3CB Tournament #51

[wonkey_donkey]

*Important notice at the bottom*

The rules for this competition will be: Anything 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]Hymn to Tourach[/card]
[card]Cabal Therapy[/card]
[card]Encroach[/card]
[card]Mind Swords[/card]
[card]Forget[/card]
[card]Anvil of Bogarden[/card]
[card]Strip Mine[/card]
[card]Wasteland[/card]
[card]Raze[/card]
[card]The Rack[/card]
[card]Wheel of Torture[/card]
[card]Balance[/card]
[card]Meddling Mage[/card]
[card]Isochron Scepter[/card]
[card]Phrexian Dreadnaught[/card]
[card]Lions Eye Diamond[/card]
[card]Evil Presence[/card]
[card]Seas Claim[/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 #51 Entry or 3cb Tournament#51 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 24th February 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 nearly had "for what it seems to be worth" in the title for this. There's been minimal and waning interest in this format, and I'm with my having very little time to do the results at the moment I'm wondering if there's enough left to keep this going. I'm sorry to be so pessimistic, but unless I can get >10-person tournaments with some regularity I may stick to MTGnews for 3CB. I'll give it another 2 or 3 tournaments (say, until easter) and see what happens.

I've been snowed under with essays recently and subsequently even with the increased time period for sorting the results, workload and the flu have kept me from getting them in a state to go up. And it's more complicated to calculate this time!

Tom

[Alfred]

Yeah... I agree with you that the turnout for this type of game has been waning quite a bit in the past few months. It's such an entertaining game, I wonder why it's been doing so poorly. I strongly encourage everyone reading this to take a look at some of the past few tournaments and just build a deck for shits and giggles, it takes like 5 minutes, and you can always just netdeck anyway. I'll be entering this tournament and I encourage everyone to do the same.

[combo_dude]

Oh yeah, and I'll take over doing the results if you're not happy with it. For some reason I can't get on MtGNews message boards at school, so it kinda sucks for me if that's the only place it's running; also there's a chance to have two parallel games, one with Lotus and one without, making it more interesting. It won't be an issue for too much longer as I'm leaving at the end of May, but for now at least I'd love to see it keep going.

[Goblinboy]

I'll drop a recruitment link on News/Salvation. That should get you a few players.

-Goblinboy

[Jacob Orlove]

Maybe switch to less frequent, more marquee-style events?

[wonkey_donkey]

Maybe switch to less frequent, more marquee-style events?

That was the intention of running these every 2 weeks rather than every 1. However, evidence would suggest that this isn't working either, as we've only got 7 decks for this tournament. I'm extending for another week again, and please send second decks (not opened before as there weren't enough players to make it worthwhile).

I think something needs to be done about this if it's not going to go under. The larger events would suit me down to the ground, but I'd need to get sufficient players first to avoid it being infrequent, 10-strong events. Do people prefer some sort of strange, convoluted format to the normal, banned-list ones? If so, then send in some ideas to tell me what you'd like to see. If not, then where are the entrants? We've lost a fair few regulars, for some reason...

Tom