The rules for this competition will be: All spells cost at least 3 mana to play. Mana pools do not empty at the end of phases/turns - i.e. Trinisphere and Upwelling are permanently in effect, although the cards themselves are not in play.
Banned list:
Portal
Unglued
Unhinged
Strip Mine
Wasteland
Mishra's Workshop
City of Traitors
Ancient Tomb
The Rack
Wheel of Torture
Rackling
Paupers' Cage
Any spell that can force your opponent to discard more than one 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 #56 Entry or 3cb Tournament#56 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 12th May 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!
I hope I've got the banned list right for this, given that I've gone pretty light on the possible bannings. All LD and all discard may have gone, and (if memory serves) all artifacts went last time, too, but if people were to make recommendations it'd be much appreciated. Any questions or suggestions, post them her or PM me and I'll do my best to answer them.
EDIT: Strip Mine and Wasteland are banned. An oversight on my part.
Results posted by combo_dude earlier today (my internet, as you can see, is now up and running again).
Tom
