Two Card Blind (2CB) is a weekly Magic tournament, run entirely within this forum. To compete, players submit two-card decks which are played against each other. Scoring assumes optimal play, without randomness or concealed information.
1. Game Rules
1.1. Except for the changes described in these rules, games follow the rules of Magic.
1.2. Players' decks contain exactly two cards, which begin the game in hand. Players do not mulligan or sideboard.
1.3. Players' libraries begin the game empty. A player does not lose the game as a result of being unable to draw a card.
1.4. Each player owns an infinite supply of Basic Lands of each type outside the game. These may be played as if they were in his or her hand.
1.4b. You may play only one land from your hand in addition to only one land from outside the game during your turn; however, continuous effects may increase these numbers (if a card states that you may play an additional land this turn, you may play one from your hand, one from outside the game and one from either your hand or outside the game).
1.4b'. Playing lands from your hand will make you a better person. Officially.
1.5. A random effect produces the result that least benefits the owner of the source of the effect.
1.6. Each player plays two games (one match) against each other player.
1.6a. Each player is the starting player once per match.
1.6b. If no player can win, the game is a draw.
1.6c. Games are played with perfect information.
1.6d. Games are played optimally; players attempt to win, draw, or extend the game – in that order.
2. Tournament Rules
2.1. Players submit their decks to the 2CB moderator.
2.1a. A player may submit multiple decks, but only the most recent deck is counted.
2.1b. An illegal deck is not counted. The removal of an illegal deck does not affect deck distribution (see Rule 2.4).
2.1b'. If an illegal deck is submitted, the deck may be editted at the moderator's discretion (i.e.: If a deck is submitted with a banned card, but can still be considered a legal deck--such as being able to win against a goldfish deck--without that card, the deck may still be included, but without the offending card).
2.1c. The moderator determines the result of each match. Players may challenge results, but not after the results of the first round belonging to a new month have been posted (see Rule 2.5a).
2.1d. A player may name his or her deck. If a player does not, the moderator may name it.
2.2. Decks are subject to some restrictions.
2.2a. A player may not submit a deck that can – against any deck – force any card in an opponent's hand to change zones or Win the Game before an opponent's second turn.
2.2b. A player may not submit a deck that can't win both games of a match against at least one deck satisfying 2.2a and 2.2c.
2.2c. A deck may include any number of any card legal in Vintage (Type 1), with the exception of the following banned cards:
2.2d. A deck may include any number of any card that will become legal in Vintage upon release of a set that has been revealed fully and officially since the start of the round.
2.3. Points determine tournament standings.
2.3a. Players are ranked – first to last – in order of decreasing number of points.
2.3b. For each match, a player earns 3 points per game win and 1 point per drawn game. However, a player earns only 2 points for a split match (one win, one loss).
2.3c. A table of match results is posted each round. Its rows represent players and its columns represent opponents. Match results reflect the combined result of both games played in a match; 6 is a match win, 2 a drawn or split game, and 1 or 4 a draw/loss or draw/win respectively. A player's points are listed at the end of his or her row.
2.5. The player with the most PotM points over the course of a month is the Player of the Month.
2.5a. A month includes all rounds for which decks are due during that month.
2.5b. Each round, each player receives PotM points equal to their average match result for that round, rounded down to 1 decimal place. For example, a player scoring 6-6-6-6-X-0-0-0 in a round with 8 decks receives 3.4 points (24/7).
2.5c. Each week, .5 PotM points will be given to the deck deemed most creative and original.
2.5d. Each week, after the grid is posted, the first player to able to post a deck that can successfully go 6-0 over every deck in the grid will also receive 1 PotM point.
There are a few names that you might expect to be up in that list and aren't. Simply put, there were traitors in your midst. The Villain Decks did not all stem from the same mind, but from those who have proven themselves to be the true identities of these Villains...
Which would have been a totally legitimate deck...
Important Changes:
ALL KINDS OF CHANGES. Everything that was in the Ban Polls has been reflected. There's new watched cards. There's a minor rules change on legal decks that will only effect crazy specials like this one (you can't win on turns 1 or 2, which was merely an oversight given the unlikelihood of that happening with 2 cards).
Next Week is 11/11/11 Week!
Each player starts at 11 life.
Whenever a player would be dealt damage, that player is dealt 1 damage instead of any other amount.
The deck with the greatest number of “1”s or “one”s in their deck receives 1 bonus point.
1s (or Ones) are counted in...
Name
Mana Cost
Card Type
Rules Text
Power/Toughness
In other words, every aspect of the card that has an effect on game state and can have numbers.
This excludes:
Art, Artist, Flavor, Collector Number, and anything else that doesn't effect gameplay (Un-sets don't count!)
These decks will be due 11/11/11 at 11:11 PM (Pacific Time). I'll try to post as soon as I can next weekend, but I'll be at GP San Diego!
Md5: d9d660f8bfe913bc0fb9655e318f6f59
Last Week:
Feyd_Ruin
DragonDart
Antonia
Winner 4
Wistful Annihilation
Parting Notes on Batman Month:
I think the month itself was great. The formats were cool and you guys made some awesome decks. The only real issue was not being able to have player-submitted formats all month. After 11/11/11, the next 2 will be player submitted ideas. Please feel free to post ideas. I know Draco9 wanted to try a minor rules tweak.
In regards to the final week, I'm glad I separated it. Having the Villains be players was cool, but I think some of them felt like they missed out on running the gauntlet. I'll likely do another gauntlet in the future, but without player division. The Two-Face deck wasn't powerful enough, and the Joker deck too much so (My fault, not Feyd and Viking).
It was a neat experiment, and I intend on running another theme month some time in the future, but it's good to be over. I'd love to hear your opinions about this week and this month.
Okay, I'm thrilled my deck worked, but, final round...:
R'as has to stop Necrotic Sliver/Volrath's Stronghold with the exile power, because it singlehandedly wins the matchup (pretty sure it can lock R'as off 7 mana, but even without that, the Sliver is invincible and goes the distance after Decree goes off, cycled OR cast, since the response is "sacrifice to destroy that land, put it on top of my deck" if it's cast, and otherwise a 2/2 beats R'as to death)
So it's Lich Lord of Unx against Decree (syncopate stops Wistful Thoughts until it's time to cast the Lich Lord). So, does Lich Lord goldfish fast enough?
1: Land
2: Land
3: Land, Lich Lord of Unx
4: Land, token
5: Land, token, swing for 1 (19)
6: Land, token, swing for 2, Lichlord for 4 (13)
7: Land, token, swing for 3, Lichlord for 6 (4)
8: Win
Okay, I'm thrilled my deck worked, but, final round...:
R'as has to stop Necrotic Sliver/Volrath's Stronghold with the exile power, because it singlehandedly wins the matchup (pretty sure it can lock R'as off 7 mana, but even without that, the Sliver is invincible and goes the distance after Decree goes off, cycled OR cast, since the response is "sacrifice to destroy that land, put it on top of my deck" if it's cast, and otherwise a 2/2 beats R'as to death)
So it's Lich Lord of Unx against Decree (syncopate stops Wistful Thoughts until it's time to cast the Lich Lord). So, does Lich Lord goldfish fast enough?
1: Land
2: Land
3: Land, Lich Lord of Unx
4: Land, token
5: Land, token, swing for 1 (19)
6: Land, token, swing for 2, Lichlord for 4 (13)
7: Land, token, swing for 3, Lichlord for 6 (4)
8: Win
And you built a good pair of decks The problem was, I should have given you like 4 decks to choose from, instead of 2. Or 1 card you always used and 2 pairs you could pick between or something like that.
As I said, I underpowered Two-Face and made the Joker too linear (and by extension, too powerful; though Viking also made a pretty brutal deck).
I'm not quite sure about the dragonlord matchup, since Mr. Freeze has powerful and confusing abilities... But I think i got him.
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Some facts of magic:
-Terror is an emotion which, when experienced, results in death.
-The pox was a disease notorious for having killed one-third, rounded up, of Europe’s population. Smallpox, on the other hand, killed only a single person.
-A person riding a horse cannot be stopped by foot soldiers, large animals, walls, archers, or even catapults.
I'm not quite sure about the dragonlord matchup, since Mr. Freeze has powerful and confusing abilities... But I think i got him.
Congratulations!
Becuase this was not intended to be part of PotM, I forgot about this. But given that you did it and it's the first time this has ever happened, I'm going to go ahead and give you a bonus PotM point for November.
While reminder text is in the Rules Box, it is not Rules Text. Reminder Text is essentially meaningless as far as Rules Text is concerned. It's simply there to help the player, and has no true bearing on the card (ie: Having a creature with flying and having the same creature with Flying+reminder text doesn't change the card).
This all begs 2 questions though.
1) Can anybody name a single card with reminder text that has a 1 in it?
2) You do realize how low the stakes are for this bonus, right? It's more of an additional bit of fun for the week than a real rule.
I'm sure the bonus winner will have something absurd.
(you may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell...) something like that. The reminder text steals the kicker cost.
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Some facts of magic:
-Terror is an emotion which, when experienced, results in death.
-The pox was a disease notorious for having killed one-third, rounded up, of Europe’s population. Smallpox, on the other hand, killed only a single person.
-A person riding a horse cannot be stopped by foot soldiers, large animals, walls, archers, or even catapults.
Can I see how I lose to Mr. Freeze? I think I win on the play, at the least...
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An ability exists on the stack independently of its source. Removal of the source after that time won't affect the ability. Some abilities cause a source to do something rather than the ability. Any activated or triggered ability that references information about the source checks that information when the ability is put onto the stack. Otherwise, it will check that information when it resolves. If the source is no longer in the zone it's expected to be in, its last known information is used.
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0. Overview
Two Card Blind (2CB) is a weekly Magic tournament, run entirely within this forum. To compete, players submit two-card decks which are played against each other. Scoring assumes optimal play, without randomness or concealed information.
1. Game Rules
1.1. Except for the changes described in these rules, games follow the rules of Magic.
1.2. Players' decks contain exactly two cards, which begin the game in hand. Players do not mulligan or sideboard.
1.3. Players' libraries begin the game empty. A player does not lose the game as a result of being unable to draw a card.
1.4. Each player owns an infinite supply of Basic Lands of each type outside the game. These may be played as if they were in his or her hand.
1.4b. You may play only one land from your hand in addition to only one land from outside the game during your turn; however, continuous effects may increase these numbers (if a card states that you may play an additional land this turn, you may play one from your hand, one from outside the game and one from either your hand or outside the game).
1.4b'. Playing lands from your hand will make you a better person. Officially.
1.5. A random effect produces the result that least benefits the owner of the source of the effect.
1.6. Each player plays two games (one match) against each other player.
2. Tournament Rules
2.1. Players submit their decks to the 2CB moderator.
2.2. Decks are subject to some restrictions.
2.3. Points determine tournament standings.
2.5. The player with the most PotM points over the course of a month is the Player of the Month. 2.5c. Each week, .5 PotM points will be given to the deck deemed most creative and original.
2.5d. Each week, after the grid is posted, the first player to able to post a deck that can successfully go 6-0 over every deck in the grid will also receive 1 PotM point.
November 2011- ???
11/11/11-???
Batman 1 Week Special- WhamWhamme
October (Batman) 2011- VikingMetal4L
10/28/11 (Joker Week)- VikingMetal4L
10/21/11 (Mr. Freeze Week)- Antonia
10/15/11 (BANE Week)- DragonDart
10/9/11 (Two-Face Week)- Feyd_Ruin
September 2011- VikingMetal4L
9/30/11 (Innistrad Week)- Benbuzz790
9/23/11 (Normal Week)- Personman
9/16/11 (Normal Week)- VikingMetal4L
Batman Decks:
1 WhammWhamme (The Goddamn Zombie Batman!*)
Volrath's Stronghold / Syncopate / Necrotic Sliver / Lich Lord of Unx /// Impatience
2 TANE
Teferi's Moat / Force of Will / Thrun, the Last Troll / Door to Nothingness /// Impatience
3 Error1
Hesitation / Force of Will / Lich Lord of Unx / Shivan Gorge /// Kiyomara, First to Stand
4 Benbuzz790
Wheel of Sun and Moon / Elixir of Immortality / Rith's Charm / Helix Pinnacle /// Goblin Festival
5 XScorpion
Deprive / Red Sun's Zenith / Nezumi Shortfang / Mayor of Avabruck /// Kjeldoran Javelineers
6 Shogun17
Exploration / Beast Within / Red Sun's Zenith / Beacon of Creation /// Copper Tablet
7 Personman
Augur of Skulls / Keldon Megaliths / Azorius Guildmage / Lich Lord of Unx /// Nefarious Lich
8 Thundersnow
Ensnaring Bridge / Rhys the Redeemed / Beacon of Creation / Epic Struggle ///
Diamond Kaleidoscope
9 Knobbodi (The Fashionably Late Addition that beat Joker)
Mana Crypt / Vex / Red Sun's Zenith / Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger /// Desecration Elemental
There are a few names that you might expect to be up in that list and aren't. Simply put, there were traitors in your midst. The Villain Decks did not all stem from the same mind, but from those who have proven themselves to be the true identities of these Villains...
(A) Two-Face: Feyd_Ruin
Show and Tell / Emrakul, the Aeon's Torn /// Volrath's Stronghold / Phyrexian Crusader
(B) BANE: DragonDart
Leyline of Sanctity / Stensia Bloodhall
(C) Mr. Freeze: Antonia
Kargan Dragonlord / Counterspell
And of course...every Hero needs and Archnemesis. And who better than the Archnemesis of the whole month...
(D) The Joker: VikingMetal4L
Dawn of the Dead / Near Death Experience
But every plot needs a mastermind...and who better than...
(E) Ra's Al Ghul: Heart of Draco
Wistful Thinking / Decree of Anihilation
THE GRID:
X | A B C D E
1 | 6 6 6 2 6 26
2 | 6 0 0 2 0 08
3 | 6 0 6 0 0 12
4 | 0 6 0 0 6 12
5 | 6 6 2 0 6 20
6 | 2 6 6 0 2 16
7 | 6 2 6 0 6 20
8 | 6 6 0 0 0 12
9 | 6 0 2 4 0 12
WhammWhamme is Crowned the Caped Crusader of Batman Week!
This Weeks's Standings:
WhammWhamme...26
Personman...........20
Xscorpion............20
Shogun17............16
Error1.................12
Benbuzz790.........12
Thundersnow.......12
Knobbodi.............12
TANE...................8
Card Frequencies:
Lich Lord of Unx: 3
Red Sun's Zenith: 3
Force of Will: 2
Beacon of Creation: 2
///
Impatience: 2
Which would have been a totally legitimate deck...
ALL KINDS OF CHANGES. Everything that was in the Ban Polls has been reflected. There's new watched cards. There's a minor rules change on legal decks that will only effect crazy specials like this one (you can't win on turns 1 or 2, which was merely an oversight given the unlikelihood of that happening with 2 cards).
Next Week is 11/11/11 Week!
Each player starts at 11 life.
Whenever a player would be dealt damage, that player is dealt 1 damage instead of any other amount.
The deck with the greatest number of “1”s or “one”s in their deck receives 1 bonus point.
1s (or Ones) are counted in...
Name
Mana Cost
Card Type
Rules Text
Power/Toughness
In other words, every aspect of the card that has an effect on game state and can have numbers.
This excludes:
Art, Artist, Flavor, Collector Number, and anything else that doesn't effect gameplay (Un-sets don't count!)
These decks will be due 11/11/11 at 11:11 PM (Pacific Time). I'll try to post as soon as I can next weekend, but I'll be at GP San Diego!
Md5: d9d660f8bfe913bc0fb9655e318f6f59
Last Week:
Feyd_Ruin
DragonDart
Antonia
Winner 4
Wistful Annihilation
Parting Notes on Batman Month:
I think the month itself was great. The formats were cool and you guys made some awesome decks. The only real issue was not being able to have player-submitted formats all month. After 11/11/11, the next 2 will be player submitted ideas. Please feel free to post ideas. I know Draco9 wanted to try a minor rules tweak.
In regards to the final week, I'm glad I separated it. Having the Villains be players was cool, but I think some of them felt like they missed out on running the gauntlet. I'll likely do another gauntlet in the future, but without player division. The Two-Face deck wasn't powerful enough, and the Joker deck too much so (My fault, not Feyd and Viking).
It was a neat experiment, and I intend on running another theme month some time in the future, but it's good to be over. I'd love to hear your opinions about this week and this month.
R'as has to stop Necrotic Sliver/Volrath's Stronghold with the exile power, because it singlehandedly wins the matchup (pretty sure it can lock R'as off 7 mana, but even without that, the Sliver is invincible and goes the distance after Decree goes off, cycled OR cast, since the response is "sacrifice to destroy that land, put it on top of my deck" if it's cast, and otherwise a 2/2 beats R'as to death)
So it's Lich Lord of Unx against Decree (syncopate stops Wistful Thoughts until it's time to cast the Lich Lord). So, does Lich Lord goldfish fast enough?
1: Land
2: Land
3: Land, Lich Lord of Unx
4: Land, token
5: Land, token, swing for 1 (19)
6: Land, token, swing for 2, Lichlord for 4 (13)
7: Land, token, swing for 3, Lichlord for 6 (4)
8: Win
Yes he does.
Makes sense to me.
One correction -- I think I tie with BANE, by using AzG to counter all Stensia Bloodhall activations forever.
Also: Why am I always second at everything I really shouldn't be complaining, but it's getting a little ridiculous!
No longer staff here.
Sounds right. I'll fix it.
Also: speaking of Second: you did take first once...in the Second week of 2CB.
And you built a good pair of decks The problem was, I should have given you like 4 decks to choose from, instead of 2. Or 1 card you always used and 2 pairs you could pick between or something like that.
As I said, I underpowered Two-Face and made the Joker too linear (and by extension, too powerful; though Viking also made a pretty brutal deck).
OMG 2x Darksteel Colossus for the bonus point! (and no other points)
I think you meant 'OMG!!!111!1111!one1'
Quite.
WHOOPS! SORRY!
It was 1:30 AM when I posted this. I'll update soon.
lol
Batman
I'm not quite sure about the dragonlord matchup, since Mr. Freeze has powerful and confusing abilities... But I think i got him.
-Terror is an emotion which, when experienced, results in death.
-The pox was a disease notorious for having killed one-third, rounded up, of Europe’s population. Smallpox, on the other hand, killed only a single person.
-A person riding a horse cannot be stopped by foot soldiers, large animals, walls, archers, or even catapults.
More facts of magic
Congratulations!
Becuase this was not intended to be part of PotM, I forgot about this. But given that you did it and it's the first time this has ever happened, I'm going to go ahead and give you a bonus PotM point for November.
November PotM standings:
Benbuzz790.......1.0
I'm gonna say No. In fact, allow me to clarify.
1s (or Ones) are counted in...
Name
Mana Cost
Card Type
Rules Text
Power/Toughness
In other words, every aspect of the card that has an effect on game state and can have numbers.
This excludes:
Art, Artist, Flavor, Collector Number, and anything else that doesn't effect gameplay (Un-sets don't count!)
That depends. Karn, Silver Golem's activated ability would count. Orochi Leafcaller's would not.
That is correct. Good catch.
While reminder text is in the Rules Box, it is not Rules Text. Reminder Text is essentially meaningless as far as Rules Text is concerned. It's simply there to help the player, and has no true bearing on the card (ie: Having a creature with flying and having the same creature with Flying+reminder text doesn't change the card).
This all begs 2 questions though.
1) Can anybody name a single card with reminder text that has a 1 in it?
2) You do realize how low the stakes are for this bonus, right? It's more of an additional bit of fun for the week than a real rule.
I'm sure the bonus winner will have something absurd.
kicker, infect, fading, flanking
most of them do actually
(you may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell...) something like that. The reminder text steals the kicker cost.
-Terror is an emotion which, when experienced, results in death.
-The pox was a disease notorious for having killed one-third, rounded up, of Europe’s population. Smallpox, on the other hand, killed only a single person.
-A person riding a horse cannot be stopped by foot soldiers, large animals, walls, archers, or even catapults.
More facts of magic