When: Saturday, Sept. 27th, @ 6 (following the Shards of Alara prerelease)
Cost: $5 or 2 packs
Prizes: Prizes will be based on attendance. A minimum of $50 in prizes will be given our with 8 players.
Description:
Legal cards include from any Magic set printed, including Portal, Starter, Unglued & Unhinged, promo cards, artist proofs, Alpha, etc.
Maximum of 4 of any one card other than basic land in a deck.
60 card minimum deck size
No proxies allowed.
Tournament format will be swiss format with multiple rounds (not single elimination) based on number of entries.
Ante cards are banned. (Amulet of Quoz, Bronze Tablet, Contract From Below, Darkpact, Demonic Attorney, Jeweled Bird, Rebirth, Tempest Efreet, and Timmerian Fiends)
you realize that because you have no restrictions and prizes that this will attract a non-casual crowd who just comes to win all the free packs right?
if you want to do this kind of event, you have to make the prizes more casual....like maybe have everyone bring 5 rares to put into the prizepool and the winners get to draft them. the rares will be cheap and so tournament guys wont WANT to win that crap
This isn't even too far fetched for someone to build, and if anyone owns power at all would be disturbing. That is just off the top of my head and worse decks could be built just as easilly.
These "casual" tournaments always seem good on paper, but very quickly people learn why there is a BR list in the first place.
I concur that a more "casual" minded prize setup would be the best idea. To keep the fun in a tournament, you need fun prizes that spikish players could care less about.
i wasnt referring to Reject Rare Draft as a format...though fun, a drafting of reject rares as prizes is a more casual thing to win at the end of the day and will prevent T1 competative decks and worse from making others have less fun
Best of luck to you though.
I am running a Godzilla casual tournament in a couple of weeks at Monster Gaming Store in Burien, WA...for prizes we are granting pulls from the dollar rare binders and charging $1 entry fee. casual players love $1 rares, tournament players could care less. This is more what I wass trying to get at
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Magic Unrestricted Tournament
When: Saturday, Sept. 27th, @ 6 (following the Shards of Alara prerelease)
Cost: $5 or 2 packs
Prizes: Prizes will be based on attendance. A minimum of $50 in prizes will be given our with 8 players.
Description:
if you want to do this kind of event, you have to make the prizes more casual....like maybe have everyone bring 5 rares to put into the prizepool and the winners get to draft them. the rares will be cheap and so tournament guys wont WANT to win that crap
4 Frantic Search
4 Cloud of Faieries
4 Snap
4 Demonic Tutor
4 Mind's Desire
2 Tendril's of Agony
3 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Fastbond
4 Sapphire Medalion
4 Sol Ring
4 Seat of Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
4 Tolarian Accadamy
4 City of Brass
This isn't even too far fetched for someone to build, and if anyone owns power at all would be disturbing. That is just off the top of my head and worse decks could be built just as easilly.
These "casual" tournaments always seem good on paper, but very quickly people learn why there is a BR list in the first place.
I concur that a more "casual" minded prize setup would be the best idea. To keep the fun in a tournament, you need fun prizes that spikish players could care less about.
It's an experiment event for after the pre-release, so we'll see how it goes.
We've had a reject-rare draft before, and that also had some very good results, as well as some very obscure infinite loops that resulted in draws.
Best of luck to you though.
I am running a Godzilla casual tournament in a couple of weeks at Monster Gaming Store in Burien, WA...for prizes we are granting pulls from the dollar rare binders and charging $1 entry fee. casual players love $1 rares, tournament players could care less. This is more what I wass trying to get at