Old School 93/94 Magic & the Library of Dominia
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:50 pm
Hello all,
Hope this finds you well. In the last two weeks my play group has been trying out a new, old 'format' that was what some/most of you may remember cutting your teeth on back in the day.
Here is the format in all its glory:
http://oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/p/historik.html
It is awesome, fun, historic and nostalgic. Might I suggest you give it a try. The purists who own the site use only English Alpha, Beta and Unlimited for the base sets and eschew foreign but we use anything(foreign, revised, proxy etc.) just to play the 'format.' I had to pick up Chronicles City of Brass and a bunch of Fellwar Stones just for a second deck that needed them: so you get the gist- practicality to play the format trumps the bling factor for my player mode so you can let it be that way for you if you'd like to also.
While perusing the lists of decks from their events, I recalled a site from the mid-90's called The Library of Dominia; it was a site wherein people would submit their decklists and you could search their decklists by any number of a specific card or combination of cards. Some decks were crap, but others actually had merit so you had to mine the lists from your query for decks that were buildable and playable.
In the early days of the wild wild west of Magic, I really enjoyed playing wacky cards in my decks for multiplayer and would often use this site to find decks with other people's lists that contained the cards. For example- I had a 4x Elkin Lair deck, a Land Equilibrium deck, a Bazaar of Wonders deck, etc. Itried looking up the site to see if it was archived and it is nowhere to be found. It definitely gave some time to cards that were outliers to the tournament scene and I really enjoyed perusing decks.
Does anyone else remember this site from the mid 90's? Does anyone know if it archived anywhere on the modern interwebs?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Matt
Hope this finds you well. In the last two weeks my play group has been trying out a new, old 'format' that was what some/most of you may remember cutting your teeth on back in the day.
Here is the format in all its glory:
http://oldschool-mtg.blogspot.com/p/historik.html
It is awesome, fun, historic and nostalgic. Might I suggest you give it a try. The purists who own the site use only English Alpha, Beta and Unlimited for the base sets and eschew foreign but we use anything(foreign, revised, proxy etc.) just to play the 'format.' I had to pick up Chronicles City of Brass and a bunch of Fellwar Stones just for a second deck that needed them: so you get the gist- practicality to play the format trumps the bling factor for my player mode so you can let it be that way for you if you'd like to also.
While perusing the lists of decks from their events, I recalled a site from the mid-90's called The Library of Dominia; it was a site wherein people would submit their decklists and you could search their decklists by any number of a specific card or combination of cards. Some decks were crap, but others actually had merit so you had to mine the lists from your query for decks that were buildable and playable.
In the early days of the wild wild west of Magic, I really enjoyed playing wacky cards in my decks for multiplayer and would often use this site to find decks with other people's lists that contained the cards. For example- I had a 4x Elkin Lair deck, a Land Equilibrium deck, a Bazaar of Wonders deck, etc. Itried looking up the site to see if it was archived and it is nowhere to be found. It definitely gave some time to cards that were outliers to the tournament scene and I really enjoyed perusing decks.
Does anyone else remember this site from the mid 90's? Does anyone know if it archived anywhere on the modern interwebs?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Matt