In our little group of 15'ish people, we have some players who has every expansion, and we have some with only some core+deluxe+a few cycles.

That led us to trying to come up with a "limited" format, to help new players/players with fewer cards to get a good experience with the game, playing on the same level as anyone else. I was also hoping it would create some interesting deck designs by some of the more experienced players, but the format we came up with might be a little too limited for it to hold on. So I would love some ideas on how to make it better.

We made these deckbuilding rules:

- The deck has to follow the standard deckbuilding rules, and the restricted/banned list.

- The deck can only be made from cards of: 2 x core + deluxe of your choice + 1 chapter cycle of your choice.

I actually really like the format, but I can see it growing stale after a while. So many of the cards will be from the choosen deluxe. A full cycle only gives about 15 different cards for each house, and then there are neutrals. And I guess that "the best build" for each house will be discovered pretty fast. Also, Greyjoy is having a hard time in this format, because the deluxe is (imo) not that impressive. But yeah, the decks will more or less be a variation of the decklists from the deluxe expansions..

Any ideas on how to make it a better format, that is interesting for both "full-card-pool" and "limited-card-pool" people?

look at the player with the smallest card pool. his cardpool sets the limit for all other players.

for example: if he has 2 CS, 3 exp and 3 cycles, then every other player has these limits.

most of your players have an advantage against that player, being able to choose from a larger card pool. that one player has the chance to improve his deck by adding only a small amount of cards.

after some time you can evaluate.

FYI, nobody posts on these boards. You'll have better luck on the cardgamedb forums or agotcards.org.

In our little group of 15'ish people, we have some players who has every expansion, and we have some with only some core+deluxe+a few cycles.

That led us to trying to come up with a "limited" format, to help new players/players with fewer cards to get a good experience with the game, playing on the same level as anyone else. I was also hoping it would create some interesting deck designs by some of the more experienced players, but the format we came up with might be a little too limited for it to hold on. So I would love some ideas on how to make it better.

We made these deckbuilding rules:

- The deck has to follow the standard deckbuilding rules, and the restricted/banned list.

- The deck can only be made from cards of: 2 x core + deluxe of your choice + 1 chapter cycle of your choice.

I actually really like the format, but I can see it growing stale after a while. So many of the cards will be from the choosen deluxe. A full cycle only gives about 15 different cards for each house, and then there are neutrals. And I guess that "the best build" for each house will be discovered pretty fast. Also, Greyjoy is having a hard time in this format, because the deluxe is (imo) not that impressive. But yeah, the decks will more or less be a variation of the decklists from the deluxe expansions..

Any ideas on how to make it a better format, that is interesting for both "full-card-pool" and "limited-card-pool" people?

Honestly draft is the best format for that, but it tends to not be worth the money. You can always make a draft cube.

There is no quick fix for this except maybe the highlander format. You could also try the AGoT equivalent of Magic's Commander variant. Here's the way somebody on reddit made it.

I was recently toying with the idea, but went for another formula: one core and one deluxe of choice, but 2 chapter packs of your choice instead of a cycle. It allows for more choice with less optimal pricerange.

I'm going to try to implement this, but it's so **** hard finding the players as nobody looks here (or anywhere on the net actually) and stores hardly keep track of the buyers. This is so important to start up a community, as MtG basically eats everyones time.

Where are you?