First off, I will be streaming the Epic Legend series at https://www.twitch.tv/tomsepicgaming starting in a few minutes
To get answers for questions such as
- general tournament series questions
- banlist
- 1st tournament start time
I have created a google form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_5SyyeEQnW7rSY3ZvLzYYk3JSgeQ26QPTv5eOaBSJR9pZrg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Feel free to fill it out there or supply your answers here for discussion:
No Burn/Life Gain* Tournament Series (General)
This survey is to figure out the general banlist for the entire tournament series (http://www.tomsepicgaming.com/no-burn-health-gain-tournament/) as well as specifics for the first tournament. First the general questions
1.
Should champions that can deal targeted direct damage (Pyromancer but not Pyrosaur) be included with an agreement not to target the player? *
Mark only one oval.
Yes
No
No Preference
2.
How many games should a match be? (If we do, we will have to determine how to handle it later.) *
Mark only one oval.
Best of 3
1 game
2 games
No preference
Other:
3.
If we don’t do one game only, should there be a sideboard? *
Mark only one oval.
Yes
No
No Preference
The idea behind the bulk of the banlist is to see what happens when Burn and Health Gain are removed. There are some exceptions though which we’ll go through card by card. I have no problems with tweaking this list. (Blind Faith is not in app so is banned.)
Current Banlist
4.
Ban Ceasefire? (Banned by WWG, incredibly efficient at disrupting attacks and drawing cards) [I lean towards ban it but could go either way.] *
Mark only one oval.
Yes
No
No Preference
5.
Ban Fumble? (Banned by WWG, incredibly efficient at disrupting an attack and replacing itself for 0) [I lean towards ban it but could go either way.] *
Mark only one oval.
Yes
No
No Preference
6.
Ban Thought Plucker? (I’m tired of playing against this card, and I feel like it has done too much to warp the meta around it in the past. We are losing some strong answers to it, but gaining some as well from Duels.) *
Mark only one oval.
Yes
No
No Preference
7.
Ban Muse? (Same reasoning as Thought Plucker) *
Mark only one oval.
Yes
No
No Preference
8.
Unban Avenging Angel? (While it does gain the player life, it has to deal damage in combat to do it, and there are multiple effective ways to interact with it for every alignment) [I currently have it unbanned] *
Mark only one oval.
Yes (Keep Avenging Angel unbanned)
No (reban Avenging Angel)
No Preference
9.
Unban Gold Dragon? (It is similar to Avenging Angel, but it doesn’t personally need to attack to gain health, and it threatens too much health gain. That being said, champion based Good decks have needed all the help they could get in the past to be viable) [I currently have it still banned] *
Mark only one oval.
Yes (unban Gold Dragon)
No (keep Gold Dragon banned)
No Preference
10.
Unban Justice Prevails? (Similar to Gold Dragon in that it threatens a ton of health gain, but there is a lot of setup required for a one-turn effect) [I currently have it still banned] *
Mark only one oval.
Yes (unban Justice Prevails)
No (keep Justice Prevails banned)
No Preference
11.
Unban Soul Hunter (Even though I considered adding it back in since: it needs at least 1 other card to combo with it to deal the damage immediately, it doesn’t deal that much damage at first, and there are multiple ways to interact with it, ultimately, I decided to keep it banned because Good and Wild have no way to interact with it if it is discarded and then continuously broken immediately at the start of its controller’s turns when it returns to play.) [I currently have it still banned] *
Mark only one oval.
Yes (Unban Soul Hunter)
No (keep Soul Hunter banned)
No Preference
12.
Are there any other cards you actively think should be banned/unbanned? (I have thought of multiple others for banning, but decided against all of them for now, and in an effort to not overly influence deck building, I am not mentioning them myself. Cards to consider unbanning can be mentioned freely though.)
Day and Time
13.
What time(s) would work best for you if interested in participating? Two possibilities are – Saturday August 8th at 1pm CDT – Sunday August 9th at 10am CDT (I should be able to make any time on either of those days work though or a future weekend) *