I am curious what effect (if any) you have seen/experienced since SCG quit actively supporting Legacy? What long term effects do you expect? Will prices on staples come down? Will local scenes become more diverse and less reliance on net-decking? Will innovations to the format come at a slower clip in the future?
I am curious what effect (if any) you have seen/experienced since SCG quit actively supporting Legacy? What long term effects do you expect? Will prices on staples come down? Will local scenes become more diverse and less reliance on net-decking? Will innovations to the format come at a slower clip in the future?
SCG stopped being relevant to the legacy scene on the west coast well before they stopped actively supporting legacy, aside from producing occasional content that everyone forgot about anyways, and they were never relevant to the European/Asian scene.
I honestly don't think it's going to have much impact. Local scenes have always been diverse thanks to the high cost and generally high power level of even lower tier decks. Other stores will fire events as long as they're bringing in people, and there are a few that already have streaming setups. Legacy has stronger community roots than most other formats already, so one store dropping support isn't going to do any real damage. Legacy has bigger underlying issues with card prices anyways, which I expect to stay high. There's always going to be some portion of the MtG playerbase interested in legacy willing and able to buy/trade into the format, and the biggest hurdles for many players, duals, have cross format appeal thanks to EDH (and vintage, but if you're interested in paper vintage you either have the cards already, can easily afford duals, or are proxying anyways). I don't want to downplay the amount of time and money SCG put into promoting the format a few years ago, but they haven't ever been the sole sustaining force.
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I honestly don't think it's going to have much impact. Local scenes have always been diverse thanks to the high cost and generally high power level of even lower tier decks. Other stores will fire events as long as they're bringing in people, and there are a few that already have streaming setups. Legacy has stronger community roots than most other formats already, so one store dropping support isn't going to do any real damage. Legacy has bigger underlying issues with card prices anyways, which I expect to stay high. There's always going to be some portion of the MtG playerbase interested in legacy willing and able to buy/trade into the format, and the biggest hurdles for many players, duals, have cross format appeal thanks to EDH (and vintage, but if you're interested in paper vintage you either have the cards already, can easily afford duals, or are proxying anyways). I don't want to downplay the amount of time and money SCG put into promoting the format a few years ago, but they haven't ever been the sole sustaining force.