Invasion came out in 2000, not 2001. Jon really needs a script supervisor.
@420Pikachu
5 жыл бұрын
Hire me for script supervisor?
@Mundane05
5 жыл бұрын
2001, 3/6 for 6... Down here he'd be fired by now.
@Battleguild
5 жыл бұрын
Aren't you the Script Supervisor though?
@peterbillings3276
5 жыл бұрын
It’s easy to remember because Apocalypse lined up with the actual end of the world in 2001
@igos616
5 жыл бұрын
'Win more, lose less' that means the card is good because it helps in both situations; 2:19
@NightOfCrystals
5 жыл бұрын
I love Apocalypse. Probably my favorite set. Old borders, enemy pain lands and focus on enemy color pairs... it is amazing. Thanks for this video. Also, Pernicious Deed sees Commander play too.
@terumigodofthetrolls
5 жыл бұрын
Every new Pretty Deece video is a charming treat to my day. I go back and watch a bunch of these videos with excitement. Jon, you're videos help me to remember reasons I love this game. Thank you.
@moxavenger
5 жыл бұрын
So awesome indeed!
@Iamkiwikun
4 жыл бұрын
Singe: The answer to a poorly timed doomblade on a 2/2 (or greater).
@draftmagicagain1000
29 күн бұрын
Nice! Giving your non black creatures Hexproof!
@RamatiKat
5 жыл бұрын
More Pretty Dece please.
@decent8059
3 жыл бұрын
At least you spell “Dece” correctly ❤️
@sirbruce70
5 жыл бұрын
The rule I learned from our cube: NEVER TAP OUT TO PLAY SPIRITMONGER. Always leave 1 black mana open to regenerate it or your opponent WILL kill it. :(
@lain2k3
5 жыл бұрын
Pernicious Deed is still my favorite card ever. Nothing will change that. Would have liked to see this go on for another 20-30 minutes though!
@shdw6760
5 жыл бұрын
Jund isn't really a deck anymore, no matter how badly you want it to be. Alex: *Hold my lands*
@pizzamandhx
5 жыл бұрын
My dude, I understand the visceral feeling of the Spiritmonger. It is my avatar for a reason; I did not change it for this video. I believe that every Magic player has a "Shivan Dragon." This is true for all players, and is 100% of the time, a creature. It is that creature that is or does something so awesome, and in a way that player intuits - it's that moment when that player *feels* and understands the meeting of fantasy and reality simultaneously. It's the drug - the first hit that players will spend the rest of their careers chasing, and never quite feel again. Spiritmonger is my Shivan Dragon. I had been playing for maybe three months when I found this card and thought it was amazing. I built decks around it. My friends tried to tell me I was a fool and that all creatures were bad. My monger and I served them their humble pie.
@hirosmirnov8287
4 жыл бұрын
I really understand what you're talking about! Mine is the OG Jace Beleren.
@nekroz_of_super_dora3477
3 жыл бұрын
Feather the Redeemed for me
@federicopanzonato4528
2 жыл бұрын
Progenitus 🥺
@NightOfCrystals
2 жыл бұрын
Spiritmonger is my favorite card too. The card is just so awesome. I love running it in premodern and premodern standard decks. Back when I used to play commander I’d fit it into any deck with Golgari colors too.
@pizzamandhx
2 жыл бұрын
@@hirosmirnov8287 I revise my statement that a player's Shivan Dragon is always a creature. Planeswalkers are allowed; your choice is solid.
@monkeibusiness
5 жыл бұрын
I really started getting into the game during Invasion, so boy this hits home. GIMME THE NOSTALGIA
@oberondargos5465
5 жыл бұрын
I started Magic with this block and 7th edition, Apocalypse was my first fat pack. Man, so much nostalgia.
@joaquinflores6318
5 жыл бұрын
Same dude, same
@thomash2311
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah me 2 😅
@charleslauricella156
4 жыл бұрын
Same except i bought all four apocalypse precons instead of a fat pack
@Spoonicus44
5 жыл бұрын
A new episode! It's always a treat when these show up in my feed!
@Grannit666
5 жыл бұрын
Lolwut, when Ravenous Chupacabra was reprinted literally all I ever heard was "It's a standard legal Nekrataal."
@patrickmcathey7081
5 жыл бұрын
The invasion block was one of hte best block ever printed. Fun powerful, Great creatures AND powerful spells and GOOD removal AND good counter magic, AND good hate. It was basicly a refined urza's block. It delivered on amazing Everything was worth money (back when printed) can you imagin a set today where average rare price was over $2? The value was spread just SO well it made trading easy, it made buying easy and the good stuff was everywhere you think the rares were good the COMMONS/UNCOMMONS were good and tourniment playable!
@mantislazuli
5 жыл бұрын
The last part is even more true with the Odyssey block... UG Madness anyone?
@kairussell7372
5 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. I starting playing mtg this block at the ripe ole age of 9. I used to think it was just the nostalgia of the situation that made me so fond of the block. But as a looked back as I got older, the block was just perfection. The first card I opened was a foil qurion dryad. I got schooled by group of really good players who I knew outside of our local game store.. I was young but I knew the ins and outs from them training me as they all were trying to go pro. I loved drafting back then and it was partly because of this format. I really really liked origins but that block had problems ( I just like the problems the block had ).
@coolfire5612
4 жыл бұрын
7:42 : Jund isn’t a real deck Wrenn and Six: oh really
@RecklessFables
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, his statement didn't age well, but man, he was right at the time.
@ty_sylicus
5 жыл бұрын
Another great video. I really enjoy listening to your ramblings about old sets. Good stuff!
@mejestic_pie_flavor325
5 жыл бұрын
WHERED THIS SHOW GO :(((((
@jekanyika
5 жыл бұрын
indeed
@JZHassan
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, but-MYSTIC SNAKE
@Zephind
5 жыл бұрын
Or ORIM'S CHANT, ffs.
@thefrozengoat
5 жыл бұрын
this vid made me so happy - Urza through Invasion block was one of the happiest times in my MTG life. Thank you!
@Monkeydudem2
5 жыл бұрын
It's been 2 months Jon. We need you.
@jamesmccaffrey9042
2 жыл бұрын
Oh sweet summer child
@martintaylor570
5 жыл бұрын
This was amazing - great flow man,, really enjoyed it!
@manguy4238
5 жыл бұрын
Been watching your recent videos and I have to say I like your voice, great voice for MTG content, completely un-ironic, it's good to listen to you, keep it up!
@coltermacshane2375
5 жыл бұрын
Pretty Deece is my favorite series on this channel. Keep it up, Jon!
@Supercris25
5 жыл бұрын
I just love these videos. Please make more about other blocks!
@bryanhuber3554
Жыл бұрын
Turn 2 dark ritual into Phyrexian Scuta was my fav during the Mercadian/Invasion block tournament scene.
@R2Otube
5 жыл бұрын
The Invasion Block is also the same block that Magic sunk it's Teeth into me. At the time I was working at a Comic/Music/Book shop in Hawaii called Jelly's. I worked in the Comics Dept. Of the store and actually wanted nothing to do with Magic. But to become a better salesman/employee, because I didn't want to keep directing customers to the Magic Guys I took up learning the game during the Mercadian Block. But it wasn't until Invasion dropped that the hype hit. The rest is history. My faves, not listed in this video were the Brothers of Discarding, named such after Kane and The Undertaker, Blazing and Doomsday Specter. Excellent Vid.
@09Dragonite
5 жыл бұрын
Dude, this was probably the coolest throwback vid I've ever watched on oldschool mtg. I started playing in 10th edition and I was around 11 at the time. I know it's not as far back as a lot of people, but I loved playing with the tenth edition precons. A friend of mine started in Kamigawa and another one had a brother who had been collecting since Revised. I didn't know what most of the cards even did, nor did I fully comprehend the rules for quite some time, but from the time I began all the way until I got to college something about mtg just kept pulling me back in. There was a real thrill, and when I was 14 I finally figured out how the game was supposed to be properly played (no LGS, so I had to actually read the rules that I never noticed). As a freshman in college, my very first friend group I met as they were playing EDH in our dorm lounge. It was fucking awesome, and brought back every fond memory I had ever had of the game.
@Andrew-sx7wq
5 жыл бұрын
I haven't had a KZitem video make me this happy in a long, long time. I started playing in Invasion block. Thanks for the nostalgia.
@kingbone2814
5 жыл бұрын
My favorite has to be invasion block, such a great time. Thanks for doing this.
@FictionExistence
5 жыл бұрын
2001 is the year I started playing Magic and it is my favorite era of the game. Makes me think of the LGS I used to hang out at on friday nights back then. Great video!
@memnarch129
2 жыл бұрын
I have nearly a FULL set of both Planeshift and Apocalypse. I have a full set of the 5 Primordials, Pernicious Deed, Ice Caves and other Invasion block cards, including Orims Chant and Hanna Ships Navigator, AND Raya in my 5 color EDH deck. Planeshift was my intro to magic and the game. That entire block will always have a special place in my heart.
@derkcast620
5 жыл бұрын
each video you guys make is better than the last!
@dinosaurfan123
Жыл бұрын
Considering I'm as old as these sets, it's honestly really interesting seeing someone breakdown what these were like. It's fascinating how much the game has changed in the 20 years since then
@andrewcleary9952
5 жыл бұрын
I love the colour identity screwyness of legends. Dakkon Blackblade is in Esper colours, but has power and toughness equal to number of lands, which is a Gruul mechanic, AKA as far from esper as possible!
@XCrocer
5 жыл бұрын
BEST MTG CONTENT IN THE GAME. Stay awesome!
@LemorasCards
5 жыл бұрын
Man wish this was a KZitem channel. Even when I'm not that into magic I love these.
@BCWasbrough
5 жыл бұрын
This block was a blast to draft. Still some of my favorite Mt:G memories.
@derkcast620
4 жыл бұрын
rewatching in 2020, man these vida are so good. i hope there will be more of these
@only1wolz
5 жыл бұрын
"This is the sound of Reid's audible discomfort ..." (in my Edward Norton soliloquy)
@thefrozengoat
5 жыл бұрын
honestly one of my favorite MTG vids online
@Zephind
5 жыл бұрын
The lack of mentioning Orim's Chant is disturbing.
@LinkEX
5 жыл бұрын
Well, he obviously wouldn't have been able to get a word out while the card were shown, so that's probably why he skipped it.
@brothergeorge418
5 жыл бұрын
Also speaking of flavor text, I was in jr high when I read "Information Dealer" and I remember off the top of my head To This Day! It's so weird how deep the roots of these kinds of memories reach
@bobstand3696
2 жыл бұрын
The first magic pack I ever bought was Invasion and it hooked me instantly. My best friend from high school and I still revere that set as one of the best.
@christmas6666
5 жыл бұрын
This was an amazing video! Thank you.
@elitemantis
4 жыл бұрын
Invasion was my true initiation block. To this day I giggle with excitement whenever I see a Kavu due to excitement of playing Horned Kavu on turn two. INSANE! Recurring pings for just 2 mana using Sparkcaster alongside familiars and then finishing with HUMONGOUS Shivan Wurm is what got me hooked on Magic hard. Before that I just played from time to time. After Invasion released we started skipping classes at school just to play some more MtG in the school's cafeteria.
@theelike4302
5 жыл бұрын
I still run a spiritmonger in my Jarad edh. Great one off card
@crovax17
3 жыл бұрын
I loved the invasion block. Good memories with friends and comic stores.
@vaerthxaal
5 жыл бұрын
invasion block is my favorite block of all time. It was the block that had just finished when I really started getting into Magic and thus the one I traded cards for the most. I remember doing anything I could to get my hands on Kavu creatures as I thought they were the coolest thing in the game. Kinda sad to think back to what I might have traded for such things as Slimy Kavu and Kavu Recluse. Looking at cards from this block fills me with nostalgia and fond memories more than any other block. I'm actually working on an Invasion block cube, despite the pleas from my playgroup to "pick something good". Thanks for the video. I'm going to blast this on my playgroup's chat just to make my point again.
@YaPapiStrap
5 жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure Jund will always be a real deck in modern. Due to it’s fair nature, if you can master it like Reid Duke, you still have a shot against most decks, not to mention what’s in your sideboard
@fictionp8ntball
5 жыл бұрын
I got into magic in Invasion and this hit me right in the feels. The worst part is I've started saying "pretty deece" in my playgroup and everyone hates it. Keep up the vids!
@DruNature
5 жыл бұрын
I have been playing magic since I was 5 in 1993 (my cousin gave his commons to my dad and I to learn) But i really got into magic during Saga and Invasion Block, This video really brought back memories as I was only a couple years older than you! I will never forget opening one pack of Saga and getting TWO rares, MORPHLING (my favorite card of all time after Gaeas Cradle) and a Sneak attack! 2 Rares in 1 pack! it was a shocking mistake on wizards part in my favor! the good ole days. Sadly my collection was stolen and It took many years for me to get back into the game, and Ive had an on again off again thing with magic sets ever since! Now i play commander and MTG Arena, and I just taught a close friend the game and got them into commander. Its really amazing how its lasted all these years! Thanks Maro and Richard Garfield.
@VikkturrGaming
5 жыл бұрын
My middle school days were filled with these cards. I still have them somewhere in a box in the house....
@justinmcconnaughy5698
3 жыл бұрын
Invasion Block is my 2nd favorite block ever printed. The Weatherlight crew going to war....Yawgmoth pitting Urza and Gerrard against each other. Orim's Chant...Diabolic Edict... and Vindicate were Uber Powerful... and I cant forget the 5 color Draco decks ! Fun Times
@AnonymousAnonposter
5 жыл бұрын
We need more videos like that. Especially about the good old times.
@KingGameReview
4 жыл бұрын
I LOVED the Invasion block when I was a kid. It's... fine, but back when I was a kid, I was in love with it for some reason. I spent all my allowance on tournament packs.
@54m0h7
5 жыл бұрын
I started playing MTG at Merc Masques, and quit shortly after the Invasion PreRelease. Mainly cause I was in last year of high school and didn't hang out with the friends that played. What a time to quit. :( Just started back again at Kaladesh, enjoying it. :)
@Spheal777
5 жыл бұрын
Can we have more pretty dece?
@Duskstone89
2 жыл бұрын
Am I crazy for feeling like, second-hand nostalgia for these old school expansions that were out before I'd even taken my first breath?
@kyleshick5467
5 жыл бұрын
That was some fun nostalgia. Invasion block saw my entry into magic.
@biggusdickus2166
5 жыл бұрын
I has a sick apocalypse deck back in the day, It was b/g/w. you used lawnowar dead to pump out some zombies then cast strength of night for a cheap overrun effect for the win.
@EdHastingsKillerShrike
5 жыл бұрын
I started playing magic in Jan 1994, with Unlimited and Arabian Nights; I sold all my stuff and stopped playing at Homelands. Invasion brought me back and I stayed thru Kamigawa at which point I lost interest and cashed out again. Invasion is still my favorite block, overall, for nostalgic reasons; the fun I had playing it kept me going through Mirrodin block which I basically hated due to the one note nature of affinity decks. Good times.
@DiogoVKersting
5 жыл бұрын
Wow man, the nostagia..... This really brings me back...
@LosRockson
Жыл бұрын
I was today years old when I realized Juzam Djinn is a play on words for “juice and Gin”.
@nivmizzet8172
5 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@Moreion
5 жыл бұрын
That Mageta the Lion image brought terrible back to my head...
@Ry_Ku
5 жыл бұрын
my friend had a Spiritmonger and armadillo cloak deck and it always won, what good days :D
@christuckwell3185
4 ай бұрын
So many memories. Any ideas on where I could find lists of Invasion Block decks?
@gabefarkas
5 жыл бұрын
11:04 "totally unlike any card printed before it"... Desert Twister would like a word with you.
@Sonnyandersen1985
4 жыл бұрын
Wow did that just bring back old memories wow
@myanrueller91
5 жыл бұрын
Pernicious Deed is also huge in commander.
@godofacorns
5 жыл бұрын
Have to agree, this block is so full of flavour and fun, it really encapsulates what magic should be about. Granted, it was also supported by years of story and world building. Good stuff!
@crashfellow82
5 жыл бұрын
I first played during the nemesis expansion leading me straight to invasion.. I loved invasion.
@brandoj5042
5 жыл бұрын
Man this brings back memories. I was in middle school and learned how to play on a basic level when invasion was released. I remember trying to run a 5 color deck bc I had a few copies of Draco and legacy weapon and kept wondering why I lost al the damn time haha
@gavinli1368
5 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was first beginning Magic, looking through older players trade binders and seeing transform cards, flip cards, level up cards, and future sighted cards and thinking that they were fake too. I guess the same could go for yugioh players and all the crazy new card types there.
@Saffron-mb8mp
5 жыл бұрын
Nice video, I love your stuff
@GitraSilvermane
5 жыл бұрын
As someone who played very casual back then, I liked singe. It was a great counter to Terror and cards like it, which my father loved to play.
@taylorfisdboss5200
5 жыл бұрын
i really miss this series, It was my fav series on tcgplayers youtube
@solkn
5 жыл бұрын
I was 12 when I went to invasion prerelease too, so much nostalgia!
@FalseOracle617
5 жыл бұрын
My favorite MTG video series on KZitem. I don't play modern, or standard and i'm a new player considering how old Magic is. I have learned a lot about the history of the game. Its cool. I really fuckin dig.
@matthewsawczyn6592
5 жыл бұрын
Ah, I loved Extended! Thanks for the reminder...
@4ll3sb4n4n3
5 жыл бұрын
Invasion was awesome :) I started playing Magic when Legends hit the shelves. I was around 7 years old and a friend of mine actually had Ancestral Recall and Time Walk but we treated the cards like any other deck of playing cards. None of us knew the rules and stopped playing. I picked it up again when Invasion came out. Finally, someone actually helped me with deck building and explained the rules to me. That was the time when I won more than once in a blue moon. Great memories
@Beanmachine91
4 жыл бұрын
i started playing back in 2009, the shards of alara block made me fall in love with molti-coloreds! and then zendikar block came and i was baffled by the lack of multi-colored and then came return to ravnica!
@divian22
5 жыл бұрын
yay Invasion was my first set into magic , great vid :) I still got my invasion leaflets that came in the tournament packs :)
@quixmith
5 жыл бұрын
Oddessy will always be my favorite block, ending my highschool days with a block set like that was just awesome 2 for 1
@liquid-slick
4 жыл бұрын
I actually love these videos. They're pretty deece.
@guardian2598
5 жыл бұрын
Favorite set Ravnica. Started collecting card in alpha but had no idea what they were or did. Didn’t learn to actually play til Kamigawa. Loved. Ravnica.
@LaserfaceJones
5 жыл бұрын
Me being really little at the time, opened a copy of Gerrard and a copy of Last Stand out of the packs I could afford to pick up the first couple months the set was out. Knowing Gerrard had a card, Tahngarth, Hanna, Sisay, Squee, all of the different parts of the Legacy existed in card form in some way, put me on a quest to make a deck with all of them, and would pack the obvious game winning 5 color sorcery (not Coalition Victory because I didn't know it existed). I'm positive this is the reason I love EDH as much as I do.
@aunrah02
5 жыл бұрын
I started with Scourge (not as OG as you) & the Mirridon block has a special place in my heart.
@artstsym
5 жыл бұрын
And just 3 months later, Absorb is back!
@brendaneichler5244
5 жыл бұрын
You kind of forgot the reason that Invasion was multicolor; there was a good 2 year period where there were *no* multicolor spells altogether. Sliver Queen and the allied colored slivers (Acidic, Spined, etc) were the last multicolor spells for 2 and 1/3rd blocks. For a while, it looked like multicolor was going the way of World enchantments.
@GoodRogue
4 жыл бұрын
Singe protects your creatures from Terror, Dark Banishing, even Doom Blade. If they are tough enough to survive a little pain, that is.
@mcalgorhythm
5 жыл бұрын
Please bring Pretty Deece back! Please, this is an amazing series
@mantislazuli
5 жыл бұрын
Jade Leech saw play in Fires. Crosis saw play in Extended Reanimator, and also a bit of play in Standard, and ton of play in Block (Rith as well for Block). Quirion Dryad / Land Grant / Gush / Force of Will / Daze / Swords to Plowshares / Winter Orb was so pleasing to play. The deck was consistent, and it was very rare at that time that a deck with such a low land count (12 to 14) could be so consistent. Phyrexian Scuta didn't have as much impact as people thought it would back in the day because of the Kicker mechanic: if it gets countered, you still lose 3 life; if it gets terminated, you still lost 3 life; If it gets bounced, you still lost 3 life AND you have to pay 3 more life... It is no Juzam (but it was still decent in Standard, decent enough that it won Worlds in BR aggro). Invasion was an awesome block, along Odyssey. I really miss these days, where Standard was fun to play, had interesting mechanics, had intricate interactions, and was rather cheap to build into.
@BoBnfishy
5 жыл бұрын
this series is still my favorite on this channel
@nothingnerdyNtertainment
5 жыл бұрын
I truly love pretty deece. It both entertains and educates on the game.
@carolinemiles4926
5 жыл бұрын
I have to give "favorite old school set" to Urza's Saga. My first limited tournament, the utterly broke. Combo of Angelic Chorus, Phyrexian Processor, and Serra Avatar was just... godlike.
@josefkruppenbacher9173
3 жыл бұрын
Dude...I LOVE your channel! I’m also a TCG player junkie...
@titoodierna9968
3 жыл бұрын
I started during apocalypse and 6th edition...ah....feast of the unicorn on a low cost flier...good times. But I really like Lorwyn block.
@nanya524
4 жыл бұрын
Personally I love looking back at older sets and finding cards that are cheap but have awesome effects. Like Diabolic Vision card (UB - Sorcery - look at the top five cards, add one to your hand, put the rest back on top in any order), I saw that and was like "dang, this is a good card"
@Cosminen
5 жыл бұрын
Now, plz go on for ever, this is still the best block ever!!!!
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