What other formats do you play?

[MGB]

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?

[Whitefaces]

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.

[TheArchitect]

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.

[Megadeus]

Cube and proxy vintage from time to time. Mostly only have time for legacy once, maybe twice a week.

[Dice_Box]

Modern, Vintage, Draft and Cube. Vintage I enjoy almost as much as Legacy, but to me Drafting is where the real skill is.

[The_Dingo]

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.

[mishima_kazuya]

I loved Extended PTQs, so Modern is my favorite format as it fills that hole in my heart. :smile:

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

[Sloshthedark]

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 :cool:

[H]

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.

[Stevestamopz]

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.

Legacy FNM, no EDH... where does such a utopic place exist?

[Richard Cheese]

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.

[Plm]

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:laugh:)

[Admiral_Arzar]

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.

[Ace/Homebrew]

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. :frown:

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.

[Zombie]

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.

[Varal]

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.

[Lord_Mcdonalds]

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

[lordofthepit]

90% Legacy, 10% Vintage.

Although recently, that's amounted to zero games.

[Philipp2293]

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.

[Tylert]

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 :)

[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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9iu_0GWGH8), 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9iu_0GWGH8), 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.

[Mr.C]

I've sold all my Legacy stuff, and all I play is casual witg my brothers abd limited here and there.

[JPoJohnson]

Vintage, Legacy, Modern, and EDH. Unfortunately my current location makes casual and EDH the only things I have the opportunity to play though... Can't wait to get into bigger areas in a year or so.

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Stadnard. But only in MWS, as I don't like to travel into lgs.

[Tormod]

I have a foiled out rogue modern deck that I never get a chance to play. Mostly bc if I'm playing mtg, its gonna be legacy.

I will do an occasional prerelease or cube draft.

[n0ct3m89]

Dont like to play it, but moodern sometimes. Sold iut of the money craphole that is std a while ago, but still make spec buys every now and again.

Mostly legacy, edh when im bored. My project decks are eternal, no more modern or std projects outside of foiling storm (gotten burned too many times from that)

[FieryBalrog]

I play the Hearthstone format now.

I actually switched over entirely to EDH but after I moved I don't have a regular EDH playgroup anymore and my friends and I are generally busier than we were before.

[Zombie]

Will probably start playing Canadian Highlander if only I can get friends interested. I'd get to play Pattern-Rector again <3

[hymnyou]

93/94 is the best format.

[CutthroatCasual]

The only deck I own is Legacy but I sponge it up hardcore at FNMs and borrow peoples' spare Standard and Modern decks.

[Will_L]

Magic is such a big and fun game... I think anyone who exclusively plays one way does themselves a disservice.

[Teluin]

Legacy, Vintage, Ancient (pet project that I also write about), and interested in 93/94 but no one to play it with in the area really.

[Duwinddk]

I play a decent amount of Modern my LGS gets 50+ people for modern FNM and we play 5-6 rounds which is a lot of fun. We are working on building a legacy scene which would is my preferred format.


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[Sansian]

Modern and EDH, but I hate modern these days. Banning Deathrite killed any enjoyment that I gleaned from the format. I wasn't even a jund player for the most part, but the format has been combo garbage bonanza since then. I said "hey, this siege rhino pod deck looks fun", and then that got banned, too. So screw that format-- I'm not willing to pay more than $5 to enter a tourney for it. EDH is probably the format that I have the most fun in because I can just hang out, drink a few beers, and bullshit with 4-5 friends while we forget whose turn it is and squabble over who the biggest threat at the table happens to be.

[tianyuan2k4]

93/94 is the best format.

Old School Magic is real magic.

[Richard Cheese]

Old School Magic is real magic.

Anyone tried expanding that to just include everything on old frames? Seems like you'd get some decent combo-y options in there without some of the really silly new cards.

[Teluin]

Anyone tried expanding that to just include everything on old frames? Seems like you'd get some decent combo-y options in there without some of the really silly new cards.

http://ancientmtg.blogspot.ca/

I tend to post a new deck every couple of weeks.

[jrsthethird]

http://ancientmtg.blogspot.ca/

I tend to post a new deck every couple of weeks.

Draco Explosion is missing from your list.

[Teluin]

Draco Explosion is missing from your list.

I've got several decks that I plan to write about it. Can add that one to it. Thanks

[Plague Sliver]

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 love your attitude, man. Seriously.

If Vintage has a chance on this earth, it will be due to people like you.

[MoxMonkey]

I've always loved vintage but since Noone wants to play so I stick with EDH. Recently I got bored with standard edh and switched it to 1994 edh. It's alot more fun to play.

[easysantiago]

Aside from Legacy, Pauper is the only other format I play. I wish I could get a Pauper night going at one of my locals, but I don't think there is enough interest.