Elements PvP Tournament - Your ideas!

[OdinVanguard]

Most tournaments seem to provide a challenge by limiting cards included in a deck. Here is a fun idea that breaks the mold by instead limiting when a player may use their cards... The theme is that of a medieval tournament where the player selects a champion and squire to represent them in battle.

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)

[Glitch]

"Draw, stranger"
No player may damage his opponent until turn 7.

[bobknows]

one that I don't see mentioned is no creatures at all.
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.

[furballdn]

one that I don't see mentioned is no creatures at all.
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.

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.

[OdinVanguard]

one that I don't see mentioned is no creatures at all.
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.

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.

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  cost version of flying weapon)
-Steal, deflag, etc. may not be used to target opponents weapon (or disallow altogether)
-No reverse time

[furballdn]

Probably really complicated and time consuming idea that's better for a longer tournament, not a weekly one. Players talk with their opponents, and build decks by calling out one card at a time to put into their deck, alternating turns. For example, "Player one calls out nova" "Player two calls out black hole" "Player one calls out sanctuary" "Player two calls out steal" "Player one calls out sanctuary" Until both players agree their decks are done.

[whatifidogetcaught?]

"Rock paper scissors"

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.

[TheAccuso]

first of all it's a big tournament so i'll definetely need some help from the community to develop a good format since it's my first attemp to do one...
                                            anyway the idea is to make a WORLD CUP !
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  , al can use  , john can use    and jack can use  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!

[Higurashi]

I'll remind people this topic isn't for criticising others' ideas. The TO's will handle the refining process.

[Kuroaitou]

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. 

[Rutarete]

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. 

Sounds fun to me!

[Belligerence]

Odds and Evens:

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).