Battleground Games and Hobbies Commander League!
Cost: $10.
Rules: Standard Commander Deck construction applies. The recommended/optional banned list will be used. See below. Two players in a game CAN play the same commander; though it is encouraged they attempt to find a way not to. Please try and have fun
Time: The league will run from Tuesday July 19th until September 6th. Although the league begins and ends on a Tuesday, you are free to play games on both Tuesdays and Thursdays. Note, we are restricting the days you can play so that players who show up every day do not have an unfair advantage.
Prizes: Prizes will be awarded at the end of the league based on whomever has the most Victory Points (see below on how to acquire Victory points). 100% of the Store Credit entered will be given out in Prizes. In addition each Tuesday we will give out a random foil to one lucky participant based on a die roll.
How to acquire Victory Points: During each game you play you win Victory Points; According to the table below. You cannot earn negative victory points in a game, though you can earn zero. At the end of the game simply report how many points each player in the game got to the employee behind the counter. He/She will record the total for you.
Winning a game: 2
Winning a game with 8 or more players: 3 Participation in a game (if you do not win): 1 Most damage dealt in a single turn: 1 Most expensive spell cast during a gam (x spells count): 1 Most players killed (killing is described as dealing the last points of damage to that player): 1 point per player
Winning the game with a “combo”*(defined later): -1 Playing with a WOTC Commander deck with no modifications: .25 Taking more than THREE turns in a row: -.25 (each time you take three turns in a row) Saving another player from ‘death’ (stopping a lethal attack towards that player): .25 Playing a spell that allows all other players to draw additional cards (such as Howling mine/Font of Mythos/ etc): .25
Destroying All permanents of one or more types: -.25 Having more than ten non token creatures in play at a time: .25 Having more than twenty token creatures in play: .25 Casting your general during the game: .5
Playing with an entirely foil deck (extra large commanders count): .25 Destroying a player’s land when he/she only controls ONE: -5. Killing a player with General/Commander damage: 1 point per player Telling Micah Greenbaum he is awesome: zero points but you should do it anyway
Deck Construction Rules/Banned List:
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o Ancestral Recall
o Balance
o Biorhythm
o Black Lotus
o Coalition Victory
o Channel
o Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
o Fastbond
o Gifts Ungiven
o Kokusho, the Evening Star
o Karakas
o Library of Alexandria
o Limited Resources
o Lion's Eye Diamond
o Metalworker
o Mox Sapphire, Ruby, Pearl, Emerald and Jet
o Painter's Servant
o Panoptic Mirror
o Protean Hulk
o Recurring Nightmare
o Staff of Domination
o Sway of the Stars
o Time Vault
o Time Walk
o Tinker
o Tolarian Academy
o Upheaval
o Yawgmoth's Bargain
• Additionally the following legends may not be used as a Commander:
o Braids, Cabal Minion
o Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
o Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
• Gold bordered cards ARE legal for the league as long as your deck is sleeved.
• Also, any card requiring ‘dexterity’ or ante is banned as per normal magic games.
• *Combo is described as any of the following: Kiki-Jiki/Splinter Twin/Deciever Exarch, Pestermite; High Tide/Palinchron; Mind over matter/Azami, Lady of Scrolls; Worldgorger Dragon/Necromancy, Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead; Tidespout Tyrant/Sensei’s Diving Top/Sol Ring/Future Sight/Magus of the Future.
