Hearthstone Player Rates Old INSANE Magic Cards w/ CovertGoBlue

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  @whiffleball3939 · 2 years ago

  My favorite version of the Chaos Confetti story is that the Judge immediately disqualified the player for having 59 cards in his deck.

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  @VernulaUtUmbra · 2 years ago

  My FLGS once did a &quot;Proxy Anything, No Banlist&quot; tournament.<br><br>Every one after was &quot;Proxy anything, No Shahrazad&quot; tournament.

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  @davidstenow5055 · 2 years ago

  Wiki: “Sometimes a character in Scheherazade&apos;s tale will begin telling other characters a story of their own, and that story may have another one told within it” - the concept of multiple layers of subgames is in itself based on One Thousand and One Nights

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  @DiecksEverywhere · 2 years ago

  Probably one of the sickest Magic moments ever caught on camera was a prerelease event by LoadingReadyRun with the release of Unstable, on of the joke sets.<br><br>One of the guest players, Wedge, played a card called &quot;Spike, Tournament Grinder&quot;, which let him get a card from outside the game that&apos;s at some point been banned or restricted in a format. He proceeds to ask for the copy of Shahrazad that LRR happen to have in their studio as decoration. He then uses the card &quot;Better Than One&quot;, which lets him choose a person outside the game to become his teammate, split up his cards however he wishes, and then plays Shahrazad to make a 2v1 subgame of Magic. They barely have enough cards to win the subgame before decking out, and eventually win the match.

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  @psymar · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve heard the creator of Magic said his favorite deck, back before cards were limited to 4 of, was 60 plains and 40 Shahrazad. &nbsp;Since most people had far fewer cards in their deck, they would eventually reach a level where they had fewer than 7 cards in their deck and lost drawing their opening hand. &nbsp;He also admits that, to his knowledge, nobody ever completed a game using this deck.

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  @ReiHost · 2 years ago (edited)

  Reasons I know the Chaos Confetti story to be an Urban Legend:<br><br>1. Every schoolyard tale from this era fits a similar mold and almost none are true. It&apos;s why Snopes was a big hit in the early days of the post-dial up, intro to cable modems era.<br>2. No one has ever been named as the player who did it, the player had it done to them or as a judge or organizer. Magic was a small world, especially then. As for today, the tale has lived long enough that someone would&apos;ve tried to clout-chase for it if they could.<br><br>Most importantly...<br><br>3. I started playing in a Brooklyn Middle School in 1994-95 with the set: Revised. At my local game store, the story was already circulating, even then a year into the game&apos;s existence. Every version I ever heard when I was just an evil little boy attributed it to have taken place at the fabled &quot;New York Magic&quot;--Which locals would know as the biggest game store in the city, the famed &quot;Neutral Ground.&quot; This store opened in 1995 (So it must&apos;ve happened rather quickly) and The Pro Tour would hold events there starting in 1996. By then the story was already well, well known yet again, no one named on the scene. I was be a regular at NG until the early 2000s. The clientele was very, very loyal and everybody knew everybody. We even told the story in the shop a few times but no one could name the players, the date, the tournament or even game night such an event would have transpired. <br><br>In short, if it had happened in NY in the early days of Magic I probably would have known someone involved or, at the least, known their name. This narrows down where it could have taken place if we remove kitchen and lunchroom magic out the equation. It didn&apos;t happen at GenCon &apos;94, home of the first World Championship. That event was recorded as well as anything pre-internet. We know it cannot be Dragoncon, since the handout Nalathni Dragon was the talk of the CCG world and the Orb-story would&apos;ve been easily pinpointed at an event that had a ton of print before and after. So where COULD such a game have taken place, in the limited amount of time possible? Answer: It didn&apos;t. Someone, probably a few people simultaneously in fact, saw Chaos Orb and thought &quot;Wouldn&apos;t it be funny if--&quot; and the jibber jabber survived to this day.

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  @Showsni · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpxVGgtHOvw&amp;t=1565">26:05</a> They totally printed a card exactly like this again - Enter the Dungeon from Unhinged. I tell you, I went to an Unhinged prerelease and it was crazy, people having to crawl under tables all over the place. &quot;Enter the Dungeon BB Sorcery. Players play a Magic subgame under the table, starting at 5 life and using their libraries as their decks. The winner searches their library for two cards, puts those cards into their hand, then shuffles.&quot; One of the rulings on the card states &quot;If Enter the Dungeon is cast during a subgame, a sub-subgame begins, preferably under a new, smaller table, but do what you can.&quot;

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  @bishop_breloom · 2 years ago

  I love it when people completely unaware of Shaharazad finally see it, it’s like someone walking into a lecture on quantum physics when their major is Accounting

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  @noanimationexpert3843 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Was not expecting a whole animation for the last 3 minutes of the video goddam

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  @davyespectador · 2 years ago

  Shahrazad is not only one of the craziest cards ever, it&apos;s also one of the biggest flavor wins ever.

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  @Genxim · 2 years ago

  Funny interaction with Sharazad : when you play a sub-game of magic, technically the original Sharazad is on the stack of the main game, but it is not in the same game. So... if a card would allow you to &quot;get a card from outside the game&quot;... (link for example, Ring of Ma Ruf) Yes, you can grab the original Sharazad and play it inside its own subgame. And with a few other cards to shuffle the ring in the deck before playing Sharazad, you can have infinite subgames of magic one into another.

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  @cerebralisk · 2 years ago

  As I recall the theoretical play pattern that ensured Shahrazad had to be banned was the idea of winning game one of a match then siding in four of them to just stall for time and win the match 1-0.

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