About

Old-Fashioned is an eternal constructed format with all cards legal that have the old card frame (93/97) and have had their original printing since 1995. Old school formats like Premodern or 93/94(Old School) are enjoying an ever growing popularity. And in a way Old-Fashioned can be seen as Premodern Plus. That is also where the idea of the format started: Premodern is a very interesting community format sporting some of the most powerful spells in the game’s history.

So why Old-Fashioned? Old-Fashioned likes to add to the format by moving it from a “closed” eternal format (no new cards ever enter the format) to a slow shifting “open” eternal format. Like the Modern format of old where every cards entering the format had to pass through Standard, Old-Fashioned tries to be relatively stable while allowing new cards to enter the format. Wizards of the Coast has shown that they like to print cards in the old frame in low volumes for special occasions. Like with Ravnica Remastered, The Brother’s War retro artifacts or Modern Horizon Timeshifts.
These occasions are breathing a bit of new life into Old-Fashioned while not rotating the format completely and binding the format together aesthetically with Magic’s original card frame.

The format has unique card interactions between the (nearly) most powerful spells of old and new and powerful threats. With the format developing the goal is to strike a balance and reach a power level between Pioneer and Modern.

Decks archetypes can range from upgraded Premodern Decks (Terrageddon, Stifelnaught), through Extended Revivals (Ichorid Dredge, Elfball) and Modern or Pioneer amalgams (Phoenix, Tron).