Pingele_Pats
06-03-2006, 01:47 PM
edit: well thanks guys for deleting my post...
yeah, I know you are working on it...
edit2: I was informed by someone accidentely deleted my post (claiming to be an idiot).
So it was not a technical problem. I will post something later today. Sincerely. Ping.
We will personal :shoot: anyone who accidentally deletes any post again.
- go in peace- (next time you will go in peaces)
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The [Deckmechs] are, as you all most probably know, hosting the current Clan Contest. This one will be all about riddles. Not the usual kind where you are asked something, and give the appropriate answer. Instead, you are to try to create some quite bizzare situations in the game of Magic itself, and do so following some specific requirements.
Here are the specific rules the CC will have to follow:
#1) From the list of riddles we will be posting, each clan will be allowed to choose three riddles and notify our clan leader, Neuromancer, about the choices they made as soon as they have chosen them. If your clan should choose a riddle that has already been chosen, your clan leader will be notified and you must choose another one. Every riddle can be chosen only once.
#2 With this, the list so far should be made up of 12 riddles, assuming all clans participate. We ourselves will be chosing, too, after all other clans have made their votes.
#3 The clans will be given a deadline of one week to send back their replies. Of course, if your clan has to choose another riddle due to the fact that one or more of your choices have already been taken, you will be given some extra time, in this case, three more days.
#4 The complete list isn't made up only by the riddles that the clans will be choosing. In addition to that, each clan will have to submit two riddles all by themselves, following some guidelines. We, the [Deckmechs], will still have the right to reject certain riddles if they don't follow the guidelines, of course. More about these guidelines later on. Submiting your own riddles will take part after all clans have chosen three riddles ffrom the list, so try to come up with something different, if possible.
#5 For the guidlines after which each clan will be submitting two riddles of their own: The riddles the clans themselves will be submitting must of course be solveable. If one or more of your riddles shouldn't be solveable (like "Create a Teenage Mutant hero Turtle token" since "Teenage" isn't a legal sub- or supertype, so only "Create a Minor Mutant hero Turtle token" would be accepted. And please, don't submit THAT riddle... In addition to that, we will have to reject any riddle that is too similar to another riddle on the list, to keep things fair. Come up with something yourself, and surprise the other clans! Be creative! We are sure you can do it, and once you are in it, be assured it is fun! Oh, by the way: to keep things funny enough, and not really too weird, we will have to reject any riddle that must involve an infinity-combo, like "Create 13424398 0/1 Monster tokens". We don't want any of these. Of course that is not to say that you are not allowed to USE infinity-combos for your solutions. If you can come up with the cheapest way to solve something and it goes infinite, then just go for it. But don't FORCE others to do so by making riddles that REQUIRE infinity.
#6 After the clans have submitted both their own riddles and the ones they chose from our list, one last riddle will be added to the whole list. (The D-E-C-K-M-E-C-H-S-Riddle...)
#7 To keep things as fair as humanly possible, we decided that each clan (including us, that is) is allowed to secretly ban 3 cards from the tournament. We will be choosing last, then presenting the Banned-list to the public. That means, any card is restricted to one copy in the whole tournamnet anyway, yet certain cards are banned, too. Try to use this to your advantage. The [Deckmechs] will have to reject somecards, if they are the only way to solve certain riddles, but if that is not the case, all is accepted.
#8 After the complete list is composed and everybody knows what is banned, you can begin riddling. From that moment, a deadline of 2 weeks will be given to send our clanleader your solutions. For simplicities sake, please do it all in one PM, if possible, and try to keep changes to your solution-list as few as possible.
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#9 The riddles themselves must be solved under the following conditions:
- Normal magic rules applied (both players 20-life start each puzzle, one land/turn)
- You have got only one turn to solve/create the board. This turn consitst of untap, upkeep, main#1, combat, main#2, end of turn. You cannot solve the riddle during your opponents turn.
- No permanents in play, no library, hand or graveyard.
- Now this is the important one: You have unlimited mana at your disposal, but the idea is to spend as little as possible. Spells and activated abilities with X in their mana cost can't be played. Mana created without these rules can't be spent.
You may create mana of any color to play your spells with, but you may not use any mana that isn't created by the puzzle rules. For example, if you wanted to, you could play a Dark Ritual and add BBB to your pool, but you wouldn't be able to spend it on anything. You can play a Rishadan Port, and you can use its ability to tap a land, but you can't tap it to generate mana.
- You can "create" any card known in magic and put it in your hand. (except for cards from Unglued and Unhinged)
- All cards are unique. When Mountain Goat is used for puzzle #1, you can't create a second one. Not even in puzzle#2.
- After all the clans will have submitted their solutions of the complete list of riddles, the clans will be awarded points for each riddle, all of which are handled seperately. If your clan has used the least amount of mana for riddle #X, your clan will get three points. For the clan that has used the second-least amount of mana, one point will be awarded. If two or more clans used the same amount of mana to solve a riddle, each of those clans will be given only 2 points, so that the riddles where everybody has a good solution don't count as much as those where you were thinking hard enough to earn your points.
Originally posted by PUZZLE EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE QUESTION:
Create a 12/12 flying creature.
EXAMPLE SOLLUTION:
Play Savannah. Play Skyshroud Cutter for free. Enter your combat phase, then tap Cutter to pay for Angelic Favor, giving you a 4/4 token. Play Invigorate for free to make it 8/8. Remove a Green card to play Bounty of the Hunt, now 11/11 creature. Finally, tap the token to play Ramosian Rally for free, making it 12/12.
TOTAL MANA USED: ZERO
Cards used to solve the puzzle example:
- Savannah
- Skyshroud Cutter
- Angelic Favor
- Invigorate
- Bounty of the Hunt
- Random green card for bounty of the hunt
- Ramosian Rally
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Hi again!
Here are the rules again...
Feel free to ask away if some rules aren't clear.
Each clanleader should make a post when they think they are ready to fight!
Sincerely,
Pingele_Pats - [Deckmechs]
yeah, I know you are working on it...
edit2: I was informed by someone accidentely deleted my post (claiming to be an idiot).
So it was not a technical problem. I will post something later today. Sincerely. Ping.
We will personal :shoot: anyone who accidentally deletes any post again.
- go in peace- (next time you will go in peaces)
-----------edit3:------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/7209/cc69fo024wj.png
The [Deckmechs] are, as you all most probably know, hosting the current Clan Contest. This one will be all about riddles. Not the usual kind where you are asked something, and give the appropriate answer. Instead, you are to try to create some quite bizzare situations in the game of Magic itself, and do so following some specific requirements.
Here are the specific rules the CC will have to follow:
#1) From the list of riddles we will be posting, each clan will be allowed to choose three riddles and notify our clan leader, Neuromancer, about the choices they made as soon as they have chosen them. If your clan should choose a riddle that has already been chosen, your clan leader will be notified and you must choose another one. Every riddle can be chosen only once.
#2 With this, the list so far should be made up of 12 riddles, assuming all clans participate. We ourselves will be chosing, too, after all other clans have made their votes.
#3 The clans will be given a deadline of one week to send back their replies. Of course, if your clan has to choose another riddle due to the fact that one or more of your choices have already been taken, you will be given some extra time, in this case, three more days.
#4 The complete list isn't made up only by the riddles that the clans will be choosing. In addition to that, each clan will have to submit two riddles all by themselves, following some guidelines. We, the [Deckmechs], will still have the right to reject certain riddles if they don't follow the guidelines, of course. More about these guidelines later on. Submiting your own riddles will take part after all clans have chosen three riddles ffrom the list, so try to come up with something different, if possible.
#5 For the guidlines after which each clan will be submitting two riddles of their own: The riddles the clans themselves will be submitting must of course be solveable. If one or more of your riddles shouldn't be solveable (like "Create a Teenage Mutant hero Turtle token" since "Teenage" isn't a legal sub- or supertype, so only "Create a Minor Mutant hero Turtle token" would be accepted. And please, don't submit THAT riddle... In addition to that, we will have to reject any riddle that is too similar to another riddle on the list, to keep things fair. Come up with something yourself, and surprise the other clans! Be creative! We are sure you can do it, and once you are in it, be assured it is fun! Oh, by the way: to keep things funny enough, and not really too weird, we will have to reject any riddle that must involve an infinity-combo, like "Create 13424398 0/1 Monster tokens". We don't want any of these. Of course that is not to say that you are not allowed to USE infinity-combos for your solutions. If you can come up with the cheapest way to solve something and it goes infinite, then just go for it. But don't FORCE others to do so by making riddles that REQUIRE infinity.
#6 After the clans have submitted both their own riddles and the ones they chose from our list, one last riddle will be added to the whole list. (The D-E-C-K-M-E-C-H-S-Riddle...)
#7 To keep things as fair as humanly possible, we decided that each clan (including us, that is) is allowed to secretly ban 3 cards from the tournament. We will be choosing last, then presenting the Banned-list to the public. That means, any card is restricted to one copy in the whole tournamnet anyway, yet certain cards are banned, too. Try to use this to your advantage. The [Deckmechs] will have to reject somecards, if they are the only way to solve certain riddles, but if that is not the case, all is accepted.
#8 After the complete list is composed and everybody knows what is banned, you can begin riddling. From that moment, a deadline of 2 weeks will be given to send our clanleader your solutions. For simplicities sake, please do it all in one PM, if possible, and try to keep changes to your solution-list as few as possible.
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#9 The riddles themselves must be solved under the following conditions:
- Normal magic rules applied (both players 20-life start each puzzle, one land/turn)
- You have got only one turn to solve/create the board. This turn consitst of untap, upkeep, main#1, combat, main#2, end of turn. You cannot solve the riddle during your opponents turn.
- No permanents in play, no library, hand or graveyard.
- Now this is the important one: You have unlimited mana at your disposal, but the idea is to spend as little as possible. Spells and activated abilities with X in their mana cost can't be played. Mana created without these rules can't be spent.
You may create mana of any color to play your spells with, but you may not use any mana that isn't created by the puzzle rules. For example, if you wanted to, you could play a Dark Ritual and add BBB to your pool, but you wouldn't be able to spend it on anything. You can play a Rishadan Port, and you can use its ability to tap a land, but you can't tap it to generate mana.
- You can "create" any card known in magic and put it in your hand. (except for cards from Unglued and Unhinged)
- All cards are unique. When Mountain Goat is used for puzzle #1, you can't create a second one. Not even in puzzle#2.
- After all the clans will have submitted their solutions of the complete list of riddles, the clans will be awarded points for each riddle, all of which are handled seperately. If your clan has used the least amount of mana for riddle #X, your clan will get three points. For the clan that has used the second-least amount of mana, one point will be awarded. If two or more clans used the same amount of mana to solve a riddle, each of those clans will be given only 2 points, so that the riddles where everybody has a good solution don't count as much as those where you were thinking hard enough to earn your points.
Originally posted by PUZZLE EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE QUESTION:
Create a 12/12 flying creature.
EXAMPLE SOLLUTION:
Play Savannah. Play Skyshroud Cutter for free. Enter your combat phase, then tap Cutter to pay for Angelic Favor, giving you a 4/4 token. Play Invigorate for free to make it 8/8. Remove a Green card to play Bounty of the Hunt, now 11/11 creature. Finally, tap the token to play Ramosian Rally for free, making it 12/12.
TOTAL MANA USED: ZERO
Cards used to solve the puzzle example:
- Savannah
- Skyshroud Cutter
- Angelic Favor
- Invigorate
- Bounty of the Hunt
- Random green card for bounty of the hunt
- Ramosian Rally
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Hi again!
Here are the rules again...
Feel free to ask away if some rules aren't clear.
Each clanleader should make a post when they think they are ready to fight!
Sincerely,
Pingele_Pats - [Deckmechs]