Be sure you really are happy with your deck before you submit. Once you send in a deck, there is no changing it except in the case of an illegal entry.
Please make every effort to spell your card names correctly. It makes it easier for everyone. Thanks.
The "Vanishing" part is the twist. To start off with, only Unglued, Unhinged and Ante cards are banned. After each round, the 3 cards in the winning deck plus any cards in more than 1/3 of the decks played will be banned for all future rounds. Any lands that only provide mana are exempted from the banning rules.

--------------Current banned list--------------

Black:

Appetite for Brains
Duress

Blue:

Laboratory Maniac

Red:

Bonfire of the Damned

Green:

Wolfbitten Captive
Mayor of Avabruck
Daybreak Ranger

Multicolored:

Abrupt Decay
Detention Sphere
Izzet Charm
Sigarda, Host of Herons

Artifacts:
Elixir of Immortality

Banned Decks (History)

Round 1: s14sh3r

Duress
Izzet Charm
Laboratory Maniac

Round 2: tritoch

Abrupt Decay
Appetite for Brains
Sigarda, Host of Herons

Round 3: tritoch

Elixir of Immortality
Detention Sphere
Bonfire of the Damned

Round 4: junichi

Wolfbitten Captive
Mayor of Avabruck
Daybreak Ranger

--------------End of Banning list--------------

I will try and post a new round every Sunday, allow submissions through Tuesday, reveal deck lists first thing on Wednesday and allow scoring until Saturday.

NO MISE DECKS!

Any deck submitted MUST have some win condition. Any deck that can do no better than a draw against any possible deck will be rejected. A deck that can't win any game is mathematically eliminated from winning the round, and thus would just be taking a chance to win away from someone who could actually have a shot.

ALL players will assist in judging. The way this will work is that after the submission period is over, After all decks are revealed, judge your own deck against every other deck (going first and going second). Post your findings here in this thread. They will be reviewed by everyone for accuracy. Once a winner is determined the winners deck will be added to the banned list and the next round will begin. Repeated failure to do your own scoring will result in suspensions!

Edit to add:

1) We will only be using cards from Standard. I know some veterans of the game will gripe and say that Standard is awful in general and worse when you can only use three cards, and you won't get to use your broken decks like Black Lotus, Black Vise, Balance. However, the smaller card pool is less intimidating to newer players and less mental strain to us all. We can change the format soon.

2) Instead of the normal 40+ weeks that I normally try to drag out the tournament, with no clear winner until our numbers diminish into nothing, we will instead be running each round for only 10 weeks, and at the end declare a winner. If you don't like Standard, wait 10 weeks and we'll have a new format. I'd even be willing to put the next format to a popular vote (sorry, no electoral college in this game) and see what most people would like to play. There will be a clear-cut winner after 10 weeks AND the play will rotate more often than usual, so it doesn't get stale.

3) Due to the limitations of the Standard pool, I don't want to restrict everyone to boring decks like Plains, Dryad Militant, Dryad Militant versus Mountain, Pillar of Flame, Rakdos Cackler. So, instead, just for this round, there will be a major alteration of the rules:

Each turn, you may put a token land onto the battlefield on your side. This counts as your land for the turn. If a token land leaves play for any reason, it ceases to exist. The ONLY lands you may play this way are the five basic (non-Snow Covered) lands available in Standard - Forest, Island, Mountain, Plains, Swamp.

You are free to play with other non-basic lands, but these will count towards your three cards in your deck if you do so.

Winner's List:

2

tritoch

1

junichi
S14sh3r

Decklists:

1. yakusoku

Sever the Bloodline
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play

2. bushe

Keening Apparition
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play

3. MAB_Rapper

Loxodon Smiter
Silverblade Paladin
Sublime Archangel

4. Bugger

Rest in Peace
Mind Rot
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

5. LemonMeringue

Devil's Play
Geist of St Traft
Sever the Bloodline

6. junichi

Liliana of the Veil
Devil's Play
Sever the Bloodline

7. Dimh

Sever the Bloodline
Syncopate
Snapcaster Mage

8. walkerdog

Burn at the stake
Lingering Souls
Sorin Lord of Innistrad

9. ectomanic

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Originally posted by Myy:
Congrats Junichi on your win!

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Thanks, I didn't see that coming when I sent my deck list to Yaku.

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Originally posted by bushe:
too much metagame to contend with now. So hard to beat all these nice people.

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This.

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You may use other formats as well, but this one is a must. Also PLEASE make sure you use the proper deck number for your deck. Replace the '?' on the bottom line with the number next to your name on the decklist.

Scoring:

Play your deck against each other deck twice, once with you going first, once with them going first. Always remember that each deck is to be played perfectly.

For each of the 2 games, score 3 points if your deck wins or 1 point if the game is a draw, with no points for a loss.

Some examples:
2 wins (WW) is 6 points.
A win and a draw (WD) is 4 points.
A win and a loss (WL) is 3 points.
2 draws (DD) is 2 points.
A draw and a loss (DL) is 1 point.
2 losses (LL) is 0 points.

Plug YOUR deck number into the ? below the ##, and your score against each deck into the other slots.

Do not play your deck against itself. Just enter an 'x' in the chart under your deck number.

Please copy-and-paste the following code into your Message box in order to assist you with scoring:

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## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
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## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
02 6 X 4 6 6 3 2 1 6 34

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yaku WW - I play apparition on turn 2, geist legend rules, I get enough of a head start to win the dp race

MAB WD - On the play I DP your big guys and you can trade paladin for geist so spirit beats or if you attack I DP your blockers and win the race. When you are on the play you play smiter vs my apparition and geist. Then you play paladin and attack me to 12. I do nothing here. You play angel and I chump with the apparition. I DP the smiter. You attack with angel (6). I DP the angel. Then geist and Paladin trade.

Bugger WW - Geist is my only play.

Lemon WW - same as yaku

junichi WL - When you are on play: I play apparition you play lili and +1, we both discard DP. I play geist and attack lili. So here you have to sever apparition and -2 lili so then you flashback DP before I can. On the play geist gets in before dying so I win.

Dimh DD - sever takes apparition, geist trades with snapcaster, syncopate trades with DP

walkerdog DL - On the play I make you use your whole board and kill sorin. On the draw you have one spirit left

## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
08 0 4 0 6 0 0 2 1 0 13

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Originally posted by walkerdog:

## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
08 0 4 0 6 0 0 2 1 0 13

Pretty sure vs Dimh he can't actually play Snappy or I'll get a guy out and Burn at the stake the snapcaster at some point. Syncopate has to counter Sorin, or Sorin will stonewall the Mage permanently.

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I have a feeling that I lose on the draw. Might wanna double check that.

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So, let’s see…

1. yakusoku LL 0 – Based on last week.
Sever the Bloodline
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play

2. bushe DL 1 – His explanation is good enough for me.
Keening Apparition
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play

4. Bugger WW 6 – On the play, I play Paladin. If he Mind Rot’s it’s over. If he doesn’t, I play Sublime and just beat. On the draw, I keep Paladin if he plays Mind Rot and bash for 8 a turn.
Rest in Peace
Mind Rot
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

5. LemonMeringue LL 0 – See #1
Devil's Play
Geist of St Traft
Sever the Bloodline

6. junichi LL 0 – I don’t see anyway to beat this.
Liliana of the Veil
Devil's Play
Sever the Bloodline

7. Dimh LL 0 – Ugh, can Sever be banned yet?
Sever the Bloodline
Syncopate
Snapcaster Mage

8. walkerdog WW 6 – Every time I do the math, it looks like he never gets pop Sorin’s Ultimate and he has to block with his creatures or he just dies, making Burn at the Stake irrelevant.
Burn at the stake
Lingering Souls
Sorin Lord of Innistrad

9. ectomanic WW 6 – He can stop 2 creatures, but if I play them in the right order, he will die before turn 10 every time.
Door to Nothingness
Nevermore
Oblivion Ring

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# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
3 0 1 X 6 0 0 0 6 6 19

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Originally posted by MAB_Rapper:
3. MAB_Rapper
Loxodon Smiter
Silverblade Paladin
Sublime Archangel

So, let’s see…

1. yakusoku LL 0 – Based on last week.
Sever the Bloodline
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play

2. bushe DL 1 – His explanation is good enough for me.
Keening Apparition
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play

4. Bugger WW 6 – On the play, I play Paladin. If he Mind Rot’s it’s over. If he doesn’t, I play Sublime and just beat. On the draw, I keep Paladin if he plays Mind Rot and bash for 8 a turn.
Rest in Peace
Mind Rot
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

5. LemonMeringue LL 0 – See #1
Devil's Play
Geist of St Traft
Sever the Bloodline

6. junichi LL 0 – I don’t see anyway to beat this.
Liliana of the Veil
Devil's Play
Sever the Bloodline

7. Dimh LL 0 – Ugh, can Sever be banned yet?
Sever the Bloodline
Syncopate
Snapcaster Mage

8. walkerdog WW 6 – Every time I do the math, it looks like he never gets pop Sorin’s Ultimate and he has to block with his creatures or he just dies, making Burn at the Stake irrelevant.
Burn at the stake
Lingering Souls
Sorin Lord of Innistrad

9. ectomanic WW 6 – He can stop 2 creatures, but if I play them in the right order, he will die before turn 10 every time.
Door to Nothingness
Nevermore
Oblivion Ring

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I just realized that I THINK I can win on the play: I make souls on T3. You make 2/2 or 4/4. I make sorin, make a guy, pass. You attack with your 3drop. I block with a vamp token. You make angel (I think?). I can flash back souls, or shoot your angel with the souls (tap them both for 6 dmg) and make a token (going to 5 loyalty). You can play the other 3drop, and either way I can chump either the 1 attacker, or both if I didn't burn@stake. My board is now 3 spirit tokens (if I flashed back) or 2 spirit tokens (if I burned@stake) along with Sorin either way.

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6 6 3 6 2 6 X 6 3 0 32

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1. yakusoku XX

Sever the Bloodline
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play

2. bushe LL. He covered this already. He wins the race with a Grizzly Bear.

3. MAB_Rapper WW. I kill all his guys with removal and eventually just Devil's Play flashback for the win.

4. Bugger WW. I just hold on to Geist and attack turn 4, 5, 6, and 7.

5. LemonMeringue WL. Whoever goes first wins.

6. junichi LL. Liliana makes me lose Geist, then he makes me discard until he can ulti Liliana and flashback his Devil's Play.

7. Dimh DD. He has to hold onto Syncopate + Snapcaster Mage for Devil's Play and Geist, but if he plays Snapcaster Mage offensively, I can kill it.

8. walkerdog WW. Sever on Lingering Souls and Geist just keeps attacking for the win. Devil's Play as needed.

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05 3 0 6 6 X 0 2 6 3 26

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 total
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01 X 0 6 6 3 0 2 6 3 26
02 6 X 4 6 6 3 2 1 6 34 <= winner!
03 0 1 X 6 0 0 0 6 6 19
04 0 0 0 X 0 2 2 0 0 04
05 3 0 6 6 X 0 2 6 3 26
06 6 3 6 2 6 X 6 3 0 32
07 2 2 6 2 2 2 x 2 2 20
08 0 4 0 6 0 0 2 1 0 13
09 3 0 0 6 3 6 2 6 x 26

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