Like every year, the Three for One Trading team is growing and growing! This year we welcomed a lot of new colleagues, so let’s see the new faces!

Welcome everybody, see you on Monday!

Last year, we have been accompanied by Mario Pampel Productions for some stunning coverage of our events and tournaments! You can really tell the difference, and we are happy that he’s not only a regular Commander player at our store, but also a great photographer.

Thank you, Mario, for all the awesome pictures!

Since 29th March 2023 Lukas Mutschlechner is not only working in our buying department but has also become the face of our New Arrivals skits! His energy and enthusiasm for these reels has brought a fresh wind to our content that we are looking forward to each week. So it’s only natural we had to make some kind of compilation celebrating Lukas‘ acting and all the fun stuff he came up with!

But it’s not all fun and games: We are of course trying to reach a wider audience with these reels, so we appreciate every follow, like, share and comment that you give us on these:

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Our biggest collaborations have been with Boshnroll, Filipa and Timmy, the Sorcerer. They are all overall fantastic people, and we are happy that they decided to team up with us. Not only did we share some content between each other, but we also met most of these beautiful people during events such as the MagicCons and the Viennageddon.

Another big collaboration we got going on a regular basis is the work with our different authors! We are happy to have such a great group of authors for our blog, and all the Artificial Intelligence in the world can’t make up for their collective knowledge, experience and wit when it comes to writing Magic: The Gathering related content! Those authors got names too: Nico Bohny, Ben Guilfoyle, Paulo Vitor Damo Da Rosa, Zen Takahashi and Matej Zatlkaj.

Thanks to everyone who stayed with us during 2024 and everyone that decided to join us in 2024! We hope we can continue this party in 2025!

TIMMY THE SORCERER

MTG FILIPA

Our team travelled all around the world to different events and people! Here are some of the biggest events we were part of in 2024:

On May 11, 2024, we were part of Vienna’s biggest Old School event: VIENNAGEDDON. We covered the good time in detail on our blog, which you can find here!

Here are a few short impressions of what this all looked like, but as we already mentioned, the blog article covers the VIENNAGEDDON in every detail.

We’re far from finished with VIENNAGEDDON—get ready, because it’s coming back in 2025! This time, the VIENNAGEDDON will feature not only an Old School tournament, but also a Premodern tournament. Therefore, we decided to host monthly Premodern tournaments, leading up to the Austrian Premodern Championship during the VIENNAGEDDON!

THE VIENNAGEDDON 2025 WILL BE FROM 16 TO 18 MAY 2025!

With that information out in the open, let’s have a glance at what the “Road to Viennageddon” looks like at our store (Thank you, Peter Czismadia for the pictures):

We can only recommend anyone, who hasn’t dipped their toes into Old School or Premodern, to partake, it’s a freaking blast with lots of fun old cards and cold tasty beer!

You can find all the information about the “Premodern – Road to Viennageddon” here!

You can find all the information for the VIENNAGEDDON 2025 here!

Your living room is too small to host over 60 people for a whole Saturday starting at 10AM? No problem, the ThreeForWohnzimmer (powered by Franz) is there to give you and your friends a place to draft for hours on a Saturday!

We had two ThreeForWohnzimmer so far: One 16th July and the other one on 12th October. Both of them were huge success, even so that we had to limit the second event to draft only. The first Wohnzimmer included side-events such as Commander and board games, but it got mainly overrun by drafters!

ThreeForWohnzimmer #1 Recap:

▪️ ROUND ONE: 34 drafters (28 Chaos, 6 Vintage Cube)
▪️ ROUND TWO: 48 drafters (30 Neon Dynasty, 12 Chaos Drafter Side Event, 6 Vintage Cube)
▪️ ROUND THREE: 36 Drafters (36 Mixed MH3/MH2/KLD)

The next 34Wohnzimmer is already scheduled, and who knows what Franz has planned for you this time! Guess we will all find out on February 1, 2025, for the

ThreeForWohnzimmer 3: Heroes of Might and Magic

Choose your class and defeat other players in this magical tournament!

Alright, time to ask the most important question:

How many Black Lotus did we sell this year?

We already did this little quiz in 2022, 2023, and we are doing it now too! Counting Black Lotus from Beta, Unlimited, Collectors’ Edition and International Edition. Small hint: It’s even more than last year!

If you are done predicting, just hover over the box to get the answer.

To quote us around this time from the year 2022 :

Who knows, maybe we will crack the 300 milestone in 2023?

And to quote us around this time from the year 2023 :

Who knows, maybe we will crack the 400 milestone in 2024?

Short answer:

WE DID IT!

Be sure to leave a review too, we appreciate it!

This year, we didn’t have a lot of time for extracurricular activities such as skydiving or go-cart racing (can’t get spoiled like that every year), but Oli, Wenzel and David made sure we were still entertained. That meant In-house Prereleases and “open fridge” for every employee! Not only that, but we all also got extra days off during Christmastime, thanks bosses!

On Friday, 29th November we all gathered at the Three for One Trading home base for gin tonics and board games! Sadly, the Paradice Board Game Bar we went to last year has been closed (you can still support them by buying games from them at their store in Vienna), so we had to relocate to our own “bar”.

Lukas S. organized a lot of different gins and tonics, and together with some private board games as well as our own 341 board game collection (employees only!), we had a fantastic assortment for a fun night!

Games that got played (from small to big): 

Skull King

Gundam Card Game

Magic: The Gathering “Stapel” and Jumpstart

Machi Koro

The Shipwreck Arcana

Cryptid

It’s a Wonderful World

Unicorn Fever

The Inhouse 341 Old School Magic scene is booming, and so we competed in our second OS League this year! A total of 16 employees decided to tap some oh, so beautiful 93/94 cardboard together. After work, during lunch or even between tasks, a quick game of Old School was never off the table (okay, maybe sometimes when we were just too busy).

This also means we only need to infect 11 more co-workers with the retro frame hype, how big will the league be in 2025?!

Final Standings (and Top 8) of the 341 Inhouse Old School League 2024

The pairings for Top 8 were:

Oli – Marc
Ivo – Wenzel
Charly – Lukas M.
Francisc – Stefan

After some heated battles (some shorter than longer), Oli defended his title once again, this time in the finals against Lukas! Oli played with his fully powered Land Tax Control deck against Lukas’ Tax Edge Combo deck. This put Lukas in a “slight” disadvantage, because Oli could also make use of the Land’s Edge Lukas deck was build around. Ouch!

Congratulations Oli on winning our second Old School League!

Oli’s Winning Deck: Land Tax Control Deck, making good use of that 2nd Place price from the Wanderlust Cup 2024

Like every year, the office Christmas party is THE highlight of the year. We all gathered around 5 PM at the store for welcome drinks, snacks and a review of the year. There were gifts for everyone and the obligatory group picture time!

By now we are regulars at Rosnovsky, because we are going there for each Christmas! As always, this meant excellent Austrian cuisine with enough salt to make a grown MtG player happy. Then there were a lot of Jumpstart games, Premodern and, of course, drinks for everyone!