MTG Salvation

Nivmagus Elemental

1) Main rules
- Any member of the MTGSalvation forums can submit a deck for the contest, including judges.
- This is "Casual". -> Only the cards banned in Vintage, silver bordered & celebration cards are banned. There is no Restricted list. It should be noted, however, that judges might not be impressed by overuse of “broken” cards."

2) Time
- Contestants have seven days to build and post their decks for each round.
- Judges consult to select the top decks that will be judged for that round during the next two days.
- The next five days, judges will test and rate the top decks.
- A ranking of the contestants’ scores will be posted and the winner of the round will be announced.

3) Judging
- There will be at least three judges who will be named before the first round of judging starts.
- In each round judges will rate up to five decks. The number of decks rated is equal to half the decks submitted (rounded up) or five, whichever is smaller.
- From the time the entry period in a given round ends, the judges have 48 hours to post a number of the decks they want to rate equal to the number of decks going to be rated plus one.
- From among the decks that received votes, those with the most votes will be rated.
- If votes fail to define the to be tested decks directly, in descending order decks with the most votes are locked in until more decks share their number of votes than there are places left for decks to be tested. From among those the remaining places will be chosen by dice roll (made by me with the dice-tag, #s assigned alphabetically).
- Each deck's judge-scores will be arithmeticaly averaged to determine its score for the round.
- Judges cannot rate their own decks.
- Judges are out-of-contest for the final-ranking.
- Judges are encouraged to add some comments as to why they chose a certain deck for rating or not.
- Judges are encouraged to add some comments as to why they gave a certain score to a certain deck.
- Judges are encouraged to add some suggestions how a rated deck could be improved.


4) Championship rules
- Six rounds will be played.
- To be included in the final ranking, a player has to gather scores in atleast three of the six rounds. (If too few players meet this criteria, it will be lowered accordingly.)
- At the end of the season, the player within the final ranking having the highest arithmetical average of top 6 scores becomes the Champion. Example: Stoogeslap participates in all six rounds, has his decks scored five times and gets f.e. 23 points each round. baldersmashed participates in three rounds, gets tested in two of these three rounds and gets twice 24 points. All other players have an average < 23. -> Despite having a lower average than baldersmashed, Stoogeslap wins, because baldersmashed hasn't met the criteria of having atleast three scores.

tl;dr:
For each round, a card is scheduled. Anyone can enter the contest and submit a deck using that card.

Contestants can post their decks during an entry period of six days. In the following ten days the judges (Casual staff) will elect the best decks submitted, to test and rate these decks. After (planned) six rounds the contest will have a winner.