MOST EXPENSIVE MTG DECK EVER = TURN 1 WIN

Most Expensive MTG Deck = Turn 1 Win. Brian Weissman vs Peter Adkison (original CEO of Wizards of the Coast)

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[Bleberry]

This was the most expensive game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" I've ever seen

[evelyn]

Something a lot of people don't realize, is that the reason the Power Nine are called the "Power Nine, " is specifically because they are the reason the "four-of-a-card" rule had to be implemented, because they broke the game with decks like this.

[jamesrobb]

"The most powerful card in Magic the Gathering is THE CREDIT CARD." That was precious! ROFL

[dukeskunk]

Bear in mind, Richard thought people would spend about as much money on the game as a typical board game. So buy a starter and maybe a handful of boosters. He figured the main way of changing up your playgroup's dynamic would be through winning and losing cards in the ante, and it wasn't a problem if a particular card was overpowered because those were the rare cards which meant there might be one or two copies in your entire playgroup.

[matthewthompsonr]

Having started playing MTG in the mid 90's with Revised I still remember a tournry at my local hobby store were someone one 1st turn with Alpha Black Lotus, Mox Ruby, Channel + fireball. Fastest game I ever saw.

[nuclearphish]

Oh man. Adkinson had Lotuses, Moxen, Timetwisters, Time Walks and Ancestral Recalls and he still didn't stand a shred of chance. This video is an undeniable proof that the mightiest, most powerful and most unstoppable card in all of Magic truly is Hill Giant.

[simongunkel]

I keep saying this: the truly degenerate version is 15x Lotus+25xAncestral. You draw enough cards to hold the 13 Ancestrals to mill your opponent out. Far more consistent than burdening your deck with Moxen, Creatures, Time Walks and Twisters. Of course that deck is over a million bucks by itself, but it should get a higher win percentage than either of these. And just consider that it's a deck where you decline to play mox saphire and time walk, because their power level is too low.

[craigstuckey]

We always did highest casting cost on bottom to determine who went first. You also have to realize Moxes were about $50 back then and duals were $20. I remember when Beta was worth more than Alpha and thinking it was ridiculous when Beta Lotus hit $250. Man if I had only held on to my old collection....

[thc_freebaser]

Jokes aside, seeing Peter being able to interact with a fan of the game he created this long ago and still visibly thoroughly enjoy it so much as well as seeing them not worry too much about playing with these kinds of cards is just so unbelievably wholesome and reassuring.

[lordkardok]

I know a guy who played during Alpha and he has told me of the fabled one turn kill. If you are lucky, it can be done on turn one, and doesn't require you to give yourself more turns. This combo is: One Mountain, a Black Lotus, Fireball, and Channel. Play the Black Lotus, then play your land, sac the black lotus to play channel and give you one spare mana to spend, tap your mountain to play fireball, spend 19 life to give you 19 more mana, and then fireball will deal 20 damage to your opponent. Granted, this deck that is being demonstrated is essentially a guaranteed win, it wins by giving you more turns to achieve that win, not winning on the very first turn you started on. Still was pretty cool to watch.

[jefffu]

I remember back when I first started playing, they had just created the rule that limited each deck to four cards and my friend's dad was rage quitting the whole game because he said it was over and no one would play MtG anymore. I tried to buy his deck, but he wouldn't sell it to me because he felt bad ripping off a kid for $150. I really wish I could go back and convince him to sell it to me, because that deck would be worth probably more than a hundred thousand at this point. That's one of the reasons that I hate the reserved list so much.

[bouncingbeebles]

The creature time walk strategy is interesting... When I heard about this format, the deck I 'built' was 20x Black Lotus and 40x Ancestral Recall. If your opponent's deck is 53 cards on turn one (7 in their hand) then 18 Recalls are lethal, and these will require 6 Lotus to cast. If I cast 17 Recalls at myself I draw 51 cards, leaving 1 or 2 cards in my deck depending on if I am on the play or draw. Even if these are both Recall, there are enough Recalls in the deck to draw both decks, and only need 12 Lotus to cast them. In retrospect it may be possible to creep down on the Lotus count. Still, this deck was an incredibly consistent turn 1 win.

[Krunschy]

The funny thing is that this isn't even close to how broken this format would be today. Nowadays you could just have your deck be all Chancellor of the Dross, meaning your opponent loses 21 life at the beginning of the first upkeep.
The only answer to this would be Soul Spike, which however also happens to work well with the Chancellor.
But if both players do this, it cancels out and the game comes down to who decks first, meaning you probably also want tech for this case too...
It'd be an interesting meta for sure.

[albertko]

This was similar to my strat in the OG Spells of the Planeswalkers MTG pc game. That game had a cap of 5 per card, 40 card deck, and access to select cards from Antiquities and Arabian Nights as well as some game exclusives. It did also use the Ante mechanic so those cards were playable too. The win condition was an Atog pumped to the moon by consuming tapped moxes and recasting berserk. My brother and I attempted to break the final boss and see what number it took to crash the game out. Seems that recursive doubling of any number gets out of hand pretty quickly.

[thomasrucker]

If I recall correctly the version my friend Bob ran was 2 Fireballs, 3 Timetwister, 17 Black Lotus, 18 Ancestral Recall.

[DeathEatsCurry]

Imagine burning through hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cards to put a vanilla 3/3 for 4 in play.

[brunotorelli]

Fantastic, the only true play there was Paper, Scissors and Rocks… lol lol

[patsk]

Imagine $1.3 million of magic cards sitting there and you still have your glass of water on the table XD

[robertomacetti]

depends on the deck and the guy how much fun you have

i never laughed so hard in a magic game as when my friend asked me to play pauper and proceeded to unleash a 40 minutes combo with his zubera tribal
what a wonderful deck, i unhironically enjoyed it despite me being the opponent

[joshoa]

Money can buy an expensive deck, but it can’t buy being on the play. That’s priceless.