Four Card Blind

[Thomas David Baker]

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/25627_Bringing-Theory-To-Your-...

Let's do this online on DT.

We can change the number of cards from four if we think the format is too well explored already?  Or maybe that doesn't matter as everything dominant gets banned quickly anyway?

Standings

Simon 18

Kieran 10

Charlie 10

Tom 7

Levi 7

Louis 4

Ross 0

Decks

[Tom]
Cavern of Souls
Force of Will
Cursecatcher
Merfolk of the Pearl Trident

[Levi]
Saprazzan Skerry
Fog Bank
Invisible Stalker
Force of Will

[Kieran]
Sand Silos
Force of Will
Misthollow Griffin
Pact of Negation

[Simon]
Chancellor of the Annex
Calciform Pools
Mishras Factory
Dismember

[Louis]
Slippery Bogle
Cavern of Souls
Leyline of Sanctity
Chancellor of the Annex

[Charlie]
Leyline of Sancity
Chancellor of the Forge
Chancellor of the Annex
Pendelhaven

[Ross]
Talon Trooper
Island
Island
Plains

[Simon O'Keeffe]

I don't even know what it is, but I'll do it.

[Louis Mackie]

Sounds fun, I'm game

[ross miles]

In ... First deck island island plains talon trooper

[Kieran Symington]

I'll play - though Ross' deck looks too strong. Talon Trooper should be banned along with Laboratory Maniac (which just seems abusive in that example!)

[Thomas David Baker]

I think seeing as we know about the Lab Maniac approach we just let it play out.  Either you can do it for the first round, or you can metagame against it.  If it wins then it gets banned so the problem solves itself.

[Charlie Grover]

I'm in. Although having played a bit of both online in the past I prefer 5 card blind (I'll find the link to the rules, very similiar) by a non-small margin. 5 lets you toy around a lot without doing too much in one "deck". IIRC the ban list is well explored, and it has some nice "anti-abusive" rules such as not being allowed to win on turn 1 or 2 and not being able to make them discard more than 1 card on the first turn. The flip side is you can get some very difficult games to calculate.

I'll find a link and you guys can pick which one you want, theyre both great, and I'll happily play both

EDIT: I found a nice article about it! http://www.mtgsalvation.com/1038-five-card-blind.html

[Simon O'Keeffe]

I have the trump deck:

Azorious Chancery

Llanowar Reborn

Talon Trooper

Talon Trooper

ross miles said:

In ... First deck island island plains talon trooper

[Kieran Symington]

Surely now the challenge is to make 3 (you can technically do four if your opponent plays Eureka, but that is cheating).

[Simon O'Keeffe]

Well as long as speed is not a problem, I can make infinite:

Soul Foundry

Talon Trooper

Sol Ring

City of Traitors

Kieran Symington said:

Surely now the challenge is to make 3 (you can technically do four if your opponent plays Eureka, but that is cheating).

[Kieran Symington]

Damn! Just as I was about to wow everyone with my:

 

Subterranean Hanger

Conspiracy

Spawnsire of Ulamog

Circling Vultures

(A million foil Talon Troopers)

[Louis Mackie]

I have a deck, assuming 4 cards and no banned list

[Simon O'Keeffe]

I think I have a list too.