Anyone else find it disconcerting that Wizards has only one Legacy GP in the U.S. next year? Maybe I'm just letting the hardcore Modern players in my Magic Club get to me a little (they always like to rag on Legacy), but I just wanted other people's input on this.
I think it's a clear indication that Legacy is not a priority for Wizards, but I don't find it disconcerting at all. As I alluded to in my blog post, Legacy is a format that grew organically from the underlying player support for the format, rather than the other way around (i.e. being crammed down peoples' throats, which ultimately failed for Extended).
Personally, I play a ton of Legacy, but I have never attended a GP, nor have do I have any desire to attend a GP unless it's Legacy format in Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver.
I'd be most concerned if local game stores started dropping Legacy, but they are actually holding more Legacy events and have become better attended. A secondary concern would be if SCG dropped its Legacy Opens, but attendance numbers have been very strong there as well.
On another note, Modern players shouldn't be gloating since the number of Modern GPs also went down. It seems that with the success of GP Charlotte and GP Las Vegas (breaking the attendance records set by the Legacy format GP Madrid), Wizards has decided to push limited GPs as hard as they can.
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I'm in the same boat. I have only a few shops that hold Legacy here, but they do it reliably and people do show up (8-20.) As long as shops hold it, I'm happy. The likelihood of me doing a GP in the next year or two (due to lack of experience in the format) is very unlikely unless as Lord says, it's right here in town.
The likelihood of attending another 50-100 events in that timeframe is very high however; which => several hundred in free monies to the local shop. If modern already has their day, why would they cut all that cash flow?
"Hey Ben Bleiweiss, you've always let us know about SCG's support of Legacy in the past! I've heard rumors that you're going to replace Legacy with Modern (for the third year in a row!) The source of this rumors is someone who has nothing to do with StarCityGames or anyone associated with the company! Are these rumors true?"
"Hello Inquiring Mind! Our Legacy attendance continued to grow throughout all of our 2013 Open Series, and we are very happy with the format! All initial planning for the 2014 Open Series includes Legacy events at the majority (if not all) of Open Series stops (Team Sealed was extremely popular - Standard/Standard events not so much)! I do not anticipate any Modern Open Series events in 2014, but if we included Modern, it would not be at the expense of Legacy! Thank you for asking me directly!
- Ben"
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My name is Ben Bleiweiss and I approve of this message!
(PS: Did I also mention that we were chosen to run GP: New Jersey in 2014, which is the only Legacy GP in the United States next year! Personally, super-excited about that one!)
lets close this before more trolls come in here. But then again, we get one of these threads every so often. I suspect its from people who want legacy to die because they can't get the cards.
And those are changing from legacy to other formats which by next year will be modern. Hell WOTC at PAX east was telling players to reach out to SCG to request them to hold modern opens. Its clear that WOTC wants legacy out of competitive play.
Have you? Or are you hiding in a cave un-aware that SCG already has started to replace legacy sundays with other formats this year alone. None of which are modern. Next year expect even less Legacy days, replaced by even more standard/modern/sealed.
Every Sunday event announced this far will be Legacy format, and they're planning to do that for the rest of 2014 as well!
Earlier this year, we experimented with offering Opens using a number of different formats and configurations. The results of each experiment were disappointing by every metric, so for 2014 we plan on returning to the Open Series formats we know our players want to play and our SCGLive viewers want to watch: Standard every Saturday followed by Legacy every Sunday.
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Much as we should support your local game store when possible (i.e. their cards or supplies aren't too much higher than a different retailer), we should also try to support Star City Games for what they've done in organizing this tournament circuit.
While I'll certainly still compare prices and while supporting the local stores are still my first priority, I'd be willing to pay slightly more at SCG than I would at another retailer due to their excellent customer service and their support of the Legacy format.
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Call me a cynic, but the "experimentation" of non-legacy Sundays wasn't even testing the true alternative to legacy - Modern. I know SCG is reluctant to get into supporting modern (for whatever reason, it's really not that important), but it seems like they are aware that once they open the door to modern Opens, there's no shutting it off.
Call me a cynic, but the "experimentation" of non-legacy Sundays wasn't even testing the true alternative to legacy - Modern. I know SCG is reluctant to get into supporting modern (for whatever reason, it's really not that important), but it seems like they are aware that once they open the door to modern Opens, there's no shutting it off.it will close just as quickly, because it's modern.
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Call me a cynic, but the "experimentation" of non-legacy Sundays wasn't even testing the true alternative to legacy - Modern. I know SCG is reluctant to get into supporting modern (for whatever reason, it's really not that important), but it seems like they are aware that once they open the door to modern Opens, there's no shutting it off.
Much as we should support your local game store when possible (i.e. their cards or supplies aren't too much higher than a different retailer), we should also try to support Star City Games for what they've done in organizing this tournament circuit.
While I'll certainly still compare prices and while supporting the local stores are still my first priority, I'd be willing to pay slightly more at SCG than I would at another retailer due to their excellent customer service and their support of the Legacy format.
I sometimes think I am single-handedly keeping SCG's foreign card sales going. Their shipping and customer service is always impeccable.
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Modern: UBR Grixis Control
EDH: UB Oona, Queen of the Fae
Combo is a part of magic. If you cant deal with combo then your not a magic player.
When SCG brings legacy to Australia then I will care, until that day this news holds little import to those of us that play the game outside the US where the format is kept alive by stores or other smaller Turonys. At the end of the day does anyone think SCG really gives a flying about Legacy as a format or do they care about selling the large amount of expensive staples they are sitting on? Honestly if Legacy did not make them money they would drop it. Its not for the love of the game stores like SCG charge the prices they do and advertise the way they do.
I am all for cheering that the format is going to be alive for a while yet, but I am not going to dance around singing the joys of a store that rips off the player base and sells cards at prices normally 1/3 higher than can be found elsewhere.
I know this is sort of the "trash modern" forum, and people are probably going to be pissed off by this post, but I feel compelled to stick up for modern a little bit.
The main complaint I've seen about modern on this thread is that it's a very narrow format with everyone playing jund or some variant therof. However, at the last Modern GP 11-12 different archetypes were represented. At the last Legacy GP, 12 different archetypes were represented.
I personally find it to be an incredibly fun and diverse format especially for those who don't have the cash to get started in Legacy. Yes, some modern decks are expensive (Jund, etc.) but there are many ways to competitively buy into the format with between $100 and $200.
I don't think that Modern is necessarily a replacement for legacy -- both formats have their own styles, pros, and cons -- but I don't think that everyone here should disregard it as a format entirely.
Why do you all hate modern so much they're both good formats I think it's quite refreshing that blue is **** in modern because very single deck in legacy seems to splash blue because it's the best color ever. Both formats have a place in the world
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I will fight for birthing pod to be banned in modern till the bitter end. May interaction and enjoyable magic for both parties rise above annoying combo control/midrange decks. Combo has a place in legacy because it has good counterplay but not in modern
Modern is a format where Top was banned due to TIME issues, Sword of the Meek was banned due to a combo that can not match in speed Pod decks but it is too "Consistent", Storm is not aloud to exist at all and if you are winning in a way other than turning fokes onto their sides you can expect that your deck is likely to be banned. Its a format where you are freely open to win with Aggro by turn 4 but no effective combo that can do the same is aloud. It is just not what we, as legacy players, enjoy in magic.
Feel free to come and defend your format of choice, but do not expect that we are going to agree with you, because the format is indeed different and it's hamstrung to such an extent that the Trio of "Control, Aggro and Combo" that we love and are use to is skewed to such a degree away from this Trio that we do not find the balance we enjoy.
Modern is fine for those that wish to play it, but you will find few here whom are like that. I have tried it, I sold all my Shocks and got new legacy cards last weekend. I am calling it a day. For me the choice is personal. I like playing cards like Red Elemental Blast and Goblin Ringleader. But both these cards, while having a very narrow scope would find themselves at odds with the Modern format. Because such Draw capabilities and Control aspects are forbidden and thus for those of us that are use to having the freedom to do powerful and interesting things, the format feels muted and the decks feel toothless.
So sure, come, defend your format, but we all say what we feel is true. Modern is a fine format if you like what it offers, but legacy offers something more. More freedom, more options and more faith that things will not get banned just because they are faster in a format where printing answers to issues is seen as Anathema and banning is preferred.
Dice Bag, considering what you have to say just above this post, you should care that SCG experimented with other formats and concluded that Legacy was the best format for them to pair with Standard. It is a really big deal.
Every time I log in I check the number of browsers for the formats on this site. Modern is more than twice Legacy on average. It is not a close comparison any more. Modern has many more people logging in to check out what is new. This is not my opinion. It is just the way things are.
Add to that the uneven support wotc has been giving to Modern and its reason for existing in the first place, and you have a recipe for Legacy slowly but inexorably fading. The fact that SCG has decided to throw their considerable weight back behind Legacy goes a long way to swaying the direction things were headed.
WOTC definitely makes their decisions with the bottom line in plain view. SCG does the same, of course. There is some reason why SCG makes more money off of Legacy tournaments. Maybe it is enough for wotc to look into their own policies.
There is money to made off of Legacy, Hasbro. Reprint Karakas, Chain Lightning, Wasteland, Sinkhole, Berserk, Force of Will, Enlightened Tutor, Ancient Tomb, Sensei's Divining Top, Onslaught fetchlands, etc. Let's have Legacy Masters, wotc. Legacy Masters.
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Also, why are Legacy enthusiasts stout in their support of the format? Why are they vitriolic toward Modern? Why do they compare apples to oranges?
Why do you all hate modern so much they're both good formats I think it's quite refreshing that blue is **** in modern because very single deck in legacy seems to splash blue because it's the best color ever. Both formats have a place in the world
Because I like playing with cards printed before '03.
Because I don't like encouraging formats that artificially inflate the price of mediocre/underpowered cards (shock lands, random multi-colored cards ala kitchen finks).
Because I like the idea of an eternal format that actually includes the first ~ decade of the game.
Add to that the uneven support wotc has been giving to Modern and its reason for existing in the first place, and you have a recipe for Legacy slowly but inexorably fading. The fact that SCG has decided to throw their considerable weight back behind Legacy goes a long way to swaying the direction things were headed.
WOTC definitely makes their decisions with the bottom line in plain view. SCG does the same, of course. There is some reason why SCG makes more money off of Legacy tournaments. Maybe it is enough for wotc to look into their own policies.
There is money to made off of Legacy, Hasbro. Reprint Karakas, Chain Lightning, Wasteland, Sinkhole, Berserk, Force of Will, Enlightened Tutor, Ancient Tomb, Sensei's Divining Top, Onslaught fetchlands, etc. Let's have Legacy Masters, wotc. Legacy Masters.
Pretty accurate. Let's all be honest, Modern was "in design" long (read months-years) before being "released" or established as a format.
Slightly OT but relevant, are there any cards printed in modern frame that are on the reserved list? To me it seems like a sketchy work around with regards to the RL. A secondary format that just forgoes all those annoying old cards.
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Also, why are Legacy enthusiasts stout in their support of the format? Why are they vitriolic toward Modern? Why do they compare apples to oranges?
They fear the heck out of Modern.
(Again, slightly OT but relevant to the discussion)
So, so true. But, look at the effect Modern's player base has had on "high demand" staples. Heck, Tarmogoyf was on the decline before modern and dropped as low as ~$40-$50. The market responds to player demand and I'd hate to see my beloved 1.5 go out the window (vastly due to card availability and/or cost of play) for a format that's already headed down the same high cost road. Heck, current Modern decks are as/more expensive than legacy decks were ~4 years ago. That's pretty crazy. At this rate it won't be too long before the price of entrance to modern becomes an issue in and of itself. And when that happens legacy will be here to welcome young-green-horned players into the fold.
I actually *pretty much* hate combo; but I wouldn't want any of it really banned.
maybe S&T CAUSE I SUPER MEGA HATE IT.
Legacy is where everything but the most brokenest of the broken gets to be played; not only that, but modern has this obscure 8th edition barrier. I would like modern if it allowed me to play something like Spiritmonger and other old beaters. It'd be like Format: Cool Beaters then; which I would greatly endorse (while still playing legacy I imagine.) Instead 8th edition cuts off so much stuff that I like for the sake of killing blue and combo it's frustrating to build decks because there are holes in the color pie I'm not used to.
Legacy is like:
"Hey you! go build a deck that can compete with:
-The best aggro decks
-Deal with combo
-Not be strangled by control/prison
Use whatever you like!"
which makes it absurdly fun to brew in because it's a challenge. When combo is nix'd to such a degree and control's best counterspells start at 2-mana:
Modern feels like expensive casual; except without the brewing and neat cards. Considering it to be anything similar to Legacy is short-sighted.
Maybe I should care about SGC's, but I don't. I will not start caring any time soon either. I live in a bubble. I live in a city the size as some US towns, with one shop I can go to and play with 30 people showing up once a week. That's the best I can hope for. The GP was here and we got a 6 round play off. We have a tiny scene here but it's ours and we make the most of it.
SCG's is a US thing, outside this bubble. And from our point of view it offers nothing to those outside the US. Its nice that they are willing to throw their weight behind Legacy. But outside of a full scale revival of the format by Wizards we are only going to see the dying embers of this format thanks to increasing prices of cards and that damn List. I am happy for those of you that can go and play, but for those of us not in the US, for those of us not able to make those games, all we can hope is that SCG kicks Wizards up the butt and makes them see what they have abandoned.
But legacy seams to be something they no longer care about. "The Legends of Legacy" is a set I do not see happening until every last drop of blood has been pulled from everywhere else and then when they need a new cow to milk, we will be there. Honestly, I find the way we are treated to be fairly ------- disgusting but hay, what can we do about it.
So I play in my bubble, enjoy my time with mates and wait until there is nothing left of the scene left in my small city. Because WotC is not going to save my hobby here. I doubt SCG will either. Because there is no profit to be found running a SCG like event in each of the city's in my country.
But at the end of the day we can hope and pray that Wizards will wake up and will see the masses of players that they have forgotten and abandoned. But we never seam to ask the big ass question. Even if a legacy set is printed. Even if they turn back to us. After all this time, the time we have spent pushed to the side and trampled on, does WotC really deserve OUR support? Because they don't seam to want to offer us any.
Now maybe SCG will save this format and if they do then I will offer my cheers, but I think that will be too late for my bubble. Because each month someone else cashes out, someone else moves on. We only have 30 people to lose here and then we will have nothing. SCG is not going to save my hobby, the scene here will be long dead by the time that pipe dream happens if ever.
So no, I do not care about that store, I care about MY store, I care about MY friends and I care about getting what good I can out of a dying format in my city. Is legacy dying? No, not if your one of the lucky ones to live in a place where you have a half dozen stores to pick from and a big event twice a year. But if you do not have that then this announcement means nothing really, because while the shows will come on each Monday morning, SGC will not save us from what is coming.
I know that sounds selfish as hell, but the fact is, not all of us are so lucky as to have the chance to go to one of these events. We do not all have the hope that these events will save this format and some of us are watching it die at the ground level. So I am sorry if I sound like a spoiled brat, but SCG is not my savour, is not going to save the format for me and I really can care less what they choose to do.
Legacy is not going to die, but that does not mean it will flourish. Especially not where its becoming less financially viable to run events.
I think it's a clear indication that Legacy is not a priority for Wizards, but I don't find it disconcerting at all. As I alluded to in my blog post, Legacy is a format that grew organically from the underlying player support for the format, rather than the other way around (i.e. being crammed down peoples' throats, which ultimately failed for Extended).
Personally, I play a ton of Legacy, but I have never attended a GP, nor have do I have any desire to attend a GP unless it's Legacy format in Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver.
I'd be most concerned if local game stores started dropping Legacy, but they are actually holding more Legacy events and have become better attended. A secondary concern would be if SCG dropped its Legacy Opens, but attendance numbers have been very strong there as well.
On another note, Modern players shouldn't be gloating since the number of Modern GPs also went down. It seems that with the success of GP Charlotte and GP Las Vegas (breaking the attendance records set by the Legacy format GP Madrid), Wizards has decided to push limited GPs as hard as they can.
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Junk PodMagic: the BuylistingThe likelihood of attending another 50-100 events in that timeframe is very high however; which => several hundred in free monies to the local shop. If modern already has their day, why would they cut all that cash flow?
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Junk PodMagic: the BuylistingMy name is Ben Bleiweiss and I approve of this message!
(PS: Did I also mention that we were chosen to run GP: New Jersey in 2014, which is the only Legacy GP in the United States next year! Personally, super-excited about that one!)
lets close this before more trolls come in here. But then again, we get one of these threads every so often. I suspect its from people who want legacy to die because they can't get the cards.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/legacy-type-1-5/661941-list-of-stores-that-support-legacy
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?28892-Compilation-Of-Legacy-Streams
http://www.starcitygames.com/article/27081_2014-Open-Series-In-Store-Programs-Update.html
Every Sunday event announced this far will be Legacy format, and they're planning to do that for the rest of 2014 as well!
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Junk PodMagic: the BuylistingWoo! Starcity receives some criticism every now and then, but they really do are a tremendous pillar to the continued success of legacy.
Finally, some ****ing good news. I can't tell you how sick I was of seeing double-standard
Have any questions or concerns? Come take a dip in my pool.
While I'll certainly still compare prices and while supporting the local stores are still my first priority, I'd be willing to pay slightly more at SCG than I would at another retailer due to their excellent customer service and their support of the Legacy format.
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GWB Maverick GWB
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Junk PodMagic: the BuylistingFixed that for you.
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Your whole post is conjecture.
I sometimes think I am single-handedly keeping SCG's foreign card sales going. Their shipping and customer service is always impeccable.
UBRGW T.E.S.
UUUSpiral Tide
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Combo is a part of magic. If you cant deal with combo then your not a magic player.
I am all for cheering that the format is going to be alive for a while yet, but I am not going to dance around singing the joys of a store that rips off the player base and sells cards at prices normally 1/3 higher than can be found elsewhere.
Current decks of choice:
Vintage: Shops.
Legacy: Lands.
Modern: Lantern.
The main complaint I've seen about modern on this thread is that it's a very narrow format with everyone playing jund or some variant therof. However, at the last Modern GP 11-12 different archetypes were represented. At the last Legacy GP, 12 different archetypes were represented.
I personally find it to be an incredibly fun and diverse format especially for those who don't have the cash to get started in Legacy. Yes, some modern decks are expensive (Jund, etc.) but there are many ways to competitively buy into the format with between $100 and $200.
I don't think that Modern is necessarily a replacement for legacy -- both formats have their own styles, pros, and cons -- but I don't think that everyone here should disregard it as a format entirely.
I will fight for birthing pod to be banned in modern till the bitter end. May interaction and enjoyable magic for both parties rise above annoying combo control/midrange decks. Combo has a place in legacy because it has good counterplay but not in modern
Feel free to come and defend your format of choice, but do not expect that we are going to agree with you, because the format is indeed different and it's hamstrung to such an extent that the Trio of "Control, Aggro and Combo" that we love and are use to is skewed to such a degree away from this Trio that we do not find the balance we enjoy.
Modern is fine for those that wish to play it, but you will find few here whom are like that. I have tried it, I sold all my Shocks and got new legacy cards last weekend. I am calling it a day. For me the choice is personal. I like playing cards like Red Elemental Blast and Goblin Ringleader. But both these cards, while having a very narrow scope would find themselves at odds with the Modern format. Because such Draw capabilities and Control aspects are forbidden and thus for those of us that are use to having the freedom to do powerful and interesting things, the format feels muted and the decks feel toothless.
So sure, come, defend your format, but we all say what we feel is true. Modern is a fine format if you like what it offers, but legacy offers something more. More freedom, more options and more faith that things will not get banned just because they are faster in a format where printing answers to issues is seen as Anathema and banning is preferred.
Current decks of choice:
Vintage: Shops.
Legacy: Lands.
Modern: Lantern.
Every time I log in I check the number of browsers for the formats on this site. Modern is more than twice Legacy on average. It is not a close comparison any more. Modern has many more people logging in to check out what is new. This is not my opinion. It is just the way things are.
Add to that the uneven support wotc has been giving to Modern and its reason for existing in the first place, and you have a recipe for Legacy slowly but inexorably fading. The fact that SCG has decided to throw their considerable weight back behind Legacy goes a long way to swaying the direction things were headed.
WOTC definitely makes their decisions with the bottom line in plain view. SCG does the same, of course. There is some reason why SCG makes more money off of Legacy tournaments. Maybe it is enough for wotc to look into their own policies.
There is money to made off of Legacy, Hasbro. Reprint Karakas, Chain Lightning, Wasteland, Sinkhole, Berserk, Force of Will, Enlightened Tutor, Ancient Tomb, Sensei's Divining Top, Onslaught fetchlands, etc. Let's have Legacy Masters, wotc. Legacy Masters.
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Also, why are Legacy enthusiasts stout in their support of the format? Why are they vitriolic toward Modern? Why do they compare apples to oranges?
They fear the heck out of Modern.
Because I like playing with cards printed before '03.
Because I like playing with strong cards like dark ritual, umezawa's jitte, etc.
Because I don't like encouraging formats that artificially inflate the price of mediocre/underpowered cards (shock lands, random multi-colored cards ala kitchen finks).
Because I like the idea of an eternal format that actually includes the first ~ decade of the game.
etc.....
Pretty accurate. Let's all be honest, Modern was "in design" long (read months-years) before being "released" or established as a format.
Slightly OT but relevant, are there any cards printed in modern frame that are on the reserved list? To me it seems like a sketchy work around with regards to the RL. A secondary format that just forgoes all those annoying old cards.
(Again, slightly OT but relevant to the discussion)
So, so true. But, look at the effect Modern's player base has had on "high demand" staples. Heck, Tarmogoyf was on the decline before modern and dropped as low as ~$40-$50. The market responds to player demand and I'd hate to see my beloved 1.5 go out the window (vastly due to card availability and/or cost of play) for a format that's already headed down the same high cost road. Heck, current Modern decks are as/more expensive than legacy decks were ~4 years ago. That's pretty crazy. At this rate it won't be too long before the price of entrance to modern becomes an issue in and of itself. And when that happens legacy will be here to welcome young-green-horned players into the fold.
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Legacy is where everything but the most brokenest of the broken gets to be played; not only that, but modern has this obscure 8th edition barrier. I would like modern if it allowed me to play something like Spiritmonger and other old beaters. It'd be like Format: Cool Beaters then; which I would greatly endorse (while still playing legacy I imagine.) Instead 8th edition cuts off so much stuff that I like for the sake of killing blue and combo it's frustrating to build decks because there are holes in the color pie I'm not used to.
Legacy is like:
"Hey you! go build a deck that can compete with:
-The best aggro decks
-Deal with combo
-Not be strangled by control/prison
Use whatever you like!"
which makes it absurdly fun to brew in because it's a challenge. When combo is nix'd to such a degree and control's best counterspells start at 2-mana:
Modern feels like expensive casual; except without the brewing and neat cards. Considering it to be anything similar to Legacy is short-sighted.
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SCG's is a US thing, outside this bubble. And from our point of view it offers nothing to those outside the US. Its nice that they are willing to throw their weight behind Legacy. But outside of a full scale revival of the format by Wizards we are only going to see the dying embers of this format thanks to increasing prices of cards and that damn List. I am happy for those of you that can go and play, but for those of us not in the US, for those of us not able to make those games, all we can hope is that SCG kicks Wizards up the butt and makes them see what they have abandoned.
But legacy seams to be something they no longer care about. "The Legends of Legacy" is a set I do not see happening until every last drop of blood has been pulled from everywhere else and then when they need a new cow to milk, we will be there. Honestly, I find the way we are treated to be fairly ------- disgusting but hay, what can we do about it.
So I play in my bubble, enjoy my time with mates and wait until there is nothing left of the scene left in my small city. Because WotC is not going to save my hobby here. I doubt SCG will either. Because there is no profit to be found running a SCG like event in each of the city's in my country.
But at the end of the day we can hope and pray that Wizards will wake up and will see the masses of players that they have forgotten and abandoned. But we never seam to ask the big ass question. Even if a legacy set is printed. Even if they turn back to us. After all this time, the time we have spent pushed to the side and trampled on, does WotC really deserve OUR support? Because they don't seam to want to offer us any.
Now maybe SCG will save this format and if they do then I will offer my cheers, but I think that will be too late for my bubble. Because each month someone else cashes out, someone else moves on. We only have 30 people to lose here and then we will have nothing. SCG is not going to save my hobby, the scene here will be long dead by the time that pipe dream happens if ever.
So no, I do not care about that store, I care about MY store, I care about MY friends and I care about getting what good I can out of a dying format in my city. Is legacy dying? No, not if your one of the lucky ones to live in a place where you have a half dozen stores to pick from and a big event twice a year. But if you do not have that then this announcement means nothing really, because while the shows will come on each Monday morning, SGC will not save us from what is coming.
I know that sounds selfish as hell, but the fact is, not all of us are so lucky as to have the chance to go to one of these events. We do not all have the hope that these events will save this format and some of us are watching it die at the ground level. So I am sorry if I sound like a spoiled brat, but SCG is not my savour, is not going to save the format for me and I really can care less what they choose to do.
Legacy is not going to die, but that does not mean it will flourish. Especially not where its becoming less financially viable to run events.
Current decks of choice:
Vintage: Shops.
Legacy: Lands.
Modern: Lantern.