time with these cards. Maybe it's because I learnt the game with these cards, or maybe it's the aesthetic of the entire block, but Innistrad/Dark Ascension/AR will always be my favourite MTG block. I get so nostalgic about the cards from those sets that I often try to sneak my old favourites into my EDH decks.
Although... I have a friend who is an English teacher and when I watched Donnie Darko with him for the first time (for him, not me), he commented immediately upon seeing "cellar door" on that blackboard. Before the explanation in the movie happens. So... maybe Rudy hasn't even seen Donnie Darko and is simply a covert linguistics lover.
I keep telling myself this month for sure I'll order something from my $10 patreon sub. One whole year and $120 later I have only purchased once hahaha still worth it to so you can keep up the good content flowing.
I just got back in and you opening this box brings back the memories and lets me know what cards are worth anything! I Literally have all my cards from those times and i'm putting them in stacks depending on what you're saying!
Abzan Reanimator was a big deck, as well as Esper Frownyard, There was also a really powerful Naya humans list when RTR was in standard with Innistrad. Oh, and the fencing ace/invisible stalker enchant deck. Wolf Run Ramp. All the good times.
Oh i played in this format and it was hands down my favorite block of cards. They will never make a set like this again i dont no how to explain it but things seem to be better back then
My favorite deck I ever had was during Innistrad and Return to Ravnica. Guttersnipe and Talrand. Flashback cards to get the triggers to activate all the time. Also burning vengeance. I got 4th place with it once. I'm a Johnny if you didn't figure it out.
I think its funny, this is when i first got into magic, and i bought a starter pack for m11 or 12? and it came with Inistrad, Dark Ascension and the core set of the time. I pulled a snapcaster and played it casually un-sleeved for several years until i realized it was worth a decent amount.
depends on which standard your refering to. with innistrad + scars block it was mostly delver decks or inkmoth + kessig. and with rtr is mostly bant swagtusk/ resto angel if i remember correctly. but lilys werent as expensive, i think while they were in standard they averaged 40-60 bucks. snappys were around 20ish
Oh man I loved playing standard during this time. I absolutely loved playing birthing pod deck (card from new phyrexia). Playing against Esper Control was always fun with unburial rites running around bringing back things like griselbrand haha.
Def appreciate the extra time. i started in scars and man my friends and i were trippin when this hit, but i had a hard time leaving new phyrexia behind. Miss the good foils.
My first mtg purchase was the 2013 deckbuilder's toolkit, and of the one Innistrad booster, one Avacyn restored booster, one dark ascension booster and one 2013 core, I pulled a Liliana of the veil, and a Gisela, blade of goldnight. to this day, I truly believe that the builder's toolkit boosters are somehow stacked to hook new players. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine in... 2014? born of the gods. he got a Kiora, the crashing wave (when it was more than 2$) and one of the gods.
I was playing during Innistrad release, great set but 3 of my regular opponents were playing Delver decks, motarpod/puresteel dealt with them until they cycled. Damn did did I love New Phyrexia. First thing I bought as an adult after a decade away from the game was a New Phyrexia fatpack, foil Batterskull BAM! Friends were horrified that I played with it unsleeved. Good times.
I started playing the month m10 came out and obviously my favorite sets were zendikar thru eldrazi but this set itself was the best set to use to make or upgrade all of my decks. I give that set a 10/10 no doubt
Got the full deck yourself alt-win combo in the set. Play Laboratory Maniac -> Mirror Mad Phantasm -> Cackling Counterpart the Phantasm -> Shuffle Token into the deck, fizzling it -> Deck Out, Win Game.
I played a super jank lab maniac self mill deck with mirror mad phantasm for locals, i also loved my white black tokens deck with Sorin Lord of Inistrad
its all about the lab maniac win running self mill with deranged assistants and boneyard wurm/splinterfrights then you turn around and hit em with the kessig cagebreakers
Damn I love innistrad, and SOI blocks. The cards and lore is what attracted me to magic. I love the lovecraftian/horror theme. If it wasnt for those blocks I probably would have never started playing
Still my favorite time in standard is the Innistrad Block and Return to Ravnica ... so many viable decks and brews and FNM was ALWAYS packed with like 70+ people ...
Tragic slip was my favorite card from that block. Loved it. I actually played until Urzas block ended and then stopped playing until innisrqd block (talk about lucking out on the value) I remember during an FMN we did a draft after. The box they used for prize support (gave away prob half the box) was the closet thing I’ve seen to a “god box” every single pack in the box had 2-3 mystics/rares. The flip card, the regular and a foil. Was nuts. Ended up buying the second half of the box and pulled a foil Lilly and 2 snaps! Still have them. Probably the coolest box I’ve ever seen. Wizards used to do fun stuff like that from what I understand.
From reading the books, I'd say Captain Sisay and Hannah were pretty strong if not stronger. Lilly though does have that goth thing going on so shes got a special place in my heart. Xantcha played a sort of Snape roll when ti came from being a sleeper agent that went against her programming as well.
You don't just get a piece of paper with a new box, but a sturdier two-sided piece of cardboard. Just so they have something to stick the box topper onto, so it won't get damaged as easily.
Innistrad is the set that got me really into magic, I was playing standard and drafting the hell out of that thing back in 2012. Combined with the Scars of Mirrodin block, I think it was the best time standard ever had. There were so many amazing decks around, I remember people even trying some werewolf madness with playset of Moonmist. It gave birth to really powerful standard deck, the winrates of Delver were off the charts. But you could play Pod, Ramp, Gavony, Esper, Infect, Monoblack, Jund, UW Spirits, UW Flare... And they were all really good! Then Avacyn broke out of the vault and brought another amazing set of cards, giving birth to the sick behemoth ramp deck, reanimation madness and the most troll card of magic ever... Thrun, the Last Troll. Oh I'm kidding, although he was on standard too. Griselbrand is the one, that was fun to see on turn 4. Remember your opponents face when you pulled bonfire or entreats from the top? S-i-c-k. And did I mention that before Scars rotated, M13 came out, and we also had Thragtusk + Restoration Angel combo? Return to Ravnica had some great additions, UW control and BR aggro stands out in my mind. It would seem like the awesomeness had to end with Mayan calendar...
Aside for joking about repacking on the first pack. I found it odd that the box I fussed he would pick at 0:29 (look for worst plastic wrap) and then finally picked it out at 0:58. Suspicious Rudy. Clearly, I got an eye you Rudy.
The shrink wrap on that box was different than all the others, my eye caught it way before he actually picked it up, not saying I think it's tampered with but it definitely stands out for some reason.
Ive been playing Magic since Ice Age and my favorite sets have been: Odyssey, Judgement, Onslaught, Invasion, Ravnica, New Phyrexia and Innistrad. Nothing since these sets have really tickled my fancy...as Rudy might say.
At both pre-release and regular release I pulled two mtyhics. Both were grim-rins. 10/10 little jimmy limited. I recall at one point having Skirsdag High Priest and had creatures dying left and right, and the whole time I thought morbid was sorcery speed. Lol good times.
Back then the prevalent deck that wasn't birthing pod was BR zombies, my personal standard deck that threw everyone off was BR vamps and no one liked playing against it since there wasn't much in sideboard then to combat it.
I feel bad for the guy getting this box. All the cards with women on them are going to be stuck together.
lmfao
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I googled the booster box number and it brought me to a 10 minute long video of Rudy eating tacos. When the video was over my phone rang. It was creepy Rudy and he told me I would die in 7 days.
Robert Gamsby hahahahha
Robert Gamsby pq
I started playing around the zendikar block. My favorite standard timeframe was innistrad & rtr, by far. No other standard format comes close. I also religiously collect diregraf ghouls and drogskol captains, because theyre dope.
For halloween I'm gonna glue a fetchland to my face. If anyone asks me what I am, I'm gonna say "A good investment"
Good idea, but use an original dual land instead :)
All those good rates but what I'm really jelly of is the foil scholar. Jekyll/Hyde card was so cool.
I enjoy the banter and stories when you slow roll these old sets. Keep up the good work Rudy
This was the first set to come out after I started playing. Absolutely my favorite set! First ever pack I opened was an Innistrad pack and I pulled a foil Snapcaster Mage.
Same! I loved New Phyrexia, Scars of Mirrodin, and Mirrodin Beseiged too, but Innistrad was the first prerelease I ever went to. I think Innistrad has to be my favorite set ever.
I remember my innistrad box from 2012. Had only 3 mythic: past in flames, reaper from the abyss and balefire dragon, but I had 4 foiled rares: Snapcaster, kurrin outlaw, charm breaker devils and daybreak ranger and also a regular snap caster.
“Is this the bat I want to take out for drinks?” -Rudy
Chicken Wyngs36 I thought Rudy was married?
Started playing Magic when Innistrad was released. Still my favorite set plain and story so far.
I'm walking down memory lane right now. I'm seeing how much my Innistrad Token deck is currently worth as I watch this. 4x Parallel Lives (1 Foil), 4x Intangible Virtue (2 Foil), 4x Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, 4x Garruk Relentless, 4x Lingering Souls, etc lol I had SO MUCH FUN with this set! I was just getting off drugs at the time and switched addictions to MTG. I'll never forget Innistrad, or sell my token deck lol
I remember this edition fondly. I loved it. It was great for draft and great for magic standard decks. The fluff was thick.
Thx for bringing back good memories rudy.
This is when I started playing magic. I started collecting cards and getting interested in the game during the phyrexia block, but I didnt know how to play yet. Right as I learned how to play, innistrad came out. This block will always be my favorite🖤
I'm not a fan of standard these days. But this was the best time for standard by far. Dark ascension Friday night magic was JUICY.
One $60 snapcaster mage out of a $300+ box. Incredible.
The only reason I though people bought these was for draft I though to bring back memories. Cracking one seems kinda... let's say strange.
Agreed.. Lol
I've seen Stranger Things.
Better buy those Hour of devastation boxes!!, with the Scarab God at 50 dollars, is better investment xdxd
I agree with you. the cards from standard are SO BORING. looking back at these innistrad cards made me realize what a shitty t2. EDH is great if everyone is looking for fun, because there are decks out there which are awful to play against
Innistrad was my absolute favorite set. It was the age when i could finally afford to buy booster boxes and let me tell you, the spoils were fruitful. Amazing set. Tons of great artwork, tons of utility, just bravo.
i loved pairing old 2012 core set with these cards. my standard UB control deck had karn liberated, grave titan, batterskull, and consecrated sphinx as bombs. and strong innistrad cards like snapcaster, tragic slip, think twice, sever the blood line, and forbidden alchemy. lovely time to play magic
Rudy just looks at Lilliana and then sits down and lights a cigarette
Innistrad is where me and my friends first got serious playing magic the gathering.Great starting spot with some fun artifacts from the previous Mirrodin set.I wish I could unbox some more sets.One of mg favorite moments was unboxing a Mirage set years ago that I physically fit for $200.
During Dark Ascension is when i really got back into magic and i remember playing a blue green mill myself deck with splinterfrieght boneyard wurm that dumb blue mythic spirit and going wide with kessig cage breakers...it was one of my favorite decks to play way back when
Innistrad is the set I started with. I regret not drafting it more what a fantastic set. Looking back the art is 10x better than I remember, especially compared to today's.
Who else drafted Innistrad MTGO all weekend? I usually don't play MTGO but that changed everything.
Innistrad was the first pre release I got to go to. The best memories I have is from this set just inviting all my friends and having a really good time with all our shitty 60 card decks. So much fun. I miss the attention to detail wizards used to have, and how much they cared about players having fun. We’ll get back to that I am sure.
Innistrad was the set that got me back into MTG. I honestly miss those days. I just used to draft every week with my friends and Innistrad will always hold a special place in my nerd heart.
He keeps apologizing for slow rolling but I haven't seen this set before so I love the slow rolling (i started with theros)
milestuff24 this set is the set I started playing magic again
@@andrewwybert9976 Me and you both. My first real set of actually playing was around world wake then I came back again at innistrad. It was thanks to this set that around 2107 I bought a new graphics card. I was running a snapcast delver deck in standard during innistrad. Fun times for sure.
Ahhhh yes, the good ol wooden stake. A buddy loved his vampires so at least one went in every build and many lulz were had, on one side of the table.
You didn't open up that pack backwards, I think it's mapped that way to specify that you're going to get a badass card because I looked back at the video and it does turnout the pack was opened up right and that's kind of crazy, pretty cool!
Innistrad is an absolutely gorgeous set! I'm so thankful I drafted alot during it, and I'll always love my black blue green "dredge" deck.
i miss this set. was so solid just hanging out with my friends in high school ripping open packs on the weekends to play with each other. the card art was so good and the vampire, werewolf, zombie theme was so great. they should make another block like this, i bet it would sell hard.
Thank you for doing this. I was just getting into magic the first time when this set was out. This and later Return to Ravnica will always have a place in my heart.
Dark Ascension was the reason I started and I built a deck but kind of gave up after that. Your right it was a great said I love the white green decks and the red black dicks those are the old some Windex for me and I loved playing them and building them they were so fun! I love your knowledge Rudy keep up the hard work I love you bro!
Dang, this set looks so great. I really wish I could have started around OG Innistrad. The art, the flavor, the value, man... It's all dark and perfect for Halloween and... maybe I'll open one next Halloween.
Easily my favorite set of all time. Started playing right before this and did sooooo many Innistrad drafts. The price of the box today would easily be worth the nostalgia alone to draft, forget about the actual value.
I started playing when Avacyn's Restored came out, but obviously that was part of the Innistrad block so I spent a lot of time with these cards. Maybe it's because I learnt the game with these cards, or maybe it's the aesthetic of the entire block, but Innistrad/Dark Ascension/AR will always be my favourite MTG block. I get so nostalgic about the cards from those sets that I often try to sneak my old favourites into my EDH decks.
Nice Donny Darko referencce!
Although... I have a friend who is an English teacher and when I watched Donnie Darko with him for the first time (for him, not me), he commented immediately upon seeing "cellar door" on that blackboard. Before the explanation in the movie happens.
So... maybe Rudy hasn't even seen Donnie Darko and is simply a covert linguistics lover.
I keep telling myself this month for sure I'll order something from my $10 patreon sub. One whole year and $120 later I have only purchased once hahaha still worth it to so you can keep up the good content flowing.
This was the set that I got into magic. Still my favorite.
'Look at him, look at him' *fling the card back and forth* "He showed up"
I just got back in and you opening this box brings back the memories and lets me know what cards are worth anything! I Literally have all my cards from those times and i'm putting them in stacks depending on what you're saying!
Abzan Reanimator was a big deck, as well as Esper Frownyard, There was also a really powerful Naya humans list when RTR was in standard with Innistrad. Oh, and the fencing ace/invisible stalker enchant deck. Wolf Run Ramp. All the good times.
Sometimes ya gotta take a step back. Rudy. Magic took that to heart in their quality department.
Oh i played in this format and it was hands down my favorite block of cards. They will never make a set like this again i dont no how to explain it but things seem to be better back then
I haven't played Magic in years but I have watched so many of Rudy's videos the last week.
Innistrad was the set that brought me into the game, I will always have fond memories of this set.
My favorite deck I ever had was during Innistrad and Return to Ravnica. Guttersnipe and Talrand. Flashback cards to get the triggers to activate all the time. Also burning vengeance. I got 4th place with it once. I'm a Johnny if you didn't figure it out.
I think its funny, this is when i first got into magic, and i bought a starter pack for m11 or 12? and it came with Inistrad, Dark Ascension and the core set of the time. I pulled a snapcaster and played it casually un-sleeved for several years until i realized it was worth a decent amount.
depends on which standard your refering to. with innistrad + scars block it was mostly delver decks or inkmoth + kessig. and with rtr is mostly bant swagtusk/ resto angel if i remember correctly. but lilys werent as expensive, i think while they were in standard they averaged 40-60 bucks. snappys were around 20ish
Oh man I loved playing standard during this time. I absolutely loved playing birthing pod deck (card from new phyrexia). Playing against Esper Control was always fun with unburial rites running around bringing back things like griselbrand haha.
Def appreciate the extra time. i started in scars and man my friends and i were trippin when this hit, but i had a hard time leaving new phyrexia behind. Miss the good foils.
innistrad block, imo was when mtg was at the peak of its modern times
My first mtg purchase was the 2013 deckbuilder's toolkit, and of the one Innistrad booster, one Avacyn restored booster, one dark ascension booster and one 2013 core, I pulled a Liliana of the veil, and a Gisela, blade of goldnight. to this day, I truly believe that the builder's toolkit boosters are somehow stacked to hook new players. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine in... 2014? born of the gods. he got a Kiora, the crashing wave (when it was more than 2$) and one of the gods.
I was playing during Innistrad release, great set but 3 of my regular opponents were playing Delver decks, motarpod/puresteel dealt with them until they cycled. Damn did did I love New Phyrexia. First thing I bought as an adult after a decade away from the game was a New Phyrexia fatpack, foil Batterskull BAM! Friends were horrified that I played with it unsleeved. Good times.
I started playing the month m10 came out and obviously my favorite sets were zendikar thru eldrazi but this set itself was the best set to use to make or upgrade all of my decks. I give that set a 10/10 no doubt
Also are those box booster sets mapped out to only get a certain amount of mystic?
Got the full deck yourself alt-win combo in the set. Play Laboratory Maniac -> Mirror Mad Phantasm -> Cackling Counterpart the Phantasm -> Shuffle Token into the deck, fizzling it -> Deck Out, Win Game.
I totally agree with you Rudy, the artwork on these are fantastic, especially compared to more modern sets.
I played a super jank lab maniac self mill deck with mirror mad phantasm for locals, i also loved my white black tokens deck with Sorin Lord of Inistrad
its all about the lab maniac win running self mill with deranged assistants and boneyard wurm/splinterfrights then you turn around and hit em with the kessig cagebreakers
I made a black zombie deck back then then eventually a UWR midrange deck with Geist, Snap, Resto Angel and runechanter pike. It was solid
Damn I love innistrad, and SOI blocks. The cards and lore is what attracted me to magic. I love the lovecraftian/horror theme. If it wasnt for those blocks I probably would have never started playing
Still my favorite time in standard is the Innistrad Block and Return to Ravnica ... so many viable decks and brews and FNM was ALWAYS packed with like 70+ people ...
Innistrad was the first set that I played when I started getting into magic. Loved that block.
Creepy Rudy which membership I need to sign up for the buddyfight stuff
Next to Lorwyn as my most favorite block! Had so much fun playing this set!
I love innistrad. It's the set that got me into magic. Vampires, werewolves, and zombies.
Tragic slip was my favorite card from that block. Loved it. I actually played until Urzas block ended and then stopped playing until innisrqd block (talk about lucking out on the value) I remember during an FMN we did a draft after. The box they used for prize support (gave away prob half the box) was the closet thing I’ve seen to a “god box” every single pack in the box had 2-3 mystics/rares. The flip card, the regular and a foil. Was nuts. Ended up buying the second half of the box and pulled a foil Lilly and 2 snaps! Still have them. Probably the coolest box I’ve ever seen. Wizards used to do fun stuff like that from what I understand.
From reading the books, I'd say Captain Sisay and Hannah were pretty strong if not stronger. Lilly though does have that goth thing going on so shes got a special place in my heart. Xantcha played a sort of Snape roll when ti came from being a sleeper agent that went against her programming as well.
I remember I started playing back around M11, I was in 4th grade at the time. This is definetly one of my favorite sets ever
Still love that the dude in the foreground of Skaab Goliath is dabbing
Thank you for uploading videos right on time for my commute home.
You don't just get a piece of paper with a new box, but a sturdier two-sided piece of cardboard. Just so they have something to stick the box topper onto, so it won't get damaged as easily.
Perfect opening for Halloween. Love this set!
Innistrad is the set that got me really into magic, I was playing standard and drafting the hell out of that thing back in 2012. Combined with the Scars of Mirrodin block, I think it was the best time standard ever had. There were so many amazing decks around, I remember people even trying some werewolf madness with playset of Moonmist. It gave birth to really powerful standard deck, the winrates of Delver were off the charts. But you could play Pod, Ramp, Gavony, Esper, Infect, Monoblack, Jund, UW Spirits, UW Flare... And they were all really good! Then Avacyn broke out of the vault and brought another amazing set of cards, giving birth to the sick behemoth ramp deck, reanimation madness and the most troll card of magic ever... Thrun, the Last Troll. Oh I'm kidding, although he was on standard too. Griselbrand is the one, that was fun to see on turn 4. Remember your opponents face when you pulled bonfire or entreats from the top? S-i-c-k. And did I mention that before Scars rotated, M13 came out, and we also had Thragtusk + Restoration Angel combo? Return to Ravnica had some great additions, UW control and BR aggro stands out in my mind. It would seem like the awesomeness had to end with Mayan calendar...
So much nostalgia, thank you for this Rudy!
they should do a common or uncommon that flips into a rare or mythic
why? how would the rarity of the flipped side matter?
When someone compliments the artwork of your shovel, you know you've made it.
Aside for joking about repacking on the first pack. I found it odd that the box I fussed he would pick at 0:29 (look for worst plastic wrap) and then finally picked it out at 0:58. Suspicious Rudy. Clearly, I got an eye you Rudy.
Isn't it common and expected for double-sided foils to warp less than one-sided foils?
Remember when magic art drew you into the game? Rudy’s Taco lockbox remembers.
Innistrad was my first set. 2 fat packs under the Christmas tree that year. My Lilliana was the pride of my collection for a while after that.
The shrink wrap on that box was different than all the others, my eye caught it way before he actually picked it up, not saying I think it's tampered with but it definitely stands out for some reason.
This is the set where you're supposed to be like "oh, this flippin' card!"
they should put Rudy's face on new booster boxes as the featured art so you know when you're getting hosed.
Late to the party but this set was so much fun to play back in the day. Olivia Voldaren in this Deck was a powerhouse
Best memory from Innistrad: Winning FNM with Wu humans and opening a prize pack that had both Liliana and Garruk!
That's the most mythical I've seen in an Innistrad box in one opening. And I've opened A LOT of Innistrad
Ive been playing Magic since Ice Age and my favorite sets have been: Odyssey, Judgement, Onslaught, Invasion, Ravnica, New Phyrexia and Innistrad. Nothing since these sets have really tickled my fancy...as Rudy might say.
This opening is scary as shit
At both pre-release and regular release I pulled two mtyhics. Both were grim-rins. 10/10 little jimmy limited. I recall at one point having Skirsdag High Priest and had creatures dying left and right, and the whole time I thought morbid was sorcery speed. Lol good times.
A lot of iconic cards in this set. I forgot how many of these I actually play with
Rudy, how many times did you change undies during that video??
Innistrad was so awesome! Drafts were epic, the Standard metagame was amazing! Golden age of MTG for me.
I remembering opening foil veil. Still have it somewhere.
The 13 theme in Innistrad was a goose egg planted by R&D because it was the 13th set Mark Rosewater worked on.
I love that he still trolls Desolator Fuck-Ree whenever he opens boxes.
I guess Rudy is used to going around asking "is this the right willy?" CREEPY RUDY RETURNS!!!
lol Rudy makes me laugh. Thank you for opening this :) If I could afford it I would buy a few boxes.
this set was magic! so many good combos with RTR block. blasphamous act on boros recokoner for 13 dmg redirect
Take a shot every time Rudy says "Who remembers...."
Is this the right Lilly for our Willy?
Yep I played back then when I was 9, had a awesome werewolf deck and when huntmaster came out it dominated.
This was my first boosterbox in returning back to magic and it had two s. mages and sorin in the box
Awesome video rudy. Love the artwork.
Back then the prevalent deck that wasn't birthing pod was BR zombies, my personal standard deck that threw everyone off was BR vamps and no one liked playing against it since there wasn't much in sideboard then to combat it.