Triple Threat Tournament
Submit Your Decks by Friday 7pm CEST (PM me). We run them for you against all other decks and report the results. You don't have to show up.
Format Rules
1) Your deck must have exactly 60 cards in it.
2) Pick 3 cards. Your deck can contain only those cards and basic lands. The 4 card limit does not apply.
3) Your deck cannot be capable of winning before each player has taken 1 full turn against an opponent that has a deck full of 60 grizzly bears.
4) All Wishes are banned.
Tournament Rules:
1) All decks are played against all other decks. They are ranked according to their overall win record.
2) Decks will be played going first and second against each opponent. If your deck wins one of the two games, the decks will be rematched until one deck wins both games or until 20 total games are played. If 20 games are played this way (10 chances to win 2 games in a row), the match is considered a draw.
This is what I call a "deckbuilder's format". Winners are basically deterministic based on deckbuilding choices, so you get the fun of deckbuilding and outhinking the expected meta in pure form, and can see how your deck does without having to dedicate time from your schedule to participate in the tournament.
Why the grizzly bear test? Because otherwise some decks would kill themselves to force you to 'win' and break this rule. If we had no rule like this, the format would end up being way too much about 7x Chancellor of the Dross and similar turn 0 kills.
Submit Your Decks by Friday 7pm CEST (PM me). We run them for you against all other decks and report the results. You don't have to show up.
Format Rules
1) Your deck must have exactly 60 cards in it.
2) Pick 3 cards. Your deck can contain only those cards and basic lands. The 4 card limit does not apply.
3) Your deck cannot be capable of winning before each player has taken 1 full turn against an opponent that has a deck full of 60 grizzly bears.
4) All Wishes are banned.
Tournament Rules:
1) All decks are played against all other decks. They are ranked according to their overall win record.
2) Decks will be played going first and second against each opponent. If your deck wins one of the two games, the decks will be rematched until one deck wins both games or until 20 total games are played. If 20 games are played this way (10 chances to win 2 games in a row), the match is considered a draw.
This is what I call a "deckbuilder's format". Winners are basically deterministic based on deckbuilding choices, so you get the fun of deckbuilding and outhinking the expected meta in pure form, and can see how your deck does without having to dedicate time from your schedule to participate in the tournament.
Why the grizzly bear test? Because otherwise some decks would kill themselves to force you to 'win' and break this rule. If we had no rule like this, the format would end up being way too much about 7x Chancellor of the Dross and similar turn 0 kills.
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