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8 is good we just need a mulligan that's all in my opinion same way we did it in ohio it worked great

Quote from: kariusvega on June 19, 2015, 01:39:21 PM

8 is good we just need a mulligan that's all in my opinion same way we did it in ohio it worked great

We have a mulligan thread, this is a d10 thread. :-)

In comparison though
A mulligan is slower, and we can't agree on the rules
D10 is simple and provides the same thing as mulligan

honestly man if i draw a hand full of 8 enhancements and lost souls or a hand full of 10 enhancements and lost souls.. i still lose the game haha i watched this happen multiple times in sealed at Tennessee state and people were just sitting there without a block while i walked. kind of felt unfair. especially knowing that the mulligan could have saved their game and given them a way better chance at winning. that was in sealed- with the starter decks. not t1 2p.. so the argument can't really be made that it was a matter of bad deck building. that is a matter of the game draw with no other options after. now imagine drawing 10 enhancements and only 1 hero next turn it may be unlikely but it happened more than a few times at state in sealed category. at that point all you can do is discard and give up souls.

i mean i'm really referring to anyone though there are people who have played redemption only a few times before that enter in a sealed category and can't play the game because they don't have characters turn 1 or turn 2. isn't that why created by Christ was printed? it's obviously not uncommon considering you are admitting it will continue to happen no matter what you do! it just feels unfair.

obviously i don't have that problem in t1 2p because of deck building strats which minimize the probability however sealed was the most played category at tn state. sealed is sealed that is the entry level to teach the game to any beginner playing- no draft or modifications made to those decks

If you didn't get packs to go through and trade with your opponent before sealed something wasn't done right. Deck building happens in every category.

Moreso to help with soul drought I think in general, it just also has the upside of helping with character drought.

Actually Jbeers, in TLG Sealed, you don't trade with an opponent because you build before pairings are made.

Three Lions Games style of playing Sealed at our events.

Three Lions Games style of playing Sealed at our events.

I was asking why you do it that way, since that is not the way Cactus set it up. Is TLG just a testing ground for new ideas?

Yes, exactly. The main idea behind it was to keep those who are unpaired to be at a disadvantage by not being able to trade with anyone.

So is that only the case when there is an odd number of people? I agree that is a good idea for an odd number, but would be disappointing otherwise.

But thats really neither here nor there. I have no opinion on mulligans really, and would only oppose a system wherein a player could muligan as many times as they wish with no penalty. Becuase that would just be silly. Pretty much any other system, or no system, I would be perfectly happy with.

The other drawback is that people who get an opponent who will not trade versus someone who gets an opponent who will.

So your solution to this is to not allow any trading at all? Somehow that takes away some the fun of the Sealed category. 

My solution is likely to add one more pack. Is that fun?

Do you mean you will offer four packs instead of three, in addition to the starter deck? That would indeed be more fun, unless it increases the cost of playing the category. 

i really enjoy the option of a simple one shot mulligan if necessary. when i was there i didn't use it, but was very happy to have the option. when at tn state i was pretty sad it wasn't an option haha because i really wanted to mulligan one game, and really could see it may have benefited others in theirs.