Play · Old Frame Vintage
Powerful cards. Original frames. A card pool through Scourge.
Enlarge image A format created at MTG Old Frame
Explore a format inspired by Vintage in 2003, with its own banned and restricted list and rules for reprints.
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Old Frame Vintage legality
Banned Cannot be included.
Restricted One copy across main deck and sideboard.
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From the beginning, our aim with the Old Frame Vintage format has been to keep things as close to where they were back in 2003. For this reason, when we first published our banned and restricted list for the newly created format, we looked no further than the status of said official list already 20 years ago.
With time, that list has been slightly modified, to accommodate changes needed to the format that runs a relatively different rule set. But do not worry, if you left Magic the Gathering around the time Scourge was released, you will find very few differences.
Format history
Since the official creation of the Old Frame Vintage format back in early 2020, there have been changes in the Banned and Restricted lists.
To understand the evolution of the format and keep track of different archetypes, it is a good idea to have a log of the changes and when they were performed. So here it is:
MTG Old Frame started as a Facebook Group for fellow lovers of the old design of Magic the Gathering cards before Eighth Edition brought the Modern Frame.
However, most of us collectors are former players. We have good memories of using those cards 20 years ago. And there was no format where we could enjoy all the powerful and iconic cards printed between Alpha and Scourge in the same deck.
Seeing how Old School and Premodern were already quite popular formats, we thought it was time to try Old Frame Vintage, a format that would combine both card pools and bring us back to something very similar to what Vintage was when Scourge had just been released.
This also makes Old Frame Vintage different from other Old Frame formats, as this is very similar to a format that existed in the past and was the protagonist of some of the biggest tournaments of those days.
In Old Frame Vintage not only can we play the Power Nine in the same deck where a Psychatog, Phyrexian Dreadnought or Goblin Welder lives. We can also play very iconic and powerful spells that are banned in Premodern, like Yawgmoth’s Will, Tolarian Academy or Memory Jar.
What was originally proposed in the Facebook Group as a crazy idea immediately got several people interested. So shortly after we started our Online Old Frame League, and we created this website. Several live tournaments have taken place. Here you can find a list of decks that have been played.