Originality is overrated.



First of all, not everyone has time to dick around with a crap.dec, some of the people play MtG exclusively during the weekly Legacies and they simply prepare one of their two decks the evening before and then on the next day they ride to their stinky lgs to have eight games of MtG before going home. They wanna win, they wanna play the deck they like, they don't have money to experiment with shitty cards. Their choice. If you dislike such community, then there's always Casual Players Alliance site.

Second, this is about tournament play. I know people who'd love to brew but not for the cost of kidney (oh, thank you WotC for the RL, you really done good job in stifling the format!) and for the cost of annoying 1:3 evening after evening until after a year or so they'd finally perfect their Tier 1,99 homebrew.

Third, it's not like there's much to invent in modern MtG, if you want to be at least a bit serious. And no, sorry, switching one bad Dragon Stompy creature for another one bad DS creature isn't anything special, as you may win with Shivan Dragon once you land three lock pieces. If the brews have to fight back against Bob, Grisly, Delver, Force, DRS, AdN or Glimpse, they need to be pretty good. I'm not sure what you wanna build and frankly I don't really care. I play Legacy becasue it's the easiest way to play non-rotating MtG due to the fact that there's a weekly tourney in our lgs. If there'd be a casual group that allows winnng, I'd play with them, but as long as the only possible "you may play old cards" type of community is the competitive one, it's quite strange to whine that it's competitive. Play by the rules, or don't play at all. the, Rome, when, as, Romans, in, do x2.

If you dislike to play against same decks, simply don't go to tournaments, it's that easy. Or throw your eleven playsets of Ancient Tomb into the crowd, so that the others may brew. But if the players are satisfied with their "fetch, island, Delver, go", who are you to tell them that they should play some homebrew.