Let's Talk Rapid Thought!

2-Player would heavily favour a very limited number of decks:
Rush Combat, Wall Combat and potentially Reduce-Walls.

Most other decks would find it incredibly difficult to succeed in a 2-player format.

Rapid Thought does potentially favour combat decks as it is.

I cannot recall if we did Game Wins or not,

Yes we did GWs. And I don't only remember that just because I had 3GW 9VP, only to die to some loser's ANI cheese rush.

Any deck can be converted to rapid thought. I took a 90 card Renegade Garou deck and took it down to the minimum deck size right before we started and did just fine.

I'd totally jump inline for an Origins 2011 Rapid Thought tourney. It'll only cost one side game of BSG too since it's over fast.

I do agree with the above ideas too that Ashur's Tablets should join the other good cards on the banned list.

And thouse people are against errating villein!

I'm jumping into this very late, but so be it.

I've played in two Rapid Thought tournaments and I was annoyed as hell by two things:

1) If we're eliminating pool gain, ELIMINATE pool gain entirely other than the oust. It was annoying watching a vote deck (which is more powerful in this format to begin with) power up with constant voter cap. I would argue that ANY pool gain would go to the blood back other than the oust, much like the ancient WOTC Gehenna version of the original Jyhad.

2) In most three player tables, the preferred method is kill your pred and then win the head to head game. I think my first rule would go a long way towards stopping this, but perhaps a change in how VPs are handed out as well? Perhaps a negative VP award for the person backousting should they win the head to head? Maybe this is unnecessary, but I'd love to hear some thoughts.

Robba Yaga

KevinM wrote:

KevinM wrote:

Right, but we made that burn option rule on the spot for those cards, remember? I think we even used GWs because I was getting on your case about it and you didn't really care.
members.cox.net/kjm1971/RapidThoughtRevised.txt

Ah, yes, fair point. I went and looked at the rules again and saw that (which I had forgot).

So all things as they are, anyone can sit down, play a game with whatever deck they happen to have around, even with illegal cards. So there is no barrier to entry at all.

That being said, I'm still baffled that people don't love this format. I mean, yeah, I don't want to play it all the time or anything, but having run two different Rapid Thought tournaments (one with 20+ people, one with about 12), and both of them were hysterical and mercifully quick (again, 2R+F in under 3 hours), I'd figure more people would jump on board.