This thread contains the results for week 3 of All Blind Tournament #22 and is the start of week 4 of ABT#22. Week 2 of ABT#22
This round was '5CB modern'.
modern 5cb is a lot harder. the land rule formats are fine, but the power level of modern's mana producers and counterspells is pretty low.
Next Round : Week 4 of ABT#22 5CB Mass extinction Format Rules : Participants may not submit any card this round that contains the word "creature" within its card type or oracle text.
* Cards with "Noncreature" are banned for having "creature" within them.
* Flavor text and reminder text aren't subject to this rule.
* This format has been played before in the ABT, here
* Please check the oracle text of your cards before submitting. ie: Glacial Chasm is banned, and zoetic cavern somehow isnt.
Deck size: 5 cards
Land Rule: none Additional Banned List Foil Leyline of Sanctity Pact of Negation Time Vault Trinisphere
Blind Magic is an online Magic format played here on the forums. Players play with an extremely limited deck size, such as 3 cards. Players begin with their entire deck (ie: those three cards) in hand and have no library (players don't lose when they fail to draw a card because of this). Due to the extremely limited number of play options given with their small deck size, games are calculated, rather then played, with an absolute determined winner (or a tie). Each player plays a match of two games against each other player who submitted - once going first, and once going second. Wins, losses, and ties for each of those two games are calculated by the moderator and players. The actual fun of the game comes from trying to decide which cards you will be playing.
The All Blind Tournament is a four-week XCB tournament, which spans all card blind formats and embraces a progressive anti-metagame. For each week of the four-week tournament, a new XCB format is announced for players to enter. Players compete for points (similiar to the PotM points for previous XCB games) each round. At the end of the four-week tournament, the player who has accumulated the most points over the four weeks wins the tournament, and receives a real-world prize.
2whammewhamme/3knobbodi Simian Spirit Guide / Amulet of Vigor / Simic Growth Chamber / Summer Bloom / Frost Titan
6-0 i take some hits, but build up enough tokens to double block before death
w/k1 titan
t1 mayor
w2 swing 6 20-14
t2 upkeep transform, eot token
w3 swing 6 20-8
t3 eot token
w4 swing 6, tapping creature.
t4 eot token. 4 creatures total, 1 tapped
w5 swing 6, tapping creature. still 2 untapped to block.
works even better when im on the play.
6sockfresh : stay wurmy Simian Spirit Guide / Amulet of Vigor / golgari rot farm / Summer Bloom / wurmcoil engine
6-0 i thought i had to do math because of the tokens, but its the same as frost titan except once i kill the wurmcoil, ratchet bomb kills both of our tokens and i will with nexus and/or chancellor
1 | X 6 6 ? 6 6 |
wow. that went well.
i will do the piato matchup in the morning if it hasnt been done already.
1. 0-6 Bomb
2. 2-2 Tie
3. 2-2 Tie
4. 0-6 Bomb
5. x
6. 0-6 Lifelink Race + Tokens.
0 2 2 0 x 0 | 4 | 80
I tie the frost titans.
They can tap down one my 4 tokens, but the other 3 block to kill. If I swing, I get in 3/2/1 = 12 damage, then they locks down to swing.
i went ahead and called my match vs piato a draw. im by no means certain of it, but ive been thinking about it for a solid week and cannot prove otherwise.
the rest of the match results were:
2v3 draw
2/3 v 6 6-0 titan beats wurmcoil
congratulations to me for winning the week and taking a commanding lead into the last week of the tournament.
This thread contains the results for week 3 of All Blind Tournament #22 and is the start of week 4 of ABT#22.
Week 2 of ABT#22
This round was '5CB modern'.
modern 5cb is a lot harder. the land rule formats are fine, but the power level of modern's mana producers and counterspells is pretty low.
The Entries
1tomsloger : two politicians and a bomb
mayor of avabruck / inkmoth nexus / chancellor of the tangle / ratchet bomb / saltcrusted steppe
i really like the threat density here, but no one packed removal except the ratchet bombs.
2whammewhamme : summer frost
Simian Spirit Guide / Amulet of Vigor / Simic Growth Chamber / Summer Bloom / Frost Titan
amulet combo is great in modern and awesome in 5cb
3knobbodi : stay frosty
Simian Spirit Guide / Amulet of Vigor / Simic Growth Chamber / Summer Bloom / Frost Titan
but i still didnt expect two of them
4piato : golgari control
evil presence / ratchet bomb / overground tomb / inkmoth nexus / mayor of avabruck
we share 3 cards but our decks are pretty different.
5Feyd_Ruin : 4>3
Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Leyline of the Meek
i always consider this deck when making my 5cb decks, and try to always beat it. i would be interested to see if the 4:1 configuration makes any difference.
6sockfresh : stay wurmy
Simian Spirit Guide / Amulet of Vigor / golgari rot farm / Summer Bloom / wurmcoil engine
i wish amulet had this much impact on paper modern. wurmcoil over frost titan actually seems really good with no targetted removal in the field.
The Grid
1 | X 6 6 2 6 6 | 26 | 520
2 | 0 X 2 6 2 6 | 16 | 320
3 | 0 2 X 6 2 6 | 16 | 320
4 | 2 0 0 X 6 6 | 14 | 280
5 | 0 2 2 0 x 0 | 04 | 080
6 | 0 0 0 0 6 X | 06 | 120
The Results
tomsloger wins week 3!
Next Round : Week 4 of ABT#22
5CB Mass extinction
Format Rules : Participants may not submit any card this round that contains the word "creature" within its card type or oracle text.
* Cards with "Noncreature" are banned for having "creature" within them.
* Flavor text and reminder text aren't subject to this rule.
* This format has been played before in the ABT, here
* Please check the oracle text of your cards before submitting. ie: Glacial Chasm is banned, and zoetic cavern somehow isnt.
Deck size: 5 cards
Land Rule: none
Additional Banned List
Foil
Leyline of Sanctity
Pact of Negation
Time Vault
Trinisphere
Submit decks to tomsloger by monday, august 4
1287 | 520 300 467 tomsloger
870 | 320 550 000 whammewhamme
830 | 280 350 200 piato
542 | 000 075 467 mogg
320 | 320 000 000 knobbodi
170 | 120 050 000 sockfresh
080 | 080 000 000 feyd_ruin
1tomsloger : two politicians and a bomb
mayor of avabruck / inkmoth nexus / chancellor of the tangle / ratchet bomb / saltcrusted steppe
Simian Spirit Guide / Amulet of Vigor / Simic Growth Chamber / Summer Bloom / Frost Titan
6-0 i take some hits, but build up enough tokens to double block before death
w/k1 titan
t1 mayor
w2 swing 6 20-14
t2 upkeep transform, eot token
w3 swing 6 20-8
t3 eot token
w4 swing 6, tapping creature.
t4 eot token. 4 creatures total, 1 tapped
w5 swing 6, tapping creature. still 2 untapped to block.
works even better when im on the play.
4piato : golgari control
evil presence / ratchet bomb / overground tomb / inkmoth nexus / mayor of avabruck
not sure. theres a lot of lines here. will come back to this.
5Feyd_Ruin : 4>3
Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Chancellor of the Forge / Leyline of the Meek
6-0 turn 1 ratchet bomb.
6sockfresh : stay wurmy
Simian Spirit Guide / Amulet of Vigor / golgari rot farm / Summer Bloom / wurmcoil engine
6-0 i thought i had to do math because of the tokens, but its the same as frost titan except once i kill the wurmcoil, ratchet bomb kills both of our tokens and i will with nexus and/or chancellor
1 | X 6 6 ? 6 6 |
wow. that went well.
i will do the piato matchup in the morning if it hasnt been done already.
2. 2-2 Tie
3. 2-2 Tie
4. 0-6 Bomb
5. x
6. 0-6 Lifelink Race + Tokens.
0 2 2 0 x 0 | 4 | 80
I tie the frost titans.
They can tap down one my 4 tokens, but the other 3 block to kill. If I swing, I get in 3/2/1 = 12 damage, then they locks down to swing.
No longer staff here.
the rest of the match results were:
2v3 draw
2/3 v 6 6-0 titan beats wurmcoil
congratulations to me for winning the week and taking a commanding lead into the last week of the tournament.