A lot of good points and, here in the Atlanta area the scene is still alive but, the BIG cardshop Super Games cancelled all Legacy events and ran them once a month and even then, could barely get them to fire. Now they have brought them back and I will attend one in the near future but I have no hope for them. The attendance is just abysmal for the most part. Now I have largely cashed out of legacy but 2 of my buddies still play ever or every other saturday and they say they get ... 10-12 average showing up and then 15-20 on a really good day.

Now comparing that to Modern, I play every other thursday (they run once a week) and the attendance is 32-38 people in that range, I have never seen less than 30 show up.

That being said I have made the switch to Modern and here is why, variety (and the ability to build a deck without selling my motorcycle). This is one of the reasons I believe legacy is dying, people get burned out. When my buddies come back they play against the same crap everytime, Miracles, Stoneblade, Delver Variants, all running the same 40-45 cards main and while some of those players do have the ability to play other decks, they basically know which people are running what at almost any given time.

Sorry, long point but this is just my perspective, when I play Modern I run into a variety of decks and literally never play the same deck twice in a 4 round tournament, the control decks run different cards, as do aggro, burn, etc. You don't run into the decks running the same 40-45 cards unless its Affinity, UR Storm, Scapeshift, and a few others that have a mainboard pretty set in stone, but even then, there might be 0-3 of those decks in a field of 30ish people. Anything can win in Modern, Homebrews can do well if tuned for the meta, IMOP the format allows for a lot more creativity, hell, last 2 weeks I went 3-1 and 3-0-1 with a decks running cascade spells and 16x suspend creatures!