Special Rule
3 teams dueled in a tag-team tournament: Folo & Veiss, Flopish & Psionic Brush, and Impy & Bokkiman (Bluey & Axis sadly didn't take place as Axis cut contact).
The rules used were the DuelingBook tag team restrictions, with Cyber-Stein, Ancient Fairy Leaf, and Life Equalizer banned, and cards shuffled were put into the original decks instead of the teammate's ones. In addition, no two decks could have the same cards in them. The winners got 10$ on steam or a month of nitro!
NOTE: These are TAG TEAMS. To fit within the CMS, this looks a little strange. Just a reminder that 1st, 2nd, and the 3rd tie were actually team members.
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Folo
C'mon this is Folo we're talking about. What do you expect?
Veiss
How was the locals? What made you choose your deck?
Locals was enjoyable. Turnout was a bit upsetting but the games felt different enough to make it worthwhile. I chose Traptrix just because it always felt decently consistent in testing and would make for a good complement to Folo's more tempo-oriented playstyle these days. Had he been more aggressive, I would've selected HEROs but alas.
Was this format interesting? How did it make you construct your list differently?
Something to shake up normal Trinity's formula besides just a banlist is always welcome and helps encourage some creativity between lines, especially when games are expected to be notably longer due to certain elements (which in this case is the doubled LP). This particular event prohibited duplicates between decks in general rather than having the partner pay 1p for extras, so it resulted in me handing over generics like handtraps, Tornado Dragon, and Light Dragon @Ignister to bolster up Folo's ED better since, at the end of the day, his primary conversions would just be Azalea and Beyond otherwise. The rest of the list remained the same from how I'd normally play Traptrix, Borrelsword and all.
Any notable moments?
Nothing worth highlighting for interactions on our end.
How would you change the tag duels formula if we were to host an event like this again?
The gimmick was fine. Deck building was also okay. Psuedo-double decking didn't seem nearly as strong as it used to be years ago when we had tag before. Not sure what to acredit that to but it's probably for the best regardless. Just hosting it once per champs cycle might help generate traction in the future.
Flopish
How was the locals? What made you choose your deck?
The locals was alright, if not a little bit of a slog. I chose Chaos Dragons because it’s the only deck I even play anymore, for it is simply too goated. Bystials ftw.
Was this format interesting? How did it make you construct your list differently?
I’m certain you could build some interesting strategies in the tag duel format, but everyone just brought individually powerful decks and mashed them together (me and PB included). Deck building was “I’ll play the handtraps, you play the removal”.
Any notable moments?
One notable moment was when my tag partner used my Brotaur to search some random ass zombie, vs letting me search Levianeer. Though I did also miss game on board the duel prior, so it all evens out.
How would you change the tag duels formula if we were to host an event like this again?
Maybe make each team have a theme to their decks? Some other restriction so that the decks are more cohesive and interesting, rather than 2 good* decks haphazardly thrown together.
*Folo was playing pend
Psionic Brush
How was the locals? What made you choose your deck?
Locals was neat! I enjoyed being able to have a tag duel, finally. Only took 20$ for someone to take the bait.
I chose my deck because of Chaos Dragons being a good deck that I wanted to support. Main idea is that I either play Maliss and win T1 or set up a bunch of interruption with zombie goodstuff and set up the GY with DARKs to allow my partner to set up an unbreakable board for the crackback. It worked G1 but G2 was a series of brick > no backrow removal so we cried.
Was this format interesting? How did it make you construct your list differently?
I thought it was interesting. Since neither deck could have the same cards, it required that we both build our lists without the same 10 staples or the most broken synergy available. The staple thing didn't really matter, I think the lists would look mostly the same if we were required to build different deck archetypes, but I digress.
Any notable moments?
Bro missed lethal 3 consecutive times. Hilarious to watch.
How would you change the tag duels formula if we were to host an event like this again?
I wouldn't change much aside from forcing people into certain archetypes depending on their deck so top 1 can't happen again. Double goodstuff can usually beat most decks.