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.
someone, I think it was zoneseek wrote wrote:
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 #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 15th September 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!
Please note that I don't really want any PM's directed to me about this (all the first person references do NOT refer to me) - I've spoken to Tom, and he should have his Intarweb back up and running tomorrow.
We've also discussed a possible banning - Leveler. A 10/10 on turn 1 with the drawback of a tapped Mana Vault is possibly too good - more to the point, there are very few decks that beat it, playing or drawing. A Factory deck with Seal of Cleansing, Naturalize, or Disenchant can do it, as can Lumbercrack, but almost nothing else can...
Personally, I think it should go - it also weakens one of the other dangerous decks in the format (Lumbercrack - you're removing a deck that loses to Crack, so the incentive to play it is slightly lessened), but it's too damn good. The other problem is that there's no other way to neuter it; Mana Vault is easily replaced by Mana Crypt.
Oh, and CHK will become legal in the first tournament that starts after it becomes tournament-legal, whether on cards or online. So don't ask anything else about it.
People's thoughts?
EDIT: Also, even though I'll be the one posting the results, wonkey_donkey IS still in charge of running 3CB. I'm helping him out this time around, but he's still the one running it, and while I'm happy to help with questions and other such things, send the entries elsewhere.
Unless you particularly want me to know what you're playing so I can choose my deck accordingly. Obviously.
