My Vintage Adventure

Well I am back...again. It has been far too long. Life has been busy. Lots of magic, especially Vintage but unfortunately this has fallen by the wayside. But no Longer.

There has been so much happening over the past eight months. MASTERS has come and gone, so has our first Vintage League. Australia has been noted as an "up and coming" Vintage community by Brian De Mars and we have had a bunch of Australian Lists posted on sites like www.starcitygames.com. The names of Dion Wong, Robert Bartlett and me have all appeared in Vintage articles over the past 6 months.

Format changing tournaments and events have occurred. Regrowth was unrestricted earlier in the year, with which I took down the very first tournament post unrestriction. #notsohumblebrag Just last weekend we had both BOM Paris and the world Championship on the same weekend revealing two very different top 8's. Not to mention the influences of all the new sets. Cards like Young Pyromancer and Swan Song have gone on to make huge splashes in the format worldwide.

Looking more toward Australia, MASTERS in July garnered 35 players for Sanctioned Vintage and GP Sydney also received 25 players. That is just huge. It may not sound like much but we are not seeing the fruits of our labour. Pushing Vintage over the past two years has been my goal (and the goal of many others), and this year has been fantastic for that. NLG has fired all but 2 of our Vintage monthlies, with the only two we fizzled on were the week after MASTERS and the week of GP Sydney. We even got 14 players at our most recent event which set a new benchmark for highest attendance at one of our monthlies.

This is going to be a short one but I have some big announcements on the way. Stay tuned in the next week or so for those!!!