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« on: September 24, 2006, 11:02:44 pm »
http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/article/12828.html

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“Vintage is the hardest format to play.”


“Vintage is the easiest format to play.”


These two sentences are completely contradictory, but both are believed by a significant number of people. Obviously, only one of these is correct… right? Which one? The goal of this article is to find examples of Vintage games and determine just how hard/easy Vintage is to play.
 
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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2006, 11:11:51 pm »
I liked it. Thanks.
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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2006, 11:52:06 pm »
An excellent analysis of both individual situations and Vintage as a format in general.  Great work!
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« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2006, 09:38:17 pm »
What a good article.  What a bad article.

j/k, great article man.
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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2006, 11:07:32 pm »
What are peoples thoughts on this article? I think that Vintage is the hardest format to be consistantly good at. The random factor is very potent, but the skilled players will almost always win the 2/3 games vs someone who doesnt really know what to do, and just plain lucksacs you turn 1.
Formats such as t2 are much more a plain flat out consistant deck, no tricks or brokeness. t2 can be a extremely hard format to be great at, but to be good at vintage is just so much more of a feat.
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« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2006, 11:12:36 pm »
Well put,  yep.
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« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2006, 11:16:26 pm »
My only problem with t2 is with the way the enviroment is. Some t2s have a hard best deck every deck has to play around. Or on the other end of the spectrum we have 20 decks all viable but they hav 2-3 auto losses making pairs a nightmare. T1 it just seams any competitive deck (note competitive means uses good cards, and has ample power to play aginst the rest of the meta) can and does win anygiven match up (not that there are not bad match ups, just no retardedly lopsided ones.
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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2006, 11:40:33 pm »
good article.
its a card game. with shuffling. random events are integral part of it. if you dont like some amount of randomness, go play Chess.
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« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2006, 11:53:45 am »
Quote from: vroman on September 25, 2006, 11:40:33 pm
good article.
its a card game. with shuffling. random events are integral part of it. if you dont like some amount of randomness, go play Chess.

i love the magic, but chess is my baby.
combine the two and you get Nighmare Chess (the best ever non ccg gard game ever)
sorry for the randomness, i liked the article btw
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