Deckbuilding Competition: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

[Septima Rhay]

Deckbuilding competition: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Pick packs.  Host opens them for you.  Build a deck from the cards you opened plus free pillars and pendulums.  Your deck takes on other players' decks in a battle royale simulation.  Your deck will have 2 lives.


art by: Niharia
event idea inspired by Turlututu

Timeline
Signed: 2 week signups and pack 'opening'; 1x mulligan (reroll)  before signup deadline; April 24th deadline
Sealed: card pool is sealed; 2 week deckbuilding submission deadline; submit 1 deck by May 4
Delivered: Decks delivered to 2 pilot hosts; they will pvp simulate submitted decks battle royale style.

Signups:
1. Create a forum post indicating your intent to join the competition
2. State your first and second elements in the signup post
3. Host will post the cards they opened for you publicly
4. You have until signup deadline to 'keep' the cards you opened or to do a 1x mulligan 'reopening of new packs'.  If you opt for the mulligan, you may not go back to the first set of opened cards. Mulligan includes choice of new elements if you wish.

Deckbuilders pack selection is as follows:

Pick your first element = 145 cards
5 bronze packs; 50 cards
8 silver packs; 48 cards
9 rare packs; 45 cards
2 nymph pack; 2 cards

Pick your second element (cannot be same as main) = 91 cards
3 bronze packs; 30 cards
5 silver packs; 30 cards
6 rare packs; 30 cards
1 nymph pack; 1 cards

--Event host will open your pack selections and notify you via forumPM post to this thread publicly.
--Random element (?) can be one (not both) of your pack ‘elements’; same with chroma but that is not recommended
--You are restricted to the number of copies to place in a deck based on the copies of that card you pulled from packs; if you only pulled 5 devourers, you may insert a maximum of 5 devourers in your deck
--Understand that packs are RNG and designed so you don't get all of the cards from one element easily including common cards; packs also draw 'off-element' cards.
--We recommend you practice opening packs to see what you typically get; notice that you're unlikely to get all the cards for a deck you might want to reverse engineer from pack selections
--Battle matches will be RNG determined
--Understand that pilot hosts do their best to play decks optimally but there is chance for pilot error
--Cardpools will be posted publicly as you signup; mulligans will be announced via forum post as they happen and cardpools will be updated

Sealed: build your deck (April 25-May 4)
--Only using cards received from packs
--May additionally use any pillar or pendulum (no marks)
--May use a maximum of 15 upgrades in their deck to apply towards any single card in deck
--Decks will be posted publicly at deadline

Delivered: your decks are sent to host pilots for battle
--Your deck will have 2 lives.  If it loses in a h2h matchup, it loses 1 life
--Matches will be round based
--Your deck will be randomly paired with other players' submitted decks; this will continue to happen until your deck loses twice or is the single deck remaining
--Rules for ‘byes’ when there are uneven opponents: randomly determined but favoring decks with fewer lives remaining; when given a bye, next round favoring a deck with more lives remaining.

Rewards:
1st place: 40k gold and 2 shiny nymphs
2nd place: 30k gold and 1 shiny nymph
3rd place: 20k gold and 1 shiny rare
Participants: 15k gold

Spoiler for Example pack opening and deck builds:

first element: 
second element: 

first element packs

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second element packs

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other element cards rolled

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Example decks you could build:

Mono gravity

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Mono Death, light mark

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Cardinal Quad mark

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Death gravity duo

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Chroma

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Player Pack openings

Spoiler for Serprex; entropy 1; darkness 2:

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Spoiler for Neopergoss; darkness 1; air 2:

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Spoiler for ponderous; mulligan; death 1; entropy 2:

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Spoiler for ponderous; 1st open;Entropy 1; gravity 2:

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[serprex]

[Aves]

[Neopergoss]

[Septima Rhay]

Opened player packs posted in original post.

Would anyone like to be a pvp simulation pilot for the battle royale? You can submit a deck and still pilot; we'll work it out that you play your own decks in matches.  I will serve by default as one of the pilots.  But if 2 other players feel excited to do that let me know.  Considering a video replay of matches with audio commentary.

[Hitei]

[Elemensch]

 

[serprex]

I wish I could define a deck specifically for each matchup

[Septima Rhay]

I wish I could define a deck specifically for each matchup

Originally considered this as a deckbuilding + pvp tourney combo, thematically linked, not structurally linked.  What you wish for could work well in a pvp tourney..each player with a unique fixed card pool, build decks/make adjustments based on the opponent.  For db comp, keeping it simpler for battle royale...line em up and smash.

Edit: if players like the sealed pack concept for pvp tourney, we can plan one later on.

[ponderous]

  anything else I should do?

[Turlututu]

event idea inspired by Turlututu

Huh.

Anyway, let's try

[Septima Rhay]

event idea inspired by Turlututu

Huh.

- "Sealed": you have X electrum to buy any packs you want, deck must be made from the obtained cards (+ppm). The actual packs are bought by hosts then traded to you to prevent shenanigans
- etc.

[Septima Rhay]

anything else I should do?

1. review your cardpool here
2. you have until deadline to consider what you can build
3. you have until deadline to keep the cardpool or request a mulligan pack opening

given the ample 'early' activity on this event, I may move up the deadlines for sign-up/pack opening and deck submission.

[Turlututu]

given the ample 'early' activity on this event, I may move up the deadlines for sign-up/pack opening and deck submission.

As in earlier deadlines? Please don't.

[timpa]