Craig Wescoe is a long-time member of the Magic community, competing at the highest levels with his own style, while making content and writing articles for a decade. White Weenie has its hordes of dedicated fans, and Craig has been a standard bearer for that, while managing to stay on the train for the past few years. He's on the edge of what was Hall of Fame consideration. Last weekend at the Mythic Championship, a random person walked up to talk about White Weenie decks, and Craig invited him to dinner. Seems good.
However, he effectively announced his retirement from all that in his weekly article on TCGplayer.
While his ministry clearly matters to him (and has for as long as I've known him), to believe that this choice was made without thinking about the current and future state of Organized Play is foolish. Maybe the MPL was a plus, because the money was great. Maybe the lack of pro status was a minus. Only he knows for sure.
But what we do know is that there's no support for him in the system as stands. This was clearly a set of decisions which did not allow Craig to decide to continue playing the way he did. White weenie players will have to find a new standard bearer.
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