Which criteria should be fulfill by New Legacy Deck to be worth testing

[Dice_Box]

As it has been explained to me what you need is:

A good primer.
Proof of testing, a write up of the testing and matches
The deck must have reached a point where you are sure that the decks development is complete and tweaking is all that is left to do.

Once this has been done you PM one of the Mod team and it gets moved if it's in a ready state.

[death]

Looking at what Fatal's doing, it would seem one could take a systems engineering kind of approach.

This would start with the most accomplished deckbuilders working together to write a System Requirement Specification - a formal document which outlines the requirements a deck that could be perceived as competitive should be able to fulfill. This SRS then would get stickied in the new deck section as a guide for aspiring deckbuilders. The SRS could also contain a list of deliverables that need to be present in a new thread. This would also give deckbuilders the possibility of pointing out which card or combination of cards tends to what requirement and so on, which would make discussing a new deck a lot easier and smoother.

Great, Magic just turned into another day at the office. OMG, lol.

Historically there have been numerous decks which became successful without undergoing this process. Tell me do guys like Gerry Thompson or Caleb Durward who design decks for a living even follow a certain SRS?

Give me a list of these 'most accomplished' deckbuilders that would give two shits about protocols. Aside from emidln, Hollywood, and Lejay who consistently put fresh ideas on the table, I can think of no one else.

When Dream Halls, Time Spiral, and Worldgorger Dragon were unbanned, and when Emrakul and Mizzix's Mastery were spoiled nobody here at TheSource had a fucjing clue what they were doing, and they call themselves deckbuilders.

[Echelon]

Give me a list of these 'most accomplished' deckbuilders that would give two shits about protocols. Aside from emidln, Hollywood, and Lejay who consistently put fresh ideas on the table, I can think of no one else.

They don't have to give a shit about protocols for protocols to have significance. Also, the fact that it isn't being done does not mean that it cannot or should not be done. With that kind of thinking there wouldn't be a DTB-section - someone had to be the first to combine SDT, CB & Terminus for instance. It's also not supposed to be some holy grail but rather another helpful tool for deckbuilding.

I guess SE & requirements management aren't for everyone.