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--------------

White:
Keening Apparition

Blue:

Laboratory Maniac

Black:

Appetite for Brains
Duress
Sever the Bloodline

Red:

Bonfire of the Damned
Devil's Play

Green:

Daybreak Ranger
Mayor of Avabruck
Wolfbitten Captive

Multicolored:

Abrupt Decay
Detention Sphere
Geist of Saint Traft
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

Round 5: bushe

Keening Apparition
Geist of Saint Traft
Devil's Play

--------------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

bushe
junichi
S14sh3r

1-game suspension list (failure to score deck):

Bugger

Decklists:

1. yakusoku

Pack Rat
Worldspine Wurm
Liliana of the Veil

2. PantySausage

Ulvenwald Tracker
Predator Ooze
Reverberate

3. MAB_Rapper

Avacyn's Pilgrim
Drogskol Captain
Drogskol Captain

4. LemonMeringue

Pack Rats
Worldspine Wurm
Vraska the Unseen

5. junichi

Pithing Needle
Olivia Voldaren
Vraska the Unseen

6. tritoch

Shrieking Affliction
Pithing Needle
Rakdos's Return

7. bushe

Dreadbore
Entreat the Angels
Memory's Journey

8. ectomanic

Nevermore
Lingering SOuls
Curse of Stalked Prey

9. Dimh

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Originally posted by LemonMeringue:
4 Decks had sever the bloodline

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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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against rats, you have to wait until too late so that you can't race the angels

against sausage I race on the play but lose on the draw

This would have been better last week I think. Let failure begin…

1. yakusoku LL 0 – I can fly, but I can’t handle Lilly.
Pack Rat
Worldspine Wurm
Liliana of the Veil

2. PantySausage WW 6 – By the time Ooze is played and Tracker can be used, I have 2 untargetable 3/3’s. I win the race.
Ulvenwald Tracker
Predator Ooze
Reverberate

4. LemonMeringue LL 0 – Rats are just a little too fast.
Pack Rats
Worldspine Wurm
Vraska the Unseen

5. junichi LL 0 – Olivia can hold back my flyers and Vraska does the rest.
Pithing Needle
Olivia Voldaren
Vraska the Unseen

6. tritoch WL 3 – On the play, I never play Pilgrim and get 2 flyers before he can Return to get rid of my hand. On the draw, I have to play turn 1 pligrim, turn 2 flyer. However, by this point, I lose the race.
Shrieking Affliction
Pithing Needle
Rakdos's Return

7. bushe LL 0 – Easy enough…
Dreadbore
Entreat the Angels
Memory's Journey

8. ectomanic DL 1 – On the play, I play everything before Nevermore. I don’t swing once he gets tokens and we stare, as a full swing will leave him with the same number of flyers as me. On the draw, he has to turn 3 Nevermore to keep me from doing the same thing. I can kill 2 flyers, but not 4.
Nevermore
Lingering Souls
Curse of Stalked Prey

9. Dimh LL 0 – Verdict… ouch.
Olivia Voldaren
Golgari Charm
Supreme Verdict

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2) I play Liliana, making him lose either Ooze or Tracker. If he loses Tracker, I can make an extra Rat every turn until Worldspine Wurm comes online. If he loses Ooze, I just sit on Pack Rat until Wurm comes out.

8) NVM; I'm able to play Pack Rat turn 2, and just spam rats to win.

9) Liliana makes him lose Olivia. After that, it's just a matter of time before I win with Wurm.

4) If anyone can see a better plan, let me know, but I think we can match each other's Pack Rats or Wurm every turn, with no one getting an advantage. Both of our planeswalkers don't do enough, and losing a turn to play them means an extra activation and attack of Pack Rats over the other guy.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
8) ectomanic loses one Spirit to Liliana, but otherwise just races through the air and wins.

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Olivia Voldaren
Golgari Charm
Supreme Verdict

1. yakusoku - LL

Pack Rat
Worldspine Wurm
Liliana of the Veil

Charm doesn't save Olivia from Lili.

2. PantySausage - WW

Ulvenwald Tracker
Predator Ooze
Reverberate

Between Charm, Verdict, and stealing the ooze if needed, able to take this one.

3. MAB_Rapper - WW

Avacyn's Pilgrim
Drogskol Captain
Drogskol Captain

Wraths then Olivia.

4. LemonMeringue - LL

Pack Rats
Worldspine Wurm
Vraska the Unseen

I can answer a T2 rat with charm, or Supreme Verdict them away. I can Kill the assassin's with the option I didn't use once, but he will eventually get them again. At this point I will have to use Olvia, who will die to a Vraska. Then I die to wurm.

5. junichi - LL

Pithing Needle
Olivia Voldaren
Vraska the Unseen

6. tritoch - DW

Shrieking Affliction
Pithing Needle
Rakdos's Return

On the play, I get Olivia out while being able to kill the Affliction. On the draw, I kill the Affliction and lose my hand to Rakdos's Return.

7. bushe - ??

Dreadbore
Entreat the Angels
Memory's Journey

This is really complicated, and the longer the game goes, the more chance I have of winning. If I can get Olivia out, and be able to steal an angel or two, I might be able to win. Curious on the plays bushe makes for his WW.

8. ectomanic - WW

Nevermore
Lingering SOuls
Curse of Stalked Prey

Nevermore can't stop Charm + Olivia, Olivia munches tokens.

9. Dimh - XX

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Originally posted by Dimh:
Dimh

7. bushe - ??

Dreadbore
Entreat the Angels
Memory's Journey

This is really complicated, and the longer the game goes, the more chance I have of winning. If I can get Olivia out, and be able to steal an angel or two, I might be able to win. Curious on the plays bushe makes for his WW.

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3BB: Gain control of target Vampire for as long as you control Olivia Voldaren.

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Originally posted by PantySausage:
7: I play tracker when he has 4 mana both games, and reverb says his entreat can't race me.

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Here is how I think this plays out when I'm on the play:
you play tracker turn 1, I kill tracker on turn 2 so you attack 1x and then cast ooze on turn 3 (19-20).

Turn 4 you attack (17-20).

Turn 5 I entreat for 1 angel. You attack but I block.

Turn 6 I attack (17-16). You attack (13-16). I journey on entreat

Turn 7 I entreat for 4 angels and you copy it. I attack and you block (13-16) angels are (4-3). You attack and I block all angels (8-16) angels (1-0). I journey on entreat.

Turn 8 I entreat for 5 angels and attack with one (8-12). You attack (2-12).

Turn 9 I attack (2-0).

This also works if you save the reverb for the 3rd entreat since I will never cast it. Let me know how you see it playing out.

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Originally posted by bushe:
Here is how I think this plays out when I'm on the play:
you play tracker turn 1, I kill tracker on turn 2 so you attack 1x and then cast ooze on turn 3 (19-20).

Turn 4 you attack (17-20).

Turn 5 I entreat for 1 angel. You attack but I block.

Turn 6 I attack (17-16). You attack (13-16). I journey on entreat

Turn 7 I entreat for 4 angels and you copy it. I attack and you block (13-16) angels are (4-3). You attack and I block all angels (8-16) angels (1-0). I journey on entreat.

Turn 8 I entreat for 5 angels and attack with one (8-12). You attack (2-12).

Turn 9 I attack (2-0).

This also works if you save the reverb for the 3rd entreat since I will never cast it. Let me know how you see it playing out.

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Pack Rat
Worldspine Wurm
Liliana of the Veil

2. PantySausage - WW

Ulvenwald Tracker
Predator Ooze
Reverberate

3. MAB_Rapper - WW

Avacyn's Pilgrim
Drogskol Captain
Drogskol Captain

4. LemonMeringue

Pack Rats
Worldspine Wurm
Vraska the Unseen

5. junichi - WL

Pithing Needle
Olivia Voldaren
Vraska the Unseen

6. tritoch - LL

Shrieking Affliction
Pithing Needle
Rakdos's Return

7. bushe - LL

Dreadbore
Entreat the Angels
Memory's Journey

8. ectomanic - WW?

Nevermore
Lingering SOuls
Curse of Stalked Prey

9. Dimh - WW

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