Back in my high school days, and the days of Revised and such, we did no have access to the number of singles folks did online and in-store these days. There were a couple kids who bought cards mail-order but most of us were stuck trading amongst our small group.
To combat the lack of most of us getting play sets of the best cards we had different rules.
We had a card limit of 2 except for basic lands and a limit of 1 for no basic lands in addition to using the restricted list. Later when we could tell what was common/uncommon/rare we only limited rares and uncommons to 2 and no basic lands to 1.
It was sort of our version of pauper. If cards were harder to get the were more restricted.
Has there been a variant wherein card quantities are restricted by rarity to make it easier to compete on a budget without eliminating rares or mythical altogether?
To combat the lack of most of us getting play sets of the best cards we had different rules.
We had a card limit of 2 except for basic lands and a limit of 1 for no basic lands in addition to using the restricted list. Later when we could tell what was common/uncommon/rare we only limited rares and uncommons to 2 and no basic lands to 1.
It was sort of our version of pauper. If cards were harder to get the were more restricted.
Has there been a variant wherein card quantities are restricted by rarity to make it easier to compete on a budget without eliminating rares or mythical altogether?