Elements PvP Tournament - Your ideas!

[regen2k9]

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.

I see your dragon rainbow OTK and raise you a PU Dragons + silence

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.

[jumpingbeans]

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.

I see your dragon rainbow OTK and raise you a PU Dragons + silence

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. ). Or one half of the alphabet, divided anyways.

[nighthawklol]

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.

I see your dragon rainbow OTK and raise you a PU Dragons + silence

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.

[blueberrymania]

Chaos vs. Order (Only decks allowed are entropy and aether)

[pikachufan2164]

Chaos vs. Order (Only decks allowed are entropy and aether)

Lore: Gravity is Entropy's opposite.

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

However, there are enough guessing games involved for an / -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.

[Hawfrey1337]

"Reality Crash" where only non fictional life forms collide in a battle for supremacy (spells and permanents need to be defined)

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4ve 4vq 52i 52j 52k 52u 55n 55u 5bu 5c8 5f1 5i5 5ie 5ii 5l9 5ll 5od 5ok 5rq 5rt 5un 5v0 620

Thats everything from the bazaar i can show. So how about it?

[blueberrymania]

"Reality Crash" where only non fictional life forms collide in a battle for supremacy (spells and permanents need to be defined)

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4ve 4vq 52i 52j 52k 52u 55n 55u 5bu 5c8 5f1 5i5 5ie 5ii 5l9 5ll 5od 5ok 5rq 5rt 5un 5v0 620

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?

[Hawfrey1337]

That's one point of view! Because "reality crash" could lead to a realistic atmosphere (no big spells such antimatter, just stuff we know), therefore referring to the battle as a crash in natural order. Big. Wild. Brawl.

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

[Vangelios]

    The Power of Community

• 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.

[blueberrymania]

My three votes go to Earthquake, Nymph's Tears, and Firefly Queen.

[Vangelios]

OK, but  first my suggestion need be accepted. However it seems you liked the idea.
Firefly Queen? you think this powerful deck?, I put the shield dimensional.

[Rutarete]

@Vangelios That does sound fun. Though the voting would have to be started a week or so beforehand.

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).