Weekly Tournament - September 14th - Shackled Omniscience - Unupgraded

[UndeadSpider1990]

Oh boy! Here's my deck:

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52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 52m 8pk

And for my 6 cards... can you guess?

Seriously, here's my understanding of the rules:

— Forum users may submit one incomplete deck before the tournament begins. Decks must consist of 24 non-shard, non-rare cards, and Mark (?).
— 30 Minutes before the tournament, organizers will release 12 of the incomplete decks. Contestants must fight with these decks, plus 6 of any one card to complete the deck.

I have two questions:
– Am I right that the Mark can't be changed?
– Isn't there a better term than "Skeleton" decks??

[serprex]

Mark not being able to change makes creating skeletons much harder: pends no longer allow for flexibility in element of added cards

[Vineroz]

The only customizable part of your final deck is the 6 cards.

Please do not send decks with dead cards. Not only your chance of sending deck is wasted, there will be simply no one using your deck.

[w4sh1ng7on]

In every game I can choose one of 12 Decks, or I have to play all games with the same deck?

[Vineroz]

Q&A updated

[Jen-i]

Q: In every game I can choose one of 12 Decks, or I have to play all games with the same deck?
A: No rules says you can't change decks.

The grammar in the answer is not quite correct and as a result open to interpretation.
Do you mean:
a) No rules say you can't change decks - therefore it is permissible?
b) No, the rules say you can't change decks - therefore it is forbidden?

[UndeadSpider1990]

Mark not being able to change makes creating skeletons much harder: pends no longer allow for flexibility in element of added cards

I agree and feel I would prefer if the Mark was flexible.

It would allow for more flexibility in what you do with the skeleton decks.

For example:

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f3 5f3 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f6 5f6 5fb 5fb 5gi 5gi 5gi

I may build a mono deck thinking Lava Golems, so I'd choose Mark. Now no-one can choose any other monster unless they want to waste all of their quanta. Alternatively I could choose the Mark, but then it would be impossible to play Golems. By leaving the mark flexible, there's a greater chance of originality between same-skeleton decks.

One other question, just to be 100% clear:
Must the 6 cards you choose be 6 of the same card?

[dragonsdemesne]

I got the impression it could be any six, as long as you follow the other rules, i.e. none of the six can be cards already included.  If the skeleton deck is 24 water pillars, you can't add any more water pillars, for instance, but you could add one fire pillar and five life pillars.

edit: also, I submitted a deck to Vineroz.  We'll see if it makes it this Saturday... :p

[xyan]

I seem to recall it had been stated any 6 of 1 card, not 6 cards in general.

[UndeadSpider1990]

Every player must use a skeleton-deck with 6 copies of a card that doesn't appear in the skeleton-deck, making a 30-card deck. This card of your choice can be a rare card.

This suggests to me it can only be one card, I just want clear confirmation.

So I cannot choose 2 Pendulums and 4 Creatures, I must choose 6 copies of a single card? (And therefore one that is not already in the deck, because you can't have more than 6 of a card in a deck.)

[Vineroz]

Yes,  xyan and undeadspider is correct.

[Jen-i]

I'm still unsure as to whether or not deck changing is allowed.