User blog comment:Magnus Zeta/More Admirals?!/@comment-6436810-20130414050839/@comment-69.158.175.215-20130415212648

well, we don't every single VA in one piece so he could have been a VA during the Whitebeard War, but he was in the New World during that time and because of that was not able to make it to the war at the same time his abilities were probably not well mastered at that time. but, being pulled out of retirement seems a lot more likely to have happened.