Greetings, sers...
Before anything else, I would like to congratulate Peter for doing well in the tournament last weekend. Thanks to Rich for attempting to post a recount of what happened. Also, kudos to all who joined in our first ever tournament (with a new influx of new cards!) after such a long time. It's been a while and it was good to card-flop in AGOT once again.
Now to get to the meat of the matter. There are a couple of things that I want to bring up. But by the looks of things, this will be a fairly long post/email depending on where you read it. The AGOT is blog is at http://agotph.blogspot.com/ if you didn't know.
The first topic I wanted to bring up is the Booster Draft Format Tournament that I proposed running last week. We can look at doing one either this weekend or the next depending on everyone's availability. As much as possible we should a minimum of 6 players that could join. Now what would a Booster Draft Tournament entail?
1) You need to have the Draft Pack and the Draft Pack Supplement. What's in it? Here's the list:
Draft Pack Card List (11)
6x House Cards, of course
1x DR7 Alliance (Plot)
1x DR8 Counting Coppers (Plot)
1x DR9 Filthy Accusations (Plot)
1x DR10 Taxation Plot (Plot)
1x DR11 Wildfire Assault (Plot)
Draft Supplement Card List (28)
1x C13 House Umber Recruiter
1x C168 Fallow Fields
1x C34 Dissident Crier
1x U170 The God’s Eye
1x C60 Stormlands Peasant
3x U142 Narrow Sea
1x C75 Godly Fisherman
3x U143 Summer Sea
1x C100 Illyrio’s Man
3x U144 Sunset Sea
1x C113 Desert Scavenger
3x C169 Kingsroad Fiefdom
1x U227 On Ravens Wings (Plot)
3x C171 The Roseroad
1x F247 Fortified Position (Plot)
3x C172 The Searoad
2) These are boosters that we will be using for the Booster Draft Tournament.
2x ITE
1x AHOT
1x AHOTa
1x 5KE
3) The overall cost would be PHP800.00. This would just cover the cost of the boosters. The tournament fee (aka administrative fee) is waived.
4) I'm sure the lot of you are familiar with the Booster Draft Tournament mechanics one way or another. If not, please check the link: http://www.agameofthrones.com/PDF/Rules.pdf
5) We will follow the usual process of drafting the rares and uncommons for the winners.
Note: I guess that if folks are a little tight for a Draft Tournament, we can always opt for the regular Constructed Format tournament.
Two is that I wanted to bring up the dreaded issue of legality of cards. I know, I know. Re-engineering existing decks would be a challenge if we are to remove the Winter Block cards. Kudos though to Rich for doing that already with his numerous Stark decks.
As such, we are still allowing the Winter Block at this point. However, I think it would safe to "rotate" the Winter Block out once we have the complete set of Chapter Packs from the Clash of Arms block. We're still missing The Battle of Ruby Ford and Calling the Banners Chapter Packs. Unless there are violent reactions, we can make this the official rule for our local community.
Three would be ordering the remaining Chapter Packs as well as the Core Set. I know that some of us are still reeling with what we spent to get the Chapter Packs and the boxes of 5KE and AHOTa. So we don't have to discuss this in major detail at this point since we are all basking in the new cards that we have and attempting to either integrate with our existing decks or to create new decks. I just wanted to leave in the air for everyone to think about.
Well, this is a long post/email. So I guess I'll cut it short for now. Feel free to respond to this with your thoughts, reactions and ideas.
Signing off...
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First off... thanks, anonymous replier! What the heck?
Anyway:
Thanks for posting, Gil! I like writing my mini-articles when I can, but you bring up the points most important to the community: new cards and tournaments!
First off: I like draft, but am in no rush. It's been so long since we tourneyed steadily that even the regular tournaments are a treat... and I hope we can have SOMETHING this week! I myself will be late (West Side rehearsals ) but i'll be there. I don't mind holding off on the draft, though. Like you dsaid, we're running a light light in the wallets.
Which brings me to 2., ordering. I believe that by now the remaining 2 Clash Of Arms Chapter Packs are out in the States, plus the Core Set and the 2 Winter/Summer CPs. (I forget their titles.) I know that's a lot of cash to lay out; however, I also know that our biggest expense is likely to be shipping. Would we be wiser to order all these in one big shipment? Would that be cheaper?
Now, card legality:
It's a tricky question. I know it's a big deal to change over, you're right there. And the timing is a matter we should all weigh in on. My personal vote is to order all the remaining available Chapter Packs and Core sets together, and then when those arrive, then we switch out of Winter. But that's two separate issues folded into one vote (Ordering and rotation.)What do the rest of you think? Is there anyone who feels the need to rotate Winter already? We're a small group, it can't be that hard to get a consensus.
For now, Winter is still legal; although I de-Winterized my own decks, that was as much a deckbuilding test as anything. It's still viable to use the Winter cards and there may be much feeling on this. (An important note is that a few Winter cards actually return in the Core Set, in essence never really "rotating out" in the States. We should discuss that as well, if we just retain the use of those cards even if we rotate Winter block but don't yet have the Core sets.)
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