Transportation mainly, I don't own a car so it can be rather tricky to get to a tournament. Luckily I usually bum a ride off a buddy who loves Magic so it's not to much of an issue.
While the points on economic value of Vintage cards is fully valid one has to take into account a few things that I think we are missing...
1.) How heavily does economic issues affect Vintage compared to other formats?
- Quite drastically, not only are the cards far more expensive but they aren't mandatory. As far as I have seen Standard, Extended, and Legacy don't offer any sort of proxy quota, not only that but all of those see sanctioned tournament play that requires you to own all the cards in the deck you play.
We can all agree that 100+ dollars USD and not mandatory is much less likely to sell than 20-30+ dollars USD and mandatory (That can be used in multiple formats and helps you stay in proxy limits).
2.) What is the stagnation of Vintage cards compared to Standard, Extended, and Legacy?
- While Vintage has it's minor changes once a player buys most of the cards they need, they are good to go. You only ever need to buy a moxen once, and/or win it. Where as in a format like Standard the change is far more mandatory.
Lets look at it this way, both Grindstone and Reflecting Pool were dollar rares before they found new uses. Now both sit around the 20+ dollar line... This price isn't simply because they found use but also because they weren't cards people kept around, there just wasn't to much reason to hold onto that Grindstone or Pool until it found new use or was reprinted, by which point no one had it and everyone wanted it, hence the huge price hop. The same can't be said for Moxens, unless they become unrestricted and everyone needs a play set then.
I know this has probably been stated to death already but I've had an unpleasant experience with sephiroth too. I don't have the log saved but this is what basically happened. I was playing Shop-Aggro and he was playing Long or something.
I go first and play Shop + Sphere + Chalice for 0 (Paying the one for sphere).
He responds: "Lol! noob! Shop not competitive any more1" "Go play a real deck!"
I'm new to the Vintage format and have only been to two tournies. Though I did go 3-1 in the last one I went to... Even if it was only a 9 man tourny, and it was 2-1-1 do to time. I went off and milled his whole deck with Grindstone but it was turn five and couldn't make him draw =/.
Oh well, here's hoping for many more great tournies and all.
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