3CB Tournament #38 AND #39!

[wonkey_donkey]

The rules for this competition will be: Anything Goes!

Banned list:
Portal
Unglued
Black Lotus
Mesmeric Fiend
Blackmail
Chain of Smog
Hymn to Tourach
Cabal Therapy
Encroach
Mind Swords
Forget
Anvil of Bogarden
Strip Mine
Wasteland
Raze
The Rack
Wheel of Torture
Balance
Meddling Mage
Show and Tell
Isochron Scepter
Phrexian Dreadnaught
Lion's Eye Diamond
Evil Presence
Sea's Claim


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 me in the following format:

Subject: 3cb Tournament #38 Entry or 3cb Tournament#38 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 5th August 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!

The banned list is unlikely to change, however, as we still haven't found a dominant deck.

Tom

[wonkey_donkey]

The reason for this being tournament 38 and 39 is that I am going away for 2 weeks on the 1st August to play in the British ch-ess championships. Whilst I'm away it will be difficult, verging on impossible, for me to obtain internet access. I will get most of the results done for tournament #38 done before I go, as most of the decks (please try and make it all of the decks) will be in by then. I'll post the results for 38 asap after I get back, and can then calculate the results for tournament #39. Tournament #39 will open on 5th August, and I'll ignore any entries for 3CB#38 sent after that date - they'll go into #39 instead, which will close on 19th August.

I'd like to thank xrizzo for coming up with this kind of strategy to make the timings easier - I'll show what his idea was here:

Let me explain in more detail:
3CB #35 entry period ends Thursday, June 24
3CB #36 entry period is June 24-July 8

3CB #35 results are posted June X (however long it takes to calculate them)

Basically, you would have 26 deadlines each year-- every two weeks. Depending on how long it takes to calculate and post the results from the previous 3CB, a typical user will have anywhere from 5-14 days to think about the new format, come up with a deck, and submit...

I am open to other suggestions - I just wanted to throw this one out there.

I hope this is ok with everyone. If not, then I have a couple of alternative solutions that I'd probably rather not put into practice if it can be avoided.

Let's hope that there isn't a completely broken deck that's played in both tournaments #38 and #39! On that note, however, what about unbanning a card or 2 - specifically Show and Tell? It doesn't seem to be a danger. Do people agree that it's safe?

Results for 3CB#37 will be up later today or tomorrow, whenever I have time at work.

Tom

[wonkey_donkey]

Once again, I am short of entries for this competition, so second decks will be allowed. However, the usual 15-person caveat still applies in so far that they won't be used if we can get 15+ entrants.

Tom