Post by: The Oracle on August 08, 2010, 03:40:47 pm
This topic is NOT for criticizing other people's ideas. Such posts may be removed at the discretion of moderators.
List by Higurashi.
Before you post, consider if it really would work as a tournament. The primary problem with most ideas is that they would slow down the matches too much and extend the tournament into a nightmarish 5-6 hours. Stalling tournaments are a headache for everyone involved.
Those ideas are better fit for PvP Events. Try to participate in at least one tournament before you suggest something so that you'll have a basic grasp of what's appropriate. An example of another common problem you'll realize if you participate is one-sidedness; it's not really fun to restrict a tourney too much into, say, only using 1-2 elements.
Post by: ddevans96 on August 08, 2010, 03:47:15 pm
Duo and trio decks only
No shields allowed
Opposing elements only
No more than 5 different cards in your deck.
No weapons besides Basic ones
No permanents besides pillars
Blue and Green elements only (:water :air :aether :life)
I'll probably have more ideas later :)
Post by: Glitch on August 08, 2010, 05:44:08 pm
Your decks may not cost more than X electrum to build.
Post by: Kejixu93 on August 08, 2010, 06:41:18 pm
Post by: cebra on August 08, 2010, 07:11:37 pm
No Creatures with less than 5 Attack
No Creatures with more than 5 HP
No Creatures with less than 5 HP
Only vanilla creatures
No pillars
No Creatures
No Creatures and damaging spells(fire bolt, ice bolt, drain life)
No Healing cards
No Creatures, no Weapons, no shields
Post by: implosion on August 08, 2010, 07:24:46 pm
Direct damage only (no damaging creatures, no reflective shields)
New decks (ban the 2-3 or even more most used cards from each element - this could be either at the organizer's discretion or based on the (old) usage statistics)
Specific mono decks (a speed building variant - each round the organizer would select an element, and mono decks from that element must be used for that round)
Post by: RavingRabbid on August 08, 2010, 07:56:34 pm
You must build a mono deck using only quantum pillar.
Post by: truddy02 on August 08, 2010, 08:39:50 pm
Post by: 7_Deadly_Sins on August 08, 2010, 09:10:53 pm
Post by: thraexis11 on August 08, 2010, 09:12:05 pm
You must play the deck with mark that opponent used last game
You may play with cards of the same starting letter only - (pillars not included)- for example your deck only consists of cards with starting letter F only- (fire queen,flying weapon, fire bolt)
Post by: Demagog on August 08, 2010, 10:04:05 pm
Post by: Kuroaitou on August 08, 2010, 10:16:45 pm
Hoarder: Decks of more than +50 are only allowed. Hourglasses may (or may not be) used.
Bite-sized/Heavy Lifting: You cannot use any creature with an attack of +9 (double-digits) in your deck. You cannot use creatures with low attack (less than 5) in your deck.
Marked!: Tournament organizer selects 1-2 elements. These are the required marks that you must use for your battles. Mark cards are not allowed.
Bipolar: You can only use a deck if it contains cards of opposite elements (i.e. - :gravity + :entropy, :darkness + :light, etc.)
Flavored: You can only use cards that have some sort of active or passive ability. (When applied to permanents, weapons from 'Other' are not allowed in this case, and shields must do something other than reducing damage). Spells are (aren't) allowed.
Buffer: Your deck must contain at least 1 card that provides a benefit (Chaos Power, Blessing, Eclipse, etc.) to a creature or yourself.
Post by: kev on August 08, 2010, 10:22:09 pm
Creatures, spells and perms from three different elements chosen 15 mins before the tourney.
Everyone must use six mutations and six druids in their deck.
Quad decks - 32 card decks must have 8 of each element. Other can either count as an element or not (up to tourney host). Novas and immolations not allowed.
Edit:
False False Gods - Players use an unupped version of a False God deck found here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,7919.0.html).
Possible variation: players may use either a False God deck or a top 3 most-voted deck of a proposed false Gods (tourney organizer could create a thread for creating/voting).
Quanta dry - Players may not use upped cards, pillars, novas, immolations or devourers.
FG Grinders - use any deck posted in the FG deck section with more than 50 replies. Upped cards allowed.
Edit 2:
Only decks with a maximum electrum value of X.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on August 08, 2010, 10:30:07 pm
Starter Deck: Everyone makes ONE new account. They may sell and buy cards only. Players battle with these "starter" decks. A player automatically loses if they have a win or loss on their record (meaning they played an AI/PvP).I like this idea. However, for the sake of simplicity, we should just have starter deck vs. starter deck, so no selling or buying.
Post by: Appawesome on August 10, 2010, 07:42:53 am
No Weapons - Obvious
No Pillars/Towers - Obvious
Growth - Only the following creatures are allowed: Graviton Fire Eater, Forest Spirit, Fire Spirit, and Steam Machine
Surprise! - Must use a 2HKO/1HKO. No miracle allowed. (No Weapons)
Post by: twinsbuster on August 10, 2010, 08:02:42 am
Nymphs Tears (Must have at least 4 Nymphs Tears with No creatures)
Mutant (Must have at least 5 Fallen Elf and 5 Mutation)
1.25 New Cards (Must have at least 6 of them)
Post by: ddevans96 on August 10, 2010, 03:06:38 pm
No Shields- ObviousUm...Lava Golem is a growth creature too....
No Weapons - Obvious
No Pillars/Towers - Obvious
Growth - Only the following creatures are allowed: Graviton Fire Eater, Forest Spirit, Fire Spirit, and Steam Machine
Surprise! - Must use a 2HKO/1HKO. No miracle allowed. (No Weapons)
Post by: Appawesome on August 11, 2010, 04:47:23 am
No Shields- ObviousUm...Lava Golem is a growth creature too....
No Weapons - Obvious
No Pillars/Towers - Obvious
Growth - Only the following creatures are allowed: Graviton Fire Eater, Forest Spirit, Fire Spirit, and Steam Machine
Surprise! - Must use a 2HKO/1HKO. No miracle allowed. (No Weapons)
No Shields- Obvious
No Weapons - Obvious
No Pillars/Towers - Obvious
Growth - Only the following creatures are allowed: Graviton Fire Eater, Forest Spirit, Fire Spirit, Lava Golem, and Steam Machine
Surprise! - Must use a 2HKO/1HKO. No miracle allowed. (No Weapons)
Fix'd.
Post by: cebra on August 12, 2010, 01:10:55 pm
Every Deck has to use at least 3 copies of Mindgate
Post by: ratcharmer on August 12, 2010, 06:57:22 pm
could make for interesting strategies if you know what you're up against
Post by: dspn23 on August 12, 2010, 10:28:23 pm
Post your tournament ideas here. Best ideas will be used for weekly tournaments. Thanks.wat about:
-creatures do not attack (use speels,wapens,shields and monsters effects such as cryshaora)
-must use cards of two elements for each fase of the tournament ex:
fase1:must use gravity or death cards
fase2:must use light or entropy cards
fase3:must use water or time
fase4:must use darkness or fire
fase5(finals):must use wind, earth, life or aether
the objective is that evryone must create 5 deck's always with non combinable elements
-just dragons atack but all can use efects
-creatures dont die but we start with 250hp
-must have 3 copies of each card no more no less(pillars included)
-we are like fake goods having 3 marks of the element and 200 life (no shards alowed)
-decks of 42 cards plus 3 upgreded cards
-evryone must chose the deck and use it for all the rounds and after the begining of the duel players are abable to see the oponet code of deck to know what are about to met
-spels can not give more maximum life or just heal
-quantum pillars,nova and imolations are not alowed (include their upgrades)
someone shoud be good...lol
ps: sorry mistakes
Post by: ratcharmer on August 12, 2010, 11:44:24 pm
Hence most tournament ideas are based on restrictions to the types of decks allowed.
Post by: the Sage on August 13, 2010, 01:25:53 pm
Only pendulums! =D
Post by: wespebbles1 on August 13, 2010, 01:31:02 pm
Post by: Appawesome on August 14, 2010, 09:39:25 pm
Cheap creatures only. - Only creatures that use 0,1, or 2 quanta to summon. (No shields or CC)
Airborne creatures only. - Obvious
Non-Airborne creatures only. -Obvious (No Wings)
Mono-*element* - Everyone has to use the element that is chosen in a mono deck.
Cheapness - Only cards that cost 0,1, or 2 quanta.
Post by: abacus on August 15, 2010, 05:39:28 am
Fat decks: every deck has to have 60 cards in it. Potentially ban hourglasses/precognitions to keep in the spirit of the tournament.
Far more complicated: Drafting. This wouldn't have to be a tournament per se, but could be a regular thing done on IRC. There are a number of cool internet tools to make drafting online easy and fair.
Hope people like these!
Post by: bucky1andonly on August 15, 2010, 08:33:51 pm
posted in general section, linked to here
Post by: thekillergame on August 15, 2010, 08:43:15 pm
Post by: GG on August 16, 2010, 02:30:51 am
new cards : seriously. there are EIGHT new cards. make a tourney using those.
pendulum : only quanta source may be pendulums. also, u cannot use pendulums as normal towers (as in the element of the pendulum cannot be same as your mark)
Post by: harry959 on August 17, 2010, 04:01:20 am
Deny Everything: Only denial decks.
Post by: TheodorCon on August 18, 2010, 06:32:36 am
No spells at all.
No creatures and spells that inflict poison damage.
Only creatures with special skills.
No shields or weapons.
:air by TheodorCon
Post by: twinsbuster on August 18, 2010, 06:45:41 am
Post by: xuru on August 18, 2010, 08:29:20 am
change a main rule of matches, you are not going to win first, u are going to lose
so you have to kill yourself as fast as you can :}
It could be very funny :D
Post by: twinsbuster on August 18, 2010, 08:57:33 am
losing tournamentthis idea…is so damn creative! :))
change a main rule of matches, you are not going to win first, u are going to lose
so you have to kill yourself as fast as you can :}
It could be very funny :D
But everyone will pack all the bolts, antimatter and holy light in deck.
Post by: xuru on August 18, 2010, 10:44:59 am
most of deck would be time but still i like it : ) antimater your own vampires to heal your opponent ; dlosing tournamentthis idea…is so damn creative! :))
change a main rule of matches, you are not going to win first, u are going to lose
so you have to kill yourself as fast as you can :}
It could be very funny :D
But everyone will pack all the bolts, antimatter and holy light in deck.
Post by: Lordpants on August 19, 2010, 05:04:15 pm
- I thought of doing something similar to the zodiac signs and birthdays to determine the deck you use. Like Gemini being Aether so 50% of my deck would have to be Aether or something to that effect.
Post by: Kuross on August 20, 2010, 04:44:43 pm
-At the beginning of the week, post X amount of cards (non-pillar/pendulum) to choose from in a pool.
-Players must only use cards from that pool in their deck.
-Players may use any amount of pillars and/or pendulums as they see fit to use.
-Players may make and use multiple decks based on the cards from the pool throughout the tournament. (It would be highly recommended to save the code for multiple decks so as to not mistakenly add a card which isn't allowed.)
-Players playing a card not listed in the pool in their deck forfeit the round.
Post by: Metahater on August 21, 2010, 07:19:26 am
Rule 1: No switching entire decks between games. Submit decklists to tournament organizers within a minumum of 30 minutes in advance, so organizers can verify no one is cheating. (Assuming they will be available at that time)
Rule 2: 40-Card decks. No exceptions. Optional 5-card sideboards to be submitted with deck. No pillars may be in any sideboard.
Rule 3: 4-copy limit. No decks can have more than 4 copies of any non-pillar.
Rule 4: Restricted list. Cards will be added/removed periodically. If I can suggest a few cards to restrict, they would be the following:
Only a single copy (1) of each of these cards are permitted:
Miracle
Amber Nymph
Fractal
Eternity
I looked through the entire card list, and nothing else seemed overly broken. I could even be mistaken about these 4. The point of the list is to make cards that are "very unfair" less apparent, so all players can enjoy the tourney.
Rule 5: No upgraded cards.
Rule 6: No other restrictions on deck construction. Best of 3 games. 45-minute rounds. Slow play will not be tolerated. Finals do best of 5.
The problem with this style tournament is that we would need more "staff" to oversee random matches (spectate), to keep order, and make sure everyone is playing by the rules; IN ADDITION to the staff that will be working on the tournament itself.
let me know what you guys think.
Post by: Demagog on August 22, 2010, 04:46:47 am
You must use a deck that was used in a previous war. You may not use a deck twice.
Post by: RavingRabbid on August 22, 2010, 06:43:36 pm
- Upped cards
- Only cards from two elements that are opposites :air- :earth , :death- :life , :aether- :time , :gravity- :entropy , :water - :fire, :darkness - :light
Post by: 918273645 on August 22, 2010, 06:49:00 pm
Post a screenshot of what your fortuneis on the tournament day. Make a mono deck of that element.
Post by: agentflare on August 25, 2010, 02:05:11 pm
Rainbow-1 -this one's kinda complicated. Make a rainbow deck except you have to have at least 1 card in every element, except 1 element. This element would be your own mark! So, if you had a mark of fire, you wouldn't be able to use any fire element cards. You could however use mark of water and use forest spirit.
No special weapons- fairly obvious. No weapons like: Eternity, Titan, Owl's eye, etc.
Post by: Thelonesun on August 26, 2010, 02:50:01 am
Participators must be in the chat 45 minutes before the actual brackets are created. Once all people who are participating come into the chat, the tourney organizer makes a random string, and puts it in the chat. All new accounts must have that string in their name or they are disqualified (this is to prevent cheating!) After the string is created and sent, the participants must create a new account (using that string somewhere in the name) and begins grinding their brains out for half an hour. After the grinding is done, the brackets are posted, and there are ten minutes to connect and deckbuild. After this, the tourney proceeds as normal.
I'm pretty sure PuppyChow posted this in the old thread...
Post by: axel1989 on August 26, 2010, 12:49:03 pm
Starter Deck: Everyone makes ONE new account. They may sell and buy cards only. Players battle with these "starter" decks. A player automatically loses if they have a win or loss on their record (meaning they played an AI/PvP).This one is a great idea, but the new account can be done? Is not a multi-account something that is not allowed?
Post by: the Sage on August 26, 2010, 04:07:24 pm
most of deck would be time but still i like it : ) antimater your own vampires to heal your opponent ; dYeah, I guess decking out with a 30-card hourglass deck isn't too hard. And you even have the anti-deck out card to foil opponents decking out.
Post by: the Sage on August 26, 2010, 04:08:18 pm
No, we had a starter deck competition just now, and most people used new accounts for that.Starter Deck: Everyone makes ONE new account. They may sell and buy cards only. Players battle with these "starter" decks. A player automatically loses if they have a win or loss on their record (meaning they played an AI/PvP).This one is a great idea, but the new account can be done? Is not a multi-account something that is not allowed?
Post by: Fudoshin on August 27, 2010, 03:51:10 pm
Every player must have 6 otys in their deck, only 30 cards and no other creatures, weapons, artifacts, or shields. No upped cards. Only other thing they can have are spells so it would be a race to take out otys with removal/buff your own with cards like momentum so you could eat the other persons otys.
Post by: Thelonesun on August 28, 2010, 04:18:43 am
How about an Oty race? I really like that card!This would actually be pretty fun. I'd think we'd be seeing a lot of mono gravity with momentum in this kind of deck though. :P
Every player must have 6 otys in their deck, only 30 cards and no other creatures, weapons, artifacts, or shields. No upped cards. Only other thing they can have are spells so it would be a race to take out otys with removal/buff your own with cards like momentum so you could eat the other persons otys.
Post by: the Sage on August 28, 2010, 08:49:31 pm
Newbie Again: You must use a new account!This would be a good time to cash in those few k tournament rewards. =)
Post by: Toimu13 on August 28, 2010, 09:38:01 pm
Nope, EVERYONE would go :aether :gravity. Lightning + Parallel Universe + Quintessence + Mindgate = WIN!How about an Oty race? I really like that card!This would actually be pretty fun. I'd think we'd be seeing a lot of mono gravity with momentum in this kind of deck though. :P
Every player must have 6 otys in their deck, only 30 cards and no other creatures, weapons, artifacts, or shields. No upped cards. Only other thing they can have are spells so it would be a race to take out otys with removal/buff your own with cards like momentum so you could eat the other persons otys.
I kind-of like this idea.most of deck would be time but still i like it : ) antimater your own vampires to heal your opponent ; dlosing tournamentthis idea…is so damn creative! :))
change a main rule of matches, you are not going to win first, u are going to lose
so you have to kill yourself as fast as you can :}
It could be very funny :D
But everyone will pack all the bolts, antimatter and holy light in deck.
Post by: wizelsnarf on September 07, 2010, 12:47:18 am
Post by: hb2007 on September 08, 2010, 01:55:39 pm
Post by: YawnChainHow on September 09, 2010, 08:59:52 pm
Possible modifications:
-Duo/Trio/Quartet decks only
-Rainbows only
-Restrictions on the number of Permanent control cards allowed (especially Earthquake)
-Decks must use a predetermined number of Time Pendulums as the only non-creature quanta source (Firefly, Ray of Light, etc are okay), and must have predetermined number of Hourglasses. This means no Novas or Cremations.
-Decks may contain upped cards
-Decks must be completely Unupped
-Allow decks to include Eternity, although this would mean that some matches would take very long.
-Ban certain cards (for example: Graboid, Dune Scorpion)
-Allow decks to be of any size, but they must be 7~13% Hourglasses and 37~43% Time Pendulums (do not need to be those exact numbers; the range may be changed as well)
Post by: ratcharmer on September 10, 2010, 04:27:52 am
Each participant submits a non-upgraded deck with no rares. Before each round players draw lots to see who uses which deck.
There are two winners: whoever comes in first and whoever's deck design had the best win/loss ratio.
Ties in win/loss ratio are decided by a duel between the deck authors, each using their own deck.
Post by: jippy99 on September 13, 2010, 07:01:22 pm
1. Tourney organizer chooses 30 cards (pillars and pendulems excluded) that can be used for either each round or the entire tourney.
2. No creatures are allowed.
3. No spells are allowed. (I think there is already one like this)
4. No permanents are allowed. (This one might not work because there are only a few decks that will work like this.)
All of these would be unupped.
Post by: ratcharmer on September 13, 2010, 07:11:11 pm
Anyways, here's my thought at the moment:
Do a "random deck" tournament. Each player submits one unupgraded deck with no rares prior to the tournament, then each round draw names out of a hat to determine who uses each deck.
There would be two winners: the person who won the tournament and the person whose deck had the highest win/loss ratio. Ties in win/loss ratio would be decided by a duel between the two players, each using their own deck.
Note: the unupgraded & no rares rule is to avoid circumstances where some players can't build the deck they're assigned.
Post by: cfreddy on September 13, 2010, 11:31:33 pm
Post by: 7wavemaster on September 14, 2010, 01:18:12 am
2)No upgraded cards.
3)Only mono,duo, and trio decks.
4)No spells,shields, or rare weapons(dagger,short sword, hammer, etc. is fine).
5)And no creatures that has 9+ attack or has growth, ablaze ability, that kind of thing.
Post by: lokiburn4 on September 17, 2010, 08:06:15 pm
Post by: chum3 on September 22, 2010, 04:44:05 am
Valentine's Day: Only use entropy, fire, and light elements (pink, red, and white colors)
Christmas: Only use fire, life, and light elements (red, green and white colors)
Halloween: Only use darkness, gravity, and death elements (black and orange colors, and death just because it's Halloween related)
Earth Day: Only life and earth elements (self explanatory) [and maybe water too]
There are a lot of blue elements (aether, air, and water), so you might be able to find something for them (or make just a "blue tournament").
Someone earlier in the topic posted the idea of having everyone use duo decks based off elements that are "opposites" (so earth-air decks, fire-water decks, life-death decks, etc.), which I think is a really good idea.
Post by: EvaRia on September 22, 2010, 05:06:35 am
Your deck must contain at least one of every pillar. (Pendulums don't count.)
One of a Kind:
Your deck can contain at most one of every card that you choose to use.
Unupped and upped count as different cards. (You can have a pillar, a tower, a pendulum, and an upped pendulum all of the same element.)
Airborne:
You may only use Airborne Creatures, and you have to have at least one in your deck.
Scramble Race:
Every Deck must have 6 Novas and 6 Discords, and no other means of gaining quanta. BH, Pests, and "Other" Cards are not allowed. You have to play at least 1 Discord during the game.
Miscellania:
Every card in your deck has to cost either no quanta or random quanta.
Mini-Deck:
You must take exactly 30 cards, and 6 of them must be Precogs.
I'll post others if I think of them.
Post by: kurathedog on September 22, 2010, 03:48:35 pm
Aoe: creatures must have 5 or less hp
Swing: no pillars (only pendulums)
Lone mark: no cards may be of your mark's element
Pray to the RNG: only creatures allowed are fate eggs, photons, sparks, and fallen elves. No weapons
Armor games: no momentum allowed
Medic: at least 4 healing cards in your deck
Post by: TimerClock14 on September 23, 2010, 06:54:38 pm
no other restrictions
Post by: 7wavemaster on September 25, 2010, 06:41:51 pm
4 Adrenalines
No creature with +5 attack.
No healing card, creature, or permanent like Druidic staff or vamp stilleto.
30 card deck.
Post by: 7wavemaster on September 25, 2010, 06:48:39 pm
Nothing upped
Photon Madness
6 Photons
4 Fractals
No shields
No weapons
30 card decks
Post by: cont on September 25, 2010, 09:32:47 pm
Post by: t3hplatyz0rz on September 26, 2010, 07:21:19 pm
A player may not use the same card twice throughout the entire tournament.
Here's another idea, not as good.
Every deck must use 6 Luciferine.
I think that Luciferine is a very interesting game mechanic, but also one of the least effective strategies in the game. I would love to see an effective luciferine deck come out of this.
I like the idea of the suicide deck competition, but I would make this deck, and it would win every single time-
Mark of Light
Precognition*6
Golden Hourglass*6
Sundial*6
Time Pillar*12
Post by: 9jacob4 on September 27, 2010, 10:11:39 pm
Post by: 1world24 on October 01, 2010, 09:14:51 pm
Post by: kurathedog on October 02, 2010, 01:07:50 am
I like the idea of the suicide deck competition, but I would make this deck, and it would win every single time-What if your oppent uses that deck too? (or spashes deflags to kill your hourglasses?) ;D
Mark of Light
Precognition*6
Golden Hourglass*6
Sundial*6
Time Pillar*12
Post by: Rooftrellen on October 04, 2010, 02:37:25 am
Hannibal's March - Use only ground creatures, no spells, only basic weapons (other element weapons)
Post by: EvaRia on October 04, 2010, 02:38:47 am
Hannibal's March - Use only ground creatures, no spells, only basic weapons (other element weapons)Can I assume no wings? 0.o
Post by: Rooftrellen on October 04, 2010, 02:59:15 am
Yes, no wings. I didn't mention it because I was thinking...of course, people could destroy or steal it. But no spells, not quite the case, so wings would have to be out, too.Hannibal's March - Use only ground creatures, no spells, only basic weapons (other element weapons)Can I assume no wings? 0.o
Another idea just hit me.
Elemental's Guide to the Galaxy - Each deck must have EXACTLY 49 cards, no cards that add cards to a deck (such as Eternity) or remove cards from a deck (such as sundials)...and the answer is now 42....turns to kill your enemy!
Post by: Szklarzified on October 04, 2010, 07:18:39 pm
Only 40+ card decks, 5 random cards in your deck is removed.
No rare cards, Nymph Tears and Mummy is not allowed.
No Permanents exept for Pillars/Towers.
No quantum generating spells/permanents.
NO shields, weapons.
Post by: kobisjeruk on October 06, 2010, 05:33:44 am
the old fate egg tourney (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,7266.0.html) is what drew me to the forum in the first place
if i'm not mistaken it has the largest number of participant up to the point
the old decklist is this:-
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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5riwhat i'm suggesting is similar, but the difference is that it is 50% upgradedthe decklist is something like this:-
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4sa 4sa 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vj 4vj 4vk 4vk 4vk 5rg 5rg 5ri 5ri 5ri 6qq 6qq 6qq 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u3 6u4 6u4 6u4 7q0 7q0 7q2 7q2 7q2special rule is the same as before
Quote
Special Rules
- You can only use the deck below. Everyone uses the same deck and all other decks are illegal!
Post by: Toimu13 on October 06, 2010, 12:46:47 pm
Fate Egg tournament v1.5I like the idea! Here is a deck I did some testing with for this idea:
the old fate egg tourney (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,7266.0.html) is what drew me to the forum in the first place
if i'm not mistaken it has the largest number of participant up to the point
the old decklist is this:-Code: [Select]4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri
what i'm suggesting is similar, but the difference is that it is 50% upgraded
the decklist is something like this:-Code: [Select]4sa 4sa 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vj 4vj 4vk 4vk 4vk 5rg 5rg 5ri 5ri 5ri 6qq 6qq 6qq 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u3 6u4 6u4 6u4 7q0 7q0 7q2 7q2 7q2special rule is the same as beforeQuoteSpecial Rules
- You can only use the deck below. Everyone uses the same deck and all other decks are illegal!
Code: [Select]
4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vk 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri
Post by: bucky1andonly on October 06, 2010, 03:28:48 pm
Code: [Select]
4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 55v 55v 5c2 5c2 5c2 5c2 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5ri 5rj 5rj 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 61r 61r 61r 61rtested this yesterday against someone playing the same deck, i made a few changes, like a few more pillars, and the black holes and heals, but all 3 games were different, and fun. it is very affordable, so even the newbs could play.has some stuff so the game isnt just about who can get their fate eggs out first
Post by: Jinxso on October 07, 2010, 04:10:20 pm
Post by: Rastafla on October 07, 2010, 08:29:52 pm
Post by: bucky1andonly on October 07, 2010, 09:10:48 pm
Post by: Higurashi on October 08, 2010, 03:47:56 pm
Firstly a tourny like this would have a -lot- of participants (we're talking around 50-70 people), and thus the tourny would take many hours to complete. I can see it potentially going on for 5-6 hours.
Secondly, the longer a match goes on, the larger is the risk for desync/timeout. This increases the time it would take even further, and creates a lot of confusion and frustration.
That said, it's a fun deck, yes, but the healing really isn't needed to make it fun. However, I thank the community for showing that they want more of these kinds of tournies. Helps when creating concepts.
Post by: Toimu13 on October 13, 2010, 01:41:51 am
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,13689.0.html
The deck worked pretty good, but more :entropy quantum was needed. Pretty fun also!
Post by: $$$man on October 13, 2010, 02:37:54 am
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Post by: $$$man on October 13, 2010, 02:44:38 am
Just played an awesome game with this deck ^^
(http://imageplay.net/m7Gbd95629/Fate_thumb.jpg) (http://imageplay.net/view/m7Gbd95629/Fate)
(http://imageplay.net/img/m7Gbd95630/Fate.png) (http://imageplay.net/)
Edit:
Got another one.
(http://imageplay.net/m7Gbd95631/O.o_thumb.jpg) (http://imageplay.net/view/m7Gbd95631/O.o)
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Post by: 7wavemaster on October 16, 2010, 01:46:01 am
60 card decks and no cards that help draw cards.
That means no hour glass, precog, etc.
Post by: elements15 on October 16, 2010, 11:10:25 pm
Post by: LongDono on October 20, 2010, 01:14:22 am
Maybe only play cards with even cost, or odd cost in your deck. Skill cost do not matter. Pillers and Pendulums don't count as they dont have cost, and neither will photons, or anything else without a cost. They are not odd or even so they can be played.
Post by: DeviousDragon98 on October 20, 2010, 03:00:10 pm
Post by: Higurashi on October 20, 2010, 03:42:07 pm
Done as or fit as PvP Events
60-card decks
Lose to win
You are the Fake God
Done
Monodecks
Fate Egg/Mutation deck
Speed building
Mark change
Rainbow
The new (Gargoyle, Wings, Steam engine, Pandemonium)
My choice (TO selects elements allowed for each round)
No spells
Monodecks, same mark
Starter decks
The new (Forest Scorpion, Dune Scorpion, Deathstalker, Voodoo Doll, Nightmare, Short Bow, Mindgate, Chimera)
Three's a Crowd (max 3 copies of a card and max 3 elements in deck)
To the Skies! (at least 4 weapons of any kind and 4 flying weapon)
Cheapskate 5- (only cards with a cost of 5 or less)
Duality (only opposing Elements in a deck)
Creatures only (only one Element per round)
Speed-building
Quartets
Lazy man's game (no rares, no changing deck between duels)
Menagerie (only creatures and pillars/pendulums allowed, can only use one element once per round so you need 3 decks with different elements in each.)
Upped, Halloween (only aether, darkness, death, entropy, fire and gravity are legal, your mark must be one of those elements, no shields)
Upped, Rainbow
Upped, Creatures only
Upped, Trio decks
Mentioned and potentially feasible
Fractal decks only
Duo and trio decks only
No shields allowed
No more than 5 different cards in your deck.
No weapons besides Basic ones
No permanents besides pillars
Only Elements of specific colours allowed (fits with seasons/holidays)
Your decks may not cost more than X electrum to build.
No Healing cards
Only vanilla creatures
No creatures with more HP/Attack than X
New decks (ban the 2-3 or even more most used cards from each element - this could be either at the organizer's discretion or based on the (old) usage statistics)
Monodecks with only quantum pillars.
You must play the deck with mark that opponent used last game
Only creatures with abilities
Must use X amount of buffing cards
No rares
Deck size requirement as well as card number restriction
Must have X amount of Mutations/Elfs
Nymph Tears decks
Nymph Tears/Fate Egg decks
Must have X amount of Mindgate
Post deck beforehand and use only that
Dragons only
More cheapskates
Only Otyughs and buff cards
Must have X amount of Hourglasses/Precogs, possibly limit deck size
Each participant posts a prebuilt deck. Decks are then randomly distributed either for each round or all the tourny.
Max X amount of pillars/pendulums. No Immo/Nova
Your deck must contain at least one of every pillar.
Only X amount of card copies
Airborne only
Non-Airborne only (Wings banned)
6 Discords/Novas
Only 0-cost cards or random quanta cost cards
Creatures must be quinted upon play
No cards of your mark's Element
No perm control or Momentum
At least X amount of healing cards
Only Oty and low HP creatures
Only cards with an even cost allowed
No CC
Voodoo decks
No creature cards allowed (Nymph's Tears, Flying Weapon and Boneyards allowed)
Poverty (pillars, pendulums and quanta-producing creatures are banned)
Hexagon (precisely 6 copies of each card, including pillars and pendulums - e.g. either 6 or 12 lands)
A second chance (only creatures allowed are Gnome rider, Damselfly, Ash eater, Skeleton and Photon)
Must use the same deck through the whole tournament
Ye Olde Tournament (only allowed to use cards that were in Elements when it first began)
No creatures, no Fire Lance
Only one type of creature, no shields, rare weapons, creature generators or creature-creating cards
Be the Elder (max 4 copies of one card excluding pillars/pendulums, 1-3 rares, mark is set to most used quanta)
High price tourny (minimum quanta cost per card)
Post by: Immolation on October 20, 2010, 05:38:09 pm
Rules: You can only use skeleton and buff cards along with pillars.
Post by: ArcanisX on October 23, 2010, 11:27:18 pm
Dragon Roost (only creatures allowed in deck are Dragons)
Voodoo (only creatures allowed in deck are Voodoo Dolls, and the deck must contain 6 of them)
Slow (not allowed to play non-Pillar non-Pendulum cards for X turns)
Hyperrush (whoever gets most health after X turns wins, where X is around 1-3. Healing spells banned.)
Poverty (pillars, pendulums and quanta-producing creatures are banned)
Safe Passage aka no removal (not allowed to touch opponent's creatures in any way, including firestorms, infecting, damage-dealing shields, congeals, reverse times or whatever)
Hexagon (precisely 6 copies of each card, including pillars and pendulums - e.g. either 6 or 12 lands)
No Spells (only creatures and permanents allowed)
Swap (play whatever deck opponent gives you. No rares, the deck should be capable of generating quanta to play every card present, minimum total power of creatures in any deck is X where X should be around 50 I figure. Would probably need more clarification but I like the concept:)
Post by: ~Napalm on October 25, 2010, 07:51:25 am
Play a deck that contains at least 70% cards of the element matching your previous opponents mark. (Only the very first match each participant plays can they chose anything.)
- not at all sure about upgrades in this. Perhaps one for both! :))[/li]
Play a deck that costs no more than X electrum to build. I believe this should be from ten to a mid twenties number (thousands of course) allowing for only partially upgraded decks.
- for reference, 10k is approximately 6 upgrades, 25k is approximately 16[/li]
I think both of these ideas would be fun and while limiting you in a small measure, you can go in pretty much any direction.
Post by: LongDono on October 25, 2010, 01:35:07 pm
Post by: DeviousDragon98 on October 25, 2010, 02:23:46 pm
Only Phaorohs, Scarabs and pillars aloud!
*Gonna be an epic Devouring tourney* :))
another idea... Must play monolight
:light -Least used element
Post by: homoaddictus on October 29, 2010, 05:51:12 am
At the start each match, Player 1 and Player 2 pick 3 Elements.
Player 1 can only play cards and choose mark from the 3 elements that Player 2 picked.
Player 2 can only play cards and choose mark from the 3 elements that Player 1 picked.
Shackles reset after each match.
Post by: ~Napalm on November 01, 2010, 02:24:57 am
EDIT: but I think it would work better as a PvP Event rather than a Tournament now that I think about it.
Post by: $$$man on November 01, 2010, 02:42:53 am
All creatures must be airborne.
Burnt in the air:
Only creatures allowed are Minor phoenixes, I happen to know someone who would love this event (definitely not the person one post above me :P)
A second chance:
Only creatures allowed are
-Gnome rider
-Damselfly
-Ash eater
-Skeleton
-Photon
Un-used:
Only creatures used may be flown weapons, only weapons allowed is Trident.
Only non-weapon/shield/pillar permanent allowed is flooding (this one is kinda mean)
The plague:
Only creatures are scarabs and frogs, only CC allowed is plague (cannot use scarabs ability)
Post by: willng3 on November 01, 2010, 02:52:47 am
Take flight:You know, it's funny, the instant that Napalm posted her ideas I told her I was astonished that she didn't make an all Phoenix tournament idea, and then here it is :)
All creatures must be airborne.
Burnt in the air:
Only creatures allowed are Minor phoenixes, I happen to know someone who would love this event (definitely not the person one post above me :P)
A second chance:
Only creatures allowed are
-Gnome rider
-Damselfly
-Ash eater
-Skeleton
-Photon
Un-used:
Only creatures used may be flown weapons, only weapons allowed is Trident.
Only non-weapon/shield/pillar permanent allowed is flooding (this one is kinda mean)
The plague:
Only creatures are scarabs and frogs, only CC allowed is plague (cannot use scarabs ability)
Post by: $$$man on November 01, 2010, 03:20:56 am
Lol, Yeah it was Bound to happen!Take flight:You know, it's funny, the instant that Napalm posted her ideas I told her I was astonished that she didn't make an all Phoenix tournament idea, and then here it is :)
All creatures must be airborne.
Burnt in the air:
Only creatures allowed are Minor phoenixes, I happen to know someone who would love this event (definitely not the person one post above me :P)
A second chance:
Only creatures allowed are
-Gnome rider
-Damselfly
-Ash eater
-Skeleton
-Photon
Un-used:
Only creatures used may be flown weapons, only weapons allowed is Trident.
Only non-weapon/shield/pillar permanent allowed is flooding (this one is kinda mean)
The plague:
Only creatures are scarabs and frogs, only CC allowed is plague (cannot use scarabs ability)
Post by: twinsbuster on November 01, 2010, 06:53:12 am
X'mas!
Only fire, life and light element allowed. Any marks.
1/1 (sat)
New Year!
Only 1 copy of each card except pillars/pendulums. Quantum Pillars are banned.
Post by: Demut on November 01, 2010, 08:45:01 pm
Three random elements are chosen five minutes before the start of every round, you get five minutes to build your deck, utilizing only those three elements. Other is not allowed, marks are equally limited.
Originality
Everyone will use unique and unsimilar decks.
There will be a list of decks that have been called already. Decks that have been called cannot be used by anyone except the one who called dibs first. Calling will be done secretly by PMing the organizer. The caller will include an image of their deck. If multiple people call the same deck, the one whose time stamp is earliest gets to use it and everyone else has to get a different deck. One deck per person.
The Terminator
Must use a single deck through the whole tournament.
Ye Olde Tournament!
Only allowed to use cards that were in Elements when it first began.
(Insert element) Mastery
A deck that requires at least 75% of the cards to be from the stated element.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on November 01, 2010, 11:36:28 pm
Ye Olde Tournament!The only problem with this is that the original Fire Stall will reign supreme, it couldn't be stopped. Plus, most of the cards were changed at some point in development (ie Phase Dragon).
Only allowed to use cards that were in Elements when it first began.
Post by: ~Napalm on November 02, 2010, 02:35:50 am
Post by: Gillero on November 02, 2010, 01:49:51 pm
-Only permanents and spells allowed
-No shards
-No flying weapons
-No nymph's tears
Post by: homoaddictus on November 04, 2010, 02:56:26 am
The invincible deck must not lose a single game the whole tournament.
Restrictions:
No deck changing.
Round matches consist of 1 duel only.
Post by: Jangoo on November 04, 2010, 07:53:18 am
-Fight as the warrior-Sounds like a 100% lance-deck tourney to me ... maybe some desperate attempts to stop it
-Only permanents and spells allowed
-No shards
-No flying weapons
-No nymph's tears
with earthquakes, discords, blackholes as the sole counter-deck.
Post by: ArcanisX on November 04, 2010, 10:44:07 am
I had the same idea for long, figured the same effect. The lance (or any D) deck is easily loved by a deck with all 12 mirror shields in the game + the rest of the deck dedicated to countering Fahrenheit. But then it's 60 cards on 60 cards whoever decks first... real fun.-Fight as the warrior-Sounds like a 100% lance-deck tourney to me ... maybe some desperate attempts to stop it
-Only permanents and spells allowed
-No shards
-No flying weapons
-No nymph's tears
with earthquakes, discords, blackholes as the sole counter-deck.
A more manageable would be no creatures, no Fire Lance. Tears and FW welcome, upped as to give everyone access to FW. This looks like it gonna be owned by miniDGs, but who knows.
Post by: ArcanisX on November 04, 2010, 10:49:00 am
Post by: Jangoo on November 04, 2010, 01:41:35 pm
I had the same idea for long, figured the same effect. The lance (or any D) deck is easily loved by a deck with all 12 mirror shields in the game + the rest of the deck dedicated to countering Fahrenheit. But then it's 60 cards on 60 cards whoever decks first... real fun.12 shields? 60 cards? ???
The old-school lance deck simply employs a light-mark to use a mirror-shield itself and all that
countering goes to shreds ...
Post by: ArcanisX on November 05, 2010, 11:47:24 am
There must be a way to make something around "creatureless" workable...
Post by: Time_lord_victorius on November 10, 2010, 10:45:01 pm
Chosen one: you may have only one creature in the whole deck (e.g: otyughx6). you may have any and/or all elements in your deck. you must have (in exeption of the chosen creature) only spells and permanents but no weapons or shields. The chosen creature cannot make other creatures or permanents or spell the may get you or opponents creatures (e.g: Firefly queen, pharaoh, nightmare, parallel universe, mindgate,etc). no upped cards.
Post by: 9jacob4 on November 11, 2010, 12:17:16 am
Post by: TimerClock14 on November 11, 2010, 02:54:18 am
all decks must be centered around voodoo doll.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on November 14, 2010, 06:21:38 am
Photon Wars!
Photons can be your only source of damage.
No shields can be used.
Eternity / Reverse Time is banned.
Post by: ddevans96 on November 14, 2010, 02:44:06 pm
After some joking around in chat...rofl. I support this, but with the addition of no cards that can do damage to creatures (soft counters like antimatter would still be allowed)
Photon Wars!
Photons can be your only source of damage.
No shields can be used.
Eternity / Reverse Time is banned.
Post by: TheonlyrealBeef on November 14, 2010, 04:10:44 pm
After some joking around in chat...When is something a source of damage? What if you used Voodoo + Gravity Pull + Basilisk Blood (perfect against Photons)? It doesn't damage on it's own :P
Photon Wars!
Photons can be your only source of damage.
No shields can be used.
Eternity / Reverse Time is banned.
Post by: DrunkDestroyer on November 14, 2010, 09:03:14 pm
You must use at least 3 copies of that card, and no other alechemy cards.
This way you make a deck based on most of then, and swap them around to counter what you think your opponent will be playing.
(Maybe other alchemy cards should be excluded as well, but that depends on what the most likely decks are becoming. Rainbows are obviously discouraged because of BH, and there should be a way to avoid discord/BH)
Post by: Mageling on November 14, 2010, 09:20:30 pm
Lone mark: no cards may be of your mark's elementThis would be loaded with lava golem decks and shrieker rush decks. that would be boring.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on November 15, 2010, 01:43:34 am
This would be loaded with lava golem decks and shrieker rush decks. that would be boring.All the more reason that one should counter the obvious decks.
I love that idea actually. It is simple and will have tons of involvement.
Post by: Demut on November 15, 2010, 02:19:42 am
Post by: Drobbit on November 15, 2010, 07:49:07 pm
Here I think it would be more difficult to do but it would be so funny to play it.
Post by: Salamence_747 on November 15, 2010, 08:03:19 pm
Post by: Demut on November 15, 2010, 09:39:54 pm
Post by: tyranim on November 15, 2010, 10:02:48 pm
Post by: Hidro444 on November 15, 2010, 11:29:14 pm
Only Pendulums
3 Different Elements
Creature must have between 5-8 Attack and 4-6 Defense
Creatures MUST have an ability that costs quanta
Un-Upgraded
Post by: TheonlyrealBeef on November 16, 2010, 06:17:21 am
No SpellsCould you list all creatures fitting that description? My first guess is none at all.
Only Pendulums
3 Different Elements
Creature must have between 5-8 Attack and 4-6 Defense
Creatures MUST have an ability that costs quanta
Un-Upgraded
Post by: QuantumT on November 16, 2010, 06:31:12 am
Not quite. Toadfish tourney away!!!No SpellsCould you list all creatures fitting that description? My first guess is none at all.
Only Pendulums
3 Different Elements
Creature must have between 5-8 Attack and 4-6 Defense
Creatures MUST have an ability that costs quanta
Un-Upgraded
I offer this tweak
No spells
Creatures MUST have an ability that costs quanta
Un-Upgraded
PS- Those might all have been separate ideas.
Edit: My own idea.
Low tier tourney. Basically we go through each element and ban the used cards (say 2 of them or something), and the tournament uses whatever is left.
Post by: Drobbit on November 16, 2010, 09:06:21 am
@Drobbit: I believe it's called booster draft. I agree, if we could figure out a way to do it quickly and efficiently it would be awesome. Though I'm not seeing that as being easy to find illegal decks.That's the name! I forgot completely...
Maybe if the Tournament Organizer chooses the packs and shows the list in the chat of each opened pack, the players could pick the cards like a booster draft. It needs more controll and maybe less players per tournament, but it certantly would be awesome.
Post by: Kuross on November 16, 2010, 01:32:25 pm
Though booster drafts can hold more, a typical booster draft has around 8 players. Problem is if you go over that too much you'd have to break the tournament into different groups else the draft process would take forever. And if you break it down into groups, you'd need extra TOs to help out in the draft process. Though I like the idea, as booster and sealed were my favorite types of tournaments, I am not sure it would work for Elements as it stands.@Drobbit: I believe it's called booster draft. I agree, if we could figure out a way to do it quickly and efficiently it would be awesome. Though I'm not seeing that as being easy to find illegal decks.That's the name! I forgot completely...
Maybe if the Tournament Organizer chooses the packs and shows the list in the chat of each opened pack, the players could pick the cards like a booster draft. It needs more controll and maybe less players per tournament, but it certantly would be awesome.
Post by: ratcharmer on November 16, 2010, 09:03:18 pm
"you win" deck competition. its like the event thing we did a while ago, but its much different: this time you face eachother, and not the ai!can you link to the earlier competition? I don't enter many competitions so I'm not sure what the "you win" deck competition was.
Post by: Blues on November 21, 2010, 02:09:32 am
Build a deck with cards of 2 opposing elements.
Each element must be represented by 5 cards at least, that means you cannot for instance build a deck that is all death but with 2 heals.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on November 21, 2010, 02:16:47 am
Celebration of Opposites:This has actually been done before. Discord/Black Hole and a Water/Fire control deck were basically the only two decks used.
Build a deck with cards of 2 opposing elements.
Each element must be represented by 5 cards at least, that means you cannot for instance build a deck that is all death but with 2 heals.
Post by: Blues on November 21, 2010, 01:57:32 pm
Ok, but what if the pair of elements are changed each round?Celebration of Opposites:This has actually been done before. Discord/Black Hole and a Water/Fire control deck were basically the only two decks used.
Build a deck with cards of 2 opposing elements.
Each element must be represented by 5 cards at least, that means you cannot for instance build a deck that is all death but with 2 heals.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on November 21, 2010, 11:55:43 pm
Ok, but what if the pair of elements are changed each round?Then everyone would switch between the two decks I mentioned, or attempt to use an out-of-the-box deck that may or may not work.
Post by: QuantumT on November 22, 2010, 12:00:54 am
Uses the rules that Zanz has for the AI3 decks
- Add lots of variety to the deck (accomplish this with max of 3 of a single card)
- Max 3 rare cards per deck (at least 1 rare per deck would be best)
- Can be mono, duo, trio rainbow and anything in between
- Can not choose mark. The mark is automatically set to be the mark of the most used element in the deck
Post by: Drobbit on November 22, 2010, 01:24:36 am
Post by: Higurashi on November 22, 2010, 01:46:04 am
Post by: Drobbit on November 22, 2010, 01:46:08 pm
Post by: chum3 on November 24, 2010, 07:29:38 am
What about the exact opposite of a cheapskate tourney--instead, run a "High Price" tourney? Maybe something like you can only play cards that have a 5 or greater quanta cost (or whatever number people think is good)? Pendulums/pillars would be exempt from this rule, of course. It might also be fun to run during an upgraded card tournament, because some cards might be permitted unupgraded but not upgraded (since upgraded cards often have reduced quanta cost). Quanta cost is just one variable for possible tournaments--a different tournament could be only playing cards that cost an even number (or odd number) of quanta to play.
Post by: ninjamaster1991 on November 27, 2010, 02:03:12 am
no of a type of card, i.e. no :water in your deck?
Pillar-less decks?
don't blame me if they've already been suggested...
Post by: xn0ize on November 28, 2010, 01:37:27 pm
like only weapons and shields and other cards
Post by: Higurashi on November 28, 2010, 04:45:33 pm
Post by: glowing ice on December 01, 2010, 05:06:08 am
3 decks are posted (Rock, Paper, Scissors) all players use 1 of the 3 decks provided.
rounds are beast 2 out of 3.
you can switch decks with eh round of fighting.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on December 01, 2010, 05:48:14 am
Rock, Paper, ScissorsJust to point this out, the original plan was to take the winner of the RPS competition and host a tournament with the winning decks. However, the decks ended up being much less exciting than originally intended, and the tournament was canceled.
3 decks are posted (Rock, Paper, Scissors) all players use 1 of the 3 decks provided.
rounds are beast 2 out of 3.
you can switch decks with eh round of fighting.
Post by: Higurashi on December 01, 2010, 06:19:30 am
Post by: bogieman4 on December 03, 2010, 04:32:07 pm
or
ONLY flying weapons, weapons, shields, and pillars. Nothing else.
Post by: The_Mormegil on December 04, 2010, 06:41:41 pm
Every player must declare a single card at the start of each tournament round and say it to both opponent and maybe organizer. You must win with that card, otherwise you lose the match. No Sundials allowed. If you deckout, YOU lose.
Why: this would require either one of these strategies.
- Big Finishing Flame (Lances or Drains)
- One Creature Attack (Fractal decks or Dragon decks)
- You're Gonna Lose Anyway (Decks that focus on destroying the other deck's possibilities of winning by removing all possible "winning" cards)
Post by: Pothos2004 on December 04, 2010, 08:20:46 pm
[[You win by making your opponent deck out. If you win by hp kill, you lose.]]
[[No reverse time/ eternity allowed.. We don't want the matches last till the end of time]]
W.T.F.
[[ Decks must use only :water :time :fire ]]
The knights who say Ni!
[[all decks may only use 1 creature card. no copy limit. Fractel allowed. card must be under 5/5. Alt version: Card is picked by TO, and people are allowed 2 hours warning to make their decks.]]
Never Bet with an Argintinian when death is on the line! ((Ahahahah- *thud*))
[[ Kills MUST be done by poison.]]
To the pain!
[[can only use decks specialised in stealing/copying/killing permanents and creatures.]]
Beblbrox's Gambit.
[[All decks must use potion cards. Liquid shadow, antimatter/ect.]]
Number of the Beast.
[[Players must use 6 copies of 3 different creatures. AKA: 6 RoL, 6 Rustlers, 6 Green dragons. But no creatures past that. Rest of the deck is up to player.]]
Duality and balance.
[[Must use each card in sets of 2. 2 pillars, 2creatures, ect. For each card there must be one upped version. 2 basic pillars+2upped pillars. Min deck size under this would be 32 and that's if tehy only used 8 different basic cards.]]
Post by: Glitch on December 05, 2010, 06:28:37 pm
All decks must have 60 cards and may have no more than 4 multiples of each card. The 60 limit does not apply to pillars or pendulums.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on December 05, 2010, 06:31:45 pm
Magic: the tournament.Oh, now that is a neat idea. If we want to get more specific, only :water :fire :death and :light can be used. :P
All decks must have 60 cards and may have no more than 4 multiples of each card. The 60 limit does not apply to pillars or pendulums.
Post by: Higurashi on December 05, 2010, 06:36:11 pm
Post by: ddevans96 on December 05, 2010, 06:37:05 pm
Wouldn't :fire, :water, :life, :darkness, :light be better?Magic: the tournament.Oh, now that is a neat idea. If we want to get more specific, only :water :fire :death and :light can be used. :P
All decks must have 60 cards and may have no more than 4 multiples of each card. The 60 limit does not apply to pillars or pendulums.
Post by: dragono on December 06, 2010, 10:26:55 am
no pillars or pendelums or rare mark cards
the cards cost should not be more than 6
no upgraded cards alowed
Post by: Tempic on December 06, 2010, 12:00:15 pm
Post by: teffy on December 07, 2010, 01:43:20 am
1. Only pendulums and creatures as quantum source. pendulums must give 2 different quanta.
2. Mindgate war:
The deck should be given to the community (or all decks will only have mindgates + pillars).
Some combinations of these cards could be interesting:
Mindgate, Pillars/Pendulums, Novas (supernovas?) , Fate Egg, Mutation, Chaos Seed, Empathic Bond (?), Reverse Time
more coolness, when upped.
Post by: TimerClock14 on December 08, 2010, 09:12:22 pm
Post by: QuantumT on December 09, 2010, 08:03:31 pm
Return of the Eggs: Fate Egg tourney, the sequel >:DA tourney that was setup so that it would actually be a fate egg tourney would be fun.
Post by: einherjar145 on December 11, 2010, 07:23:26 am
Time backwards ( Must play a reverse time/rewind once per X ___)
Quanta Burst Out( win by having the most quanta in X turn)
Must play with a certain card in your deck?
Decks made from Age so like 14-17 = this deck and so like from the Zodiac deck just a bit different...
Mutations FUN!(Elfs r used to mutate the X card to fight perferably sparks so they wont cheat)
Elemental RAGE {mono decks}( Whatever element u choose from the beginning u have to use that element. If u forgot, well i dont know how to solve that one? maybe ask a person to choose a number and the number goes to the element?
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on December 11, 2010, 10:15:24 pm
that would lead to either mass mirror rainbow rush, mass abuse of black hole...
and the quanta thing is pretty stupid, no offense...
Post by: Higurashi on December 11, 2010, 10:25:35 pm
Post by: Legit on December 11, 2010, 10:35:41 pm
- Choice to have an unupgraded deck or an upgraded deck (any amount of upped cards)
- If you use an unupped deck, you start with 1 point
- If you use an upped deck, you start with 0 points
- Players still play best of 3.
- Players cannot change decks in between duels.
-Preliminary rounds would have to be best of 3.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on December 11, 2010, 10:40:09 pm
Post by: RavingRabbid on December 12, 2010, 12:27:19 am
Post by: Drobbit on December 12, 2010, 01:40:11 pm
- Creatures must match your opponent's mark
- Both you and your opponent must have different marks
- You can not play pillars (just pendulums).
Post by: lolicjj on December 13, 2010, 04:22:50 pm
o> Your deck must contain at least one of every pillar.
o> No rares
o> No shields allowed
o> Max 6 amount of pillars/pendulums of each elements. No Immo/Nova
o> No perm control or Momentum
Post by: lokiburn4 on December 13, 2010, 05:48:03 pm
Any 30 cards from any element free to start. Matching mark. No shields or rares allowed.
Go shopping, 50 points to spend:
Buy a card - 1 pt
upgrade a card - 5 pts
buy a shield - 5 pts
buy a rare - 7 pts
change mark - 10 pts
autowin a round - 41 pts
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on December 13, 2010, 05:50:59 pm
u choose a FG, u r allowed to use only the unupped versions of the cards that FG has, u must have the same mark
Post by: Malignant on December 14, 2010, 03:34:27 pm
how about a FG tourney
u choose a FG, u r allowed to use only the unupped versions of the cards that FG has, u must have the same mark
Quote from: Scaredgirl
Done as or fit as PvP EventsAlmost the same.
You are the Fake God
Post by: Rastafla on December 15, 2010, 03:43:32 pm
shopping spree:Too complicated on the short time frame we have. Sound good for a PvP Event instead.
Any 30 cards from any element free to start. Matching mark. No shields or rares allowed.
Go shopping, 50 points to spend:
Buy a card - 1 pt
upgrade a card - 5 pts
buy a shield - 5 pts
buy a rare - 7 pts
change mark - 10 pts
autowin a round - 41 pts
Tourney idea:When a tournament is upped you always have the option to use the unupped cards UNLESS the theme or rule specify the use of the upped card. Example no dmg spells allowed, no bolt spells, so chaos seed is banned but chaos power is not.
- Choice to have an unupgraded deck or an upgraded deck (any amount of upped cards)
- If you use an unupped deck, you start with 1 point
- If you use an upped deck, you start with 0 points
- Players still play best of 3.
- Players cannot change decks in between duels.
-Preliminary rounds would have to be best of 3.
You will never win a game by default by getting a point based on your own deck.
The prelim idea is also out of the question. Prelims exist for one reason only, we have more than 32 players. If there are less than 32 there will be no preliminary round to confirm 32 players. If it says prelim in the challonge bracket the TO clicked the wrong option in the setup since it should say Round 1.
Post by: Acsabi44 on December 15, 2010, 04:53:35 pm
WELCOME PARTY!!!
Every deck must be built around OR contain at least 6/10 of a new card.
Post by: Higurashi on December 15, 2010, 05:09:59 pm
Post by: EvaRia on December 16, 2010, 01:23:36 am
What about just a tournament?
No restrictions at all.
Post by: manaboy100 on December 16, 2010, 05:15:33 am
Post by: einherjar145 on December 18, 2010, 05:39:14 am
No pump up: no adrenaline/momentum
No Element: only can use the other element(in the shop) and 5 cards from another element
Mark = Cards : only can use cards which is your mark(aka mono)
Skills gone= only can use creatures without skills (drags not included)
Doom of Rage!?!?!?!? = only ragequit decks allowed.(make it 1 fight cause if 3 then it would be epic long)
Weapons first= u have to put a weapon then only u can put a creature(if use flying weapon it counts as a creature or u can change that)
Post by: 11drew511 on December 18, 2010, 07:21:49 am
Your mark has to be of an element your deck does not use (in either summoning cost or skill cost)
meaning, if you had pulveriser, your mark could not be gravity or earth.
Only rare or upgraded cards allowed. (pillars dont have to be upgraded)
^ dont know if it will work to well...
no damage at all, you have to wait for opponent to deck out
^dont think this will work well either, oh well, suggesting it anyway.
Immortal creatures only (quints maybe, but would have to be played as soon as summoned)
only cards that involve chances or luck, no solid attack, only mutations (no elves!) fate eggs, fog shield and such.
^why do i think most of my ideas wont work too well?
Those are my ideas, im actually surprised i came up with 5, considering i only thought of 1 when i started typing this...
Post by: lolicjj on December 18, 2010, 10:34:28 am
o> Only Water, Fire, and Life card and mark are allowed, and must use at least 1 card of each those elements
o> Maximum deck size 40 cards
o> Banned Card = Dragon, Scorpion, Golem, Freeze, Shield, Rare Weapon, Bolt, RoF, Adrenaline, Flooding, and Nymph(Include Nymph tears)
o> Must have Forest spirit and Fire spirit on your deck (At least 3)
(A maybe-slow-tournament, but I think it will be fun, thought)
Post by: wizelsnarf on December 20, 2010, 04:32:10 am
Must follow the below rules
6x nova
6x graboid
50% or more of any element of your choice
Post by: Dragoon1140 on December 20, 2010, 04:53:14 am
Generic War Deck Tourney:You, sir, are a genius. I would totally compete in this tournament. :)
Must follow the below rules
6x nova
6x graboid
50% or more of any element of your choice
Post by: geekz_always_win on December 21, 2010, 01:46:39 am
Generic War Deck Tourney:Don't forget discord!
Must follow the below rules
6x nova
6x graboid
50% or more of any element of your choice
Post by: wizelsnarf on December 22, 2010, 04:11:05 am
Generic War Deck Tourney:You, sir, are a genius. I would totally compete in this tournament. :)
Must follow the below rules
6x nova
6x graboid
50% or more of any element of your choice
yeah I would play in this tourney and I rarely play tourney's because I hate staying up/waking up for them....
I can imagine so many creative things we would see. Stall versions, rush versions, just look at war and see all kinds of great ideas. Let me know if it happens because I want to be there.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on December 24, 2010, 03:06:43 am
an out-of-control tournament
absolutely no controls of any kind, no PC, no CC (indirect or direct, so no fire shield, no ice shield, and so on), not evey quanta control (no blackholes, no discords)
everything else allowed
Post by: RootRanger on December 26, 2010, 06:09:45 am
here is an ideaNah you'll just have some sort of rock-paper-scissors:
an out-of-control tournament
absolutely no controls of any kind, no PC, no CC (indirect or direct, so no fire shield, no ice shield, and so on), not evey quanta control (no blackholes, no discords)
everything else allowed
Dimensional Shields
Sapphire chargers and momentum
High damage creatures
Post by: scauduro221095 on January 03, 2011, 10:11:08 am
Post by: RootRanger on January 03, 2011, 10:11:47 pm
I don't see the point of mono or rainbow. This just means most rainbows loses to blackhole, blackhole loses to most monos, and most monos lose to rainbow.
Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on January 03, 2011, 10:47:45 pm
Battle of the [Common] Elements
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on January 03, 2011, 10:59:52 pm
*Nymphs,Shards, and Marks not allowed.
*You must use only 1 rare and at least 30 cards in your deck must be unupped.
*You must use an Other weapon.
"Remember that bad starter deck?"
*All cards must be unuppped.
*You must use at least 3 quantum pillars.
*You must play a duo.
"I'm invincible.... if everyone would stop being so fast."
*Some kind of rule that forces you to use shields and momentum.
"Got to Keep it Original"
*You must use the original cards that were first in the game (list of cards introduced can be found in the official wiki in patch history)
Post by: Zafari on January 11, 2011, 03:09:57 pm
Ex.
Round 1: Plague
Round 2: Cockatrice
Round 3: Bone Dragon
...etc. etc. etc...
Post by: MXXE on January 12, 2011, 09:39:19 pm
"Got to Keep it Original"I had the exact same Idea... :)
*You must use the original cards that were first in the game (list of cards introduced can be found in the official wiki in patch history)
But I cant find the patch history in the wiki ???, can you post a link please?
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on January 12, 2011, 09:52:54 pm
You might be looking at that unofficial fan wiki that throws everyone off."Got to Keep it Original"I had the exact same Idea... :)
*You must use the original cards that were first in the game (list of cards introduced can be found in the official wiki in patch history)
But I cant find the patch history in the wiki ???, can you post a link please?
This is the REAL wiki : http://elementswiki.co.cc/
This is the patch history: (every card added to the game is here): http://elementswiki.co.cc/resources/patch-notes.
To summarize, banned cards for this tourney are :
All Alchemy Potions/Nymphs (basically the nymphs and the cards based of their abilties)
Stoneskin
Voodoo Doll
Phoenix
- Hope
- Fractal
- Mummy
- Pharaoh (rare)
- Butterfly Effect
Gargoyle
Shard of Readiness
Wings, Pandemonium and Steam Machine
- Forest Scorpion
- Dune Scorpion
- Deathstalker
- Voodoo Doll
- Nightmare
- Short Bow
- Mindgate
- Chimera
- 12 Pendulums
- Schrödinger’s cat
- Soul Catcher
- Crusader
- Silence
- Sky Blitz
- Cloak
- Catapult
Post by: MXXE on January 13, 2011, 12:40:13 pm
I was hoping to find something like "version 1.00". I once heared someone that in one of the first versions sparks with plate armour was a good deck :P
I mean, is there an information about 1.00? "1.15" gets me a little confused as "Cards that were first in the game". Or did the game start off with already that many cards?
Post by: LongDono on January 15, 2011, 07:52:10 pm
Post by: Kamietsu on January 15, 2011, 08:56:04 pm
Everyone must use one, and only one of each elemental pillars(quantum pillars are excluded). Everyone may only select one card(besides the pillars) of each element. The remaining 6 cards must be Other cards. No Shards or Quantum Pillars.
Post by: Dragoon1140 on January 15, 2011, 08:57:55 pm
Double Rainbow All The Way:You could just use the original starter deck from the game. As I'm sure you know, they were almost identical to that but using the element of your choice's cards instead of Other cards.
Everyone must use one, and only one of each elemental pillars(quantum pillars are excluded). Everyone may only select one card(besides the pillars) of each element. The remaining 6 cards must be Other cards. No Shards or Quantum Pillars.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on January 15, 2011, 11:19:32 pm
and they can't be shards or QTs?
so... 6 common weapons...
O_O
Post by: RootRanger on January 15, 2011, 11:31:51 pm
How about an Unupped tournament where everyone plays rainbows?That's called Beginner's League.
No, seroiusly tho, it would be boring, the same decks would be used, and BH would be unfair.
Double Rainbow All The Way:Sounds fun, but it seems like way too much luck.
Everyone must use one, and only one of each elemental pillars(quantum pillars are excluded). Everyone may only select one card(besides the pillars) of each element. The remaining 6 cards must be Other cards. No Shards or Quantum Pillars.
Post by: ddevans96 on January 16, 2011, 01:03:47 am
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on January 16, 2011, 02:42:45 am
everyone must use alchemy-based decks (at least 6, don't have to the same)
no nymphs allowed
*if you don't know what alchemy cards are, they are basically cards with flasks as card art*
*if you still don't know what they are, go look on the wiki what the nymph abilities are, the card that does that ability (only once though) is an alchemy card*
*if you still don't know... well, they are:
:entropy antimatter
:death aflatoxin
:gravity black hole
:earth basilisk blood
:life adrenaline
:fire rage potion
:water nymph's tears
:light luciferin
:air unstable gas
:time precognition
:darkness liquid shadow
:aether quintessence
Post by: PlayerOa on January 19, 2011, 04:08:09 pm
You choose the deck for your opponent. Must be mono, 30 cards, with 10 pillars, 10 creatures, and the rest whatever.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on January 20, 2011, 12:52:02 am
The Other Way 'round:newer players would either:
You choose the deck for your opponent. Must be mono, 30 cards, with 10 pillars, 10 creatures, and the rest whatever.
A) can't participate due to lack of cards (less choices for the opponent)
B) has a huge advantage, since he will essentially determine his own deck, since he has next to no cards...
Post by: lokiburn4 on January 23, 2011, 07:46:03 pm
To counter this, I think it wouldn't be a horrible idea if almost every tournament implemented a rule that "each round you must use a different mark" or "different deck" or 'variant of 10 cards' or something like that. Fighting the same decks and fighting with the same decks is boring. I hate feeling like I have to use "proven" pvp decks in order to win.
Post by: RootRanger on January 23, 2011, 09:52:11 pm
To counter this, I think it wouldn't be a horrible idea if almost every tournament implemented a rule that "each round you must use a different mark" or "different deck" or 'variant of 10 cards' or something like that.It would be too easy to cheat. Also, I don't think that really solves the problem. It would not be hard to make 4-5 decks of different marks with each deck as strong as any other of them.
Anyways, as of my own idea, I think there should be a vanilla tourney; creatures with an ability are banned. So no graboids, lava golems, phoenixes, etc.
If you want more available cards it could be semi-vanilla; creatures with an active ability are banned. This would allow voodoo dolls, mummys, anything without a skill that can be lobotomized.
Post by: doublecross on January 23, 2011, 10:26:38 pm
Not entirely sure what other rules should be in place, but the effect would be most noticeable if everyone was supposed to use a deck that, before the mark swap, was either mono or duo.
Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on January 23, 2011, 10:40:40 pm
Players must choose if they want:
-An all creature deck
-An all permanent deck
-An all spell deck
Pillars and Towers allowed in all decks.
Post by: RootRanger on January 23, 2011, 11:01:31 pm
I like one where before each match, each person must switch to the mark their opponent was planning on using.Seems like rainbows would dominate because they will always have use for their mark.
Not entirely sure what other rules should be in place, but the effect would be most noticeable if everyone was supposed to use a deck that, before the mark swap, was either mono or duo.
The "Perfect deck"This is interesting, and I think it would be balanced. For everyone that thinks permanent decks would suck, think dim shield/sundial stall. For everyone that thinks spell decks would suck, think firestall with heals.
Players must choose if they want:
-An all creature deck
-An all permanent deck
-An all spell deck
Pillars and Towers allowed in all decks.
Post by: doublecross on January 23, 2011, 11:04:24 pm
I like one where before each match, each person must switch to the mark their opponent was planning on using.Seems like rainbows would dominate because they will always have use for their mark.
Not entirely sure what other rules should be in place, but the effect would be most noticeable if everyone was supposed to use a deck that, before the mark swap, was either mono or duo.
Well, that is why this should be coupled with a requirement for duo or mono decks.
Post by: RootRanger on January 23, 2011, 11:07:18 pm
Also, seems similar to a tourney with no rules. This time you just need a couple more pillars to replace the mark.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on January 26, 2011, 03:47:09 am
you must rush with one of the following elements:
:time, :water, :aether, :darkness, or :gravity
absolutely no "stall" cards allowed... no CC, healing, quantum denying (talking to you darkness), no PC (this one is for water, with their trident...)
all matches end after the 8th turn, if neither player has died, the winner is the one with the most hp left
Post by: ninjamaster1991 on January 27, 2011, 01:04:10 am
"awkward rushes..."lol.. I like... :time/ :gravity scarab+dune scorpion rush, anyone?
you must rush with one of the following elements:
:time, :water, :aether, :darkness, or :gravity
absolutely no "stall" cards allowed... no CC, healing, quantum denying (talking to you darkness), no PC (this one is for water, with their trident...)
all matches end after the 8th turn, if neither player has died, the winner is the one with the most hp left
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on January 27, 2011, 01:13:31 am
but it's allowed for damage
Post by: RootRanger on January 27, 2011, 01:13:45 am
I like the awkward rush idea, TII, but be sure to include shields.
Post by: RyGuy130 on January 27, 2011, 08:59:02 am
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on January 27, 2011, 09:07:02 am
Players are only able to use cards released with or after pendulums.too little creatures
Post by: lolicjj on January 27, 2011, 10:45:03 am
I'm sure this will bit hard D:- Only :fire and :time are allowed, mark is free.
- Must have at least 4 fate egg.
- NO SPELL and RARE cards.
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on January 27, 2011, 05:20:57 pm
75% of your deck must be creature cards.
"Royal Straight Flush"
You must always play your lowest/highest cost creature card in your hand first that can be played (for example, I have a Photon, a Ball Lighting, and an Ash Eater. I have to either play Ball Lightning or Photon first if the rule is "lowest card", and if the rule is "highest card", then I have to play the Ash Eater first if I have 1 :fire , otherwise I move to the next highest card, the Photon or Ball Lightning).
Post by: RootRanger on January 28, 2011, 01:45:18 am
I'm sure this will bit hard D:- Only :fire and :time are allowed, mark is free.Um no. Someone could claim all 4 fate eggs are the last 4 cards in their deck, win in 7-10 turns with an immolation rush, and no one would have anything on them. Besides, I don't even see the point of those rules...
- Must have at least 4 fate egg.
- NO SPELL and RARE cards.
"From Start to End, Everything's a Raging Battle!"Percentages haven't worked in the past because someone could use, say, 60% creatures and say all their creatures were in the back of their deck. Also, percentages can be troubling for the younger ones here.
75% of your deck must be creature cards.
"Royal Straight Flush"Difficult to enforce.
You must always play your lowest/highest cost creature card in your hand first that can be played (for example, I have a Photon, a Ball Lighting, and an Ash Eater. I have to either play Ball Lightning or Photon first if the rule is "lowest card", and if the rule is "highest card", then I have to play the Ash Eater first if I have 1 :fire , otherwise I move to the next highest card, the Photon or Ball Lightning).
Post by: Higurashi on January 28, 2011, 02:01:47 am
Post by: RootRanger on January 28, 2011, 03:17:44 am
Post by: Alyzia on January 28, 2011, 10:03:45 pm
As soon as any player is down to 15 cards in his drawing pile, the player with most HPs left wins. If anyone kills his opponent before that, they lose. The objective is to hurt, not kill.
Obviously, the number 15 can be tweaked (maybe 12 might be better?). The end of the game will usually be at the beginning of someone's turn, before they can play any cards. However, with hourglasses you can end the game in the middle of your turn.
Obviously this would call for quite different deck ideas than usual. But there are various approaches that seem to be viable, which suggests to me that it might make for an interesting challenge.
The main emphasis could be on controlling one's own creatures, damaging only with magic (which is easier to control but can fail completely against a Silence on the last turn), changing the size of the draw pile during the game (draw more cards / rewind creatures) or just killing yourself quickly.
Post by: DrunkDestroyer on January 29, 2011, 04:21:05 am
Your deck must contain 1-3 of one of these creatures.
Anubis
FFQ
Any Nymph - must remain the same
Pharaoh
----
Armagio
Maxwell's Demon
Guardian Angel
Steam Machine
Any non-permanent quanta gain cards are banned.
All other creatures /must/ be under or equal to 3 cost, and must have less copies than the amount of 'Kings' you have.
FAQ:
These aren't all awesome cards!!!???
I know.
So...aren't you going to change it?
No. I like these cards.
Guardian Angel? Seriously?
Yes.
You didn't put in one for fire. Let's put in phoenix. And unban immolation. And make it so I can have more than 3 of them. Good idea, right?
Yes, and let's make it fully upped, and allow Firestall, Fractal Devs, and other boring, cliche decks.
Awesome!
*Facepalm*
Post by: elements15 on February 01, 2011, 10:49:17 pm
Only :fire :gravity :earth :time
No Shields...
Only Aloud 15 Monsters And 15 Permanents..
ill think of more soon :)
Post by: doublecross on February 01, 2011, 11:31:04 pm
Both upgraded and upgraded are allowed. No cards that cost more than 3 quanta. No SoG. Every deck must have at least 4 micro-abominations. No fate eggs.
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on February 01, 2011, 11:52:24 pm
Spells and Permanents that target creatures are not allowed. Creatures that target creatures are allowed as long as you don't use the skill.
"Quickscope"
Alll spells in your deck must deal immediate damage (that means Poison isn't allowed).
"Riot...without the Shield."
You must use cards that involve Momentum. Shields are not allowed.
"No Quantum Mechanics!"
The only quanta generators allowed are pillars.
"Low Blows"
Creatures must have less than 5 attack. No shields allowed that block more than 1 damage. Only Other weapons can be used.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 02, 2011, 02:44:48 am
EveryThing Aloud But UnUpgraded...unless it is your intention
Only :fire :gravity :earth :time
No Shields...
Only Aloud 15 Monsters And 15 Permanents..
ill think of more soon :)
"aloud" is spelled "allowed"
Post by: Onizuka on February 02, 2011, 02:50:17 am
Only creatures with 5 or more life points can be included.
Ban list:
Gravity Shield
Post by: elements15 on February 02, 2011, 03:06:09 pm
Post by: Time_lord_victorius on February 05, 2011, 12:38:36 am
you may only choose one element. all cards must be of that element. quanta producing permanents that can make alternate quanta are banned (no quantum pillars/towers or pendulums). you may only have one, A SINGLE , upped creature in your deck and one single dragon (cannot be the upped creature). other cards that are banned: mindgate, fractal, nightmare, butterfly effect, flooding, wings, sundial, fate egg, steal. parallel universe may only be used on your own creatures otherwise you're eliminated.
obligatory cards: SoG
Q and A
Q: why is fractal banned and PU isn't?
A: because it only makes a single copy instead of whatever amount of space is left in your hand.
Q: why can't i use nightmare?
A: because the opponent can't make use of any of the cards that you would copy in his hand (implying you are targeting lets say your own dark creature).
Q: thats the whole point!
A: it just breaks the set up.
Q: not every one has SoG.
A: I know and that's a little harsh, but i don't make...wait, I do. it's for the sake of making the game last wee bit longer. besides, almost anyone can get some by farming T50 long enough.
Q:why can't i use gravity to power my pulverizer that is earth?
A: exactly.
Q:what?
A: i made the rules so pulveriser is not being abused or else we'd all be playing it (i got myself a playset that i never use, go figure)
Q: I CAN HAZ UPPED PILLARS???
A: no. only a one card can be upped and it's a creature. if your smart, you'll think of upgrading an ash eater for extra :fire production.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 05, 2011, 04:15:18 am
finest hour!I don't mean to bash, but what is the point of this tournament?
you may only choose one element. all cards must be of that element. quanta producing permanents that can make alternate quanta are banned (no quantum pillars/towers or pendulums). you may only have one, A SINGLE , upped creature in your deck and one single dragon (cannot be the upped creature). other cards that are banned: mindgate, fractal, nightmare, butterfly effect, flooding, wings, sundial, fate egg, steal. parallel universe may only be used on your own creatures otherwise you're eliminated.
obligatory cards: SoG
Q and A
Q: why is fractal banned and PU isn't?
A: because it only makes a single copy instead of whatever amount of space is left in your hand.
Q: why can't i use nightmare?
A: because the opponent can't make use of any of the cards that you would copy in his hand (implying you are targeting lets say your own dark creature).
Q: thats the whole point!
A: it just breaks the set up.
Q: not every one has SoG.
A: I know and that's a little harsh, but i don't make...wait, I do. it's for the sake of making the game last wee bit longer. besides, almost anyone can get some by farming T50 long enough.
Q:why can't i use gravity to power my pulverizer that is earth?
A: exactly.
Q:what?
A: i made the rules so pulveriser is not being abused or else we'd all be playing it (i got myself a playset that i never use, go figure)
Q: I CAN HAZ UPPED PILLARS???
A: no. only a one card can be upped and it's a creature. if your smart, you'll think of upgrading an ash eater for extra :fire production.
basically, it's a forced mono that has to have one dragon and one upped creature? with almost all creature creating spells banned? (nightmare ban is unnecessary, ppl won't use it if they know their opponent can play the card they use nightmare on)
I assume you can't have any other creatures?
well, guess what, if that's the case, CC needs to be banned... simple fire stall would win... (enough CC to kill both creatures, and bolts to kill), same goes with water and darkness
Post by: DrunkDestroyer on February 05, 2011, 06:37:07 am
Personally I find it really cool to see how different people adapt to the rules. I don't know if other people like these restricted tourneys as much as I do but...more!
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 05, 2011, 06:55:46 am
Make all tournaments as restrictive as possible (quatrain was still my favourite) so all decks need to be built by you, original, and something you are unlikely to find in PvP. Banning just a couple of cards from every element leads to the 2nd best, rather than the best.i like it when it's more "open", sure ppl try to get around that, but all in all, I would rather take a whole bunch of cliched, but kind of unique decks, over fighting a ton of the same type of deck...
Personally I find it really cool to see how different people adapt to the rules. I don't know if other people like these restricted tourneys as much as I do but...more!
Post by: Toimu13 on February 05, 2011, 11:50:34 pm
"I need them alive:"I like the idea! Have you tested it in Duel yet?
As soon as any player is down to 15 cards in his drawing pile, the player with most HPs left wins. If anyone kills his opponent before that, they lose. The objective is to hurt, not kill.
Obviously, the number 15 can be tweaked (maybe 12 might be better?). The end of the game will usually be at the beginning of someone's turn, before they can play any cards. However, with hourglasses you can end the game in the middle of your turn.
Obviously this would call for quite different deck ideas than usual. But there are various approaches that seem to be viable, which suggests to me that it might make for an interesting challenge.
The main emphasis could be on controlling one's own creatures, damaging only with magic (which is easier to control but can fail completely against a Silence on the last turn), changing the size of the draw pile during the game (draw more cards / rewind creatures) or just killing yourself quickly.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 06, 2011, 02:25:41 am
fire: blast away, keep lots of fire bolts, rage pots, and immolations in hand, lower opponent hp to minimum, kill everything that does damage, done..."I need them alive:"I like the idea! Have you tested it in Duel yet?
As soon as any player is down to 15 cards in his drawing pile, the player with most HPs left wins. If anyone kills his opponent before that, they lose. The objective is to hurt, not kill.
Obviously, the number 15 can be tweaked (maybe 12 might be better?). The end of the game will usually be at the beginning of someone's turn, before they can play any cards. However, with hourglasses you can end the game in the middle of your turn.
Obviously this would call for quite different deck ideas than usual. But there are various approaches that seem to be viable, which suggests to me that it might make for an interesting challenge.
The main emphasis could be on controlling one's own creatures, damaging only with magic (which is easier to control but can fail completely against a Silence on the last turn), changing the size of the draw pile during the game (draw more cards / rewind creatures) or just killing yourself quickly.
Post by: Stickmasterluke on February 06, 2011, 04:25:35 am
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 06, 2011, 04:33:42 am
u get nothing, let your opponent destroy you
and when you are very low on hp, bolt yourself, kill yourself, you win...
Post by: Stickmasterluke on February 06, 2011, 05:14:32 am
well, thing about lose to win tourneyIn a Lose to Win tournament, I don't think your opponent will be helping you kill yourself.
u get nothing, let your opponent destroy you
and when you are very low on hp, bolt yourself, kill yourself, you win...
Post by: Higurashi on February 06, 2011, 12:53:18 pm
Post by: cammo11 on February 12, 2011, 07:49:23 am
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 12, 2011, 07:52:27 am
2v2? :)go look for PvP events
2v2 is not suitable for tournaments
Post by: Stickmasterluke on February 14, 2011, 12:41:56 am
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 14, 2011, 01:11:30 am
Mind Games - Decks must have six Mindgatessounds fun, only problem:
everyone goes for 0-damage deck with 6 mind gates... the one with more cards, or if they have the same amount of cards, the one who loses the coin toss wins...
Post by: Ignion on February 14, 2011, 01:55:38 am
I think it might be fun to make a tag team tournament. A team must consist of different elements. A team that get 2 wins advances, etc.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 14, 2011, 02:04:51 am
Hi,suggest this to PvP events
I think it might be fun to make a tag team tournament. A team must consist of different elements. A team that get 2 wins advances, etc.
tournaments are one vs one only
but I like the idea
Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on February 14, 2011, 02:10:45 am
Only non-flying creatures can be in the deck. No Flying Weapons or Wings allowed. Atleast 50% of the deck has to be Earth
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 14, 2011, 02:43:21 am
"Grounded"but.. but... no phoenixes? no wings? no photons?
Only non-flying creatures can be in the deck. No Flying Weapons or Wings allowed. Atleast 50% of the deck has to be Earth
there goes my winged phoenix deck...
also, it will be a massive graboid fest (and I will running my all time favorite fire stall as a counter)
Post by: BBs22 on February 17, 2011, 10:35:48 pm
Tight Squeeze: Only 5 copies of all cards except pillars, and only 8 copies of pillars.
Securely Fastened: You can only use 1 deck, no changing.
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 20, 2011, 03:40:57 am
In preparation for War: all decks used must be under war decks format (50% of one element), or underworld war format (50% of one element, max 3 copies of the same card)
no upgraded cards
Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on February 20, 2011, 04:10:29 am
i wish we can run the following tournament before war 3 starts:When is the war anyway?
In preparation for War: all decks used must be under war decks format (50% of one element), or underworld war format (50% of one element, max 3 copies of the same card)
no upgraded cards
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 20, 2011, 04:18:01 am
as soon as SG returns, WAR!!!i wish we can run the following tournament before war 3 starts:When is the war anyway?
In preparation for War: all decks used must be under war decks format (50% of one element), or underworld war format (50% of one element, max 3 copies of the same card)
no upgraded cards
Post by: Dm on February 20, 2011, 09:49:05 am
i wish we can run the following tournament before war 3 starts:I like it, but the first one looks like trials a little bit too much?
In preparation for War: all decks used must be under war decks format (50% of one element), or underworld war format (50% of one element, max 3 copies of the same card)
no upgraded cards
Post by: TheIdioticIdiot on February 20, 2011, 11:45:05 am
i wish we can run the following tournament before war 3 starts:I like it, but the first one looks like trials a little bit too much?
In preparation for War: all decks used must be under war decks format (50% of one element), or underworld war format (50% of one element, max 3 copies of the same card)
no upgraded cards
trial decks are 66%
50% is more liberal, and allows more rainbow decks
Post by: Demacry on February 20, 2011, 09:07:51 pm
Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on February 20, 2011, 10:31:07 pm
Tri element with no Nova's or Quantum Pillars/TowersDo you mean Trio (3 element) decks?
Post by: Demacry on February 20, 2011, 10:40:51 pm
Do you mean Trio (3 element) decks?Yes
Post by: blacob on February 21, 2011, 03:58:08 pm
"Grounded"Aren't all weapons flying when you animate them....? or are you talking about ranged weapons?
Only non-flying creatures can be in the deck. No Flying Weapons or Wings allowed. Atleast 50% of the deck has to be Earth
Love,
Blake
Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on February 21, 2011, 04:15:02 pm
Which is exactly why it's banned..."Grounded"Aren't all weapons flying when you animate them....? or are you talking about ranged weapons?
Only non-flying creatures can be in the deck. No Flying Weapons or Wings allowed. Atleast 50% of the deck has to be Earth
Love,
Blake
Post by: DevilLoss on February 21, 2011, 04:43:04 pm
unuped mono decks must have diffrent mark no rare weapons.
and heres one of my own, crusader only decks the only creature your allowed to have are crusaders decks must be 30 card's no flying weapons :P i think that would be fun
Post by: Coolredsmart on February 23, 2011, 09:29:58 am
1) Speed Rush: Rush decks only. Must switch a different type of rush deck every round. (Life rush, shrieker rush, Immo Fire rush...)
2) Fixed Rainbow: Rainbow decks. Must have X number of cards of every element in your deck, excluding quantum towers and other cards.
3) Fighting Poison with Poison: Only poison decks. Forest scorpion, chrysora, dune scorpion..etc. No other creatures without the poison ability allowed. Ban card Purify.
Thanks! :)
Post by: Sintendo337 on February 23, 2011, 03:49:16 pm
Post by: Time_lord_victorius on February 24, 2011, 03:31:50 am
6 fate eggs, 6 fallen druids and 6 photons.
kind of pandora's tool box but with a twist...you can randomise your opponnent's critters as well as he can mess with yours.
Post by: pikachufan2164 on February 24, 2011, 03:43:02 am
Players must use a total of at least 6 Alchemy cards in their deck.
No other deck restrictions, any mark may be used.
Alchemy card list: Quintessence, Unstable Gas, Liquid Shadow, Aflatoxin, Basilisk Blood, Antimatter, Rage Potion, Black Hole, Adrenaline, Luciferin, Precognition, Nymph's Tears.
Post by: hell_maker_2943 on March 01, 2011, 05:50:46 pm
Expensive - More than 5000 coins must be spent on deck, upgrades aloud.
Same - Everyone has to use the same deck, pre-defined by the TO's.
Post by: Ekki on March 01, 2011, 05:57:18 pm
Cheap - No more than 500 coins can be spent creating the deck. This would make the tournament fair for all! :DI support the idea of a "Cheap" tournament (even though the amount of coins should be upped a bit :D), but the problem is that there is no way of knowing how much money your opponent have spent...
Post by: Dm on March 01, 2011, 07:00:24 pm
Cheap - No more than 500 coins can be spent creating the deck. This would make the tournament fair for all! :DSame - Been there,
Expensive - More than 5000 coins must be spent on deck, upgrades aloud.
Same - Everyone has to use the same deck, pre-defined by the TO's.
Cheap - No way, but to trust, though I like the idea..
Expensive - Read above.
Post by: FinalFrontier on March 05, 2011, 08:26:15 pm
100000/your score(rounded) ist the number of upgraded cards you may use
Post by: FinalFrontier on March 05, 2011, 08:39:55 pm
No creatures/weapons with active skills allowed
No creatures/weapons with a skill cost below 2/3 allowed
Post by: Spiraler on March 06, 2011, 02:40:03 am
Post by: ninjamaster1991 on March 08, 2011, 11:28:24 pm
Post by: crimsonflippa on March 14, 2011, 10:34:20 pm
The players are allowed to use all cards of the chosen elements. Making it a banned cards tournament with space for creativity?
Post by: nerd1 on March 14, 2011, 10:43:45 pm
Post by: grindpower on March 15, 2011, 05:45:46 pm
Special Rules:
1) Must have 10 Other cards
2) Unupped only
3) Deck can't contain more than 3 different elements (Other doesn't count as an element)
Post by: KingOfArmagio on March 16, 2011, 10:15:28 am
Extra Rules:
1. Maximum 40 cards.
2. At least 5 different Gravity cards and :gravity mark.
3. Unupped only.
4. Best Of 3.
Post by: KingOfArmagio on March 16, 2011, 10:17:06 am
ummm... 'no guard'... no shields... creatures' attack>defense only, sound good? ;DThis means you can't include armagios, colossal dragons or stone dragons, right?
Post by: Pineapple on March 16, 2011, 10:28:27 am
Each deck must have 12 dragons in it... :>
Graboid power!
All decks must have 5 to 6 graboids and consist of exactly two elements (one being earth, with other cards not counting for any of the two elements). Mark can only be earth or time.
Post by: Dm on March 16, 2011, 04:39:36 pm
Name: Gravity ShowdownAll tournaments are best of three, except for prelimins (and even then, they can be best of three depending on the number.)
Extra Rules:
1. Maximum 40 cards.
2. At least 5 different Gravity cards and :gravity mark.
3. Unupped only.
4. Best Of 3.
Post by: Astrocyte on March 21, 2011, 07:01:41 pm
(Unupped)
Creatures in decks may only consist of the following:
Skeleton
Mummy
Graboid
Phoenix
Fate Egg
Chimera (Bonus cool points for killing your opponent with a Chimera)
Graboids and Phoenixes could be capped to keep everyone from using shrieker and phoenix rushes. I also thought about requiring a minimum number of each card or a minimum distribution of each card, but couldn't decide on what would be equal or fair. I'm fairly new to the game so I'm open to anyone's ideas.
Idea #2: BOOM!
12 of the cards in your deck must consist of the following (in any combination):
Flooding
Lightning
Unstable Gas
Deflagration
Post by: KingOfArmagio on March 21, 2011, 09:09:26 pm
Extra Rules;
1. Only creatures allowed are Otys, Scarabs, Pharoahs and Dragons.
2. Decks must contain at least two otys.
Post by: Newbiecake on March 22, 2011, 12:36:12 am
Post by: scauduro221095 on March 22, 2011, 01:01:09 am
Creatures allowed are:
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Post by: Pineapple on March 22, 2011, 10:47:10 am
Post by: einherjar145 on March 22, 2011, 02:26:58 pm
Only decks r about 40-50 cards.
No skills are allowed unless u use a skill spell.(like Butterfly Effect)
(can play card but not skill)
Post by: Higurashi on March 22, 2011, 02:56:01 pm
Post by: kasaudf on April 04, 2011, 03:26:29 am
All Weapons.
Cards allowed.
Pillars of anykind and only 4 FLying weapons.
Post by: Pineapple on April 04, 2011, 08:59:12 am
Each deck must be at least 10% crusaders:
| Number of Cards in Deck | Minimum Number of Crusaders in Deck |
| 30-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 4 |
| 45-54 | 5 |
| 55-60 | 6 |
Post by: Sevs on April 04, 2011, 07:53:04 pm
Only can use the cards from the original release of elements
Post by: KingOfArmagio on April 04, 2011, 10:14:11 pm
Only Skeletons, Pharaohs and Mummies allowed. No shields.
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on April 04, 2011, 10:26:43 pm
- Your deck must contain only 1 copy of a card with cost 10 or greater matching your mark.
Salvage
- When you win you have to salvage 6 cards from the opponent's deck and use them in your next deck. (Sort of like a War/Elemental Shackle Fusion)
Clean Kills
- No poison cards, use a :death mark for the entire tournament.
Post by: tttt on April 05, 2011, 09:34:37 am
Post by: BloodlinE on April 05, 2011, 10:05:59 am
you may take 2 cards from each element (24 cards) and 6x quantum pillars...
Post by: PlayerOa on April 07, 2011, 05:44:48 pm
Rainbow decks:Must, right?
you may take 2 cards from each element (24 cards) and 6x quantum pillars...
If not this would be a 'free' tourney.
Post by: TStar on April 08, 2011, 01:15:55 am
You start with a single deck that you will use exclusively throughout the tournament. Each round you advance you must remove exactly 5 cards from your deck, no more and no less. If at any time you miscalculate and discarding 5 cards will put you under 30 then you are disqualified and not eligible for any prizes (so a forfeit in the finals will not earn you 2nd place).
* Tables for card minimums needed for each round to avoid disqualification will be provided
The Salvager
Each player starts with one deck. When you win a round your opponenet will post the deck(s) they used against you in that round in the games you won. You will now be allowed to add play these decks in addition to your own in future battles. No editing of your orginial deck or a salvaged deck will be allowed.
Example: Johnny and Julie play a preliminary match. Johnny wins. Julie posts her deck in the tournament thread and Johnny now has 2 decks he can use in his next round. In Round 2 Johnny plays Jackie and loses 2-1. Johnny lost both games where he used his own deck but won the game where he used Julie's deck, so he will only post his own deck since that was the losing deck. Jackie is now allowed to play that deck in addition to any others she has previously salvaged.
Post by: TheonlyrealBeef on April 08, 2011, 11:47:45 am
Diminishing ReturnsThose are more pvp event ideas, too complicated for tourneys I'm afraid.
You start with a single deck that you will use exclusively throughout the tournament. Each round you advance you must remove exactly 5 cards from your deck, no more and no less. If at any time you miscalculate and discarding 5 cards will put you under 30 then you are disqualified and not eligible for any prizes (so a forfeit in the finals will not earn you 2nd place).
* Tables for card minimums needed for each round to avoid disqualification will be provided
The Salvager
Each player starts with one deck. When you win a round your opponenet will post the deck(s) they used against you in that round in the games you won. You will now be allowed to add play these decks in addition to your own in future battles. No editing of your orginial deck or a salvaged deck will be allowed.
Example: Johnny and Julie play a preliminary match. Johnny wins. Julie posts her deck in the tournament thread and Johnny now has 2 decks he can use in his next round. In Round 2 Johnny plays Jackie and loses 2-1. Johnny lost both games where he used his own deck but won the game where he used Julie's deck, so he will only post his own deck since that was the losing deck. Jackie is now allowed to play that deck in addition to any others she has previously salvaged.
Post by: TStar on April 08, 2011, 06:29:52 pm
Was kind of afraid of that. They are in the in-between area where they are too complex for a weekly tournament, but not involved enough for a PvP event.Diminishing ReturnsThose are more pvp event ideas, too complicated for tourneys I'm afraid.
You start with a single deck that you will use exclusively throughout the tournament. Each round you advance you must remove exactly 5 cards from your deck, no more and no less. If at any time you miscalculate and discarding 5 cards will put you under 30 then you are disqualified and not eligible for any prizes (so a forfeit in the finals will not earn you 2nd place).
* Tables for card minimums needed for each round to avoid disqualification will be provided
The Salvager
Each player starts with one deck. When you win a round your opponenet will post the deck(s) they used against you in that round in the games you won. You will now be allowed to add play these decks in addition to your own in future battles. No editing of your orginial deck or a salvaged deck will be allowed.
Example: Johnny and Julie play a preliminary match. Johnny wins. Julie posts her deck in the tournament thread and Johnny now has 2 decks he can use in his next round. In Round 2 Johnny plays Jackie and loses 2-1. Johnny lost both games where he used his own deck but won the game where he used Julie's deck, so he will only post his own deck since that was the losing deck. Jackie is now allowed to play that deck in addition to any others she has previously salvaged.
Post by: The_Mormegil on April 08, 2011, 06:39:31 pm
Post by: omen36 on April 08, 2011, 08:39:44 pm
Post by: nerd1 on April 13, 2011, 09:32:10 pm
you may only use cards included in the original version of the game, version 0.3
Post by: BBs22 on April 14, 2011, 04:36:31 pm
the original:Could you please post a list of all of the cards from 0.3? I hadn't discovered the game until Elements 1.25/1.26.
you may only use cards included in the original version of the game, version 0.3
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on April 14, 2011, 08:29:58 pm
Wasn't this already suggested on the main list?the original:Could you please post a list of all of the cards from 0.3? I hadn't discovered the game until Elements 1.25/1.26.
you may only use cards included in the original version of the game, version 0.3
Ye Olde Tournament (only allowed to use cards that were in Elements when it first began)
Post by: Ezmariel on April 15, 2011, 10:11:11 am
Post by: sh0e on April 20, 2011, 12:59:30 am
- Decks must have at least 6 cards from 'Other' (not counting Quantum Pillars)
- No rare cards allowed
- Unupped
Quantum Performance
- Unupped except for Pillars, Pends
- No cards that disturb quanta or pillars/pends allowed (devs, discord, trident, black hole, etc.)
Stone Age
No spells allowed.
Only Permanents allowed are weapons or shields
Unupped
Core Four aka Captain Planet Special
- Only the basic Elements are allowed (fire, earth, wind, water)
:fire :air :earth :water
- 'Other' cards not allowed
- Upgraded cards allowed
P.S Sorry if some of these tourney ideas have been suggested/implemented, I took a look at the list but didn't scrutinize it.
Post by: pikachufan2164 on April 20, 2011, 01:18:28 am
Post by: Daxx on April 20, 2011, 08:31:16 am
Post by: sh0e on April 20, 2011, 01:07:54 pm
Please edit all your posts into a single one or I will delete them.Apologies for the spamming, I'm somewhat new to foruming. I edited all the posts but can't seem to delete them, so if you'd be so kind...
Thanks.
Post by: ninjamaster1991 on April 20, 2011, 11:22:04 pm
:fire, :entropy, :air allowed.
Post by: Avenger on April 25, 2011, 08:25:09 am
Post by: manaboy100 on April 27, 2011, 06:44:40 am
-Only a kind of a card on the deck
-Heavy Storm, Flood and Thunderstorm are automatically activated each players turn(This requires help from Zanz, I know)
-Passive Killers, no cards with skill with activation cost allowed
-60-cards war, no rare, no upped, no rainbow
-Fractal war? Your deck must contain 6 Fractal
-Mindreaders, deck must contain Mindgate and Precognition
-Only weapon and shield cards are allowed
-No permanent allowed (maybe allow pillar and pends?)
-Siege war, no permanent allowed except Catapult, and your deck must contain Catapult and Tower Shields?
-One-on-one, players are only allowed to summon 1 creature in the field
This is still growable xD
Post by: ninjamaster1991 on April 27, 2011, 10:01:29 pm
-Invoker, only spells are allowedNo RoF?
-Only a kind of a card on the deck
-Heavy Storm, Flood and Thunderstorm are automatically activated each players turn(This requires help from Zanz, I know)
-Passive Killers, no cards with skill with activation cost allowed
-60-cards war, no rare, no upped, no rainbow
-Fractal war? Your deck must contain 6 Fractal
-Mindreaders, deck must contain Mindgate and Precognition
-Only weapon and shield cards are allowed
-No permanent allowed (maybe allow pillar and pends?)
-Siege war, no permanent allowed except Catapult, and your deck must contain Catapult and Tower Shields?
-One-on-one, players are only allowed to summon 1 creature in the field
This is still growable xD
Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on April 27, 2011, 10:46:54 pm
-Invoker, only spells are allowedWhat is heavy storm?
-Only a kind of a card on the deck
-Heavy Storm, Flood and Thunderstorm are automatically activated each players turn(This requires help from Zanz, I know)
-Passive Killers, no cards with skill with activation cost allowed
-60-cards war, no rare, no upped, no rainbow
-Fractal war? Your deck must contain 6 Fractal
-Mindreaders, deck must contain Mindgate and Precognition
-Only weapon and shield cards are allowed
-No permanent allowed (maybe allow pillar and pends?)
-Siege war, no permanent allowed except Catapult, and your deck must contain Catapult and Tower Shields?
-One-on-one, players are only allowed to summon 1 creature in the field
This is still growable xD
Post by: Masterfurry on April 30, 2011, 07:32:12 pm
Unupped Cards
No shields
No Nymphs
Maybe a rule:
No Pendulums
Post by: Genuinous on April 30, 2011, 07:35:47 pm
Rules:This could be something like no shields + only creatures with attack > hp?
Unupped Cards
No shields
No Nymphs
Maybe a rule:
Only using rares?
No Pendulums
Post by: Masterfurry on May 01, 2011, 04:41:59 am
Rules:
Unupped Cards
No Shields (Sundial is allowed)
No Weapons
No Nymphs
No Pendulums
No Deflagrations
No Fallen Druid
No Immaterial Creatures
No Consecutive Healing (Such as Sanctuary or Empathic Bond)
Rules that possibly could be:
Taken Out:
1. Consecutive Healing
2: Pendulums
3. No Immaterial Creatures (Quint is allowed)
Added:
1. No poison?
2. Continuation of No Shields: No Shields (Sundial is allowed) (Except fog and/or dusk mantle)
3. No Armagio
4. No Voodoo Doll
5. No Twin Universe
6. No Ghost of the Past (GotP)
7. No Fire Bolt/Drain Life
8. No Otyugh
Extra Info:
All the Possible Stuff that could be Added or Taken Out is all for the TO's to organize around. Other than that I think the rules are good. Maybe some tweaks to it would help but, otherwise, should be a fun Tournament to Experience and a fun Tournament to Watch.
Post by: Kakerlake on May 18, 2011, 08:34:34 pm
- All decks must contain 6x that masters favorite Creature of his/hers element.
- All spells from that element are banned.
Aren't we all rainbow Nymphs?
- Decks must contain 5 different alchemy cards.
- Nova, Immolation, Black Hole (and Gravity Nymph) banned.
Quantum is overrated!
- Decks must contain 6x Earthquake.
- Nova and Immolation banned.
- Enchant Artifact banned.
Silent War
- Decks must contain 6x Silence
Post by: ninjamaster1991 on May 18, 2011, 11:28:10 pm
only Phoenixes and Immaterial creatures allowed. No lobotomizers, fire shields, or thorn carapaces. No liquid shadows.
Post by: rusty58 on May 22, 2011, 11:57:48 pm
Post by: TimerClock14 on May 23, 2011, 01:32:53 am
-All decks must have 40+ cards.
Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on May 23, 2011, 01:38:20 am
All players must use the deck their last round opponent used, first round any deck can be used
Post by: Seraph on May 23, 2011, 01:49:40 am
every deck has to have atleast 4 precogs, and maybe a card maximum
Post by: Rainbowninja on May 31, 2011, 01:34:13 am
Decks must be duos with opposite elements such as :fire- :water, :light- :darkness, :death- :life, :air- :earth, :entropy- :gravity, :aether- :time
Post by: nerd1 on June 01, 2011, 11:14:04 pm
deck may only include cards from version 0.3 (the version on mofungames.com)
Post by: Odii Odsen on June 05, 2011, 09:54:57 pm
Only dragons as creatures.
Post by: Vineroz on June 05, 2011, 10:42:57 pm
Each deck must contain at least 30 Quantum Pillars. All Elemental Pillars/Pendulums, Black Hole/Gravity Nymph banned.
Post by: Spiraler on June 10, 2011, 08:58:06 pm
Post by: DevilLoss on June 10, 2011, 11:08:25 pm
all decks must include at least 6 reverse time or 3 eternties
immortal creatures are banned, along with quint and aether nymph and anubis.
Post by: Kakerlake on June 10, 2011, 11:52:19 pm
- Decks must include at least 5x Schrödinger's Cat
May RNG be with us!
- Decks must be at least 40 Cards big.
- No more than 4 copies of any card (INCLUDING pillars)
Lycans vs. Vampires.
- In the matchup, the one on top must use at least 5x Lycanthrope
- the one below must use at least 5x Vampire
- Shields banned
My Balls are bigger! (upped)
- Only creature allowed is Spark.
- All damage spells banned. (including Owl's Eye)
- All rewinding / lobomizing banned.
I'm sick of rushbows!
- Deck must contain at least 5 different playable elements (Pillars/ Pends not counted) // Playable means, that your deck can produce the quantum needed. yes, 1 Massive Dragon + 1 Gravity Pendulum would count as one.
- Nova, Immo, Quantum Pillar banned.
Twisted mind:
- Decks must contain at least 5x Precognition
- Everyone plays the opponent's deck.
- The winner is the one who lost twice (let his own deck win)
- If you can play a card, you must play it! (if you are spotted with a playable card in hand, you lose + screenshot)
- Quantum Pillar banned
Post by: Chromatophore on June 10, 2011, 11:53:40 pm
Decks must contain at least 2 pillars of 5 different elements.
Quantum pillar banned.
EDIT: nova, immolation banned also
Post by: XYTWO on June 11, 2011, 12:09:19 am
Players are considered to have lost when their HP reaches 25.
Post by: RootRanger on June 11, 2011, 04:12:05 am
Cyclops: Players may only use one copy of each card. Decks must be 45 cards or larger.
Out of Control: PC and CC that costs 3 quanta or less is banned.
Your Eternal Reward: Only :darkness, :death, :entropy, and :fire cards are allowed.
Post by: Anothebrother on June 12, 2011, 03:49:05 pm
Only Creatures allowed:
:entropy Schrodinger's Cat
:death Skeleton
:gravity Graviton Fire Eater
:earth Gnome Rider
:life Rustler
:fire Ash Eater
:water Chrysaora
:light Photon
:air Dragonfly
:time Deja Vu
:darkness Devourer
:aether Spark
(upped or unupped)
Post by: Calindu on June 12, 2011, 06:32:45 pm
-You must use 3 tipes of dragons.
You must use them!
-Your deck needs to have 6 Aflatoxines and 6 photons(you need to aflatoxin 1 before killing your opponent).
-No shields.
Whoh,pigs can't fly?
-You need to choose:Airborne creatures or not-airborne creatures,you can't combine them.
-Wings banned.
The BAN hammer.
-All players must choose 1 card to ban.
-Pillars can't be banned.
I'm a beta tester.
-Players must use 6 cards in development.
Nomnom.
-You must use at least 6 creatures that can eat(Oty,scarab)or Pharaohs.
Cold?Hot?
-You must use :water/ :fire duos.
The tale or random.
-You must use mono- :entropy or :light/ :darkness duo.
I can be big!
-Use only growing creatures(Steam Machine too)
BMW,Mercedes?
-Use 6 Steam Machines in your deck.
Random is random
-You must use:Pandemoniums,chaos seeds with 30 cards deck(Eternity/RT banned)
I got a noobish deck.
-You must use 1 starter deck(No modification).
Shhhh....
-Use 6 silence and 3 fractals in your decks.
BEEP!
-50 cards decks(Stall cards,Hg's,Precognition banned)
BOOM!
-Use 6 UG's in your deck.
Why?
-Only players with 20.000 or less score can use uped decks.
My one is bigger then you!
-After 20 turns player with the best max hp will win.
Speeeeeeeeed!!!
-You must use at least 15 creatures.
I know better!
-A random player from the chat will use your deck.
-Speed building.
-You can't speak with the player that will use your deck(The player who will use the deck must prove it with full chat log).
Fast and furious Elements:
-You must use in total 10 Rage potions and accelerations.
-Eternity/RT/Lobotomizer(lobotomizer creatures too) banned.
Post by: sprtstr14 on June 25, 2011, 06:05:31 pm
Post by: tyranim on June 25, 2011, 06:16:49 pm
- no elimination
- 6 rounds
- players MUST use mono decks each round
- decks must be posted post-match
- cannot use the same element twice throughout whole tourny
- the player with the best win-loss ratio at the end wins
- one 2/3 match per round per player (or 3/5... which ever)
Post by: wespebbles50 on July 06, 2011, 02:09:19 pm
-Only dragons
-Only a certain element for everyone example :time
-60 card decks with no hourglasses
Post by: Rainbowninja on July 06, 2011, 02:16:58 pm
My Balls are bigger!WIN!!!
Post by: Kakerlake on July 06, 2011, 08:14:59 pm
Banned: Shield penetrating stuff (Bolts, all Momentum, Catapult, Lightning, Poison, Voodoo, Mutation)
Banned: Shield destroying stuff (Deflag, Steal, Pulvy, Butterfly)
Allowed: everything else.
Too bad Chuck Norris doesn't cry.
Banned: All Creatures except poisoning and infecting ones.
Banned: Purify.
Banned: Wepons except Arsenic.
Chemistry Set
- Deck must contain 2 different sets of 3 (or more) Alchemiy cards each.
- Banned: All spells except Alchemy.
Ying or Yang?
- Each player choses at the beginning either Offense or Defense. (Stays for the whole tournament)
- Offense: Your opponent can't use shields
- Defense: Your opponent can't use weapons and no more than 8 creatures.
Post by: Gorthos on July 07, 2011, 04:05:02 am
For each card except for pillars, flip a coin. Heads, the card is banned for this week's tourney, tails it is allowed. (All pillars are always allowed).
Endless variation (can be repeated for multiple weeks with different randomly banned cards each week).
Post by: Gorthos on July 10, 2011, 08:36:21 pm
Post by: Xenocidius on July 17, 2011, 05:04:24 am
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Dragons - only dragons are allowed.
Can't touch this - your deck must include X cards from this pool:
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Post by: Gorthos on July 24, 2011, 12:38:27 am
Can't haz moar quanta - no quanta generation besides pillars/pendulums/marks allowed.I like the concept, but it would be interesting if there was an additional limit of 6 pillars/pends total per deck. 3 pillars and 3 pends and you are at the max, for example. Earthquake, discord, and black hole would also be banned for balance. Ultra-low quanta decks, powered mostly by markCode: [Select]4vj 52v 58u 5bv 5f9 5ig 5io 5ld 5lj 5ls 5od 5oj 5ok 5um
Post by: bucky1andonly on July 25, 2011, 02:33:25 am
Each tourney only allows 4 elements to be used, each week using 4 different ones. No quantum pillars may be used. No pendulums may be used. All 4 elements must be used. Decks must contain at least 10 of each element, for a 40 card minimum.
The thing is, the elements are divided up so that the synergies are very low. So the basic decks that usually win would be looked at first, other than the rainbows of course, and those elements would be divided up. So no entropy/gravity together, no earth/time together etc..
This does not restrict any card other than quantum pillars, so decks should be quite creative considering the guidelines.
Post by: ilovepieman on July 28, 2011, 01:27:14 am
Post by: Gorthos on July 30, 2011, 05:41:08 pm
In each round, players play sets of 2. In the first game of a set, player 1 gets to see player 2's deck and build a counter to it. In the second game of a set, player 1 can build another deck, and player 2 gets to see it and build a counter to it. If one player won both games in the set, they get to move on and their opponent is defeated. If the set was tied, they play another set. They keep playing sets until one of them wins both games in the set. However, if 4 sets have been played with no winner, AND some other pair of players from the same round have already finished, then both players lose. The tournament is otherwise single elimination like every other tournament.
Players are not given extra time between games to make their counters, so they should prepare decks to use before the tournament.
To make the tournament quicker, deckout is banned as a tactic. If a player decks out unintentionally (without using hourglass/golden nymph) then they win that game.
Post by: Akimbwo on July 30, 2011, 08:38:42 pm
In order to win a game, you must kill your opponent in a minimum of 2 (or 3) turns.
Post by: dracomageat on July 30, 2011, 09:06:22 pm
Post by: scauduro221095 on August 01, 2011, 01:55:21 pm
StallkerThat is almost impossible only a few decks can get a win in 3 turns and then only on a good draw, 2 turns i think is impossible or i have never heard of it happening
In order to win a game, you must kill your opponent in a minimum of 2 (or 3) turns.
Post by: Higurashi on August 01, 2011, 03:14:49 pm
Post by: Calindu on August 01, 2011, 04:12:10 pm
It's poorly worded, but he means that you can't inflict any damage until you can kill in 2 or 3 turns. In other words, sort of a pseudo-OTK/Fractal tourney. It's easily improved by forcing the rule to 1-2 turns.This will be a fire stall/fractix with normal phoenixes,lol.
Post by: Dwerg on August 02, 2011, 06:00:02 am
Rules:
Only holy light as CC
Only dark/death creatures
earth quanta or devourer/gargoyle banned
fahrenheit/poison/stall cards banned
Post by: TheCrazyMango on August 06, 2011, 06:33:51 pm
Post by: dracomageat on August 06, 2011, 06:38:11 pm
No Pillars/Pendulums
No Immolation/Cremation
Novas as the only non-mark non-creature quanta source.
Post by: Bhlewos on August 07, 2011, 12:13:43 am
Post by: dracomageat on August 07, 2011, 04:36:19 pm
Post by: Masterfurry on August 12, 2011, 04:13:04 am
Tournament Rules:
1) No upgraded cards
2) No stalling (Not aloud: Sundial, Phase Shield, Hope, Black Hole, Nightmare)
3) Between 30 and 40 cards
4) Maximum of 12 Pillars/Pendulums
5) Maximum of 5 Spells
6) No Nymphs
7) No Rainbow decks
2) No Trio decks (examples of aloud decks: Fire and Death or Darkness and Life) (examples of not aloud: Darkness, Fire, Death or Darkness, Fire, Death, and Life) (This rule can be taken off if needed)
Other idea's to the rules that could be added:
1) No shields at all
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on August 15, 2011, 10:56:59 pm
EDIT : Fixed. Thanks.
Post by: Masterfurry on August 15, 2011, 11:21:06 pm
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on August 15, 2011, 11:25:28 pm
It was the wrong section? I put it in the section for Competition idea's. If it goes here I will move it.Your suggestion was titled as a Competition but the format and idea seems much more appropriate for a tournament or PvP Event. My post move messed up on me so I had to quote the post and move it instead. ^^;
Post by: Masterfurry on August 15, 2011, 11:30:06 pm
Ok, soz, I will move it here. I wish someone would look at my PvP Tournament idea thoughIt was the wrong section? I put it in the section for Competition idea's. If it goes here I will move it.Your suggestion was titled as a Competition but the format and idea seems much more appropriate for a tournament or PvP Event. My post move messed up on me so I had to quote the post and move it instead. ^^;
Post by: Masterfurry on August 15, 2011, 11:31:09 pm
Competition Name
Best Tournament Players of *Insert Month* *Insert Year*
Competition Reason (Info)
The reason for this tournament is to see who the best tournament player of the month is out of the Western Tournament and the best player of the month out of the Eastern Tournament. (This is totally up to the winners of the West Tourney and the East Tourney: They battle each other and see who the best player is.)
Competition Rules:
1) Only the winners that won the Western/Eastern Tournaments of that month can attend this. (4 Fridays and 4 Saturdays = 8 Winners *4 from each Tourney*)2) The decision of an upgraded battle or un-upgraded battle is up to the players. (If 1 player says that they want it to be unupgraded then it is going to be an unupgraded PvP competition. If that person has at least 30 upgraded cards then it will be an upgraded competition)
3) No rainbow decks
4) Less than 50 cards
5) No Mono decks[/quote]
Post by: bucky1andonly on August 17, 2011, 08:59:58 am
40 cards minimum in the deck.
This will flush away any regular rush and stall deck forcing players to invent new decks, and each deck will have many combos.
Games might take a bit longer, but overall it should be more fun than normal. Getting knocked out in prelims by a mono aether or grabbix or even a firestall is hardly any fun.
@masterfurry
So tourney winners should have their own tourney. So a previous winner, someone who received a code for a mark/nymph is now given another one, handed one basically. I do not support your idea. Also, since each tourney has its own rules, there is never a "best" especially if players used a basic deck to win with, and the game relies too much on luck.
Post by: Masterfurry on August 17, 2011, 06:11:04 pm
Max of 4 copies per card, not including pillars/pends.Well, they don't have to win another code, just another trophy
40 cards minimum in the deck.
This will flush away any regular rush and stall deck forcing players to invent new decks, and each deck will have many combos.
Games might take a bit longer, but overall it should be more fun than normal. Getting knocked out in prelims by a mono aether or grabbix or even a firestall is hardly any fun.
@masterfurry
So tourney winners should have their own tourney. So a previous winner, someone who received a code for a mark/nymph is now given another one, handed one basically. I do not support your idea. Also, since each tourney has its own rules, there is never a "best" especially if players used a basic deck to win with, and the game relies too much on luck.
Post by: Bhlewos on August 19, 2011, 05:32:34 am
Only creatures that were around during or before the Mesozoic can be used. (Dragons = Dinos)
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Post by: Bhlewos on August 23, 2011, 11:57:30 am
You must use in your deck at least one card from the ten least used cards:
Unupped:
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Post by: Astrocyte on August 23, 2011, 01:53:15 pm
The UnderdogsOoh, I like this. How about "Your deck must include 10 copies of cards from this list in any combination" ?
You must use in your deck at least one card from the ten least used cards:
(In case that doesn't make sense -- someone could have 5/5 or 6/4 of any 2 cards, or 6/2/2 or 6/3/1 or 5/3/2 of any 3, or 3/3/3/1 of any 4, etc., all the way up to 1 each of all 10 if they wanted to)
(Actually, come to think of it, "You must include at least 1 copy of each of these cards" would be pretty interesting!)
Post by: bucky1andonly on August 29, 2011, 07:24:07 pm
Max of 4 copies per card, not including pillars/pends.
40 cards minimum in the deck.
I really want this one, because then no one will see any of the same old decks in the tourney, because most require 6 copies of cards in a 30 card deck.
Post by: Gorthos on August 29, 2011, 09:43:26 pm
Decks must have 6 copies of one card of the player's choice (the focal point of the deck). Any other card may only appear a single time in the player's deck, except for pillars and pendulums which are unlimited.
To prevent rainbow decks (ensuring more variety in the tournament), nova and quantum pillar are banned. To prevent hard counters to monos/duos/trios, earthquake and discord are banned.
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Post by: Antagon on August 30, 2011, 12:31:02 am
you may use A SINGLE fully upgraded deck(except pillars/pendulums, they have to be unupgraded) in the whole tournament(and post it at the start), or you can switch and use different, unupgraded decks and switch between matches and/or rounds. banned from upgraded decks are all shards, sanctuary and maybe others
Post by: TStar on August 30, 2011, 03:26:31 pm
Rare Duos
- Only uncommon duo decks are allowed (elements with no synergy)
- :darkness :gravity / :death :time / :air :aether / :earth :life / :light :water (other also this is just a start)
- :entropy and :fire would be banned to prevent Immo, Nova, Discord
- Only D&D-theme cards allowed plus quanta producers
- Bolts are banned
- Other: Dagger, Short Sword, Hammer, Short Bow, Shield
- :entropy : Purple Dragon, Lycanthrope, Mutation, Fallen Elf
- :death : Bone Dragon, Flesh Spider, Skeleton, Mummy
- :gravity : Graviton Mercenary, Colossal Dragon, Otyugh, Chimera, Catapult
- :earth : Hematite Golem, Stone Dragon, Titanium Shield, Plate Armor, Gnome Rider, Stone Skin, Basilisk Blood
- :life : Emerald Dragon, Horned Frog, Cockatrice, Heal, Druidic Staff, Forest Scorpion
- :fire : Crimson Dragon, Lava Golem, Phoenix
- :water : Freeze, Trident, Ice Dragon, Toadfish, Mind Flayer
- :light : Golden Dragon, Pegasus, Holy Light, Blessing, Morning Star, Crusader
- :air : Dragonfly, Azure Dragon, Thunderstorm, Firefly, Owl's Eye
- :time : Devonian Dragon, Anubis, Scarab, Ghost of the Past
- :darkness : Black Dragon, Steal, Vampire Stilleto, Minor Vampire, Gargoyle, Cloak
- :aether : Lightning, Phase Dragon, Phase Spider, Silence
- This is quick a rough list so it would need to be tweaked and revised as necessary
- All decks must have at least 1 pillar and 1 card of each element
- Quantum Pillar and all Pendulums are banned
- Discord, Earthquake, Trident, Black Hole, Nymph Tear's, Nymph Queen, Amber Nymph, and all 0 cost cards banned
- 0 cost cards are: Nova, Soul Catcher, Photon, Luciferin, Damselfly (if upped tourney)
- All decks must be composed of at least 50% Other cards
- Dissipation Field is banned
- Creatures and weapons with abilities which can directly damage creatures or players are banned
- Banned cards: Maxwell's Demon, Chaos Seed (but not Chaos Power), Mutation (but not Improved Mutation), Fallen Elf (but not Fallen Druid), Pandemonium, Virus, Poison, Plague, Arsenic, Aflatoxin, Deathstalker, Grey Nymph, Otyugh, Gravity Pull (can only be played on your own creatures), Acceleration, Catapult, Thorn Carapace, Forest Scorpion, Fire Bolt, Fire Shield, Rain of Fire, Immolation, Rage Potion, Red Nymph, Chrysaora, Ice Bolt, Toadfish, Nymph's Tears, Flooding, Nymph Queen, Holy Light (can only be used as a healing spell), Thunderstorm, Owl's Eye, Unstable Gas, Shockwave, Blue Nymph, Scarab, Pharaoh, Dune Scorpion, Parasite, Drain Life, Liquid Shadow, Voodoo Doll, Nightmare, Black Nymph, and Lightning
- Only healing spells and permanents which heal or prevent damage are are allowed
- Creatures or shields that can damage other creatures or players are banned
- Allowed spells/permanents: Shield, Dissipation Shield, Antimatter, Skull Shield, Bone Wall, Gravity Shield, Black Hole, Titanium Shield, Stone Skin, Emerald Shield, Heal, Druidic Staff, Empathic Bond, Ice Shield, Purify, Holy Light (can only be used to for healing), Solar Shield, Reflective Shield, Miracle, Luciferin, Sanctuary, Fog Shield, Wings, Procrastination, Eternity, Sundial, Dusk Mantle, Vampire Stiletto, Cloak, Dimensional Shield, and Quintessence
- Banned creatures: Maxwell's Demon, Fallen Elf (but not Fallen Druid), Virus, Deathstalker, Grey Nymph, Otyugh, Forest Scorpion, Red Nymph, Chrysaora, Toadfish, Nymph Queen, Blue Nymph, Scarab, Pharaoh, Dune Scorpion, Parasite, Voodoo Doll, and Black Nymph
- Animate Weapon is banned (Adrenastaves prevention)
- Deflagration and Steal are allowed (stall prevention)
- Decks must contain exactly 2 copies of each creature card used in them
- Every deck must include a set amount of Flooding cards (6 is ideal but no less than 4 if you feel it is excessive)
- All decks must use a Water mark
- Banned cards: Discord, Chaos Seed (but not Chaos Power), Pandemonium, Aflatoxin, Gravity Pull (unless used on your own creature), Earthquake, Mitosis, Fire Bolt, Rain of Fire, Rage Potion (unless used on your own creature), Ice Bolt, Trident, Nymph's Tears, Holy Light (unless used as healing), Thunderstorm, Flying Weapon, Owl's Eye, Unstable Gas, Shockwave, Drain Life, Nightmare, Lightning, Parallel Universe, and Fractal
- All Nymphs, Nova, Immolation, and Quantum Pillars are banned
Post by: dracomageat on August 31, 2011, 09:26:25 pm
Legal cards:
All Pillars
All Pends
All Marks
Other: 0
Entropy: 2
Abomination
Antimatter
Death: 2
Arsenic
Aflatoxin
Gravity: 3?
Armagio
Otyugh
Acceleration
Nymph?
Earth: 4
Antlion
Enchant Artifact
Iridium Warden
Auburn Nymph
Life: 3
Emerald Dragon
Emerald Shield
Empathic Bond
Adrenaline
Fire: 2?
Ash Eater
Immolation
Nymph?
Water: 4
Ice Bolt
Ice Shield
Arctic Squid
Ice Dragon
Light: 0
Air: 3?
Azure Dragon
Owl's Eye
Unstable Gas
Nymph?
Time: 2?
Anubis
Eternity
Darkness: 0
Aether: 1
Immortal
Post by: TheCrazyMango on August 31, 2011, 09:54:41 pm
Post by: TStar on August 31, 2011, 09:57:22 pm
Additional Cards
Amethyst Dragon
Unstoppable
Explosion
Abyss Crawler
Arctic Dragon
Ulitharid
Inundation
Archangel
Animate Weapon
Electrum Hourglass
Obsidian Dragon
Eclipse
Electrocutor
Improved/Elite cards
Improved Mutation
Elite Skeleton
Improved Plague
Elite Antlion
Elite Graboid
Elite Shrieker
Elite Cockatrice
Elite Pegasus
Improved Blessing
Improved Miracle
Elite Wyrm
Elite Deja Vu
Elite Scarab
Improved Dusk
Improved Steal
Elite Phase Dragon
I probably forgot some too.
Post by: dracomageat on August 31, 2011, 10:17:51 pm
adrenaline should be allowed for vowels tourneyNo idea why it wasn't on there, sorry.
Post by: Pkmn31337 on September 03, 2011, 11:19:31 pm
The only creatures allowed are the ones with "Dragon" on it's name. Shields are banned.
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Post by: TheForbiddenOracle on September 03, 2011, 11:34:31 pm
Only creatures that are based on or similar to animals/people (Pharaoh, Mummy, etc) known to exist in the world at one point are allowed
Post by: Dwerg on September 08, 2011, 08:44:15 pm
You need to use at least 1 and maximum 2 of each elemental pillar(quantum pillar banned)
You can't use more than 2 copies of the same card.
Quantum pillar and all other alternative quanta generation cards banned(luciferin, immo, nova, gnome rider, devourer, etc)
Post by: Infinityforever on September 14, 2011, 10:29:28 am
-only cards bought at the bazaar are allowed.
-Players must switch decks each round
This tournament would be used to test players adaptability and resourcefulness
in a variety of situations.
Would this be a feasible tournament premise?
Post by: NDeathy on September 24, 2011, 11:24:29 am
Post by: ScaredGuy on September 24, 2011, 12:00:15 pm
Shouldnt there be classes on the tournaments, like for newbies and for experienced players?And how exactly would you decide is someone is a pro or not?
OT: How about a tournament where you can only use vanilla creatures?
Post by: jippy99 on September 24, 2011, 12:06:16 pm
Done already. I happen to be the winner of it.Shouldnt there be classes on the tournaments, like for newbies and for experienced players?And how exactly would you decide is someone is a pro or not?
OT: How about a tournament where you can only use vanilla creatures?
Post by: NDeathy on September 24, 2011, 12:06:39 pm
Post by: ScaredGuy on September 24, 2011, 12:09:50 pm
D'oh! Okay, I'll think of something else :PDone already. I happen to be the winner of it.Shouldnt there be classes on the tournaments, like for newbies and for experienced players?And how exactly would you decide is someone is a pro or not?
OT: How about a tournament where you can only use vanilla creatures?
Well yeah, a vannila tournament could make the difference because newbies dont have a deck or money to get upgraded cardsMost tournaments are unupgraded only anyways
Post by: pikachufan2164 on September 24, 2011, 12:11:09 pm
Well yeah, a vannila tournament could make the difference because newbies dont have a deck or money to get upgraded cardsWhat does a vanilla creatures only tournament have to do with upgraded cards? (Note: that idea has already been done a few months ago http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,25202.0.html)
75% of tournaments are already completely unupped, and the other 25% allow unupped and upped cards.
Post by: NDeathy on September 24, 2011, 12:22:33 pm
Yeah didnt noticed about that sorry :/Well yeah, a vannila tournament could make the difference because newbies dont have a deck or money to get upgraded cardsWhat does a vanilla creatures only tournament have to do with upgraded cards? (Note: that idea has already been done a few months ago http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,25202.0.html)
75% of tournaments are already completely unupped, and the other 25% allow unupped and upped cards.
Post by: Pkmn31337 on September 26, 2011, 03:16:59 am
Cards used can't cost more than 7 quanta to play.
Creatures can't have more than 7 attack.
The amount of cards any deck has in the tourney must be divisible by 7 (35, 42, 49 or 56).
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Wizard Battle (Unupped)
The only spells allowed are Alchemy ones and Drain Life, Fire and Ice bolt, Shockwave and Lightning. The last five may only be used as direct attacks to the opponent.
Shields are banned.
Alchemy cards for reference:
- Rage Potion
- Adrenaline
- Nymph's Tears
- Aflatoxin
- Quintessence
- Basilisk Blood
- Antimatter
- Black Hole
- Liquid Shadow
- Luciferin
- Precognition
- Unstable Gas
Post by: tyranim on September 26, 2011, 08:30:54 pm
a tourny that requires decks to be built on an otk combo (firestall is an example, but should probably be banned for this tourny)
Post by: DarknessDemon on October 02, 2011, 04:17:27 am
Well know that the war was going along. I was thinking that we could do a tournament where each general would design a deck. And that is the deck you get to use. The catch is everyone picks there general before hand with no switching. So you pick the deck before you know what it is. It would require the generals to cooperate and build a deck for the pvp tournament.
The generals deck building rules would be no upgrades. Rares are allowed but if the person that has picked them does not have those rares can replace the rares with cards of there choice, but if the general puts in druid staffs you need to replace with a different weapon. Such as a long sword or something similar.
Rules: Nymphs will be banned (because of rarity and if the generals build a deck with them its hard to replace them with something similar)
No deck changes
Best 2 out of 3
Must have your general decision in the day before the tournament
(The decks should not be posted until the tournament starts that way no one can change there general. So the even organizer would need to write down who everyone choose so that he could make sure no one was cheating and switching between the decks as they please. Choosing would be done in the 15 minutes before the tournament started)
Post by: pulli23 on October 04, 2011, 09:57:05 am
Variety is fun
Simply rule: no more than 3 of the same card - this includes pilars!
Post by: Calindu on October 04, 2011, 12:08:15 pm
Post by: PlayerOa on October 04, 2011, 02:07:38 pm
Double elimination!Needs some other rules.
Dead Mark!
Mark must be from an element which in NO way are used in the deck. Nova, Immo and Quantum Pillars are banned.
Post by: Dragon Trainer on October 06, 2011, 09:20:51 pm
Post by: Higurashi on October 06, 2011, 09:27:01 pm
Post by: llehsnatas on October 10, 2011, 06:04:48 pm
In the event that the one who chooses the element wants to use :rainbow then both players must use a rainbow deck with opposite marks.
This would be limited to mono and rainbow decks because using more then one element would start to make things complicated. Players who sign up for this would be advised to have multiple decks that they could make (deck codes) in a timely manner on hand.
Post by: Time_lord_victorius on October 11, 2011, 01:57:15 pm
prerequisite for the tournament: all pillars must be QTs or QPs and you must have 6 nymph's tear (upped or normal)
all other creature you may have are photons/RoLs, Fate egg (upped or not) and fallen elf/fallen druids.
you may also add any and/or all nymph you possess into the deck.
no more than 5 extra spells are allowed.
the point is to have everyone have just about the same deck and let pure skill and luck determine who gets to win the match. the pivotal point are the spells and the fallen elf/ fallen druid for they become key to what you get and how silly the game goes!.
Post by: dragonsdemesne on October 11, 2011, 06:19:30 pm
-beginner's tournament: No upgrades or rares allowed. Possibly a maximum score allowed to compete as well, so that new players can play competitive pvp even without owning all of the unupped cards/rares.
-novice tournament: No upgrades allowed, but rares are permitted. Basically what we have now most weeks.
-advanced tournament: All rares allowed, some upgrades allowed. Perhaps allow upgrades but only in one element of the player's choice, or only ups matching your mark, or only half your deck upped (though that last is impossible to enforce)
-expert tournament: You can use any cards you want.
For shards, they should be allowed in the expert one. For the others, it would probably depend on TO preferences and the rules specific to that week's tournament.
Post by: ibeporkinu on October 14, 2011, 10:33:23 pm
Post by: XesForEyes on October 15, 2011, 06:24:28 pm
Post by: TigerWolf on October 16, 2011, 09:21:11 am
Doomed: MUST use only Dark or Death decks
Plentiful Life: MUST use attributes that have cards that heal you
Insane: Each deck MUST be 30 cards
Post by: Dwerg on October 16, 2011, 11:37:05 pm
I don't know to what extent that would be viable, but let's explain it:
Your deck needs at least 3 copies of 3 different copies of pillars, for example (3 :fire 3 :air 3: life)
Mark should be Aether and you may have up to 6 :aether pillars, but the only :aether card allowed will be Mindgate
You can have as many non-pillar cards in your deck as you want, but none of those can be from the same element as the pillars you have.
All non-pillar free cards are banned, quantum pillar and pendulums are banned.
Max decksize should be 30.
The point is that you mindgate your opponent to be able to play your cards.
I'm aware that this may cause a pretty slow tourney, and I know that some people say mindgate causes desynch(altho I never had a problem with it myself).
But sounds like fun
Post by: jippy99 on October 17, 2011, 12:15:26 am
Moonchild MindgamesAlthough I love this idea, this would be painfully slow. You come up with pretty good ideas, I should hire you as my tourney maker :D.
I don't know to what extent that would be viable, but let's explain it:
Your deck can only contain cards of a maximum 3 elements.
You CANNOT have quanta source for that cards.
Mark should be Aether and you may have up to 5 aether pillars, but the only aether card allowed will be Mindgate
You'll be required to have a min of 5 pillars of 3 different elements(which you won't use in your deck).
All non-pillar free cards are banned
The point is that you mindgate your opponent to be able to play your cards.
I'm aware that this may cause a pretty slow tourney, and I know that some people say mindgate causes desynch(altho I never had a problem with it myself).
But sounds like fun
Post by: bogtro on October 17, 2011, 12:59:56 am
* No pillars are allowed.
* What's the worst card?: Before each match, you must send your opponent 10 cards from no more than 2 different elements - whatever you want. Those cards must be used in their deck.
* Rush rush rush: No permanents or CC cards are allowed. Every element must have at least 1 card in the deck, and there may be no dead cards.
Post by: Contrary on October 17, 2011, 01:51:49 am
Growth: Creatures without the skill Grow or Blaze are not permitted.
Christmas: Before a match begins you must select 6 cards from the deck you used last match to give to your opponent and 6 non-pillar cards you will keep in your deck. You must make a deck with the cards you keep and the ones you receive.
Suicide: The objective is to kill yourself before your opponent.
Post by: furballdn on October 17, 2011, 04:47:13 am
Suicide: The objective is to kill yourself before your opponent.Haha! That's a good one! Me thinks most people will make a quick hourglass/precog deck to deck themselves out quickly.
Post by: Xenocidius on October 17, 2011, 07:15:08 am
Using firebolts may be faster. Maybe even Ghostal.Suicide: The objective is to kill yourself before your opponent.Haha! That's a good one! Me thinks most people will make a quick hourglass/precog deck to deck themselves out quickly.
Post by: Higurashi on October 17, 2011, 02:47:16 pm
Post by: Dragon Trainer on October 18, 2011, 01:33:07 am
Non-free: Any cards costing 0 quanta to summon (except pillars) are not allowed in the match
Dragon removal: No dragons are allowed in the match
Beginner: No rare cards in the match
Nymph rush: Each player is given his/her choice of one nymph before the round starts, they are only allowed that one nymph and it must be in their hand
Deck swap: you are given a deck randomly selected from all the tournament decks, you do not see whose it is until the match is over, and the deck that wins the most, wins the tournament (for it's owner)
Post by: Dragon Trainer on October 18, 2011, 12:54:23 pm
Mono: A separate tournament for each of the elements including rainbow.
Post by: Calindu on October 18, 2011, 05:41:06 pm
Mono: A separate tournament for each of the elements including rainbow.Yay for 12 peoples receiving marks!
Post by: triper on October 25, 2011, 10:44:02 am
Can I suggest here already?.. as an introduction? :))
Let's Play a quick game. Its simple. A game will end in 5 turns (or less)
If 5 turns is up (compare hp, higher hp wins)
- no upped and rare cards
- any other card is valid (poison, heal. etc)
simple eh?
what do you think? ;D
Dark VS Light
And yeah since its halloween we should have :life and :light vs :death and :darkness
- means this are the only elements allowed
- can play mono or duo ( :death and :darkness) or ( :light and :life)
- no upped no rare
- if your opponent is on dark you should play light side (or the tournament structure can arrange this on which side are you)
ex.
dark player 1 =win- play light
light player 2
dark player 3 =win- play dark
light player 4
sounds good? eh?.. >:D
Post by: Djhopper :) on October 25, 2011, 02:45:54 pm
Dark VS LightSounds great, the synergies between light and life, and darkness and death would make this really interesting!
And yeah since its halloween we should have :life and :light vs :death and :darkness
- means this are the only elements allowed
- can play mono or duo ( :death and :darkness) or ( :light and :life)
Post by: bogtro on October 30, 2011, 08:56:01 pm
Post by: jippy99 on October 30, 2011, 09:08:13 pm
Newbie - Decks may not use rares and must cost less than 1000 electrum to build.I'm pretty sure something like that has been done before.
Post by: ninetyfools on October 30, 2011, 09:08:32 pm
Can only use :fire and :life and :light quanta. MAX UPPED CARDS: 10.
Post by: Sevs on October 30, 2011, 10:03:21 pm
Post by: ninetyfools on October 30, 2011, 10:08:30 pm
what about a OTK tourney? All decks must contain a combo that can OTKNO! Intosis and Chapuzes thing would win. :D
Post by: Sevs on October 30, 2011, 10:31:02 pm
I mean there are counters to those.. there is a voodoo holy light, fractal Ball Lightning, Fire bolt, (ice and drain life +4 damage)what about a OTK tourney? All decks must contain a combo that can OTKNO! Intosis and Chapuzes thing would win. :D
Post by: ninetyfools on October 30, 2011, 11:27:24 pm
Post by: furballdn on November 17, 2011, 04:04:53 am
Post by: Djhopper :) on November 17, 2011, 05:43:02 pm
Newbie - Decks may not use rares and must cost less than 1000 electrum to build.
Efficiency: Any decks are allowed as long as the total cost is less than 4000 :electrum (or some other number)Only seven posts apart. On the same page! Wow...
Post by: makapse on November 17, 2011, 09:56:02 pm
rising star/tribe leader:-only 1 upgraded card allowed(6 copy max)
crippled:-no weapons allowed.can damage opponent with creatures only.no shield allowed.can only play creatures whose attack is either 0,1 or 3.attack 2 might be allowed with no graboids
heavy rains:-mark should be water only,no pillers other than water allowed(other pends are allowed,so is nova and cremation)
bad weather:-no flying(airborne) creatures allowed
heavyweights:-only creatures with more than 5 hp allowed
Post by: pikachufan2164 on November 18, 2011, 02:40:28 am
fall of the towers:-no pillers allowed
We've done two Pendulums (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,13187.0.html) Only (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,29773.0.html) tournaments before.
rising star/tribe leader:-only 1 upgraded card allowed(6 copy max)
Upped tournaments cover that, since upped cards are allowed, but not mandatory. Also, no card restrictions = less interesting deckbuilding and duels.
crippled:-no weapons allowed.can damage opponent with creatures only.no shield allowed.can only play creatures whose attack is either 0,1 or 3.attack 2 might be allowed with no graboids
Could be interesting, but what about Growth-type creatures like Steam Machine (i.e. does attack power have to stay at or below 3)?
heavy rains:-mark should be water only,no pillers other than water allowed(other pends are allowed,so is nova and cremation)
I like where this is going; flesh it out some more?
bad weather:-no flying(airborne) creatures allowed
heavyweights:-only creatures with more than 5 hp allowed
Done before (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28086.0.html) (creatures with HP>6 only, plus a few other banned cards)
Post by: jippy99 on November 18, 2011, 02:49:42 am
fall of the towers:-no pillers allowedI'm planning on making some sort of heavyweight tourney next week for thanksgiving, but I also have another idea in mind.
rising star/tribe leader:-only 1 upgraded card allowed(6 copy max)
crippled:-no weapons allowed.can damage opponent with creatures only.no shield allowed.can only play creatures whose attack is either 0,1 or 3.attack 2 might be allowed with no graboids
heavy rains:-mark should be water only,no pillers other than water allowed(other pends are allowed,so is nova and cremation)
bad weather:-no flying(airborne) creatures allowed
heavyweights:-only creatures with more than 5 hp allowed
Post by: JonathanCrazyJ on November 24, 2011, 02:38:48 am
A Fracking Nightmare: all decks must include at least three copies of Fractal (or at least 10% of your deck must be fractal). Nightmare is not allowed.
(possibly RoL and /or devourer banned too?)
The reason for this idea is that there are so many possible targets for fractal, making deck-building hampered, but still unpredictable. banning nightmare is obvious i think lol.
Sorry if there are gaping holes in this, was trying to come up with an original idea. Its a raw idea, needs work, but could be fun.
Post by: Smarty on November 24, 2011, 04:25:06 am
Name: Luck Rush
Description: every card is alowed upped or unupped only have best of 1 matchs instead of full best of 3 and no changeing deck period
which wil make it:
1. faster, making it easier for people who don't have time for a full tournament (of course you might have people who don't like that they lost but that could happen during any tournament) and
2. more of a luck based tournament.
well thats my idea took a while to type, may look like not much but when you type on a DSi virtual keyboard its like picking 300 grapes off a vine individualy + DSi dosn't have spell checker :( so sorry for the miss spellings
and by the way ^ the tournament up there ubove me is exlusive to aiether decks
Post by: pikachufan2164 on November 24, 2011, 06:36:09 am
Alright my tournament idea is:Best-of-one? Meep >_<"
Name: Luck Rush
Description: every card is alowed upped or unupped only have best of 1 matchs instead of full best of 3 and no changeing deck period
which wil make it:
1. faster, making it easier for people who don't have time for a full tournament (of course you might have people who don't like that they lost but that could happen during any tournament) and
2. more of a luck based tournament.
While luck-based tournaments are fun every now and then, it's even more fun when ONLY luck-based cards are allowed (Fate Egg, Skeleton, or Mutation, for instance) :P
Post by: Smarty on November 26, 2011, 05:29:01 am
great idea love itAlright my tournament idea is:Best-of-one? Meep >_<"
Name: Luck Rush
Description: every card is alowed upped or unupped only have best of 1 matchs instead of full best of 3 and no changeing deck period
which wil make it:
1. faster, making it easier for people who don't have time for a full tournament (of course you might have people who don't like that they lost but that could happen during any tournament) and
2. more of a luck based tournament.
While luck-based tournaments are fun every now and then, it's even more fun when ONLY luck-based cards are allowed (Fate Egg, Skeleton, or Mutation, for instance) :P
Post by: nerd1 on November 26, 2011, 07:42:47 pm
unnupped
shards allowed except for SoSac (or Sox)
all players must use 6 fractals (unnupped)
each deck must have at least 6 of three different pillars, excluding quantum pillar
ie. 6 aether, 6 gravity, 6 entropy
quantum pillar is allowed but does not count towards the total of three different pillars
(bleh, I wish I had a more elegant way of putting this)
also:
nostalgia
no shards no upgrades
you may only use cards that could be found in elements version 0.3
(I'm still kinda sad that mofunzone no longer gets a connection with the elements servers, mofunzone still has an elements version 0.3 but it was disconnected)
Post by: SpikeSpiegel on November 30, 2011, 08:46:45 pm
(http://images.wikia.com/familyguy/images/c/c0/Barbershop_Quartet.png)
Barbershop Quartet Tourney!
- Every deck must be a quartet.
- Nova, Immolation, Black Hole, Amber Nymph and Quantum pillar are not allowed.
- Shards are not allowed
- Upgraded cards are not allowed
Barbershop Quartet Tourney!
- Every deck must be a quartet.
- Nova, Immolation, Black Hole, Amber Nymph and Quantum pillar are not allowed.
- Shards are not allowed
- Upgraded cards are not allowed
Post by: CCCombobreaker on December 01, 2011, 02:36:39 am
How Terribly Unoriginal
Players may only use cards that have been added to the game since 1.15 (excluding shards).List of usable cards:
Code: [Select]
4tb 4tc 4vn 4vo 4vp 4vq 500 50u 52s 52t 52u 52v 534 542 55v 560 561 562 568 576 594 595 596 59c 5aa 5c3 5c7 5c8 5c9 5cg 5de 5fb 5fc 5fk 5gi 5ig 5ii 5io 5jm 5lj 5lk 5ll 5lm 5ls 5mq 5om 5oo 5op 5p0 5pu 5rr 5rs 5rt 5ru 5s4 5t2Code: [Select]
5uu 5uv 5v0 5v1 5v2 5v8 621 622 623 624 62c(compiled from the patchnotes in the wiki http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/resources/patch-notes/ (http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/resources/patch-notes/))
Post by: gphysalis on December 09, 2011, 07:09:15 am
Only permanents besides pillars are shards
Only cards besides pillars are rares
These would benefit people who farmed the arena for a lot of rares
Or
Only shards that match your mark allowed
Post by: puri1 on December 10, 2011, 05:34:37 am
Law of the Excluded Middle
-Only cards which cost less than 3 OR more than 7 quanta are allowed. The 3 and 7 are exclusive (card cannot be either 3 or 7 cost).-Only cards with ability cost that is not 2 are allowed.
-Only elements not in the middle of the deck-building screen are allowed (no :life, :fire, or :water)
-All pillars/pends are OK.
-Upped cards are OK, as long as they adhere to all regulations. Obviously, shards can't be used without breaking regulations.
Post by: shinymudkip on December 10, 2011, 12:22:13 pm
Post by: Dragon Trainer on December 10, 2011, 08:27:45 pm
Shard duel: Before the match, you select a shard, if you win a round, you win your shard PLUS your opponents shard. No shards are allowed in battle. No rares either. The shard selected must be one you have before the tournament. After every round, you are allowed to select a new shard to put at stake. If at any point you have no shards remaining, you automatically lose.
Card duel: Exact same as a shard duel, only with any rare card being selected instead of a shard.
Mark duel: When you enter the tournament, you will be grouped with someone who has the same mark as you ( :fire vs :fire) There will be a shard provided during the tournament if there is one matching your element, otherwise a rare weapon matching your mark will be provided. (eg. :fire=fahrenheit)
Opposite Mark Duel: Max. of 5 rares. One shard of your mark will be provided for the tournament ONLY. If there is no shard matching your element, you may select one. See table below for who fights who in opposites.
:fire vs :water
:light vs :darkness
:life vs :death
:earth vs :air
:aether vs :entropy
:gravity vs :time
Post by: tsgreen on December 11, 2011, 10:24:08 am
Screw Mulligan:
A maximum of 6 cards with a cost per deck. Shields are not allowed.
Endurance:
All Players start tourney with 100 hp. HP losses are carried through rounds. Banned cards would include direct damage and life increase cards.
Apocalypse:
No creatures. Weapon Damage is doubled. Steal pulvy and fahrenheit banned.
Post by: bucky1andonly on December 11, 2011, 10:55:40 am
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my ideas:Your first idea doesn`t make much sense.
Screw Mulligan:
A maximum of 6 cards with a cost per deck. Shields are not allowed.
Endurance:
All Players start tourney with 100 hp. HP losses are carried through rounds. Banned cards would include direct damage and life increase cards.
Apocalypse:
No creatures. Weapon Damage is doubled. Steal pulvy and fahrenheit banned.
The endurance and apocalypse idea cannot happen. Game mechanics cannot be altered. You cannot double weapon damage just by wanting it, and you cannot start out with a certain amount of hp, it will always be 100.
Tourney ideas have to be possible.
Post by: JonathanCrazyJ on December 11, 2011, 02:10:58 pm
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Tourney ideas have to be possibleThis made me lol.
On your Marks (upgraded tourney): All decks must have 4 - 6 cards run exclusively off the mark (for example time mark, deck uses 6 precognition, or darkness mark, deck uses 4 eclipse)
Post by: Djhopper :) on December 11, 2011, 02:30:24 pm
You could actualy do endurance though... If you get down to (100-the health you lost last battle) you would lose (abandon game and report it as a win)Quotemy ideas:Your first idea doesn`t make much sense.
Screw Mulligan:
A maximum of 6 cards with a cost per deck. Shields are not allowed.
Endurance:
All Players start tourney with 100 hp. HP losses are carried through rounds. Banned cards would include direct damage and life increase cards.
Apocalypse:
No creatures. Weapon Damage is doubled. Steal pulvy and fahrenheit banned.
The endurance and apocalypse idea cannot happen. Game mechanics cannot be altered. You cannot double weapon damage just by wanting it, and you cannot start out with a certain amount of hp, it will always be 100.
Tourney ideas have to be possible.
Post by: TStar on December 19, 2011, 04:46:45 am
You could actualy do endurance though... If you get down to (100-the health you lost last battle) you would lose (abandon game and report it as a win)Too complex and too easy for people to get confused by it for a weekly tourney. That might be a good basis for an Event though.
Post by: SilverHearts on December 27, 2011, 06:00:57 pm
Exactly Half you deck must be pillars of one element (no quantum.)
Post by: Aves on January 02, 2012, 04:14:42 am
Post by: DarkStelth52 on January 09, 2012, 12:07:50 am
No creature cards.
Post by: furballdn on January 09, 2012, 01:12:05 am
No creature with an attack of >0.And have the game degenerate into a poison/purify stall going on?
No creature cards.
Post by: DarkStelth52 on January 09, 2012, 01:19:22 am
Actually, it would be interesting. Maybe a stall game, but still interesting. I mean, imagine flying weapon decks? You could go a million ways from there, as those kind of decks already exist. It's a suggestion.No creature with an attack of >0.And have the game degenerate into a poison/purify stall going on?
No creature cards.
Post by: mesaprotector on January 09, 2012, 01:38:52 am
No creature with an attack of >0.The first idea sounds more interesting to me, as you could still have growing creatures like Otyugh, Vulture, Steam Machine. No creatures would mean very little deck variety at all.
No creature cards.
Post by: OdinVanguard on January 15, 2012, 09:08:17 am
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Standard (mostly) unupped, limited # rares:
Each deck can only have 1 rare for every 10 cards, 1 common upped for every 20 cards or 1 rare upped for every 30 cards
I.e. minimum number of cards in deck most follow formula -> 10*#Unupped Rares + 20*#Upped Commons +30*#Upped Rares
Elemental Parity
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Can only use cards from elements on the left quantum type column (dark, death, earth, fire, gravity, time) with an odd casting cost (except pillars and pendulums)
Can only use cards from elements on the right quantum type column (water, life, aether, air entropy, light) with an even casting cost
Cards of type other can be used freely.
Post by: Demagog on January 24, 2012, 08:31:19 am
Post by: Kakerlake on January 24, 2012, 06:29:55 pm
- No upgraded cards.
- Decks must contain 60 cards.
- No more than 4 copies of any card (except Pillar / Pend / Mark)
- Bacon strips!
- Shards allowed (only 2 copies)
- More bacon strips!
- Decks may not contain more than 3 elements (less is allowed though)
- At the beginning of the tournament, a random card will be posted, which you must include 6 times.
- Decks may not be changed in a match.
Post by: OdinVanguard on January 26, 2012, 01:00:57 am
Epic Deck Time!Does that mean you have to be eating bacon strips while playing?... cause if so I'm in... no way to enforce it, but then who WOULDN'T want to eat bacon strips (except maybe a vegan or something)
- No upgraded cards.
- Decks must contain 60 cards.
- No more than 4 copies of any card (except Pillar / Pend / Mark)
- Bacon strips!
- Shards allowed (only 2 copies)
- More bacon strips!
- Decks may not contain more than 3 elements (less is allowed though)
- At the beginning of the tournament, a random card will be posted, which you must include 6 times.
- Decks may not be changed in a match.
Now we just need a card specificaly for the tourney:
-Bacon Strip - Permanent - Ability: NOM NOM NOM - feed bacon strip to target otyugh or vulture. It gains +5/+5 but is stunned for 1 round while recuperating from food coma.
Post by: pikachufan2164 on January 26, 2012, 04:20:11 am
Does that mean you have to be eating bacon strips while playing?... cause if so I'm in... no way to enforce it, but then who WOULDN'T want to eat bacon strips (except maybe a vegan or something)notsureifserious.jpg
Now we just need a card specificaly for the tourney:
-Bacon Strip - Permanent - Ability: NOM NOM NOM - feed bacon strip to target otyugh or vulture. It gains +5/+5 but is stunned for 1 round while recuperating from food coma.
We can't alter the internal game mechanics for PvP.
Post by: Kakerlake on January 26, 2012, 01:24:41 pm
No need to enforce the bacon strips, whoever doesn't comply to that rule simply misses half the fun. But the Epic Deck Time should be pretty awesome even without bacon strips.
Post by: Rutarete on January 30, 2012, 04:52:12 am
Perhaps voting for their favorite deck under the cost condition, also.
Post by: Absol on February 19, 2012, 06:10:31 am
The idea:
Unupped deck, no shards.
All other cards are allowed. Only 4 copies of cards are allowed as opposed to 6. Pillars and pends are exception.
Post by: pikachufan2164 on February 19, 2012, 08:31:31 am
An idea comes to mind for the next tourney, based on my post here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,35893.msg482938#msg482938).It's a good start, but we'd probably need to spice things up with a few more additional rules. Four card limit without any other restrictions is actually pretty easy to build around (I'm looking at you, Graboidbow).
The idea:
Unupped deck, no shards.
All other cards are allowed. Only 4 copies of cards are allowed as opposed to 6. Pillars and pends are exception.
We did do a two card limit tournament (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,22972.0.html) before; increasing the restrictions generally increases the creativity :)
Post by: OdinVanguard on February 22, 2012, 08:55:36 pm
-No Upped cards
-No shards except Shard of Readiness or Shard of Serendipity
-Decks must contain at least 3 elements
-No quantum pillars
-40 card minimum
-Limit 1 nova or immolation for every 20 cards (or eliminate them entirely if this is too hard to police)
Post by: furballdn on February 24, 2012, 10:00:39 pm
Decks must contain either 6 antlions or 6 graviton mercenaries.
Post by: bogtro on February 25, 2012, 01:55:07 am
Cards are grouped into 6 categories based on popularity, commonality, use, and strategical value. E.G. Graboid is in the 1st category (most useful) while Antlion is in the 6th (least useful). Special: Relic is worth 10 points. Using a card in the nth category gives n points if you win. If you win, you gain the average of the point values of your cards. BO3. Higher score wins (so you can potentially go 1-2 and win). Scores carry over, so you could potentially go 0-3 and win a match.
Post by: Calindu on February 25, 2012, 01:53:28 pm
Slightly complicated idea, might work better as an event:No no no, you could just lie.
Cards are grouped into 6 categories based on popularity, commonality, use, and strategical value. E.G. Graboid is in the 1st category (most useful) while Antlion is in the 6th (least useful). Special: Relic is worth 10 points. Using a card in the nth category gives n points if you win. If you win, you gain the average of the point values of your cards. BO3. Higher score wins (so you can potentially go 1-2 and win). Scores carry over, so you could potentially go 0-3 and win a match.
Post by: bogtro on February 25, 2012, 05:50:06 pm
Post by: furballdn on February 26, 2012, 10:01:06 pm
Post by: mesaprotector on February 27, 2012, 02:17:44 am
Post by: furballdn on February 27, 2012, 02:43:45 am
How about, all decks must use at least 4 types of quanta, with no Nova, Quantum Pillars, or Immo?Wasn't there already one like that? Or was that trios?
Post by: OdinVanguard on February 28, 2012, 09:51:13 pm
How about, all decks must use at least 4 types of quanta, with no Nova, Quantum Pillars, or Immo?That was basically what I had said a few posts back... except i said at least 3. A 4 type min. would work too though
An idea I thought would be interesting: Chromatic InstabilityEither way, it encourages decks that aren't mono, duo, or rainbow which would make for a fun tourney i think.
-No Upped cards
-No shards except Shard of Readiness or Shard of Serendipity
-Decks must contain at least 3 elements
-No quantum pillars
-40 card minimum
-Limit 1 nova or immolation for every 20 cards (or eliminate them entirely if this is too hard to police)
Post by: Silver on February 28, 2012, 10:50:20 pm
Post by: Absol on February 29, 2012, 05:35:44 am
Your deck's QI must be less than 3 or over 7.This will be too hard.
1. You have no way to prove it, other than posting your deck. If you do it, however, the tournament will be too slow.
2. What's the basic of counting skills? Non-situational (Chrys) vs situational (Maxwell) vs one time (Lycan)?
3. How about mark?
Post by: mesaprotector on March 02, 2012, 10:39:57 pm
Sort of goes against the typical tourney rules... Might be a little crazy, but almost everyone here has at least that many.
Post by: zhangvict on March 03, 2012, 08:29:54 am
Post by: Absol on March 03, 2012, 08:38:21 am
Tournament name: Rule of Three (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfThree)
Post by: justaburd on March 14, 2012, 04:32:57 pm
All decks must have some way to mess up quanta generation: devourer, discord, bh, eq, trident
all perm control cards must target pillars unless there are no pillars left.
no sanctuaries.
Post by: PhaseOase on April 21, 2012, 02:54:50 pm
Post by: BloodlinE on April 21, 2012, 05:15:15 pm
upped SN are requires but other upped cards are banned
mas cc cards are not allowed rewind and mutation are not allowed
Post by: Squid117 on April 24, 2012, 04:46:08 pm
Post by: Higurashi on April 24, 2012, 04:48:44 pm
Post by: OdinVanguard on April 30, 2012, 04:27:00 pm
All decks must contain pairs of opposing elements. E.g.
:fire :water , :air :earth , :light :darkness , or :death :life
(no :aether :entropy :gravity or :time since diametric opposites are tricky for those)
A deck may have any number of pairs of elements i.e. just one or all 4 present, but each element must have
an equal number of cards, excluding pillars and pendulums.
E.g. 10 life cards, 10 death cards and 10 pendulums would be valid.
Lastly, shards are allowed, but only 1 per element and if you include the shard of one element, you must include the shard of its opposing element. (see below for shard types for each element)
:fire - bravery
:water - patience
:earth - integrity
:life - gratitude
:death - sacrifice
:light - divinity
:darkness - void
:air - freedom
Post by: OdinVanguard on April 30, 2012, 04:53:36 pm
Champions and Squires:
-Players may only play a maximum of 2 creatures to the field at a given time. They must select one as the champion, if another is present it is considered the squire.
-Players may not play any cards or abilities other than pillars or creatures unless / until they have a champion on the field. If their champion dies but the squire lives, they may promote the squire as champion.
-The squire may not target the opponent or their creatures or permanents, nor may the use any ability that does so automatically. They may, however, target you or your permanents or creatures.
-If a player does not have a squire present, they may not use any spell or abilities that affect themselves, their permanents or their champion until a new squire is played.
-If a player's champion is stunned or frozen, they may not use any spell or abilities that target the opponent or their cards.
-The following cards are banned: Boneyard, firefly queen, fractal, Pharaoh, mitosis
For simplicity:
Champion must be alive to do anything but play creatures or pillars
Squire must be alive to play support cards and abilities
If champion is delayed or frozen, offensive abilites and spells may not be used
Only 2 creatures allowed on your field at a time (one squire and one champion)
Post by: Glitch on May 11, 2012, 08:35:29 pm
No player may damage his opponent until turn 7.
Post by: bobknows on May 13, 2012, 01:02:54 am
yes, we do have ones with creature limitations but this would be completely different.
the 3 main strategies I see here are the entrophy shard (to get creatures), deckout, and spell OTKs.
i agree that this would be severely restricting, but i would love to see some of the decks produced.
Post by: furballdn on May 13, 2012, 06:49:37 am
one that I don't see mentioned is no creatures at all.No creatures has been suggested and it unbalances the meta way too much. Arsenics+poisons stalls and Fahrenheit+bolts will be the only decks used.
yes, we do have ones with creature limitations but this would be completely different.
the 3 main strategies I see here are the entrophy shard (to get creatures), deckout, and spell OTKs.
i agree that this would be severely restricting, but i would love to see some of the decks produced.
Post by: OdinVanguard on May 14, 2012, 04:20:11 pm
one that I don't see mentioned is no creatures at all.No creatures has been suggested and it unbalances the meta way too much. Arsenics+poisons stalls and Fahrenheit+bolts will be the only decks used.
yes, we do have ones with creature limitations but this would be completely different.
the 3 main strategies I see here are the entrophy shard (to get creatures), deckout, and spell OTKs.
i agree that this would be severely restricting, but i would love to see some of the decks produced.
So how about this one?:
Swashbuckler (or Sword and Sorcery... whichever fits better)
-No creatures allowed except flying weapons and crusaders
-The only upgraded card allowed is Animate Weapon (upgraded :rainbow cost version of flying weapon)
-Steal, deflag, etc. may not be used to target opponents weapon (or disallow altogether)
-No reverse time
Post by: furballdn on May 15, 2012, 02:36:33 am
Post by: whatifidogetcaught? on May 15, 2012, 02:50:40 am
in the chat room, the competitors must play rock paper scissors, winner gets to use rares, upgraded cards (not shards) for up to half your deck.
This is before every match, as in you do not play 3 matches in a row based on the first rock paper scissor match.
If tie, no one gets to do so.
Post by: TheAccuso on May 15, 2012, 12:44:35 pm
anyway the idea is to make a :o WORLD CUP :o!
each nation chooses 3 representatives.
then a draw it's made.
each match is played on 2 of 3 victories, example: team A wins match 1° & 2° against team B, team A is qualifyed, team A wins the first, lose the second and win the third, team A is qualifyed.
The format is a knockout.
every representative of its nation have to play 1 match during the fight of 2 nations, example: team A= al;john;jack, al have to play only one match against team B=carl;bob;terence, so that can only be: al VS carl or al VS bob or al VS terence(third match is not needed if the team wins both 1°& 2°), the order is choosen by the team before every match.
every team can choose 5 elements to play with before every complete match(of 3 games), not necessarily the same versus every nation, the elements choose can be used like this, example: team A choosed :darkness :fire :death :time :air, al can use :fire :time, john can use :death :darkness and jack can use :air and one of the other four used by its teammates.
the comunication of the 5 elements choosed have to be made up to one hour before match n.1° is made.
the third deck can be made in 15 minutes after the last match for obvious strategic reasons.
deck limitations:
NO MARKS
NO NYMPHS
NO MORE THAT 3 COPIES OF THE SAME SHARD IN THE SAME DECK PER PLAYER
NO MORE THAN 4 UPGRADED CARDS IN THE SAME DECK PER PLAYER
Who does not want to be world champion!
Post by: Higurashi on May 15, 2012, 01:27:18 pm
Post by: Kuroaitou on May 17, 2012, 11:43:21 pm
Silly idea, I know. :P
Post by: Rutarete on May 18, 2012, 12:00:15 am
Alliteration: All cards (excluding pendulums and pillars) need to start with the same letter (not sure if this should be upgraded or unupped). For example, a deck of Aflatoxins, Arsenics, and Archangels are allowed, but not one with Devourers, Nightfall, Vampire Dagger, etc. (Ignore creature generators or other card generators in this case; it's only the deck cards that need to be considered. Pillars/Pendulums are ignored as well)
Silly idea, I know. :P
Sounds fun to me!
Post by: Belligerence on May 18, 2012, 12:36:18 am
If you have an odd amount of elements in your deck, you may only have 2, 4, and 6 copies of each card in your deck.
If you have an even amount of elements in your deck, you may only have 1, 3, and 5 copies of each card in your deck.
Other cards are banned (and probably a few choice cards to encourage creative deckbuilding).
Post by: Efreet on May 18, 2012, 02:48:56 am
Must contain only 3 kinds of cards, 6 each (666), excluding pillars and pendulums. I dunno about restrictions.
Post by: asiantraceur on May 20, 2012, 03:57:43 am
Don't know if creatures like Gargoyle, shrieker/lycanthrope, otyugh, vulture, and creatures that gain hp/attack through those means should be allowed
Also dont know if firenymph should be allowed...
Post by: RootRanger on May 24, 2012, 08:26:37 pm
Shards are banned.
Healing cards are banned.
I think this would be a great because the metagame is still very balanced, but games go much faster.
Post by: DoubleCapitals on May 27, 2012, 11:46:34 am
Total Victory or Nothing: Number of wins do not matter. Person who wins with over 100hp wins the match.
Tell me if this has been suggested.
Post by: bobknows on June 12, 2012, 01:03:36 pm
Beginning with { insert element }: only vanilla creatures and < 3 cost spells from that element. No dragons.
Apprentice of { insert element }: all cards available, but can only use 3 of a card if cost > 5. No dragons.
Masters of { insert element }: all cards from that elements available, must use > 50% of that element in your deck
Each of these would need restrictions on how few cards from an element can be used, as well as tweaking for each element
Post by: ShareWarFare on June 14, 2012, 07:16:18 pm
Post by: regen2k9 on June 15, 2012, 10:22:52 pm
Post by: Pkmn31337 on June 28, 2012, 03:08:59 am
Mixed Feelings: Decks can only contain elements from one of the following pairs (either or both, but no cards from the other elements). All Other cards banned, except for Quantum Pillar/Quantum Tower.
:aether :air
:darkness :life
:fire :gravity
:light :entropy
:earth :death
:time :water
Post by: Annele on June 29, 2012, 10:03:18 am
Unupped/Upped
At least 2 types of creatures in your deck. Shards and humanoid creatures are banned.
List of banned cards:
^ May be subject to change. This is just my opinion of the humanoid creatures.
Post by: thispersonisagenius on June 29, 2012, 01:53:30 pm
NO GUARD (Unupped)
Only creatures with HP<5 are allowed
Other restrictions: No shards, nymphs or rares other than weapons are allowed.
Here's another one:
DEMOCRACY (Unupped)
All elements used in the deck must be equally represented (e.g. 10 fire cards, 10 earth cards, 10 time cards or something like that)
Other restrictions: No shards, nymphs or rares other than weapons are allowed.
Post by: regen2k9 on June 30, 2012, 06:01:20 pm
Post by: Calindu on June 30, 2012, 06:12:45 pm
What about a trios only tournament? Simple, but it gives everyone a chance to use decks that are otherwise rarely used in competitive play.
If you ban nova and immolation, otherwise it will be like the last trio tournament again, Scrambled Shriekers with Flying Weapon and Damselflies stomped.
Post by: furballdn on July 01, 2012, 04:11:03 am
What about a trios only tournament? Simple, but it gives everyone a chance to use decks that are otherwise rarely used in competitive play.Build a rainbow without QPs, nova, or immo :D
Post by: regen2k9 on July 02, 2012, 03:41:16 am
What about a trios only tournament? Simple, but it gives everyone a chance to use decks that are otherwise rarely used in competitive play.
If you ban nova and immolation, otherwise it will be like the last trio tournament again, Scrambled Shriekers with Flying Weapon and Damselflies stomped.
True. Yeah, nova + immo bans would be imperative.
Post by: justaburd on July 02, 2012, 03:44:24 am
Post by: jumpingbeans on July 02, 2012, 04:43:36 pm
Post by: OdinVanguard on July 23, 2012, 09:30:31 pm
Players may only use unupped versions of False-God decks.
Note: Since False Gods don't use shards that automatically means no shards allowed :)
The false god decks can be found here:
Here are the decks of the actual False Gods: (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,7919.0.html)
- Idea for a future name game: Artist's Choice
Players choose a cardlist based on one of the artists credited in the elements login screen (Higu edit: include pepokish!)
-VeeArghTee (VRT ... list was too short with just 3 letters)(http://elementscommunity.org/tools/deck/?redirect&deck=4vc4ve4vn52q52s55m56256858p59c5c75f15ib5of5pu5rn61o63a55s58s5c35ic5ie5oh5rg5t262c52i52k5ur5v050u5925935aa5bs5bt5c45c65ro53455k55n55p55t55u56357658u5905cg5la5le5rl5ru5s45uv4t558q5bu8ps)(http://elementscommunity.org/tools/deck/?redirect&deck=5c25lc5lk4t95bv5f85fb5fk5lg5rk8ps)-Fotosynthesis(http://elementscommunity.org/tools/deck/?redirect&deck=4vm52j5c15c85f35f45f55f75gi5i75ih5og5oi5oj5ok5ri62250u5925935aa5bs5bt5c45c65ro4t558q5bu5c25lc5lk5965f95i85i95id61s4vj5ig5io5uq5v155r5ol5uk4t44tb4tc4vq52l52m52v55l58o58r5915945fe5ii8ps)(http://elementscommunity.org/tools/deck/?redirect&deck=5ld5lm5on5op5rp5rq5up61p62455s58s5c35ic5ie5oh5rg5t262c8ps)-Cryotube(http://elementscommunity.org/tools/deck/?redirect&deck=4vi55o56056156s5c05f25i55ll5v24vo52g52h52n52r55v5955f05i65lf5p05ul5v850u5925935aa5bs5bt5c45c65ro55r5ol5uk4t95bv5f85fb5fk5lg5rk55s58s5c35ic5ie5oh5rg5t262c5om8ps) - Three's company two:
Players must pick a pair of card types: Spell+Creature, Creature+Permanent,or Permanent+Spell
Players must include exactly three unique cards of each type that they will include (i.e. total of six cards).
Players must include an equal number of copies of each card.
Pillars and pendulums are exempt from the above rule (can be used in any deck and include as many as wanted)
The must include the same number of copies of each card chosen:-3 vampires
-3 devourers
-3 psions
-3 steals
-3 fractals
-3 drain life
-12 aether pendulums
-Darkness mark-4 Vampire Daggers
-4 Druidic staves
-4 wings
-4 flying weapons
-4 adrenalines
-4 steals
-6 life pillars
-6 darkness pillars
-Air mark-4 Crusaders
-4 Green Nymphs
-4 Rustlers
-4 Druid Staves
-4 Empathic Bonds
-4 Sanctuaries
Post by: furballdn on July 23, 2012, 09:41:01 pm
Cheap ImitationsWas done before, with modified versions of the FG decks. And 2 FGs do use shards.
Players may only use unupped versions of False-God decks.
Note: Since False Gods don't use shards that automatically means no shards allowed :)
The false god decks can be found here:
Here are the decks of the actual False Gods: (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,7919.0.html)
Post by: AquaticImpalement on July 25, 2012, 06:09:17 pm
Light vs. Dark
Everyone must make two decks, one with a light mark and one with a Darkness mark.
At least half of the non-pillar/pendulum cards in the deck must match the mark and you are not allowed to use cards from the opposing mark. Nor cards that generate quanta of that type.
Two light decks cannot battle each other. Nor can two darkness decks. It is always light vs. dark.
Repetition Is Fun
No less than six of any non-pillar/pendulum card in your deck. And you may only have an even number of pillars and pendulums in your deck. You can only play two or more of a card at a time.
Upgraded cards do not count as the same thing as their un-upgraded counterparts. And different color pillars or pendulums are also considered different cards.
Shards, and cards that cannot be successfully played twice are banned.
Banned cards include:
Post by: jumpingbeans on July 25, 2012, 06:47:53 pm
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on July 26, 2012, 07:42:06 pm
What about a trios only tournament? Simple, but it gives everyone a chance to use decks that are otherwise rarely used in competitive play.Build a rainbow without QPs, nova, or immo :D
That's actually a nice idea. :o I like it! ;D
Post by: regen2k9 on August 04, 2012, 11:44:28 pm
Before the tournament starts, choose "Rich" or "Poor"
"Rich" players can only use cards with a quanta cost of 4 or greater for the duration of the tournament
"Poor" players can only use cards with a quanta cost of 3 or less for the duration of the tournament.
Bans: All shards, Dim Shield, Nova, Discord, Immolation, Mindgate
Post by: Rutarete on August 10, 2012, 05:37:46 pm
Everyone must use a mono + splash. But that by itself is boring. So restrict the size of the splash. Say, in the first round, you can splash up to 3 or 4 cards. Then, in the middle rounds, a medium splash, ~6 cards. And for the finalists, they must use a splash (a big splash) of 8 cards. Then add a card copy limit to keep things interesting. So, no copy limit for small splash, 3 or 4 limit for medium splash, and 2 or 3 limit for big splash.
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on August 10, 2012, 05:49:23 pm
Dual Personality {half-upped}
* Players play with 30 to 40 card decks.
* For each upped card in you deck an unupped copy of the same card must also exists and vice versa (including Pillars/Towers & Pendulums).
* Other cards are not allowed, including Shards and Quantum Pillars/Towers.
* Example of legal deck:
In the above deck, every card appears at the same amount in both upped and unupped versions, it is within the 40-card limit and uses no Other cards, so it is legal.
Post by: McSod on August 11, 2012, 08:16:24 pm
I was thinking of ice cream. Don't ask why. I thought of a double chocolate. Went from there to anti-'nilla.
So, conceptually, a tournament where decks must be duos and cannot contain any vanilla creatures.
Post by: furballdn on August 15, 2012, 06:31:44 pm
Both players send the TO (or a neutral 3rd party) a 15-30 card deck consisting of a max of 3 non pillar cards. The 3rd party then puts the decks together and both players must play each other using the combined deck. Any mark is allowed.
Post by: BumbleSting on August 15, 2012, 09:14:57 pm
Two pieces of a mirror.
Both players send the TO (or a neutral 3rd party) a 15-30 card deck consisting of a max of 3 non pillar cards. The 3rd party then puts the decks together and both players must play each other using the combined deck. Any mark is allowed.
Rares would have to be banned.
Post by: regen2k9 on August 19, 2012, 06:17:19 am
Each player can use only one deck at the start of the tournament. They can also use every deck they defeat (after the match is over, not after game one in a Bo3) EXACTLY as build by their opponent. After every match, the losing player posts the decks that he/she used that round. This way, the original deck of the winner of each match is unknown. All players PM the TO with the code for their original deck before the start of the tourney. This is to prevent rulebreaking/illegal deck usage.
FAQs:
- What about satellite matches?
- What happens in the case of a forfeited match?
- What are the bans?
Post by: OdinVanguard on August 30, 2012, 12:09:48 am
Speedy Potluck Skeleton!
Each player suggests 1 non-rare card to the TO
The TO divides the pool into roughly equal size sets (say 10 to 15)
The players must then build decks that contain at least 1 card from each of those sets.
For spice,
The only outside cards allowed would be the weapon of whatever element is used as mark.
(and maybe bacon... because bacon makes everything taste better... if only it was a
(http://i.imgur.com/I5BvK.png)
The Arithmatist
The non-pillar cards in a deck must follow the following composition:
1 copy of one card
2 copies of another card
3 copies of a third card
4 copies of a 4th card
5 copies of a 5th card
6 copies of a sixth card.
(E.g. all decks will have 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 non-pillar / pendulum cards)
May also want to add in a restriction on fixed number of pendulums / pillars so all decks will be same size
(maybe 14 or 15 -> fairly standard arena size, 9 is probably to lean on pillars for most decks)
All cards that can make multiple copies of a card are banned (should help keep people from being tempted to cheat)
Banned cards would be (may not be complete list):
-Fractal
-Mitosis
-Parallel Universe
-Boneyard
-Nymphs tears (since you could make a nymph queen and spam nymphs)
-Nymph Queen (spams nymphs)
-Blue Nymph (spams UG)
-Pharaoh
-Firefly Queen
-deja-vu
-Might also need to ban Fallen Elf, fate egg, mutation, chaos seed, and pandemonium if they make it hard to see cheaters
Post by: nighthawklol on September 05, 2012, 06:28:31 pm
Two pieces of a mirror.
Both players send the TO (or a neutral 3rd party) a 15-30 card deck consisting of a max of 3 non pillar cards. The 3rd party then puts the decks together and both players must play each other using the combined deck. Any mark is allowed.
But then it would come down to pretty much whoever has the best draw or wins the coin flip, right?
Post by: CuCN on September 05, 2012, 07:30:05 pm
Post by: nighthawklol on September 06, 2012, 02:13:07 am
A tournament where you're only allowed to spend quanta you got on your last turn. Devourers and bolts might be powerful, expensive cards would be much harder to play.
Do you mean last turn like the final turn of your deck? Or last turn like the most recent turn?
Post by: Vangelios on September 06, 2012, 02:23:35 am
Post by: nighthawklol on September 06, 2012, 02:32:24 am
a tournament where only dragons can be used as creatures.
That's a pretty good idea, but I feel like everyone would be using a variation of the same deck that is like a rainbow deck with sky blitz, so you just play 5 dragons and a sky blitz and one turn win.
Post by: Vangelios on September 06, 2012, 02:53:59 am
a tournament where only dragons can be used as creatures.
That's a pretty good idea, but I feel like everyone would be using a variation of the same deck that is like a rainbow deck with sky blitz, so you just play 5 dragons and a sky blitz and one turn win.
depends on the shield that you will be using, but also depends on the organizer, it can prohibit some cards.
Post by: CuCN on September 06, 2012, 03:30:51 am
A tournament where you're only allowed to spend quanta you got on your last turn. Devourers and bolts might be powerful, expensive cards would be much harder to play.
Do you mean last turn like the final turn of your deck? Or last turn like the most recent turn?
Last turn as in the most recent turn, so if you have six elemental pillars and no other quanta producers you can only use the six quanta from those pillars. EDIT: and the quanta your mark produces. Derp.
The point is that whatever you produce, minus what gets drained by the opponent (devourer, BH) is what you get to use the next turn.
Post by: regen2k9 on September 06, 2012, 06:43:12 pm
I see your dragon rainbow OTK and raise you a PU Dragons + silencea tournament where only dragons can be used as creatures.
That's a pretty good idea, but I feel like everyone would be using a variation of the same deck that is like a rainbow deck with sky blitz, so you just play 5 dragons and a sky blitz and one turn win.
But yeah, in all seriousness, the amount of archetypes would be limited. Especially if FW is banned, which I imagine it would be. And since otks get around things like firestall, lots of creatureless decks would be moot.
Post by: jumpingbeans on September 06, 2012, 07:04:19 pm
I see your dragon rainbow OTK and raise you a PU Dragons + silencea tournament where only dragons can be used as creatures.
That's a pretty good idea, but I feel like everyone would be using a variation of the same deck that is like a rainbow deck with sky blitz, so you just play 5 dragons and a sky blitz and one turn win.
But yeah, in all seriousness, the amount of archetypes would be limited. Especially if FW is banned, which I imagine it would be. And since otks get around things like firestall, lots of creatureless decks would be moot.
I see your PU Dragons + Silence and raise you a Leaf-Dragon MitoDragon Spam. :)
I did like that one where you could only use cards starting with certain letters that was a while back. Another of those would be cool. Like you can only use cards that start with a letter from "Elements" (upped or unupped). Or another name. Or vowels (may not be enough. :P ). Or one half of the alphabet, divided anyways.
Post by: nighthawklol on September 11, 2012, 03:36:13 am
I see your dragon rainbow OTK and raise you a PU Dragons + silencea tournament where only dragons can be used as creatures.
That's a pretty good idea, but I feel like everyone would be using a variation of the same deck that is like a rainbow deck with sky blitz, so you just play 5 dragons and a sky blitz and one turn win.
But yeah, in all seriousness, the amount of archetypes would be limited. Especially if FW is banned, which I imagine it would be. And since otks get around things like firestall, lots of creatureless decks would be moot.
No offence to the OP of this idea, but I think what we want to work towards is more variety, as opposed to less. Limiting cards brings the field closer together, in a common theme (from what I've noticed so far), but they leave them just far enough away to scramble and build really great decks from what they can.
Post by: blueberrymania on September 15, 2012, 01:48:21 pm
Post by: pikachufan2164 on September 15, 2012, 02:52:02 pm
Chaos vs. Order (Only decks allowed are entropy and aether)Lore: Gravity is Entropy's opposite.
Quote
Entropic elementals do now have a defined form; they look fluid, ever-changing in shape. Entropy itself works like a force that separates and creates random entities at the same time, like dropping some black ink in a glass of clear water, what is that thing that created all of those strange shapes within the water? Entropy.
Gravity elementals are chunky, dense, heavy beings, somewhat similar to sumo wrestlers. They control that force that pulls you close to another object and its direction. They can decide to make themselves a center of gravity making you fall toward them; or they can decide to put that center of gravity somewhere else in the space and they can simply fall there, instead of walking. They ultimately control acceleration, and the motion of anything around them. Gravity works sometime as the opposite of entropy, remember that drop of ink dissolving in the glass of water? Gravity elementals could turn it back into a perfect sphere of ink suspended in the middle of the water.
Source: Zanz interview (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,20705.0.html)
However, there are enough guessing games involved for an :aether / :entropy-only tournament meta to be interesting (Nova vs. Discord, Dim Shield vs. Psion, etc.). The main problem I see is that there's a pretty big assortment of "unfun" control and stall cards available compared to the aggro options.
Post by: Hawfrey1337 on September 16, 2012, 09:26:17 am
Thats everything from the bazaar i can show. So how about it?
Post by: blueberrymania on September 16, 2012, 01:31:46 pm
"Reality Crash" where only non fictional life forms collide in a battle for supremacy (spells and permanents need to be defined)
Thats everything from the bazaar i can show. So how about it?
Ooh, I really like this one. Since antimatter doesn't exist in reality, I assume it wouldn't be allowed?
Post by: Hawfrey1337 on September 16, 2012, 02:01:08 pm
Or another option: we get all kinds of crazy perma and spells, so we could crash reality itself! The creatures are found fighting for survival, but mostly to preserve their integrity, while the universe throws non sense at them.
It's open for discussion, do more people support it? Looks fun? It does for me xD
Post by: Vangelios on September 16, 2012, 02:15:00 pm
- Shards are not allowed.
- The top 10 cards, votes by the community are banned.
- Each players entitled to 3 votes.
Use pendulums opposite the mark. use only one type of pendulum different from mark.- No upgrade cards.
Post by: blueberrymania on September 16, 2012, 03:17:37 pm
Post by: Vangelios on September 16, 2012, 03:30:26 pm
Firefly Queen? you think this powerful deck?, I put the shield dimensional.
Post by: Rutarete on September 16, 2012, 04:55:45 pm
My new idea is to have a small storyline over a few weeks.
Ex. The tale of the dragons.
Week 1: (title)
Story: The people of the (Elemental) world, having spread and killed almost all of the edible creatures that live on the ground, must now turn to the sky to survive.
Restrictions: There is only one non-airborne creature per element allowed (chosen by TOs)
Non-edible ones, such as Steam Machine, are exempt from the one per element rule.
Week 2: (title)
Story: Finishing off the last of the grounded creatures, they go after Dragons, the biggest of their possible prey.
Restrictions: Only Airborne Creatures, (like this last tourney). Only CC that can kill a Dragon in One hit is allowed (includes bolts, Rage pot, lightning, etc.)
Week 3: (title)
Story: The dragons are gone. Only small creatures remain. Having used all their best tools to kill off the dragons, they must resort to smaller means of surviving.
Restrictions: Only Airborne non-dragon creatures allowed. The CC from Week 2 cannot be used.
This is one way a story-based tourney series could be. The more developed the story is, the more creative the restrictions can be. The above was partly inspired by the heavy use of Dragons (from what I saw, made decks of, and assumed the rest).
Post by: furballdn on September 16, 2012, 06:02:52 pm
Ooh, I really like this one. Since antimatter doesn't exist in reality, I assume it wouldn't be allowed?Wat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter)
Post by: blueberrymania on September 16, 2012, 06:16:03 pm
Ooh, I really like this one. Since antimatter doesn't exist in reality, I assume it wouldn't be allowed?Wat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter)
Okay, I was not aware of this scientific research. My apoligies.
Post by: Hawfrey1337 on September 16, 2012, 07:41:07 pm
@Kagome: Sorry, won't happen again.
Post by: Higurashi on September 16, 2012, 08:44:06 pm
Post by: OdinVanguard on September 19, 2012, 08:34:02 pm
- Decks must be composed of pairs of cards (e.g. exactly 2 of each card except pillars / pendulums) from a pair of elements (e.g. duos only)
- If upped cards allowed, unique upped variants (those with differing skills) count as separate cards, e.g.:
pufferfish / toadfish, chaos power / chaos seed
- If upped cards allowed, unique upped variants (those with differing skills) count as separate cards, e.g.:
- Only creatures with active skills are allowed
- Any spells or permanents are allowed, but must also come in pairs
- Each element used must have an equal number of cards (not counting pillars or pendulums)
- Only shard allowed is SoR (since it is needed to make fate egg worth using)
Post by: justaburd on September 24, 2012, 03:18:56 pm
Name: One for all, all in one
Restrictions: One copy of each card max, including pends/pillars.
No bans other than the usual suspects.
(And yes, you can make decent decks for it apparently)
Post by: dragonsdemesne on September 24, 2012, 04:13:58 pm
Nymphomania:
All decks must include at least 6 copies of a card with the word 'nymph' in the name. Thus, anyone can play as long as they have six nymph's tears, but you can also substitute and/or add any nymphs you have. Alternately, it could be -exactly- six copies of a card with the word nymph in the name, to keep the playing field a little more even between veterans with a dozen nymphs or more, and newbies who might only have one or two.
All other creatures are banned. All shards/upgrades are banned. Certain 'asshole' cards are banned; discord and earthquake for sure, since they'd wreck the theme really bad.
All decks must be exactly 30 cards. (or some other fixed number)
Eternity and Reverse time are banned. (basically, to prevent any deckout wins except by cointoss)
Not sure whether CC, shields, weapons, and other types of damage should be allowed or not; I'd leave that up to the TO.
To make it really weird, it could also be required to make trios or even quartets or something like that, specifics left to the TO but maybe minimum 6 cards per element or something.
Post by: furballdn on September 24, 2012, 05:57:36 pm
Name: One for all, all in oneTried it, and those decks are exceedingly fun. I think I can beat AI2 with them :)
Restrictions: One copy of each card max, including pends/pillars.
No bans other than the usual suspects.
(And yes, you can make decent decks for it apparently)
Post by: jumpingbeans on September 29, 2012, 03:50:05 pm
Only cards that remain undrafted by either (or it could be both) Drafting Sections in the current draft (Draft III) are allowed.
All shards banned
All pillars/pendulums allowed
Any mark allowed
Nymphs/Marks allowed
Post by: justaburd on September 30, 2012, 04:41:51 am
I beat ai 3! HA!Name: One for all, all in oneTried it, and those decks are exceedingly fun. I think I can beat AI2 with them :)
Restrictions: One copy of each card max, including pends/pillars.
No bans other than the usual suspects.
(And yes, you can make decent decks for it apparently)
Post by: Rutarete on October 03, 2012, 02:34:45 pm
Post by: jumpingbeans on October 13, 2012, 01:17:21 am
You may use any cards at all. No banned cards. No maximum/minimum deck sizes. No required marks. (And yes, 'no banned cards' means upgrades AND SHARDS are both allowed)
Post by: Elbirn on October 13, 2012, 01:23:48 am
Post by: jumpingbeans on October 13, 2012, 02:01:21 am
Post by: pikachufan2164 on October 13, 2012, 07:05:11 am
Post by: Elbirn on October 13, 2012, 03:15:27 pm
Post by: pikachufan2164 on October 13, 2012, 04:29:40 pm
Has anyone proposed a tourney where the objective is to LOSE your match? For example, first person to deck-out wins.
Been done as or fit as PvP Events
Lose to win
Post by: Rutarete on October 14, 2012, 11:16:12 pm
There are a number of ways to go about this, and one of the biggest problems is deciding what counts as mainstream. Mainstream would involve categories and mods/variations of it.
One way is to ban all cards that form a mainstream deck. Another is to only ban them from being in the same deck as each other. (Actually, I like the second one better, and I'll add to it)
You may only use mainstream cards, but not so that they make a mainstream combo/deck.
Post by: treebeard xiii on October 14, 2012, 11:19:10 pm
Anti-Mainstreamlove that tournament idea make it official plz
There are a number of ways to go about this, and one of the biggest problems is deciding what counts as mainstream. Mainstream would involve categories and mods/variations of it.
One way is to ban all cards that form a mainstream deck. Another is to only ban them from being in the same deck as each other. (Actually, I like the second one better, and I'll add to it)
You may only use mainstream cards, but not so that they make a mainstream combo/deck.
Post by: vagman13 on October 14, 2012, 11:25:25 pm
- Only pillar allowed is Quantum Pillar
- Max of 1 copy per card
- All decks must contain cards from at least 6 different elements
- Max number of cards from one element is 3
- Other cards are banned(only card allowed from other is quantum pillar)
- Nova,immolation,blackhole are banned
- Shards are banned
"RNG is thy Savior" or"Hit it or Jinx it" tournament:
- Decks must contain 6 cards of the 5 least used cards in the game
- Decks can contain up to 3 cards from the 5 most used cards in the game
- Deck size must be 30 cards,remaining cards can be any card in the game
- Shards are banned
"Mommy,can I eat that? " (Upgraded)
- All creatures besides those that can cause poisoning (puffer fish,scorpions,physalia and any other I am forgeting) are banned
- Arsenic,poison,purify are banned
- Fahrenait,Fire Bolt,Ice Bolt,Drain life,Flying weapon are banned
- Shards are banned
Reverse Speedbuilding
- 15 minutes before starting ,TO's reveal a list of random banned cards
- Players speedbuilt decks using any card in the game besides those banned
- Banned Cards list must be considerably bigger than the list in normal speedbuilding tourneys for this to be fun
- Shards are banned
"Trio but with a twist"
- All decks must be trios
- At least 15% from each element
- Each deck must contain at least 4 creatures,4 spells and 4 permanents
- All cards from the same category (spells,creatures,permanents) must be from the same element.For example,a valid deck can contain spells from fire,creatures from life and permanents from death.
- Shards are banned
"Dark Ritual"
- Only creature allowed is voodoo doll
- Arsenic,poison,fahrenait,fire bolt,Ice bolt,drain life,flying weapon are banned
- shards are banned
"There is no place like home "
- All decks must be duos,with light as one of the elements
- All decks must contain exactly 4 sanctuaries
- Permanent controll cards are banned
- Shards are banned
Can I be a TO now please? I promise I can come up with more :P
Post by: Vangelios on October 16, 2012, 05:07:13 am
1 - Players need to have 6 copies of Pharaoh or FFQ in your deck.
2 - Shard of Freedom and Shard of Readiness shards are allowed, the other shards, not are allowed.
3 - No upgraded cards.
Post by: furballdn on October 16, 2012, 05:14:16 am
Pharaoh vs FFQNobody would use FFQ.
1 - Players need to have 6 copies of Pharaoh or FFQ in your deck.
2 - Shard of Freedom and Shard of Readiness shards are allowed, the other shards, not are allowed.
3 - No upgraded cards.
SoR pharaoh is strong enough to farm higher leagues like gold/plat with no difficulty due to its speed and control. Even with shards banned, Pharaoh is mono and can create scarabs with CC potential while fireflies only produce quanta.
Post by: Vangelios on October 16, 2012, 05:27:09 am
Pharaoh vs FFQ
SoR pharaoh is strong enough to farm higher leagues like gold/plat with no difficulty due to its speed and control. Even with shards banned, Pharaoh is mono and can create scarabs with CC potential while fireflies only produce quanta.
The Deck of FFQ may have advantages cc as SW and OE, also just 3 Shards of Freedon to effectively prevent attack scarabs or RT.
Post by: Elbirn on October 16, 2012, 01:49:28 pm
Post by: Vangelios on October 16, 2012, 03:53:07 pm
Post by: Higurashi on October 24, 2012, 08:13:53 am
Can I be a TO now please? I promise I can come up with more :PBut why? You have more time for ideas this way ;)
Post by: vagman13 on October 24, 2012, 10:00:05 pm
Post by: OdinVanguard on October 26, 2012, 08:30:20 pm
"Nobody Loves Me"
Decks may only be composed of the 50 least used non-rare cards and 5 least used rare cards (Shards exempted) Zanz's Card Stats Page (http://www.elementsthegame.com/liststats.php)
Post by: Blaze on November 02, 2012, 08:11:41 pm
I would personally prefer that this tournament be run as a non-upgraded tourney because I don't have the collection yet to play in upgraded tourneys. Although I plan on building my collection decently fast.
Post by: Elbirn on November 02, 2012, 08:39:02 pm
@Blaze: I think we already have a sideboard PvP event, I'm not sure if it works exactly the same as you suggested though.
Post by: Blaze on November 02, 2012, 10:03:22 pm
Post by: Mortisgrey on November 10, 2012, 09:00:12 pm
Post by: kimham8a on November 11, 2012, 03:10:21 am
Name: Quick Changes
Each deck must contain at least 4 copies of TWO of the following:
-Blessing
-Chaos Power
-Momentum
-Antimatter
Post by: iancudorinmarian on December 02, 2012, 02:17:03 pm
1)All cards unupped.
2)Only rainbows (more than 4 different elements).
3)Nova, Immolation, Miracle, Eternity, Reverse Time, Sundial, Dissipation, Flooding, Alfatoxin, Sanctuary, Fahrenheit, Drain Life, Fire Bolt, Dimensional Shield, Emphatic Bond, Black Hole, Ice Bolt are banned (so no stall decks and no deckout decks, at least not very common ones, bonewall is not really used in stall decks).
4)Shards are banned.
5)List of banned cards (easier for the TO's to see it and post it in an eventual tourney):
Note that shards are banned as well.
Any additional suggestions for this idea are welcomed, thank you for reading my idea.
Post by: Rutarete on December 02, 2012, 08:13:59 pm
Post by: mesaprotector on December 02, 2012, 08:36:56 pm
That is, the only cards allowed are ones like Nova, Discord, Dim Shield, Fire Bolt, etc. (as well as pillars/pends of course). Optionally SoSa and SoFo might be included as well. I'd be curious to see what the meta would look like ;)
Post by: Blacksmith on December 02, 2012, 08:42:21 pm
Post by: whatifidogetcaught? on December 02, 2012, 10:30:11 pm
Each player is given a random false god, and they must imitate that deck at a minimum of 50%. (Mark included.)
Post by: dragonsdemesne on December 02, 2012, 11:04:27 pm
How about a "Lucky 7" theme? Cards must either have a 7 in their stats (without buffs), a 7 cost, 7 in their text (are there any?) or their deck must have exactly 7 elements. (Other doesn't count). If there aren't enough cards then include ones whose stats add up to 7. Upped cards can be allowed for a bigger selection of cards.
Or seven letters in their name? Vampire, longbow, trident, etc. That would be a fun one for an upped tourney, since there would be a mix of unupped and upped cards.
Cards that mention 7 in their text: Bone wall (7 shields, but unupped already costs 7), any weapon that deals 7 damage (Eagle's Eye, morning star), and, depending on your point of view, thorn/spine carapace has a "7" in "75% chance". (edit: though both carapace versions already cost 7 too :p)
Post by: yee on December 15, 2012, 10:48:12 am
Rules:
1) You can use one shard from each element (no 2 shards from same element)
2) For each shard you must use at least one card from that element (not counting pillars and pendelums)
3) For each shard you can use 1 spell, 1 permanent and 1 creature from that element
Comments: I know it will crate many rainbows, but I think some duos and trios can be created.
It is possibel to change to 2 spells, 2 permanents and 2 creatures for each shard from shard's element, to give duos and trios more chance.
Allowing only one shard from element should counter their usually big impact.
Post by: shileka on December 19, 2012, 12:49:02 pm
every deck must contain one creature of each element, no other cards allowed except pillars/pendulums, up to 6 cards of an elements matching your mark may be added
fat for the win
only creatures alowed are creatures with more than 5 hp (gravity shield is not alowed)
Post by: iancudorinmarian on January 05, 2013, 05:04:15 pm
Each deck must have at least 5 adrenaline in it, only one copy per creature and no other spells are allowed.
Only allowed pillar is QP. Only life mark, no other mark allowed.
Other cards banned: only allowed shields are the ones that have DR (besides skull shield, this is banned too), plague, parasite, toad fish, virus, fractal, PU and other cards that come into mind to the TO's.
Post by: Gambb on January 06, 2013, 08:05:54 am
1) upped cards are banned
2) cards with bazaar price > N and cards with no bazaar price are generally banned, BUT one rare card per deck is allowed (N can be choosen between 49 and 61, but i'm not sure)
3) you can't change your deck while matching the same opponent
4) (option A) if you won match, you can modify your deck using cards of beaten opponent (so you can include additional rare card in your deck!)
4) (option B) if match ended you can modify your deck
Post by: Striker1709 on January 10, 2013, 08:00:31 am
Post by: mesaprotector on January 20, 2013, 07:01:07 pm
Post by: shileka on January 20, 2013, 07:50:08 pm
Post by: yee on January 22, 2013, 01:30:07 pm
Tournament idea: Try to lose each game!This might be quite intresting if you ban cards that allow fast drawing, otherwise all will use mono :time decks to run out of cards.
Post by: Elbirn on January 22, 2013, 07:40:23 pm
Tournament idea: Try to lose each game!This might be quite intresting if you ban cards that allow fast drawing, otherwise all will use mono :time decks to run out of cards.
I'd like to point out that "lose to win" has been suggested maaany times before ^_^
Post by: laxnut90 on January 29, 2013, 01:24:05 am
Post by: Captain Scibra on January 29, 2013, 01:26:05 am
Tourney idea: weapons only (only cards allowed are weapons, animate weapon and cards that directly buff the weapons when they are in play).
I see this working for an upgraded tourney, since expecting upgrades also warrants expecting a multitude of rares.
Post by: Rutarete on January 29, 2013, 04:06:57 pm
How fast can you win with a chimera?
You must win using a chimera.
- decks must have at least 3-6 chimera copies
- the final blow must be dealt by a chimera - use a screenshot if necessary
- aim for speed
- Armagio ban, (Titan ban?)
- unupped
Post by: Chapuz on January 29, 2013, 04:15:24 pm
No pillars allowed.
Banned Nova and Immolation.
Unupped. Yes, unupped.
Post by: Zso_Zso on January 29, 2013, 04:29:13 pm
Banned cards:
- All forms of healing (healing spells, vampires, LS, stiletto, light-nymph, sanctuary etc)
- All shields
- Armagio and gravity pull
- Reverse time and eternity
- Anti-matter, purple-nymph, freeze, arctic squid, basilisk blood, earth-nymph
- earth-quake and trident
If I forgot about any other form of stalling or slowing down rushes, then please add them to the above list.
Deck-size limited to max 32 and must have more creatures than spells (to limit CC-spam)
Another twist for the upped vs un-upped nature of the tournament:
Usually tournaments are either all un-upped or allow unlimited upgrades, while War and several other PVP events allow limited # of ups per deck. So, lets do a gradual upgrade progression for a tournament, where each round the number of allowed upgrades doubles, maxing at 32:
So, for first round in case of 17-32 players: 2 upgrades would be allowed, for 16 player round 4 upgrades, for the 8 player round 8 upgrades, for the semi-finals 16 upgrades and for the final 32 upgrades.
Post by: yee on February 21, 2013, 03:56:37 pm
Rules:
- No shards
- You can only have one coppy of a any card, yes even only one Pillar and one Pendelum
Question - What, I can only use 1 Pillar?
- Yes, you can only use one pillar from single element, but you can use one from every element so in total of 12 (+1) Pillars can be used.
What about Marks?
- They are allowed, but you can't use Mark card, that matches your Mark, as that would mean you have 2 of that.
Notes - It can be done easily with upped cards, but it would be realy fun in unupped enviroment. So I think it should be unupped, just to see what people could come up, if they can't use any card twice.
I got this idea from Bronze league (and Ai0), when one deck had like all diferent pillars and didn't seem to play any card twice.
Post by: Ningo67 on March 07, 2013, 02:06:39 pm
NAME:Unwanted visitors
RULES:
1.no upgraded cards
2.shards are banned
3.create a mono deck with 40 cards,your mark has to match the element you choose to create a mono deck with
4.when u created a deck u have to choose 15 cards from an element that doesn't match your mark,cards you choose cannot cost 0 quanta
5.any cards that can give you other elements quanta are banned(e.g. nova,steal,fireflyes,pillars,pendulum,...)
Post by: ohnodavido on March 19, 2013, 02:55:57 pm
Post by: RavingRabbid on March 23, 2013, 10:23:45 pm
(unupgraded)
The following cards are allowed (+pillars):
(it's an attempt to a tourney with no dominant deck. I'm not sure there is actually no dominant deck with these cards, but there shouldn't be.)
Post by: DANIEELA on March 23, 2013, 10:35:31 pm
simple rules-less illegal decks.
allowed cards,and thats all. :-*
Post by: blarp on March 25, 2013, 07:03:49 am
Post by: Vineroz on March 25, 2013, 05:37:12 pm
I'll remind people this topic isn't for criticising others' ideas. The TO's will handle the refining process.
Post by: destruct on March 27, 2013, 05:43:30 am
Also, maybe a tourney where you can only use creatures that combine 2 elements (like devourers that can burrow for :earth quanta, or parasites that poison with :death) Also, you could only use a mark that none of your creatures used, and all permanents and spells would be allowed. Also, the deck could not cost over X :electrum This way it would be fair especially to the newbies, but also interesting.
Post by: CuCN on March 27, 2013, 06:04:53 am
About using cards that begin with letters of name... seems imbalanced to me. Especially since my IGN has no letters in it.
Post by: destruct on March 27, 2013, 02:41:23 pm
Instead, maybe each person could pick a (real) name, and use that name for the cards that begin with those letters.
Post by: Vineroz on March 27, 2013, 03:20:02 pm
Oh, I just joined the forum 2 days ago, and I didn't see that. Sorry.
Instead, maybe each person could pick a (real) name, and use that name for the cards that begin with those letters.
FYI, using cards that start with letters from the name of a member has already been done a few times. And the very next tournament is going to use this theme too. Coincidence?
Post by: Rutarete on March 27, 2013, 05:15:39 pm
The enemy has breached your territory! Fight to defend it!
Land vs air vs sea
Players choose one - Creatures on land vs airborne/creatures with wings vs creatures in water (frog can go here)
Only creatures are allowed (pillars and pends excluded)
Bans - Quantum Pillar?
Post by: destruct on March 27, 2013, 08:50:02 pm
FYI, using cards that start with letters from the name of a member has already been done a few times. And the very next tournament is going to use this theme too. Coincidence?
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Ah, I just saw the touney. I am going to try this one to see how it works. Coincidence? I think so.
Post by: jazzfan27 on March 27, 2013, 10:48:01 pm
Slugfest: Wins before turn 15 are counted as losses.
Sore Loser: Loser picks a card from winners deck (non-pillar/tower), opposing player cannot play that card next match.
Gladiator's curse: Each player picks a card, opposing player has to put 5 copies of that card in their deck.
Post by: yee on March 28, 2013, 06:19:44 pm
Rules:
- No upgrades
- No shards
- Before each round TO will announce a card that you must have 5 of each in every match in that round.
- If somebody does not have 5 of TO annouced card (and can't afford to buy them), then he/she can ask TO to give him/her and his/hers opponent an other realy cheap card (not pillars of course).
Post by: Marsu on March 29, 2013, 11:59:40 am
Elements the Gathering
-Minimum deck size is 40
-No Card except Pends & Pillars may be used more than 4 times.
(-Quantum Pillars are banned.)
Simple rules, fun decks.
Post by: OdinVanguard on April 05, 2013, 06:27:08 pm
Only creatures with combined HP + Attack less than 10 are allowed.
-Mutation, Fate Egg, Fallen Elf, Chimera, Nymphs tear, and Scarabs are also banned.
-Creatures that can increase their hp or attack are banned (lycanthrope forest spirit, steam machine, etc.)
-Cards that increase hp or attack of creatures are banned: BB, Blessing, Plate armor, momentum, nightfall, etc.
-Weapons with combined flown stats > 10 are also banned.
Post by: Heric the Dark Lord on April 07, 2013, 01:48:40 pm
Fester-fest ((Name may be changed.))
- Only creatures with effects that poison the player or other creatures are allowed(Dune scorpion, Black Nymph, Chrysaora, Toadfish, etc.
- All weapons are banned(Even arsenic, so as not to Element hate/favor.)
- Purify is banned(Can be removed, or switched to only 1 per deck.)
- Cards that can deal non-poison damage(Fire Bolt, Unstable gas, Catapult, etc.) or create non-poisonous creatures(Boneyard, Mutation, etc.) are banned.
- ((Insert more generic banned cards where needed.))
Another idea I have...
Ragnarok
- Your deck must contain two(And only two) elements. Aether, and another of your choice.(Can be switched between games, as long as your deck contains Aether and exactly one other element.)
- Your deck must contain at least ten cards of Aether, and ten cards of the element you chose. (For the purposes of deckbuilding, Spark is not considered Aether.)(This can be changed to a percentage, or number of cards increased)
- Your mark must be of Aether or your other element.
- Played in the game, Marks count as pillars of their element.
- Dimensional Shield/Phase Shield and Mindgate are banned(The Mindgate ban can be removed if needed).
- ((Insert Genuine banned list here where needed.))
Upped or Unupped, these are my ideas.
Post by: OdinVanguard on April 15, 2013, 04:38:48 am
-All non-weapon creatures other than crusader are banned
-Nymph's tear, mutation, boneyard, and aflatoxin banned
-Only upped card allowed is animate weapon
-Reverse time and eternity banned
Post by: S2xaT5No on May 06, 2013, 03:48:02 pm
- Every deck must have 60 cards.
- Quantum towers/pillars, as well as Time pillars/towers/pendulums/mark are banned.
- Every card in the deck must be unupgraded.
- Novas are not allowed.
Post by: neuroleptics on May 15, 2013, 05:02:31 am
Choose your affliction
-choose one weapon
1) Based on the weapon's summoning cost, build a deck with card cost of Either > or < than the cost.
2) For every 2 creature you use, 1 spell card is allowed.
3)Special rule: If the weapon's colour can be mixed from other colours, the rest of the colours are banned. Example, :gravity = :fire + :time . gravity can only use elements from :fire and :time. :life can only use :aether , :water and :time.
Other elements can freely choose any elements but are banned from using :aether :water :gravity :life :time
4) any mark will do, no AW, shards or shields allowed.
Post by: legion_bre on May 20, 2013, 04:34:34 am
- No upped, no shards (standard)
- Maximum 5 pillars or pendulums of any element (except quantum).
- No quantum pillars
- No Nova's or immolation
> Items that alter pillars and/or quanta cannot be used: (including)
- Discord
- Blackhole
- Earthquake (spell) & Trident casting earthquake
- Mindgate
- gnome rider
- Using photosynthesis
- Casting Deflagration on pillar
- Casting Destroy on pillar
- Casting Shatter on pillar
- Casting Steal on pillar
Post by: mrpaper on May 20, 2013, 04:52:41 am
Each deck needs at least 3 nymphs or nymphs tears and 3 quint because a beauty like that shall not be hurt :)
no upgrades/shards
Post by: yee on May 22, 2013, 12:36:11 pm
Only allowed cards (beside pillars and pendelums):
Can be upped or unupped.
Post by: dragonsdemesne on May 30, 2013, 05:07:09 am
The idea I had just now is related to the upcoming tourney (1 attack creatures only, all other direct damage/weapons/shields banned except catapult) in some ways, but I think it's distinct enough to have its own theme.
Arthropods on a Plane! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod
-The only damage sources allowed are arthropods. (deathstalker, forest scorpion, ?ash eater?, dragonfly, firefly, firefly queen, dune scorpion, ?devourer?, parasite, flesh spider, phase spider, ?chrysaora?, antlion, ?graboid/shrieker?, scarab, ?deja vu?, ?rustler?, plus any I missed) (?-? creatures are ones I'm not sure if they would count or not)
-weapons are banned (fight with insects, not swords!)
-shields are banned (too OP against mostly small creatures)
-all spells/permanents that deal damage to a player are banned (fight with insects, not spells!) (i.e. no bolts, nightmares, catapults, weapons, nymph's tears, unstable gas, boneyards, etc)
-no PC allowed except for butterfly effect
-CC is legal if it cannot be used on a player (rage pot, rain of fire, plague, dry spell, pandemonium, antimatter, reverse time, etc)
-firefly queen, fractal, and purify (due to all the scorpions) might cause problems, and they might have to be banned or partially restricted
-might have to watch whether nova, graboid, or quantum pillar would be OP or not as well
-you must have at least 6 cards that are a different element from everything else in the deck. (no monos or near-monos)
Ex. these are legal
A) 24 aether cards 6 gravity cards
B) 24 aether cards 3 life cards 3 light cards
C) 10 life cards 10 air cards 5 fire cards 5 water cards
D) 54 aether cards 1 entropy card 1 life card 4 water cards
E) 3 cards each from all 12 elements
Ex. these are illegal
A) 30 aether cards
B) 25 aether cards 3 water cards 2 life cards
Post by: CuCN on May 30, 2013, 05:24:58 am
Post by: Jyiber on May 30, 2013, 05:26:54 am
Post by: blueberrymania on May 30, 2013, 01:29:29 pm
Nymphomaniac....
Each deck needs at least 3 nymphs or nymphs tears and 3 quint because a beauty like that shall not be hurt :)
no upgrades/shards
No. I hate this idea. Mainly because I've been playing for forever now and I still don't have a non-nymph queen.
Post by: dragonsdemesne on May 30, 2013, 06:42:59 pm
All false gods are divided into two categories, male and female. All players choose one male and one female false god before the tourney starts and put them at the end of their chat name. Players can only use cards found in the chosen false god decks. (we have published lists of the FG decks so this would be available to all)
Shard of Focus is banned.
I believe this would be best in an unupped environment, but that's up to the TOs if they like the idea.
Post by: dragonsdemesne on May 30, 2013, 06:53:37 pm
All players choose one false god that has a DUO element deck (ex: ferox, neptune, decay, eternal phoenix, etc) and then choose one element not found in that deck, and put the choices in their name, for example, dragonsdemesne_water_eternal phoenix. Only cards found in that FG deck and in that element can be used by that player. You can pick one of the two elements that are already in that FGs deck if you want, ex: dragonsdemesne_aether_decay would let you use all aether cards in the game and all darkness cards in decay's deck. (there would be overlap if you chose to do this but it could still be a valid strategic choice)
Shard of Focus banned.
If the FG has other cards in a duo, you can use them, but otherwise 'other' cards are banned. I think this would mean they're all banned except possibly quantum tower, and probably even that, but I'd have to look at the decklists to be sure.
Standalone marks are legal only if in the chosen unrestricted element. No false gods have them, so they are illegal otherwise, i.e. in dragonsdemesne_water_eternal phoenix, standalone water marks are legal but fire and aether marks are banned, and of course all other cards in all other elements are as well.
Name refers to the idea that the FG suddenly 'gets' a third element, i.e. the third eye.
Post by: dragonsdemesne on May 30, 2013, 07:02:13 pm
All players choose two elements before the tournament begins. The first is chosen to be 'your' element, that you have to use in every deck you make. The second is chosen for your *opponent*, and they must use at least 6 cards of that element in every deck they use against you.
All zero cost and other cost cards (except pillars/pends/marks) are banned, ex: tower shield, animate weapon, nova, immolation, spark, luciferin, etc. If the tourney is upped, you may use the unupped version of an otherwise banned card, for example flying weapon or unupped sundials, but not the upped ones.
Example:
dragonsdemesne_darkness_water plays against zanzarino_fire_gravity. Dragonsdemesne must use a darkness/gravity deck with at least 6 gravity cards. Zanzarino must use a fire/water deck with at least 6 water cards. The duos you use will change as you face other opponents in later rounds.
If your #1 element matches your opponent's #2 element, you're stuck using a mono :p Ex: dragonsdemesne_darkness_water plays against zanzarino_fire_darkness. Zanzarino must use a fire/water deck with 6 water cards. Dragonsdemesne must use a darkness/darkness deck with at least 6 darkness cards. This will give incentive for players not to all pick the strongest elements for themselves and the weakest elements for their opponents. If you see everyone picking aether, for instance, you could pick aether as your second element and stick them all with monos :p
You can pick the same element twice, i.e. you can give yourself fire and force your opponents to use at least 6 fire cards, too.
edit: now that I think about it, the 6 card requirement and banning zero/other cost cards might not actually be necessary, but I'll let TOs work on that.
Post by: Theboss1248 on June 17, 2013, 06:40:53 am
No creatures with skills
No weapons
No Shields
Only cards with 4 Quanta or less
Post by: dawn to dusk on June 17, 2013, 10:57:26 am
Each deck must be a trio and must include exactly 3 cards costing 3 quanta. This can be anything from horned frog to SoP. Other cards banned
Pillarless
Pillars and pends are banned. Mark cards are allowed. Other cards are allowed (not quantum pillar though). Any other quanta producers are allowed.
Post by: Rutarete on June 17, 2013, 05:45:44 pm
TO chooses 3 or so (maybe 5?) of the most hated cards in the game. Players will choose whether to be a hater or not (by name in chat). Haters cannot use any of the 'most hated' cards, but can use anything in the range of the elements of the hated list and their opposites.
Non-haters can use cards from the hated list, but can only use cards from the elements of hated cards they use in that deck.
Ex. If the list was only dim shield and black hole, A hater deck with Black Hole and Dim. Shield can only have gravity and aether cards, while a non-hater could use anything from :aether :gravity :entropy :time except the hated cards.
Post by: Submachine on June 17, 2013, 09:48:00 pm
Rules:
- all cards unupped.
- no spells.
- no creatures with active or passive abilities, except 'airborne'.
- no weapons, except lobotomizer.
- no sapphire chargers, no voodoo dolls, no ghosts of the past.
- mark can't be life.
- banned: unstable gas, SoFree, SoV, SoG, sanctuary, SoP, sundial, mutation.
Post by: w4sh1ng7on on June 24, 2013, 03:28:08 pm
- only one copy of each card, including pillars and penduluns.
- Upgraded cards are not allowed.
<<CAN BE ONLY ONE>>
- only one copy of each card, including pillars and penduluns.
<<LEGENDARY RAINBOW>>
- Only one card for each element (Except pillars, penduluns e marks)
- Only one copy of each card (Except pillars, penduluns e marks)
- Quantum Pillar is banned
<<CALL TO ARMS>>
- Only weapons cards and Animated Weapon are allowed
<<PRISMA>>
- Mandatory use of a pillar of each element
<<CHAOS>>
- Only Unupped Shard of Serendypts allowed
<<PUZZLE>>
- Only Shards cards allowed
- Shard of Integrity is banned
Post by: Vangelios on June 24, 2013, 04:12:33 pm
* Only weapons, shields and flying weapon are allowed
* Pillars, pendulums and mark are allowed
* Quantum pillar is banned
Post by: w4sh1ng7on on June 24, 2013, 07:23:04 pm
- Except for pillars, pendulums and marks, all other cards of the deck should start with the same initial letter.
Post by: Meruan4Nemesis on June 30, 2013, 04:50:56 pm
My idea for the tournament:
Only weapons, shields and pillars
No spells
No permanents besides pillars
Post by: CuCN on June 30, 2013, 04:56:06 pm
All creatures must have 0 or 1 health. Mass CC banned.
One-Time Use:
You can only include each card in your deck for one game, for the entire tournament. Mark cards count as corresponding pillars, nymphs as alchemy spells.
Post by: Submachine on July 06, 2013, 10:19:41 am
Note: this is a bonus rule, and needs main rules to attach to.
System: Your first deck will have a mark that you choose. Every consecutive decks of you must follow a circle.
Example: :aether --> :air --> :darkness --> :aether
You chose air as your mark the first time, so the next time you must use darkness as a mark.
Post by: Submachine on July 08, 2013, 05:14:42 pm
- any mark and mark cards can be used
- no shards/nymphs/upped cards
- no spells
- the deck must contain 30+x cards where x is the number of 0 or 1 cost cards (pillars and pendulums also count)
- cards that cost [insert number here] quanta are banned
Feel free to improve the idea. Reviews are always welcome.
Post by: w4sh1ng7on on July 10, 2013, 06:41:09 pm
SPECIAL RULES
- Upgraded cards are not allowed.
- Only one copy of each card can be used (except pillars and pendulums).
- Quantaum tower is banned.
Post by: Rutarete on July 11, 2013, 08:07:19 am
All decks must be monos.
The most important 'limbs' of each element cannot be used.
These limbs could be several things (depending on the TOs), including but not limited to specific cards besides regular bans, key defining abilities, a certain small set of cards that function to tie things together as a limb does.
Post by: BeefSupreme on July 15, 2013, 02:41:20 am
Mono-Limb LossSuch as banning Discord from Entropy?
All decks must be monos.
The most important 'limbs' of each element cannot be used.
These limbs could be several things (depending on the TOs), including but not limited to specific cards besides regular bans, key defining abilities, a certain small set of cards that function to tie things together as a limb does.
Devourer from Darkness?
Poison/Mummy from Death?
Dimensional Shield from Aether?
etc.?
That'd be a cool tournament.
Post by: w4sh1ng7on on July 15, 2013, 12:14:50 pm
- All cards are allowed.
- All deck should have 60 cards.
- Each player must list a deck and a sideboard and sends to the organizer of the event 24 hours before the start of it. Each player is allowed to bring 15 cards (in addition to his main deck) to the game. These cards are referred to as the sideboard. Players are not required to have a sideboard; but, if a player does have one, it must be exactly 15 cards, no more, no less. After the first and second game of a match, each player is allowed to swap cards in their deck for cards in their sideboard (aka "sideboarding"). This is a 1-for-1 swap, so both the player's deck and sideboard must remain the same size (often 60, and exactly 15).
- One hour before the start of the tournament, the lists of decks and their sideboards will be posted on the topic of the tournament can be viewed by all.
Post by: w4sh1ng7on on July 15, 2013, 03:44:35 pm
- Upgraded cards and shards are not allowed.
- Only cards cost odd number are allowed. (Cards with no cost quanta are considered even number)
- Creature with the skills and permanent cost even number of quanta are not allowed.
Post by: BeefSupreme on July 16, 2013, 12:02:12 am
Pillars are always allowed in tournaments. Read up on the rules before you go posting low-quality posts.ODD TIME
- Upgraded cards and shards are not allowed.
- Only cards cost odd number are allowed. (Cards with no cost quanta are considered even number)
- Creature with the skills and permanent cost even number of quanta are not allowed.
Except that pillars should be allowed aswell.
Post by: Jen-i on July 16, 2013, 12:28:55 am
Post by: BeefSupreme on July 16, 2013, 01:27:13 am
Just out of curiosity - where in the rules does it state that pillars are always included?It's kind of a given that pillars/pendulums are included unless stated otherwise.
Post by: Vineroz on July 16, 2013, 02:15:32 am
Just out of curiosity - where in the rules does it state that pillars are always included?
It is actually a good question - it should be in the rules officially before next tournament starts ;)
Post by: jhincherick on July 16, 2013, 07:22:55 pm
"Creepy Critters"
No upgraded cards, Shards, and Nymphs (obviously).
No weapons.
No shields.
IDEA 2
"Gladiators" AKA - Weapons and shields only
No creatures.
No Spells.
No Pillars/Pendulums, except Quantum Pillars.
No Shards or non weapon or shield Permanents.
No upgraded cards
Edits may be made to suit TOs needs/wants.
Post by: Submachine on July 19, 2013, 12:38:05 am
Special Rules:
- Your deck must contain exactly 30 cards
- Your deck must use 3 or more different elements
- Upgraded cards, shards, blackhole, nova, earthquake, discord, immolation and 'other :rainbow' cards are not allowed
Post by: dawn to dusk on July 26, 2013, 12:49:46 pm
Special rules:
*pendulums are banned
*pillars matching you mark are banned
*nova, immolation, discord and QP are banned
other types of quanta producers (dragonfly, gnome rider etc are allowed)
Post by: dawn to dusk on July 26, 2013, 12:58:39 pm
IDEA 2
"Gladiators" AKA - Weapons and shields only
No creatures.
No Spells.
No Pillars/Pendulums, except Quantum Pillars.
No Shards or non weapon or shield Permanents.
No upgraded cards
Edits may be made to suit TOs needs/wants.
fog shield gets no love?
id like to see that, but also with EA, FW and saders. that would be an alright tourney
Post by: BeefSupreme on July 26, 2013, 08:14:18 pm
IDEA 2Building on top of this idea and -somewhat- what d2d said, it could be some sort of "Sader" tournament! Only weapons (flying weapon) + Crusader (ban Vamp Stilleto because Vader Sader is unoriginal and no fun).
"Gladiators" AKA - Weapons and shields only
No creatures.
No Spells.
No Pillars/Pendulums, except Quantum Pillars.
No Shards or non weapon or shield Permanents.
No upgraded cards
Edits may be made to suit TOs needs/wants.
Post by: Jen-i on July 26, 2013, 10:44:34 pm
Post by: KSmash on August 06, 2013, 02:07:56 am
Shackled Omniscience:
At the start of the match/tournament, each player must post the deck image of the decks that he is going to use for the match/tournament, after which no editing of the decks is allowed.
Post by: BeefSupreme on August 06, 2013, 02:12:15 am
Here is a kind of metagame idea.This wouldn't work because people post at different times, so one person posts his decks and then another person is like "OH THAT'S WHAT HE'S USING?" and makes all the counters for it and posts that.
Shackled Omniscience:
At the start of the match/tournament, each player must post the deck image of the decks that he is going to use for the match/tournament, after which no editing of the decks is allowed.
Adding on to this, to make it more doable, perhaps the contestants can only use 'x' amount of decks and they must PM their decks to a TO before the tournament starts.
Post by: KSmash on August 06, 2013, 02:14:09 am
That's a good idea. everyone posts to TO who then posts all the decks and optionally, the name of the player using said decks.Here is a kind of metagame idea.This wouldn't work because people post at different times, so one person posts his decks and then another person is like "OH THAT'S WHAT HE'S USING?" and makes all the counters for it and posts that.
Shackled Omniscience:
At the start of the match/tournament, each player must post the deck image of the decks that he is going to use for the match/tournament, after which no editing of the decks is allowed.
Adding on to this, to make it more doable, perhaps the contestants can only use 'x' amount of decks and they must PM their decks to a TO before the tournament starts.
Post by: BeefSupreme on August 06, 2013, 05:51:29 am
Exactly. I actually think this would make a great tournament.That's a good idea. everyone posts to TO who then posts all the decks and optionally, the name of the player using said decks.Here is a kind of metagame idea.This wouldn't work because people post at different times, so one person posts his decks and then another person is like "OH THAT'S WHAT HE'S USING?" and makes all the counters for it and posts that.
Shackled Omniscience:
At the start of the match/tournament, each player must post the deck image of the decks that he is going to use for the match/tournament, after which no editing of the decks is allowed.
Adding on to this, to make it more doable, perhaps the contestants can only use 'x' amount of decks and they must PM their decks to a TO before the tournament starts.
Post by: Submachine on August 30, 2013, 01:11:08 pm
The players must choose to be one of these scientists before the tournament starts:
- James Maxwell: must use 6 copies of Maxwell's Demon
- Erwin Schrödinger: must use 6 copies of Schrödinger's Cat
- Albertus Magnus: must use 6 copies of Arsenic
- Edward Lorenz: must use 6 copies of Butterfly Effect
- Isaac Newton: must use 6 copies of Momentum
- Paul Steinhardt: must use 6 copies of Quintessence
- Stephen Hawking: must use 6 copies of Black Hole
The players cannot change identity after the first match.
They must not reveal themselves to other players until they battle.
The main cards of other scientists cannot be used.
Shards are not allowed.
Only Stephen Hawking can use Discord and only 1 of it.
Post by: BeefSupreme on August 30, 2013, 10:23:51 pm
Only Stephen Hawking can use Discord and only 1 of it.On the contrary, I believe Discord should be banned from everyone -- especially Stephen Hawking. Discohole is quite the bitch against any mono or duo.
Post by: xyan on August 31, 2013, 04:21:01 am
-- MEETING OF THE SCIENTISTS --
The players must choose to be one of these scientists before the tournament starts:
- James Maxwell: must use 6 copies of Maxwell's Demon
- Erwin Schrödinger: must use 6 copies of Schrödinger's Cat
- Albertus Magnus: must use 6 copies of Arsenic
- Edward Lorenz: must use 6 copies of Butterfly Effect
- Isaac Newton: must use 6 copies of Momentum
- Paul Steinhardt: must use 6 copies of Quintessence
- Stephen Hawking: must use 6 copies of Black Hole
The players cannot change identity after the first match.
They must not reveal themselves to other players until they battle.
The main cards of other scientists cannot be used.
Shards are not allowed.
Only Stephen Hawking can use Discord and only 1 of it.
i like this idea, but what about mitosis, parallel universe, unstable gas, and perhaps others? they could have respective scientists.
Post by: Rutarete on August 31, 2013, 05:28:27 am
Don't worry about that; just leave it up to the TOs-- MEETING OF THE SCIENTISTS --
The players must choose to be one of these scientists before the tournament starts:
- James Maxwell: must use 6 copies of Maxwell's Demon
- Erwin Schrödinger: must use 6 copies of Schrödinger's Cat
- Albertus Magnus: must use 6 copies of Arsenic
- Edward Lorenz: must use 6 copies of Butterfly Effect
- Isaac Newton: must use 6 copies of Momentum
- Paul Steinhardt: must use 6 copies of Quintessence
- Stephen Hawking: must use 6 copies of Black Hole
The players cannot change identity after the first match.
They must not reveal themselves to other players until they battle.
The main cards of other scientists cannot be used.
Shards are not allowed.
Only Stephen Hawking can use Discord and only 1 of it.
i like this idea, but what about mitosis, parallel universe, unstable gas, and perhaps others? they could have respective scientists.
Post by: eljoemo on August 31, 2013, 07:08:20 am
Useless: 1/3 of your deck must be cards you can't generate quantum for (nova, immolation and quantum pillars banned)
Underdogs: Only 0 attack creatures allowed
Buffer: Only creatures allowed are spark and phase salvager (0 health)
Every Little Helps: Only creatures allowed are photon and chimera (SoPa and Skyblitz banned)
Neutral: Only free cards and :rainbow cost cards allowed
Post by: Submachine on September 09, 2013, 03:48:01 pm
Until that here is an idea that popped out of my head:
== Dozen equal Twelve == unupgraded
Shards and upgraded cards are not allowed.
All your creatures in your deck must have a total attack power of 12.
Weapons, shields, nymphs, area effect spells, mass healing cards and the following are banned.
List of banned cards:
== Dozen equal Twelve == unupgraded
Shards and upgraded cards are not allowed.
All your creatures in your deck must have a total attack power of 12.
Weapons, shields, nymphs, area effect spells, mass healing cards and the following are banned.
List of banned cards:
Post by: serprex on September 09, 2013, 04:00:51 pm
Why ban Nymphs? Unless you view them as a form of mass CC. Perhaps ban Blue Nymph, especially since no mirror shields
Why ban Fractal but not Mitosis?
I understand banning bolts, should be mentioned
Why ban Graboid but not Fate Egg or creatures with ablaze or growth or Lycanthrope or Mutation or Rage Potion Mercenaries? Consider if graboids would really overwhelm the meta in the face of Blessed Dive, Aflatoxin against no shields or mass CC (though no Empathic), Purify+Heal+Adrena vamps, Purify+Heal+Adrena Pufferfish
Purify not banned. 6 Purifies heal 12 per turn. I suppose needed given the strength of Poison otherwise, unless you ban poison cards alongside Purify
Post by: Submachine on September 09, 2013, 05:00:33 pm
@SubmachineParticularly I wanted to ban Light and Air nymph, but then I thought that it would be easier and more fair if I ban all.
Why ban Nymphs? Unless you view them as a form of mass CC. Perhaps ban Blue Nymph, especially since no mirror shields
Why ban Fractal but not Mitosis?
I understand banning bolts, should be mentioned
Why ban Graboid but not Fate Egg or creatures with ablaze or growth or Lycanthrope or Mutation or Rage Potion Mercenaries? Consider if graboids would really overwhelm the meta in the face of Blessed Dive, Aflatoxin against no shields or mass CC (though no Empathic), Purify+Heal+Adrena vamps, Purify+Heal+Adrena Pufferfish
Purify not banned. 6 Purifies heal 12 per turn. I suppose needed given the strength of Poison otherwise, unless you ban poison cards alongside Purify
Fate egg and mutation are unreliable. I did let other OP strategies alive that share nearly the same speed to let the players choose what they can.
Other than that, I was thinking about banning growing creatures, lycanthrope, poison and aflatoxin at some point, but then I changed my mind. I don't remember why.
Post by: mattwpp on September 10, 2013, 08:17:02 pm
- Your deck has to have at least one copy of each non-rare creature that matches your mark. This is a reunion, after all, and we want everyone to attend!
- Your deck has to have at least 40 cards. We need plenty of space for this sure-to-be fun occasion!
- No permanents besides pillars and pendulums. We want everyone to be sociable, not standing around gawking at enchantments or coveting rare weapons.
- No nymphs. They're haughty, and will ruin the congenial atmosphere.
Remember to RSVP!
Post by: Submachine on September 18, 2013, 11:43:20 am
Post by: Kakerlake on September 24, 2013, 09:22:37 pm
Each player joining in the turney will add a card of choice to his/her name. This may not be changed anymore after the turney starts.
Each matchup recieves a random element. Both players may only use that element and any ammount of the chosen card next to his/her nickname.
example: Kakerlake_skelleton is matched up with Bunny_spark. The matchup element is fire.
I'll use Death Mark, 6 skelletons and 24 fire pillars. Bunny takes 6 sparks, 20 fire pillars and 4 aether pendulum.
Bunny's deck is illegal, as the aether pendulum aren't a fire card.
Post by: Submachine on September 24, 2013, 10:24:20 pm
It's always surprising to see what newcomers use their first post for. :o So basicallyElements Reunion! What have you been doing all these years?
- Your deck has to have at least one copy of each non-rare creature that matches your mark. This is a reunion, after all, and we want everyone to attend!
- Your deck has to have at least 40 cards. We need plenty of space for this sure-to-be fun occasion!
- No permanents besides pillars and pendulums. We want everyone to be sociable, not standing around gawking at enchantments or coveting rare weapons.
- No nymphs. They're haughty, and will ruin the congenial atmosphere.
Remember to RSVP!
- At least 1 copy of all creatures matching your mark, except nymphs and arctic squids
- 40-60 cards
- Only permanents allowed are pillars and pendulums
- Ban nymphs but not squids
Post by: timetock on October 06, 2013, 06:01:57 am
A player must have 6 copies of one alchemy card. A player cannot use another alchemy card (after all, this is a contest to show off your alchemy).
banned cards: shards, dim shield
Post by: dawn to dusk on October 06, 2013, 06:43:44 am
-decks must include a mixture of at least 8 of the 'magicians cards'
-shards and upped cards are banned
-EQ, QP, Nova and Immo are banned
magicians cards:
the tourney may be a hard one since most of the cards here are underused as it is...
Post by: dawn to dusk on December 07, 2013, 02:02:13 am
special rules:
1. shards are banned
2. before each match, players send a deck code to a TO. the TO will then give that code to the opponent of that person who will then go on trainer and face their deck using the 'import ai' feature.
3. you must use the deck you sent against the deck sent to you.
4. nova, immo and QP are banned
Post by: Zignaught on December 28, 2013, 08:02:17 pm
First idea is called a pox tournament. In MTG a pox deck is a deck that has no rares, however because of the limited amount of cards for Pox I am referring to cards that only cost 3 or less. as 2 or less or even 1 or less would make for a very long game.
And 2. A controlled Quanta tournament. Where 3 colors are picked you may only have cards that are the colors picked, and abilities must only contain the colors chosen. So say its :water :fire :light you can't use tsunami because it's activated ability costs :earth :earth
Post by: Shantu on January 13, 2014, 03:36:16 pm
You must include exactly one copy of every creature from every element you use. (nymphs excluded)
Evolution because of the increasing quanta costs of the creatures but I'm sure you can come up with a better name.
Post by: dawn to dusk on January 14, 2014, 09:10:14 pm
Post by: Odii Odsen on January 16, 2014, 08:50:40 am
Name Game tourney:
- Upgraded cards are allowed but not required.
- Shards are not allowed.
- Every participant may use cards with the beginning letter "E" "T" "G" (or any other combination the TO's want to set. My idea was E(lements) T(he) G(ame))
- Every participant may use TWO more individual letters. These two letters have to be sent to the TO before the tournament starts.
- There are two "letter groups". Group A and Group B. You have to pick the first letter from Group A and the second letter must be from Group B
- Group A: A-L Group B: M-Z (for example)
- The letters of each player will be public
Pros:
- Name games are always fun
- Individual Decks
- People who want to prepare and do some testing stuff can do it
- People who want to speedbuild have no a big disadvantage
- Unupgraded and upgraded cards can be combined and can be used in different ways (letters) (letter D -> Deflagration / letter E -> Explosion)
- Rules can be easily modified (Only one more letter instead of 2, maximum decksize is 45, etc.)
- Name generator tool by Vineroz exists: http://vineroz.site90.com/elements/namegame.php
Cons:
- Easy to build illegal decks -> Deck checking by TO's needed
- More work for TO's, since they have to check the submitted letters plus have to check carefully the winning decks after each game
Post by: Terran 3 on January 20, 2014, 09:23:20 am
Special Rules:
You must use a trio deck consisting of one type of Permanent from Element A, one type of Spell from Element B and one type of Creature from Element C.
Your deck cannot contain:
2+ types of cards from the same Element
2+ types of Permanent/Creature/Spell Cards
0 Permanents/Creature/Spell Cards
These rules do not apply to pillars and pendulums.
Banned Cards:
Dimensional Shield, Earthquake, Discord, Trident
Example decks are below.
Acceptable:
Invalid:
Two types of Permanents, two types of cards from the same elements.
No Creature cards.
Invalid:
Two types of Permanents, two types of cards from the same elements.
No Creature cards.
Post by: OdinVanguard on January 25, 2014, 06:58:33 am
I love this idea... though I think there are a lot of good options you missed-- MEETING OF THE SCIENTISTS --
The players must choose to be one of these scientists before the tournament starts:
- James Maxwell: must use 6 copies of Maxwell's Demon
- Erwin Schrödinger: must use 6 copies of Schrödinger's Cat
- Albertus Magnus: must use 6 copies of Arsenic
- Edward Lorenz: must use 6 copies of Butterfly Effect
- Isaac Newton: must use 6 copies of Momentum
- Paul Steinhardt: must use 6 copies of Quintessence
- Stephen Hawking: must use 6 copies of Black Hole
The players cannot change identity after the first match.
They must not reveal themselves to other players until they battle.
The main cards of other scientists cannot be used.
Shards are not allowed.
Only Stephen Hawking can use Discord and only 1 of it.
i like this idea, but what about mitosis, parallel universe, unstable gas, and perhaps others? they could have respective scientists.
Some others to include:
Benoit Mandelbrot for 6 copies of fractal
Daniel Fahrenheit for 6 copies of Fahrenheit
Benjamin Franklin for 6 copies of Lightning Bolt
Albert Einstein for 6 copies of photon
Raphael Dubois for 6 copies of luciferin
Walther Flemming for 6 copies of Mitosis
Nicolas Carnot for 6 copies of Steam Machine
Charles Richter for 6 copies of Earthquake
Carl Anderson (or Paul Dirac) for 6 copies of Antimatter
Post by: Submachine on January 25, 2014, 02:35:30 pm
6 copies of Earthquake would be OP, but otherwise you're right about there should be more. :) I tested these rules once in BL with Dm1321, and there wasn't really any OP strategy, but some tweaking in the numbers of copies might be good. If that ever happens, it's up to a TO to decide.I love this idea... though I think there are a lot of good options you missed-- MEETING OF THE SCIENTISTS --
The players must choose to be one of these scientists before the tournament starts:
- James Maxwell: must use 6 copies of Maxwell's Demon
- Erwin Schrödinger: must use 6 copies of Schrödinger's Cat
- Albertus Magnus: must use 6 copies of Arsenic
- Edward Lorenz: must use 6 copies of Butterfly Effect
- Isaac Newton: must use 6 copies of Momentum
- Paul Steinhardt: must use 6 copies of Quintessence
- Stephen Hawking: must use 6 copies of Black Hole
The players cannot change identity after the first match.
They must not reveal themselves to other players until they battle.
The main cards of other scientists cannot be used.
Shards are not allowed.
Only Stephen Hawking can use Discord and only 1 of it.
i like this idea, but what about mitosis, parallel universe, unstable gas, and perhaps others? they could have respective scientists.
Some others to include:
Benoit Mandelbrot for 6 copies of fractal
Daniel Fahrenheit for 6 copies of Fahrenheit
Benjamin Franklin for 6 copies of Lightning Bolt
Albert Einstein for 6 copies of photon
Raphael Dubois for 6 copies of luciferin
Walther Flemming for 6 copies of Mitosis
Nicolas Carnot for 6 copies of Steam Machine
Charles Richter for 6 copies of Earthquake
Carl Anderson (or Paul Dirac) for 6 copies of Antimatter
Post by: eljoemo on January 29, 2014, 02:33:15 am
Harry Potter
Philosopher's stone - must have X :earth cards
Chamber of secrets -
Prisoner of Azkaban -
Goblet of Fire - must have X :fire cards
Order of the phoenix -
Half blood prince -
deathly hallows - must have X :death cards
X can be any number which is deemed fit. Not sure on all of them.
James Bond
Thunderball - Must have 6 Ball Lightnings
Golden Eye - Must have 6 Precogs
Octopussy - Must have 6 squids (maybe not because rares)
Moonraker - Must have 6 eclipse
Skyfall - Must have 6 sky blitz
Die another day - Must have 6 miracles (maybe not because rares and OP)
I can't remember all 23 bond films right now but tis just an idea.
Post by: dawn to dusk on January 29, 2014, 03:15:04 am
I was thinking about having tourneys based off film series. That is, for each film in a series, you need to have X element cards. After every game, you move on to the next film in the series (or maybe not the last part). The 2 examples I thought of were Harry Potter and James Bondyellow is my input
Harry Potter
Philosopher's stone - must have X :earth cards
Chamber of secrets - must have X :entropy cards
Prisoner of Azkaban - must have X :darkness cards
Goblet of Fire - must have X :fire cards
Order of the phoenix - ???
Half blood prince - must have X :time cards
deathly hallows - must have X :death cards
X can be any number which is deemed fit. Not sure on all of them.
Faction Speedbuild
4 team names are put up. upon entering the tourney room, you must declare your allegiance to a faction (pm the host what team you want to be in). 15 mins before the tourney starts, the host will sort the 12 elements into groups of 3 (using RNG) and post in the thread which elements belong to which faction.
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on February 08, 2014, 10:33:13 pm
Players must choose a side, Rushers or OTKmakers. Obviously, Rushers will use rush decks and OTKmakers will use OTK decks.
SPECIAL RULES
- Shards are banned.
- Nova is banned.
- OTKmakers MUST use rainbows.
- Rushers MUST use monos or duos.
- Nymphs are banned.
- No deck must contain more than 40 cards.
- Holy Light is illegal if used to damage a :death/ :darkness creature.
- You may only use up to 2 copies of the following cards: Sky Blitz, GotP, Voodoo Doll, any shield.
- OTKmakers can use Dim shield.
EDIT: OTKmakers now can use Dim. Shield.
Post by: Zawadx on February 09, 2014, 10:19:02 am
Rusher vs. OTKmakers - unpgraded
Players must choose a side, Rushers or OTKmakers. Obviously, Rushers will use rush decks and OTKmakers will use OTK decks.
SPECIAL RULES
- Shards are banned.
- Nova is banned.
- OTKmakers MUST use rainbows.
- Rushers MUST use monos or duos.
- Nymphs are banned.
- No deck must contain more than 40 cards.
- Holy Light is illegal if used to damage a :death/ :darkness creature.
- You may only use up to 2 copies of the following cards: Sky Blitz, GotP, Voodoo Doll, any shield.
What's the reasoning behind the humongous ban list? And do OTKers have to make OTKs?
Anyways, the Rushers just have so much advantage, cause as an archetype Rushes trump over OTK.
Post by: dawn to dusk on February 22, 2014, 10:38:55 am
15 mins before tourney starts, a random tourney is chosen. People will then make decks based on that tourney's ruleset.
Post by: Submachine on February 22, 2014, 12:10:55 pm
- Shards and upgraded cards are banned
- Quantum Pillar, Earthquake, Trident, Discord, Devourer, Blackhole, Amber Nymph, Nightmare and Silence are banned too
That's all. Enjoy free play.
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on March 06, 2014, 03:11:17 am
See the name. What is the important card?
SPECIAL RULES
- Shards are banned.
- Upgraded cards are banned.
- All decks must use 6 copies of Parallel Universe.
- 3 different decks must be sent to tournament organizers before the tournament.
- No decks can be Mono-Aether.
- Mutation, Spirits, Nightmare and Mindgate are banned.
- Fallen Elf, Alchemy Cards, Nymphs and Miracle are banned.
- All 3 decks sent to tournament organizers must be used in the tourney.
:aether :aether :aether :aether :aether
:aether :aether :aether :aether
:aether :aether :aether :aether
:aether :aether :aether :aether :aether
:aether :aether :aether
:aether :aether :aether
:aether :aether :aether :aether :aether
Post by: Zawadx on March 22, 2014, 11:34:11 am
Liliputs and Brobdingnags (Inspired by Gullivar’s Travels):
- Players choose a side: Liliput or Brobdingnag.
- Liliputs must have cards with cost of 6 or less; their decks must have exactly 40 cards.
- Brobdingnags must have cards cost of 6 or more.
- Pillars, pendulums and Marks are allowed for both sides.
- Players lose when they’re down to 20 HP.
- All decks must have 40 cards exactly.
- All decks must contain minimum 10 and maximum 30 cards of a single element.
- All decks must contain at least 5 ‘Other’ cards.
- All rares are banned.
- Cards introduced between Patch 1.15 to 1.32 are banned.
- Like the beta version of EtG, you are limited to six copies of Pillars/Pendulums.
Post by: Bluie Gamer on April 22, 2014, 01:19:30 pm
Must have a minimum of 12 shields.
You can only have one creature card per deck, and you must fractal YOUR OPPONENTS CREATURE to gain creatures. You also must play your creature as soon as possible. You cannot kill a creature/creatures if the side of the field where the creature was will become empty. (Chimera, spark, and phase salvager is banned)
Post by: dark ripper on April 22, 2014, 02:20:59 pm
1. Shards are not allowed (upped or unupped tourney)
2. Maximum 4 different kinds of cards are allowed in the deck, excluding pillar/pends.
3. Parallel Universe, Mitosis, Mutation, Discord, Earthquake, Black Hole, Amber Nymph, Nymph Queen and Blue Nymph are not allowed.
FAQ:
- Maximum 4 kinds of cards? Meaning I can use 4 different spells, 4 different permanents and 4 different creatures?
- Nope, 4 different kinds of cards. For example you can use 2 different kinds creatures, 1 kind of permanent and 1 kind of spell.
- Is there a restriction to the number of copies?
- Not at all, 6 is the maximum.
- So if I use 10 pillars 6 creatures A , 6 creatures B, 6 Permanents C and 6 permanents D, am I ok?
- Yep.
- But maximum 4 is not
- Deal with it.
Post by: OdinVanguard on June 19, 2014, 09:02:58 pm
-Decks must have exactly 30 cards.
-No more than 2 of each non-rare card per deck
-No more than 1 of each rare card per deck (this would include shards if allowed)
-You may only use spells and permanents that come from the same element as your mark (or type Other)
-Pillars and pendulums are exempt from the above.
Post by: yee on July 03, 2014, 09:47:21 am
Everybody can only use this deck (or something similar):
If you don't have or don't want SoS you can change them into Quantum Pillar/Mutation/Skeleton, but you can only change SoS, everything else must stay in place.
Note: The Forced Deck may be changed to some other deck, that has lots of different ways to play.
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on July 19, 2014, 03:43:16 pm
(This can be played as either upped or unupped tournament.)
Shards and are not allowed.
All :life creatures are banned.
Reverse Time, Eternity, Mutation, Fallen Elf, Procrastination, Fire Shield, Thorn Carapace, UG, NT, Nymph Queen, Devourer, Ray of Light (but NOT Photon), Lobotomizer, Dry Spell, Lightning Storm, Rain of Fire, Pandemonium are banned.
Each deck must has at least 4 copies of Mitosis in it (and they must be PLAYBLE by the deck's own quanta sources).
No more than 45 cards per deck.
Post by: theelkspeaks on July 27, 2014, 01:51:06 pm
Duel of the Economists
(This can be played as either upped or unupped tournament.)
Shards are not banned by default, but most shards are banned by later rules.
Players must choose one of two paths to play with any given deck. Players may switch paths between games.
Path 1: No Free Lunch
-All (non pillar/pend) cards with cost 3 or less are banned.
-All cards with lobotomizable but automatic abilities are banned (Psion, Phoenix, Scorpions, Pufferfish (only if upped tournament), Minor Vampire/Vampire)
Path 2: Tragedy of the Commons
-Players are limited to 6 or fewer quanta sources in their deck. The deck's mark does not count towards this limit.
-All rares and ultra rares are banned.
Post by: DoubleCapitals on July 27, 2014, 02:13:22 pm
(Can be played upped or unupped)
For every matchup with a player, choose 2 elements to use. (Different elements may be played against different opponents, but the same 2 has to be played between duels of the same opponent)
Out of the 2 or 3 possible duels, each deck used must comprise of different cards in these 2 elements (ie. No card may be used more than once in each duel).
Pillars and pendulums however may be used more than once during a matchup with no penalty.
During the 3rd duel (if applicable), players may include off-element cards or Relics as a 'dead' card, and with every 2 dead cards in the deck, he may reuse any number of copies of a single card that has been used in any of the first 2 duels.
This will provide for some interesting strategy. Players will have to decide whether to risk playing more types of cards in the hopes of a 2-0, or play a more restrictive deck if they are anticipating a loss.
Bonewall, Nightmare, Discord and Dimensional Shield are banned.
Shard are banned.
Post by: iDaire on July 31, 2014, 12:15:30 am
Deathmatch
A quick skirmish to decide who the winner is. Overwhelmingly quick.
Players will build decks and heed to the banned cards list and rule set.
Afterwards, players will PM the leader of the competition who he wishes to face in combat. If no player is chosen by a player, the player that requested that player will duel him. If no one requested him, he will be paired randomly.
After opponents are paired up, the matchups will be displayed. Make your bets. Heh.
2 of 3 duels. Whoever loses loses a :entropy. Lose 3 :entropy and you are eliminated. In the event of an AFK player, the more active player is given the win and the AFK player loses 2 :entropy. Whoever wins is the victor and gains an extra :entropy, shall the event run again.The cycle shall be repeated until made old. Rules can be changed like tourney and war. Let those without the will to go on die in their tracks!
Players will build decks and heed to the banned cards list and rule set.
Afterwards, players will PM the leader of the competition who he wishes to face in combat. If no player is chosen by a player, the player that requested that player will duel him. If no one requested him, he will be paired randomly.
After opponents are paired up, the matchups will be displayed. Make your bets. Heh.
2 of 3 duels. Whoever loses loses a :entropy. Lose 3 :entropy and you are eliminated. In the event of an AFK player, the more active player is given the win and the AFK player loses 2 :entropy. Whoever wins is the victor and gains an extra :entropy, shall the event run again.The cycle shall be repeated until made old. Rules can be changed like tourney and war. Let those without the will to go on die in their tracks!
TO note: fixed messy BBCode
Post by: dawn to dusk on July 31, 2014, 08:48:08 am
Matches are Bo5
You cannot change your deck throughout these matches.
decks must be <45 cards
Post by: jarozaoz on August 03, 2014, 08:57:30 pm
From beginning of tourney is created 4 kingdoms with 3 random elements on them.
Example:
The A Kingdom: :death :gravity :entropy
The B Kingdom: :earth :life :fire
The C Kingdom: :water :light :air
The D Kingdom: :time :darkness :aether
The point of all fun is this, because nobody knows, where each element gone. Only organizators knows, which elements are hidden under which kingdoms.
Somewhere in forums will be hidden solution to a mystery of hidden elements.
Example:
Name of The B Kingdom: Great Kingdom of mighty Warden ( :earth), calm Spirit ( :life) and wise Phoenix ( :fire)
Of course, names will be gently harder to link with elements. Ideas for hideouts for each elements:
- Old Card Idea, representing element with its name (or part of name) in Kingdom name.
- Names of decks with mark representing element.
- some other ideas i would tell only for organisators of tourney.
Players must clarify, which kingdom are chosing 15 minutes before tourney starts.
After all players say their kingdoms, organizators of event must tell, which element was been in target kingdom.
Additionally, in each kingdom will be 2 random rules.
Example: The A Kingdom ( :entropy :death :gravity) - deck must have 50-59 cards , can't cast creatures with less than 4 cost. (its only an example)
Other rules, which are required for each player:
- No more than 2 Nymphs.
- No Shards.
Post by: Torriku on August 12, 2014, 04:39:22 pm
The Alchemists Codex
- All Decks must contain at-least 6 Alchemy or 3 Alchemist cards.
- Quantum Pillar is banned.
- The Alchemy/Alchemists must be of at least 2 different elements.
Alchemists are the Nymphs, and Alchemy is the cards that are the Alchemists abilities.
Example: A deck could contain 4 Alchemy cards, and 1 Alchemist card, because Alchemists count for 2 Alchemy.
Post by: kirbystar on August 13, 2014, 06:48:38 pm
I don't know if shard of Sacrifice would count.
Post by: kirbylover314 on September 27, 2014, 02:56:03 am
So if I got fire and life, this is a legal deck:
This is not:
This is also illegal (or not. This is the TO's choice):
Post by: montrossen on May 13, 2015, 06:38:32 am
~Dungeons and Dragons~
Rules:
-Choose one class and build your deck according to its rules
-You may change your deck and class between games
-Shards and upgraded cards are banned (unless the class you choose allows you to use shards)
-You may only use cards from elements your class allows
-Your mark may be any element regardless of your class
-Maximum deck size is 40
Classes:
Warrior:
Elements: :death :gravity :fire :air
Required cards(8 ):
Banned cards:
Wizard:
Elements: :death :fire :water :time :aether
Required cards (6):
Banned cards:
Wizards may use shards
Cleric:
Elements: :fire :water :light :aether
Required cards (4):
Rouge:
Elements: :entropy :gravity :earth :life :air :darkness
Required cards (3)
Rouges may use shards
Ranger:
Elements: :entropy :earth :life :darkness
Required cards (8 ):
Banned cards: None
FAQ:
Q:What are required cards?
A:They are a list/s of cards that you must have a certain number or more of in total. For example, a warrior deck with 6 arsenics and 2 bone walls is legal, but only 4 fahrenheits in that deck would be illegal. The number of required cards needed is the number in brackets after 'required cards'.
Q:How do classes with more than one 'required cards' list work?
A:You must use the required amount of cards from both lists. So if the required card number is 3, you should have 3 from one list and 3 from another.
P.S. Feedback is appreciated!
Post by: dawn to dusk on May 14, 2015, 06:05:50 am
Post by: ddevans96 on May 14, 2015, 06:30:46 am
why would i ever use anything other than rogue? 6 elements, with shards, and only 3 banned cards
You are required to use some generally crappy cards, if I understand correctly.
Post by: theelkspeaks on May 14, 2015, 06:36:00 am
Rules
- Your deck must generate and use quanta of EXACTLY two elements.
- One of these elements must be generated ONLY by the mark of the deck.
- All cards including shards are permitted except Discord, which is banned because it generates quanta of random elements, and any card (such as Nova or Immolation) which generates quanta of more than one element.
- Upgraded cards are banned.
Post by: montrossen on May 17, 2015, 10:17:44 am
Yes. You have to use three cards from each listwhy would i ever use anything other than rogue? 6 elements, with shards, and only 3 banned cards
You are required to use some generally crappy cards, if I understand correctly.
Post by: AD TienzuStorm on May 17, 2015, 03:31:16 pm
Just Splashing Around!
Rules
- Your deck must generate and use quanta of EXACTLY two elements.
- One of these elements must be generated ONLY by the mark of the deck.
- All cards including shards are permitted except Discord, which is banned because it generates quanta of random elements, and any card (such as Nova or Immolation) which generates quanta of more than one element.
- Upgraded cards are banned.
What if the deck was like this?
Technically, it's not only generated by the mark, but it doesn't seem as if it should be illegal.
Also, for "only use two kinds of quanta", would these decks count?
Post by: Zyardran on August 15, 2015, 03:14:12 pm
- Upgraded cards and shards are not allowed.
- A TO must select one card in the game for each round. Players have to base their decks around that card.
- On top of that, a TO also must choose one card to ban for each round.
- no limit to deck size
- Players compete in a Bo3 match
- each deck must have at least 4 of the chosen card in it
card chosen: Discord
Card banned: Antimatter
Card banned: Antimatter
Post by: Submachine on September 27, 2015, 01:39:32 pm
Rules: 6 random cards in 6 random elements are revealed 15 minutes before the game starts. Decks can only use those 36 cards (Pi/Pe/M are allowed of any element and amount as usual).
Post by: Zawadx on September 27, 2015, 02:23:21 pm
We didn't have vanilla speedbuilding in a long time. Can we have one again? :)
Rules: 6 random cards in 6 random elements are revealed 15 minutes before the game starts. Decks can only use those 36 cards (Pi/Pe/M are allowed of any element and amount as usual).
7 random cards in 7 random elements is better and prevents the likelihood of there being one OP deck.
Post by: Submachine on September 27, 2015, 02:27:46 pm
7 random cards in 7 random elements is better and prevents the likelihood of there being one OP deck.I'm fine with improvement. It's always been 6x6, that's why I suggested it.
Post by: Aves on September 29, 2015, 07:41:01 pm
Rules:
- No shards or nymphs.
- Pick a type of card before each match is played(creature, permanent, spell). Your opponent may not use that category of cards for the match.
- You may not pick the same type more than once per round.
- Pillars are available for use when permanents are banned IF of the two remaining types, one is not used in your deck.
Post by: 1011686 on November 30, 2015, 06:57:16 am
Before each round, a random t card is chosen.
No card in the deck may be the same element, have the same quanta cost, have the same ability cost element or the same ability.
For e.g., if fallen elf were chosen, no card entropy or life cards would be allowed, along with all cards costing 4 quanta, and all cards with a mutate ability.
Post by: kirbylover314 on December 01, 2015, 01:36:55 am
Post by: Zawadx on December 21, 2015, 04:54:45 pm
Post by: Submachine on December 21, 2015, 08:26:03 pm
A tourney ruleset centered around cards divided based on card art. I don't think there are many remarkable features on the main art, though a few can be used. You can also use backgrounds, which usually have one color shared for many different cards.One tourney based on this idea was 'The Shoe Cobbler's Dilemma', where the decks depended on the amount of legs the creatures had in their art. (credits for that tournament goes to mathman101) I think it was a success, but I recall lot of discussion before about the amount of legs on some arts (Bone Dragon, Shrieker, etc). Since some of the arts are pretty ambiguous, the TOs will need to do the categorizing carefully.
If the TOs agree to take on such a task, I encourage them too to create a similar tourney in the future. ;)
Post by: Basman-1453 on January 03, 2016, 12:23:49 pm
- Before Tournament begins, choose whether you will ally yourself to the
House of York or House of LancasterHouse of Primes or House of Composites. - House of Primes may not use cards with composite casting cost. House of Composites may not use cards with prime casting cost.
- 0-cost cards and 1-cost cards are available to both Houses.
- You may change your decks between games. However, you can never change your allegiance for the duration of the Tournament, so be sure to have all your decks faithful to one House.
[OK, this kind of ... partisan Tourneys have been recently done (as anyone aware of Odd or Even (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pvp-tournaments/weekly-tournament-december-5th-odd-or-even-unupgraded/) would've known), but let's divide the armory differently.]
Post by: DarkSandman on February 23, 2016, 11:32:41 am
must contain :darkness / :aether , any cards allowed, no more than 60 in a deck, but all decks must contain 6 PUs, and 6 Steals.
Post by: tereret on April 13, 2016, 06:45:48 am
No pillars pendulums or marks
Post by: AD TienzuStorm on April 13, 2016, 03:41:51 pm
Example: Lycanthrope and Steam Machine are allowed. Vampire and Arctic Squid are not.
Rainbow cards (QP, Nova, etc.) not allowed, Devourer not allowed.
Post by: rob77dp on May 05, 2016, 02:35:18 am
It's FOOTY dammit!
Weekly Tournament - <Month> <day> - Fédération Internationale de Elements Association (FIEA) Football Challenge - [Unupgraded//Upgraded]
Tournament Organizers: TO1, TO2, or TO3
| (http://i.imgur.com/RCXGMgc.jpg) | When? To find out your local time, check this link: <time link>
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| (http://i.imgur.com/I88BdSC.jpg) | Where? Please enter the Tournament room (http://elementscommunity.org/chat/blab.php) at least 15 minutes before the tournament starts. Click "Rooms" in the top left to find it. |
| (http://i.imgur.com/eQ110uI.jpg) | Rules Please read the PvP Tournament rules (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,6997.0.html) carefully before joining the tournament. Remember to also read the Special Rules listed below! |
| (http://i.imgur.com/LGqvNMY.jpg) | Prizes
In case of 18 or more players, tournament prizes will be increased. |
| (http://i.imgur.com/LH9pjw4.jpg) | Points for the World Championship
|
NOTE: You need just one presentable forum post to be allowed to join tournaments; you can post it here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/introduce-yourself/). If this will be your first tournament, a Tournament Organizer will test your knowledge about the rules. So please be present in tournament room 30 minutes before the tournament starts.
Thanks to rob77dp for this tournament idea (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pvp-tournaments/post-your-tournament-ideas-here/msg1232227/#msg1232227)!
Special Rules
- Always read the second post! It contains equally important information most of the time.
- Upgraded cards are [banned//allowed].
- All cards in your deck must be a combination of elements relating to the colors of the flag from one of the World Cup finalists in the previous [four] World Cup competitions:
- Brazil (Green, Yellow, Dark Blue):
- :life :time :water
- Germany (Black, Red, Gold):
- :darkness :fire :time
- Italy (Green, White, Red):
- :life :light :fire
- France (Blue, White, Red):
- :water :light :fire
- Spain (Red, Yellow):
- :time :fire
- Netherlands (Red, White, Blue):
- :fire :light :water
- Argentina (Sky Blue, Yellow, Brown):
- :air :time :earth
- <additional tweaking and TO balancing rules or limitations go here>
Tournament Organizers Note
If you think there is an overpowered card that ought to be banned, or you have some concerns about the tournament metagame, mechanics or other stuff, do NOT post it publicly in the comments or anywhere else on the Forums. Instead, send a private message to Tournament Organizers (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pm/?sa=send;u=8752,4939,629), who will privately discuss about it. Thanks for your cooperation.
<Challonge image/link/bracket goes in this space...>
1st - TBD
2nd - TBD
3rd - TBD
4th - TBD
1st - TBD
2nd - TBD
3rd - TBD
4th - TBD
Post by: Zawadx on May 12, 2016, 07:26:43 am
Weekly Tournament - Somedayth - A Game of Thrones - Upgraded
Special Rules
- Upgraded cards are allowed, but not required.
- There are six houses, as described below. Each house has two allowed elements and one restriction.
- Each deck must be built as a combination of exactly two house's rules. You may only use the elements allowed by your two houses, and must abide by the restriction of both houses in the deck.
- You may not use deck which follows a house combination which you have used before in the tournament.
House Lannister Hear me roar!
Allowed Elements: :time :aether
Restriction: At least 40% of your deck (Rounded up) must be comprised of cards which have a sell price of over 50 (in their unupgraded form) in the bazaar.
House Stark Winter is coming.
Allowed Elements: :light :darkness
Restriction: You must use 2 or more elements in your deck. Each element used must have an equal amount of cards.
House Baratheon Ours is the fury!
Allowed Elements: :gravity :air
Restriction: At least 6 cards in your deck must be some combination of Hammer, Momentum and Sky Blitz
House Greyjoy We do not sow.
Allowed Elements: :death :water
Restriction: For each copy of a shard you use, you must use 4 unupgraded cards.
House Tyrell Growing strong
Allowed Elements: :life :earth
Restriction: At most 20% (rounded up) of your deck can be card whish deal damage. This includes all creatures with at least 1 attack, all weapons, unstable gas and spells which deal damage.
House Targaeryen Fire and Blood
Allowed Elements: :fire :entropy
Restriction: For each copy of Discord, Fire Bolt or Phoenix in your deck, you must include a copy of Relic
Post by: Basman-1453 on May 17, 2016, 05:32:58 am
You could say it's a miniature version of the incident those three TrOs caused, so to speak.
Special rules:
- Before Tournament begins, a player must choose a Core Element (henceforth 'Core'). Players currently attending the Tenth Trial may not Core the Element (s)he is Trialling for.
- Decks must be at least 40% Core rounded up (including pillars/pends).
- Your deck may NOT contain more cards of any off-Core than it does of your Core.
- The four Humors relate to three Elements each. A deck is considered to use a Humor if it uses, aside of the player's Core, at least one element from the Humor's pool. A mono of the player's Core will count as the Core's Humor. For example~
- A Fire/Light stall counts as a Choleric deck for Light Cores, but it counts as a Phlegmatic deck for Fire Cores.
- A Rustler FFQ/Hope counts as Sanguine and Phlegmatic for Life Cores, but it counts as a Melancholic and Phlegmatic for Air Cores. I don't think a Light Core can construct one ^^;
- An Antimatter domin mono (which can only be deployed by Entropy Cores) counts as a Sanguine deck.
- After every game, you must tell your opponent what Humors you have used in the previous game if they ask, but you should not share decklist or specific cards.
- You may only use each Humor once within a match (Bo3). Players running out of Humor in the middle of a match is restricted to mono decks of their Core for the reminder of the match, with cards costing 4 or more quanta forbidden.
(The four Humors:
Sanguine: Air, Entropy, Time
Choleric: Fire, Gravity, Death
Melancholic: Earth, Life, Darkness
Phlegmatic: Water, Light, Aether
Post by: Vineroz on May 19, 2016, 01:44:25 am
Feeding the Multitude
Special Rules
- Upgraded cards are banned.
- For any card in your deck, the maximum number of copies of that card allowed is 12 divided by its cost.
- Quantum Pillars are banned.
| Card's cost | Maximum number of copies allowed |
| 0-2 | 6 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 3 |
| 5-6 | 2 |
| 7-12 | 1 |
| 13-15 | 0 |
Post by: LongDono on May 21, 2016, 11:16:16 am
Post by: RootRanger on June 02, 2016, 04:01:04 pm
Similar to how speedbuilding and name game can be done multiple times, I think the same can be said for this type of format.
Post by: Zyardran on June 30, 2016, 04:10:00 pm
- Upgraded cards banned.
- Shards banned.
- Each player must choose between magic elements ( :entropy, :time, :gravity, :darkness, :aether, :death) or nature elements ( :earth, :life, :fire, :water, :light, :air), and pick a main element.
- Each opponent you win against, you get their element for the rest of the game. (i.e. if you start with time, and you beat a darkness opponent, you get time and darkness next round)
- You're only allowed to use the elements available to you or that you've picked.
- Participants who make it into round 2 of the tournament must use at least 50% of their chosen starting elements in their decks. (i.e. if you chose life, and won aether, 50% of your deck must be life if you were to use a duo.)
Post by: Mr Muffin on July 04, 2016, 12:57:08 am
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on July 23, 2016, 08:16:28 pm
- Upgraded cards are banned.
- Shards are banned.
- Nymphs are banned.
- You must roll a 1d12 when told: This will be your main element for the rest of the tournament(Bazaar order).
- You may only use up to 10 cards, including pillars and pendulums, for any element(s) outside your main element.
- You may not have more than three elements in your deck.
Banlist?
Post by: Basman-1453 on September 03, 2016, 03:05:29 pm
Elemental Revolution
Special Rules
- Upgraded cards are banned.
- The following Shards are banned: Sacrifice, Focus, Integrity, Patience, Freedom.
- The following cards are banned: Quantum Pillars, Novae, Blue Nymphs.
- No more than one of the following are allowed in the same deck: Discords, Earthquakes, Black Holes/Amber Nymphs.
- Before Tournament starts, choose whether you're going to be a Loyalist or a Patriot. You cannot change your allegiance once Tournament starts.
- Loyalists may not use cards which skill costs a different quanta from their casting cost (i.e. Anubises, Sundials).
- Patriots may not use cards which skill costs the same quanta from their casting cost (i.e. Deja Vus, Golden Hourglasses).
- Cards which don't have an active skill (i.e. Ghosts of the Past, Devonian Dragons, spells {even skill-overwriting spells!}) or don't have their active skill cost any quanta (i.e. Dune Scorpions, M/P/P, shields, Arsenics, Empathic Bonds) can be used by both factions.
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on September 23, 2016, 01:41:35 am
Special Rules
- Can be upgraded.
- All shards but Shard of Serendipity are banned.
- Decks must use cards which cost is double the next lowest cost card, or is the lowest cost card(i.e. X*2= Y*2= Z).
- 1-cost cards are banned.
- 0-cost cards may be used freely.
- Nova is banned for decks with 2-cost cards.
- You cannot use the same card cost combination in the same match. For example, if you use a 2-4-8 cost deck, you cannot use it again in the same match.
- Card bans as needed.
Categorized Card List:
2-4-8
3-6-12
5-10
7-14
3-6-12
5-10
7-14
Post by: Gorghandi on November 07, 2016, 11:28:49 pm
1. the deck size is 60
2. 1 nymph:-the deck general, must match deck mark.
3. cards: max at 4, only one of which can be upd. (3 soldiers, 1 sergeant)/squad
4. un upd quantum: have no restriction.
4. upd quantum: max at 4.
5. miracle: is restricted to 1.
6. shards: 2un upd, 1upd max
is just a set up i think would be fun. if you don't like it its fine, if its similar to another, sorry there is a mass of ideas here, and couldn't read them all. I'm bad at names, so my wordplay is best i could come up with for this.
Post by: vagman13 on November 08, 2016, 01:49:29 pm
In a sense you try to inflict as much damage to yourself (there are many ways to do that) as well as healing your opponent or preventing him from damaging himself. Along with controlling the board as usual. I can see a lot of great strategies and trolling during the games.
I dont want to spoil deck ideas or strategies or banned cards in public though.If TOs think that a tournament like this would interest players,I'd gladly help with working out the details/testing for possible deck balances etc.
Post by: Zyardran on November 11, 2016, 12:54:23 am
- Shards and upgraded cards banned.
- Players must use "Cotton Candy" elements ( :entropy, :fire, :life, :time, :aether) in deckbuilding.
- Discord, Dim shield, Firebolt banned.
Yay
Post by: Gorghandi on November 16, 2016, 01:18:42 am
*deck building; 6 of one card, 5 of another, then 4,3,2,1.
*this leaves 9 quantum cards for a full 30 card deck.
*this works well for upd, decks.
using these rules, i would only ban, water nymph, miracle, gravity shard, and earthquake.
this could be added as a speed build rule, or a team element tourney. i prefer always that decks are set and used during whole tourney.
Post by: TheonlyrealBeef on November 18, 2016, 01:18:36 pm
- The easiest tournament for everyone is a simple ban list based on some theme. Don't fret the details, overpowered cards like Discord or Dimensional Shield (obvious examples, depends on the specific cards that remain allowed) will be banned in addition to it by TOs.
- Since your tournament idea needs to be supported by TOs, giving them a ton of extra work to do while hosting is probably not a good idea.
- Stalling is bad.
- Randomization of cards/elements by TOs after the tournament starts is something I dislike.
- All decks should be prepare-able in advance.
This is just my personal list though (with some redundancy, I admit). You might be able to
Post by: RapidStar_ on November 26, 2016, 05:56:33 am
The Pairs:
When you craete a new account or go onto trainer, the pairs are as follows:
:earth :air
:fire :water
:light :darkness
:entropy :gravity
:time :aether
:life :death
Rules:
1. Your deck can only consist of cards from *ONE* pair
2. Your deck can be 60% one element max, so minimum is 12 cards for one element if your deck is 30 cards.
3. Your are allowed any mark.
4. Nymphs are Banned, Shards are allowed with the exception of being banned
5. The maximum amount of cards for a deck is 40 cards.
Here are a list of some banned cards: (Idk how to do the pictures)
Discord
Black Hole
Dimensional Shield
Shard of Focus
Nova
Shard of Sacrifice
Earthquake
Trident
Shard of Patience
Wings
Sundial
(All I can think of at this moment)
Post by: kirbylover314 on December 03, 2016, 04:42:16 am
"Quantum Pillar" has 13 letters in it. The total letter count of this deck is 13.
"Quantum Pillar" has 13 letters in it. "Dagger" has 6 letters in it. The total letter count of this deck is 19.
Post by: Submachine on December 10, 2016, 01:30:21 pm
Special Rules:
For this, the Tournament Organizers build 12 different decks, where there is no strongest deck and every deck is definitely beaten by at least 3 other from the list.
This would require 0 deckbuilding effort from participants.
If the Organizers balance the decks right, it might lead to some fun games.
(Sidenote: Idk, I'm just lazy to build decks and wanted to suggest something to counter that :sillyspin:)
Post by: kaempfer13 on December 14, 2016, 10:21:24 pm
The idea is to combine the Oracles predictions skills with the drawback of having to put 5 of a random card into your deck, though that might take a bit too long to execute, so I have another less fun variant ready, too. I suppose it's too :time-consuming to actually use, but was fond enough of the idea to post it anyways. It is probably better suited as an independent PvP-Event held over several days.
Slow variant:
The 2 players that face each other roll a dice to determine who the Oracle is for this match (or the TO does it for them). The Oracle must then publicly generate a random card (using /card e) (should we allow a single optional reroll?). Eventually it must include 5 of that card in its deck. However its the other player's turn to build a deck first. (S)he knows 5 cards of his/her opponents deck and can build to counter that. Within 15 minutes the non-Oracleplayer has to show all of his/her deck to the Oracle. This exact deck must be used for the entirety of the match! Now the Oracle is given 15 minutes to build their own deck. The two decks are then used against each other in a Bo3. Depending on how powerful these roles turn out to be, the weaker role will be offered to use more upgrades than the other. I think it possible the Oracle is so powerful that it ought to fight a fully upped deck with no upgrades.
Faster variants:
Options:
1. Both players speedbuilt including 5 of a randomly rolled card in their decks (I think the only way to avoid horrible imbalance here is to give the same card to both players)
2. 1 player publicly rolls a card. They must include 5 copies of it, but therefore may fully upgrade their deck, while their opponent may not use any upgrades.
Bans: I think all cards that may completely shutdown a strategy by themselves should be banned for this tournament, including the following:
Possible even AoE might be op, but I dont want to ban too much.
Post by: kaempfer13 on December 14, 2016, 11:15:54 pm
In this tournament you are allowed to choose from deck skeletons containing some cards that you must run, otherwise you can fill in any cards that are not banned to complete the deck.
I aim to include synergies that are normally too weak to be playable, but may be fun to use in an environment where they actually can win.
Scarabs fly slowly at first
Hover over cards for details, click for permalink
Deck import code : [Select]
In order to make sure all the cards are used I'd like to enforce the rule that QI may not exceed 7 for any element.
The quantum index relates the amount of quanta needed to play all cards in your deck to your quantaproduction. The formula is: (Sum of quantacost and abilitycost of all cards in deck - Sum of instant quanta production in deck (upped pillars, Nova, Immolation))/(Amount of pillars of that element (pends count half for each element, qts a quarter for all elements))
Until recently you could check it here http://elements.alanbeam.net/qi.php, unfortunately the site was recently deleted. If there's interest I could make a Gdoc in the future sometime.Not sure how to include soul catcher in this.
Decks might be pretty unbalanced right now, skeletonspecific upgrades and adjusting the amount of mandatory cards to be included should balance them better.
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on December 30, 2016, 03:19:36 am
Special Rules
- Shards are banned.
- Any creature with an active ability is banned.
- Any permanent with an active ability is banned.
- Any spell which is able to deal damage directly to its target is banned.
- AoE spells are allowed at a maximum of two copies.
- Pillars, Pendulums, and Mark Cards may be used freely.
- Discord, Pandemonium, Nymph's Tears, Miracle, Black Hole, Dimensional Shield, Earthquake, Fire Shield, and Thorn Carapace are banned.
- Balancing as needed.
Post by: Basman-1453 on February 14, 2017, 04:19:23 pm
This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.
-- Revelation 13:18 (NIV) (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13&version=NIV#en-NIV-30927)
-- Revelation 13:18 (NIV) (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13&version=NIV#en-NIV-30927)
Mark of the Beast
Special Rules
- The deck must contain six copies of a card that costs six quanta ('six of sixes'). A list of cards will be supplied below.
- The deck must also contain exactly six unique cards (Pillars, Pendulums, and 'six of sixes' included).
- The following cards are (tentatively) banned in both unupgraded and upgraded forms:
- Novae
- Discords
- Shards of Sacrifice
- Black Holes
- Shards of Integrity
- Shards of Patience
- Fog Shields
- Shards of Freedom
- Dusk Shields
- The following cards are (tentatively) not banned, but they do not contribute to the 'six of sixes' clause:
- Unupgraded Shards of Focus
- Fire Shields
- Dimensional Shields
- Aflatoxins
- Ice Shields
- Firefly Queens
- Unstable Gases
- Procrastinations
- Ghosts of the Past
- Eternities
- Immortals
Click for a graphic list! (http://dek.im/d/52s5i95oj5om5rj5ro5ru61s8pi)
- Improved Antimatters
- Chimerae
- Diamond Shields
- Nymph's Tears
- Archangels
- Elite Queens
- Twin Universes
Click for a graphic list! (http://dek.im/d/6u774g77c7h07ju7n380b8pi)
Click for a graphic list that includes both unupgraded and upgraded cards! (http://dek.im/d/52s5i95oj5om5rj5ro5ru61s6u774g77c7h07ju7n380b8pi)
Post by: kaempfer13 on March 19, 2017, 02:55:22 am
The hosting TO may not participate (this makes it even more difficult to get enough players, but I really think there needs to be someone to keep the legality of decks in check).
At the start of the tournament each player sends a deck and a list of 10 cards (which we will call sideboard list) to the hosting TO. Each game has to be played with a variation of that deck. Only changes allowed to the original decklist are to add cards from the sideboardlist or replace cards in the deck with cards from the sideboard list. If you want to add multiple copies of a specific card you need to have that many copies of the card in your sideboardlist. After each match the winner has to send the hosting TO all the deckvariations he/she used.
Possible extra rules:
- Preset deck (the players all have to use the same base deck and only send in their sideboardlist which is lame, but may make things easier to balance and track)
- free deckmark change
- forced to play baselist in first game each match
- changing pillars to any other pillar for free (pillar meaning quantasource that is not nova, immo, soul catcher); pretty iffy though (the deck will look completely different, it allows way more changes)
- option to just remove cards from deck if you have unused cards in your sideboardlist (or maybe only allow that if players send in a sideboardlist with blanks, though in that case they might just move cards from their deck to the sideboardlist in the first place)
Bans: Rainbowdecks may be stronger than usual here, if QT and nova are banned, so should be discord, devourer and eq. Dims is weaker than usual and may be okay, while wings is probably stronger. If mark change is allowed easily splashable cards may need to be banned from the sideboardlist only. Hate cards like holy light and purify may need to be banned.
Post by: CactusKing on March 24, 2017, 09:18:26 am
Expanding on that, perhaps one where you can use up to 2 copies of any allowed upgraded card, but up to 3 copies of unupped cards?
Post by: Basman-1453 on April 29, 2017, 06:08:41 pm
"And on Tuesdays we offer endless wings." "Haha, cool. I have those." "YOU WHAT?" "AAAAAAAA" (https://xkcd.com/1099/)
Endless Wings
Special Rules
- Upgraded cards and shards are not allowed.
- All shields except for Wings are banned.
- Discords, Butterfly Effects, Black Holes, Amber Nymphs, Pulverizers, Earthquakes, Fire Bolts, Deflagrations, Arctic Squids, Trident, Nymph's Tears, Sanctuaries, Blue Nymphs, Steals, and Fractals are banned.
- Devourers and Mitoses in the same deck is banned.
Post by: kaempfer13 on July 25, 2017, 09:35:50 pm
At the start of the tournament choose a faction
All decks must include 9 weather cards of your faction and follow its rules
rain:
weather cards: flooding,forest spirit, fog shield
only aquatic creatures allowed: all water creatures + frogs+ forest spirit (obv)+ virus
sunny: photon, holy light, morning star, rustler, sundial
can't use darkness cards
night:
weather cards: dusk, nightfall, liquid shadow, nightmare, cloak, lycanthrope
can't use light cards, must use 12 weather cards instead of just 9
lightning stroke:
weather cards: spark, lightning, skyblitz, thunderstorm
-for each creature you include you have to run a quintessence, unless the creature is immortal or capable of burrowing
-cannot use shields
-you have to use an air mark
tectonic trouble: earthquake, trident
-can only use spells, permanents and airborne creatures
-cannot use nymphs tears
volcano:
weather cards: firestorm, firebolt, fahrenheit
-can't use creatures
chaos:
weather cards: pandemonium, chaos seed, butterfly effect
-cannot use the same mark twice in a match
weather forecast:
weather cards: precognition+ chosen faction's weather cards
-at the start of each round choose either player you might face next round and adopt their weather factions rules; if you made it to the final choose either of the 3rd place matchplayers (and if fighting for 3rd place take either finalist)
- announce your choice in chat before you start playing your games
- must run precognition in every deck; in decks that use at least 3 elements precognition will count to the total weather cards on top of the chosen factions weather cards, in duos and monos it won't count to the 9(or 12 in case of night) weather cards required
I havent put all that much thought into balance yet, though i did try to make sure to shake things up enough with special rules, so that no meta deck can be used; stalls might be too strong. Tectonic trouble and volcano are too gimmicky as of now. If there is interest I can revise it later.
Post by: CactusKing on July 26, 2017, 09:47:20 am
volcano:Firestall is meta, and volcano rules put allow it to be built perfectly.
weather cards: firestorm, firebolt, fahrenheit
-can't use creatures
...I did try to make sure to shake things up enough with special rules, so that no meta deck can be used; stalls might be too strong.
Post by: Kalinuial on January 07, 2018, 08:46:32 pm
Idea: Duo/Low Quanta Cost/Efficiency Battle
Rules:
1. Players select two elements from which they can generate quanta. Notify TO of 2 elements prior to start of Tourney. TO will post elements when publicly announcing brackets.
2. Players build deck(s) that produce quanta of exactly the same two elements throughout tourney and intend to make use of both elements' quanta. For example, a Pure Mono Water deck with Death mark and no way to use Death quanta is illegal. A Water deck with Physalia and Death Mark is legal.
3. Except towers, all cards played must have a quanta cost of exactly 1 or 2 ; Cards with 0 quanta cost are banned (Flying weapon is legal; Animate Weapon is banned)
4. Element-less cards are banned, such as Dagger, Dirk, Tower Shield.
5. Nova, Quantum Pillars, and Immolation are banned. Soul catcher is allowed.
6. Must use exactly 30 cards in each deck played; sideboard unlimited as long as selected from 2 chosen elements.
7. Shards Banned.
8. Fully upgraded allowed.
Thanks for considering the idea and feel free to improve it. Cards that might need consideration for balance are Fire Lance and Nightmare. Apologies in advance if a tourney like this was already done.
Post by: kaempfer13 on January 07, 2018, 09:17:08 pm
Post by: RapidStar_ on January 08, 2018, 02:10:41 am
Your deck MUST consist of ONLY one of these sets of cards:
- 6 Devourers
- 5 Black Holes
- 3 Discords
- 6 Silences
- 4 Antimatter's
- 6 Mind Flayers
- 5 Deflags
- 4 Steals
- 4 Butterfly Effects
- 6 Wardens
- 6 Earthquakes
- 4 Nightmares
One set is not allowed to be used with another set whatsoever. For example, a Discord and Black Hole deck is not allowed, or a Mono Darkness with Devourers and Steals is also not allowed. All shards are banned. Every deck must have at least 6 creatures. (If you use 6 mind flayers, they DO count towards your 6 creatures in your deck.) You must make 3 decks and alternate which deck you use every match. A 3rd deck is required incase of a 1-1 tie, leading onto game 3.
Might need some changing but this is just a base idea.
Post by: kaempfer13 on February 10, 2018, 11:50:08 am
I think its time to celebrate lifes' war win. Thing is, short of waiting for upgraded tournament to allow use of lifes war decks (fixed to 12 upgrades probably) or waiting and applying same deckbuilding rules and/or banning nearly everything viable that does not use life, i dont know how to make that work.
Closest thing to sth potentially fun I found was to force a total of 8 card copies out of the following cards: frog, staves, mitosis, bond, fallen druid.
It really feels that all the options that warp the meta enough to ensure that life is actually used dont leave that much room for creativity.
Post by: InsignificantWeeaboo on May 05, 2018, 06:33:41 am
POWER RANGERS
Your deck must contain cards with the colors red, blue, yellow, black,and pink.
These are the 3 ways a card can be eligible:
- The element of the card is one of the colors (ex. Any :darkness card; Black)
- The ability cost of the card is the element of one of the colors (ex. Forest Spirit; :water Blue)
- The card art displays one of the colors (ex. Forest Scorpion; Yellow)
Marks with the listed colors on their art do not count, other than :fire :water :air :aether :time :darkness and :entropy. Shards banned.
Can be balanced in whatever ways needed.
Post by: MasterWalks on June 09, 2018, 09:08:42 pm
Not Allowed
No Pendulums, Mark Cards or pillars except quantum.
No Nova's/Supernova's.
No blackholes.
No earthquakes
No tridents
No shards of focus
40 card deck size maximum
Allowed
Upgraded and Non Upped allowed
Any Mark is allowed
Pulverizer is allowed
Immolation is allowed but cannot be upgraded.
Deck may only contain 3 immolation at MOST
Post by: iancudorinmarian on June 10, 2018, 08:04:08 am
Quantum Theoriesmark cards should be banned
Not Allowed
No pillars or pendulums except quantum.
No Nova's/Supernova's.
No blackholes.
No earthquakes
No tridents
No shards of focus
40 card deck size maximum
Allowed
Upgraded and Non Upped allowed
Mark Cards allowed
Any Mark is allowed
Pulverizer is allowed
Immolation is allowed but cannot be upgraded.
Deck may only contain 3 immolation at MOST
Post by: rob77dp on July 11, 2018, 06:33:09 am
Today is a good day to die.
Weekly Tournament - <Month> <day> - Learning to Die [Unupgraded//Upgraded]
Tournament Organizers: TO1, TO2, or TO3
| (http://i.imgur.com/RCXGMgc.jpg) | When? To find out your local time, check this link: <time link>
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| (http://i.imgur.com/I88BdSC.jpg) | Where? Please enter the Tournament room (http://elementscommunity.org/chat/blab.php) at least 15 minutes before the tournament starts. Click "Rooms" in the top left to find it. |
| (http://i.imgur.com/eQ110uI.jpg) | Rules Please read the PvP Tournament rules (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,6997.0.html) carefully before joining the tournament. Remember to also read the Special Rules listed below! |
| (http://i.imgur.com/LGqvNMY.jpg) | Prizes
In case of 16 or more players, tournament prizes will be increased. |
| (http://i.imgur.com/LH9pjw4.jpg) | Points for the World Championship
|
NOTE: You need just one presentable forum post to be allowed to join tournaments; you can post it here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/introduce-yourself/). If this will be your first tournament, a Tournament Organizer will test your knowledge about the rules. So please be present in tournament room 30 minutes before the tournament starts.
Thanks to rob77dp for this [insert-url=link-text]tournament idea[/url]![/size]
Special Rules
- Always read the second post! It contains equally important information most of the time.
- Upgraded cards are [banned//allowed].
- It seems likely a few broken cards exist for such a tournament meta as this. I have not come up with what those might be but such cards would be listed here in the deck code.- First player to generate 50 deaths wins the match.
- Note: This may involve a varying amount of 'games' to determine. Counts are cumulative starting from game 1 of each match.
- Death effects do not count, only actual creature deaths.
Tournament Organizers Note
If you think there is an overpowered card that ought to be banned, or you have some concerns about the tournament metagame, mechanics or other stuff, do NOT post it publicly in the comments or anywhere else on the Forums. Instead, send a private message to Tournament Organizers (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pm/?sa=send;u=8752,4939,629), who will privately discuss about it. Thanks for your cooperation.
<Challonge image/link/bracket goes in this space...>
1st - TBD
2nd - TBD
3rd - TBD
4th - TBD
1st - TBD
2nd - TBD
3rd - TBD
4th - TBD
*Note-- this idea contains an alt-win-con scenario. Please be aware this brings into play a unique situation about determining winner/loser and handling of desyncs and d/c's.
Post by: kaempfer13 on July 11, 2018, 10:05:02 am
Post by: kaempfer13 on July 11, 2018, 10:34:18 am
I'm ready!I'm ready!
Weekly Tournament - <Month> <day> - Ready critters [Unupgraded//Upgraded]
Tournament Organizers: TO1, TO2, or TO3
| (http://i.imgur.com/RCXGMgc.jpg) | When? To find out your local time, check this link: <time link>
|
| (http://i.imgur.com/I88BdSC.jpg) | Where? Please enter the Tournament room (http://elementscommunity.org/chat/blab.php) at least 15 minutes before the tournament starts. Click "Rooms" in the top left to find it. |
| (http://i.imgur.com/eQ110uI.jpg) | Rules Please read the PvP Tournament rules (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,6997.0.html) carefully before joining the tournament. Remember to also read the Special Rules listed below! |
| (http://i.imgur.com/LGqvNMY.jpg) | Prizes
In case of 16 or more players, tournament prizes will be increased. |
| (http://i.imgur.com/LH9pjw4.jpg) | Points for the World Championship
|
NOTE: You need just one presentable forum post to be allowed to join tournaments; you can post it here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/introduce-yourself/). If this will be your first tournament, a Tournament Organizer will test your knowledge about the rules. So please be present in tournament room 30 minutes before the tournament starts.
Special Rules
- Upgraded cards are [banned//allowed].
- Decks must contain 5 Shards of readiness and at least 4 time quanta sources (only time pillars/pendulums, marks of time (including deck mark), any pendulum if your mark is time count for this).
- The following cards are banned:
-More cards may be added.
Tournament Organizers Note
If you think there is an overpowered card that ought to be banned, or you have some concerns about the tournament metagame, mechanics or other stuff, do NOT post it publicly in the comments or anywhere else on the Forums. Instead, send a private message to Tournament Organizers (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pm/?sa=send;u=8752,4939,629), who will privately discuss about it. Thanks for your cooperation.
<Challonge image/link/bracket goes in this space...>
Post by: CactusKing on July 17, 2018, 07:38:30 am
Upgraded cards are allowed, but not required.
Shard of Sacrifice, Shard of Bravery, Shard of Readiness, Golden hourglass, Sundial and Precognition are banned.
The goal of each game is to reduce your own HP to 0. Killing your opponent is a loss.
We have discussed this in blab and concluded there are at least six viable deck types, and none appear to completely dominate the others.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but please consider running it.
Post by: Submachine on July 23, 2018, 03:34:13 pm
(Remove a part of the cube, and the original cube can fit through entirely in the created hole.)
- All decks must be a combination of 2 half-decks. These half-decks have the following limitations:
- One player can only build 3 half-decks: marked as A, B, and C.
- Decks A, B, and C cannot share any elements, except :rainbow Other cards.
- The same combination of half-decks cannot be used in the same match. (For example: A+C.)
- Exactly 20 cards in each half-deck.
- The deck's mark must be the same throughout the tournament.
- The following cards are banned: Nymph Tears, nymphs, mark cards, Graboid, Discord, Dimensional Shield, Shard of Freedom, Shard of Patience, Wings.
Post by: kaempfer13 on July 26, 2018, 11:06:30 pm
For Ruperts cube, keeping track of 3 decks per player seems a bit much for the host, especially if they are not public. There is also a high chance of the game being decided by deckchoice alone, which normally wouldnt be a problem, but not allowing counterbuilding in the second game is a bit of a letdown (or if decks are public, even the first).
Post by: Submachine on July 31, 2018, 06:06:07 am
For Ruperts cube, keeping track of 3 decks per player seems a bit much for the host, especially if they are not public. There is also a high chance of the game being decided by deckchoice alone, which normally wouldnt be a problem, but not allowing counterbuilding in the second game is a bit of a letdown (or if decks are public, even the first).That problem might be solved if players don't have to stick to the same decks, but rather to the same elements.
Here is a bit simpler idea though:
Inefficiency
I picked the most expensive/cost-inefficient cards of all elements (where the effect does not justify the cost, e.g: Plate Armor). Only the following cards would be allowed:
+ Procrastination
Adding Purple Nymph, Eternity, Fractal, and Sky Blitz or removing Mitosis, Light Nymph, Sapphire Charger, or SoR can also be considered.
Post by: Manuel on July 31, 2018, 02:19:57 pm
Post by: Submachine on July 31, 2018, 02:27:55 pm
gravity shield in this format is better than dim shield, it block almost every creature, everyone will use a monograv or a liquid shadow/am stallMaybe. Cards can be removed from the Allowed List for balancing. Cards can also be added with borderline reasoning (Ice Bolt and Drain Life). It's just the basic idea that I posted.
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on August 19, 2018, 03:10:39 pm
Special Rules
- Shards are banned.
- Before the tournament starts, players will draw a card in Blab using the /draw e function, and will build decks containing at least 4 copies of the drawn card for all of their matches.
- For each match, you have to use at least 3 copies of your current opponent's card.
- Card bans as needed.
Post by: kaempfer13 on August 19, 2018, 03:40:54 pm
Post by: kaempfer13 on August 21, 2018, 03:04:24 pm
Also has anyone got a solution for the infinite desyncs in the kill yourself tournament?
Post by: CactusKing on August 23, 2018, 07:20:10 am
Also has anyone got a solution for the infinite desyncs in the kill yourself tournament?
For disconnects arising from deckout, the simplest solution is either to nerf deckout to the point where no one plays it (as I tried to by banning several key self-deckout cards), or go with the suggestion of making default deckout wins still count as wins (meaning we can take screenshots as usual).
For anything else you can take a screenshot of just before you die.
Post by: kaempfer13 on August 23, 2018, 07:31:54 am
Post by: Basman-1453 on August 27, 2018, 12:48:29 pm
it came from between the folds of time and space and worlds and light and dark something that is but should not be slipped in and called out to them as their god and IT IS STILL HERE
Tempered Glass
Special Rules
- Upgraded cards are allowed/not allowed. (Suit it for the week.)
- For the purpose of this Tournament, the community gets to decide which Shard will be banned. In this thread there is (going to be) a poll for which Shards the community want banned. Each player may select up to 2 Shards.
- Once voting period is over, TOs will roll one shard with the Blab dice roll. If the shard rolled belongs to the top six the community wants to be banned, the lower six will be banned for the Tournament. If the shard rolled belongs to the lower six the community wants to be banned, the upper six will be banned for the Tournament.
- TOs will then create an additional banlist from the cards chosen.
Post by: Mr Muffin on August 30, 2018, 08:04:29 pm
Post by: Basman-1453 on September 24, 2018, 02:15:22 pm
Same rules as The Community Choice (people voting on which cards are banned) except the tournament organizers don't tell until after the poll is done if the voted cards are banned or if every other card is banned. I guess pillars/pendulums/marks will be allowed in all circumstances.(Emphasis mine.)
Or, rather, can't tell.
Post by: CactusKing on September 25, 2018, 02:41:27 am
Upped/Semiupped
Each deck may only use cards from one pool, and any dragons, pillars and pendulums. You can change pools between games.
(Each pool represents a particular archetype, being rush, domin/denial, break and stall)
Post by: InsignificantWeeaboo on September 25, 2018, 03:25:00 am
STEREOTYPES
Upped/Semiupped
Each deck may only use cards from one pool, and any dragons, pillars and pendulums. You can change pools between games.
(Each pool represents a particular archetype, being rush, domin/denial, break and stall)
Chaos (Power), Minor Vampire and Protect Artifact go into what category?
Post by: CactusKing on September 25, 2018, 03:28:56 am
Post by: Kalinuial on October 08, 2018, 02:53:30 pm
Post by: Submachine on December 05, 2018, 08:00:04 am
Post by: serprex on April 26, 2019, 09:02:26 pm
All decks must contain the following:
After each game, players must have an additional 6 quantum pillars in their deck
Post by: Kalinuial on April 27, 2019, 09:15:08 pm
-Semi-upgraded (but could be unupgraded, too)
-Before tourney begins, players must choose to be an organic gardener or not. Choices made public; cannot change
-Organic gardeners may use organic aids but not poisonous aids
-Non-organic gardeners may use poisonous aids but not organic aids
-Quantum pillar banned; other PPMS allowed; any mark allowed
-Any cards not listed below are banned
Semi-upgraded rules:
1. Players get 3 starting upgrades
2. For each unique type of gardener's tools and/or companion creatures in deck, allow one additional deck upgrade (ex: 3 Antlions and 5 Gnome riders and 2 Ice Shields = 3 unique types = 3 additional deck upgrades)
3. For each copy of shard of patience, reduce deck upgrades by 3
Gardener's Tools
Companion Creatures
Organic aids - available to organic gardeners only
Poisonous aids - available only to non-organic gardeners
Post by: Submachine on May 09, 2019, 08:39:37 pm
We will use this as our next Upgraded tournament.All decks must be 60 cards
All decks must contain the following:
After each game, players must have an additional 6 quantum pillars in their deck
We will use this as our next Semi-Upgraded tournament.Master Gardener
-Semi-upgraded (but could be unupgraded, too)
-Before tourney begins, players must choose to be an organic gardener or not. Choices made public; cannot change
-Organic gardeners may use organic aids but not poisonous aids
-Non-organic gardeners may use poisonous aids but not organic aids
-Quantum pillar banned; other PPMS allowed; any mark allowed
-Any cards not listed below are banned
Semi-upgraded rules:
1. Players get 3 starting upgrades
2. For each unique type of gardener's tools and/or companion creatures in deck, allow one additional deck upgrade (ex: 3 Antlions and 5 Gnome riders and 2 Ice Shields = 3 unique types = 3 additional deck upgrades)
3. For each copy of shard of patience, reduce deck upgrades by 3
Gardener's Tools
Companion Creatures
Organic aids - available to organic gardeners only
Poisonous aids - available only to non-organic gardeners
Post by: moehrpi on June 28, 2019, 10:58:49 am
Everyone chooses one element and gets two more random elements.
Everyone gets two bans per match.
No monos.
Everyone gets three random cards.
They have to use at least 2 of those cards with at least three copies each.
Post by: Submachine on December 18, 2019, 12:59:06 pm
- Upgraded cards are not allowed.
- Each deck must be a duo deck with a main element and a secondary element. The main element must have more cards than the secondary. The secondary element must have 6 or more cards. (including Pillars)
- Deck size must be 40.
- Players can only build decks using Pillars and the cards from the Starter Pack..
- Deck mark must match the main element.
Q&A:
- Pillars (and any cards) of a third element are not allowed.
- Other is not an element. Dagger and Quantum Pillars are allowed in any deck on top of the main and secondary elements.
- Pendulums and Mark cards cannot be used.
- Players cannot use more copies of a card than the Starter Pack allows.
- Decks can be changed between games.
Trivia: The Starter Pack contains the necessary cards to build any of the starter decks (http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/Starter_Decks).
Post by: Wyand on January 11, 2020, 01:25:11 am
a TO not playing War - don't think they can bear the extra burden which means caring about tournaments AND war.
Post by: Zyardran on September 17, 2020, 12:42:40 am
http://elementscommunity.org/tools/xenocidius/randomdeck/
Participants can choose 1 of the following alignments and use those elements for the rest of the tourney
Material :fire :water :earth :air
Cardinal :entropy :gravity :time :aether
Spiritual :death :life :light :darkness
(Oetg inspired)
Participants must use elements that correspond to Halloween!
i.e. Death, Darkness, Entropy, and so on
Start out with 1 element of your choice, and can only use monos.
For each player you beat, add their element to your arsenal (defeated players may keep their elements)
If you beat an opponent with the same element as you, roll 1dx for a random one (x=12-the elements you already have)
Post by: Zyardran on October 13, 2020, 07:49:39 pm
Start out with 1 element of your choice, and can only use monos.
For each player you beat, add their element to your arsenal (defeated players may keep their elements)
If you beat an opponent with the same element as you, roll 1dx for a random one (x=12-the elements you already have)
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on October 13, 2020, 08:06:12 pm
Start out with 1 element of your choice, and can only use monos.
For each player you beat, add their element to your arsenal (defeated players may keep their elements)
If you beat an opponent with the same element as you, roll 1dx for a random one (x=12-the elements you already have)
Games after the first can quickly become unfair due to a difference in options; basically, if you lose you'll keep losing.
Post by: J617 on December 29, 2020, 06:20:40 am
(I am posting this here now so that there is more time for comments.)
This is the possible Underdog Tournament (as it is currently written):
The Underdog Tourney:
*To understand the following rules, rares means ALL rares, whether they be normal rares or even ultra rares. It doesn't matter whether we're talking shards, weapons, nymphs, Miracle, Pharaoh, Arctic Squid, marks, or even extreme rares such as Holy Cow. However, keep in mind that the following rules are each for the listed elements in that particular rule; different rules will apply for different elements.
1. All regular purchasable Other cards are allowed, including Relics.
2. Because both Earth and Water have never placed 1st or 2nd in War, ALL cards are allowed except: shards.
3. Because Gravity, Light, and Time have never won War, ALL cards are allowed except: ALL rares.
4. Because Death won once with no 2nd place in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Bonewall & Poison.
5. Because Life won once and placed 2nd once in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Horned Frog, Emerald Dragon, & Adrenaline.
6. Because Aether, Fire, Air, Darkness, and Entropy have all placed better in War than those listed in the above rules, with the exception that any number of desired unupgraded pillars and pendulums are allowed, a maximum of 2 unupgraded, non-rare cards from each element is allowed to be played from those elements, and those allowed cards are:
(http://URL)
***For rule #s 4, 5, and 6 combined, a maximum of 2 cards are allowed to be upgraded.
*To understand the following rules, rares means ALL rares, whether they be normal rares or even ultra rares. It doesn't matter whether we're talking shards, weapons, nymphs, Miracle, Pharaoh, Arctic Squid, marks, or even extreme rares such as Holy Cow. However, keep in mind that the following rules are each for the listed elements in that particular rule; different rules will apply for different elements.
1. All regular purchasable Other cards are allowed, including Relics.
2. Because both Earth and Water have never placed 1st or 2nd in War, ALL cards are allowed except: shards.
3. Because Gravity, Light, and Time have never won War, ALL cards are allowed except: ALL rares.
4. Because Death won once with no 2nd place in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Bonewall & Poison.
5. Because Life won once and placed 2nd once in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Horned Frog, Emerald Dragon, & Adrenaline.
6. Because Aether, Fire, Air, Darkness, and Entropy have all placed better in War than those listed in the above rules, with the exception that any number of desired unupgraded pillars and pendulums are allowed, a maximum of 2 unupgraded, non-rare cards from each element is allowed to be played from those elements, and those allowed cards are:
Aether, Fire, Air, Darkness, and Entropy allowable cards
Hover over cards for details, click for permalink
Deck import code : [Select]
***For rule #s 4, 5, and 6 combined, a maximum of 2 cards are allowed to be upgraded.
I think it is obvious that I was wanting more decks made with the least winning elements of War, then fewer and fewer of the other choices, most especially of those listed on #6. There is some question about if there are cards which are too potent for the smaller listed rule numbers. I thought it would be fine.
There is some question about not having enough cards for the #6 elements, to make good duos. But I meant for those options to be quite limited. I was mostly just trying to make it possible to play some rainbows, and with mostly less played cards (I did try to select more underdog cards). I tried to choose the four cards well, but I may not have had enough knowledge to make the best choices here. For most elements I did try to have both low quanta and higher quanta cost cards. (I nearly had only three listed cards of each element, which I would also consider fine.) Since I wanted these cards to be used meagerly, I capped each of these elements to a maximum of 2; I did this on purpose. I did provide a total of 2 upgrades to the combination of those elements so that one can have a couple essential cards upgraded. There is some question about limiting it so much. My second choice would be to eliminate these elements all together, as that is the point of this tournament, to focus on the other elements.
I wasn't completely sure that I picked the right Life cards, but Horned Frog and Adrenaline were obvious. I also wasn't sure if there should have been a fourth card selected, but at least one creature needs to be allowed (besides just Rustler) as I did want this element to be playable.
I could see a case for # 4 and / or #5 allowing Pillars and / or Pendulums to be upgraded, but certainly not the other cards. Of course, I did want these definitely harder to play than those in #2 and #3 as they had won War. Maybe a limit of 3 each upgraded Pillars and Pendulums in #4, and 2 each upgraded Pillars and Pendulums in #5?
Since there is some question about what people would think about this, if people believe that there needs to be adjustments made, this is getting posted so that possible tournament contenders can voice their opinions.
Post by: Wyand on December 29, 2020, 07:20:55 pm
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on December 29, 2020, 10:36:14 pm
This is simpler than creating a point for every element, which makes it look a bit more complex than it should be.
Also, crippling the elements in the 6th bullet point doesn't work in your favor here. A lot of great decks from other elements use those elements and making them basically unusable by choosing some of the worst cards is not fun.
Basically, it would look like this:
- Your deck must be at least 50% of one of the following elements: :death :gravity :earth :life :water :light :time
- Your deck can have up to X upgrades (6 is fine).
Banlist:
I added Dimshield, Squid and Sundial, and removed Emerald Dragon, Poison and Adrenaline. Adrenaline shouldn't be restricted and I'm not sure why Emerald Dragon was banned. Poison isn't that great without Arsenic, but it sees use nonetheless.
I wouldn't ban practically all rares. Currently the only allowed rares are Trident and Pulverizer, which are powerful cards on their own.
I'd allow Titan, Morning Star, Staff, SoV and SoFo at least.
Post by: J617 on December 30, 2020, 03:30:52 am
This is the possible Underdog Tournament (as it is currently written):
The Underdog Tourney:
*To understand the following rules, rares means ALL rares, whether they be normal rares or even ultra rares. It doesn't matter whether we're talking shards, weapons, nymphs, Miracle, Pharaoh, Arctic Squid, marks, or even extreme rares such as Holy Cow. However, keep in mind that the following rules are each for the listed elements in that particular rule; different rules will apply for different elements.
1. All regular purchasable Other cards are allowed, including Relics.
2. Because Water has never placed 1st or 2nd in War, ALL cards are allowed except: shards.
3. Because Earth, Gravity, Light, and Time have never won War, ALL cards are allowed except: ALL rares.
4. Because Death and Life won once with no 2nd place in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Bonewall, Poison, Horned Frog, and Adrenaline.
5. Because Entropy won once and placed 2nd once in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Nova, Lycanthrope, Mutation, and Pandemonium.
6. Because Fire, Air, Darkness, and Aether have all placed better in War than those listed in the above rules, with the exception that any number of desired unupgraded pillars and pendulums are allowed, a maximum of 2 unupgraded, non-rare cards from each element is allowed to be played from those elements, and those allowed cards are:
(http://URL)
***For rule #s 4, 5, and 6 combined, a maximum of 2 cards are allowed to be upgraded.
*To understand the following rules, rares means ALL rares, whether they be normal rares or even ultra rares. It doesn't matter whether we're talking shards, weapons, nymphs, Miracle, Pharaoh, Arctic Squid, marks, or even extreme rares such as Holy Cow. However, keep in mind that the following rules are each for the listed elements in that particular rule; different rules will apply for different elements.
1. All regular purchasable Other cards are allowed, including Relics.
2. Because Water has never placed 1st or 2nd in War, ALL cards are allowed except: shards.
3. Because Earth, Gravity, Light, and Time have never won War, ALL cards are allowed except: ALL rares.
4. Because Death and Life won once with no 2nd place in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Bonewall, Poison, Horned Frog, and Adrenaline.
5. Because Entropy won once and placed 2nd once in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Nova, Lycanthrope, Mutation, and Pandemonium.
6. Because Fire, Air, Darkness, and Aether have all placed better in War than those listed in the above rules, with the exception that any number of desired unupgraded pillars and pendulums are allowed, a maximum of 2 unupgraded, non-rare cards from each element is allowed to be played from those elements, and those allowed cards are:
Fire, Air, Darkness, and Aether allowable cards
Hover over cards for details, click for permalink
Deck import code : [Select]
***For rule #s 4, 5, and 6 combined, a maximum of 2 cards are allowed to be upgraded.
Post by: InsignificantWeeaboo on December 30, 2020, 05:22:10 am
I had done my best to scour the battle results of War, but I looks like I made a few mistakes regarding 2nd place. So I have made adjustments for the fact that Life never came in 2nd place and Earth did, and Entropy only placed 2nd once.
This is the possible Underdog Tournament (as it is currently written):The Underdog Tourney:
*To understand the following rules, rares means ALL rares, whether they be normal rares or even ultra rares. It doesn't matter whether we're talking shards, weapons, nymphs, Miracle, Pharaoh, Arctic Squid, marks, or even extreme rares such as Holy Cow. However, keep in mind that the following rules are each for the listed elements in that particular rule; different rules will apply for different elements.
1. All regular purchasable Other cards are allowed, including Relics.
2. Because Water has never placed 1st or 2nd in War, ALL cards are allowed except: shards.
3. Because Earth, Gravity, Light, and Time have never won War, ALL cards are allowed except: ALL rares.
4. Because Death and Life won once with no 2nd place in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Bonewall, Poison, Horned Frog, and Adrenaline.
5. Because Entropy won once and placed 2nd once in War, all unupgraded, non-rare cards are allowed except: Nova, Lycanthrope, Mutation, and Pandemonium.
6. Because Fire, Air, Darkness, and Aether have all placed better in War than those listed in the above rules, with the exception that any number of desired unupgraded pillars and pendulums are allowed, a maximum of 2 unupgraded, non-rare cards from each element is allowed to be played from those elements, and those allowed cards are:(http://URL)Fire, Air, Darkness, and Aether allowable cardsHover over cards for details, click for permalinkDeck import code : [Select]
***For rule #s 4, 5, and 6 combined, a maximum of 2 cards are allowed to be upgraded.
might wanna look at the post above yours
Post by: Wyand on December 30, 2020, 12:57:06 pm
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on December 30, 2020, 04:18:24 pm
I'm pretty sure Janice read that, I feel it is just she doesn't want that many changes to her original idea.
A reply would be nice at least.
Post by: J617 on December 30, 2020, 09:02:00 pm
What mostly was mentioned makes this pretty much the same tourney as normal. That was not my intention. I wanted it beneficial to play certain decks over others but not “force” people to play them. This way, while the majority would play those with either the most benefits to play, or nearly as many benefits, there will be some people who will make decks to try to counteract those decks.
If people don't actually like the idea of an underdog tourney, speak up and this will not be played. I was hoping for advice on the slight variations similar to what I listed (or concerns about some particularly super strong card that people think may not belong), not a complete revamp of allowing almost every nonrare card.
Remember, I want underdog elements to have more benefits, then only underdog cards allowed the further down the list one goes. So if that is not what people want to play, than this is not the tourney for them, so then this should be bypassed.
Because Water has done the poorest in War, it has to have more benefits than the others so banning both its Trident and its Arctic Squid doesn't work (Shard of Patience really would be too overpowered with the most common permanent control cards banned). Maybe only allowing those two cards to be unupgraded??? Because Earth, Gravity, Light, and Time have never won War either, they also need some great benefit over others, just not quite as much as Water. These are the elements I think should have a great benefit over others.
But to give more playability I have listed some other elements, just unupgraded and I banned their most popular cards. These next are elements which have actually won War. For Life the banned cards are obviously Horned Frog and Adrenaline. For Death that is Bonewall. I added Poison, but it may be Flesh Spider or even Vulture, I'm not sure which it should be, people could voice what they think is more popular there. For Entropy I have banned more cards as it also placed 2nd once. I banned Nova, Lycanthrope, Mutation, and Pandemonium. Nova is obviously the most popular. After that, I made my best guess for unupgraded cards. People could chime in on the rest. Butterfly Effect needs to be allowed because most permanent control cards are banned (and it isn't as popular as many other Entropy cards). In addition, Dissipation Shield is seldom used, so must be allowed. But remember, we're trying to ban some of the most popularly used cards, not keep what you want in.
Lastly, we have the final four big players in War. I mostly added them to give a shot at having a rainbow. Allowing Quantum Towers does give some nice benefit to having such restricted cards in these final four elements. Give me a list of what you think the three least played, not overpowered cards in each of these elements should be. Keep in mind, at least one card needs to be a creature. For Fire it seems obvious to be Ash Eater and Fire Spirit, but the third, make suggestions. I chose Seraph, but it could easily be another. Perhaps Fire Shield, Rain of Fire, or Rage Potion. Air was more difficult. I selected Firefly, Unstable Gas, and Wings. Its selections obviously can't include Dragonfly, Wyrm, Flying Weapon, and Shockwave. As for Unstable Gas, with Fire being so limited, and only allowing two Unstable Gas, I figured that it would be a much better option than say Sky Blitz for all those OTK and flying creature decks. But give me your suggestions. For Darkness I selected Parasite, Nightfall, and Liquid Shadow. There are few options that I think could replace these, but if you think that one deserves to be there more, speak up. For Aether I selected Phase Spider, Quintessence, and Mindgate. From what I've seen, and comments that I've read, Quintessence and Mindgate deserve to be there, but then a creature is needed, so you tell me, should it be Phase Spider, Immortal, or Phase Salvager?
I remember watching tourneys years ago where there were limited cards allowed, and now suddenly that is taboo? War just finished and at the end the players were very limited with what they were able to play. This is much more lenient. There is just some cards which are banned (many banned from certain elements), and many cards are unupgraded. And you're free to play whichever elements you wish, within restrictions.
Again, the whole idea of this tourney is to give preference to underdog elements and then underdog cards, If people need this adjusted to having to play mostly from the first 5 elements then allowing some cards from the others, but not their most popular cards (restricting at least four), fine. If people want to play most every nonrare cards from the most popular elements, then this is not the tourney for them.
Don't get me wrong, I love a completely unrestricted tourney. And most of my favorite cards are banned here, so I would have to work at building decent decks myself. All I really need in a tourney though, is for it to not be speedbuilding (which was how this tourney was meant to be), to be able to understand the rules, and that it is during a time when I can play. I originally gave this idea the prior Monday, thinking that we (I) could play this before Christmas. But with how all this is progressing, I am doubting that I would be able to compete in my own tourney, as I will likely not be available this weekend either. :( Oh well, at least I put forth a tournament idea.
Post by: Naii_the_Baf on December 30, 2020, 10:40:16 pm
The cards listed for the more restricted elements don't really have a place in a rainbow, need a deck dedicated to them, or are just plain terrible.
On the other hand, Firefly, Wings and UG make a deck all on their own. No deflag available but you can win by physical damage too.
I see your point in having the least used cards be the unrestricted ones, but there's a reason why they're left unused. Ban decks from specific elements? Ban staples from those elements, like you did for :death, :life and :entropy. Cards like Fractal, Dragonfly, Wyrm, Phoenix, Fire Bolt, Devourer to name a few. Don't cripple the elements themselves; again, that's not fun and is very restrictive. It also brings down many a deck from other elements, which doesn't work for your objective.
I present you the following banlist:
Staples from Fire, Air, Darkness and Aether are banned, thus making you build in the other elements. This should achieve your objective of using decks of other elements mainly. Other bans are according to your list. This list should allow for decks that use the more powerful elements, but don't make them unusable outside of dedicated decks altogether. Tech/splash cards like Deflag and Nightmare are a nice addition to off-element decks too.
This should help streamline the tournament. Again, making a bullet point for every element makes it look unnecessarily complex. I'd rather read a few lines than an entire book.
Give me a list of what you think the three least played, not overpowered cards in each of these elements should be.
Not least played, for sure, but if we kept your idea how it is:
:fire Ash Eater, Deflagration, Rage Potion
:air Dragonfly, Firefly, Sky Blitz
:darkness Steal, Parasite, Liquid Shadow
:aether Immortal, Mindgate, Silence
Silence could be swapped for Quintessence.
About dragonfly, consider that the rest of Air is practically unaccessible. Dragonfly's worth is mainly on Air alone, so no access to it makes it pretty worthless.
Deflag and Steal is because PC needs to stay.