Elements PvP Tournament - Your ideas!

[S2xaT5No]

It's time for BIG decks!

- 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.

[neuroleptics]

What I have in mind is this
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 can only use elements from and .    can only use , and .
Other elements can freely choose any elements but are banned from using 
4) any mark will do, no AW, shards or shields allowed.

[legion_bre]

Slim Pickings:
- 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

[mrpaper]

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

[yee]

The RNG be with you

Only allowed cards (beside pillars and pendelums):

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4vi 4vj 4vk 4vm 4vp 50a 52m 5l9 5ri 623 8pj

Can be upped or unupped.

[dragonsdemesne]

@yee: We actually did a tourney much like that one once, right after SoSe was introduced.  It was fun, but rather silly, since RNG was even bigger than normal.

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

[CuCN]

I would say Ash Eater, Devourer (millipede), Graboid, and Shrieker are arthropods, and that Chrysaora (jellyfish), Rustler (a mobile plant?), and Deja Vu aren't. Blue Crawler may qualify as well, but I can't tell what it is.

[Jyiber]

A themed duo tournament where a certain amount of cards have direct synergies only. The rules for a direct synergies are cards that either use both elements, or mention each other. A few loose example could be defined as ok, such as Hematite Golem and Rage Potion.

[blueberrymania]

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.

[dragonsdemesne]

False God Marriage:

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.

[dragonsdemesne]

Third Eye Awakened:

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.

[dragonsdemesne]

A new way to speedbuild:

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.