MTG Salvation

This week's judgings brought to you by The Pretty Reckless.

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Creative Writing – Good name, great flavor text. It doesn't feel very connected to your God, though.

Somehow I missed that the artifact was supposed to tie back to the first round. It's that common in MCC, or just a specific to this month's challenge?

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Somehow I missed that the artifact was supposed to tie back to the first round. It's that common in MCC, or just a specific to this month's challenge?

Reasonably common. The MCC isn't usually story-based but the rounds will often tie into one another.

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Somehow I missed that the artifact was supposed to tie back to the first round. It's that common in MCC, or just a specific to this month's challenge?

It doesn't matter unless stated otherwise.
In Round 1 there was this little snippet in the description above the task and challenges: "Keep in mind that your subsequent designs this month are going to need to touch back to this round in some form or fashion."

With hindsight it might have been better to put it into Round 2 as well and putting it into the clarifications, which is something people will be more likely to read.
I'm ashamed to admit I didn't catch it either, even tho I usually read that first part. Luckily I chose a coherent theme nevertheless.

@VI: I'm going to nitpick your Quality deduction for my submission by mentioning the card I used for the template: Coalition Relic. "At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way." The only functional difference between this and my card are that you can't choose :symw:, :symu:, or :symr:. With mine, you either add for each charge counter, or you add for each charge counter. Your wording suggestion changes what the card does, as I did not use the word "combination" in the ability.

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@VI: I'm going to nitpick your Quality deduction for my submission by mentioning the card I used for the template: Coalition Relic. "At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way." The only functional difference between this and my card are that you can't choose :symw:, :symu:, or :symr:. With mine, you either add for each charge counter, or you add for each charge counter. Your wording suggestion changes what the card does, as I did not use the word "combination" in the ability.

In that case, did you intend for the card to cause you to choose between only black mana or only green mana? If that's the case, I've never seen a card do that and it's fairly unintuitive. There are plenty of cards that add one mana of any color, but every card I've seen that adds from a subset of two colors uses the established format I linked to in my judgment.

EDIT: Doesn't matter. My card wasn't as good as others submitted in your opinion. I'm dropping it.

I've just received communication from Ryder052 that he won't be able to continue judging this month. I'll take over his bracket for this week, and we're still waiting on Profani to get his judgment in. I'll get to Ryder's bracket ASAP.

Round Three is up.
Ryder052's bracket is up.

Brackets will be up late tonight, possibly in the morning.

Brackets up.

Sorry, FreshMeat, but you missed the deadline.

Damn I was hoping you'd let me get away with it if I got it in before you put up the brackets, I always get messed up by American time zones and when I saw you say the brackets were going up I posted as quickly as possible

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Damn I was hoping you'd let me get away with it if I got it in before you put up the brackets, I always get messed up by American time zones and when I saw you say the brackets were going up I posted as quickly as possible

Yeah, sorry. Deadlines are deadlines.

Also, now that I'm actually awake, I can see that both porcelainscarecrow and zeke_the_plumber edited their entries after the deadline. I'll have to DQ you guys as well, and shuffle the brackets a bit. =/

Judgements with time to spare. It's a Christmas miracle.

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How do pairings of 3 people work? Why were those people put in that grouping and how many advance to the next round?

Due to drops and disqualifications, there was an odd number this round, which resulted in the 3 person pairing. I assume 2 people are advancing there since there are two judges on the bracket and we usually end up with one person per judge in the final.

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Due to drops and disqualifications, there was an odd number this round, which resulted in the 3 person pairing. I assume 2 people are advancing there since there are two judges on the bracket and we usually end up with one person per judge in the final.

It depends. Frequently, three person brackets are a result of too many players (either from losing a judge or ties that advance more than the usual number of players) during which, they're three person skirmishes to the death with only one victor. Here, however, Gerrard's Mom is correct. Since we've six judges, we want six players in the final round.

Merry Christmas!

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It depends. Frequently, three person brackets are a result of too many players (either from losing a judge or ties that advance more than the usual number of players) during which, they're three person skirmishes to the death with only one victor. Here, however, Gerrard's Mom is correct. Since we've six judges, we want six players in the final round.

Thank you both. That makes sense. I guess I was also trying to ask how the group of 3 was determined. As in why me and the two other people?

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Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to point out that I only deserved 1/2 on the challenges but you scored me 2/2. So my total should be one lower for when Profani gets his judgings in and the totals are added. Just fyi.

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Thank you both. That makes sense. I guess I was also trying to ask how the group of 3 was determined. As in why me and the two other people?

Pretty much just random luck of the draw.
This week I assigned players to judges in alphabetical order and looped around, then had to reshuffle after the DQs.

Also, still waiting on coletrain, Profani, and void_nothing to get their judgment in. I know it's the holiday season, so I'll probably extend Round Four into January.

Judged

Round Four up.

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For the challenges is it alright if gift and hangover coincide? Let's say for example if your card would force you to give one of your creatures to your opponent?

Sure. That works.

Judge signups for January are up.