Common Sense League Season 2010

CommonSense League Season 2010

As you all know, Common Sense has been running leagues for 2 years now <applause> thank you. In the main we have been getting bigger and better all the time, which is not to say there is no room for improvement. There are going to be a number of improvements, including this page, which is to be your first point of call for the upcoming 2010 season.


The change here is, we're going to reserve 20% of the entry fees for each round. The prize pool created will help us to do several things. Firstly we can award prizes for the winners of the league player of the year and most matches played winner. In addition we can offer rewards to clan members who give their time or services to clan activities. For instance we might pay your entry into a league round if you help organise the leagues or if you recruit an active player to the clan and leagues. It's no secret that your clan would like you all to participate more, and we would like in return to be able to reward you for your involvement, expect to see more about this from Andy soon.

The prize payout will look like this:
1st place in round: 40% of tix received
2nd place in round: 20% of tix received
3rd place in round: 10% of tix received
4th place in round: 5% of tix received
5th place in round: 5% of tix received
Reserved: 20% of tix received

Where possible, extra mystery prizes will be added each round to provide incentives to sign up. I want everyone to be able to play 20 matches, so expect a prize to be unlocked when the magic number Eleven registered players is reached.


Sometimes the holder of the prize pool will be unavailable unexpectedly. To get around this I have opened a new Magic online account named norfulthing which will hold the prize pool, and be accessible to the clan officers.


In the past the scheduling of rounds has been somewhat haphazard. Not good enough. In 2010 the schedule of rounds is going to be laid out in advance. Don't worry, you'll still get to choose the round formats as before. We managed 7 rounds in 2009, and in 2010 we aim to go one better with 8 rounds of 5 weeks each. There are breaks between each round, and long breaks around mid- and end- year.

Round	Format	Weeks	Start Date	End Date
Short break
3.1	Alara Block	2-6	9 Jan 2010 00:00	12 Feb 2010 23:59
Short break
3.2	Classic Creature Feature	8-12	20 Feb 2010 00:00	26 Mar 2010 23:59
Short break
3.3	Classic	14-18	2 Apr 2010 00:00	7 May 2010 23:59
Short break
3.4	Standard Singleton	20-24	15 May 2010 00:00	18 Jun 2010 23:59
Long break
3.5	Sealed Constructed	28-32	10 Jul 2010 00:00	13 Aug 2010 23:59
Short break
3.6	Standard	34-38	21 Aug 2010 00:00	24 Sep 2010 23:59
Short break
3.7	BYOS	40-44	2 Oct 2010 00:00	5 Nov 2010 23:59
Short break
3.8	Extended	46-50	13 Nov 2010 00:00	17 Dec 2010 23:59
Long break

*** As always rounds use UTC time, which happens to be the same as GMT for you european players, or GMT-5 hours if you're EST.***

Season Standings

Common Rules Section

Number of matches:	Each player is allowed to play 20 matches in each round, which must be played and reported between the start and end date and times for the round.
Opponent restrictions:	Each player is allowed to play each other player at most twice.
Opponent restrictions when participation is low:	If fewer than 11 players are registered in a round by the end of the 3rd week of competition then you may play a third match against each of the entered players during the remaining two weeks.
Tiebreaker matches:	You may play any number of tiebreaker matches in addition to the normal 2 per player, 20 per round limit. Tie breaker matches score +1 point for a win, -1 point for a loss, with a minimum of zero. Tie breaker points will be used to decide the winner when there is a tie in normal pointsYou are able to play mixed matches with one player earning normal points and the other earning tiebreaker points. This will enable players wanting to complete 20 matches to do so when there aren't enough opponents.
Match settings:	Matches are best 2 of 3, with maximum time (90 minutes). All matches must be watchable.
Card restrictions:	All cards must have a common printing in the format being played. Proxies may be used. Cranial Plating is banned in all pauper formats.
Reporting match results:	Either give the result to JMason, Wildman4420 or AndyMC1, who will update the round result post for you,or post your result on the forum thread for the round where it will be seen by the league organiser. As a suggestion to keep things tidy, you can make a single results post, adding new results to the same post by editing. An admin will strikeout your original results to indicate they have been copied to the main resiults post.Please post results in the form winning player name, games won, games lost, losing player name, e.g. izzet guildmage 2-1 jmason.
Round Scoring:	Your score has two parts, the total number of games won and the total number of games lost. Players are ranked by descending order of games won, then within that by ascending order of games lost and finally by ascending number of matches played. In this way a score of 20-2 would beat a score of 20-3, but they would both lose to 21-10. A person with fewer matches than another on the same points will place higher.
Season Scoring:	Season points are earned by finishing in the top 8 of each round. 8 points are earned for first place, then 7 for second and so on down to 1 point for eighth.
Disputes:	In the unlikely event of disputes, they will be decided by the current league organiser, JMason. Should a mutually satisfactory resolution not be possible then the clan captains will make a final decision. Anyone involved in a dispute will not be allowed to rule on the resolution.
Penalties:	Anyone who has not paid their entry fee for a round will be ineligible for prizes, and any prize that would have been won will pass down to the next eligible player. This includes any event tickets, other prize picks, and season points.

Rules for special formats:

Alara Block:	Cards allowed: All cards must be common cards from the Shards of Alara block (Shards of Alara, Conflux, Alara Reborn), or basic land cards (excluding snow-covered basic lands).Banned cards: Cranial Plating.Filter: Use the pauper filter or the ALA block constructed filter.
Classic Creature Feature:	Cards allowed: All common creature and land cards.No more than 12 cards of any single creature type allowed (remember that changelings count as every creature type).Sideboards are allowed as long as the deck plus sideboard don't break the 12 creature rule.Banned cards: instants, sorceries, non-creature artifacts, non-creature enchantments.Filter: Use the pauper filter.
Classic:	Cards allowed: All common cards.Sideboards are allowed.Banned cards: Cranial Plating.Filter: Use the pauper filter.
Standard Singleton (60 card singleton):	Cards allowed: All common cards that are standard legal.Sideboards are allowed.Apart from basic lands, only one of any card is allowed.LEGAL CARDS and PROXIES for Standard PauperCards printed as common in the following sets are legal:* Shards of Alara* Conflux* Alara Reborn* Magic 2010* Zendikar* Worldwake* Rise of Eldrazi Cards printed as uncommon or rare in these sets, though possibly printed as common in an unlisted set, are not legal. Specifically, Corrupt, Consume Spirit, Whispersilk Cloak and Prodigal Pyromancer are not legal in standard pauper.Banned cards: None.Filter: Use the standard singleton filter.
Standard:	Cards allowed: All common cards that are standard legal.Sideboards are allowed.Banned cards: None.Filter: Use the standard or pauper filter.
Extended:	Cards allowed: All common cards that are extended legal.Sideboards are allowed.Banned cards: Cranial plating.Filter: Use the extended or pauper filter.
Big Bag Sealed Constructed:	Each participant receives a cardlist comprised of cards from eight randomly generated boosters from random sets. All lists will be available for inspection on this forum. You use your list as though it was real boosters you had opened, but you must provide the actual cards yourself (we will attempt to assist any participant who isn't able to get the cards themselves). Only the common cards from the list may be used, except where a card is a legal proxy for a common card. Decks may contain any number of basic lands in addition to the cards from the list. You may only use the number of each card in our list, you may not add extra cards. You may use as many copies of each card as are in your pool, even if that is more than 4. You may not play snow lands other than those (if any) in your cardlist.Decks must be 40 cards or more, and be pauper legal, and you can change your deck between matches.Cards allowed: limited to the commons or proxies of commons in each card list, plus basic lands.Sideboards: allowed. You may use all of your unused cards as a sideboard.Banned cards: none.Filter: Use the freeform filter.
Bring Your Own Standard (BYOS):	In BYOS you may pick cards from any two blocks (including blocks not online yet using proxy cards) and a single core set (5ed, 6ed, 7ed, 8ed, 9ed, 10ed, m2010 or m2011), e.g. Magic 2011, Zendikar block and Lorwyn block (M11+ZEN+WWK+ROI+LOR+MOR+SHM). Apart from the pauper restriction, BYOS follows the official rules described here: Rogue Play, in particular the ban list.Cards allowed: All pauper legal cards.Sideboards are allowed.Banned cards: Cranial Plating, Disciple of the Vault, Gush.Filter: Use the pauper filter.

Version 11, date 18 December2010.