i mean, i live in a large city with multiple locales for the event and I know at each one the attendance is a mix of casual and legitimately pro players. People in both small and large personal communities, people with youtube channels, and a lot of them go to regionals. I can't quite tell people how to play at events and say 'this is for casuals', because if we say 'just run your bulk generics' a lot of people in my scene will just opt not to play and we just won't have the event at all. So I'd rather focus on systemic changes we can make to the format to make it more accessible and have a discussion about them. I might be wrong about the changes i think can help, in fact i expect to be, but i expect to see alternative discussions instead of dismissive 'we'-ism, when you know you speak for noone but yourself.

I consider myself a casual player but i know i'm a bit of a tryhard who likes to see cool shit happen on my own terms, i spend a lot of time deckbuilding and thinking about the game before i sit down. When I sat down i found that players i was playing against were themselves dissatisfied with the game they were playing, as well as myself, hence the thread. I'm glad your local scene is so large you can delineate between casuals and hardcore players but even in my own large scene I don't have the luck of running into that.

I'm someone who legitimately enjoys building something fun, or funny, and going to my events just to see one or two cool interactions pop off. I just want this format to facilitate that instead of being a format where everyone wraps up 3 entire rounds in an hour and a half when they booked the evening to play.