No more SCG Legacy Classics

[Parcher]

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/33951

[Plague Sliver]

Well, dang. I guess I should be happy that I'm closer to Europe and Japan these days?

The latest episode of "The Salt Mine" comes to mind...

[jimmythegreek]

I guess earlier in the day they did a legacy "sale". The balls of these guys.....fuckem.

[ramanujan]

Well, they made the format, and now they are letting it go. Same thing happened with Vintage, big tourneys, huge support, then nothing.

I'm gad they managed to make a killing along the way, good business.

I wonder when/if they decide to kill modern.

[haganbmj]

Whelp, that pretty much eliminates SCG events from my travel schedule.
I'm surprisingly not all that upset about it, though, I've been fading away from Magic the last year or so anyways.
More money/time for other hobbies and more reason to continue gradually piecing out.

[CptHaddock]

Awful change but it's expected considering the phasing out of legacy that SCG was doing this year. Guess this means it's time for local stores to step up and start running medium sized events. I didn't start legacy before the SCG circuit was going, any of you older guys want to elaborate on how the legacy scene was before that time?

As a positive I guess this means that I won't have to play those miserable SCG grinders at all anymore.

[Berserking Now]

Well, SCG just lost me as a customer. I hope they enjoy all those unsellable cards that are only used in legacy.

[Kamus]

Well, I guess it's over :(

[Megadeus]

I'm taking it as a sign that maybe it's time. To get into vintage

[thecrav]

I'm conflicted between wanting to "send a message" to attempt to get Legacy back or to say fuck it and play in smaller events. If nothing else, it would certainly be amusing to organize 100+ Legacy players to get in line to register for 8 mans all at once.

Well, SCG just lost me as a customer. I hope they enjoy all those unsellable cards that are only used in legacy.

SCG lost most eternal buyers years ago when their website had cards priced 10-25% above going rates. The popularity of TCGPlayer further drove that nail in.

Interesting note: The buy price on the duals I looked at selling pre-EW have not changed since this announcement.

I'm taking it as a sign that maybe it's time. To get into vintage

I must have missed something. There was a time when it wasn't time to get into Vintage?

[Dice_Box]

Well, dang. I guess I should be happy that I'm closer to Europe and Japan these days?

The latest episode of "The Salt Mine" comes to mind...

Yea, but I am not happy to be right sometimes.

This is likely going to impact how often I update the DTB section. This is a large amount of data to lose and I will likely have to move to a bi-monthly update schedule.

If we as Legacy players want more than we are being given, we will have to make what we want for ourselves. Like Vintage players do.

[lordofthepit]

However, we knew that if we were unable to accomplish the latter, there was a very real possibility we'd have to discontinue the entire SCG Tour® at the end of this year.

SCG support doesn't keep Legacy alive; Legacy support keeps SCG alive. I imagine they'll go under in a few years, especially with their recent decisions.

[Chatto]

Living in Europe, SCG only meant coverage. Thankfully there are still tournaments in my area (small and midsized, with the occasional bigger one). I believe it will get harder though, as the pool of players won't grow that much (I think). Most importantly: I'm blessed with friends who are also dedicated into Legacy, so there will always be a casual friday-night, or something similar.

And then there is Vintage, because if they are calling me old I want to be really old.

[Mr.C]

Where's the people who shit on me when I said last year (or was it 2014? can't remember) that they'd slowly reduce events to one or two per year?

Tell me again how Legacy is a healthy and sustainable format in North America.

Awful change but it's expected considering the phasing out of legacy that SCG was doing this year. Guess this means it's time for local stores to step up and start running medium sized events. I didn't start legacy before the SCG circuit was going, any of you older guys want to elaborate on how the legacy scene was before that time?

As a positive I guess this means that I won't have to play those miserable SCG grinders at all anymore.

Sure. Legacy grew from the community. SCG jumped on something that was really popular at local-store level and brought it nationwide.

But it won't go back to that, ever. Know why? Because in 2008, Bayous were like $17. They're now $170. New players will not, and cannot, drop that kind of cash.

It's over. It'll be relegated to proxy tournaments and people who have been playing since the last century. See Vintage.

[Mr Miagi]

Where is our friend Ben B to pat us on the back now...

[H]

There were still people traveling for Legacy Classics?

[Megadeus]

Living in GA If I had the time I would travel within 3-5 hours to hit one up. I mean you can go Saturday morning, hang out, play the Saturday challenge, drink at a local bar with friends, wake up, play the classic them go home after. It's fun.

[socialite]

I'm taking it as a sign that maybe it's time. To get into vintage

It's a superior format anyway.

[H]

Living in GA If I had the time I would travel within 3-5 hours to hit one up. I mean you can go Saturday morning, hang out, play the Saturday challenge, drink at a local bar with friends, wake up, play the classic them go home after. It's fun.

Hmm, interesting. I mean, for a variety of reasons I was definitely out of even bothering to try getting all the way to the seldom ones in our traveling range, so I was genuinely unsure if people really were setting out just for a Classic.

I'd hate to say I-told-you-so, but the writing was on the wall even last year. Yet, with all the doom-and-gloom that people posted last year, Legacy still isn't dead. It's not dying now.

And it won't be dead next year when SCG probably completely drops Legacy all-together. Or maybe that is the 2018 announcement. Not that it matters.

[Stuart]

I'm taking it as a sign that maybe it's time. To get into vintage

I must have missed something. There was a time when it wasn't time to get into Vintage?

It's a superior format anyway.

This is a dilemma for me. I prefer Legacy to Vintage by a healthy margin, but if Legacy support is waning and my friends are buying into Vintage, maybe that's a road I should go down . . .

Or I'll just buy fake Power. Yeah, let's go with that.