After the points for first three rounds are calculated, the top half of the table proceeds to the semifinals. In case there's not enough players, top four are taken.
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I hunger for feedback! So far, how do you like the CCL? What are some mistakes I made? What are your opinion on the challenges? The common theme in this month is meta, but I fear I may have gone a bit overboard and made them too vague or constricting, or somehow both.
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Wizards can start putting booster packs inside dog poo and dog owners will still complain.
I hunger for feedback! So far, how do you like the CCL? What are some mistakes I made? What are your opinion on the challenges? The common theme in this month is meta, but I fear I may have gone a bit overboard and made them too vague or constricting, or somehow both.
I enjoyed this CCL, the challenges actually felt like challenges and this gave room to really good submissions. On the other hand, there weren't as many participants as usual for this same reason. The first challenge was rather difficult and required you to put some its share of thought.
I don't think the challenges were really constricting, althought they were not without their difficults. The variety in the submissions to account for the same problems is a good proof that they worked well.
I liked this one. One thing I would advice is to make the inicial challenge a bit more friendly to get more participants in. I really feel the challenges were very good and forced some very good design off us.
I would disagree. I felt that all of the first 3 challenges were semi-final or final level difficulty. Very challenging, and on my limited time, I couldn't summon the effort to finish with satisfactory cards.
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I'll bet you wish you had a non-unglued/unhinged card that shared your first name.
For what matters, I didn't post a card for round 1 because I found the challenge too difficult and I haven't been able to come up with anything. Add to that the fact that I'm really starting to get tired of the continuous changes to how the CCL works month after month and you have why I chose to not participate this month for the first time in about a year I'm actively posting.
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016 DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for: "Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index.Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
While complaints about difficulty are absolutely justified - I really should have toned it down, absolutely so for the first round - I don't think I changed any of CCL's rules, at least comparing it to the last month's CCL; what rules exactly are you talking about? My intent was to keep everything the same, except in the semi-finals, where splitting people into teams scewers the results somewhat. Can you elaborate?
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All of the following from the first round was not there before this month as far as I know. It's all new except what I didn't include in this quote and the stroked part.
JUDGING CHALLENGE: You are the development department. There is a card in the design doc that captured your attention, but it's probably nothing. Remember: not only you have to evaluate its power correctly(from the standpoint of a development team - would they spot its true nature? Obviously you have the meta knowledge), but also how good of a design it is.
ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES FOR EXTRA POINTS:
[x] Mark your card "target audience: casual players". This signifies that judge will evaluate your card based on that.
[x] Your card is a mythic rare.
SCORING SYSTEM: First round will have the usual scoring system. People will be divided in teams, and each team ranks cards from other team assigned to them.
Later rounds seem to show a steep drop-out trend, so, to fix it, you won't be ranking teams of people: you'll be given a list of pairings, and in each pairing you should determine a winner. This takes a bit more time than the usual system but doesn't punish people for other people dropping out.
Optional challenges give you one extra point each. Judging doubles your score for a round(so judge, please).
IMPORTANT STUFF:
1.) If you judge a card and see it marked as "target audience: casual players", evaluate it based on that. Casual in this context means kitchen-table Magic. One would except big, splashy effects in this category, yet once that hardly can shake up any formats. Good examples are Scrambleverse or Godsire.
While I understand the reasons for most of these changes, following Ryder's ones a few months ago, the CCL has changed rules something like two times in about four months. The last and only time I hosted the CCL was in February, six months ago, and the looping list system was still used. By the way, I still think it's the best. If I remember well it was used for a couple months more, and that's where the "two times in four months" come from. It may be five months instead of four but it doesn't change the point. And that's not a matter if I like the changes or not (some I like, some I don't), but one of uncertainty. Who knows which system will be used next month? I understand the need to try various systems to see which is best but then there should be a discussion about that here and a final shared decision of which system to adopt and keep for the foreseeable future. In the MCC we changed rubric a few months ago but the changes were discussed before in the discussion thread. Here there hasn't been such a discussion this time. At least Ryder's changes were discussed here instead.
I hope this doesn't sound harsh because I don't mean it to sound so in any way. I want this to be a constructive critic. As I always say, tone is hard to convey in writing.
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016 DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for: "Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index.Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
I have to agree with you - the scoring system should have been discussed beforehand, and that was my shortcoming. To be fully honest, I settled with the team system mostly because of ease of tracking, though I realise that looping system is perhaps less vulnerable to absence of individual judgments. To fix this, I doubled points for submitting a judgement(which thankfully proved to be effective - ratio of submissions/critiques increased over the past month, maybe because of unrelated factors). You can see how this whole construct is supported by crutches, but to my delight, nothing broke down. Still, I can perfectly understand why you would dislike the changes, and reasonably so. Change was unwarrented and drove away quite a lot of people. And don't worry, your(or any) critique is vital, as I quite enjoyed hosting the process and would like to learn on my mistakes - so harshness is a plus.
For people wondering why the scoring is changed for semi-finals: because of tenseness of competition, it would be reasonable to compare each pair of entries and don't employ team scoring system. Let's assume that there are three teams, and entries have an objective quality ranging from 1(best) to 6(worst). If teams are split (1 2) (3 4) and (5 6), entries of quality 1, 3 and 6 advance to the finals, which seems to be a bit unfair. Pairing system pushes 1, 2 and 3 to the final round(independent of the split, assuming judges can asses cards well enough), which looks more reasonable.
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I'll wade into the quagmire that is Hosting if no-one else is stepping up.
I'll be making a bit of it up as I go along if I do, however
EDIT: I also have no idea how the scoring works
Yea this is my issue. I have no idea how the scoring works. I just submit what I feel is my best design and hope my name is still on the list in the next round lol
As I explained in a previous post, rules and scoring are a problem right now because it looks like every host applies the system he/she wants, except for a few basic guidelines. I think there should be a uniform system that is kept the same month after month and any changes to it should be discussed here before being applied. The last attempt at that has been by Ryder a few months ago, but last month things changed again. In my opinion, what the CCL lacks as of now is a stable established working system that also takes into account the decrease of submissions in the first three rounds (that's one of the reason the team system doesn't really work in my opinion).
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016 DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for: "Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index.Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
As I explained in a previous post, rules and scoring are a problem right now because it looks like every host applies the system he/she wants, except for a few basic guidelines. I think there should be a uniform system that is kept the same month after month and any changes to it should be discussed here before being applied. The last attempt at that has been by Ryder a few months ago, but last month things changed again. In my opinion, what the CCL lacks as of now is a stable established working system that also takes into account the decrease of submissions in the first three rounds (that's one of the reason the team system doesn't really work in my opinion).
This. That's why I wasn't making teams. That, and the turnout was low.
Anyway, we still need someone to run the CCL this month. If there's no takers by the end of the day EST, I'll take over, reluctantly.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
I know I came off a bit of a hiatus recently so take my opinion with whatever weight you want but what happened to the list system.
Take all entries, put it in a list, judge the 6 above/below you. 1st=3pts 2nd=2pts 3rd=1pt Judging= doubled score
I mean if you want to try and get back to this system I can run the CCL this month. (I also was hesitant because of the scoring issues)
I like this a lot. The changes to the system have been one of the major reasons I've not volunteered to host again since February. I'd take the best from Ryder's changes, which is the new schedule and eliminating one round to avoid going too far into the next month, and Am Shegar's ones (judging doubles your score for the round), and apply those to the looping list system, which takes care of people dropping/not posting in later rounds. That would be almost the perfect structure in my opinion.
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016 DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for: "Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index.Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
@drewdagreek: Am I still on time to make a last minute change to one of my cards for September Round 1?
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016 DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for: "Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index.Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
Well, this certainly does "beg the cycle". These are some solid cards, but doesn't really give me what I need for getting excited about the set. What does it say about it? Is it an aura-based set? If these were the first two cards spoiled for the upcoming set, I wouldn't know what to think about it.
I thought we were supposed to make people excited for the rest of the cycle, not the rest of the set. I figured that with the popularity of Rancor over the years, white and blue players would be super excited to see what they were going to get in the cycle (also Aura Hexproof players). I'm not posting this to try to get you change your standings or anything, I just wanted to explain my thought process.
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(22 Total) - October 2014; December 2014; January 2015; April 2015; June 2015; August 2015; September 2015; November 2015; December 2015(T); January 2016; March 2016(T); April 2016; June 2016; October 2016; December 2016(T); February 2017; April 2017; December 2017; November 2018(T); January 2019; April 2019; June 2019
(8 Total) - May 2015; May 2016; June 2016; August 2016; October 2016; December 2016; October 2017; May 2019
(7 Total) - September 2015; October 2015; January 2016; March 2016; April 2016; July 2016(T); March 2019(T)
Well, this certainly does "beg the cycle". These are some solid cards, but doesn't really give me what I need for getting excited about the set. What does it say about it? Is it an aura-based set? If these were the first two cards spoiled for the upcoming set, I wouldn't know what to think about it.
I thought we were supposed to make people excited for the rest of the cycle, not the rest of the set. I figured that with the popularity of Rancor over the years, white and blue players would be super excited to see what they were going to get in the cycle (also Aura Hexproof players). I'm not posting this to try to get you change your standings or anything, I just wanted to explain my thought process.
I understand what you mean. My interpretation of the challenge was "It's the start of spoiler season. Post a part of a cycle that would get people speculating". I assumed that meant getting people excited/speculating on the set, not just the cycle. Look at Moss_Elemental's submission. Hybrid cards? Hybrid set! Whoo!
Similarly why they spoiled Oblivion Sower first for the upcoming set, to whet our appetite for what sort of eldrazi we'd be seeing, thematically.
But, you know, different interpretations. It's why there's no consistency in CCLs
And, as you stated - Rancor was the only one people were excited about. The rest of the original cycle is... not exciting and I couldn't think of the cards off the top of my head.
EDIT: As an aside, can we call last month's CCL? I think Koopa's got me beat.
Flavor-wise Jeskai and Abzan don't exist anymore, sadly.
In fact those are supposed to come from the KTK timeline.
However Treefolks aren't a thing on Tarkir
True, but what else can a tree become when it comes to life?
and Elementals are with the Temur, not so much with the Jeskai.
I made them Elementals because the original Worldwake manlands were all Elementals. In the end you're definitely right that I could probably do better if I wasn't in a rush because of the enemy manlands being spoiled to be in BFZ. Thanks for the feedback anyway.
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016 DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for: "Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index.Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
It wasn't much of an issue, just some nagging, because I didn't have anything else to write about.
In the end I put you behind the others because I felt manlands are just manlands, nothing creative or new, while I appreciate the developmental effort, it's just a personal preference to go for crazy new things.
Again, your entries were just as good as the others that I ranked higher. I wish I could just put you all on the same place.
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I hunger for feedback! So far, how do you like the CCL? What are some mistakes I made? What are your opinion on the challenges? The common theme in this month is meta, but I fear I may have gone a bit overboard and made them too vague or constricting, or somehow both.
I enjoyed this CCL, the challenges actually felt like challenges and this gave room to really good submissions. On the other hand, there weren't as many participants as usual for this same reason. The first challenge was rather difficult and required you to put some its share of thought.
I don't think the challenges were really constricting, althought they were not without their difficults. The variety in the submissions to account for the same problems is a good proof that they worked well.
I liked this one. One thing I would advice is to make the inicial challenge a bit more friendly to get more participants in. I really feel the challenges were very good and forced some very good design off us.
MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here)
CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016
DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for:
"Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index. Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
While I understand the reasons for most of these changes, following Ryder's ones a few months ago, the CCL has changed rules something like two times in about four months. The last and only time I hosted the CCL was in February, six months ago, and the looping list system was still used. By the way, I still think it's the best. If I remember well it was used for a couple months more, and that's where the "two times in four months" come from. It may be five months instead of four but it doesn't change the point. And that's not a matter if I like the changes or not (some I like, some I don't), but one of uncertainty. Who knows which system will be used next month? I understand the need to try various systems to see which is best but then there should be a discussion about that here and a final shared decision of which system to adopt and keep for the foreseeable future. In the MCC we changed rubric a few months ago but the changes were discussed before in the discussion thread. Here there hasn't been such a discussion this time. At least Ryder's changes were discussed here instead.
I hope this doesn't sound harsh because I don't mean it to sound so in any way. I want this to be a constructive critic. As I always say, tone is hard to convey in writing.
MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here)
CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016
DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for:
"Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index. Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
For people wondering why the scoring is changed for semi-finals: because of tenseness of competition, it would be reasonable to compare each pair of entries and don't employ team scoring system. Let's assume that there are three teams, and entries have an objective quality ranging from 1(best) to 6(worst). If teams are split (1 2) (3 4) and (5 6), entries of quality 1, 3 and 6 advance to the finals, which seems to be a bit unfair. Pairing system pushes 1, 2 and 3 to the final round(independent of the split, assuming judges can asses cards well enough), which looks more reasonable.
I'll be making a bit of it up as I go along if I do, however
EDIT: I also have no idea how the scoring works
Yea this is my issue. I have no idea how the scoring works. I just submit what I feel is my best design and hope my name is still on the list in the next round lol
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MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here)
CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016
DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for:
"Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index. Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
Anyway, we still need someone to run the CCL this month. If there's no takers by the end of the day EST, I'll take over, reluctantly.
Take all entries, put it in a list, judge the 6 above/below you. 1st=3pts 2nd=2pts 3rd=1pt Judging= doubled score
I mean if you want to try and get back to this system I can run the CCL this month. (I also was hesitant because of the scoring issues)
MCC March 2014 - 1st Round (17th-24th)
MCC April 2014 - 1st Round (17th-32nd)
MCC May 2014 - 1st Round (17th-32nd)
MCC June 2014 - Judge
MCC July 2014 - Host
MCC August 2014 - 1st Round (17th-31st)
MCC August 2015 - 1st Round (21st-36th)
MCC September 2015 - 1st Round (22nd-39th)
MCC October 2015 - 1st Round (13th-20th)
CCL May 2014 - Score: 29/36 (10th)
CCL June 2014 - Score: 86/150 (10th)
CCL July 2014 - Score:36/50 (6th T)
CCL August 2015 - Score: 14 (5th T)
CCL September 2015 - Score: 3 (5th)
CCL October 2015 - Host
DCC October 2015 - Score: 46 (8th-T)
I like this a lot. The changes to the system have been one of the major reasons I've not volunteered to host again since February. I'd take the best from Ryder's changes, which is the new schedule and eliminating one round to avoid going too far into the next month, and Am Shegar's ones (judging doubles your score for the round), and apply those to the looping list system, which takes care of people dropping/not posting in later rounds. That would be almost the perfect structure in my opinion.
MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here)
CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016
DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for:
"Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index. Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
MCC March 2014 - 1st Round (17th-24th)
MCC April 2014 - 1st Round (17th-32nd)
MCC May 2014 - 1st Round (17th-32nd)
MCC June 2014 - Judge
MCC July 2014 - Host
MCC August 2014 - 1st Round (17th-31st)
MCC August 2015 - 1st Round (21st-36th)
MCC September 2015 - 1st Round (22nd-39th)
MCC October 2015 - 1st Round (13th-20th)
CCL May 2014 - Score: 29/36 (10th)
CCL June 2014 - Score: 86/150 (10th)
CCL July 2014 - Score:36/50 (6th T)
CCL August 2015 - Score: 14 (5th T)
CCL September 2015 - Score: 3 (5th)
CCL October 2015 - Host
DCC October 2015 - Score: 46 (8th-T)
MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here)
CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016
DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for:
"Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index. Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
I thought we were supposed to make people excited for the rest of the cycle, not the rest of the set. I figured that with the popularity of Rancor over the years, white and blue players would be super excited to see what they were going to get in the cycle (also Aura Hexproof players). I'm not posting this to try to get you change your standings or anything, I just wanted to explain my thought process.
I understand what you mean. My interpretation of the challenge was "It's the start of spoiler season. Post a part of a cycle that would get people speculating". I assumed that meant getting people excited/speculating on the set, not just the cycle. Look at Moss_Elemental's submission. Hybrid cards? Hybrid set! Whoo!
Similarly why they spoiled Oblivion Sower first for the upcoming set, to whet our appetite for what sort of eldrazi we'd be seeing, thematically.
But, you know, different interpretations. It's why there's no consistency in CCLs
And, as you stated - Rancor was the only one people were excited about. The rest of the original cycle is... not exciting and I couldn't think of the cards off the top of my head.
EDIT: As an aside, can we call last month's CCL? I think Koopa's got me beat.
In fact those are supposed to come from the KTK timeline.
True, but what else can a tree become when it comes to life?
I made them Elementals because the original Worldwake manlands were all Elementals. In the end you're definitely right that I could probably do better if I wasn't in a rush because of the enemy manlands being spoiled to be in BFZ. Thanks for the feedback anyway.
MCC - Winner (6): Oct 2014, Apr Nov 2017, Jan 2018, Apr Jun 2019 || Host (15): Dec 2014, Apr Jul Aug Dec 2015, Mar Jul Aug Oct 2016, Feb Jul 2017, Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here) || Judge (34): every month from Nov 2014 to Nov 2016 except Oct 2015, every month from Feb to Jul 2017 except Apr 2017, then Oct 2017, May Jun Nov 2018, Feb Jul 2019 (last one here)
CCL - Winner (3): Jul 2016 (tied with Flatline), May 2017, Jul 2019 (last one here) || Host (5): Feb 2015, Mar Apr May Jun 2016
DCC - Winner (1): Mar 2015 (tied with Piar) || Host (3): May Oct 2015, Jan 2016
• The two public custom sets I've been part a part of the design team for:
"Brotherhood of Ormos" - Blog post with all info - set thread - design skeleton / card list || "Extinctia: Homo Evanuit" - Blog post with all info - set thread - card list spreadsheet
• "The Lion's Lair", my article series about MTG and custom card design in particular. Latest article here. Here is the article index. Rather outdated by now, and based on the old MCC rubric, but I'm leaving this here for anybody that might be interested anyway.
• My only public attempt at being a writer: the story of my Leonin custom planeswalker Jeff Lionheart. (I have a very big one that I'm working on right now but that's private for now, and I don't know if I will ever actually publish it, and I also have ideas for multiple future ones, including one where I'm going to reprise Jeff.)
In the end I put you behind the others because I felt manlands are just manlands, nothing creative or new, while I appreciate the developmental effort, it's just a personal preference to go for crazy new things.
Again, your entries were just as good as the others that I ranked higher. I wish I could just put you all on the same place.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant.
—Eli Shiffrin, Rules Manager, on a design stacking lifelink instances