“Old School” Magic: The Gathering (sometimes referred to simply as “93-94,” to reflect the original card pool from August 1993-August 1994) is a fantastic nostalgia-filled M:tG format that allows only the oldest Magic cards to be used. Long before Wizards of the Coast was a division of a global corporate behemoth, before Planeswalkers, before formal R&D…there was a wild group of cards sprung straight from the imagination of Richard Garfield, PhD and friends onto cardboard.
Want to play with cards too powerful even for Vintage, and cards laughably bad even for Standard…in the same deck? Want to understand why Shivan Dragon used to be worth more than a Black Lotus? Want to place +1/+0 or +0/+1 or +1/+2 counters on your creatures? Want to destroy your opponent’s permanents by literally throwing cards at them? Want to “interrupt” an instant, attack as a “band,” or even play an entire game-within-a-game of Magic? All of this and much, much more awaits you as you explore the forgotten realms of OLD SCHOOL…