The future of legacy looks bleak at the rate of new sets and EDH + UB dominance alongside WoTC’s poor understanding of the legacy format and community. How do we get a community organized panel to take over BnR management?
There has always been controversy regarding the idea of a community managed panel to control BnR. Unfortunately, WoTC continues to prove BnR after BnR for literal years now that they have no idea how to properly manage legacy, nor care to do so.
There is an alarming rate of FIRE commander cards that enter into the card pool and promote snowbally or uninteractive gameplay in a format that’s historically been enjoyed because of the high level of interaction it brings. Things have been and will continue to get worse. The problem has compounded itself for several sets now, where even if we get the popular desired ban (nexus, ring, Tamiyo, etc), the next snowball threat that was “watched“ will establish its dominance again, before another commander or UB card designed for standard or commander takes over again. Rinse and repeat since 2019 and the FIRE mantra.
While player driven panels have their holes, I can’t imagine anyone who cares about the format doing a worse job than WoTC is doing and continues to do so. Pauper looks like it has overall improved since they had a panel.
how do we, the community, effectively communicate to WoTC to create a format panel like pauper?
(Please don't make this a premodern thread. It’s a completely different format. Most people play legacy because it has force of will and brainstorm in it.)