"Theme decks" or decks with much flavour

[Arvid]

Hi.

I want to be able to play with cards such as Two-Headed Giant of Foriys, Icy Manipulator (from Alpha/Beta/Unlimited), Serendib Djinn and Scarwood Hag.

For example, Scarwood Hag is obviously just worse than an Eager Cadet, however this is not about winning, at least not just about winning. It's about winning in a great fashion, or just about playing with good old cards with nice flavour.

I've been thinking of 5-color magic with ante, Prismatic and Highlander. The thing is that most of the cards I took up in my example above wouldn't make it into any of these formats, so what I am looking after is another format. Anyone who has got the answer?

What I've been tinkering with is "Theme decks", which could be highlander, could be not.


Sincerely

Arvid

[Jacob Orlove]

It sounds like you want to play magic without any of the new cards. Have you considered a format where everything printed after "SET X" is banned?

[Arvid]

It's not that I dislike the new cards, although if the new(er) cards make the older ones obsolete then you're probably right.

On the other hand, I could definetely see "new" cards like Kukemssa Pirates and Rishadan Cutpurse combine together with Pirate Ship, Sindbad and Ramirez DePietro in a "Seafarers/Pirates" themed highlander deck, hell even Keiga, the Tide Star could make an appearance.

[amuraivel]

What are you trying to do?  Flavor?  But how is that defined?

Do you want 5 tribal decks?  The assignment is a bit tough without more parameters...