New, less predictable, format for tournaments?

Ashur wrote:

We don´t seem to get any new VTES cards, at least for a while. But what about a new, serious format for tournaments? I´m talking about a solid format that can be played alongside the normal one, permanent, indefinitely.

I´m bored of the same extreme, cheesy decks all the time. Ashur Tablets, Liquidation, Villein, imbued, the same combos, boring, monotomous deck archetypes over and over again, not seldom with 15+ copies of certain cards (earth meld, aid from bats, kindred spirits etc etc). Everything is so predictable, and it seems only a small fraction of the cards in the game ever see play.

I would like to play more tables that more are like limited format-tables, and less like "Aha, I´m betweeen deck archetype A and deck archetype B, I know how this will work out". I want more experiences like "You played a WHAT?!" and less experiences like "Oh, you play Villein and tap your Lilith´s Blessing AGAIN, *falls asleep of unexitement*".

Do anyone agree?

Any ideas?

We had a very exciting idea a couple of years ago. We organized a league and designed our own "gehenna effects". For each round we drew one of these gehenna sheets a few days before so people could build there decks according to them. Each table starts with the effect active right away.

Here is am example:

One of the effects was that each vampire may rush any vampire of a different sect than it's own. Of course people shifted towards combat. I could't join that particular event but I had built a weenie celerity (there were no Ashurs at that time) with 15 masters and 75 combat cards (including the .44 Magnum). My friend Cipo won that round with this deck.

Another such effect was that during each players untap phase the smallest capacity vampire on the table goes to torpor. In case of a tie none goes. That was also a cool game. Lot's of Humanitas, Catacombs etc played. Could now imagine Recure from the Homeland being used...

So you get the idea. It's really up to your creativity only...

Try a 40 card deck, 1 card limit, 1 recursion. It gets the flavor of draft without the incurred expense. You might also consider doing away with Grouping but make each crypt card a 1 card limit as well.

My current position is that you'll greatly change the meta by just banning/errating Villein, Govern & Parity.