Yes, that's what I'm saying and yes, I am indeed certain. These pills were reagent tested by me (3 different reagents) and sent to a lab by my dealer like he always does, bless him. They contained, according to the lab and my reagents, nothing except MDMA and fillers. Also, that would mean that the mainstream old-school MDMA was in fact that novel drug you talk about, back in the day already, as all MDMA used to be as we describe, it was the norm. Back then drugs were lab-tested as well, that's nothing new. As indigoaura already says, he started sending them in for testing in 2000 and onwards and that goes for me as well (perhaps 2002). The quality we talk about here was still mainstream back in 2000. The lab results back then also said "MDMA" and nothing else
I have no idea why the experience was so different that time, except for that whatever factor made it so back in the day, those pills I talk about above had that property as well. The effects of those pills used to be the norm, all MDMA was like that, if we bought MDMA with the properties of today back then, we would have trown them in the trash as being bunk drugs, garbage, definitely not MDMA and I would have given my dealer an earful. I would have thought he sold me something that tries to mimic MDMA but fails miserably in doing so