Ante Universe:
actor's choice on trade-based ante cards 10/18/05
all ante cards are restricted 1/24/05
ante doubling and incremental rewarding 3/19/03
player death checked at end of each phase and combat 1/6/03
first strike trumps trample 1/6/03
buyer has right of first refusal on extra pizza slices 2/11/02
elimination of time-based adjuducations 10/29/01
awarding of first series and cycle awards 10/22/01
addition of all proxy ante to the universe 6/5/01
clarifications on Death and what happens if everyone dies 4/11/01
modified 1/10/01 to include Ice Age block cards
- Cards
- Any from Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Revised, Fourth Edition, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires, Promotional Cards, and Chronicles (reprints from Legends, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, and The Dark), Ice Ages, Alliances, Homelands, any reprints of cards that appear in these sets, and cards acquired in ante during this series (see below).
- Restricted List
- Moxen and all ante cards plus Ancestral Recall, Balance, Braingeyser, Candelabra of Tawnos, Channel, Demonic Tutor, Divine Intervention, Lotus, Maze of Ith, Mind Twist, Recall, Regrowth, Shahrazad, Sol Ring, Thawing Glaciers, Time Walk, and Timetwister
- Baned List
- Zuran Orb
- Play
- Play will follow the Ice Age rules book in a melee format.
- At the end of any turn during which a player has been reduced to 0 life or less, the game ends.
- If the game has not concluded by any other agreed upon time, then the game ends as if it was not played.
- The player who lost the previous game, begins the next. If everyone died last game, use the previous game to determine who goes first.
- If a creature with trample is killed by first strike damage, the trample creature does not get to apply its trample damage.
- Players follow standard ante rules except as noted below.
- Ante
- Instead of winner takes all, every player gains 1 more ante then the player they finished ahead of in that game with the loser getting 1 ante. Ante is selected from the available pool 1 card at a time. The winner selects one ante, the player who had the second most life picks second, and so on until all every player has selected an ante. The player who finished first gets to start the picks again, and so on until all players recieve their appointed ante.
- If a game ends with every player dead, everyone is given a win and a death and the ante from this game is pushed to the next game. If the ante is pushed to another day, then the ante is shuffled back into the ante deck and forgotten.
- Proxy Ante
- Starter deck(s) and/or booster pack(s) of agreed upon type are shufled and set aside for proxy ante. Any time a card is anteed 2 proxy ante cards are associated with the anteed card. Any time a card's control is permenantly changed, a proxy ante card is drawn and associated with that card. If control of more then one card is permenantly changed by the casting of the same spell, the castor of the spell gets to pick which prozy ante drawn are associated with which each card in play. Anytime that a current ante card is removed from ante (ie. Jeweled Bird) the caster picks one of the two proxy ante associated with it to remain associated with that card. That one proxy ante is then replaced form the proxy ante deck. At the end of the game ante and any cards whose control was premenantly changed are returned to their orignal owners. Players who ended the game in control of cards that permenantly changed to their control get to keep the proxy ante associated with that card.
- For a 4-player game, 2 additional proxy ante are placed in the center of the table at the beginning of the game. These ante may not be touched or used in any way until the game ends at which point they are treated like any other proxy ante.
- Any proxy ante acquired during this series that is not "in block" will be marked on its face or recorded by its owner and may be used in the future as if it was "in block." This exception to the usable card list above only applies to that single instance of the card. Multiple cards of this type can be used only if they have all been acquired through this series' proxy ante.
- Awards
- Series Leader (Unholy Strength) is held by the current series leader using the WiPS2 formula. Leader must have played in a significant number of games.
- Cycle Leader (Holy Strength) is awarded to the WiPS2 leader at the completion of each cycle and held by the WiPS2 leader of the current cycle. Leader must have played in a significant number of games. Past awardees and cycle length:
- Good Player (COP: Red) is awarded to the Play% leader at the completion of each cycle and held by the Play% leader of the current cycle. Leader must have played in a significant number of games. Past awardees and cycle length:
- Jim² 75
- (t) Jim¹ / Roger 25
- Survivor (Stream of Life) is awarded to the Survival% leader at the completion of each cycle and held by the Survival% leader of the current cycle. Leader must have played in a significant number of games. Past awardees and cycle length:
- Greedy (Atog) is awarded to the Ante% leader at the completion of each cycle and held by the Ante% leader of the current cycle. Leader must have played in a significant number of games. Past awardees and cycle length:
