Round 2 3-Card Blind

WildCard · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 735 Location: Japan

RESULTS OF ROUND 1:
dciR did not allow me to do round robin, instead i did 13 rounds of swiss with 20 decks. sorry about that. here are the results:

#1 H0m3r 32 (Black Lotus, Ridhadan Cutpurse, Glowrider)
#2 Blake_C 29 (Treetop Village, The Tabernacle at pendril Vale, Eldimari's Vineyard)
#3 Lackeos 28 (Black Lotus, Ridhadan Cutpurse, Glowrider)
#4 Killah 25 (Black Lotus, Swords to Plowshares, Spectral Searchlight)
#5 CMA-Flippi 24 (Mishra's Workshop, Trinisphere, Steel Golem)
#6 Pollo 22 (City of Trators, Isochron Scepter, Lightning Helix)
#7 VacanyMan 19 (Black Lotus, Nether Spirit, Pox)
#8 Micheal Jones 19 (Black Lotus, Platnum Angel, Channel)
#9 DRjester 18 (Black Lotus, Black Lotus, Visara the Dreadful)
#10 Elvenlord 17 (Black Lotus, Anurid scavenger, Misguided Rage)
#11 Eaglewolf 16 (Black Lotus, Platnum Angel, Channel)
#12 Splunge 15 (Black Lotus, Channel, Darksteel Colossus)
#13 Ant900 14 (Black Lotus, Platnum Angel, Channel)
#14 Senadai 14 (Black Lotus, Cloud Sprite, Energy Field)
#15 Coolboy 12 (Force of Will, Leviathin, God's Eye Gate to Reik)
#16 Synch 12 (Black Lotus, Black Lotus, Kodoma of the North Tree)
#17 Hobo_Pope 12 (Mountain, Lightning Bolt, Jackal Pup)
#18 Xerocat 11 (Mishra's Workshop, Ensnaring Bridge, Granite Shard)
#19 Zardokk 6 (Black Lotus, Ornithopter, Frogmite)
#20 FusionFire 2 (Black Lotus, Mox Saphire, Cerebal Vortex)

And now an interview with Senadai:
<WildCard> how old are you?
<Senadai> I'm 17, looking forward to college Neutral

<WildCard> Black Lotus, Cloud Sprite, Energy Field
<WildCard> why choose this deck?
<Senadai> I chose it because I thought that if I went first, there was pretty no way the opponent could get a win
<Senadai> Even going second, I thought I could win most of the games
<Senadai> Or draw, at the least
<Senadai> I didn't see many possibly losing matchups
<WildCard> so what are your predicted bannings of next round?
<Senadai> Well besides the obvious black lotus
<Senadai> I can see vendetta getting banned
<Senadai> Any cheap discard spells that were missed
<WildCard> alright anything you would like to add?
<Senadai> Hm, It's a cool competition, thanks for running it... And the judge test shoudl reset in shorter than three months ^^. Thanks for running it man

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 loss, you get nothing.
Other than the aforementioned, EVERYTHING IS HANDLED EXACTLY LIKE A REAL GAME OF MAGIC!
Matches Will Be Simulated By Me On The Weekend
Entries Are Open Monday Through Friday US Pacific Time, Saturday Morning I Will Have The List Of Decks And Simulate And Have Results Posted On Monday.
Remember, it is important for your deck to include a way to cast your cards! (Lands, artifact mana, pitch cards, etc.)

BANNED:
Unhinged
Unglued
Ante Cards
Any card that forces your opponent to discard more than 1 card a turn.
Any non-mass-produced card (1996 World Champion, etc.)

Banned Cards:
The Rack
Form of the Dragon
Balance
Strip Mine
Wasteland
Glacial Chasm
Blackmail
Coercion
Pulse of the Dross
Cabal Therapy
Mesmeric Fiend
Abandon Hope
Nezumi Shortfang
Leonin Squire
Show and Tell

New Banned Cards:
Black Lotus
GlowRider
Rishadan Cutpurse

Unbanned Card:
Meddling Mage

After each round, the 3 cards in the winning deck plus any cards in more than 1/3 of the decks played will be banned for all future rounds.

If you want to play, E-mail me a message ( seth.wildcard@gmail.com ) in this format
Subject should be "Round 1 Vanishing 3-Card Blind tournament"

Card #1
Card #2
Card #3

Please make every effort to spell your card names correctly. It makes it easier for everyone.

Matches Will Be Simulated By Me.

WildCard · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 735 Location: Japan

if your name is up there but not site nick let me know and ill change it

VacancyMan · Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 308

I'm sorry for not putting my nick in the email. If you can trust me, replace "Hunter Bishop" with my nick. Otherwise, just email me and I'll reply.

NahHolmes · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 588

Damn I forgot all about this otherwise I would have won. Here let me break this for you guys, My deck- Mishra's Workshop/Trinisphere/Steel Golem. GG. Edit oh shit someone had that deck gj. Guess I would have come in 5th then. If they would have done 20 rounds it would have 66 points unless i did something wrong.

ant900 · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 2476 Location: somewhere

man i forgot too >.<, but i didnt run that... i ran BL, mask, dreadnaut(sp?)

ElvenLord · Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

Was it really that hard to make simple table in excel and make every deck play every? You know, one of the point of 3cb is that there is no random :/
Another thing, best deck only got 32 of 78 possible points??? Well, i havent recalculated result , but from first look it seems stronger.
For the last thing ill repeat myself, dont ban lotus, it greatly improves variaty of cards youre able to use and makes this all much more interesting.

Dont think i dont appreciate your job, thanks for reviving this old good game, just do it as it should be Wink

Splunge · Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 49

WildCard · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 735 Location: Japan

well i was tring for 19 rounds and that way it would have been round robin, cause 190 matches is waaaaay toooooo much so i tried swiss for 19 rounds but it only allowd 13 rounds...

Blake- · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject:

Darn I got in second.

DRjester · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 9

man, the annoying thing is that I had a deck i was going to use for round two because it had no lotus in it, but someone else used it already - city, isochron, and helix was my round 2 choice.
Nice job, Pollo.

h0m3r · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 114

then play city, scepter, raise the alarm Smile

DRjester · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 9

when will the next round be done? next saturday?

eaglewolf · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 55

that wasnt my deck >.< im pissed

WildCard · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 735 Location: Japan

im sooo sorry. what was your deck? i had papers flying everywhere and transfered the decks to paper then to paper again. next time itll be better. remember that was the first time ive done it. play again

Blake- · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject:

#1 H0m3r 32 (Black Lotus, Ridhadan Cutpurse, Glowrider)
#2 Blake_C 29 (Treetop Village, The Tabernacle at pendril Vale, Eldimari's Vineyard)
#3 Lackeos 28 (Black Lotus, Ridhadan Cutpurse, Glowrider)

How did I beat one and not the other?