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Vintage vs Modern vs Ultra Modern
I wanted to spark this discussion here to see others opinions. For reference, I am 22 years old, so I can see how my opinion on this can vary from someone who is older than me. In the card community, we hear vintage, modern, and ultra modern as adjectives describing the era of when that card was produced. Most people I see in the media regarding cards refer to stuff from the 90’s as “Modern”. To me, this seems wrong. In my mind, modern is an ever changing time frame, which refers to the most recently released items, usually within the last 15-20 years. Yet everything since the mid 2000’s seems to be referred to as “Ultra Modern” in this hobby. Why is that? It seems in most other spaces like movies, music, fashion, and other collectibles, anything past 2000 is modern, and everything before then is either vintage, retro or antique. I’m curious to see what others think on this.
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I’ve heard the 90’s cards referred to as “Modern Vintage”. As someone who collected in the 90’s I hate the feel of age that term puts on years I grew up in, but felt it an apt description. I knew exactly what era the card shop owner was speaking about when he said that, 90’s through early 2000’s when the cards began to get a modern update to more foil & shine than the matte & without gloss. So Vintage = pre 90’s, Modern Vintage 90’-00’s & Modern feels like anything in past 10 years or so which marches with time.
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