Stephen Menendian

January 26th 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Duelists’ Convocation’s mandatory…

Introduction For a game that is infinitely modular, and therefore laden with infinite potential –…

Vintage is an amazing format. As much as I enjoy Old School formats, nothing reaches…

There is nothing that prompts more disagreement or debate in the Magic community than the…

On October 20th, I enrolled on Magic Online’s Vintage Challenge, a scheduled weekly Vintage tournament.…

The end of August is a good time to take stock of the Vintage metagame:…

Years in the making, read the conclusion to Stephen Menendian’s epic History of Vintage. 2017…

Throughout my long career opining on Magic, one of the perennial topics is the Banned…

In 2016 an entire class of cards was printed, largely ignored and overlooked, and swept…

A few years ago, I undertook the effort of writing a 12-part series on Old…

Motivated by circumstances I can no longer recall, I was browsing older Magic periodicals on…

2015 was a year packed with changes in of the History of Vintage. Large tournaments…

2014 is a pivot year, turning Vintage in a radically new trajectory. Consecutive years of…

By the end of 2012, the Vintage format was surprisingly open and diverse. Any perceptible…

For a format marketed as “Eternal,” each year in the History of Vintage delivers unexpected…

2011 may be one of the most tumultuous years in the history of the Vintage…

2010 was a year defined by Worldwake. Rarely before has a new Standard-legal expansion set…

Star City Games. For nearly a decade, it was as close as an independent company…

The restoration of Time Vault led to a reckoning in Vintage, with a major mid-year…

As the clock turned forward from 2007 to 2008, it would not have been possible…

The Vintage format pivoted from the Gifts and Pitch Long era headlong in to a…

Some years ago, in daydream ruminations, I began developing a theory about what makes Vintage…

A remarkable year, 2006 may be the best representation in the history of the Vintage…

A year bracketed by the restriction of Trinisphere, and the introduction of Portal, 2005 was…