What's the Point? is a Limited pointing game. Players compete to design cards across a spectrum of power! The rules are simple:
This game uses WotC's revised 0.0 - 5.0 Limited pointing scale. Short version: higher score = better chances that you'll play the card if it's in your Sealed Deck pool. 0.0 = never; 5.0 = always. Benchmark cards are used to help developers understand the environment's spectrum of power.
Each round consists of up to twelve posts: the benchmarker's first post, and up to eleven players' custom card posts.
At the beginning of each round, the benchmarker posts four EXISTING Magic cards that define the power spectrum of the Limited environment for that round: a 4.0 card, a 3.0 card, a 2.0 card, and a 1.0 card.
Up to eleven players take turns designing cards for the eleven half-point steps on the scale: 0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0. Players can pick these values in whatever order they like.
Once somebody has posted a card of a particular point rating, that point rating is closed for the round. Pick one of the remaining ratings!
A round is considered complete when all eleven players have posted a card. A round is also complete if more than a week has passed since the last post, even if fewer than eleven players participated in the round. Once a round is complete, anybody may post a new set of four benchmark cards.
During the NEXT round, each player (including the new benchmarker) votes on the cards from the PREVIOUS round. Each player picks the one player from the previous round whose card they believe did the best job of designing a card for its associated point value. YOU CAN'T PICK YOURSELF. The player with the most votes wins!
This is the Custom Card Creation forum, and this is a Custom Card Creation game! So yes, you need to design a custom card for this game. Only the benchmarker posts existing Magic cards.
Anybody can be the benchmarker if it's time for the next round to begin! Just post four cards that define that round's power level spectrum (4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0).
Absolutely!
No. Only one. Feel free to post your one vote in either your benchmark post or your card post.
No. Only the first card that you post each round will count.
No. Cards need to use one of the eleven half-point step numbers listed above. Any card outside this range is automatically DQ'd.
Only the first card chronologically posted for a given half-point step number will count. If there's still room in the round, you can still pick a different number and revise your card.
Hopefully you will recruit some more people to play the game! Consider yourself the winner by default, and try again.
You both/all win! Cake for everybody! If that doesn't give you satisfaction, feel free to arrange a pistol duel or whatever on your own time.
Nope. A 5.0 card still has to be printable. It might be the most powerful card in the set, but it should stay in line with the power level, as determined by the benchmarker.
Again, nope. Your card might be super bad, but it should still have a reason to exist. It may be useless for Sealed Deck, but it should still be appealing to some kind of player.
This game is both a development challenge and a design challenge. You're not voting for your favorite card, but for the card you think best matches its point level associated with the card, as aligned with the benchmark cards. So, the criteria for voting is a development critiera. But, if a card is badly designed / doesn't work within the rules, people should feel free to vote for a different card.
I hope not! Players should vote based on the card they think is pointed the most correctly.
Not closely at all. You're free to post cards that have nothing in common thematically or mechanically with the benchmarker's cards. Those cards are just there to establish the power level for the round.
No, but it might help. At the very least, please do put card tags around your four cards so that people can view them easily without needing to boot up Gatherer or some other card database.
I will be the benchmarker for the first round! The first round will be the only round without voting (obviously).
0.0: Avalanche Berserker3RB
Creature - Elemental Berserker
Haste
When Avalanche Berserker enters the battlefield, you may have Avalanche Berserker deal 1 damage to itself and 1 damage to you. If you do, destroy target basic Mountain.
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What's the Point? is a Limited pointing game. Players compete to design cards across a spectrum of power! The rules are simple:
4.0: Gleancrawler
3.0: Bonesplitter
2.0: Glamer Spinners
1.0: Guttural Response
Blur-Foot Courier 1UR
Creature -- Elemental [C]
Haste, hexproof
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Avalanche Berserker 3RB
Creature - Elemental Berserker
Haste
When Avalanche Berserker enters the battlefield, you may have Avalanche Berserker deal 1 damage to itself and 1 damage to you. If you do, destroy target basic Mountain.
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