Rediscover Middle-Earth: The Dragons (2025)

[sarma72]

This is the second event in a "Rediscover Middle-Earth" series that is meant to help beginners with gradually learning this game while at the same time giving more seasoned players an opportunity to explore a metagame environment that they may have not experienced in a long time or at all. Following our spring METW-only event this will be a summer tournament introducing Middle-Earth The Dragons.

To promote community engagement in these events, spectating will actually be encouraged, while allowing players to change their deck between rounds in response to scouting from other participants.

Registration at https://play.meccg.com/tournaments/redi ... agons-2025 deadline May 31, 2025

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This event will be a standard Swiss system format tournament following standard CoE Tournament Policies except that a) it will be restricted to only using cards (including sites) only from the first two MECCG set: Middle Earth the Wizards and Middle Earth the Dragons, b) that players will be able to modify or enterily change their decks in between rounds and c) that game time limits will be relaxed to be 3h.

Standard CoE rulings also apply (see https://meccg.com/rules for rulings digest and collected ruling file and https://www.councilofelrond.org/rules/ for the latest unified booklet), and players are encouraged to peruse these documents together to resolve doubts during their games.

- Format: The tournament will consist of several rounds of standard 2-deck games, with each round lasting two weeks. A tentative schedule for the overall event is provided below and will be finalised after registration is closed.

- Deck Construction: Standard minimum 30/30 resource/hazard sides and a 12 hazard creature limit will apply but sideboard size will be limited to 20 cards. Deck legality will be enforced automatically by the platform except for sideboard size. Similarly the platform will not check whether your cards will be from the METW/TD collections. The promotional cards Fatty Bolger, Black Arrow, Neeker-Breekers, The Iron Crown, The Fury of the Iron Crown and Ireful Flames can be included. Players will be free to modify their decks in between rounds, if they so wish.

- Checking Sideboard Size and METW/TD-only compliance: Players will be able to check the size of their opponent's sideboard before drafting character and if necessary ask to remove from the game an appropriate number of sideboard cards. Likewise, players should ask to discard any card from later MECCG expansions revealed during the game, while being lenient and allow their opponent to change destination site, should they reveal a non-METW/TD site at begining a M/H phase.

- Round and Game duration: Round will last two weeks, during which players will have to agree on a time to play their games. Players are free to play as long as they need to, pausing and resuming games if needed, but if time is of essence a minimum time limit of 3h should be used (not counting time spent in checking rules or in seeking help with them).

Communications: All communication during the tournaments with and between players (pairing, reminders, clarifications etc) will take place both on discord and whatsapp, using dedicated threads and groups, in addition to using standard email.

- Registration: Players will be able to register directly on the Middle-earth platform, and in the process will have to provide either their discord nickname or their telephone number (or both).

- Tutorials: The CoE Organised Play committee will offer tutorials for playing on Middle-earth. Just contact the tournament organiser at sarma72@gmail.com or on discord.

Schedule
16 May - 31 May Registration & Deck Construction
02 Jun - 15 Jun : Round 1
16 Jun - 29 Jun : Round 2
30 Jun - 13 Jul : Round 3
14 May - 27 Jul : Round 4
28 Jul - 10 Aug: Round 5 (extra round if needed)