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Anyone interested in doing "Budget decks" for the next RooT (or a separate tournament)?

The idea would be that you only get X amount of $ to spend on your deck (or decks) that you use for the tournament. $ values would be based on TLG prices.

If we do it for RooT, you would need to send your decklists to drrek otherwise I will organize and you can send them to me.

I would be willing to put up some prize support if we get enough people involved.

Post here if you're interested and what your suggestion for the $ amount would be. Personally I think something around $75 would be fun to try, or even $50 if we wanted to get really crazy... 

I would be fine either way. If someone wanted to start with a Deck Builder deck and then use the leftover $ to add supplemental cards, I could see that working. However, I think it might be more fun to see the variety of decks that people come up without using a "template." I remember Ken doing a similar contest back in the day, but we did not do a tournament to see how the decks actually performed. 

I'd be down for this.

Well, my schedule is looking too busy for me to do ROOT in January (since I will be out of town several weeks that month), so if someone wants to run a budget tournament as an official ROOT during that time that's fine with me, and I'll be back to run normal ROOT in February.

The idea would be that you only get X amount of $ to spend on your deck (or decks) that you use for the tournament. $ values would be based on TLG prices.

Wacky add-on rule: At the start of a game, each player reveals the total cost of their deck. For every $5 (rounded down) your deck is cheaper than your opponent's, you start with one free soul in your land of redemption.