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:
Champion of the Parish
Entreat the Angels
Keening Apparition
Lingering Souls
Restoration Angel
Silverblade Paladin
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Blue:

Laboratory Maniac
Memory's Journey
Snapcaster Mage
Syncopate

Black:

Appetite for Brains
Duress
Mind Rot
Sever the Bloodline

Red:

Bonfire of the Damned
Devil's Play
Reckless Waif
Hinterland Hermit
Kruin Outlaw

Green:

Avacyn's Pilgrim
Daybreak Ranger
Garruk Relentless
Mayor of Avabruck
Wolfbitten Captive

Multicolored:

Abrupt Decay
Detention Sphere
Dreadbore
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

Round 6: bushe

Dreadbore
Entreat the Angels
Memory's Journey

Round 7: junichi

Champion of the Parish
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Silverblade Paladin

Round 8: bushe

Avacyn's Pilgrim
Mind Rot
Garruk Relentless

Round 9:

junichi

Reckless Waif
Hinterland Hermit
Kruin Outlaw

bushe

Snapcaster Mage
Restoration Angel
Syncopate

--------------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:

4

bushe

3

junichi

2

tritoch

1

S14sh3r

Decks:

1. yakusoku

Exquisite Blood
Vizkopa Guildmage
Oblivion Ring

2. Magic1264

Illegal deck.

3. junichi

Gravecrawler
Gravecrawler
Curse of Stalked prey

4. ectomanic

Aurelia's Fury
Serene Remembrance
Clan Defiance

5. bushe

quote:

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Originally posted by bushe:
what are we gonna do for the next format? Ready for the change as I used up my last good idea last round.

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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:

code:

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## 1 2 3 4 5 TOTAL
XX X X X X X XX

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__________________
****Attention****

code:

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## 1 2 3 4 5 TOTAL
05 6 X 3 3 X 12

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yaku you can't block the noble so you can o-ring olivia or needle but either one foils you

junichi - on the play olivia stops you (with a block from noble) but on the draw she is too slow.

code:

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## 1 2 3 4 5 TOTAL
03 0 X X 6 3 09

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__________________
****Attention****

code:

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1 2 3 4 5 total
6 x 0 x 3   9

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code:

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## 1 2 3 4 5 TOTAL
01 X X 6 0 0 06

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With that, the Standard series comes to a close. bushe won HALF of the rounds!