The rules for this competition will be: Anything Goes... as in, more than usual goes!
Banned list:
Portal
Unglued
[card]Black Lotus[/card]
[card]Mesmeric Fiend[/card]
[card]Nezumi Shortfang[/card]
[card]Blackmail[/card]
[card]Chain of Smog[/card]
[card]Cabal Therapy[/card]
[card]Encroach[/card]
[card]Mind Swords[/card]
[card]Anvil of Bogarden[/card]
[card]Strip Mine[/card]
[card]Wasteland[/card]
[card]The Rack[/card]
[card]Balance[/card]
[card]Meddling Mage[/card]
[card]Isochron Scepter[/card]
NB this is subject to change within 48hrs of first posting.
What is 3cb?
3-Card Blind (3CB) is a very unique game. The rules are as follows
Your deck is composed of 3 cards, all of which start in your hand.
You have no library (technically, the library exists, but starts at 0 cards) and no sideboard (Wishes fetch nothing).
Random effects always go in your opponent's favour.
You can see your opponent's hand, so you can always make the best possible play.
You don't lose as a result of not being able to draw a card.
You will play each opponent twice, once going first, once going second.
For each win, you score 3.
For each draw, you score 1.
For each lose, you get nothing.
Other than the aforementioned, EVERYTHING IS HANDLED EXACTLY LIKE A REAL GAME OF MAGIC!
To make an entry, PM your deck to wonkey_donkey in the following format:
Subject: 3cb Tournament #55 Entry or 3cb Tournament#55 Revision
Deck Name
Card #1
Card #2
Card #3
Optional Deck discussion, random sucking up, etc.
I'll close entries after 2 weeks. Get your entries in by 28th April and I'll calculate. As I said, the banned list may change within 48 hours of this post going up. After that, it stays as it is. This is not a reason to withold your decks, though - this is not a particuarly serious format! If something's broke, please fix it whilst we can!
For this tournament, I've made some of the unbannings that had been suggested - Raze, Evil Presence, Sea's Claim, Hymn to Tourach, Forget, Wheel of Torture, Phyrexian Dreadnaught and Lions' Eye Diamond have all come off the list. I'm making this tournament as open as possible, so I can decide roughly which bannings are necessary. Hopefully this won't be a waste of a tournament with one deck dominating, but we shall see. I'll try something a little different next week - will be revisiting an old format that, if memory serves, I was terrible at. Ah well, I'll see what happens.
Results up later this week - probably on Sunday, as I have no access to excel, which makes everything a lot harder to sort out.
Tom
