Vintage Community vs Legacy Community

[ninjabear]

I have observed that the Vintage and Legacy Community, despite them being close formats (both being eternal), are almost completely disjunct. There are few individuals interested and playing in both formats, and normally people who like a format tend to talk ill about people playing other format. Most commonly, Legacy people says Vintage people are snobs, and elitist jerks, while Vintage people claim they don't like the combat phase, playing with children, and that vintage needs higher level of understanding (saying things like "vintage is Magic in pure state") because you get more juice of a turn and there are more alternatives.

Any impressions / opinions regarding this topic? Why is there such a gap between the two communities? Is it just my misconception?


BTW, I went sightseeing to a Vintage tournament and I got the impression that all decks are based around counter and selective discard effects....

[Nightmare]

No one around here says that kind of stuff. Most of us are on pretty good terms with the Vintage community, and there will be no attempts to change that tolerated.

[Versus]

I think a lot of people play both if possible,no? However, I have come across a few who think Legacy as a "watered down" version of Vintage and turn their nose up at it. One guy at the store I frequent was like that when I first met him until we finally got around to playing a few games together.

Chalice @ 0/1 or first turn Trinisphere stopping all his Moxes, Brainstorms, Duress, Recall, Rituals, put an end to that. Now he's always like "Lets play!" and we've become pretty good friends. I think he never really looked into Legacy before and just figured it would be an auto-win. He still jokingly pokes fun at it with me, but I think he respects it more now.

[holkenborg]

For me Magic is about the fun you have with your opponent casting spells. It is about interaction. I don't play Ichord, I don't play Solidarity, etc. because I miss the interaction: either you go off, or you don't... Therefor I prefer Legacy over Vintage and especially decks like Fish, Landstill, Pikula, Loam, etc. I want to play and interact, not a turn 1 darksteel colossus. I am aware of people who'll respond to this saying that type 1 could be more interaction, but I just don't think so. I think most decks in type 1 play the same 50 - 55 cards and just a few slots are different (logically of course, seen the cards' power). But that's my opinion of course.

[Nightmare]

This thread concerns me. There is a lot of potential for uninformed content. I'm closing it preemptively. Deal.