Originally Posted by TheInfamousBearAssassin Originally Posted by

Patriot Act was made by Americans, as the first post in the thread acknowledges. Bryant Cook's article linked is busted but to my recollection it was something like James Pogue, David Gearhart and a couple other Northern Virginia players (maybe Dan Signorini?) that created the first iteration.



Shardless Bug I'm less familiar with but the first post gives credit to Brian DeMars who is a Michigan player. The first I remember about it being seen as a viable deck it was still being confused with Team America but lauded by a bunch of top name players on the SCG circuit.



I have no idea who really wants to claim credit for Miracles but the first post in the thread belongs to Hanni who is American.



Legacy Elves is harder to trace because it's not clear at what point you want to differentiate it concretely from Extended Elves, but even take that and that's 5/6 of the DTB alone. And like as much as I rip on Finn all the time for good reasons he was still clearly the primary motivating force behind the development of Death and Taxes for instance.



I mean I've talked about the SCG echo chamber myself before but this is not a well-researched or compelling case at all.