Aligning your deck

[DownSyndromeKarl]

Does anyone know anything beyond this:


Scars of Mirrodin Game Day (October 30-31) features special rules allowing players to align their Standard decks with one of the factions featured in the set. Players that align their decks are eligible to win exclusive preview cards from the February 2011 Magic set, Mirrodin Besieged! This change is part of a marketing campaign that will kick off in September, themed around the factions presented in the Scars of Mirrodin block. For more information on Game Day, check out www.magicthegathering.com.

It's from the Scars of Mirrodin Game Day page on WPN.

Aligning your deck, eh? My theory: It'll work like Tribal, X amount of cards have to be the same alignment. What the benefits are of this, I have no idea. But also, this is for Game Day, how would TO's know who's deck is "aligned"? These are casual events and don't require decklists.

Discuss rumors/theories.

[dahcmai]

Yeah, I was reading the stuff that came with the release stuff to our store. I guess the cards have watermarks on them denoting if they are Phyrexian or Mirran. So you have to "choose a side" if you will and only build a standard deck using one faction. I guess that's how it's supposed to work. In essence, you're probably going to be doing that anyway since metalcraft and Infect probably won't work together very well due to the way Wizards has this habit of making pre-made decks with supposedly random cards.

Other than that, there's nothing special about it. Kind of like how we had to make Shards decks for that one.

[jrsthethird]

Hopefully there's not a requisite number of aligned cards, so I can just toss a Platinum Emperion in my board for Mass Polymorph.

[xTrainx]

I'm pretty sure they already said how many is an affiliation...and I think it's ten.

Yeah, they did.

http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/events.aspx?x=mtgcom/events/gameday-facts

And the important part: An affiliated deck must have at least ten watermarked cards from its affiliated faction in its main deck, and no watermarked cards from the opposing faction in its main deck or sideboard. The deck must still be Standard-legal.

[coraz86]

Having an affiliated deck is not required for Game Day; you can play any Standard-legal deck you choose.

They seem to just be offering extra prizes to people who both care enough to build SoM-heavy decks and are skilled enough to win with them. Interesting idea, and it'll be cool to see what people come up with.

[Broham]

That's kind of cute, I guess. But this isn't Legend of the Five Rings and I don't think I'll see too many Magic players get excited about building bad theme decks. In L5R the prize pools are freaking gigantic and there are storyline implications. It's amazing how much these two games borrow from one another and most magic players have never even heard of the other one.

[Meekrab]

10 points to Giffindor for the first person who regs a standard legal deck and actually plays legacy TES in one of these.

[Bryant Cook]

Dislike both ideas. Splitting themes seems shitty.

-10 points to the guy who makes Harry Potter references while including my deck.

[Atwa]

I actually like the idea, but it seems a bit fair the distibution of the Mirran and Phyrexian faction will be 80/20 in SOM. Gives you a little less room to actually build a Phyrexian deck.

[Bryant Cook]

I actually like the idea, but it seems a bit fair the distibution of the Mirran and Phyrexian faction will be 80/20 in SOM. Gives you a little less room to actually build a Phyrexian deck.

It seems a lot like COK block but they had Samurai and Spirits...

[DownSyndromeKarl]

It seems a lot like COK block but they had Samurai and Spirits...

hahahahahaha...im overtired. but you said cok block.


so im guessing people that want to partake in this game day are going to need deck regs. personally dont care, but i know that game days are heavily trafficked by newbs and goddamn, i hate taking deck reggs from people that dont know how/why theyre filled out