Rebel Leader
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Greetings Poke'gym People! This is a Rebelion!
I am the notorious Regalus, a man who has traveled the TCG spectrum and seen the strange and fantastic. Jabbering aside, I am here to make your game better!
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I am a game surgeon, I take games and I make them better! Now that doesn't mean I'm about to start printing cards from my desktop, but I am going to change what I, and you who comment, feel could be better.
To start off, I like the game play of Poke'mon. The only problem is everytime a new set comes out, it seems they change the rules to the start of the game. We need to ultimately and permanently decide if we can play goods/item cards during the first turn or not. Same with drawing first. Thats a small change that we need consenses.
Another thing that can be improved on is the way the format is conducted. I have played in all three of the BIG Three (Magic, Poke'mon, Yu-gi-oh!) and have seen among them two different ways to conduct a format: Set Rotation and Ban List formats. I am in favor of the latter. And here is why:
I am not a rich man. I love gaming. I have splashes of all sorts of games, but I am not about to go out and buy a billion boosters each time a set goes out (I hope this goes for most of you people). So an obvious alternative to purchasing cards is trading for them. Here is where the problems begin with set rotation. Almost all of my cards are out of date, no one wants to trade for them because noone is interested in the older cards; its not even that they are obselete, they are just can't be used. This leaves me with little choice but to spend money, which I don't have a lot of in the first place.
Secondly, I have a butt load, but I cannot play in tournaments. To me, they are wasted resources. Lets take a look at the one game that does a ban list (Yu-gi-oh!). If you scan the ban list of Yu-gi-oh! and know what you are looking at, you can roughly sort it into three catigories of cards:
Broken Cards are self-explanatory overpowered and raise the question why they were printed in the first place.
Abused Cards are deceptively unimpressive; however they were used in a way were used, however one who is familiar with the game (as I am) knows that this card's ability created a broken combo with this card etc. Hence in order to stop said deck, that card was banned. (This isn't saying every powerful deck needs its key cards banned, its just that there are some that are way more broken than others)
Loop Cards could be fit under abused, but they created a loop that could be infinitely repeated if it couldn't be stopped in time. I have heard of one case in Poke'mon, but I do not know the details.
What this leaves is a format that has a massive collection of resources that can take advantage of the restrictions and pluses given by that ban list. In other words, a ban list format allows more innovation (often causing cards that were printed years before to be banned).
And lastly the old cards seem to stick around and gather dust, they become worthless which to me is wasteful. I would like to see innovation!! I LOVE INNOVATION!! (Don't you?).
Hence the new Z FORMAT SYSTEM is now officially announced. Please join my rebellion and create a deck using cards from all of time and play them at leagues. This will ultimately encourage people to play Z Format and also weed out any broken combos. A broken combo will too easily overpower a wide variety of decks. In a year's time we need to have a list of banned cards to become the first official Z Format List. I already have a few suggestions:
Gyrados (Stormfront) - Gyrados donk is insane, agree?
Mewtwo (Base Set 1) - Mewtwo Mulligan. Plus his barrier makes him invincible.
Mr. Mime (Jungle) - One tough cookie, any attack that does 30 or more damage does nothing
With this ban list comes a call for a mechanic that both of the other Big Three have that Poke'mon lacks (which needs to be tested to determine whether it would be consistent for this game, since Poke'mon is greatly different from the other two games)
The Side Deck
This is a pile of 15 (or up to 15, again we need to test this) that a player can go into between games to modifiy his deck to better combat his opponent better. However a player must swap out cards from his deck so that the Side Deck still has as many cards as it originally did. The Side Deck can be the difference between life and death in a game.
Side Decks also call on the need for tournament rounds to be played in 3 game matches. This also allows a player a better chance to lose on skill and gameplay tactics (which are what we are really trying to measure) versus having a bad setup (which every deck will have at some point) and not really prove his/or herself.
So, JOIN THE REBELION! please. I really like this game, I just really hate the format setup. So please help me with its surgery and participate in my studies to create a more innovative and resourceful play scenario. - REBEL LEADER OUT
I am the notorious Regalus, a man who has traveled the TCG spectrum and seen the strange and fantastic. Jabbering aside, I am here to make your game better!
:thumb:
I am a game surgeon, I take games and I make them better! Now that doesn't mean I'm about to start printing cards from my desktop, but I am going to change what I, and you who comment, feel could be better.
To start off, I like the game play of Poke'mon. The only problem is everytime a new set comes out, it seems they change the rules to the start of the game. We need to ultimately and permanently decide if we can play goods/item cards during the first turn or not. Same with drawing first. Thats a small change that we need consenses.
Another thing that can be improved on is the way the format is conducted. I have played in all three of the BIG Three (Magic, Poke'mon, Yu-gi-oh!) and have seen among them two different ways to conduct a format: Set Rotation and Ban List formats. I am in favor of the latter. And here is why:
I am not a rich man. I love gaming. I have splashes of all sorts of games, but I am not about to go out and buy a billion boosters each time a set goes out (I hope this goes for most of you people). So an obvious alternative to purchasing cards is trading for them. Here is where the problems begin with set rotation. Almost all of my cards are out of date, no one wants to trade for them because noone is interested in the older cards; its not even that they are obselete, they are just can't be used. This leaves me with little choice but to spend money, which I don't have a lot of in the first place.
Secondly, I have a butt load, but I cannot play in tournaments. To me, they are wasted resources. Lets take a look at the one game that does a ban list (Yu-gi-oh!). If you scan the ban list of Yu-gi-oh! and know what you are looking at, you can roughly sort it into three catigories of cards:
Broken Cards are self-explanatory overpowered and raise the question why they were printed in the first place.
Abused Cards are deceptively unimpressive; however they were used in a way were used, however one who is familiar with the game (as I am) knows that this card's ability created a broken combo with this card etc. Hence in order to stop said deck, that card was banned. (This isn't saying every powerful deck needs its key cards banned, its just that there are some that are way more broken than others)
Loop Cards could be fit under abused, but they created a loop that could be infinitely repeated if it couldn't be stopped in time. I have heard of one case in Poke'mon, but I do not know the details.
What this leaves is a format that has a massive collection of resources that can take advantage of the restrictions and pluses given by that ban list. In other words, a ban list format allows more innovation (often causing cards that were printed years before to be banned).
And lastly the old cards seem to stick around and gather dust, they become worthless which to me is wasteful. I would like to see innovation!! I LOVE INNOVATION!! (Don't you?).
Hence the new Z FORMAT SYSTEM is now officially announced. Please join my rebellion and create a deck using cards from all of time and play them at leagues. This will ultimately encourage people to play Z Format and also weed out any broken combos. A broken combo will too easily overpower a wide variety of decks. In a year's time we need to have a list of banned cards to become the first official Z Format List. I already have a few suggestions:
Gyrados (Stormfront) - Gyrados donk is insane, agree?
Mewtwo (Base Set 1) - Mewtwo Mulligan. Plus his barrier makes him invincible.
Mr. Mime (Jungle) - One tough cookie, any attack that does 30 or more damage does nothing
With this ban list comes a call for a mechanic that both of the other Big Three have that Poke'mon lacks (which needs to be tested to determine whether it would be consistent for this game, since Poke'mon is greatly different from the other two games)
The Side Deck
This is a pile of 15 (or up to 15, again we need to test this) that a player can go into between games to modifiy his deck to better combat his opponent better. However a player must swap out cards from his deck so that the Side Deck still has as many cards as it originally did. The Side Deck can be the difference between life and death in a game.
Side Decks also call on the need for tournament rounds to be played in 3 game matches. This also allows a player a better chance to lose on skill and gameplay tactics (which are what we are really trying to measure) versus having a bad setup (which every deck will have at some point) and not really prove his/or herself.
So, JOIN THE REBELION! please. I really like this game, I just really hate the format setup. So please help me with its surgery and participate in my studies to create a more innovative and resourceful play scenario. - REBEL LEADER OUT