What happens if a team is forced to field an illegal deck? For example, they have 240 cards but only 110 cards of their element, so at least one deck must be illegal. Is that an auto-loss + penalty? Just an auto-loss? Are only 7 players forced to play instead of 8 (I suppose this one wouldn't be feasible because of the way match-ups are drawn before vault changes)?
What about if they have 120 element cards and 120 off. Do they *have* to field 8 legal decks, or can they field 7 decks with a better chance to win and take the penalty/loss on the 8th deck?
Thanks in advance
If you have 120 element and 120 off element cards, you're forced to field 8 legal decks no matter how terrible they are.
As for your first question, we cant be forced to field illegal decks. Thats insane. We
may be forced to salvage/discard in a manner that will allow us to field maximum number of decks for next round, but thats not regulated in the rules at all.