The best idea is to rebuild one of your original casual decks from when you started playing. Maybe tweak it a bit with some better or more flavorful cards.
I'm going to toss my vote in for staying single-elimination. Swiss rounds needlessly complicate things in my opinion, since there's only prizes to the top 4 anyway.
I was playing a pauper game and I had out a Gladecover Scout with 2 Hyena Umbras on it. My opponent was playing mono black, and had plenty of mana to pump into his crypt rats, with no cards in hand.
He spent a couple second trying to figure out how to kill the scout before his crypt rats suicided.
It ended up like this:
"Activate Crypt Rats for x=1."
"k"
"In response to the first activation, activate the rats for x=2."
"..." <-realization
"And in response to that activation, do it again, with x=3."
Needless to say, I cracked up because I did not expect the rats to be able to deal with the totem armor at all.
I ended up losing that game hard right afterwards.
1. Cast clone
2. Clone resolves and enters the battlefield AS the legendary creature, without targeting. What's important here is that it is no longer a clone, but a copy of the legend.
3. After the resolution of clone, riku triggers and before his trigger is put on the stack, state-based actions are checked, putting both legends into the graveyard.
4. Riku's ability goes on the stack, giving you the option of copying the creature that just entered, which was the desired legend at the time of entering the battlefield. You pay :symg::symu: and are left with a copy of a clone copying that legendary creature.
g9n0ch2io234l7v8Sending list now.
EDIT: Had to make a last-minute change to the list.
He spent a couple second trying to figure out how to kill the scout before his crypt rats suicided.
It ended up like this:
"Activate Crypt Rats for x=1."
"k"
"In response to the first activation, activate the rats for x=2."
"..." <-realization
"And in response to that activation, do it again, with x=3."
Needless to say, I cracked up because I did not expect the rats to be able to deal with the totem armor at all.
I ended up losing that game hard right afterwards.
Anyway, signing up. Decklist to come.
Cockatrice name: forrestfire
1. Cast clone
2. Clone resolves and enters the battlefield AS the legendary creature, without targeting. What's important here is that it is no longer a clone, but a copy of the legend.
3. After the resolution of clone, riku triggers and before his trigger is put on the stack, state-based actions are checked, putting both legends into the graveyard.
4. Riku's ability goes on the stack, giving you the option of copying the creature that just entered, which was the desired legend at the time of entering the battlefield. You pay :symg::symu: and are left with a copy of a clone copying that legendary creature.