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Old School at Three For One Trading
April 2023
Last Friday, April 20, 2023, a total of 14 co-workers and friends competed at our first 341 Old School “0K”. This was an unofficial inhouse event, which means it wasn’t open for public. Who knows, if enough people are interested, maybe our next Old School tournament will be open for public!
Everyone at Three For One with an Old School deck met after hours for a few friendly games, with ranking.
Pre-Tournament Shenanigans
Before we started playing, Mutsch and Sascha had time for a game of Pauper and we even played a bit of Disney Lorcana, which you can preorder here.
Rules and Deck Building Restrictions
For deck building, we played after Old School Swedish rules with Ravenna rulings, which means: Reprints (for example from Revised and Time Spiral) are allowed to be used in your deck as long as they had the OG artwork on them, for budget reasons. We were encouraged to keep the powerlevel at a “competitive prerelease level“, so some of us had to dumb it down, some of us had to clever up.
That means even the cheapest employees among us could build a deck on a budget and participate (and we.. ehm… they certainly did).
No Deck Lists, Only Deck Pictures
Most of us learned the hard way, that the real Old School players don’t make deck lists, they instead take pictures of the decks. So that’s what we did as well (not all of us though, but some)! But first, here’s a rundown of the metagame of our Old School evening:
Erhnamgeddon
Red/White Control
Blue/Red Burn
4 Colour Goodstuff
Robotfactory
Zoo
Underworldwins
4 Colour Control
Red/Green Atog
Mono Red Burn
Mono White
Bolt and Bird
Mono Black
Red/Black Pestilence
Blue/Red Burn
Red/Black Pestilence
Mono Red Burn
4 Color Control
Mono Black Aggro
Red/Green Atog
Robotfactory
Bolt and Bird
Red/White Control
As you can see, it was a wild mix. Building a deck is easy, all you need to start is a Sol Ring, a Strip Mine and something to block those pesky Mishra’s Factory!
If you are interested in playing a few Old School games with your friends, be sure to check out our inventory of Vintage cards. There are also many more affordable cards available on Cardmarket. It’s easy to start, and the black sky is the limit!
Gameplay Impressions
Here are some impressions of the evening! We had a great time playing and the overall atmosphere was fantastic.
For this special occasion, Alex even donated his “claw” and we recored some gameplay footage (next time we’ll turn the camera the correct way).
Here are two games, can you spot all the misplays?
(For NSFW reasons the sound has been cut)
No Top 8, Only Winners
Everyone’s a winner
(Some closed eyes, some missing people. Sorry!)
As a special participation reward, Oli decided to gift us all a single Vintage card! Everyone was allowed to pick one, they ranged from a Fellwar Stone from The Dark, a Pendelhaven from Legends and 12 more cards.
That was not all, though! Timmy organised the winning price, which was a BETA Giant Growth. To make it even better/worse, we all had to sign it!
And who took it “home”?
“Let me win and I will give you a raise.“
(not an actual quote)
Winner/Boss
The person who took home the win and crushed every single one of his enemies/employees was none other than one of our CEOs:
His winning prize is now on display at Three For One Trading headquarters. You can view it during your next visit in all its glory, because it now graces our trophy display!
