French OldSchool MTG Community
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Extending the Unlimits (Alters pt.1) 2 comments

When I started playing MTG back in ’95 there was a rule that said that your deck was to be Full Alpha or No Alpha, it quickly translates into Alpha is banned from tournament play which is the mood I had when I started buying in Oldschool 93/94 in 2014! That means I had tons of Beta staples and once (2017) I wanted to pimp my deck / complete my sets I had to face a hard choice :

  • Rob a bank to upgrade to Alpha
  • Keep buying Betas that won’t feel like the final upgrade
  • Buy Unlimited and play budget

I chose a mix : I sold my Beta cards, “upgraded” into Heavy Played  Alpha when it was cheaper than my EX/NM Beta or buy HP Unlimited to have them extended and look “finally upgraded” / “mine”.

I’ve got lucky I found Stef Margouya to do my extensions and here I’ll show you the results…

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BudgetDeck : Back in Black 1 comment

I started Old-School at the end of 2016, early 2017 and as everyone who starts playing ’93/94, I was wondering : what deck am I going to play ?

There is 2 types of people : the first one owns a large collection of cards, the second one starts fresh.

For the first type, the answer is quite simple : you just browse a few blogs and find a deck that fits your mood < repeat every week >.

As for the second group, like myself, it’s a little bit more difficult, knowing that this year has been agitated with price spikes….

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First Interview : Guillaume Denoix no comments

As we previously said on Facebook and in the First post, we’ll try to post some interview, with basics questions, because Old-School is about casual competition, drinking beers & meeting with friends.

The first “beta-tester” of this interview process is Guillaume Denoix, most of you already know him, met him or talk to on Facebook but you probably don’t know more, this is where the interview plays its role 🙂

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Happy New Wizard’s Year no comments

The Boars wish you and your close ones the best for 2018!

As you should know, this year will be the Wizard Tournament’s one in Goteborg at the end of march.

We’ll be back to basics, where the fun began…!

For those  that don’t know, the tournament will  be Alpha only games with original deck construction (40+ cards, no 4-of / 1-of restrictions) and gameplay rules.

The brewing started and we’ve seen alot of pictures on Facebook so I guess I should share my brews too, until further testing I’d be happy to hear your thoughts about these.

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Brewing with Eureka 1 comment

Today I’ll be talking about Eureka and the way I built mine and my thoughts after about 20 games.

Initial list :

It has 12 “Eureka targets” that I should be able to play by themselves (minus lords of the pit)

It has 4 birds and 2 elves to ramp, alongside the 7 SoLoMoxen.

It has 15 green providing lands and the mox to make “sure” I can, on schedule :

  • play a mana dork
  • play Sylvan Library
  • play Eureka

It has Mana Drain and Mana Short to force Eureka through permission.

Results of the first test session (about 20 games vs Artifact Control and MonoBlack splash blue) :

  • Mana Short, Mana Drain and Braingeyser felt useless / uncastable
  • Eureka should be a 3-of as it’s easy to hardcast targets and having 2 Eurekas in hand is so bad
  • Lord of the Pit, Nicol Bolas and Animate Dead are too cute and not too efficient
  • Underworld dreams, The Abyss and Icy Manipulators are problems.

The deck lacks interaction for my liking therefore the tweaking is discontinued for the moment and the post is going live.

Feel free to comment with your own experiences.

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Report : French Championship 2017 2 comments

November saw the BitCoin exceed $10,000 but more importantly, the First Official French Old-School Championship (Well, actually it looks like there was already one last year but that doesn’t count).

Guillaume successfully organized this event which has attracted French from all over the country on Saturday November the 12th.

Everybody was ready at 11 AM, the tournament tooks place at a local shop were we go regularly : The Waaagh Taverne . Their  big plus : they also serve beers and delicious snacks.

 

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Merry Christmas 1 comment

To celebrate the blog’s launch I wanted to share with you my trades since last month (including the playmat from Mark / Dan on Facebook)

From Spain (Vedast) on Facebook /

From Switzerland on MKM /

From Spain (willybizarre) at GP Lyon 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fishliver Oil Cup 1 Report no comments

On October the 27th, Seven french took the weekend off to go on an adventure, playing some Old-School in Italy.

Some photos were taken from the official Facebook page, feel free to PM for removing them.

This not so far land is well known for having beautiful -but noisy- women, great food, huge history but more important : major Old-School tournaments.

And this time we went for the FishLiver Oil cup #1 (I think there was already one last year, but apparently that doesn’t count). This tournament organize 2 days of tournaments :

  • Friday : Old-School – Eternal Central Rules
  • Saturday : Old-School – Ravenna Rules

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Breakfast at tiffany’s 1 comment

More like “Pizza at Fred’s” but anyway, here goes the report for our last gathering at my apartment aka “rabbit cage” !

So on this beautiful cold Saturday, december the 12th, we were 5 gathering at my Castle, plus one on skype.

Lineup:

Mathieu Derothe-renaud : Green – Red aggro (2 wins – 3 loss)

Rodolphe Ambroise : CandleFlare (4 wins – 1 loss)

Arnaud Avenel : mono-black Parfait (3 losses – 1 wins – 1 bye)

Philippe Royer : The Deck ( 2 wins – 2 losses)

Vincent Ruault (@Skype) : I-CAN-PLAY-WITH-MY-GRAVEYARD (2 losses)

Frederique Lafoux : MonoBlack – splash blue (3 wins – 1 loss – 1 bye)

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First Post (the real one, not the wordpress generated) 1 comment

Finally ! it’s done.

After few weeks of brainstorming and talking, I was determined (along with some friends) to start a blog about Magic The Gathering – Old-School – French Community.

Because I think we’re rather active, but we don’t talk about it much on social media and we thought it’d be great to spread the word that, yes, we love cheese & wine, and complain about everything BUT we also like to play Old-School 🙂

I’ve only be active in this Parisian-Community for about a year, but others were playing it before, some at the very beginning. We all love testing new decks, some better than others, some weirder  ( hi Vincent ! ), hoping this blog will reflet our inventions from our greatest mind…

So there was this blog and…. Rodolphe Ambroise also got the idea we needed like a “mascot card” (because we’re also sheep, not only french) so… Continues..