I figured out the problem: anytime we have to play with more than 3 cards at once, the format suffers. Good to know. Now, without any further delay, on to the next scene:
Ice Floe turns out to be irrelevant, since each player can just untap it on their turn anyway. The MVP's turn out to be Erratic Portal and Erratic Portal, with an Honorable Mention to Abyssal Gatekeeper. Interesting interaction with Tabernacle.
A: SALAd - Creatures are not an issue.dec
Fountain of Cho, Darksteel Reactor, Ivory Mask/Words of Worship
Speaking of irrelevant... Man do I suck at card blind...
B: Lone Warrior - Meh, I really didn't like Fling.dec
City of Traitors, Anvil of Bogardan, Nether Spirit/Nether Spirit
Anvil forced a lot of draws. The Portal was not your friend.
C: dasheiff - Meta Meta Meta
Eladamri's Vineyard, Treetop Village, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale/Naturalize
Naturalize was not the best SB choice. See Ankh's build, but still took 2nd
D: WhammWhamme - Sub-optimal? Yeah, probably
Subterranean Hangar, Subversion, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale/Duress
You want suboptimal, see my build. This wasn't too bad, but Hanger+Duress (or any delayed mana + Duress for that matter) doesn't work as well.
F: r_x_ - Like I would know why there is a Tetravus in my deck, it was only thing that crossed on my mind when I was building this one.dec
Black Lotus, Channel, Snake Basket/ Tetravus (?)
Being able to slap down a buttload of snakes turn 1-2 is nothing to sneeze at, especially with Fervent Charge at the turn. Also, you could use a spare mana to activate Portal to clear the way. 5 points for Best Deck Title
G: Silver Seraph - My Serpent Generator is in the Pool, Hooray!
Sheltered Valley, Subterrean Hangar, Sinkhole/Diabolic Edict
Tabernacle + Portal = bad news for Artifact-Snake fans
H: Ankh-Morporkian - Well, since I don't understand the format...
Treetop Village, Eladamri's Vinyard, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale/Thermokarst
TET is always a good choice. Congratulations and enjoy your 10 bonus points
J: spuzzem king - the spirit of poker
Remote Farm, Angelic Curator, Angelic Curator/Disenchant
Interesting direction, but not good enough
K: jcsuperstar - You ruined everything, ruiner!
Mishra's Workshop, Arcbound Ravager, Wheel of Torture/Sphere of Resistance
Taking card of Portal helped a lot. And, of course, Sphere helps going first. Not as much this time due to the multitude of storage lands. 5 points for most creative deck
L: musashi - LOL, I'm helping
City of Traitors, Soldevi Sentry, Scalding Tongs/Sphere of Resistance
Of course, Sphere helped loads yong first. Plus, you were actually able to pay Tabernacle and Portal costs (but not both, sadly.)
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Congrats to WhammWhamme for winning (belated) POTM May!
Next time I try this format, I'll be using an existing preconstructed deck. Less messy rules interaction. Needless to say, that won't be for a while.
For this month, I have decided to go with my original idea, only backwards. This week's CB will be all about Legacy Constructed (in other words, the Legacy banned list will be enforced along with the current CB banned list). Next week will be Extended. So, in an effort to get this done quickly (and without strange rules interactions these should go more smoothly), I would like you to submit your decks for 3.5CB #13 (Legacy) and #14 (Extended) at the same time. Oh, and Saviors is legal in all instances.
As to how I'm going to work Standard and Block, I want to leave it to you guys. I can add certain lands to the mix that wouldn't otherwise be legal (a la old-skool Extended with the Dual Lands), or I can insert some made-up lands that mimic the effects of these old lands and are both better than and worse than their counterparts. a-like so:
City of Vedalken Engineers
Land
Whenever you play a nonbasic land, sacrifice ~
:symtap:: Add to your mana pool. Use this mana only to play artifact spells or to pay for artifact abilities
Note that the wording allows this mana to pay for granted upkeep abilities, like from Tabernacle or Kataki, War's Wage
Warehouse of Brass
Land
Whenever a counter is removed from ~, it deals 1 damage to you
:symtap:: Add a storage counter to ~
:symtap:, remove X storage counters from ~: Add X mana of any combination of colors to your mana pool
The ability triggers once for every counter removed. Thank you, move on.
Lair of the Ultimus
Legendary Land - Lair
~ comes into play tapped
~ has all land types (This applies even if this is not in play)
As of the most recent edition of the Comprehensive Rules, this land would be a Desert Forest Island Lair Locus Mine Mountain Plains Power-Plant Swamp Tower Urza's
Please vote. Thank you.
All entries should be received by Monday 6/13 11:59:59 PM. I will run both and post results as I get them. Then I will ask for entries for Standard and Kami Block.
Wow. One entry. Actually, one and a half, because spuzzem sing tried to enter his famous "Lotus/Hunter/I Win" deck twice, not realizing Lotus is very much illegal.
Okay, had a couple registrants turn in decks with banned cards. (Pretty amazing that 2 out of 3 entrants so far did so already). So, here are the rules and the full banned list:
Each player submits a deck with a total of four cards in this format:
Each match will consist of two games, each player playing first. The player playing second will play the two fixed cards and the maindeck card. The player going first may choose before his first turn whether to play his maindeck card or his sideboard card.
(Again, only the player going FIRST may change the card)
As in all CB games, the entire deck is in your hand, you don't lose to decking, and each player gets to see the other's hand, so not only does each player make the best play possible, the sideboarding player may select the better card of the two. Also, random effects go against the caster
Banned List:
The Rack
Form of the Dragon
Trinisphere
Balance
Strip Mine
Wasteland
Glacial Chasm
Blackmail
Coercion
Cabal Therapy
Mesmeric Fiend
Abandon Hope
Nezumi Shortfang
Pulse of the Dross
Meddling Mage
Leonin Squire
Ancestral Recall
Bazaar of Baghdad
Black Lotus
Black Vise
Channel
Demonic Consultation
Demonic Tutor
Dream Halls
Earthcraft
Entomb
Fastbond
Frantic Search
Goblin Recruiter
Grim Monolith
Gush
Hermit Druid
Illusionary Mask
Land Tax
Library of Alexandria
Mana Crypt
Mana Drain
Mana Vault
Memory Jar
Metalworker
Mind Over Matter
Mind Twist
Mind's Desire
Mishra's Workshop
Mox Emerald
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Ruby
Mox Sapphire
Necropotence
Oath of Druids
Replenish
Skullclamp
Sol Ring
Time Spiral
Time Walk
Timetwister
Tinker
Tolarian Academy
Vampiric Tutor
Wheel of Fortune
Windfall
Worldgorger Dragon
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Yawgmoth's Will
All ante cards
Any card that forces your opponent to discard more than 1 card a turn.
Any non-mass-produced card (Proposal, 1996 World Champion, etc.)
Unglued
Unhinged
And, as usual, No Cheese(TM) (No multi-discarding, no 1st turn kills)
Flop -
Abyssal Gatekeeper
Serpent Generator
Erratic Portal
Turn
Fervent Charge
River
Ice Floe
Ice Floe turns out to be irrelevant, since each player can just untap it on their turn anyway. The MVP's turn out to be Erratic Portal and Erratic Portal, with an Honorable Mention to Abyssal Gatekeeper. Interesting interaction with Tabernacle.
A: SALAd - Creatures are not an issue.dec
Fountain of Cho, Darksteel Reactor, Ivory Mask/Words of Worship
Speaking of irrelevant... Man do I suck at card blind...
B: Lone Warrior - Meh, I really didn't like Fling.dec
City of Traitors, Anvil of Bogardan, Nether Spirit/Nether Spirit
Anvil forced a lot of draws. The Portal was not your friend.
C: dasheiff - Meta Meta Meta
Eladamri's Vineyard, Treetop Village, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale/Naturalize
Naturalize was not the best SB choice. See Ankh's build, but still took 2nd
D: WhammWhamme - Sub-optimal? Yeah, probably
Subterranean Hangar, Subversion, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale/Duress
You want suboptimal, see my build. This wasn't too bad, but Hanger+Duress (or any delayed mana + Duress for that matter) doesn't work as well.
E: Chimpanzee - Toxic Religion
Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Subterranean Hangar, Caustic Tar/Darksteel Reactor
Tar was a better clock than Subversion.
F: r_x_ - Like I would know why there is a Tetravus in my deck, it was only thing that crossed on my mind when I was building this one.dec
Black Lotus, Channel, Snake Basket/ Tetravus (?)
Being able to slap down a buttload of snakes turn 1-2 is nothing to sneeze at, especially with Fervent Charge at the turn. Also, you could use a spare mana to activate Portal to clear the way. 5 points for Best Deck Title
G: Silver Seraph - My Serpent Generator is in the Pool, Hooray!
Sheltered Valley, Subterrean Hangar, Sinkhole/Diabolic Edict
Tabernacle + Portal = bad news for Artifact-Snake fans
H: Ankh-Morporkian - Well, since I don't understand the format...
Treetop Village, Eladamri's Vinyard, The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale/Thermokarst
TET is always a good choice. Congratulations and enjoy your 10 bonus points
J: spuzzem king - the spirit of poker
Remote Farm, Angelic Curator, Angelic Curator/Disenchant
Interesting direction, but not good enough
K: jcsuperstar - You ruined everything, ruiner!
Mishra's Workshop, Arcbound Ravager, Wheel of Torture/Sphere of Resistance
Taking card of Portal helped a lot. And, of course, Sphere helps going first. Not as much this time due to the multitude of storage lands. 5 points for most creative deck
L: musashi - LOL, I'm helping
City of Traitors, Soldevi Sentry, Scalding Tongs/Sphere of Resistance
Of course, Sphere helped loads yong first. Plus, you were actually able to pay Tabernacle and Portal costs (but not both, sadly.)
Results for 3.5CB # 12:
1 Ankh-Morporkian (43)
2 dashieff (39)
3 jcsuperstar (32)
4 Silver Seraph (31, 13 going 2nd)
5 Chimpanzee (31, 11 going 2nd)
6 musashi (30)
7 WhammWhamme (25, 11 going 2nd)
8 Lone Warrior (25, 8 going 2nd)
9 r_x_ (24)
10 spuzzem king (16)
11 SALAd (yay!) (8)
Results for POTM May:
1 WhammWhamme (178)
2 Chimpanzee (151)
3 spuzzem king (145)
4 r_x_ (133)
5 jcsuperstar (118, 33 going 2nd)
6 Ankh-Morporkian (118, 27 going 2nd)
7 dasheiff (116)
8 Lone Warrior (115)
9 musashi (107)
10 worthawholebean (106)
11 SALAd (105)
12 Silver Seraph (94)
13 Thoomor (52, 16 going 2nd)
14 Iammars (52, 14 going 2nd)
15 SorryGuy (31)
16 Feyd_Ruin (28)
Congrats to WhammWhamme for winning (belated) POTM May!
Next time I try this format, I'll be using an existing preconstructed deck. Less messy rules interaction. Needless to say, that won't be for a while.
For this month, I have decided to go with my original idea, only backwards. This week's CB will be all about Legacy Constructed (in other words, the Legacy banned list will be enforced along with the current CB banned list). Next week will be Extended. So, in an effort to get this done quickly (and without strange rules interactions these should go more smoothly), I would like you to submit your decks for 3.5CB #13 (Legacy) and #14 (Extended) at the same time. Oh, and Saviors is legal in all instances.
As to how I'm going to work Standard and Block, I want to leave it to you guys. I can add certain lands to the mix that wouldn't otherwise be legal (a la old-skool Extended with the Dual Lands), or I can insert some made-up lands that mimic the effects of these old lands and are both better than and worse than their counterparts. a-like so:
City of Vedalken Engineers
Land
Whenever you play a nonbasic land, sacrifice ~
:symtap:: Add
Note that the wording allows this mana to pay for granted upkeep abilities, like from Tabernacle or Kataki, War's Wage
Warehouse of Brass
Land
Whenever a counter is removed from ~, it deals 1 damage to you
:symtap:: Add a storage counter to ~
:symtap:, remove X storage counters from ~: Add X mana of any combination of colors to your mana pool
The ability triggers once for every counter removed. Thank you, move on.
Lair of the Ultimus
Legendary Land - Lair
~ comes into play tapped
~ has all land types (This applies even if this is not in play)
As of the most recent edition of the Comprehensive Rules, this land would be a Desert Forest Island Lair Locus Mine Mountain Plains Power-Plant Swamp Tower Urza's
Please vote. Thank you.
All entries should be received by Monday 6/13 11:59:59 PM. I will run both and post results as I get them. Then I will ask for entries for Standard and Kami Block.
Thank you for your patience.
Come on! Gimme something to do this weekend!
Each player submits a deck with a total of four cards in this format:
[Deck title]
[Fixed card1]
[Fixed card2]
[Maindeck card]/[Sideboard card]
Each match will consist of two games, each player playing first. The player playing second will play the two fixed cards and the maindeck card. The player going first may choose before his first turn whether to play his maindeck card or his sideboard card.
(Again, only the player going FIRST may change the card)
As in all CB games, the entire deck is in your hand, you don't lose to decking, and each player gets to see the other's hand, so not only does each player make the best play possible, the sideboarding player may select the better card of the two. Also, random effects go against the caster
Banned List:
The Rack
Form of the Dragon
Trinisphere
Balance
Strip Mine
Wasteland
Glacial Chasm
Blackmail
Coercion
Cabal Therapy
Mesmeric Fiend
Abandon Hope
Nezumi Shortfang
Pulse of the Dross
Meddling Mage
Leonin Squire
- Ancestral Recall
- Bazaar of Baghdad
- Black Lotus
- Black Vise
- Channel
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Dream Halls
- Earthcraft
- Entomb
- Fastbond
- Frantic Search
- Goblin Recruiter
- Grim Monolith
- Gush
- Hermit Druid
- Illusionary Mask
- Land Tax
- Library of Alexandria
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Drain
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Metalworker
- Mind Over Matter
- Mind Twist
- Mind's Desire
- Mishra's Workshop
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Necropotence
- Oath of Druids
- Replenish
- Skullclamp
- Sol Ring
- Time Spiral
- Time Walk
- Timetwister
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Vampiric Tutor
- Wheel of Fortune
- Windfall
- Worldgorger Dragon
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
- Yawgmoth's Will
All ante cardsAny card that forces your opponent to discard more than 1 card a turn.
Any non-mass-produced card (Proposal, 1996 World Champion, etc.)
Unglued
Unhinged
And, as usual, No Cheese(TM) (No multi-discarding, no 1st turn kills)
Oh, and before I forget and get illegal entries for extended as well:
Legal Sets: 6th-8th Edition of the base set and all expansions from Tempest forward
Banned List:
(The normal banned list plus: )