Okay fine:
Shivan Gorge
Volcanic Island
City of Traitors
Energy Field
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
I mean that's fine, it's just that Shivan Gorge has never been reprinted down to activation cost so I can't run Nephalia Academy
*Ahem* {pushes up nerd glasses}
Keldon Megaliths
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
We played a 5 people tournament yesterday, only with OldSchool pool (ABU, Arabian, Legends, Antiquities, The Dark) and with the Lotus banned. I won with:
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Emerald
- Balance
- The Rack
For the next one the moxen and The rack will be banned...
We'll see. I think chalice shows that's it's super mean from Hanni's; so I also considered Chalice -> beats any 0-1 drop reliant deck when its on the play. Difficult to avoid discard, chalice, unburial rites, and land destruction at the same time; so the format will self-regulate a bit I think.
I love that threads like this help me find weird stuff I missed on my hiatus. That card seems playable; though maybe it's garbage haha
̶F̶u̶n̶n̶y̶ ̶e̶n̶o̶u̶g̶h̶,̶ ̶w̶h̶y̶ ̶d̶i̶d̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶r̶u̶n̶ ̶C̶h̶a̶l̶i̶c̶e̶?̶ ̶C̶h̶a̶l̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶0̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶s̶ ̶g̶r̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶v̶i̶n̶t̶a̶g̶e̶;̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶u̶s̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶l̶e̶g̶a̶c̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶c̶k̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶a̶t̶e̶g̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶a̶v̶o̶i̶d̶ ̶1̶-̶d̶r̶o̶p̶s̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶L̶E̶D̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶L̶o̶t̶u̶s̶
Derp!
Both your red and black engines leave you with a 2/1, so I guess that's good.
I mused:
City of Traitors
Simian Spirit Guide
Seething Song
or
Swamp
Memnite
Culling the Weak
But again, all in decks are exactly that, so good luck OTD
That's awesome! But wait...
Random effects are always in favor of the opponent.
So doesn't every coin flip you do become tails and every coin flip your opponent does come up heads?
So effectively you manage to kill yourself on turn one? In which case optimal play dictates you play nothing...
Sometimes this game is a tad less fun than you'd expect.
Not in Four Card Blind. The coin flips aren't actually played.
Every random effect just works as much in favor to the opponent as possible.
So if you cast Mana Clash, your coin flips are always going to be tails, and his are always heads.
So Mana Clash can only end when the caster has died.
In 4CB we play the optimal line for every player, and casting Mana Clash is suicide, so not optimal.
So in conclusion: you won't ever cast Mana Clash. Which is sad, because it would have been funny.
23 participants and counting, and I see we've forgotten to ban a few cards.
That's okay. We'll discuss it after I post all the decks on Wednesday.
@Asthereal
Do both players start the game with hands revealed?
-rob
The decks are played with full known information and the most optimal lines taken. If, for example, you look at a deck with City of Traitors + Chalice of the Void; let's say "Hanni" since he was the first to post it
Let's say he faces
2x LED
1x Unburial
1x fatty
In this case when he goes first he'll set chalice on 0
but if he faces the kird ape/bolt/raze deck he'll set the chalice on 1. This is determined by the community around the 21st (?) when all the decks are posted and the most optimal lines of every deck vs every other deck are discovered/validated. Then the wins and draws points are handed out based on those most-optimal play-lines
Originally Posted by from first post
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