Weekly Tournament - April 27th - The Forgotten Gratitude - Unupgraded

[Vineroz]

FACT OF THE DAY: When shards were first implemented into the game, the only way to obtain them was to show gratitude to the game's lead developer, Zanzarino. (by donating US$5)

Weekly Tournament - April 27th - The Forgotten Gratitude - Unupgraded
Organizer: Higurashi, pikachufan2164, n00b, Vineroz or ddevans96

When?
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130427T13

Tournament has started

Where?
Please enter the Tournament Channel at least 15 minutes before the tournament starts. Use your forum username as nickname.

Rules
Please read the PvP Tournament rules carefully before signing up.

Prizes

1st	7,000 electrum + Nymph/Mark + Trophy (Forum Icon)
2nd	5,000 electrum + Nymph/Mark
3rd	4,000 electrum
4th	3,000 electrum
5th	2,000 electrum
6th	1,000 electrum

Players who lose their quarterfinal (Top 8) matches will compete for the 5th and 6th place prizes in a mini-tournament. Prize-eligible players (namely, ones in the top 8) who leave the tournament without notifying the Tournament Organizer of their intent are considered to have forfeited their match, and also their prize.

Diagram Legend
Black lines and text represent the brackets.
Red arrows represent 'dropping' into a different part of the bracket.
Blue arrows and text explain which battles are taking place in that part of the bracket.



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Special Rules

• Upgraded cards and shards are not allowed (except SoG).
• Shard of Gratitude(SoG) is allowed with condition: if you include x copies of SoGs in your deck, the minimum number of each non-pillar/pend/mark cards in your deck is equal to x and the maximum number of each non-pillar/pend/mark cards in your deck is equal to x+2.
• If your deck has no SoGs, you can only have 1 copy of each non-pillar/pend/mark card.
• Quantum Pillar, Nova and Immolation are banned if there are SoGs in the deck.

[Vineroz]

Number of SoGs Min. number of each card Max. number of each card 0 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 4 3 3 5 4 4 6 5 5 6 6 6 6

Q&A:

[Vangelios]

Oh! Shard in the tourney, this is a dream? are beginning to open the mind.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Time to show the world how OP SoG and Life can be!

[Helston]

 Are upped SoGs allowed?

Donation cards come upgraded, although I don't know what it was like when they first came around. Although this is an unupgraded tournament, considering the theme and how readily available upgraded shards can be (and who wouldn't want to donate a little to Zanz?), it seems appropriate to allow them here (or maybe allow one or two upped per deck so people without them upgraded don't "have" to burn more than $10 to be completely competitive).

[Acsabi44]

Fun fact: Initially, shards got the banhammer in tourneys not because they were OP or they were  , but because of SoG.
SoG made the games last too long, so it got banned for simplicity's sake. And since SG didnt want to ban a shard selectively, she banned all 3.

[Vineroz]

Oh! Shard in the tourney, this is a dream? are beginning to open the mind.

Yes we haven't had a shard tournament for a while now. Last one it was a SoSe tournament.

Are upped SoGs allowed?

Donation cards come upgraded, although I don't know what it was like when they first came around. Although this is an unupgraded tournament, considering the theme and how readily available upgraded shards can be (and who wouldn't want to donate a little to Zanz?), it seems appropriate to allow them here (or maybe allow one or two upped per deck so people without them upgraded don't "have" to burn more than $10 to be completely competitive).

Although that would actually make sense and possibly encourage people to donate a few nickles to Zanz, our decision is to keep this tournament an unupgrade one. Considering the time it has been in game, also the usability of its unupped form, I don't think allowing upped SoGs is necessary.

[Calindu]

Can SoG be dead cards?

[Acsabi44]

Can SoG be dead cards?

I don't see why not, the restrictions are severe enough in themselves

[Narukta]

If I don't put any SoGs in, can I play more than 2 Immo/nova?

[Zso_Zso]

If I don't put any SoGs in, can I play more than 2 Immo/nova?

I think the answer is in here:

Special Rules

• If your deck has no SoGs, you can only have 1 copy of each non-pillar/pend/mark card.
• Quantum Pillar, Nova and Immolation are banned if there are SoGs in the deck.

Since those are non-pillar/pend/mark cards, it would mean only 1 copy of each!

[Blacksmith]

Strange tourney but I like it. Also congrats sog for becoming first shard in weekly tourney what I know.