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Bring Your Own Old Border Set 4 (50%)
Everyman For Himself 1 (12.5%)
We're All A Little Crazy (Sane Insanity) 3 (37.5%)
Total Votes: 8
ATTENTION MID-ATLANTIC VS PLAYERS!
Topic Started: Nov 25 2014, 01:46 AM (1,346 Views)
Nazrat
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UPDATE/EDIT: With the tie here so far and a unanimous approval from the Baltimore crowd, I'm going to just do this...

Format:
"We're All A Little Crazy"
Pre and Post UDE ban/eratta list applies
All sets legal
Limit of one of any card per deck
Insanity text is NOT active!!

Location:
Games and Stuff
7385 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd
Glen Burnie, MD 21061
United States

Date:
April 18, 2015

Time:
Registration starts at 10AM
Tournament starts at 11AM

Cost:
$10.00 Entry

Prize:
Top 2 guaranteed playmats of the winners design, 3-4 get playmats depending on attendance.
Additionally, top prizes with be awarded as store gift cards. 75% of all entry fees will be divided amongst the top 2-8.
Edited by Nazrat, Mar 31 2015, 02:23 AM.
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SuperAzn
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I'm in..

Something that's fairly wide open and not off the wall
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minivan987
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Did you intend to have a poll with the formats we talked about last night listed? Because there is no poll on this thread [confused] or were you just planning to take more input on the format here on the forums before creating the poll? I know we sort of discussed two options already.
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As long as the format isn't something with a really narrow scope then I'm 100% in and I'll drive that lazy ass WallyWest as well... Fastest man alive my ass
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SuperAzn
Nov 25 2014, 09:29 PM
As long as the format isn't something with a really narrow scope then I'm 100% in and I'll drive that lazy ass WallyWest as well... Fastest man alive my ass
I personally like weird tournament restrictions, but that's just because I like having to really work to build a new deck and see what kind of stuff other people came up with. If I want to just play with and against the same old, tired decks I don't need a tournament.
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I don't think I'm letting the cat out of the bag for Naz here unless he had intended to have a "big reveal" or some such thing (sorry if I'm stealing your thunder) but it looks more like he is openly fielding requests here rather than saying "Here's a couple options choose among them".

The two formats we mostly approved as a group the other night during the 10 minute brainstorming conversation I recall were...

Bring Your Own Old Border Set
It's just Bring Your Own Set but nothing MVL and forward. Saves the problem of MEV and MUN running roughshod over things in theory. We didn't get into specifics about what starters were attached to or if they were to be considered stand alone or would be allowed to be combined with the set of your choosing and whatnot though. I could see some folks might have a "hard time" building a deck for this if they just don't have old border sets anymore but that shouldn't be a problem for most. But thinking about it more with the nature of format as it is I'd imagine you could lean on others in your own playgroups to provide potentially an entire deck of your listing if needed unless there is an unreasonably large amount of set or team clashing amongst requests. I might even be able to offer the option to some people myself as long as I don't get tons of requests and/or you want to play something I would intend to play.

Sane Insanity
Given more time one could probably come up with a catchier name ("Seeking Professional Help Insanity" is a little wordy but perhaps something else in that vein of thought) But the format is highlander with all of the actual printed Insanity cards banned. That could be altered to just be Insanity text on cards is just not active but you should get the general idea. Make an Insanity deck but there are actually viable options other than Arkham.


Crunchy, OMB, and I were cooking up some other weird formats too which we can think about more and throw out as suggestions as well. But I know I am definitely a little more interested in doing some slightly nonsensical stuff along the lines of the Bring Your Own New Gods thing. A lot of people seemed to get fairly excited about the prospect of that one.
Edited by minivan987, Nov 25 2014, 10:17 PM.
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Everyman for himself idea or (sigh) sane insanity.

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Classic bring your own set seems fun. The insanity idea also seems sweet since the xmen have the largest character selection in the game lol.


Edited by SuperAzn, Nov 26 2014, 02:01 PM.
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Nov 25 2014, 11:52 PM
Everyman for himself idea or (sigh) sane insanity.

Great13 has mentioned another format idea that was tossed around but was met with a little less love when I floated the idea although it was refined slightly afterwards which might make it slightly more desirable.

Every Man for Himself
All characters and character cards in play, your hand, deck, KOed pile, and RFG zones lose and cannot gain team affiliations including printed affiliations. The general idea is every character card counts as being printed as unaffiliated AND in addition cannot gain affiliations through use of things like SHRA or UM. You can still however do things in an affiliated fashion which would be enabled by things like Mosaic World. This avoids general EOME and Mobilize shenanigans and the effective requirement of owning and running 4 of either or both as your search card(s) however I guess this just then makes Straight to the Grave the search card of choice but I dunno that's probably a desirable outcome.
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minivan987
Nov 26 2014, 04:25 PM
Great13
Nov 25 2014, 11:52 PM
Everyman for himself idea or (sigh) sane insanity.

Great13 has mentioned another format idea that was tossed around but was met with a little less love when I floated the idea although it was refined slightly afterwards which might make it slightly more desirable.

Every Man for Himself
All characters and character cards in play, your hand, deck, KOed pile, and RFG zones lose and cannot gain team affiliations including printed affiliations. The general idea is every character card counts as being printed as unaffiliated AND in addition cannot gain affiliations through use of things like SHRA or UM. You can still however do things in an affiliated fashion which would be enabled by things like Mosaic World. This avoids general EOME and Mobilize shenanigans and the effective requirement of owning and running 4 of either or both as your search card(s) however I guess this just then makes Straight to the Grave the search card of choice but I dunno that's probably a desirable outcome.
So what happens to loyalty?
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The rules as written mean they are "effectively banned" which I think I'd be alright with sticking to. Since they are considered to have no affiliations it is impossible to ever meet the Loyalty requirement of "Recruit only if you control a character that shares at least one affiliation with this card" (taken directly from the CRD). So a special provision would need to be added to allow such characters to be played including Loyalty-Reveal characters. I'd think Dual-Loyalty characters would not be included in any such provision. Additionally cards like original 3-drop Wolverine Logan are "effectively banned" as well since their requirements cannot be met.

Such cards however can still be included in a deck and could certainly be made use of if they could be played through some other means which circumvents the usual rules and restrictions of course.

Edit: For example I don't believe there is any way to Shift or Substitute that 3-drop Wolverine into play but that would be a viable way to circumvent his recruit cost in this format if possible.

Looking into this further it is possible to do that if you team up Weapon X and X-Men and use We Can Rebuild him on that Wolverine (or any Loyalty or Dual-Loyalty character with the appropriate team-up in place) from your KOed pile. However this interaction is not possible in this format since there is no way to make him a Weapon X character to begin with. This does however give me a thought about a deck that teams up Weapon-X with affiliations that have Dual-Loyalty characters.
Edited by minivan987, Nov 26 2014, 05:31 PM.
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Nov 26 2014, 05:19 PM
The rules as written mean they are "effectively banned" which I think I'd be alright with sticking to. Since they are considered to have no affiliations it is impossible to ever meet the Loyalty requirement of "Recruit only if you control a character that shares at least one affiliation with this card" (taken directly from the CRD). So a special provision would need to be added to allow such characters to be played including Loyalty-Reveal characters. I'd think Dual-Loyalty characters would not be included in any such provision. Additionally cards like original 3-drop Wolverine Logan are "effectively banned" as well since their requirements cannot be met.

Such cards however can still be included in a deck and could certainly be made use of if they could be played through some other means which circumvents the usual rules of course.
I vote for this format!
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I may be interested if i could ride with someone.
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Nov 27 2014, 08:57 PM
I may be interested if i could ride with someone.
I fit 2/3 people
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Minivan: I posted this before we had the format discussion. Lol. Poll getting added soon. So far that's three options, and we can refine the "Everyman For Himself" and "We're All A Little Crazy" (there has to be a better name than "Sane Insanity".. lol)
Edited by Nazrat, Nov 28 2014, 05:27 PM.
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