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Ephraim
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You Can Go Home Again
In his article today, Aaron Forsythe talked about a casual format that's become a hit around the office at Wizards of the Coast. He called it 'You Can Go Home Again' and it sounds like something that we could do around here if we really wanted to.
The gist of the format is that every member of the league opens up a booster box. Those cards and only those cards form the league pool. Players are allowed to trade, but only with cards in the league pool. Periodically (presumably when a new set is released) there would be an infusion of new cards into the pool, but otherwise, the league pool is static and each player's pool changes only as the player trades.
We could do something like this using Magic Workstation. Obviously, the honour system would be involved. If I trade a card away, there's no system in place to ensure that I actually delete it from my pool. On the other hand, even with paper cards, the honour system prevails, since it would be trivial to sneak cards in.
The league rules are open to scoring, but it isn't necessary. In the WotC league, nobody's been keeping score. They've been playing just for fun. To keep things organized, we could have a trading thread and a scheduling thread (ie: somebody posts that they want to play a game Saturday at 8:00 and somebody else takes them up on it.)
Is there anybody else who would be interested in playing in such a format? (I think that we'd need a minimum of 8 to establish a large enough league pool and a diversity of play styles.)
In his article today, Aaron Forsythe talked about a casual format that's become a hit around the office at Wizards of the Coast. He called it 'You Can Go Home Again' and it sounds like something that we could do around here if we really wanted to.
The gist of the format is that every member of the league opens up a booster box. Those cards and only those cards form the league pool. Players are allowed to trade, but only with cards in the league pool. Periodically (presumably when a new set is released) there would be an infusion of new cards into the pool, but otherwise, the league pool is static and each player's pool changes only as the player trades.
We could do something like this using Magic Workstation. Obviously, the honour system would be involved. If I trade a card away, there's no system in place to ensure that I actually delete it from my pool. On the other hand, even with paper cards, the honour system prevails, since it would be trivial to sneak cards in.
The league rules are open to scoring, but it isn't necessary. In the WotC league, nobody's been keeping score. They've been playing just for fun. To keep things organized, we could have a trading thread and a scheduling thread (ie: somebody posts that they want to play a game Saturday at 8:00 and somebody else takes them up on it.)
Is there anybody else who would be interested in playing in such a format? (I think that we'd need a minimum of 8 to establish a large enough league pool and a diversity of play styles.)