What other formats do you play?

[Echelon]

Just legacy. I don't have a vintage deck (nor is it played that much at my lgs) and other formats are just too soft for my taste. I like to either do the most broken things possible or fight off those things rather than bitch about a 2 toughness one drop (mini-planeswalker or not) needing (and getting) a ban. 1-drop creatures should not be a problem, run some friggin' Bolts (Forked or regular) and Path to Exiles, problem solved.

[Doishy]

Legacy, EDH and Casual for me. I would love to try out vintage properly but alas cost vs likelihood of being able to play it frequently enough would make it not a great finanical investment.

I do sometimes dabble in some limited formats if quirky enough such as a recent 'All the Mirrodin Sealed' event held here with a 6 pack combo of Mirrodin, Darksteel, Fifth Dawn, Scars of Mirrodin, Mirrodin Besieged and New Phyrexia which was great fun!

[Seraphix]

I almost exclusively play Legacy right now. I have a Modern deck sleeved up, but I haven't played it for more than two months. I enjoy Legacy a lot more so I will choose to play Legacy over Modern 100% of the time.

I don't play Standard right now because it requires too much money and effort to keep up with, and again, I wouldn't go to any Standard weeklies because I'd much rather go to Legacy ones.

I used to play EDH but I didn't find it very fun overall so I traded all my EDH cards into Legacy cards.

I don't play Limited because I'm bad at Magic.

[jjrotzo]

My favorite other format is Choose Your Own Standard, because there you can play all the amazing cards from Magic's history which have become obsolete for today's Legacy. We don't use the sh*tty banned list that Maro suggests in the video though, but have our own.

[Grillo]

EDH is my favourite format right now and try to play it twice a week.
I used to play legacy once a week until recently... but it's been hard getting to the store on time for the tourneys....

I also have a commons/uncommons cube that's really fun to play with. It has many of the best cards in those rarities.

[Ziveeman]

I don't have a lot of time to devote to weekly events anymore so I basically play whatever big events come by, so I play Standard and a little bit of Modern. I end up watching more Legacy than playing it these days.

[jrsthethird]

My favorite other format is Choose Your Own Standard, because there you can play all the amazing cards from Magic's history which have become obsolete for today's Legacy. We don't use the sh*tty banned list that Maro suggests in the video though, but have our own.

That always sounded like a fun format. I don't know anyone who plays it though.

I play Legacy and Limited. I dipped my toe into Modern but was kind of bored. I'd play Vintage if I had the cards, or if MTGO gets a league or something.

I want to start playing 93/94 Magic too. I started playing in 95, but spent so much time as a kid on the Microprose game that I almost feel like I played from the start.

[Holiday]

My friends and I play a format call Tribal Wars. Believe it or not this is actually a real thing and Wizards even has a banned list on their site. It's the banned list for Legacy plus the following:

Endemic Plague
Extinction
Engineered Plague
Moat
Arboria
Circle of Solace
Extinction
Peer Pressure
Stasis
The Abyss
Umezawa's Jitte
Tsabo's decree


No sideboards.
1/3 of each deck must be cards of that creature type (Tribal spells count) or cards that can produce or become a creature of that type. For example, Dragon Fodder would count as a Goblin and Faerie Conclave would count as a Faerie. Our group doesn't count Shapeshifters towards the 1/3 quota unless someone is running Shapeshifters tribal. This is to prevent every deck from running 4 Mutavault towards their quota.

We balance it by dividing decks into Tiers. Also, most of these decks are composed mostly of very well printed proxies.

Tier 1
Elves
Goblins
Merfolk
Slivers

Tier 2
Illusions
Dragons (very similar to Dragon Stompy)
Knights
Beasts (Fet. Descendants' Path)
Assassins

Tier 3
Tier 3 is a qualifier for new decks or decks that have been changed or updated
Soldiers (Stompy style)
Demons (reanimator style)
Zombies (zombardment style)
Walls (believe it or not, this deck is very strong. It utilizes the new Assault Formation)
Angels
Vampires
Treefolk
Birds (Aether Vial and equipment)
Elementals (RGW with Birthing Pod and Natural Order)
Werewolves

If anyone cares I would be more than happy to provide decklists for any of the above decks. It's a really fun format.

[Richard Cheese]

My friends and I play a format call Tribal Wars. Believe it or not this is actually a real thing and Wizards even has a banned list on their site. It's the banned list for Legacy plus the following:

Endemic Plague
Extinction
Engineered Plague
Moat
Arboria
Circle of Solace
Extinction
Peer Pressure
Stasis
The Abyss
Umezawa's Jitte
Tsabo's decree


No sideboards.
1/3 of each deck must be cards of that creature type (Tribal spells count) or cards that can produce or become a creature of that type. For example, Dragon Fodder would count as a Goblin and Faerie Conclave would count as a Faerie. Our group doesn't count Shapeshifters towards the 1/3 quota unless someone is running Shapeshifters tribal. This is to prevent every deck from running 4 Mutavault towards their quota.

We balance it by dividing decks into Tiers. Also, most of these decks are composed mostly of very well printed proxies.

Tier 1
Elves
Goblins
Merfolk
Slivers

Tier 2
Illusions
Dragons (very similar to Dragon Stompy)
Knights
Beasts (Fet. Descendants' Path)
Assassins

Tier 3
Tier 3 is a qualifier for new decks or decks that have been changed or updated
Soldiers (Stompy style)
Demons (reanimator style)
Zombies (zombardment style)
Walls (believe it or not, this deck is very strong. It utilizes the new Assault Formation)
Angels
Vampires
Treefolk
Birds (Aether Vial and equipment)
Elementals (RGW with Birthing Pod and Natural Order)
Werewolves

If anyone cares I would be more than happy to provide decklists for any of the above decks. It's a really fun format.

I like it. Do you ever do 5-player games and yell Hobbit quotes?

[Holiday]

I like it. Do you ever do 5-player games and yell Hobbit quotes?

You bet your ass we will once Wizards prints some viable Orcs and Dwarves!

[MGB]

So it seems as if people on The Source:

- Have accepted Modern as their "secondary" format of choice for events
- Like Cube Draft
- Like a variety of other whacky formats
- Despise Standard above all else

[CabalTherapy]

Only Legacy for me. Since 2009.
I don't want to talk about the years before 2009...

[iamajellydonut]

- Despise Standard above all else

To be fair, I don't "despise" Standard as a concept. I despise Khans of Tarkir and Theros and Return to Ravnica, and by extension that means I've despised Standard for as long. The last time I played Standard was with UW Blink during the tail end of Scars/Innistrad. Origins is a great set though, and I'd be happy to take another look at Standard if Zendikar has any appeal.

[bigwerdz]

I play mostly legacy and edh. I've been dabbling in modern recently but it just doesn't do it for me.

[Jamaican Zombie Legend]

A lot of Limited, mostly draft. Despite my bitching in spoiler megathreads, Tarkir block Limited was very good. I was especially impressed by Dragons of Tarkir. While it wasn't anything brilliant, it was solid all-around, especially in the gameplay department, and had almost no glaring mistakes of any sort (I won't pin Fate Reforged's bombs on DTK). Solid B+/A-.

I'll sling some EDH cardboard when I have the chance (not so much as of late), and have recently been making forays into Modern, which is a pretty fun format; been having a lot of fun with Mono-U Tron, even if it isn't Tier 1.

[Varal]

So it seems as if people on The Source:

- Have accepted Modern as their "secondary" format of choice for events
- Like Cube Draft
- Like a variety of other whacky formats
- Despise Standard above all else

Vintage is off the charts. There's almost as much Vintage played as Modern played. This is a big difference compared to the at large Magic population where Modern is played many times more than Vintage.

[jrsthethird]

- Despise Standard above all else

I enjoyed Standard a few times. It's just too fast-moving of a format for me to keep up with most of the time. I have fond memories of Onslaught/Mirrodin, Lorwyn/Shards, and Shards/Zendikar. Never really played big tournaments but I had fun at the LGS when it was the format of the week.

[Zombie]

I want TS+Lor+CSnap standard back ;_;

[bruizar]

Legacy
Havent touched Vintage in a long time but still consider yself a vintage player (te only format I played from '94 to 2010
Occasional draft and prerelease
Getting into modern (tron and lantern)
Standard moved to fast for me but I do like how certain deck ideas are viable in that format.

[ubernostrum]

I draft.

Occasionally I'll dip my toes into Modern, since I already have all the expensive stuff anyway for Legacy play, but I usually get frustrated with the format pretty quickly and stop.

Haven't really played Standard competitively since the Caw-Blade bans. Yes, it was necessary, but I did enjoy playing that deck. Even the mirrors.