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Nostalgia or not, I let myself get sucked back into MtG in 2021, after discovering the unofficial format Premodern [0], and a major component of that is the artwork on the cards in those sets with the black border. I'm sure it really is just nostalgia but I truly enjoy playing games in that format and looking at the artwork, especially cards which I've never really seen before because they weren't meta back in the day or cards that are just infrequent or that I'd forgotten.

[0]: https://premodernmagic.com/

[freediver]

Thanks for the link. Do you play it offline only?

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I do, I have a small group of friends in SoCal that I play with a couple of times a month.

There's a thriving scene in Madison, Wisconsin and NYC, and abroad in Europe where the format originated.