BYOS 1.04 - Build Your Own Standard Sunday February 7, 2010 WHO Everyone is welcome to play! WHEN and WHERE General event coordination and pairings will be announced in /join BYOS. Registration will open at 12:30 p.m. EST in /join BYOScom. The first round will begin approximately thirty minutes later. ENTRY FEE Absolutely Free! If you are new to the event please be sure to read through all of the event rules including the banned lists and rulings about special sets and proxies! If your deck contains illegal cards in the first round you will be allowed to replace the illegal cards with basic lands. If illegal cards are found to be in your deck in the following round you may be droped or allowed to continue play with basic lands per the host's discresion.
WHAT IS BUILD YOUR OWN STANDARD? It was first used in the Magic 2007 Invitational:
This is an interesting twist on Build Your Own Block that will not only pit the great Standard decks from the past decade against each other, but also allow for fantasy Standard formats. Players can choose any base set from Fifth Edition forward and pair it with any two block formats to build a deck.
You want your Standard to be Tenth-Ravnica-Invasion? Done. Mirrodin-Urza-Eighth? No problem. One can see where a creative deckbuilder could spend days trying to come up with the broken-est combination of blocks.
Any cards that appear on the Legacy banned list or a Block Constructed banned list will be banned in this format. If Ice Age is one of the blocks, then a player would not be able to play with ..."OpenTip(event, "Necropotence")" class="nodec">Necropotence but would be able to play ..."OpenTip(event, "Counterspell")" class="nodec">Counterspell and pair it with ..."OpenTip(event, "Counterbalance")" class="nodec">Counterbalancefrom Coldsnap. Sorry Homelands—there is no home for you in this format.
Mark said this format was born from the question: "What if we gave you access to everything but didn't allow you to use it all? Players will be able to choose almost any of the great Standard decks from throughout the years. They can also play any of the great block decks and shore them up with cards from a base set and another block."
Basically each player chooses two blocks and one core set as 'their' standard. It's as simple as that. The blocks don't need to be consecutive or you could use a current std deck or an old favorite.
As you can see they used a more extensive banned list above but we will be maintaining our own here.
If you're asking how you can get started there are several decklists from the invitational that might spark some ideas. You can also just think of an old favorite std or block deck and see if matching it up with different blocks or core sets would make it more powerful.
If you have any more question feel free to pm me or reply to this thread. BANNED (Subject to change)
Amulet of Quoz
Ancestral Recall
Atog
Balance
Bazaar of Baghdad
Black Lotus
Black Vise
Bronze Tablet
Channel
Chaos Orb
Contract from Below
Cranial Plating
Darkpact
Demonic Attorney
Demonic Consultation
Demonic Tutor
Disciple of the Vault
Dream Halls
Earthcraft
Entomb
Falling Star
Fastbond
Frantic Search
Goblin Recruiter
Grim Monolith
Gush
Hermit Druid
Illusionary Mask
Imperial Seal
Jeweled Bird
Land Tax
Library of Alexandria
Mana Crypt
Mana Drain
Mana Vault
Memory Jar
Metalworker
Mind Over Matter
Mind Twist
Mind's Desire
Mishra's Workshop
Mox Emerald
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Ruby
Mox Sapphire
Necropotence
Oath of Druids
Rebirth
Replenish
Skullclamp
Sol Ring
Strip Mine
Tempest Efreet
Time Spiral
Time Walk
Timetwister
Timmerian Fiends
Tinker
Tolarian Academy
Vampiric Tutor
Wheel of Fortune
Windfall
Worldgorger Dragon
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Yawgmoth's Will
RESTRICTED
None
If you have questions about what's legal don't hesitate to ask. This is a very unexplored format so we will be watching and updating the banned and restricted lists closely.
SET LEGALITY AND SPECIAL SETS
Blocks from Ice age and up are legal.
Core sets from 6th edition and up are legal.
MED sets CANNOT be chosen for either a core set or block.
Dual decks CANNOT be chosen for either a core set or block.
Other special sets cannot be chosen for either a core set or block.
Coldsnap is part of the Ice age block.
Homelands can be chossen as it's own block.
Lorwyn and Shadomoore are considered two seperate blocks.
Proxies are allowed in that you can choose a paper printing of a block or core set and still be able to use cards as "proxies" from the online special sets.
So for Example: You could choose Ice Age to use Force of Will. OR You could choose Masques block and use the DD2 Daze. OR You could choose homelands but the only cards you will be able to use are ones that are printed in med or previous core sets.
PRIZES!
Prizes will be awarded for the top 8 players as outlined below.
The top 4 players will receive credit on one of the bot families on our trade network. Prize credit will rotate each week between our bot families. To receive prizes Top 8 players must post their decklist in this thread within 48 hours or they forfeit their prizes. This is to encourage deck development.
Participants that finish within places 5-8 will pick their prize from the prize pool. Participants will be able to choose one of the following:
1 RARE
2 UNCOMMONS
4 COMMONS
Any 1 Foil
OR a combination thereof (eg: 1 uncommon and 2 commons, etc.)
You can view the prize pool here, or by typing '/addbuddy __Yawgmoth__' in game and trading with him at any time.
A Door Prize will also be reserved for a randomly-selected player who completes all 3 rounds of Swiss competition, but does not make the final cut.
EVENT DETAILS and RULES
The number of rounds is dependant on the number of players that attend the event.
With 17 or fewer players: Play will be 3 rounds of swiss followed by a top 4 playoff.
With 18 players or more: Play will be 3 rounds of swiss followed by a top 8 playoff.
With 24 players or more: Play will be 4 rounds of swiss followed by a top 8 playoff.
With 40 players or more: Play will be 5 rounds of swiss followed by a top 8 playoff.
Matches will be Best 2 out of 3, set for 30 minutes per player (1 hour per match)
Matches will be played in the Casual Play > Anything Goes room. Match results and drops must be reported in the /join BYOScom room.
Matches must be set to watchable, with the classic format filter, and must have "BYOS [Round]" in the description. It is the responsibility of both players to ensure matches are set up correctly.
If a player doesn't join their assigned match within 10 minutes of pairing announcements, their opponent will be awarded a match win.
The deck used in the first round must be used for the entire event. Deviation from the deck used in the first round will result in disqualification.
If your deck contains illegal cards in the first round you will be allowed to replace the illegal cards with basic lands. If illegal cards are found to be in your deck in the following round you may be droped or allowed to continue play with basic lands per the host's discresion.
Intentional draws are not allowed. Come to play and have fun.
Players are expected to follow widely-accepted Community guidelines for conduct to maintain a fair and civil playing environment.
The host reserves the right to use widely-accepted disciplinary measures to enforce these guidelines.
The host is not responsible for making judgments based on game play situations. The host will not enter a match table and tell players what to do. The host is a facilitator, not a judge.
Please don't talk in other player's games unless both players agree that it is OK.
Drops must be reported in the /join BYOScom room.
Please don't use the 'com' room for anything other than reporting match results or drops.
Players who make the playoff cut must post their decklist in this thread within 48 hours or they forfeit their prizes. This is to encourage deck development.
Click reply in this thread and paste them into the forum.
Start your post with you mtgo screen name, place in the tournament, blocks and core set used, and a deck name.
What is a season and how does it work?
BYOS will be ran in a 16 week season. For each event you will gain season points for participation and performance. At the end of the 16 weeks the top players will be invited to participate in a championship event with increased prizes and fame!
How are season points calculated?
Each player will receive:
2 points for event participation
3 points per match win
1 point for top 4/8 appearance
How are pairings, standings, and tiebreakers calculated?
DCI-Reporter is used to create pairings and standings. The tiebreakers are all calculated automatically using the official DCI system.
For each bye or match win you are awarded 3 points.
The second column, OMW%, is your opponents match win percentage. This means the better your opponent's do in the following rounds the higher you will be in the final standings.
The third column, PGW%, is your game win percentage and considers your match results of 2-0, 2-1, 1-2, or 0-2.
The fourth column, OGW%, is based on all of your opponents game wins and losses.
If you have any more questions please feel free to pm me, ask at our event, or reply to this thread.
Players are expected to follow widely-accepted Community guidelines for conduct to maintain a fair and civil playing environment.: If you are caught in any unsportsmanlike conduct in or out of a game (i.e. being rude to the host, being rude to another player, cheating, failure to report your drop etc.), you will receive a warning and may be dropped from the tournament. Your name will be placed on a warning list for four(4) weeks. If, during that four weeks, you are caught in any unsportsmanlike conduct again and your name is on the warning list you will be suspended for the duration of the current season or the current season and the following season if we are past event 10. If you have been suspended before you will instead be banned. "Unsportsmanlike conduct" is at the discretion of the host; all decisions are final.
Finally! I have been waiting for this format for years, and had no idea that players were organizing tournies in this format. I would love to get in on this :D
Finally! I have been waiting for this format for years, and had no idea that players were organizing tournies in this format. I would love to get in on this :D
The event is pretty new and the format is tons of fun so spread the word to any others that you might know that would want to play the format!
It's yet to be broken and I'm really looking forward to a big showing this sunday.
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4 Birds of Paradise 4 Sakura-Tribe Scout 4 Sakura-Tribe Elder 4 Time of Need 4 Counterspell 4 Remand 4 Hinder 4 Telling Time 2 Compulsive Research 1 Keiga, the Tide Star 1 Arashi, the Sky Asunder 2 Meloku the Clouded Mirror 2 Patron of the Moon
