![]() I told him that I like to play Vintage, and he said he had lots of old cards, but no Power 9. We swapped old stories about Arena League, the miserable string of sets from The Dark to Fallen Empires to Chronicles to Ice Age to Homelands. The guy across the table from me started Magic about the same time I did. This would be only my third draft tournament ever, but it gave me a lot of time to get to know the people sitting around me. Keep this store open.” And with that, we shook hands. He said, “I owe you a big one.” I said, “No.” And he replied, “Yes I do.” I smiled and said, “You’re right. I donated them to the store for him to sell. I also brought in some old roleplaying books, Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and legends from Chronicles to stock the store with some cheap Commander Generals. I didn’t get out of him how much of his old collection he still had, but I imagine it’s some. He told me a story that his first Magic pack was a pack of Alpha he won for some type of DnD tournament back in the day. I respect him a great deal for many more reasons I’ll not go into here. He’s had some personal tragedies in the recent past, and I have to say I greatly admire his courage to open a gaming store in a small town in this economy. It was pretty cool, but importantly we got to get to know each other. He almost poisoned me out with Rancor on a Vector Asp. I asked the owner if he could play since there were no customers in at the time, and he agreed to oblige. I brought my cube which has all kinds of Vintage cards like Ancestral Recall, Skull Clamp, Mental Misstep, RedBlasts, etc. But before that, I got a chance to go to the store early before all the school kids showed up. On TheManaDrain, Godder suggested that I participate in the weekly FNM’s. This is my first update in that endeavor. So last week I began a diary declaring that I would attempt to begin a Vintage community in my small hometown in Kentucky where a new gaming store opened. I’d like a good dueling set, so let me know what you think. So here’s my preliminary list, can you help me narrow it down to 2? It’s not that the Doomsday Piles are too complicated, it’s the fact that there are two very different lines of play in that deck, and I think it could be confusing for newbies. I also don’t think I’ll use the Doomsday Deck. As much as I love those two decks, they aren’t representative of Vintage. I also think I want to keep budget-minded decks like Dark Times and Christmas Beatings out too. ![]() I’m looking for some feedback on what decks would be good to A) teach how Vintage works and B) not be so scary that it turns people off. I’m getting ready to start building some proxy decks to introduce people at my new FLGS to Vintage for the first time. ![]()
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