3-Card Blind (3CB) is a very unique game.
The rules are as follows:
* Your deck is composed of 3 cards, all of which start in your hand.
* You have no library (technically, the library exists, but starts at 0 cards) and no sideboard (Wishes fetch nothing).
* Random effects always go against the owner of the card.
* You can see your opponent's hand, so you can always make the best possible play.
* You don't lose as a result of not being able to draw a card.
* You will play each opponent twice, once going first, once going second.
* For each win, you score 3.
* For each draw, you score 1.
* For each loss, you get nothing.
* A subgame played with the card Shahrazad will result in an incomplete game and both players will receive ZERO points, since the main game cannot be resumed. Neither player loses or draws, so neither player earns any points.
* Other than the aforementioned, EVERYTHING IS HANDLED EXACTLY LIKE A REAL GAME OF MAGIC!
Remember, it is important for your deck to include a way to cast your cards! (Lands, artifact mana, pitch cards, etc.)
If you want to play PM me a message in this format.
Subject should include "Vanishing 3-Card Blind" (Just click on the little PM icon above my post and it should work out that way.)
Card #1
Card #2
Card #3Be sure you really are happy with your deck before you submit. Once you send in a deck, there is no changing it except in the case of an illegal entry.
Please make every effort to spell your card names correctly. It makes it easier for everyone. Thanks.
The "Vanishing" part is the twist. To start off with, only Unglued, Unhinged and Ante cards are banned. After each round, the 3 cards in the winning deck plus any cards in more than 1/3 of the decks played will be banned for all future rounds. Any lands that only provide mana are exempted from the banning rules.
--------------Current banned list--------------
White:
Champion of the Parish
Entreat the Angels
Keening Apparition
Lingering Souls
Silverblade Paladin
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Blue:
Laboratory Maniac
Memory's Journey
Black:
Appetite for Brains
Duress
Mind Rot
Sever the Bloodline
Red:
Bonfire of the Damned
Devil's Play
Green:
Avacyn's Pilgrim
Daybreak Ranger
Garruk Relentless
Mayor of Avabruck
Wolfbitten Captive
Multicolored:
Abrupt Decay
Detention Sphere
Dreadbore
Geist of Saint Traft
Izzet Charm
Sigarda, Host of Herons
Artifacts:
Elixir of Immortality
Banned Decks (History)
Round 1: s14sh3r
Duress
Izzet Charm
Laboratory Maniac
Round 2: tritoch
Abrupt Decay
Appetite for Brains
Sigarda, Host of Herons
Round 3: tritoch
Elixir of Immortality
Detention Sphere
Bonfire of the Damned
Round 4: junichi
Wolfbitten Captive
Mayor of Avabruck
Daybreak Ranger
Round 5: bushe
Keening Apparition
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play
Round 6: bushe
Dreadbore
Entreat the Angels
Memory's Journey
Round 7: junichi
Champion of the Parish
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Silverblade Paladin
Round 8: bushe
Avacyn's Pilgrim
Mind Rot
Garruk Relentless
--------------End of Banning list--------------
I will try and post a new round every Sunday, allow submissions through Tuesday, reveal deck lists first thing on Wednesday and allow scoring until Saturday.
NO MISE DECKS!
Any deck submitted MUST have some win condition. Any deck that can do no better than a draw against any possible deck will be rejected. A deck that can't win any game is mathematically eliminated from winning the round, and thus would just be taking a chance to win away from someone who could actually have a shot.
ALL players will assist in judging. The way this will work is that after the submission period is over, After all decks are revealed, judge your own deck against every other deck (going first and going second). Post your findings here in this thread. They will be reviewed by everyone for accuracy. Once a winner is determined the winners deck will be added to the banned list and the next round will begin. Repeated failure to do your own scoring will result in suspensions!
Edit to add:
1) We will only be using cards from Standard. I know some veterans of the game will gripe and say that Standard is awful in general and worse when you can only use three cards, and you won't get to use your broken decks like Black Lotus, Black Vise, Balance. However, the smaller card pool is less intimidating to newer players and less mental strain to us all. We can change the format soon.
2) Instead of the normal 40+ weeks that I normally try to drag out the tournament, with no clear winner until our numbers diminish into nothing, we will instead be running each round for only 10 weeks, and at the end declare a winner. If you don't like Standard, wait 10 weeks and we'll have a new format. I'd even be willing to put the next format to a popular vote (sorry, no electoral college in this game) and see what most people would like to play. There will be a clear-cut winner after 10 weeks AND the play will rotate more often than usual, so it doesn't get stale.
3) Due to the limitations of the Standard pool, I don't want to restrict everyone to boring decks like Plains, Dryad Militant, Dryad Militant versus Mountain, Pillar of Flame, Rakdos Cackler. So, instead, just for this round, there will be a major alteration of the rules:
Each turn, you may put a token land onto the battlefield on your side. This counts as your land for the turn. If a token land leaves play for any reason, it ceases to exist. The ONLY lands you may play this way are the five basic (non-Snow Covered) lands available in Standard - Forest, Island, Mountain, Plains, Swamp.
You are free to play with other non-basic lands, but these will count towards your three cards in your deck if you do so.
Winner's List:
3
bushe
2
junichi
tritoch
1
S14sh3r
Decklists:
1. yakusoku
Liliana of the Veil
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
Garruk, Primal Hunter
2. Magic1264
Invisible Stalker
Oblivion Ring
Increasing Savagery
3. LemonMeringue
Pack Rat
Worldspine Wurm
Vraska the Unseen
4. junichi
Reckless Waif
Hinterland Hermit
Kruin Outlaw
5. bushe
Snapcaster Mage
Restoration Angel
Syncopate
6. ectomanic
Illegal deck
[Edited 2 times, lastly by yakusoku on January 25, 2013]