5th Trials - Phase 4 - The Final Battle

[kev]

Phase 4 – The Final Battle


1: Ban Cards
Time's up!

	1st card banned	2nd card banned	Additional bans
In-element cards	5 points	15 points	Unbannable
Out-of-element cards	1 point	3 points	6 points
’Other’ cards	1 point	2 points	3 points
Pillars, Pendulums, and Marks	Unbannable	Unbannable	Unbannable

- Each player is given 25 ban points he/she may use to ban cards
- Both unupped and upped version of the card will be banned using that one ban
- Opponent cannot use any of these banned cards in any of his/her decks
- You can use the cards that you banned but you cannot use the cards your opponent banned

Example #1 (participant in Trial of Aether)
Maxwell’s Demon (1 point)
Abomination (3)
Bone Dragon (1)
Virus (3)
Sapphire Charger (1)
Antlion (1)
Emerald Dragon (1)
Ash Eater (1)
Chrysaora (1)
Photon (1)
Spark (5)
Dagger (1)
Short Sword (2)
Hammer (3)

Total = 1+3+1+3+1+1+1+1+1+1+5+1+2+3=25

Example #2 (participant in Trial of Aether)
Maxwell’s Demon (1 point)
Discord (3)
Shard of Divinity (1)
Spark (5)
Lightning (15)

Total = 1+3+1+5+15=25

Example #3 (participant in Trial of Aether)
Maxwell’s Demon (1 point)
Abomination (3)
Purple Dragon (6)
Dissipation Shield (6)
Lycanthrope (6)
Bone Dragon (1)
Sapphire Charger (1)
Antlion (1)

Total = 1+3+6+6+6+1+1+1=25


PM your ban list to kevkev60614.  If a contestant does not PM a list, no cards are banned and their opponent may use any cards.  Banned cards will be made public when the countdown timer above reaches 0.  Contestants will then have nine days to build their decks and fight.
 

2: Prepare Decks
Deckbuilding rules:
- Any amount of cards
- Maximum amount of upgraded cards is the number of points a player scored during phases 1-3
- At least half of the cards in your deck have to be in-element.  Rest of cards can be from any element or 'other'.  This means a 31-card deck must have 16 or more in-element cards.  A 31-card deck with 15 in-element cards is illegal.
- Any mark
- No cards banned by your opponent


3: Fight!
Time's up!
The Final Battle is "best-of-nine" meaning that the player who gets five wins first, wins the battle.  If a Master wins, he or she retains the title. If a challenger wins, he or she becomes the new Master.
 
Players are to contact their opponents using PMs and find a duel time that is suitable for both players. Keep in mind that best-of-nine might take a long time, so you might need up to two hours to finish all the matches.  Players are highly encouraged to post a countdown timer for their duel in Trials Battle Results (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/board,370.0.html) at least 24 hours before it happens so that community members will have a chance to observe the battle.
 
Contestants have nine days to finish Final Battles.  Please fight as soon as possible, however, to avoid running out of time.  Please post match results and decks used in the Trials Battle Results thread created before the battle.
 

Resources:
 
To help you find a suitable time for both players click the links below to see what these times are in your time zone. Then tell your opponent which GMT times suit you best.
 

00 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=0&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	01 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=1&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	02 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=2&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	03 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=3&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	04 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=4&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	05 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=5&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	06 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=6&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	07 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	08 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=8&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	09 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	10 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	11 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)
12 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	13 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=13&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	14 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	15 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	16 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	17 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	18 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	19 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	20 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	21 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	22 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)	23 UTC (or GMT) (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=19&month=6&year=2010&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=0)

• Download screen recording software.  I used camstudio (http://camstudio.org/).
• Follow the directions to record your screen while you play your matches.
• Upload (http://upload.youtube.com/my_videos_upload) the video to youtube.  Follow the instructions there.
• Share the link with us.

Here’s (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,20931.msg287554#msg287554) an example.


>> Click Here to View the Final Battle Status << (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AqCh8-BfWOzYdG5tYjRfeUJkTzk0eFBPQjAyazNtVFE&output=html)

[ak65ala]

Yea!! ban points!! I suggested that! (maybe not first, but this makes me HAPPY!)

EDIT: The deck building rules do not ban shards.  I assume this is intentional, with the lower cost to ban other cards, but a  confirmation would be nice. 

[Dm]

So limited but so nice. Interesting rules this time around.

[kev]

EDIT: The deck building rules do not ban shards.  I assume this is intentional, with the lower cost to ban other cards, but a  confirmation would be nice.

Confirmed.  I forget nothi

[~Napalm]

*bites* Except ng! I wonder if will has noticed.

[willng3]

*Sadface*

G3's growing restless.

[deuce22]

so many options for ban choices. This is going to be a lot of fun!

[~Napalm]

Or will it? With so many bans, it might not be as fun as it seems. Regardless, it will likely be a lot more creative x]

[nilsieboy]

brilliant banning system, i've never been a fan of the bans (first and second trials were my favorites) but this is the first time i'm looking forward to the banning system

[YoungSot]

It might be worth clarifying whether the increasing cost for banning out-of-element cards applies just to banning multiple cards from a single non-trials element, or multiple out-of-element cards in general. I was assuming the latter but some trialers seem to think it's the former.

nvm somehow didn't notice the example.

[deuce22]

Or will it? With so many bans, it might not be as fun as it seems. Regardless, it will likely be a lot more creative x]

always so negative...

[UTAlan]

It might be worth clarifying whether the increasing cost for banning out-of-element cards applies just to banning multiple cards from a single non-trials element, or multiple out-of-element cards in general. I was assuming the latter but some trialers seem to think it's the former.

Looking at the examples, it looks like the cost increases within each element, not just overall.