Unlocking the Vault #30: Upping the Ante

Posted on August 7, 2012 by enderfall

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  4. The voluntary “donation” as an entry fee seems like you could be setting yourself up for drama. Who’s to say that some ultra-spike doesn’t enter with some fully kitted out, all-foil, deck that’s probably worth 1000+ tix but doesn’t pay the entry fee becuase to their perspective it’s just reducing their EV. What happens when that player wins? That’s the sort of thing that destroys any good will that would come out of the event, and would fracture the community. If you’re going to have an event with money on the line, you need to protect yourself from people gaming the system because you can’t rely on people being warm and fuzzy when there’s prizes involved.

    At least make people who don’t put in an up front donation ineligible for prizes or something (their prizes just get passed down the line)? That means that people who want to play in it “just for fun” aren’t excluded, but the people who are interested in the prizes can’t game the system.

  5. @PB, Unfortunately, WotC’s obscure, unwritten, policies prevent anyone running a PRE from having a mandatory entry fee. I would even go so far as to say that preventing someone from winning a prize if they do not donate anything would be against some WotC policy as well.

    I’d be surprised if there weren’t several people in the Top 8 of the Classic League seasons that did not donate anything, and no one seemed to notice. The one thing that the Classic Community has been great with is providing donations for these types of events, and I fully expect that this will be no different.

  6. ah, I didn’t realise that that was the case re WoTC. If the community has experience with this in the past that’s obviously cool, I just know that when I’ve run events (in different TCGs), the whole spirit of the thing can change once valuable prizes are involved but it doesn’t sound like that’ll be the case here then :).

  8. Classic and Legacy are not good formats for Modo. You are missing some cards, 90% of decks need 4 FOW’s, which aren’t cheap, and they don’t have enough people playing. I would love for them to take Classic off the competitive list because in paper it’s basically a watered down version of Vintage.

    I would rather play Modern which is a much more wide open format. There is no reason for a person to pay 500-1K tickets for a deck that has no community support except for the other 20 or so Legacy/Classic players out there.

    With fetch lands and shock lands being affordable and modern being a much more wide open and fun format with a lack of turn 1 kills (Google Classic: Metalworker, Bazaar of Baghdad, Doomsday, etc..), people should use the money they would spend on 1 Force of Will and buy a playset of every fetch land with money left over to buy some Restoration Angels.

    Leave the Legacy/Classic to IRL where you can actually receive prize support and play in PTQ’s, SCG opens, etc..

  9. Are there actually any legacy cards missing online anymore? I was under the impression there wasn’t.

  10. There are a few cards not available in Legacy, notably Nature’s Ruin and Virtue’s Ruin…but that’s about it.

  12. Hey Scott, what does midnight on August 11th mean? Does that mean 12:00am on August US East, August 11th, or does it mean 11:59pm on August 11th?

  14. Great article as always Scott this should give anyone interested plenty of ideas for the event.