Deckbuilding Competition: If you build them they will play

Septima Rhay · **on:** February 19, 2025, 05:10:22 pm

Deckbuilding Competition - If you build them they will play

art by niharia

Submission rules: Submit exactly two unupgraded decks to Septima Rhay (forum PM or discord PM). Don't share with others publicly which decks you built. Your decks will be part of an anonymous pool of decks for an individual pvp tournament. You are not required to participate in the tourney but may do so if you wish.

Deckbuilding rules: no upgraded cards; regrade and mark cards are banned

Submission deadline: March 2nd

Submissions: 32 decks

Spoiler for deck pool:

Points:

Spoiler for selection, use, wins:

Competition Points: points are earned based on your deck's usage in the related and upcoming individual pvp tournament.
1. When your deck is selected by a tournament player during the 'deck selection phase', you'll earn 5 points each time your deck is 'selected'
2. Each time your deck is 'played' you'll earn another 1 points
3. Each time your deck 'wins' a game you'll earn another 2 points
4. The winner of the competition is the one whose single deck earns the most points throughout the tournament. There will be a side reward for the player that earns the most points for their two submitted decks combined.

About the tournament: full tourney rules will be posted soon. Know for now that all submitted decks will be made public on March 3rd. The deck submitters will be anonymous. Tourney players will select 10 decks from the pool of submitted decks. Tourney players are restricted to playing the decks they selected in a play-5-games match format, round robin tournament. A deck may be played once in a 5-game match. The decks that tourney players select will be known at the start of the match phase. Tourney players may play decks they built for the competition but will not earn any points for using own-built decks.

Rewards:
1st place: 30k gold and 2 shiny nymphs
2nd place: 20k gold and 1 shiny nymph
3rd place: 15k gold and 1 shiny rare
Participants: 10k gold
Bonus reward for most points across two decks: 15k gold

serprex · **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2025, 05:30:49 pm

BGA_NICE99 · **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2025, 01:00:15 pm

Are nymphs banned?

Septima Rhay · **Reply #3 on:** February 20, 2025, 01:11:11 pm

Quote from: BGA_NICE99 on February 20, 2025, 01:00:15 pm

Are nymphs banned?

They are allowed.

Manuel · **Reply #4 on:** February 23, 2025, 06:43:09 pm

Turlututu · **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2025, 12:54:47 pm

Participating

Hitei · **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2025, 11:26:43 pm

Submitted two decks. :3

Septima Rhay · **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2025, 02:01:46 pm

2 days left to submit decks. For those that already submitted, I will accept replacements/edits through March 2nd. Review your decks, make sure they function well and are quanta balanced. Final decks will be posted on March 3rd and tournament players can start formulating selection strategy.

Reminder: tourney players pick 10 decks for 5-game matches and what they pick is known to other players.

BigDieck · **Reply #8 on:** March 02, 2025, 05:33:06 am

So in

Septima Rhay · **Reply #9 on:** March 03, 2025, 07:03:44 pm

Time to submit decks is up. 16 participants, 32 decks. Please double check I posted your decks correctly.

Septima Rhay · **Reply #10 on:** March 15, 2025, 09:37:11 am

23 of 32 decks were selected for use in the tourney, which is now live.

serprex · **Reply #11 on:** March 31, 2025, 02:15:28 pm

Building spreadsheet with stats from event:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tcDUXd9ziqqap7VraAaB6wnjh8T0-3tJua9bFCZNY7c

Septima Rhay · **Reply #12 on:** April 05, 2025, 03:05:02 pm

Congratulations to Aves for winning "If you build them they will play". Thank you to all who participated. Rewards will be forum PMed soon.

1st place, Aves

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Top 3
1st - Sopa Wardens; Aves
2nd tied - Air Sadism; Septima Rhay
2nd tied - Immorush; pimpollo
3rd - Wicked Phoenix and Corpse Epidemic (decks tied); but both submitted by Manuel

Because of the 'using own deck submitted' penalty, Serprex's Pixiegon and Monofire w/shield didn't place but earned the most raw event points.

Noteworthy decks:
Best winrate: Immorush
Most selected: Air sadism, Pixiegon, Mono fire w/shield
Most played: Pixiegon
Most win points: Sopa Wardens and Mono fire w/shield

All event decks found here

Manuel · **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2025, 04:47:40 pm

The biggest surprise isn't the dual top 3, but being registered for 4 years and having no idea that Aves was still active

Aves = Hitei?

Hitei · **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2025, 05:17:21 pm

Quote from: Manuel on April 06, 2025, 04:47:40 pm

The biggest surprise isn't the dual top 3, but being registered for 4 years and having no idea that Aves was still active

Aves = Hitei?

No, he's a different person. I submitted two decks that didn't got used by participants.

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