TWO-HEADED GIANT rules:
DCI Two-on-Two
Four players • Two teams
Although this format isn’t actually sanctioned by the DCI™ players’ organization, the DCI does recommend it as an interesting variant. In this format, you and your partner sit next to each other, across from your two opponents. The left player of one team takes the first turn, and then play passes to the left, so one team will have the first and fourth turns while the other team will go second and third. You may attack only the player across from you; if that player is eliminated, you may then attack your remaining opponent. Moving creatures is allowed (see "Moving Creatures" for how this works), and moved creatures attack the player across from your partner. Spell range is unlimited, table talk isn’t allowed, and life totals aren’t shared.
Typically you and your partner will want to gang up on whichever of your opponents is more vulnerable. Once that player is eliminated, the two of you will have a big advantage against your remaining opponent. Because table talk isn’t allowed, you need to think about which opponent to beat on first, then play accordingly (possibly by removing that player’s creatures first). This strategy cuts both ways, however. If the other team gangs up on your partner, you need to rush to the defense, using creature destruction on the creatures that are dealing the most damage to your partner and using cards like Fog and Healing Salve to keep your partner in the game as long as possible.
Two-Headed Giant
Four players • Two teams
Two-Headed Giant is a variant of DCI Two-on-Two or basic two-on-two multiplayer Magic. In Two-Headed Giant each team represents two "heads" of a giant. The giant has an initial life total of 40, and damage dealt to either player is deducted from the giant’s total. Your creatures can attack any opponent, so moving creatures isn’t allowed. You win by reducing the opposing giant’s life total to 0.
Rules revisited Oulun tarpeisiin 11.8.2002 : Isomanaliigakisoissa Two-headed-Giantissa: Table talk IS allowed. Tämä selventää asioita ja osoittautui erittäin toimivaksi vuoden 2002 Two-headed-Giant kisassa. Tämä tarkoittaa sitä, että strategiaa ja kädessä olevia kortteja saa mainostaa (vaikkapa bluffaustarkoituksessa...tyyliin...nyt aja lujaa, mulla on Giant Growtti ja countteri...) Omalle tiimikaverille saa myös näyttää kätensä (kyllä nyt toinen pää tietää mitä toisen sisällä liikkuu) ja molemmat voi miettiä ja pohtia mitä niillä tehdään. Manoja ei tietenkään voi maksaa toisen puolesta. Toinen mitä ei saa tietenkään tehdä on vaihtaa kortteja tiimikaverin kanssa.
Jos kortissa lukee : All players = All heads (eli kaikki) siinä tapauksessa että on erilliset resurssit. Eli esim: "kaikki pelaaja discardoi kortin, pätee tietenkin molempiin tiimin jäseniin, koska molemmilla oma käsi" mutta "earthquake neljällä ei vie kahdeksaa lifoa pois vaan neljä koska life on yhteinen...poikkeuksena esim. Firestorm jonka voi targetoida kahteen päähän (molempiin tiimin jäseniin) erikseen"
Jos kortissa lukee Target player = Target head (eli vain yksi)
Jos kortissa lukee All opponents = All opponent's heads, muuten katso ylle...
etc...kysymyksiä saa lähettää...
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