User blog comment:XrosHearts/Deck Building Contest - Round 1 Decks/@comment-24965906-20150404024743

Here's my list. The only problem is that even though it is a deck building contest, most of the people who entered built for functionality and craft, not for uniqueness/creativity. As such, most people got 4+ in functionality, while Creativity was fairly low. I'm not sure if the contestants were even told that they'd be making decks for these categories. And some built decks for unfinished attributes, so problems encountered for functionality would normally be fixed...Nonetheless, I'll post my definition, and then onto judging.

For Creativity: ''You were judged on how the deck goes about executing the strategy that can be seen/discovered while playing, within the card list. What other cards, besides the ones that are clearly made for that strategy, would help take the deck strategy to the next level. ''

For Uniqueness: ''You were judged based on how similar your deck was to the multitude of other deck lists of similar decks. Bonus points on whether I had an impression/remembered it from the multiple other and similar decks in my head. ''

'''1. Cosmic Fighting Squad - XrosHearts '''

Creativity:  3/5 . Hero World is a relatively uncharted waters, so it wasn't easy to do creativity. So I gave 3 as a middle ground. But from what I've seen, the deck appears to use a version of the 2nd Generation Gao Formation, which ties into maximizing attacks and offense output, while keeping up the defense. Which would have gotten it a three anyhow.

Functionality: 4/5. It works, but the reason I gave 4 was that gauge problems can be encountered at times. And we were told that Hyper Energy was a thing, even though the effect wasn't fully revealed so gauge problems should be gone if included. Still...

Uniqueness: 3/5. Another case of it being uncharted waters.

'''<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">2. Celestial Destiny - AmazingPST"Providence" '''<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<p style="margin:0in0in0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creativity: 3/5 There was a skirmish, so somethings were taken into consideration. However, even with things taken into account, you have some cards that were available that could have made it a bit more creative/unconventional. It's, by no means, a bad deck, but it doesn't fit the criteria.

<p style="margin:12pt0in;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Functionality: 3/5 It works. Your Star deck works like it should, and I like it. The only thing is the weapons, sometimes I couldn't draw into Rune Staff or Artemis, but it never got in the way of the deck doing it's thing. It really suffers if one can’t draw into Great Fate, for reasons we’ve argued on another page, but cards later in the set will rectify that.

<p style="margin:12pt0in;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It really is 3.5, but I don't like showing decimals, and I also don't like bloating scores by Rounding Error so I rounded down.

<p style="margin:12pt0in;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uniqueness: 2/5 Not a reflection of the deck, as the deck is great. However, it doesn't go against the mould. I understand that Star isn't finished being revealed at the time, heck the next Booster contains more Legend World, so it wasn’t your fault. Still, it’d be unfair to lie and just turn a complete blind eye, so it was given a 2.

<p style="margin:0in0in0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;">'''<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">3. Draxonix '''<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<p style="margin:0in0in0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creativity: 2/5 - Not exactly creative. It looked fairly generic in terms of a Purgatory Knights deck.

<p style="margin:12pt0in;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Functionality: 5/5 - It works beautifully, except with a few minor hiccups here or there. Even with the presence of Distortion, it is a well oiled machine.

<p style="margin:12pt0in;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uniqueness: 1/5 - It still goes with Purgatory Knights style of sacrifice to gain resources, so it’s not exactly unique. The deck is excellent, just not very unique. Does not meet the criteria.