We've had a few of these and you can read the Results from our tournaments.
Our tournament rules are fairly close to the official ones.
Build a deck of 40 cards minimum with *no* four card limit, from either:
There is no sideboard but we may have a deck adjustment time between rounds two and three where up to 5 cards can be added, removed or swapped into your deck as long as it stays at 40 cards minimum.
We aim to have each player play each other player once but rounds will be limited to a maximum of 7. These will be determined by the DCI computer program but possibly tweaked so the bye is shared more evenly across adjacent tournamnets.
Old style Rounds and Pairings
We aim to have each player play each other player once but rounds will be limited to a maximum of 7 so depending how many players
we get we will play either:
Placings will be determined by the DCI computer program which uses Wins and then percentages and opponents skill level to break ties.
Old style results
Placings will be determined by Match Wins. Match Losses are the first tie breaker. If Players are still equal then we will use the
Douds System for determining a Game Ratio to use as a tie breaker. The final tie breaker will be the head to head result for the two
players.
| Douds System: 2 points for each game won, -1 point for each game lost. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match Result | 2-0 | 2-1 | 1-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-2 |
| Points | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -2 |
These are two player games so we will use the Play or Draw rule. Whoever wins the toss (or dice throw) chooses (before looking at their hand) either to play first and skip their first draw step or to play second. After each game in a match, the loser of that game decides whether to play first in the next game.
The only Mulligan is the Paris one - you may at the start of a game, for any reason, reshuffle and redraw your hand, drawing one less card. This may be repeated as often as you want, until you have no cards left in your hand.
Once 50 minutes has passed in a round finish the current turn and then 5 more turns, total between both players, are played. If there is still no result then the game is a draw.