Our LGS (local game store) is getting into UFS, and we picked up a bunch of old cards and new cards... about a 50/50 mix.
For now, we are playing legacy- just getting people into it, and having fun...
I wonder, how many of you play legacy, and how many just play standard?
95% of the stores across the US are playing Standard on a regular basis, but that doesn't mean they don't hold Legacy events now and then.
Basically all of the players at my store started to purchase cards after rotation so I haven't hosted any legacy, but coming in March I plan to start hosting Legacy tournaments to allow people to pull out all of their brokeness.
The shop I scout for runs the following:
Week 1 - Standard
Week 2 - Standard
Week 3 - Path Of The Master / Special Event
Week 4 - Legacy
Sometimes the events will shift slightly depending on what's going on.
In December we ran two legacy events because we have an annual event called the "Boxing Day Brawl" where players have to use either Dudley or Balrog, and the only attacks that can be in your decks MUST have the punch Keyword. So by running a second legacy event, it allowed players to test their deck in a tournament setting before the BDB. <BTW a *Dudley* off good won the event.>
Also for our legacy events, sometimes we'll do draft (Once every 3 months or so, in between pre-releases), where players will get a starter and 3 older boosters. It helps newer players ease into legacy, and the store does the draft event at a bit of a discount because they're moving older product. (At this point our shop has now moved all starters prior to Set 8, and this is how we'll end up moving the extra Rock Howard decks that no-one wants)
If there's a major event coming up, we may change our order to facilitate testing for the players.
But we do have two active shops in my city currently, and a third one that's taking a break, but plans to pick up again in March. All three shops run at least one legacy event a month.
We tend to run two regular events, a Path of the Master event, and then one special event, which is often Legacy.
However, we recently restarted our league play setup. Basically, the way it starts is each player gets 6 boosters of their choice (no more than two of the same set), as well as 1 random starter deck (from any set). From there, everyone builds a 40 card deck, and we play with the typical sealed event rules. We keep the cards at the shop, and then the next week, everyone gets 2 more boosters of their choice, and can trade cards with everyone else. This goes on every week for 4-6 weeks. It's a LOT of fun, and the one we just started is Legacy. Everyone's got extremely hax decks thanks to the starters - Dhalsim, Sophy, Siggy, etc. Not to mention the two extra random characters everyone gets (I forget who I got, but someone got one of the new Chun-Li's from Warrior's Dream), and all the other insanity. Someone's already pulled a Timmy and an Infiltrating to boot.
Good fun, though. I pulled a hotpack for one of my boosters - Fortune and Glory. Nothing like having 6 characters to choose from from just one pack. I'll probably switch to Seth to make people angry xD
When we gear up for events, we play whatever format is there, and we play at someone's place afterward and so forth.
My playgrounp is recent so we only play Legacy. We still don't have enough cards for decent Standard decks. Most of us have decks with Legacy characters so if we played Standard we would have to give up 2/3 or even all of our decks. I like the Legacy format, because we can play all cards (except banned) and make the decks work the way we wanted, not 1/3 of our decks potencial. And we don't have that much power cards so for now, it's going ok.
Legacy can be the most fun you can have in UFS... or the least.
It depends on how badly the old power cards are abused. Playing against Yoga Mastery was never that much fun, and still isn't. Dark Hado (CC Hax)? Also not that much fun. All the other stuff I used to complain about, but have blocked from my memory? Yech.
But for theme decks, especially highlander decks, it doesn't beat legacy. Some of the characters have gotten to the point where you can have one of every one of their attacks (sometimes one of every foundation), and have a deck that's too big. Legacy makes UFS feel more like the video games to me; I get to fight with a character's entire move set. (:
We generally run two tournaments per week -
Tuesdays - Legacy
Sundays - Standard
Tuesdays are casual day, which means casual ban list (which's been expanding ever so slowly). Sundays is OMG THAT IS SO BROKE CAN I MAKE LOVE TO IT?
Right now no one really wants to play standard or block 3 so actually we do legacy and now we are even going to be playing EDH UFS. I told some of the old players about this and they went out buying new cards so hopefully it will grow the game back in the south .
We've usually been having one block 2, patch event (block 2), then two legacy events each month. Starting next month, the block 2 event is being swapped into block 3. No idea what we're gonna replace the patch events with, I'm hoping to convince people for either another block 3 or something random each month, like highlander. Our problem is half our players in the area will barely play block 2, and are going to refuse to even touch the block 3 event. I'm trying to get them off their refusal of block 3 before our regional, but its hard.
a couple of our players want legacy, but most of us only started playing a year or a year and a half ago, so legacy is not much fun for us who don't own any block one cards. we normaly have 3 standard events and a path of the master, or 2 standard events a prerealease and a path of the master.
Highlander Legacy actually sounds like a lot of fun, and stuff like Waterfall Tira and YWNE Bison won't be as troublesome... hmm. I should float that at our shop out here...
Up here, we usually have something like 1 standard at the start of the month, then 1 standard Patch event and 2 legacy, or 1 patch-1 legacy-1 release event.
Scubadude said:
Right now no one really wants to play standard or block 3 so actually we do legacy and now we are even going to be playing EDH UFS . I told some of the old players about this and they went out buying new cards so hopefully it will grow the game back in the south .
To answer the question, here in WI we run mainly Standard events I am trying to run legacy but most of the players still run their standard deck so it tend to be a wash, but what is this about EDH UFS I know about it in magic but how does it work?!!
boot2dahead said:
Scubadude said:
Right now no one really wants to play standard or block 3 so actually we do legacy and now we are even going to be playing EDH UFS . I told some of the old players about this and they went out buying new cards so hopefully it will grow the game back in the south .
To answer the question, here in WI we run mainly Standard events I am trying to run legacy but most of the players still run their standard deck so it tend to be a wash, but what is this about EDH UFS I know about it in magic but how does it work?!!
Ya a lot of people have been asking me about it works similar to MTG but her are the rules me and Vik are testing so far at our stores site .
http://2d10games.com/forums/index.php?topic=768.msg3440#msg3440