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What about a tournament type where you know in advance how many rounds will be played, and you must bring a different deck for each round?  But here's the catch, when I say "different", I mean that not one card (including dominants and special ability lost souls) can be the same within or between all of your decks!  Meaning, for example, that if in round one you pulled out your super deck with all the dominants, awesome artifacts, and your favorite seven lost souls, your other decks for the other rounds cannot have EVEN ONE of those cards you already used (with the exception of generic lost souls).  It would force variety in strategies, and perhaps make people split their dominants and other great cards between several decks.  So in a 3 round tournament you're bringing a minimum of 150 different cards to play with  Also the host and/or judge should have a good supply of non-special ability lost souls for anyone who needs more.

I would also suggest using the honor system for deck check-in, to avoid a judge having to check dozens of decks.  We may try one and let you know how it goes.

Super cool idea. All these fantastic ideas are floating around, I just wish there was more actual implementation or enthusiasm for actually playing. My Type Testament had a lot of excitement, but only ended up seeing a few games played. I'm thinking this will probably be the same, but I hope not.

Super cool idea. All these fantastic ideas are floating around, I just wish there was more actual implementation or enthusiasm for actually playing. My Type Testament had a lot of excitement, but only ended up seeing a few games played. I'm thinking this will probably be the same, but I hope not.

Actually ROOT has recently created the option of having 1 week a month with ideas like your Testament idea Pol.  I think some of these cool ideas will actually get some play (although this one would be harder to enforce in a ROOT format).

I'd find this interesting, I would make sure you say "Except Generic Lost Souls" though.

You could also do the same thing for T2, but it would require more cards.  (minimum of 500 for a 5 round tournament)

I think it'd be fairly difficult to figure out how to spread the "staples".  There's quite a bit more luck involved.

This isn't a good idea at all. I'm sorry I don't conform but not shareing any cards at all? That would make for stupid gameplay IMHO.

By different I mean cards of the same name.  So Gold KOT and Orange KOT would not be a workaround.  Same with POTW.  Like I said, the goal of this type of play is to see multiple types of decks used, thereby getting folks out of their "comfort zones" of using the same deck/same cards all of the time.

I think Cactus should include an "experimental" category.