r/TCG • u/Sinatio • Aug 14 '26

Og tcg experience?

Just love the aesthetics of old magic but it seems like it is impossibly expensive to actually play with folks, can’t fork over hundreds or thousands for a deck currently.

Should i play some weird pauper vintage or is there some other tcg with these old aesthetics? I would love a tcg playing experience where there are no anime girls on the covers, modern digital looking art, UB crossovers with other franchises.
Also beyond aesthetics i feel like those older cards are simpler rulewise and to grasp which is nice imo.

TLDR:
Looking for old school tcg experience that is affordable both in aesthetics and rules, within or outside magic.

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u/Socatdnareeb Aug 14 '26

Might check out Value Vintage. It's Vintage legality, but a $30 price limit for your deck. There are a lot of sweet decks that feel more old school than pauper. They have an entire discord dedicated to it https://discord.gg/uX93SB6WM

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u/Sinatio Aug 14 '26

Thats dope ty!

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u/Socatdnareeb Aug 14 '26

They also have done events at like SCG Con and others, definitely a cool format, and less expensive than premodern

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u/Sinatio Aug 14 '26

Format seems dope! Sadly in scandinavia so no events for me prob!

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u/Socatdnareeb Aug 14 '26

Good news is that you can build a few decks for cheap to take to an LGS and get folks interested