For this week's Jankyard Sunday Tournament, we will be going back to the fun format of Gladiator.
For those not familiar with it, Gladiator is a 100-card singleton format on Arena. When you build your deck on Arena, make sure that the format of your deck is Direct Game. That way you can build a 100-card deck to play. (Even though it will say it is out of 60, it will allow you to build it with 100).
Gladiator uses all cards on Arena except five -
- Oko, Thief of Crowns
- Nissa, Who Shakes the World
- Nexus of Fate
- Teferi, Time Raveler
- Field of the Dead.
Also, there are no commanders, no companions, no sideboard and you can only use of one of each card (unless a card specifically says otherwise), except for non-basic lands.
The match will be best-of-three and will be conducted through Direct Challenge on Arena. When you challenge your opponent on Direct Challenge, select Challenge Match, Deck Type: 60 card, Best of Three.
While it is best-of-three, there are no sideboards or sideboarding in this format.
We are running this event through mtgmelee.com. You will need an account on MTGMelee, which is easy to obtain on the website www.mtgmelee.com.
Registration for the event is right here on mtgmelee.
You can register at any time before 1 p.m. Central time on the day of the event. The event is free and open to anyone.
Please be sure to check in before the start time to confirm you are present in MTGMelee. Information for the event, including your matchups for each round, will be posted under your player controller on MTGMelee. Please do not refresh your player controller, it will update on its own.
Information about the event will also be posted on The Jankyard's Tournament Town Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Y6VSbXC. You can post information and ask questions there under #sunday-tournament-announcements.
We will be hosting The Jankyard stream as part of the tournament at http://www.twitch.tv/jankyardmtg. The stream goes live an hour before the tournament starts. We can provide support for getting signed up to the event during that hour pre-event time. You can watch the stream during the event as JT, the host of The Jankyard, will be streaming his games during the event and may join some players via Discord if he is not playing to commentate on their matches. Information during the event will also be posted on the stream. You do not have to join the stream to play in the tournament but it is a fun way to interact with JT and your fellow competitors.
Each round will start five minutes after pairings are posted. Please challenge your opponent on MTG Arena using their full Arena name and #. For example, JT's is The_Jankyard#49252. It's probably best to attempt to friend your opponent first to challenge them that way. If your opponent has not responded after 10 minutes, please let organizers know through MTGMelee. Don't forget to check in for each round in your player controller.
Once your match is over, the winner is asked to please report the result on MTGMelee. The other player will be asked to confirm the result. If you wish to drop, you can do so on your Player Controller page on MTGMelee.
The Jankyard moves its tournaments along quickly. As soon as the last match in a round has been completed, we move to the next round, so don't disappear after your match.
Also, we offer another fun piece of interaction involving Discord. When you see your matchup MTGMelee, you can go to the voice channel on the Tournament Town Discord that corresponds with your table in the tournament. If you and your opponent both go into the voice channel, you can banter back and forth just like you were playing in a paper tournament.
The Jankyard content channel has been hosting weekly Sunday tournaments of different formats since March on MTG Arena.