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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    I'm fine with a predetermined banned list to start, but I think Mental Misstep needs to be legal to act as 'policeman'. There needs to be some risk to going all-in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ace/Homebrew View Post
    I'm fine with a predetermined banned list to start, but I think Mental Misstep needs to be legal to act as 'policeman'. There needs to be some risk to going all-in.
    Right now, Misstep isn't on the banned list.
    I don't even think it's all that good, as most of the really dangerous stuff costs more than one mana.

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    Hanni had already asked, but are we bound to singleton?
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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    I say start with your already established list of cards in the first few posts as bans. All of them make a ton of sense. This way if someone is reading through the thread they won't be confused.

    So for the first round I support doing this:
    A: We could discuss for a few more days and try to decide on a decent banning list.

    All cards currently on the banned list, plus:
    - Raze
    - Force of Will
    - Daze
    - Thoughtseize
    - Duress
    - Inquisition of Kozilek
    - Wasteland
    - Ghost Quarter
    - Dark Depths
    - Dark Ritual
    - Show and Tell
    - Burning Inquiry
    - Laboratory Maniac
    - Chancellor of the Annex
    - Reanimate
    - Trinisphere


    That is plenty of restriction already. Busted interactions will become known soon enough.
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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    Why Force of Will? Seems pretty unplayable.
    Duress feels pretty safe too.
    And again, I'm going to lobby to allow Mental Misstep.

    Also, I believe establishing a tiebreaker of 'highest life-total wins in the event of a draw' will reduce the number of draws.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ace/Homebrew View Post
    Why Force of Will? Seems pretty unplayable.
    Duress feels pretty safe too.
    And again, I'm going to lobby to allow Mental Misstep.

    Also, I believe establishing a tiebreaker of 'highest life-total wins in the event of a draw' will reduce the number of draws.
    I'm not sure I agree with allowing Duress, but Mental Misstep seems fine.

    I agree with Force of Will not needing to be banned, and I like the tiebreaker rule.

    I'm not sure that Raze is worth being banned either? Wasteland and Ghost Quarter make sense, but Raze costs two resources to deal with one land, which seems fine. There needs to be some sort of balanced way to deal with lands, no?
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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    Quote Originally Posted by Kap'n Cook View Post
    Hanni had already asked, but are we bound to singleton?
    Nope. Unless a card is restricted for other reasons, all cards may be played four times.

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    I'm not sure I agree with allowing Duress, but Mental Misstep seems fine.
    I agree with Force of Will not needing to be banned, and I like the tiebreaker rule.
    I'm not sure that Raze is worth being banned either? Wasteland and Ghost Quarter make sense, but Raze costs two resources to deal with one land, which seems fine. There needs to be some sort of balanced way to deal with lands, no?
    Force of Will is too good. It just is. The extra card isn't all that relevant if you get to stop (almost) anything.
    Duress is on there because it's not fun, and because Seize and Inquisition are also on there. Besides, we don't need it.

    Raze we might be able to allow back in, but it does completely screw almost every slow strategy, which is sad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Asthereal View Post
    Nope. Unless a card is restricted for other reasons, all cards may be played four times.


    Force of Will is too good. It just is. The extra card isn't all that relevant if you get to stop (almost) anything.
    Duress is on there because it's not fun, and because Seize and Inquisition are also on there. Besides, we don't need it.

    Raze we might be able to allow back in, but it does completely screw almost every slow strategy, which is sad.
    I mean, Smallpox is going to have a similar effect to hurting slow strategies. Swamp, Lotus Petal, Small Pox, Nether Spirit probably wrecks most decks.
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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    What's an oppressive 4-card combo with FoW?

    FoW
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    Presumably a land
    A one-mana threat?

    Either they counter your threat and can't protect theirs from your removal (and lose because they paid 1 life), or they protect their threat and have to hope it's bigger than yours...

    Duress can only take a card that is enabling something broken. Lands and creatures are pretty fair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hanni View Post
    I mean, Smallpox is going to have a similar effect to hurting slow strategies. Swamp, Lotus Petal, Small Pox, Nether Spirit probably wrecks most decks.
    Smallpox might actually be banworthy.

    But I sense adversion against many bannings.
    So you guys would like FoW, Duress and Raze to stay in?
    We could try the format with them and re-evaluate after a few rounds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Asthereal View Post
    But I sense adversion against many bannings.
    So you guys would like FoW, Duress and Raze to stay in?
    We could try the format with them and re-evaluate after a few rounds.
    I would prefer that! It's not like anyone has to own cards, and it appears each 'tournament' occurs pretty rapidly once the deck lists are revealed. Should be easy to spot offenders and take action based on results.

    I'm getting pretty psyched for this honestly.

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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    The storage lands seem really broken in this format.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ace/Homebrew View Post
    What's an oppressive 4-card combo with FoW?
    I don't think it would be oppressive, but I was thinking something cute like:

    Force of Will
    Misthollow Griffin
    Saprazzan Skerry
    City of Traitors

    Or something like that.

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    Just call it.
    If something is broken it'll be 12-1 and you can ban it next week.
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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    Burning Inquiry seems busted too

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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    I think if burning Inquiry is out it's a little easier to brew. I'd also consider banning chalice, since this format is even more defined by 0-drops (lotus petal) and 1-drops; meaning it insta-gibs most plays; which is mostly viable because you banned wasteland. There are counters to the City/Chalice decks however without wasteland:

    Damping Sphere
    Crystal Vein
    2 Mishra's Factory

    beats the Nether Shadow decks by being able to block and attack through 2/2s (play CV first, don't play sphere, play factorys as you go after that so that you can't lose a factory)

    beats Hanni's chalice OTP and OTD by deterministically keeping TKS off the table and just attacking with a 2/2

    I think it beats the Kird Ape deck: If they raze first, they can't bolt a factory > Kird ape. If they Bolt first, you can make Factory a 4/4 in response, trading with ape. No line can beat both factories.

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    Another reasonable one is

    Leyline of Vitality
    Lotus Petal
    Sheltered Valley
    Bitterblossom

    which chumps anything while slowly gaining life, minus T1 land destruction; but loses to the big tramplers. Loses OTP to Hanni's chalice though (as do all Lotus petal or 1-drop strategies..), I think it beats the Damping Sphere deck by waiting until you have 2-3 tokens, and just chumping every turn while flying in a couple damager per turn.

    if you unban wasteland and swap Valley for Wasteland however it draw's Hanni's deck OTD and beats Heavyweights in either direction; while also beating the Kird-Ape deck, other blossom decks, (1/2s, life is static) and can probably race tramplers who are ~4/4 or so.

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    If chalice was banned the new Retofitter foundry + factories + (something) would be pretty difficult to beat. It'd have the benefits of Factories, the benefits of unlimited tokens, and could make 4/4s if games went long. If wasteland was unbanned, I think it can also beat Hanni's and Heavyweights

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    2 Mishra's Factory


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    Main findings being that Factory is pretty good; getting under chalice and beating most things. You usually want 2 though so you can attack as a 3/3 to break ties or block as a 4/4, as well as absorb multiple removal spells. Token producers seem good as long as you can shut off high-mana decks via Sphere or Wasteland; but you
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    Re: 4 Card Blind

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    I agree with PirateKing, lets throw this down! I'm pretty interested in seeing what happens.
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    Re: 4 Card Blind

    Keeping wasteland/ gq banned really makes maze of ith an issue
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    Keeping wasteland/ gq banned really makes maze of ith an issue
    Only if your WC is a single creature
    All of my ideas would do just fine against Maze
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