So after Team America (BUG Delver if people don't know the deck by it's quirky name) was in the finals I posted a status expressing how glad I was that Team America was in the finals of SCG Orlando. I never anticipated that calling BUG Delver its community name Team America would have got me into a heated argument about the function of deck names and why having obscure confusing deck names is dumb. A big part of this argument has its source in this article Kibler wrote: http://bmkgaming.com/whats-in-a-name/. I'm not going to post any parts of the conversation for privacy reasons, but I'll just some up the general positions.

My position that I was arguing for in sum was that there's nothing wrong with the legacy community having it's own quirks since SCG are the ones making the format more presentable when it's in the spotlight. In other words, I'm not an elitist asshole for calling BUG Delver Team America in casual conversation and if someone around doesn't know what that means I'd be more than happy to explain it to them assuming they are willing to learn something new since they aren't familiar with a name known by regular players of the format.

The other position: The barrier for legacy is already high due to card prices. Having confusing names that don't help people identify something about the deck is only makes legacy more inaccessible to outsiders than it should be and is idiotic, elitist etc. That fact that someone doesn't know what X-Name refers to Y-Deck is bad based on the name alone is bad because it's rather exclusionary.

I would like the community's input on this since I didn't know this was such a big issue. Just curious to know what segments of the legacy community itself thinks.