Single Core Rotating +1 Booster League (aka. SCR1BL)

By Ishi Tonu, in Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game

What is SCR1BL "scribble"?

Honestly nothing yet. It's more of a half baked idea I had to try and help a local store owner grow the local player base.

Here's the idea:

League Play

Format: Single Core (30/30) ..........yeah I know "I thought we were done with single core!" Here is the new wrinkle: Players can add cards from any one booster to their decks each week, but, they cannot repeat booster packs .

The idea is that new players looking to get into the game have a semi-casual way of testing the waters without dumping a couple hundo up front just on the word of their friends that say the game is cool. Each player purchases the Core Set and one booster pack. Ideally this would start after all the first 6 packs have been released, but, it doesn't have to as it can be modified based on preference. Each week the players will have to play a certain number of games with their core set and the chosen booster pack. Record the results and the booster packs used by each player. The following week the players meet up again and play the required amount of games using different booster packs. Repeat for 6 weeks until all players have played using all packs.

Maybe the store gives a booster pack to the weekly winner. Or has a Core set for the League winner. Or they just do some amount of store credit.

The idea is that it's a cheaper entry point into play that encourages people to at least get a core set and booster. Once they play the game and have invested a little bit, then they can decide if they want to keep going each week at just the cost of another booster. At the end of the league, if they stuck with it, they are already a little more invested that the average new player, and likely enjoy the game, so they would be a little more motivated to buy those extra core sets and start working on constructed play.

Thoughts?

Edited by Ishi Tonu

Once they play, they are hooked.

Muhahaha!

Sound idea, it makes getting the most of 1 core.

I don't mind restricting to one booster per week, but I'm not ever going back to 1 core.

3 minutes ago, kiramode said:

I don't mind restricting to one booster per week, but I'm not ever going back to 1 core.

Fair enough. I'm just trying to grow the playerbase so you have other people to crush besides me. ;)

1 minute ago, Ishi Tonu said:

Fair enough. I'm just trying to grow the playerbase so you have other people to crush besides me. ;)

Around the Table is doing their own storyline event where Unicorn/Crane/Scorpion are in one coalition and Dragon/Lion/Phoenix are on the other. Crab can go either way. Knowing Unicorn will never run into an event cancel actually makes them playable. Fairly big turnout for the event too.

1 hour ago, kiramode said:

Around the Table is doing their own storyline event where Unicorn/Crane/Scorpion are in one coalition and Dragon/Lion/Phoenix are on the other. Crab can go either way. Knowing Unicorn will never run into an event cancel actually makes them playable. Fairly big turnout for the event too.

From a story standpoint, I feel like Dragon and Scorpion ought to be swapped...or is it purely a balance thing?

8 minutes ago, Ide Yoshiya said:

From a story standpoint, I feel like Dragon and Scorpion ought to be swapped...or is it purely a balance thing?

Not sure why they chose to do what they did. All I cared is that the format gave a fairly substantial boost to the worst clan......play them while I can lol. Going undefeated with Unicorn felt dirty. Also feels like the universe is lining up something bad as punishment.

16 hours ago, kiramode said:

Not sure why they chose to do what they did. All I cared is that the format gave a fairly substantial boost to the worst clan......play them while I can lol. Going undefeated with Unicorn felt dirty. Also feels like the universe is lining up something bad as punishment.

Censure will give them all event cancel

Plenty of prior pONI's problems posts.......

Let's talk about SCR1BL

Specifically if any other people ideas on how to grow a playerbase in a fun way.

1 hour ago, Waywardpaladin said:

Censure will give them all event cancel

Or your opponent has favor and they have 6 cancels instead of 3.