It turns out that these things can happen, but in modern Vintage they rarely do. I believe when people think of Vintage they mostly picture bizarre, super broken things going on such as people frequently winning on turn one, and maybe with a tiny bit more knowledge they also imagine giant Zombie hordes on a rampage and players being locked out of the game right from the start.

So here I am, enjoying power and nostalgia on Magic Online of all platforms. A few weeks ago it occurred to me that I could use this time to make the dive into Vintage that had always become a victim of priorities. While I enjoy playing Arena, I have zero interest in the whole competitive structure it offers, so I mostly spent my Magic time these last nine months drafting with no particular goal in mind. Recently, with the pandemic going on, preparing for GPs and the like suddenly stopped being a thing. By the time I got my own Power in 2008, the format was already on the decline so I haven't had the chance to play a ton of tabletop Vintage tournaments in my life. The most combo-like thing you could do was kill somebody with Mirror Universe. However, in stark contrast to modern Vintage there were no combos. You could do amazing things, at least they looked crazy powerful to somebody used to attacking with White Knights. I don't remember it before Ice Age, but for the most part the format was very different from what it is today. While I certainly enjoyed that, watching people play Type I was a different experience, it was completely mesmerizing.Īt the time, Type I was pretty close to what you would call Old School these days. I found drafting and playing Sealed Deck to be a lot of fun and, lacking the funds to acquire Power, mostly occupied my time with these endeavors. However, most of the Magic scene was extremely competitive and thus the focus was mostly on Draft and the Constructed formats that mattered at the moment. In the place where I started playing there were always a few Type I players around. For me Vintage, or Type I as it used to be called, has always been the ultimate mythical experience in Magic.

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