Weekly Tournament - August 16th - Tame The Randomness - Unupgraded

[Submachine]

Use those cards which doesn't have a predictable outcome and hope for the best.

Weekly Tournament - August 16th - Tame The Randomness - UnupgradedTournaments every week! Organizers: Submachine, Dm1321, Higurashi or Calindu

When? To find out your local time, check this link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140816T12 Tournament has started

Where? Please enter the Tournament room at least 15 minutes before the tournament starts. Click "Rooms" in the top left to find it.

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.

Spoiler for Diagram Legend:

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.

NOTE: Players with fewer than 10 forum posts are not allowed to enter tournaments. Spamming low-quality posts to reach the minimum post count needed to participate will not be tolerated.

Special Rules

• Upgraded cards, Black Hole, Amber Nymph, Shard of Focus, Earthquake, Trident, Miracle and Shard of Divinity are banned
• All decks must include minimum X Random Effect cards, in any combination. X = 40% of your deck (e.g: In a 30-card deck you can use 6 Pandemonium + 6 Skull Shield or 2 Mutation + 4 Discord + 6 Mindgate)
• Only 5 pillar/pendulum/mark card can be used in a deck, except Quantum Pillars, which can be used without any restriction

Random Effect cards

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

4vi 4vk 4vl 4vm 4vp 50a 52l 5c3 5i8 5i9 5og 5ri 5uo 623

Tournament Organizer Note

If you think that there is an overpowered card that should be banned, don't say it publicly in the comments. Instead, send them to Submachine and Dm1321, who will privately discuss whether the card is really OP or not.

Congratulations for the winners!




1st: glennfoo
2nd: Kakerlake
3rd: Jen-i

[Submachine]

Deck Checker for the tournament: http://etg.dek.im/communitytournament.htm
Special thanks for serprex for creating this tool.


Here is a table for the 40% rule:

Spoiler for Hidden:

Deck Size	40%
30-31	12
32-33	13
34-36	14
37-38	15
39-41	16
42-43	17
44-46	18
47-48	19
49-51	20
52-53	21
54-56	22
57-58	23
59-60	24

Q: Five of -each- nonquantum pillar/pend/mark, or five -total-?  i.e. can I use five water pendulum and five fire pendulum in the same deck, or is that illegal?
A: Five cards total. This means you cannot use 3 water pillars and 3 water pendulums in the same deck.

[dragonsdemesne]

Five of -each- nonquantum pillar/pend/mark, or five -total-?  i.e. can I use five water pendulum and five fire pendulum in the same deck, or is that illegal?

[Rutarete]

Interesting that Nymph Tears was left out of the list. Sadly I won't be able to make it to this one.

[Submachine]

Interesting that Nymph Tears was left out of the list. Sadly I won't be able to make it to this one.

Nymph Tears is only random if it's used on Quantum Pillars, but otherwise the outcome is predictable.

Five of -each- nonquantum pillar/pend/mark, or five -total-?  i.e. can I use five water pendulum and five fire pendulum in the same deck, or is that illegal?

Five cards total. This means you cannot use 3 water pillars and 3 water pendulums in the same deck.

[dark ripper]

I will do ANYTHING to be able to join this!

[iancudorinmarian]

Finally, a tournament where SoSe is allowed. I'll definately be there.

[LongDono]

Wish I could enter. I will be at work. This will be a hilarious tournament. Wish I could see it.

[BumbleSting]

Isn't Shard Of Freedom a random effects card?

[serprex]

Devourer is also random
Arguably any draw effect is as random as Mindgate, but fun theme makes Mindgate make sense

[NoLimit]

Isn't Shard Of Freedom a random effects card?

No, it has set percentages.

This is pretty limiting, but it does live up to its name.

[CuCN]

Isn't Shard Of Freedom a random effects card?

No, it has set percentages.

This is pretty limiting, but it does live up to its name.

Thorns, Fog and Dusk also have set percentages, but they are included.