Recently I've been pondering how frequently Legacy players play other formats. It seems to me, from talking to people, that there is a wide cross-section of people who play Legacy and various other formats or just Legacy alone. I've known people who *exclusively* play Legacy, some who exclusively play Eternal formats, some who dabble in Legacy and Standard, or just Legacy and Modern, and some who just play everything.
What I'd like to know is: how many of you people on the Source (which is a pretty representative sample of Legacy players) play other M:tG formats in addition to Legacy and what are they?
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Mostly Legacy, but a fair bit of Modern too, it's very interesting atm with quite an open field with a lot of deck design space.
I'd play Vintage too if I could afford it, but alas!
Other than that, just cube whenever possible. No other formats spike any interest as I like complicated stacks/decision trees/resource management etc Standard doesn't offer any of that.
EDIT: Whoops, somehow forgot about limited. I draft from time to time and enjoy it.
Originally Posted by CutthroatCasual
I play modern, EDH and limited. But I really only play those formats when A. somehow I have free time. B. I want to play magic and C. There is no one to play legacy with at the time. So the last time I played EDH once this year and I have played limited and modern both 2-3 times this year, this counts casual play. While I have played in 10+ legacy tournaments this year, and played legacy casually or on cockatrice at least once a week.
Cube and proxy vintage from time to time. Mostly only have time for legacy once, maybe twice a week.
Modern, Vintage, Draft and Cube. Vintage I enjoy almost as much as Legacy, but to me Drafting is where the real skill is.
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I like almost all forms of constucted magic, but I don't have that much time to play, so I usually just stick to legacy because it's my favorite format. I find brewing in legacy to be frustrating, so sometimes modern appeals to me, but that seldom lasts long.
I loved Extended PTQs, so Modern is my favorite format as it fills that hole in my heart.
I play Limited often since draft is the usual fnm/Wednesday night tournament.
My buddies Cube almost every week as it lets me show off foils and gives us more reasons to meet up and hang out.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to grind Standard or trade cards to keep up with rotation on a reasonable budget. So I am out of luck if a a pptq is Standard. Although, being able to attend Sealed and Modern pptqs is reasonable enough for me
Playing Vintage once in a blue moon, interest but no time or willpower for oldschool - 94/cube/highlander, I wouldn't touch any other format unless wearing gloves and having a gun pointed at my head... i guess that makes me a legacy specialist
Vintage is my favorite format, by far. I play any time I can. I'll play against anyone, 100% proxy, zero proxy, I don't care. Your deck can be a bunch of napkins for all I care. I love playing it, as I find no other format capable of matching the depth of plays found there.
I play Legacy weekly, because that is what our FNMs are. I play Modern on occasion, if our FNM is that.
In my former life I played a lot of EDH, but no one plays that where I live now.
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Legacy FNM, no EDH... where does such a utopic place exist?
Legacy, Limited, monthly cube, and for a couple weeks I was into Tiny Leaders. Then it just felt too much like Legacy and I didn't like having expensive cards spread out all over the place so I took all my decks apart. Might proxy some stuff up and try again, but that also sounds like...work.
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Legacy twice a month (more if job/wife/babies allows it), cube draft like once a year when the team is bored of legacy (and I'm wondering if maintaining my cube is worth it), casual with my nephews (taught them like ten years ago, still playing kitchen table magic) and eternal winchester draft four times a year at least (when the new set comes up).
(eternal winchester draft is a 2 man draft format but you add your new cards to your already drafted pool, so eventually you get to play with "real" decks)
I actually play more Modern than Legacy nowadays due to availability of events (the diverse format is just an extra upside). I also play EDH/Commander once in a blue moon.
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I have two stores I spread my time between.
If I want to play Legacy against competitive opponents, I venture in to Philadelphia for weeklies.
Otherwise I can play less competitively at a store closer to home. But there I'm usually playing EDH. There are Modern FNMs but I haven't been to one yet (although I intend to).
No limited for me because I am not an inherently skilled Magic player. I have to know all the cards and what is good against what in order to play well. Properly evaluating new cards isn't what I'm good at.
Tried standard for a while when I first returned to Magic (Timespiral - Lorwyn). I don't think I will ever play it again though...
Regrettably invested time and effort in several fads (Type 4, Peasant EDH, Horde Deck) so now I skip them entirely (Tiny Leaders).
I refuse to play with proxies or in events that allow them and will never own Power, so Vintage is out. I have enough cards from 93/94 that I could probably put together a deck, but there isn't enough interest locally.
My favorite format of all time was 7-year extended, so of course Wizards killed it.
I get one night a week for Magic with the occasional Saturday for a larger tournament.
Used to play German Highlander before they banned my deck (Seriously, would you ever expect to read a B&R announcement to the tune of "Natural Order is banned. Oh btw, we unbanned Tolarian Academy"?). Play Pauper on and off when I can get people to play it. Used to play all the lovely broken stuff before it was banned.
Atm I just don't have an outlet for my Magic-playing needs but might assemble a Modern deck and try a store that's a bit farther out.
I play Vintage whenever possible, a lot of Legacy, a fair amount of Modern, a little Commander, mostly French, and really infrequently Limited or Cube.
Standard occasionally, other then that, nothing, Modern bored me to tears every time I played it (although I'm probably picking it back up as the store near my college plays it I think), I don't want to invest the time/money on getting good at limited and EDH attracts actually the worst people imaginable, French is sweet though (what little I've gotten to play of it) though no one plays it
90% Legacy, 10% Vintage.
Although recently, that's amounted to zero games.
When a new set is released, lots of limited during the first 2-3 weeks, Vintage, Modern, and if there is an interesting deck/meta, Standard.
I play very little Legacy currently.
I usually draft on thursday nights.
If the draft is full, I play legacy instead.
Then, If I can't play on thursday night, I do French 1Vs1 EDH or modern on wednesday night
If my Wife and daughter are not there, I usually play what is up on saturday (Legacy or Modern or Sealed) and French 1vs1 EDH on sunday.
During summer, when in hollidays in the south of france at my step parents home, I play basically whatever is available on saturdays (EDH, Pauper, Modern, Legacy).
I try to have at least one deck for each format available and a draft box (Sleeves and basic lands) allways on me so I can play anything i want at any time :)
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