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To be honest, I haven't worked on it much.  My thought was to begin a revival by having a date to start hosting a bunch of games, then find some way to advertisement that start date.  However, so far, we have only you and myself volunteering to host games.  That does not a revival make.  I mean, I suppose we can try to do a rolling start, where we get a few games running, then do advertising, then hopefully some new people can also be convinced to run games...but it seems unlikely.

So, in other words, I've been putting off thinking about it too much because it's depressing and I don't know how we can succeed.    I don't feel like I see a means yet to accomplish people joining....

But maybe the only solution is just to try to start.  In that case, we should probably target, maybe, the second week of September. 

I have a game idea I've been thinking of trying...It's a very long experience, and I might want one other person to help me with their opinions, but I think it'll be an interesting sort of contest.

I plan on taking deck submissions.  I figure it will be best to have a second judge, rather than just have me judging.

Any judging help would be appreciated.  I'll let you know once I've got most of the ideas set out so you can develop your own judging criteria.

The Standard seems just really aggravating, unless there's a limit to the cards you can change or something.  I mean, playing Mythic until I can't then playing something else really good seems really annoying.  And if someone plays a deck with a central card that rotates and isn't replaced with something else, their deck might get screwed, and it might not even be something super-competetive, either.  Maybe if there's, like, a limit to the cards you can have that will rotate or something?  Not sure how to not make that annoying to play.  You'll probably find some interested, though.

The Sealed seems cool, although I'm not sure how interesting or special that particular bonus will be.  I do like it a lot more than the Standard, though.

Aug 30, 2010 -- 12:33AM, tgva8889 wrote:

Any judging help would be appreciated.  I'll let you know once I've got most of the ideas set out so you can develop your own judging criteria.

The Standard seems just really aggravating, unless there's a limit to the cards you can change or something.  I mean, playing Mythic until I can't then playing something else really good seems really annoying.  And if someone plays a deck with a central card that rotates and isn't replaced with something else, their deck might get screwed, and it might not even be something super-competetive, either.  Maybe if there's, like, a limit to the cards you can have that will rotate or something?  Not sure how to not make that annoying to play.  You'll probably find some interested, though.

The Sealed seems cool, although I'm not sure how interesting or special that particular bonus will be.  I do like it a lot more than the Standard, though.

Oh, glad you misunderstood that, because it shows I wasn't clear.  My point is that you may only replace the cards that are no longer legal.  Essentially, you have to build your deck with some thought of the future in mind, knowing you'll have to replace some portion of it.  For example, you could choose to run Mythic, which could basically just transform into Dredge-uh-vine post rotation with small alterations, or you could run Jund, and basically have to have an entirely new deck post-rotation.  It's kind-of like imagining that someone is on a budget, but for some reason can't wait til October to play Standard.  So they invest in a deck now, but try to keep it as post-October as possible to minimize their cost/effort in buying new cards.

Still, I'll see if I can think of something else as an alternative. I'm looking for a hook that makes the game different than normal Standard, but that isn't so wacky that no one joins. 

As to stj's comment, it's certainly true that if we don't get more players, we have either rename the group Qwy/Tgv/Sjt's hangout, or give up.  My thought is that we set up the threads with games first so that way when we start referring peope here, if they come, at least they see something to join.  Other than just direct advertising in a few forums (I'm thinking Magic General, some of the other play-by-post forums, and then specific forums for each game, like the Limited forum for the sealed game).  I'll change over my signature with links, but, like I said, I don't post much anymore, so it won't really bring up the visibility too much.