Post by artemi on Jul 26, 2007 1:09:13 GMT -5
Ok, folks, time for a group project!
It's time for this year's Auction of the People! For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, basiclly the public makes decks and submits them to Wizards. They take their top 30 or so favorites, get ahold of Pro Tour players, and they have a tournement using the wacky decks people have come up with. The winner gets to make a card, and the winning deckbuilder gets ultimate bragging rights.
I propose that the fine folks here on the Temple of the Heaven's make a deck, and submit it as something of a group project. Thats what this thread is for. Intrested? Here are the rules...
1. The deck must be legal in Legacy.
2. The deck must have exactly 60 cards and a minimum of 24 lands. There will be no sideboards, not even for the Wishes or Ring of Ma'ruf.
3. The deck will have 1-4 copies of 26 unique cards (not counting basic lands). Each card's English name must begin with a different letter of the alphabet. So you will have to include one card beginning with A, one with B, one with C, and so on until Z. Put another way, if you remove all the basic lands from your deck, you should be left with 1-4 copies of 26 unique cards. Since there are always exceptions, especially in Magic, here are a few extra rules based on questions that have come up:
a. Relentless Rats breaks the "four-copy rule" so if you choose it as your "R" card, you can use as many of them as you can fit.
b. Cards that begin with the word "The" (like The Hive and The Fallen) will be considered "T" cards.
c. You can use either name on a split card. For example, Fire // Ice can be used as your "F" or your "I."
d. Snow-Covered Island, Forest, Plains, Mountain, and Swamp are considered basic lands.
e. Cards that begin with Æ like Æther Burst and Æther Web, begin with "A."
f. Treat the Kamigawa flip cards as though they just have the name they have when they aren't flipped. For example, Jushi Apprentice can only be used as your "J."
4. Only one deck may be submitted per person. Send your deck to me by clicking on the "Respond via email" link at the bottom of the page.
5. The decks will be selected based on a combination of creativity, entertainment and play value. We are not looking for the most powerful deck. As I said in the forums last week, the deck can be powerful, it just doesn't have to be, because we are going to be taking other things into consideration. Basically, I won't be narrowing the field down to the 30 most powerful decks. Take a look at previous auction finalists to see what kinds of decks have been chosen. You can find those here, here, here, and ]here.
6. The deadline for submissions is August 8th, 2007. That's two weeks from today.
I've got one or two ideas, though the first one that came to mind was this: Ankh of Mishra to Zo-Zu the Punisher.
Oh, and to make things easy, you probubly want to start here. Here they are; all SIX cards in Magic that start with X. Except for possibly Un-sets, which are stupid anyway.
It's time for this year's Auction of the People! For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, basiclly the public makes decks and submits them to Wizards. They take their top 30 or so favorites, get ahold of Pro Tour players, and they have a tournement using the wacky decks people have come up with. The winner gets to make a card, and the winning deckbuilder gets ultimate bragging rights.
I propose that the fine folks here on the Temple of the Heaven's make a deck, and submit it as something of a group project. Thats what this thread is for. Intrested? Here are the rules...
1. The deck must be legal in Legacy.
2. The deck must have exactly 60 cards and a minimum of 24 lands. There will be no sideboards, not even for the Wishes or Ring of Ma'ruf.
3. The deck will have 1-4 copies of 26 unique cards (not counting basic lands). Each card's English name must begin with a different letter of the alphabet. So you will have to include one card beginning with A, one with B, one with C, and so on until Z. Put another way, if you remove all the basic lands from your deck, you should be left with 1-4 copies of 26 unique cards. Since there are always exceptions, especially in Magic, here are a few extra rules based on questions that have come up:
a. Relentless Rats breaks the "four-copy rule" so if you choose it as your "R" card, you can use as many of them as you can fit.
b. Cards that begin with the word "The" (like The Hive and The Fallen) will be considered "T" cards.
c. You can use either name on a split card. For example, Fire // Ice can be used as your "F" or your "I."
d. Snow-Covered Island, Forest, Plains, Mountain, and Swamp are considered basic lands.
e. Cards that begin with Æ like Æther Burst and Æther Web, begin with "A."
f. Treat the Kamigawa flip cards as though they just have the name they have when they aren't flipped. For example, Jushi Apprentice can only be used as your "J."
4. Only one deck may be submitted per person. Send your deck to me by clicking on the "Respond via email" link at the bottom of the page.
5. The decks will be selected based on a combination of creativity, entertainment and play value. We are not looking for the most powerful deck. As I said in the forums last week, the deck can be powerful, it just doesn't have to be, because we are going to be taking other things into consideration. Basically, I won't be narrowing the field down to the 30 most powerful decks. Take a look at previous auction finalists to see what kinds of decks have been chosen. You can find those here, here, here, and ]here.
6. The deadline for submissions is August 8th, 2007. That's two weeks from today.
I've got one or two ideas, though the first one that came to mind was this: Ankh of Mishra to Zo-Zu the Punisher.
Oh, and to make things easy, you probubly want to start here. Here they are; all SIX cards in Magic that start with X. Except for possibly Un-sets, which are stupid anyway.
