MTG Salvation

Hi! Its your friendly, neighborhood tomsloger checking in.

We play lots of interesting special formats. Every week, something new.
Ever want to just play the "regular" versions?
How about all of them at once?

Well, welcome to the Perfect Hand Magic Mega Vanilla Tournament!!!!

Entrants must submit 5 decks:
1 Card, Land Rule
2 Card, Land Rule
3 Card, Land Rule
4 Card, No Land Rule
5 Card, No Land Rule

We will use the ABT rules and banlist, as well as the additional land rule banlist for the appropriate decks. They can be found in post #2

Submit decks by private message. Please put "MVT" in the subject line to keep them separate from the league entries.

Rather than a due date, I will accept the first 32 entrants. I have no idea how long that will take, much less how long it will take to score them. Seriously, thats 2,480 total matchups across the 5 formats. What am I doing to myself?

If you have any questions, use the thread or PM me (tomsloger) at my regular account. only send final entries to this account. I'll try to update when theres only a few spots left.

Good luck, and happy metagaming.

Banlist (alphabetical):
Barren Glory
Chancellor of the Annex
Channel
Fastbond
Flash
Force of Will
Ghost Quarter
Laboratory Maniac
Leyline of Anticipation
Magus of the Moon
Meddling Mage
Pact of Negation
Show and Tell
Strip Mine
The Rack
Trinisphere
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Wasteland
Vampire Hexmage

Additional Banlist for Land Rule:
Balancing Act
Beacon of Creation
Black Lotus
Energy Field
Maralen of the Mornsong
Nezumi Shortfang
Red Sun's Zenith
Time Walk
White Sun's Zenith

reserved

i'll reserve a post too. just in case.

I'm in. It might take me a while to think of 5 deck lists, though.

Quote from Heinsun »

I'm in. It'll be good to see some up to date strong decks for vanilla formats to give a good baseline when looking at a new format.

i actually considered calling this the "state of the metagame" tournament. that was part of the impetus to make it. the other part being just a cool, big tournament.

Quote from Subtle_Relevance »

I'm in. It might take me a while to think of 5 deck lists, though.

you've got plenty of time. i'll update when we're half full. we arent yet.

Quote from Wildfire393 »

Does "Mega Vanilla" mean there are no restrictions, or that you are restricted to vanilla creatures?

Neither - it means there aren't any special round rules. Still the 'standard' PHM restrictions, and you can play non-vanilla critters.

vanilla in this case means no special formats. you can use (almost) any creature you want. or you can play no creatures.

Ah... the specific round rules are usually listed in the thread that asks for entries.

I've often thought that they should be reposted in the thread posting results, but they ARE right there in the previous round's post.

Quote from WhammeWhamme »

Ah... the specific round rules are usually listed in the thread that asks for entries.

I've often thought that they should be reposted in the thread posting results, but they ARE right there in the previous round's post.

In the recent PHM League threads there's always been a spoiler at the top with the previous round's rules.

Anyway, I'll probably enter if it's still open in a week or two. No time now.

i've edited in the banlists to post #2, just so its handy.

we've just passed 25% capacity, so still plenty of time to enter. i'll try to update y'all when we get close to full.

I'll get around to this eventually. Hopefully before another 24ish people do.

If Red Sun's Zenith was legal, it would beat Mayor. Then again, it would beat everything but a slightly altered Repel Intruders.

RSZ's turn 7 goldfish isn't *bad* (and the removal is obviously nuts), but loses to Voidstone Gargoyle, Meddling Mage and Gaddock Teeg.

Mayor has, by comparison, plentiful solutions (Icatian Javelineers, for example - or Hammer of Bogardan)

entries seem to have petered out. im still hoping to get a bunch but im realistic.

im considering making a due date instead of a benchmark