3CB #99 Results and Discussion/3CB Tournament #100

[Godder]

I'd like to congratulate Illissius as the winner of 3CB Tournament #99! Lightning on a stick was just too good this time around, and he collected second as well, but we'll see about next time... Speaking of next time, suggestions for our celebration of 100 3CBs would be very much appreciated (hence the lack of a format below)!

Also, my apologies for the delay in getting this done, but I got called into work every day I had off for 3 weeks .

3CB Tournament #99 Banned list:
Mesmeric Fiend
Nezumi Shortfang
Blackmail
Coercion
Cabal Therapy
Abandon Hope
Pulse of the Dross
Nullstone Gargoyle
Null Chamber
Form of the Dragon
The Rack
Ghost Quarter
Strip Mine
Wasteland
Balance
Restore Balance
Pox
Smallpox
Misguided Rage
Glacial Chasm
Mind Swords
Any deck that can force the opponent to discard more than one card in a turn
Any deck that can goldfish on turn 1
Any deck that produce more than 2 mana on turn 1
Any deck that can't win if the opposition does nothing e.g. Mishra's Workshop, Trinisphere, Wheel of Torture (aka The Mise Prize)
Cards from Unglued/Unhinged

Decks:

1   Technogeek5000   -   Bouncy   -   Karakas   Isamaru, Hound of Konda   Leyline of Singularity
2   Illissius   -   Miami Boys Choir   -   Bottomless Vault   Evil Presence   Visara, the Dreadful
3   ReAnimator   -   Half a Brick   -   Hickory Woodlot   Tempting Wurm   Wear Away
4   Franz Ferdinand   -   Hardcore   -   City of Traitors   Coretapper   Umezawa's Jitte
5   Godder   -   Down in the Swamp   -   Bayou   Duress   Thallid
6   Technogeek5000   -   Some Channel Deck...   -   Hickory Woodlot   Channel   Darksteel Colossus
7   Illissius   -   Tesla Coil   -   City of Traitors   Isochron Scepter   Lightning Helix
8   ReAnimator   -   The Chronic   -   Sand Silos   Force of Will   Chronazoa
9   Franz Ferdinand   -   Vitamin M   -   Karakas   Aether Vial   Mangara of Corondor
10   Tragedy   -   My One and Only   -   Dryad Arbor   Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale   Petrified Field

Results:

      1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   0   Total  Position
1|   X   0   6   2   6   6   0   2   3   2   27   4
2|   6   X   6   0   6   0   6   2   2   6   34   2
3|   0   0   X   6   6   0   6   0   2   0   20   7
4|   2   6   0   X   3   0   0   2   6   6   25   6
5|   0   0   0   3   X   6   3   0   3   0   15   10
6|   0   6   6   6   0   X   0   2   6   0   26   5
7|   6   0   0   6   3   6   X   2   6   6   35   1
8|   2   2   6   2   6   2   2   X   2   6   30   3
9|   3   2   2   0   3   0   0   2   X   6   18   9
0|   2   0   6   0   6   6   0   0   0   X   20   7

All established decks this week, other than Tragedy's interesting take on 3lands.dec. Meanwhile, Bayou-Thallid-Duress went from first to last, in the biggest swing I can remember seeing!

For next time: You tell me! It's number 100, so give me some ideas and we'll do something special for it.

[technogeek5000]

Umm we could go back to the old points system... or we could keep the banned list and have the 3 mana rule taken out.

[Illissius]

SuperIllissius strikes again!

I'm not sure what to do for #100. Assuming we don't want to change the fundamental format (round robin tournament with three cards), there's four things I can see which we can experiment with:

- The banned list: What it sounds like, modulating which cards are legal, trading points for banned cards, and the like. Done recently.
- The card pool: We could restrict it to Extended or Standard, but that doesn't sound very fun. More interesting could be a Duplicate Sealed type format, where we select 100 cards, and you can only build your decks using those cards; but this would be a lot of effort. Hell, we could even draft them, but that would be difficult logistically.
- Special restrictions: Just as a wild example, the sum of the your creatures' power and toughness must be 100 (which is impossible in three cards). Or you choose a color, can only play cards of that color, and get a special bonus depending on the color. Dunno.
- Global effects: Like the Upwelling/Trinisphere format, except with different effects. We could also use Vanguard, either the paper or MODO version (excluding the ones with random effects), but this has a high probability of being extremely broken. What other interesting global effects could we use? Here's some off the top of my head:

Stasis
Necrogen Mists
Sphere of Resistance, Helm of Awakening
Mana Flare
Aluren
Vedalken Orrery
Dream Halls
Forbidden Crypt
Lich
Eladamri's Vineyard
Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, March of the Machines
Braids, Conjurer Adept
Jhoira of the Ghitu
Restore Balance
Ice Cave
Sneak Attack

And on and on. There's a ton of possibilities.

[EKM_Ichorid]

I used to play this, but forget if the decks play as if they know the other deck.

[technogeek5000]

• All hands are revealed, so you always make the best possible play.

[KaTuBu]

Hi there !
Just discovered this format ... seems fun to me, any tourney planed ?

My 3CB deck :

Yet another LD deck ...

Moutain
Crac The Earth
Arbor Dryad