Oldbordered: A Combined Format of Premodern + Old School
I really wish there was an old school + premodern format that combined both formats card pools, added in the Portal & Starter cards, merged the banlists for Old School + Premodern + Type 1.5 and also banned duals and the power 9 and anything else obviously over powered.
Basically a format where most cards printed before 2003 are legal including Portal and Starter cards but the dual lands and obviously broken cards like the power 9, Stripmine and Necropotence etc are banned.
Lots of people have beloved old border cards (Jungle Lion, Flying Men, Kird Ape, Hymn, Chain Lightning, Juzam Djinn etc) but do not have access to the Power 9 and Duals to be able to play the Old School format where these cards are legal. Its sad that such awesome cards with beautiful art and cherished memories have to sit in some box or binder somewhere.
Does any such format already exist? If not, Old Border (or Oldborder) seems like perfect names for it.
What do you think a banlist for such a format should look like?
What do you think the meta would look like?
I feel it would likely look very similar to Premodern but with cards like Juggernaut, Kird Ape, Flying Men, Jungle Lion, Chain Lightning, Hymn to Tourach, Sinkhole, Juzam Djinn and Goblin Grenade legal, aggro decks would be a little more viable.
I would love ideas on how to tweak the ban list to result in a meta that is atleast comparable to Premoderns current power level and pace, with perhaps a little more aggro. And to help with adoption, I would want all current Premodern decks to also be legal in this new format so that existing Premodern players would have a low barrier of entry to try this format out.
It would be nostalgic for the original Type 1.5 players, Legacy players, Old School players, Middle School players and Premodern players so such a format could cast a pretty wide net and spark lots of attendance if any store is willing to bite the bullet to hosting the first Oldborder event.