(No Direct Burn/Life Gain) John Tatian Showmatch

This Saturday, August 22th, at 12:00pm noon EDT (11:00am CDT), I will compete against John Tatian in a modified No Burn/Lifegain showmatch. It will be best of 7 with a relaxed banlist where we both bring 4 decks. First person to defeat all of their opponent’s decks wins. I will be streaming it at https://www.twitch.tv/tomsepicgaming and John Tatian said he would look into streaming his side at https://www.twitch.tv/johntatian

**Edit: The saved videos can be found here.

No Burn/Life Gain Recap

The first No Burn/Health Gain tournament didn’t have much turnout, but we did get these three games:

• AoE Corpse Bounce
• Wild Breakthrough
• Evil Token Control

My curiosity for a burnless*/health gainless* format is far from satiated though. Therefore, I’ve reached out to John Tatian, and he has agreed to my proposal of a modified No Burn/Health Gain showmatch. (Additional showmatches in this format are a possibility.)

Format

Both players will bring 4 decks that can’t have 30+ of the same cards in common between any of the two decks. After each game, the winner will remain on their selected deck, and the loser will swap to one of their remaining decks. Once a player has defeated all 4 of their opponent’s decks, that player wins.

Updated Banlist

While building lists for the first tournaments, I felt like the banlist was too restrictive for deck archetype diversity. So, I have unbanned all of the Righteous cards (Avenging Angel, Gold Dragon, Justice Prevails), Soul Hunter, Plague Zombies, and Thought Plucker/Muse (although I’ll probably regret those last two). Essentially, I’ve added back my personal vendetta cards and Situational Burn/Health Gain while keeping Direct burn and Health Gain banned. (Drinker of Blood remains banned, however, for its displayed potential for infinite duration mirror matches.)

Full List:

Good (17)

1-cost Cards (12):

Absolve
Angel of Light
Angel of the Gate
Avenging Angel
Breath of Life
Ceasefire
Chamberlain Kark
Gold Dragon
Inner Peace
Justice Prevails
Royal Escort
Vital Mission

0-cost Cards (5):
(Blind Faith)
Brand, Rebel Fighter
Mobilize
Priest of Kalnor
Priestess of Angeline
Second Wind

Evil (13)

1-cost Cards (8)

Dark One’s Apprentice
Devour
Drain Essence
Drinker of Blood
Plague
Plague Zombies
Soul Hunter
Zannos, Corpse Lord

0-cost Cards (5):

Consume
Corpsemonger
Heinous Feast
Unquenchable Thirst
Villify

Sage (10)

1-cost Cards (4):

Blue Dragon
Helion, the Dominator
Storm Dragon
Thought Plucker

0-cost Cards (6):

Disappearing Act
Forcemage Apprentice
Fumble
Lightning Elemental
Lightning Mage
Muse

Wild (22)

1-cost Cards (16):

Ascendant Pyromancer
Draka’s Fire
Fires of Rebellion
Flame Strike
Flood of Fire
Forked Lightning
Hunting Raptors
Lightning Storm
Polar Shock
Pyromancer
Pyrosaur
Rain of Fire
Savage Uprising
Scarros, Hound of Draka
Strafing Dragon
Whirlwind

0-cost Cards (6):

Fire Shaman
Fireball
Flame Spike
Flash Fire
Forked Jolt
Javelin Thrower