After encountering and playing in Vanishing 3CB over at Misetings, I've really come to love the format. So I've decided I'd like to run something that uses it as a basis. With due credit to MutualDesire at MT, here are the basic rules:
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The Rules
Three card blind is a format where everybody builds a three card deck. You start off with all cards in your hand, and you don't lose to decking. When two decks face off against each other, their contents become public knowledge, and perfect play is assumed. Random effects always go against the person who played them (so mana clash is NOT a good idea). Games last as long as they take, but can end up as a draw. Matches are played one game with each player starting once, so each player will walk out with between 0 and 6 points.
Tournaments are played with everybody 'playing' everybody else. Whoever has most points at the end wins that round. Trick is, decks are kept private (by PMing them to me) until entries close (First round closes 24 hours from now). Discuss strategy here all you want, but you don't have to publicise your tech until the round is done.
So, that's Three Card Blind (3CB). So what's Vanishing 3CB? Well, that centers around the banned list. There are a number of cards which look overpowered for this format. Most 3CB games start out with a number of banned cards. This doesn't. For the first round, every card is legal. From then on, the following rules apply each round (basic lands are always exempt from bannination):
1. Each card from the winners deck becomes banned.
2. Any card that appears in at least five decks.
I'm making a couple of minor changes/additions to this. The first is that I'm not allowing Unglued or Unhinged, unlike the game at MT. The second is that I will be adding made-up cards to the format, and by default they'll remain in the format until they're banned, just like any other card.
I'll keep a running tally of each player's score. Each round, I'll take each player's score, divide by the number of players, and add that to the cumulative score (so each player adds between 0 and 6 to his or her cumulative score). This way players aren't penalized for playing in a round with fewer players than others. Also, the player with the coolest deck title will get .5 points added to his or her cumulative score, and the player with the coolest deck will get 1 point added to his or her cumulative score. I will be participating in the game as well, but I won't be eligible for either of the bonus points
Without further ado, let's get round 1 under way! To recap, the only banned cards at this point are:
Banned:
Anything Unhinged/Unglued
Unique/Special cards (Splendid Genesis, 1996 World Champion, etc.)
Ante Cards
Chaos Orb, Falling Star
Everything else is legal! In addition, I'm adding the following card to the card pool:
Shatterspike - 0
Instant
Counter target artifact spell unless its controller pays 1.
PM submissions to me, and feel free to ask questions here or PM them to me. Make sure to include the name of your deck I'm going to try to end this round in about half a week if interest is high enough. I'll update the thread later.
But every round it will get bigger and bigger, and we will be playing basics soon enough, I take it those cannot be banned? Well souds fun, i will give it a try!
that only works if your going first, its pretty pointless once the other guys unloaded. Besides who'd be a big enogh ass to do that.
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Actually, it's an instant, not an artifact, so it works at any point during the game. It stops lotus and some moxen decks as well, so it adds a new element to the game.
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I was refering to the hym-duress-mise blitz, which needs the lotus for mana and, corespondingly, can only go of at sorcery speed.
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Ahh, yes, that makes sense. Sorry about that. Besides, draw-only decks are most definitely not the best choice in this kind of environment ;).
I'll hopefully have something to submit sometime soon. I think I've got a good idea for what the metagame will look like.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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How are you going to handle people who don't show up every round?
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yeah thats why i think lotus might make the second week, shatterspike wont for sure
I'm not so sure about that, because shatterspike would actually have to win to get banned, and I think it's gonna scare off most of the lotuses, thus having the paradoxical effect of making shatterspike decks lose to whoever can come up with the best non-lotus strategy.
How are you going to handle people who don't show up every round?
I'd wager they just lose.
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I'm not so sure about that, because shatterspike would actually have to win to get banned, and I think it's gonna scare off most of the lotuses, thus having the paradoxical effect of making shatterspike decks lose to whoever can come up with the best non-lotus strategy.
Shatterspike will likely take a close second.
I'm playing a deck named "F**k Shatterspike". At least this round, because all its cards will be banned next round.
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CounterAgent: You should think of legalizing Un Block sometime around round 5 or 6 just to throw some more funny stuff into it. Don't even worry about pre-banning The Cheese Stands Alone... all the accelerators that can play it will be long gone by then.
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I'm making a couple of minor changes/additions to this. The first is that I'm not allowing Unglued or Unhinged, unlike the game at MT. The second is that I will be adding made-up cards to the format, and by default they'll remain in the format until they're banned, just like any other card.
I'll keep a running tally of each player's score. Each round, I'll take each player's score, divide by the number of players, and add that to the cumulative score (so each player adds between 0 and 6 to his or her cumulative score). This way players aren't penalized for playing in a round with fewer players than others. Also, the player with the coolest deck title will get .5 points added to his or her cumulative score, and the player with the coolest deck will get 1 point added to his or her cumulative score. I will be participating in the game as well, but I won't be eligible for either of the bonus points
Without further ado, let's get round 1 under way! To recap, the only banned cards at this point are:
Banned:
Anything Unhinged/Unglued
Unique/Special cards (Splendid Genesis, 1996 World Champion, etc.)
Ante Cards
Chaos Orb, Falling Star
Everything else is legal! In addition, I'm adding the following card to the card pool:
Shatterspike - 0
Instant
Counter target artifact spell unless its controller pays 1.
PM submissions to me, and feel free to ask questions here or PM them to me. Make sure to include the name of your deck I'm going to try to end this round in about half a week if interest is high enough. I'll update the thread later.
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Lotus, Hymn to Tourach, Duress for draw every game?
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thats why we have this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgjnU7C3Aw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe7kkZixasc
[Leader - Team BTY]
[Founder - Casual Council]
[Creator - Group 'Make A Deck']
[Implementor - 3 Card Blind]
[MUD Admin]
[Dominion of Chaos (DoC)]
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
I'll hopefully have something to submit sometime soon. I think I've got a good idea for what the metagame will look like.
[Leader - Team BTY]
[Founder - Casual Council]
[Creator - Group 'Make A Deck']
[Implementor - 3 Card Blind]
[MUD Admin]
[Dominion of Chaos (DoC)]
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgjnU7C3Aw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe7kkZixasc
Workshop and Shatterspike too, I'd bet.
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tongs and bridges go with the shop.
I wonder how many people realize that you can't even play a sol ring with workshop if they have a shatterspike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgjnU7C3Aw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe7kkZixasc
I'm not so sure about that, because shatterspike would actually have to win to get banned, and I think it's gonna scare off most of the lotuses, thus having the paradoxical effect of making shatterspike decks lose to whoever can come up with the best non-lotus strategy.
I'd wager they just lose.
Shatterspike will likely take a close second.
I'm playing a deck named "F**k Shatterspike". At least this round, because all its cards will be banned next round.
https://twitch.tv/annorax10 (classic retro speedruns & occasional MTGO/MTGA screwaround streams)
https://twitch.tv/SwiftorCasino (yes, my team and I run live dealer games for the baldman using his channel points as chips)
https://twitch.tv/annorax10 (classic retro speedruns & occasional MTGO/MTGA screwaround streams)
https://twitch.tv/SwiftorCasino (yes, my team and I run live dealer games for the baldman using his channel points as chips)