Quote Originally Posted by Machinus View Post
European decks are more likely to influence tournament compositions than decks from, say, California. It's wrong to exclude European decks and pretend that California is more relevant.
FYI.

Looking at the entirety of the US results in Anwar's T8 thread, there have been exactly zero (0) tournaments reported west of the Mississippi River. As far as the LMF goes, California might as well be somewhere on the dark side of the moon. But this is besides the point.

Personally, I'm not opposed to co-mingling US and German results--but the LMF loses whatever value it might have as a testing gauntlet when I need to add Baseruption and R/G Beatz to my gauntlet; nor can I really recommend that anyone else test against those deck either. On account of that, I'm opposed to the idea.

This isn't to say that Germany and Japan should be ignored, hardly--which is what you seem to imply, Chris. It should go without saying that Legacy players, world-wide, should seek out new technology wherever it presents itself. There is already a thread for this, and any Legacy player looking for something new and proven would do well to look there and play around with those ideas. But that isn't the issue at hand.