Like poop, but squared.
Poor communication was had while trying to hide the mystery project in works that is supposed to automate tournament management, deck validation and creation. But at the very last minute, one of the moderators stepped in and organized a tournament on XMage platform, saving the format from evil forces for another week. No particular theme was had, but all in all, people still managed to scribble up new and unique decks further pushing what you can do in this format.
Rules:1. Same as traditional format rules as provided in github page. 2. Decklists are revealed shortly after deck submission deadline.
Date: 05-17
Time: UTC 19:00
Format: Swiss
Deck submission deadline: 8 hour before the start.
There was one last minute participant to prevent byes. Some people never showed up,
causing some people to still get byes.
Tournament was hastily organized using XMage. Decklists were revealed as a test to see if decision making during matches would be impacted if you were playing as if it was your regular LGS tournament.
All decklists were submitted via tapped out or mtggoldfish. Thank you for your cooperation.
The result
Sadly, due to lack of experience with challonge, the tournament was done using xmage. This caused some issues because 3 people never showed up. In addition, before the start, one person was admitted after decklists were revealed, but instead of being permitted to build a deck, he was given a UG merfolk deck. This tournament did reveal several things:
- We should not organize tournaments hastily.
- Open decklists had a mixed reception.
We hope to make further improvements while doing tournaments. And now for the result:
| Player | Deck Name | Archetype | MW | ML | Points | OMW% | GW | GL | GW% | OGW% |
| Mommy | Boros Burn | RDW | 4 | 0 | 12 | 56.25% | 8 | 1 | 88.89% | 46.03% |
| Friend | MonoR Blitz | RDW | 3 | 1 | 9 | 75.00% | 4 | 3 | 57.14% | 63.36% |
| Baby Snake | UG Merfolk | Merfolk | 3 | 1 | 9 | 50.00% | 7 | 5 | 58.33% | 50.67% |
| Jyro | Temur Scapeshift | Valakut | 2 | 2 | 6 | 75.00% | 3 | 4 | 42.86% | 65.34% |
| Pinecone | Tribal Flames Zoo | Zoo | 2 | 2 | 6 | 58.33% | 2 | 5 | 28.57% | 61.48% |
| Wide Bear | 4c Snowherder | Soulherder | 2 | 2 | 6 | 56.25% | 5 | 4 | 55.56% | 47.52% |
| Sacritor | UB Zombies | Zombies | 2 | 2 | 6 | 37.50% | 5 | 5 | 50.00% | 38.87% |
| Eltharyon | UG Merfolk | Merfolk | 1 | 3 | 3 | 43.75% | 4 | 6 | 40.00% | 37.80% |
| Durga | Eldrazi & Taxes | D&T | 0 | 3 | 0 | 41.67% | 1 | 6 | 14.29% | 48.52% |
The tournament went smoothly, sadly 3 people were no shows. On the other hand, we had 2 new people around this time.
The tournament was taken by the Boros burn deck, by cmpxchg mommy, with a 4-0 run. It's a generic burn deck that splashed white for some removal that red lacks so much.
The runner up was a Mono red blitz deck, by Friend, at 3-1. It's another red burn variant, which instead of splashing white, ran manamorphosis for that card draw and additional prowess triggers.
The third place got handed to UG Merfolk deck, by newcomer Baby Snake at 3-1, tied with Friend. Being the very last minute participant he was given this deck by Jyro, so that he wouldn't get a deckbuilding advantage due to decklists being revealed.
All in all, players had chosen to play more aggressive decks during this tournament. We hope that games were still entertaining if 3 people had not shown up.