Next League Idea

[mikefrench]

Are there plans for a constructed league?  I think that would be lots of fun, and I had an interesting idea on how to make it different:

Fellowship block constructed league
week 1, you can use cards ONLY from the set fellowship of the rings
week 2, you can use cards ONLY from the sets fellowship of the rings and mines of moria
week 3 and 4, full block.

thoughts?

[-Enola-]

Sorry MarcinS, but I really dislike sealed league. I won't play any sealed league.
So I'm interested in this constructed league idea .

[bibfortuna25]

Sealed league is a lot more fun than constructed, because there is more skill involved in how you play the game. Without having automatic access to some of the best cards, it levels the playing field and makes the games much more unpredictable.

[-Enola-]

It's your point of view, not mine.
Trying to brainstorm about a metagame and tech against some decks are fun too ....

[hsiale]

I feel sealed deck format fits better to league playing, while constructed is better for a tournament. I guess Marcin will implement tournaments soon (as we're getting close to all cards being implemented), and then there'd by plenty of chances for competitive constructed playing.

[Ringbearer]

We had fun constructed leagues before on GCCG, so why not?

[Felagund]

It would be really cool to be able to play mid-set formats, even if it is not in a league.  For example, FOTR or FOTR + MOM formats.

I know that would make the format menu a little unwieldy, so maybe a league is the perfect way to implement this.

Some of those formats are pretty cool.  The early FOTR formats are like playing FOTR without Horn, Heir, or Keeper, among other cards.  Totally different format, and not in a bad way.

Similarly, I'd love to play a 1-8 or 1-8 plus 10 format someday -- Movie Block without Reflections.

[Gladnai]

I'd like to see some form of constructed league.  At the very least, I would *HOPE* for more boosters available each week next time.  For those of us who get ZERO decent rares and uncommons, it's disheartening to play over and over with the same commons.  More boosters would give us a better chance at getting a R/UC that is decent.  Going up against someone who pulled Worry or Goblin Swarms is just depressing especially since there is very little condition removal.  I only pulled two ways of discarding conditions and one requires Bilbo and Tales and the other requires 4 shadow pool in the Maneuver phase, with no events to add pool during that phase.

More boosters (say 5 or 6 instead of 3) might even some of the disparaties I'm seeing in this league so far...

For reference, look at these awesome Rares I pulled:

Beyond the Height of Men
Forests of Lothlorien
The Council of Elrond
His Cruelty and Malice
Journey into Danger
Enduring Evil (not a bad rare, but with 3 Sauron minions it's unplayable)
Goblin Domain
Moria Axe
Make Light of Burdens (too bad I didn't get any Dwarf Starters)
Realm of Dwarrowdelf
Such a Little Thing (Playing)
Toldea  (Playing)


And not one single Bounder!  Sheesh...

[hsiale]

You are quite lucky, I don't play any of my 12 rares (Servant of the Secret Fire and Gandalf's Staff were closest to making the cut, but still not good enough).

BTW, if you have no Sauron minions, this means you have RotEL Legolas starter and can start Legolas, SoT + Gimli, DoE, letting you use Make Light of Burdens (which is most of condition removal you'll need, as it can get rid of Saruman's Snows which is clearly most game-deciding card in this league).

[bibfortuna25]

Yeah, some people get great rares. I have Goblin Swarms, Toldea, Twilight Nelya, Twilight Witch-king, ROTEL Aragorn and ROTEL Elrond. I've also run across people who have Aragorn's Bow, PATHS, Gimli's Battle Axe and several other great rares. That's just the luck of the draw, I guess.

[Pheo035]

Let me know if a league starts up with sealed deck, I'd love that!

[bibfortuna25]

You can join the league at any time, and be able to use all of the sets that the current players have available.

[mikefrench]

new league idea for a constructed league:

towers standard league.  normal towers standard x-list for all 3 weeks

week 1: sets 1-4

week 2: sets 1-5

week 3: sets 1-6

this way we can get the natural progression of what used to be called "standard" all those years ago.

same thing can be done for movie block, with a 4 week league including reflections.

[bibfortuna25]

Agreed, Mike. Progression through Tower Standard would be really fun. But what would be even more fun is if Uruk Regular, Saruman KOI and STMTN are allowed like they were back in the day.  

[Ringbearer]

Ah the sweetness of the deep of helm....