Is Vintage still alive/played

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Post by Gelcur » 4 years ago

Player from way back in the day. I'm always up for a good game of Vintage but I think last time I saw anything about a large tournament was in Spain, maybe last year? Do people still play? None of the shops in my area seem to have any desire to host Vintage.
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Post by Sinis » 4 years ago

Gelcur wrote:
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Player from way back in the day. I'm always up for a good game of Vintage but I think last time I saw anything about a large tournament was in Spain, maybe last year? Do people still play? None of the shops in my area seem to have any desire to host Vintage.
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My guess is no for regular events. I live in one of the largest municipalities in NA (Toronto, fourth largest, largest in Canada) and even Legacy is scarce or non-existent. I think people are just kind of priced out of the format, and there aren't enough old/rich people to sustain a scene.

I can't speak for the rest of North America, but for Toronto, it's definitely a 'no'.

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Post by Gelcur » 4 years ago

Oddly enough since my post I found a large Vintage event in the North America that happens yearly. I could not attend the tournament, previous plans, but they also had a make shift FNM (Vintage) edition the night before which I did get to.

It was fun even though I had to slap together a deck in a couple of hours and I was completely oblivious to how planeswalkers worked. I won the first game each round of the Swiss format but once sideboarded against I had no answers in my sideboard.

Another group there was playing a format I was unfamiliar with, maybe it was called Classic? Or old school? It was sets up until Fallen Empires. I watched a couple of games and I wish I had been playing with them, I could recognize all the cards and people were just laid back having fun.
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Post by Sinis » 4 years ago

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Another group there was playing a format I was unfamiliar with, maybe it was called Classic? Or old school? It was sets up until Fallen Empires. I watched a couple of games and I wish I had been playing with them, I could recognize all the cards and people were just laid back having fun.
There is a format called "93/94" or "Old School" that's played... in places. I don't really know where; I've never seen it, just heard of it online.

https://www.eternalcentral.com/9394rules/

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Post by RabidVacin » 4 years ago

WOTC will always have at least one format where the Power 9 is legal. The only way I could see them killing Vintage is if Old School gains steam.
That card is bad and you should feel bad for playing it.

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Post by Gelcur » 4 years ago

Yeah that was the format 93/94, Old School was thrown around too. I could see me getting into it. Honestly I was never a big fan of Force of Will anyway.

I could also see a format that went up until Planeswalkers were introduced. That is really when I lost interest in magic. Up until then I always came back and forth every couple of years to check in on the game. Planeswalkers really feel like they have made everything "foreign". *shrugs*
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