6th Trials - Masters Tournament

[RavingRabbid]

Masters Tournament

Masters Participating:

  deuce22
  Jenkar
  nilsieboy
  willng3
  10 men
  RavingRabbid

Deckbuilding Rules:

• Matches are best-of-5 games.
• No upgrade limit.
• 66% minimum for in element, rounded up
• Before starting a game, both masters will PM a third person any amount of elements. These will be the elements they can use during that game. (Each Master then builds a deck.)
• Masters may use up to 9 cards of every element declared.
• An element cannot be declared twice in a match.
• On the 3rd and 4th game, Masters may only declare a maximum of 4 elements.
• Before the 5th game, Masters must include all elements declared for this game.
• You may use any Mark, regardless of the elements you've declared.
• No Rare cards (Shard, Rare Weapons, Nymphs, Squid, Miracle, Pharaoh) may be used more than once in a match.
• Standalone Mark Cards are pillars of their respective elements.

There is a 5 days limit for single matches.
No time left in the tournament.

[deuce22]

I am totally lost at some of the rules posted. This is my first masters tourney, so maybe i'm just being an idiot. (Jenkar, stop rolling your eyes at me)

• Masters may use up to 9 cards for every element declared.

This can be interpreted so many ways. Please clarify

• Masters will not be able to call any element twice.

Is this within the same bo5 or between matches with other masters?

• No Rare card (Shard, Rare Weapon, Nymphs, Squid, Miracle, Pharaoh) may be used more than once.

per bo5 or for the entire tournament?

• Standalone marks are pillars of their respective elements

this is saying off-element mark cards are considered cards of that element and may be used only if that element is called?

• Identical deck marks may be used every game, even if the element has not been called or it has been called in a past match.

this is saying I can hypothetically use fire as my mark for every match even if I am not using fire cards, correct?

[RavingRabbid]

[...]

1st) Call Fire, 9 Fire cars. Call Fire and Air, still 9 Fire cards.

2nd and 3rd) Every bo5.

4th and 5th) Yes.

[deuce22]

So, I think it would be easier to see the rules on a round by round basis. Here is my interpretation:

Rounds 1 and 2:
-able to call any number of elements
-must use all elements called in bo5
-cannot use the same element twice in a bo5

Rounds 3 and 4:
-able to call a maximum of 4 elements (implies at least 1 mono in a bo5)
-must use all elements called in bo5
-cannot use same element twice in a bo5

Round 5:
-able to call any number of elements
-do not need to use all elements called
-cannot use the same element twice

[RavingRabbid]

So, I think it would be easier to see the rules on a round by round basis. Here is my interpretation:

Rounds 1 and 2:
-able to call any number of elements
-must use all elements called in bo5
-cannot use the same element twice in a bo5

Rounds 3 and 4:
-able to call a maximum of 4 elements (implies at least 1 mono in a bo5)
-must use all elements called in bo5
-cannot use same element twice in a bo5

Round 5:
-able to call any number of elements
-do not need to use all elements called
-cannot use the same element twice

.
Before the 5th battle meant "RIGHT BEFORE".

*clarifications*

[deuce22]

So basically, there will be no declaring of elements for round 5?

[bogtro]

So first two rounds, you should just "call" all elements, on the 3rd and 4th battle, you should just call 4 elements, and on 5th battle is the only one you actually have to guarantee which elements you're using (in some order)?

I'm confused and this doesn't affect me at all :3

[RavingRabbid]

Simulation with master of Aether

Round 1:

Call some elements (e.g.  )
You may use , and cards. 9 of each, but they have to be less than 50% of your deck, as the other 50% has to be aether.
You run Pestal.

Round 2:

See before. You just call different elements (, )
You run Fractix.

Round 3/4:

You may not call more than 4 elements.

Round 5:

You may not call elements you are not going to use.






A new Bo5 means fresh start.

[bogtro]

a) Doesn't 66% have to be aether?
b) Why wouldn't I just call all elements in round 1/2 so that I have more options? Round 5 is the only round I wouldn't want to call the maximum number of elements allowed right?

[~Napalm]

• Masters will not be able to call any element twice.

My understanding is that once called, the element cannot be called again, whether it was used or not. This means if you call all 12 in round 1, you're using a Mono for rounds 2-5. This is merely how I interpreted it though and when it comes to RR, I'm usually wrong.

[deuce22]

• Masters will not be able to call any element twice.

My understanding is that once called, the element cannot be called again, whether it was used or not. This means if you call all 12 in round 1, you're using a Mono for rounds 2-5. This is merely how I interpreted it though and when it comes to RR, I'm usually wrong.

• Masters will not be able to call any element twice.

Is this within the same bo5 or between matches with other masters?

[...]

Every bo5.

[majofa]

Spoiler for pretty:

Masters Tournament

Masters Participating:

  deuce22
  Jenkar
  nilsieboy
  willng3
  10 men
  RavingRabbid

Deckbuilding Rules:

• Matches are best-of-5 games.
• No upgrade limit.
• 66% minimum for in element, rounded up
• Before starting a game, both masters will PM a third person any amount of elements. These will be the elements they can use during that game. (Each Master then builds a deck.)
• Masters may use up to 9 cards of every element declared.
• An element cannot be declared twice in a match.
• On the 3rd and 4th game, Masters may only declare a maximum of 4 elements.
• Before the 5th game, Masters must include all elements declared for this game.
• You may use any Mark, regardless of the elements you've declared.
• No Rare cards (Shard, Rare Weapons, Nymphs, Squid, Miracle, Pharaoh) may be used more than once in a match.
• Standalone Mark Cards are pillars of their respective elements.