Voltron Tournament

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The Voltron Tournament is a recurring MTG Commander tournament typically held at coronation campouts in Washington and Oregon.

Voltron Tournament Rules

Basics

  • MTG Format: Commander
  • Groupings: 4 players per pod.
  • Time: 1 hour per round.
  • Rounds: 2 rounds, random pairings.

No Proxies. All cards must be real.

Scoring

Whenever a player does the indicated action: they are awarded the corresponding points:

  • Defeating an opponent with 21+ Commander-damage: 3 Points.
  • Defeating an opponent with any other form of combat damage: 2 Points.
  • Defeating an opponent, or winning the game, with any other method: 1 Point.
  • Defeating the final opponent, thus winning the game, is worth Double Points (i.e. +6pts or +4pts or +2pts).

Matchmaking

Tournament structure consists of 2 rounds of randomized matchmaking, followed by a third and final round of just the top-4 highest-scoring players.

Players accumulate points across multiple rounds. These points do not influence the second-round matchmaking (which is done randomly). Rounds are time-limited. For the third and final round: most players are eliminated, and the top-four players play one final match. Grand Prizes are awarded to the top 3 players according to their final cumulative scores.


Banned List

Banned:

Banned As Commander:

After the lessons learned at Voltron V: a rule was added, that "whenever a deck comes in 1st place: that deck's Commander becomes "banned-as-Commander" in future Voltron tournaments. This is to prevent the same deck from winning the tournament over and over, and warping the meta.

Game Design Philosophy

"A casual tournament for people who don't like tournaments"

This scoring system is designed to encourage players to fight with the honor and chivalry of a knight, by rewarding you for doing the MTG-equivalent of defeating your opponents in single-combat – killing with 21+ commander damage!

For a more in-depth explanation of the game-design philosophy, see this wiki article's talk page.

Look-The-Part Bonus

​Requirement: (pick one)

  • (A) Cosplay as your Commander (as shown in the art on the card)
  • (B) Wear garb which is themed around the mana-colors of your deck:
• Blue Mana: Blue, Cyan, Indigo   Blue 2.png
• Black Mana: Black, Purple, Violet   Black 2.png
• Red Mana: Red, Orange, Maroon   Red 2.png
• Green Mana: Green, earth tones   Green2 2.png
• White Mana: White, yellow, beige   White 2.png
• Colorless/Artifact: Grey, silver   Grey 2.png


Look The Part Bonuses:

  1. A single "Free Mulligan Token" which can be used before a game begins, during the Mulligans phase. Grants one additional Mulligan-to-7. Players with LTP get one such token for the whole tournament, and may choose which game to use it on. Token cannot be given to other players. Unused tokens do not "roll over" into future tournaments.
  2. A single-use Kingdom-level Trinket potion for each round they complete*.

*Scooping: Due to the kill-based scoring system: participants are asked not to "scoop" (quit a game early), because it denies other players the opportunity to score. Players who prematurely quit earn no look-the-part bonuses.

Upcoming Events

The Tactician's Gambit @ PacWar '23

Shall be held at PacWar 2023 in Salem, OR, on Saturday, September 9th 2023 beginning right after Court.

This "Reverse Voltron" tourney shall be run by Galinmorn Maldranthe (an O.G. from the very first Voltron tourney).

Features an "Inverted" Scoring System:

  • 1 point for killing with 21 commander damage;
  • 2 points for a creature-combat kill;
  • 3 points for stealing an opponent's creature(s) and killing them with their own stuff; and
  • 4 points for gaining control of an enemy's commander and killing them with their own commander.

For more info, see this post on the PacWar FB Event page.

All prizes are provided by Galinmorn himself.


Voltron VI @ NLCC-Fall 2023

Shall be held at NLCC Fall 2023 in Shelton, WA, on Friday, September 22nd 2023 from 8:00pm-11:30pm in the Main Area of the Court Hall building.

Prizes:

  1. 1st place: First-choice-pick from the prize pool.
  2. 2nd place: Second-choice-pick from the prize pool.
  3. 3rd place: The remaining item in the prize pool.

Prize Pool:

Permission has been granted by: Queen Ursa Runa Leicaster of NL; and King Thoan Runebeard from VO. Prizes shall be valid in each kingdom for the duration of their respective monarchs' reigns.

All prize items were crafted by Gaily Forward Alchemy.

Voltron VII @ NLCC-Spring 2024

There will be a Voltron tourney held on Friday of NLCC Fall 2024. More info will be posted after the completion of Voltron VI...

History

See "List of past Voltron prizes" for: a list of past custom-items given as prizes; whom they were named after; and why.

2023: Voltron V @ NLCC-Spring

Shall be held at NLCC Spring 2023 in Shelton, WA, on Friday, March 24th 2023 from 8:30pm-11:30pm in the Court Hall building.

Results: Unfortunately, these tournament-results were lost forever, in the great Amtgard.com Server Crash of 2023, wherein the Amtgard wiki lost quite a lot of data.

Prizes:

  • 1st place: First-choice-pick from the prize pool + 2x MTG booster packs.
  • 2nd place: Second-choice-pick from the prize pool + 1x MTG booster pack.
  • 3rd place: The remaining Talisman.

Prize Pool:

Permission had been granted by: Queen Ursa Runa Leicaster of NL; Queen Dee Metria of BS; and King Thoan Runebeard from VO. Prizes shall be valid in all three kingdoms for the duration of their respective monarchs' reigns.

The Holy Bracelet item was crafted by "Raist Lin", who also donated (but didn't craft) the Lucky Beads physrep item. All other LTP-trinket and talisman prize items were crafted by Gaily Forward Alchemy.


Voltron IV.jpg
Voltron IV at NLCC Fall 2022.
2022: Voltron IV @ NLCC-fall

Was held at NLCC Fall 2022 in Shelton, WA on September 30th of that year.

Results: Vox Caedes came in first place, with 27 points. Lief came in second, with 20 points. Heron came in third with 18 points. Also noteworthy: Vox became the first person ever, to get 3 consecutive commander-kills in the same game, thus achieving a perfect 12-point game!

That year: permission had been granted by: Queen Guin Llewellyn of NL; Queen Cat Viserion Tendragon of BS; and King Odereus Urungus from VO. Prizes were valid in all three kingdom for the duration of their respective monarchs' reigns.

The Indomitable Wand relic was crafted by Crow; all other prizes were crafted by Gaily Forward Alchemy.

2022: Voltron III @ WB

Was held at WinterBash 2022 in Salem OR in February. Prizes were:

That year: permission had been granted by: King Murphy O'Hygan of NL; and King Sirex Sunheart of BS. Prizes were valid NL until NLCC Fall 2022; and were valid in BS for two months from date of issuance.

That year, all prizes were crafted by Gaily Forward Alchemy.

2021: Voltron II @ MSNG

Was held at Midsummers Nights Games in Vancouver WA in June of that year. Prizes were:

That year: permission had been granted from: King Theory Nolis of BS; Konnig Mithius Silverbow of NL, and King Aeon Wulfsbane from VO and were valid all three kingdoms.

That year, first prize was donated by Ion, and 2nd-4th prizes were crafted by Gaily Forward Alchemy.

2020: Voltron I @ WB

Was held at WinterBash 2020 in Astoria OR in Feb of that year. Prizes were:

That year: the prizes had been granted with permission from both King Akryn and King Sir Kalten, and thus were valid in both the kingdoms of NL and BS.

That year, all prizes were crafted by Gaily Forward Alchemy.

Category: Voltron Tournament
Main Articles: Voltron Tournament • Past Prizes
Lore: Gaily Forward Alchemy • Boreal Emporium
Artifacts: Lefty's Legendary Longknife • The Wrath of Roth • Kitsune Claw of the Arrowfox • Archmage's Dag'ger • Devry's Pillar of Salt • Duskwalker’s Saga of Kanphuzian & Enlightenment • Indomitable Wand


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