Hello all. New user, long time player (started during 3rd.) Vintage has always been my favorite format and I played somewhat competetively back in the day before some kind soul jacked my fully powered/alpha keeper deck a few years ago.

After that I quit playing for a few years and later got back in around Onslaught on MTGO and started rebuilding my Vintage collection.

I then quit again about 2 years ago due to other interests.

Now I've gotten the bug again and I'm back (This game is like paper crack and you can't really stay away.)

I still have about 95% of my physical collection which consists of 4x of most playable cards from Alpha through Onslaught minus the power cards that were stolen. Over the years I have managed to regain a few staples like drains and I do still have a beta jet and a library. My biggest gap right now is all the duals that were stolen, I only have a few left (but at least I still have one of my alpha Tundras!)

I read this daily for quite a while but it appears that things have changed up a bit while I was gone and I'm obviously completely out of date on the Vintage landscape these days so I'll be reading a lot on here and not posting much so as not to put my foot too far into my mouth.

What I hope to gain from this forum is:

1) Get back up to speed on the vintage landscape.
2) Find a place to play in Philadelphia

#2 is really my main goal right now as I know a grand total of 0 people that play Magic here and the only store I used to play at on Sundays (a comic shop on South St.) no longer hosts a game day. Even when it did the caliber of player was very casual, but at least it was something.

If anyone here is from Philadelphia and plays regularly (serious or not) please let me know, I'd be very interested in playing even if it means getting my butt kicked all day long.