Originally posted by Blair WindWell, I do have the same problem as Digi- I don't have any of my go-to posters to bounce ideas off of, including yourself.
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With nobody to approach for an informal opinion, I was hoping I could get a formal rule interpretation from a judge to help me pare down my options.
Anyways, like Digi said, I'm overthinking at this point. I feel ready to draft.
Originally posted by Blair WindYeah, totally.
😂I don't think any of the judges actually know what's going on though. Seems like they are all waiting for you guys to decide the rules and they'll just enforce them.
It's just, without a judge to give rulings, we're left to fumble around trying to describe our problem in vague terms without giving our ideas away for like... 8 pages. ermmnone
Anyways, I've narrowed things down to two options. Gonna deliberate for a day and then flip a coin, probably.
I'm excited though!
i thought i had someone (i'd always considered the character low herald) but now i'm less sure about where he/she would fit. i've been soliciting opinions and they vary. been searching matches and again, the results aren't helping. the line is very blurry from low to mid in a few cases.... i was really excited about this character too. 🙁 hrm. maybe i'll throw it out there and just have a back-up if you guys feel the character breaks the cap rule.
Originally posted by Digi
All this talk of illegality... Apparently I'm in some trouble. Maybe I should find someone besides Spider-Man and Minion. Not that they couldn't punk you turkeys, but I want my victory to beccertain.
Meh, my picks are firmly within the caps, and they don't amp each other.
Hope everyone else is in similar situations
Originally posted by Scoobless
Meh, my picks are firmly within the caps, and they don't amp each other.Hope everyone else is in similar situations
Same here, though I'm still not sure which combo I'm going to go with.
I usually have an "aha" moment with tourneys before or during drafts. All the way back to my first, when I had the General Zod + Apollo amping idea while I was lying in bed before one of the rounds of drafts (which in retrospect was incredibly mundane, but at the time represented a TON of creativity for me, given how little I knew of anything that was going on). Even the recent one-power thing that Blair ran, Jack was sort of a lightbulb going on, as I realized that he could likely hang with anyone being chosen. Other examples abound: Scoob and I with Space Phantom + soul link shenanigans, Minion Prime, etc.
Granted, they're not always good ideas. But they always give me some clarity with my strategy.
Nothing like that so far with this. Just some characters I'd love to screw around with. They may have to be enough. And, given the format, might be enough to pull a win.
Unrelated thought: You know where this format might work well? Trans tier.
Stay with me. Instead of making everything minimalistic, just allow anything. Time manip? Fine. Offensive matter manip? Fine. It circumvents messy rules by going the opposite direction.
No prep, of course. At least that would have to remain austere, or it would get out of control. But just imagine a non-amalgamated Validus and Dr. Fate vs. Thanos and Onimar Synn. Or, hell, amalgamated. Seems pretty epic to me.
Originally posted by Scoobless
I wouldn't enter that, much prefer lower powered characters.I doubt I would even enter a high herald tourney again.
Enough variations in high meta.
Don't get me wrong; I probably wouldn't enter either. But I do think it could work well, because it would eliminate the need for all the sniffing out of loopholes that we have to do at every other level. Iirc, we've only ever tried one Trans. tourney, and it was before we even had a name for the tier, so there was a lot of confusion and high heralds being taken.
Originally posted by Digi
Unrelated thought: You know where this format might work well? Trans tier.Stay with me. Instead of making everything minimalistic, just allow anything. Time manip? Fine. Offensive matter manip? Fine. It circumvents messy rules by going the opposite direction.
No prep, of course. At least that would have to remain austere, or it would get out of control. But just imagine a non-amalgamated Validus and Dr. Fate vs. Thanos and Onimar Synn. Or, hell, amalgamated. Seems pretty epic to me.
Isn't that what we're doing? 😕