I've given up on trying to manage my Vintage collection (I don't realistically believe that I'll ever reacquire the Power that was stolen from me in the 90's) but the Excel spreadsheet seems like a great tool.

  Thanks for putting this together, Steve. The DGM list really came in handy when we were designing Vintage Masters.

I'm glad you had fun! I'll pass it along to the MTGO folks.

I'm hoping that this will create enough critical mass that we'll fire more DEs. I believe that Vintage can succeed on MTGO.

It's Young Pyromancer's world. We're just living in it.

Update: Bazaar basically counts as Power for the purposes of the "unpowered bonus prizes." http://bit.ly/1yAEH7F

I'll ask around about whether we're planning to schedule more DEs during the qualifiers.

We're trying to do what we can to help the format achieve critical mass. I'm pretty excited about it!

I am doing an AMA on Reddit on Friday Nov 7th. Stop by and ask me anything!

I wasn't thinking too much about Legacy, though shutting down Show and Tell -> Absurd Fatty seemed like a good idea. Show and Tell just gets stronger every year...

Not to stifle this interesting discussion about what the motivation was for designing this card, but I can authoritatively say that it was indeed designed with Vintage in mind. White is pretty underrepresented in Vintage. Oath and Tinker put a lot of pressure on aggro-control decks, so I thought that GW Beats and similar decks could use a little help. The fact that the card hoses one of my least-favorite Commander cards, Deadeye Navigator, was icing on the cake!

I sit two desks away from the primary designer of the new leagues feature, and I've participated in a couple of playtests myself. I can't reveal any details, but they look to be very well designed for busy grownups like most of us, who want to compete on our own timetable. I'll double check and make sure the MTGO folks know that Vintage players want Vintage leagues!

I believe that awareness and interest in Vintage is higher at Wizards now than it's been in many years. Vintage Masters and the Vintage Super League were/are popular. Also, many people in the company have had the chance to actually play Vintage for the first time, because each Wizards employee has a MTGO account with 4X every card in it. Not everyone who tries it likes it, of course, but even the people who don't enjoy it at least understand it pretty well now.

  Don't get so upset, please! We weren't trying to exclude the Vintage community from FNM; it was a simple oversight.

  We value you as the keepers of the Eternal flame that is Magic's original format. Go play Vintage at FNM! The more the format shows up in our Organized Play database, the more the powers-that-be will pay attention to Vintage!

Glad to help. I'd hate for the first MTGO Vintage Champs to be a mess.

I've made some inquiries about this. I'm told that the announcement is in error, and that it will be Swiss until the Top 8, as you'd expect for a tournament of this type.

Thank you SO much to Steve and Steve for getting the word out, and to everyone who played! I did everything I could in my own small way to give Vintage Online a chance to succeed, and it warms my heart to see things like this.

I played several matches with this deck on MTGO recently. It's a sweet brew! I won most of my games, though it felt like most of my opponents were playing rogue decks.

Thanks for the kind words, Steve and Kevin. I'm glad you like our latest sets.

Ethan_F on MTGO. I'm not allowed to play in tournaments, but I've been playing Vintage in the Tournament Practice Room! If you see me, let's have a match!

Prospero,

When we playtest in R&D, it's very much like a cube draft (albeit not singleton). We sort the cards out by color to ensure a relatively even distribution of colors. I do the same thing with my cube. It's a lot more work to prepare for a cube draft, but I believe that it's worthwhile.

Another great show, guys.

Inspired Flamespeaker's ability first appeared on Elkin Bottle back in Ice Age. We first put it on a red card in Magic 2014 with Chandra, Pyromaster.

There are plenty of astute observations in this thread.

We try to vary what mechanical spaces we emphasize in different blocks, so that different Limited environments and different Standard seasons play differently and feel differently. I agree that the power level of the last couple blocks hasn't been very high for Vintage players. The nature of the mechanical themes of the blocks (multicolored cards, buffing creatures) do not lend themselves to Vintage play. Added to that is the fact that a lot of the power in Theros block comes from synergies between cards, not from the power level of individual cards.

Rest assured, the themes will be different in the future.  There will be plenty of artifacts and interactions with zones other than the battlefield, and all that stuff you guys like.

As an aside, the problems of Homelands went waaaay beyond mana costs. Don't tell me you'd play with Mammoth Harness or Aysen Highway if only they cost less mana.

Hi,

1. Please promote me, so that I can post in some of the threads I don't have access to.

2. I have no posting history on TMD. Every time I find a thread I'm considering posting in, it turns out to be one I don't have permission to post in.

3. As a member of Magic R&D, I'd like to be able to be able to interact with the Vintage community occasionally, to keep abreast of how the format's health is perceived, and make sure we're doing all we can to serve Vintage players. I'd like to be able to discuss articles sometimes, too. I had a chance to meet with a few Vintage players in Indianapolis last year, and it was a great discussion. I'd like to be able to do things like that here occasionally.