Thank you for the interview. I am one of the Texas old school players likely to play a match or two with Danny Friedman in early December possibly. I appreciate the conversation, especially the discussion of how to explore ways to enhance or incentivize the brewing space in old school. Since you asked for some input, I thought that one way to give some breathing room to alternate strategies or just more fringe or thematic builds, would be to put a cap on the total number of restricted cards used in a deck for an event. It could be like 9 cards, for instance, to include the P9 for anyone that just has to have that. Along with that, a 2nd Tier of cards that were previously restricted (Copy Artifact, Maze of Ith, Regrowth, Fork, Berserk, Workshop, etc.) could be used as 4-of, but they would count against the total restricted card list. Mishra’s Factory and Strip Mine could be added to that 2nd tier list as well. I feel like this could be a good way to limit the all-good-stuff piles without resorting to shaming someone or telling them they CAN’T play certain cards. Players could still use the 4 strips or whatever, but they would have to make choices about that, instead of having them as auto-includes. Just a suggestion, and you can consider the source if you like. After all, I typically play those @#^##y mono-green decks:)
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Thanks for the comment! These are good ideas, and I would love to hold a tournament with guidelines like these at some point. Or a local meetup of some sort at least. I think they are not quite strong enough to get the environment we want for this tourney though. Also I think that the decks will be “bad” enough that they are gonna need all the help they can get from the restricted cards (except for Mind Twist and Library.)
Thank you for the interview. I am one of the Texas old school players likely to play a match or two with Danny Friedman in early December possibly. I appreciate the conversation, especially the discussion of how to explore ways to enhance or incentivize the brewing space in old school. Since you asked for some input, I thought that one way to give some breathing room to alternate strategies or just more fringe or thematic builds, would be to put a cap on the total number of restricted cards used in a deck for an event. It could be like 9 cards, for instance, to include the P9 for anyone that just has to have that. Along with that, a 2nd Tier of cards that were previously restricted (Copy Artifact, Maze of Ith, Regrowth, Fork, Berserk, Workshop, etc.) could be used as 4-of, but they would count against the total restricted card list. Mishra’s Factory and Strip Mine could be added to that 2nd tier list as well. I feel like this could be a good way to limit the all-good-stuff piles without resorting to shaming someone or telling them they CAN’T play certain cards. Players could still use the 4 strips or whatever, but they would have to make choices about that, instead of having them as auto-includes. Just a suggestion, and you can consider the source if you like. After all, I typically play those @#^##y mono-green decks:)
Thanks for the comment! These are good ideas, and I would love to hold a tournament with guidelines like these at some point. Or a local meetup of some sort at least. I think they are not quite strong enough to get the environment we want for this tourney though. Also I think that the decks will be “bad” enough that they are gonna need all the help they can get from the restricted cards (except for Mind Twist and Library.)