CoP: Black wasn't in Alpha.Originally Posted by nedleeds
Jesper didn't paint that? I don't understand your meaning here.
I'm not sure how he meant that, but I do have to say that the CoPs serve as a great example of a card that I will use a non-original version of solely because of the art. I mean, Harold's shit is really top fukken notch.
COP black was the first MSPaint art in Magic.
I actually sort of contend this, because first, COP: Black actually was never printed in Alpha.One of the only initial constraints for artwork was that it could not be digital, the only digital piece to make it into Alpha was Circle of Protection: Black as a last minute addition.
Second, because Beta would be the first set with a digital piece, COP: Black, also had the third Island, which is a digital manipulation of the second (Mark Poole) one.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Changing deck until DTT's come back signed... Bryant Cook's TES seems pimp enough:
Those gold signed Probes made me go from 6 to midnight.
I finished my 1996 era gauntlet. I thought I would share it here.
I decided to build a gauntlet of decks from black summer. I'm using 4th/Ice Age/Alliances/Chronicals/Homelands/Fallen Empires as my sets with the following ban list. My attempt was to make something that looked accurate to the time, thus the miss-matching basics, the lack of attention to white vs black bordered, etc.
Restricted
Balance
Black Vise
Land Tax
Ivory Tower
Zuran Orb
Banned
Mind Twist
Ante Cards
Sadly this is the first box like this that they made to my knowledge. I would have liked something a little older. If someone has the ability to print boxes on cardboard I would be interested in getting a more Ice Age-y one built. I still need to get two more Ice age starter decks to finish this off.
Onto the decks.
Pretty simple white weenie deck. I cut a Factory to help with the double white mana cost.
My favorite deck of the bunch. I should be running forces but I'm not for budget reasons.
Necropotence, the deck that everyone wants to play. It's amazing that the best thing you can do with a necro at the time is black knight.
The mono-red deck of the group. All the pump knights have been errataed to also be knights so An-Zerrin Ruins is spicey.
This is the deck I was most excited about, it has been a dud in most of our games.
So I hope you enjoyed this blast from the past.
You have some signatures that I don't have yet. </sadness>
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I decided to have some fun and build a 1994 EDH deck:
Is 1994 what rich people whom are bored with Vintage play?
A 1994 deck with 1997 lands? Come on!
Truly unacceptable
@ Pringlesman
I love the idea. This brings me back to the time I began to play competitive, and I have fond memories losing to armageddon with my stasis deck. As a teen, I had not enough money to afford for the necros, which costed 50 french francs then (let alone Jester cap which have even more expensive)... I hope that a scene appears for this format, just like it happened for 93-94, with the same casual spirit but without the associated elitism (after all, who cares if your lands are not betas...). This "95" format would allow playing among the most iconic cards in the history of magic, without all the brokenness that followed. I think a generation in Europe began to play in this format.
Some cards from GP Madrid. Maybe I'm addicted to foil "foreign" stuff.
I have other stuff to get first. Beta lands are on the back burner.
Rest asured that I loved every pixel of the pictures! I especially love the Erhnamgeddon.
I'm considering to put this together in case our old group awakens from slumber, but I guess they'd be hating the Strip Mines. I guess that I may simply print 32 Wasteland proxies and house-errata them to read "This was printed in 1996."
Nice decks. Also, WotC made a real mistake when they printed stuff like Veldt instead of a full cycle of painlands.
You got me with the foil japanese metalworker, WP bro!
"You either die a Onesto-Player, or live long enough to see yourself become a Dredger"
I had to buy so many strip mines for this project.
I like the Summer Magic Strip Mine in the bottom, it must cost 1000 dollars!
Btw, are you going for a full-period experience? In your place I'd allow the APO enemy painlands so that the cycle is full and so that you'll got all the color combination properly covered. But then again if your concern is to be as true to the era as possible, there's no need for that.
Also, you really need Erhnam-and-Burn-em. With Howling Mines preferably, as that card was a source of my main pleasure back in times when everybody and their mother played Necro.
Howling Mine and Storm Seeker "eot pay six draw six; in response sekyra"
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