>>97483460
Konami has acknowledged them in YuGiOh with Time Wizard. NA stopped support for it, but Euros are continuing it, and Japan has been engaging with it to some degree with Master Duel.

I don't know about Magic, but it may last longer with Yu-Gi-Oh as it can act as a lower complexity intro format. The main long term issue they will have is the longer they are run, the more solved the formats become. GOAT has been at it for so long that there's very little room for innovation, and Edison's getting pretty squeezed with Blackwing. Reaper tried to be another format, but that one's been solved. HAT and Tengu Plant are on a bit of a rise, but those seem to be being hit pretty hard by Dark World.

There will probably be a decline as Boomers don't really like solved formats, but the introduction may allow a longer lifespan even after the peak.

>>97483460
They definitely are some level of boomer cope but also these elderly games are barely recognizable now compared to what they were where these throwback formats are and obviously people want to relive "the glory days". Or at least the days before IP rape and less insane power creep.

Yugioh has the leg up because it has the anime/manga nostalgia as well as the card game nostalgia to prop up its formats. GOAT might be more or less solved but its also the format where you can play the original series with your friends and there is essentially an endless supply of people who watched the show but never touched the card game who might want to get into it now. Edison kind of suffers on this front being a weird middle of 5Ds format instead of an end of GX format.

Magic kind of lacks any sort of multimedia nostalgia. Like sure 2015 is a nice clean break of when Magic started its shit spiral but that break is also very feelings based. If Modern 2015 actually had somewhere easy to play it then I'd probably do it because then I don't have to see how they bastardized some of my favorite blocks like Innistrad but also its more or less solved already because it was the actually supported Modern era for a while. I think Modern 2015 EDH would probably be the most fun.

>>97483460
they will never die out because the current game is garbage and all these people are doing is playing what they perceive as better

>>97484581
How about the "solved format" argument?

The best way to play Magic has always been draft desu. And draft is much better nowadays.

>>97488573
That's only true for people who play it all the time, the average boomer plays a few times a week at most. I don't think that's enough to get bored, and if they do, in my experience we just change or add a few cards

>>97483460
5 stages of grief for seeing the game they once loved dead yet refusing to move on.
This one is "bargaining".

Good

>>97483460
>Is this boomer cope?
Only sort of, it's mostly collectors coping. Their collection is useless because everyone and their mom sleeves their cards now and 90% of their collection is either useless or illegal in every format.

Ironically for MtG, this market force was also behind the development of Commander, which backfired as soon as WotC took over and started turbo-printing power.

>>97492048
"bargaining" my 2008 power-crept cards to a new, bigger fool

>>97483460

Throwback formats exist because people aren't having fun with the "normal" version of the game and regard it as a painful embarrassment. They won't go away unless the game itself goes away.