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The Godzilla rules have been updated for M11 and to make the achievements matter more.  No cards were added or removed from the B&R list.  The points system was the major change.

The fat chart was modified again to remove the Meh point.  If your fat is Meh, you dont deserve points and it makes the whole table a linear function instead of the estranged "1".

The points for achievements were doubled and many more added to the list to promote goofy and fun interactions and fat creatures.  This list will be in constant change until we feel that it promotes the atmosphere that Godzilla represents.

Finally, we brought back Victory points as a 3rd seperate catagory simply to make things clearer.

So, seeing as how Godzilla has a brand new super awesome face to it, I decided I needed to build a new deck.  Noting that Personal Tutor was not restricted and that one of my personal favorite decks that I have had for ages was practically Godzilla legal already, and REALLY loved 4X Personal Tutor, here is the original deck in all it’s glory

Grozo-Eureka (Casual Vintage Legal 2006)

Now, back in the day 20 lands was considered “correct” for a 60 card deck, and I don’t remember why I chose the cards in the numbers that I did.  Seems like 4 Grozoth’s in a Grozoth deck would be a good idea.  Let’s update this to Godzilla Legal.

Grozilla (Godzilla Legal 2010)
 
The quality of fatties has gone up greatly in the past few years, and some of the toolbox creatures stay in (despite their relatively diminutive p/t) to perform their respective soft/hard locks.  On the other hand, I have some better finishers in the way of Artisan of Kozilek (whose ability will not trigger with Eureka, but who cares), and Inkwell Leviathan. 

Also, check out the one of Darksteel Reactor.  Inkwell Leviathan and Nullstone Gargoyle are nearly impossible to kill with it out and it doesn’t HURT any of my creatures.  Furnace Dragon is in as a last resort against artifact decks and usually will not be played even if I do tutor for it.  Kuro is a wrath effect given enough life and Nullstone Gargoyle and Blazng Archon help protect me/my dudes.

This deck was a blast to play before and looks to be even more fun with Godzilla in mind.  I can’t wait to try it out next weekend, as this weekend I have to present my playgroup with the new rules and give them time to build for the format.

Enjoy some Godzilla, report how much fun you had, and use YOUR shoes as counters.

-Shoe
Moderator of WOOBERG.com and Godzilla RC member.

As of today, May, 10th 2010, there will be some changes in the face if the best multi-player format that lets you have 4 copies of a card in your deck.  In an effort to make Godzilla a more fun format that is more about the fatties and playing with older cool cards we present to you the new Godzilla official tournament. 
Godzilla now functions differently in several ways;
One, the deck size is larger as is the number of required fatties - 75 cards and 20 fatties proved to be too easy for combo players to dominate the field and made the Fat creatures less important during game play.  The deck is bigger, bringing more inconsistency in the format.  The fat total is bigger to make sure that a larger percent of the deck, even though it is bigger, is full of big fat dorks.  And the new rules require much larger fatties to get fat points.  The minimum Fatty total of 240 doesn't even provide points any more, so rip out those copies of Emrakul and beef up your Godzilla.
Two, Sportsmanship points are gone in favor of Achievements - There was alot of complaining about sports points being a popularity contest, and we on the Godzilla RC agree.  Now you are ACTUALLY rewarded for cool plays and penalized for douchebaggery with POINTS, the only reward/penalty that matters in a tournament viable format.
Three, Godzilla has a revised B&R list - Some cards have gone on the banned list and some have come off.  All in all Godzilla allows more cards that any other format I can think of, several of which are allowed as a 4 of only in 'zilla (looking at you Regrowth and Personal Tutor)

So give the new rules a try, run some events, and if 'Zilla ever returns to the full glory of it's size , there may be another 'Zilla only promo in the works, but until then check out the events page here for places to pick up a Docile Dragon Promo.

Get out there and play some Godzilla and for God's sake...

Use YOUR shoes as counters!

- Shoe
Moderator of WOOBERG.com and Godzilla RC member

In an effort to make Godzilla be the best format it can be, a rules council has been formed and the rules have been reworked to make the format as fun and as fatty centric as possible.  The finalized version will be released TOMORROW here at WOOBERG.

Keep your eyes peeled and use YOUR shoes as counters,

-Shoe
Moderator of Wooberg.com and Godzilla Rules Council Member

Welcome back variant format fans, once again it is I, Shoe.  First, I would like to take a brief moment to announce that WOOBERG.com has been infected with a nasty virus and will be down for some time.  The friend of mine who maintains my site and currently owns the domain is notoriously hard to get a hold of and I don’t have full access, let alone the know-how to troubleshoot this kind of problem.  I am currently trying to get him to hand over full control of WOOBERG and find new help as he has been an uninterested party since day five of the site’s existence or so.  I will try to keep updates here as I know more.

Anyway, on to the meat of the article, I wanted to take some time today to discuss my favorite variant format of all.  Godzilla Magic is a variant format that originated at Metagames Unlimited in Springfield, MO.  I went to college there for one year and loved the format as soon as I played it.  I have transplanted it to the Seattle area, where I now live, and started a second faction of Godzillites.  The rules are something like this.  Godzilla is a multi-player format, and is meant for a casual tournament structure.  The minimum deck size is 75 (Metagames has changed its minimum deck size after the writing of this article, however, WOOBERG.com will not be changing this rule for reasons that will be discussed at another time – Shoe) cards and at least 20 of those cards must be creatures with power and toughness both above four.  Each match is awarded prizes as follows.  Whenever a player looses, each player still in the game gets one point.  The last man standing gets an additional 2 points.  Then the total power and toughness of the 20 “fat” creatures is figured and compared to the following table to get more points. 

Fatty Point Chart (Fat Total = total combined P/T of the twenty registered fatties):

Fat Total:                                  Fatty Points Earned:

160-199                                   1pt (nice try)
200-229                                   2pts (getting there)
230-259                                   3pts (that’s big)
260-299                                   4pts (getting scary)
300 and up                             6pts (are you kidding?)

Finally, at the end of the match, each player votes on one player other than him or herself.  This vote is the “sportsmanship” vote and each vote you receive is an additional point.  Now, sportsmanship can mean many things, but generally, the rule is there to prevent broken decks from always being the best choice.  Let’s look at a couple of decks:

My Godzilla Mono Black Control:

4 Hunted Horror
1 Sundering Titan
1 Hypnox
1 Kuro, Pitlord
4 Voracious Hatchling
4 Dread
4 Reiver Demon
1 Doomgape

4 Damnation
2 nevinyrral's Disk
2 Decree of Pain
2 Nature's Ruin/Perish
1 Necropotence
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
2 Corrupt
2 Coalition Relic
4 Darksteel Ingot
1 Sol Ring
1 Demonic tutor
1 Vampyric Tutor
1 Urborg
1 Urborg tomb of yawgmoth
2 Volrath's Stronghold
2 Cabal Coffers
4 Leechridden swamp
22 Swamp

This deck is as close to a casual multiplayer MBC build as you can get with the Godzilla Rules.  With a whopping 261 Fat points, we get to start off with a great big four points.  Not the best, but as you will find, 300+ fat points is HARD to get.  We have some nice early creatures with the Hatchling and the Horror, and with how good green is in the format, Nature’s Ruin and Perish usually aren’t just for killing the Horror tokens.  Lots of mass removal and solid creatures pave the way for this deck.  Lets look at another, less conventional way to go about this.

Cycling Fatties  

Fatties
4 Kroskan Tusker
4 Wirewood Guardian
4 Hundroog
1 Scion of darkness
4 Jungle Weaver
3 Woodfall Primus

Other cards
4 Lightning Rift
4 Repopulate
3 Living Death
1 Flame-kin zealot
2 Anarchist
1 Primal Command
1 Sol Ring
2 Gilded Lotus
4 Darksteel Ingot
1 Waves of Aggression
2 Sakura-Tribe Elder

Land
4 Bayou
4 Taiga
2 Savannah
6 Forest
2 Swamp
4 Murmuring Bosk
4 Mountains
4 Jund Panorama

This deck doesn’t play like a traditional Godzilla deck at all, but I thought it would be fun to build.  The deck plays like a Lightning Rift deck, with a Living Death finish.  Living death acts as a board sweeper to everyone else most of the time, but you have a ton of cycled fatties pitched to the bin.  The deck would be better with more Scion of Darkness, but I am broken and didn’t own any more at the time of construction.

Well, that’s all I have for this week, until next time:

Use YOUR shoes as counters!

- Shoe
Moderator of WOOBERG.weebly.com