Cactus Game Design Message Boards

As the name states the players come with there deck .After the judge before each pound starts would annouce that you can't play wtih your deck and you randomly get a deck for each round.What makes this hard is that you can't play with your deck or the same deck twice.The judge would also have to bring a deck for each deck a person ,since they can't play with there deck.This type of tournament shows how well you play instead of how good your deck is.Giving beginers a chance to win.Please post suggestions

I would either build an awful deck beings I wasn't playing it, or an amazing combo deck beings you'd have to know how it works to use it.

I wouldn't consider doing this type. It is WAAAY more luck based than even booster or sealed, and I wouldn't feel comfortable with letting a random person play with my cards unless I know they're careful.

Beginners still wouldn't understand combos//advanced deck concepts.

This is exactly right.  I bring 17 decks to each playgroup meeting, but I've decided to label about 5 of them "Advanced", because newer/younger players wouldn't have the first clue about how to play such decks as "Heroless", "No Souls for You!" (Combos), "Super Zeb/Servant", "Abom", and "Self-Capture".