CoE deck construction - characters

[Theo]

The character draft rules state that after the draft, up to 10 character cards may be included in the deck. These 10 cards can be any cards, they need not be the duplicated/unused cards from the draft.

How is this handled in tournaments? Are you allowed to include any characters after each draft, or do you use a preconstructed set of 10 characters in every game throughout the tournament?

*** The 10 characters in your deck at the beginning of play must be either leftovers from the draft, or characters pre-assigned to the play deck.

Is this (still?) accurate? I haven't been able to find anything about this pre-assignment in the CRF / CoL Tournament Policy, so just wondering what the standard is.

The CoL Touranment Policy posted at meccg.net instead says:

When players are finished, each may put up to ten characters into their deck, including characters from his starting pool that did not end up in the starting company.

and says nothing to clarify what the characters from outside the pool are restricted to, nor whether this "put"ting is in addition to or replacing the normal 10 non-avatar characters that may normally be in the construction of a main deck.

There is this:

If a character from the starting pool is put in the deck after the character draft it always counts against the 10 character limit. [Non-tournament rule: If a character is put in the deck due to duplication in the starting company, then it does not count against the 10 character limit.]

[CDavis7M]

What is the confusion? Can you provide an example of the issue?

My understanding is that the pool and deck are independent. If a character is extra from the draft pool, it doesn't have to go in the deck.

What if the deck is "pre-assigned" 10 characters but you want to swap in 2 characters from the draft pool (removing 2)? Is this the confusion?

I think it would be OK

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[Theo]

The most obvious alternative to the CoE ruling that would be consistent (and better matching the descriptions) with CRF and CoL Tournament policy is:

• The main deck is constructed without any non-avatar characters.
• The draft pool is constructed with up to 10 non-avatar characters.
• A non-draft pool is constructed containing non-avatar characters (perhaps of unlimited size, but more realistically up to 10).
• After drafting, up to 10 characters from the draft and non-draft pools can be put in the main deck.

The strategic difference is that no characters are locked into main decks until after seeing starting companies.

[edit: minor typo fix]

[Moriquendi]

The most obvious alternative to the CoE ruling which would be consistent (and better matching the descriptions) with CRF and CoL Tournament policy is:

• The main deck is constructed of only avatar characters.
• The draft pool is constructed with up to 10 non-avatar characters.
• A non-draft pool is constructed containing non-avatar characters (perhaps of unlimited size, but more realistically up to 10).
• After drafting, up to 10 characters from the draft and non-draft pools can be put in the main deck.

The strategic difference is that no characters are locked into main decks until after seeing starting companies.

One other addition I might suggest is:

• Characters that are neither drafted or placed in the main deck must be placed either out-of-play or into the player's sideboard (if there is sufficient room).

[Theo]

I don't think there are any rules to suggest that the sideboard can be messed with after the draft.

[Vastor Peredhil]

Theo is correct in so far, that quoted rule is a DC rule and not a standart rule

Characters that are neither drafted or placed in the main deck must be placed either out-of-play or into the player's sideboard (if there is sufficient room).

so it is a printed rule, but not ICE standart, but a much needed DC addition

yours Nicolai