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Judging starts now!
I created a bracket here.
Voting for round 1 will only include brackets 1,2,3,4,5, and 6. Consider this the qualifier. Note that the bracket was completely randomized.
To vote, vote which you think is the better card for each of the brackets.
There will probably be a strawpoll vote for each round. (Or something similar!)
Vote for Bracket 1: @Gelectrode's Loamhold Champion
Vote for Bracket 2: @MrRansom's Alanis, Natural Leader
Vote for Bracket 3: @ASubtleGhost's Markus, Phalanx Captain
Vote for Bracket 4: @MrRansom's Exradicator Priest
Vote for Bracket 5: @ASubtleGhost's Proud Lancer
Vote for Bracket 6: No Vote
Bracket 2
Bracket 3
Bracket 4
Bracket 5
Bracket 6
[EDITED: 16/05/2017 — Maybe a short explanation for each choice would help the participants actually, so I added a paragraph under each vote.]
Vote for Bracket 1: Loamhold Champion by @Gelectrode
— Loamhold Champion's attractiveness resides in its simple but never-seen-before mechanic of counters conversion, which for me outclass the tamer Rattigan that also suffers from a tiny lack of polishing on my opinion (creatures with name are usually Legendary, it's probably a bit too strong for uncommon, both abilities are a strong coulour pie bend from red and white, etc.)
Vote for Bracket 2: Alanis, Natural Leader by @MrRansom
— Alanis is this kind of very clever design where the more you think about it, the more elegance you find in it (in this case, the boosting stops when all your creatures are equal). I could only regret the absence of reminder text for Bolster. Gravamus was also a very promising Aristocrat Lord despite the use of the outdated Regenerate aility, but ended up being a bit too blunt in comparison of Alanis for my taste.
Vote for Bracket 3: Markus, Phalanx Captain by @ASubtleGhost
— Markus has a very interesting ability which is a colourshift from Red that made sense to me here. There are some templating issues (there is definitely a better way to word this card), but I was drawn to the card's ambition. Master of the Hunt's biggest flaw for me was the absence of mechanical connection between the two abilities. It seems like the first ability was only there to match the art, but it sets up expectations to know how these tokens will matter, which makes the otherwise interesting second ability disappointing once you read it.
Vote for Bracket 4: Eradicator Priest by @MrRansom
— Eradicator Priest is a powerful, simple yet elegant take on the Oblivion Ring. On the other hand, Ser Leam suffers from an overly complicated templating of its ability that, once you word it correctly, is still quite unexciting for a legendary Rare.
Vote for Bracket 5: Maranith, the Red King by @sanjaya666
— Maranith is a Hellbent lord, that uses Monarch as a downsides ability since you want to be empty-handed. That's a very original take, even though the Hellbent reward is probably a bit too strong, and the activated ability makes this clearly overpowered, too wordy and too close to Hazoret on my opinion. On the other side, Proud Lancer has an enormous flaw for me: it uses the flanking mechanic that is really outdated and still gets the luxury of getting reminder text that doesn't explain what flanking does...
Vote for Bracket 6: Charging Cataphracts by @ASubtleGhost
— Charging Cataphracts uses both Dash and Flanking at uncommon without mentioning what they do (don't mix keywords on cards like if every keyword in Magic's History was evergreen, really, if you write the abilities correctly, this card is way too complex.) But it compensates by an interesting last ability that is both original and flavourful. Meanwhile, Aima mostly suffered from being really overpowered at only three mana, with excellent recursion, evasion, and a deadly vampiring ability that almost sounds like tone-down Ob Nixilis emblem.
Vote for Bracket 1: Loamhold Champion by Gelectrode
Vote for Bracket 2: Alanis, Natural Leader by MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 3: Markus, Phalanx Captain by ASubtleGhost
Vote for Bracket 4: Eradicator Priest by MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 5: Proud Lancer by ASubtleGhost
Vote for Bracket 6: Charging Cataphracts by ASubtleGhost
@Gelectrode, You may vote for you own card. I trust the people here will vote honestly.
@Ningyounk, Of course!
Vote for Bracket 2: @MrRansom's Alanis, Natural Leader
Vote for Bracket 3: @ASubtleGhost's Master of the Hunt
Vote for Bracket 4: @MrRansom's Exradicator Priest
Vote for Bracket 5: @ASubtleGhost's Proud Lancer
Vote for Bracket 6: Well, can't vote for the card which doesn't seem to exist, so I vote for @ASubtleGhost's Charging Cataphracts
Vote for Bracket 2: @MrRansom's Alanis, Natural Leader
Vote for Bracket 3: @ASubtleGhost's Markus, Phalanx Captain
Vote for Bracket 4: Eradicator Priest by @MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 5: Maranith, the Red King by @sanjaya666
Vote for Bracket 6: Charging Cataphracts by @ASubtleGhost
Vote for Bracket 1: Loamhold Champion by Gelectrode
Vote for Bracket 2: Alanis, Natural Leader by MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 3: Master of the Hunt by ASubtleGhost
Vote for Bracket 4: Eradicator Priest by MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 5: Maranith, The Red King by sanjaya666
Vote for Bracket 6: Charging Cataphracts by ASubtleGhost
Vote 2 - Gravamus
Vote 3 - Markus
Vote 4 - Ser Leam
Vote 5 - Proud Lancer
Vote 6 - Charging Cataphracts
Vote for Bracket 2: Alanis, Natural Leader - by MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 3: Markus, Phalanx Captain - ASubtleGhost
Vote for Bracket 4: Eradicator Priest - by MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 5: Maranith, The Red King - by sanjaya666
Vote for Bracket 6: Charging Cataphracts - by ASubtleGhost
Vote for Bracket 2: Alanis, Natural Leader - by MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 3: Markus, Phalanx Captain - by Myself
Vote for Bracket 4: Eradicator Priests - by MrRansom
Vote for Bracket 5: Maranith, The Red King - by sanjaya666
Vote for Bracket 6: Charging Cataphracts - by Myself (very well deserved of course)
Being objective is tough. Bye bye Proud Lancer...
This the new updated Bracket: http://challonge.com/tournaments/bracket_generator?ref=MGvNA5rUcu
May I ask that you reference the creators of each card, so that somebody can upload the new brackets? (I'd be willing to do the visuals, if you'd like!)
Otherwise, may you post a visual version here? If you don't, it's a hassle to vote.
Sorry. I'll post the visuals in 3 hours. I'll need to finish my work first!