SlingLab Open

One Collector Booster pack is raffled live during the Top 4 final table stream. To be eligible:

• Complete every Swiss round without dropping.
• Be active in the Discord stream chat when the winner is drawn.

Standard shipping for booster packs is fully covered for winners at supported addresses in the Americas and EMEA.

Tournament admins will contact winners on Discord within 24 hours after the event to arrange shipping and hand out digital rewards.

• Every decklist is validated in the SlingLab app.
• Power bracket: decks must be strictly SlingLab Bracket 3 (B3). Bracket 4 and higher are not allowed.
• Deck value cap: no more than $1,500 USD total market value, as estimated by SlingLab's deck evaluation.
• Legality: the standard Commander ban list applies.
• At start.gg sign-up, give your Discord handle, your SlingLab username, and a Moxfield or other decklist link for verification.

• Fast mana limit (max 1): to prevent runaway early-game starts while keeping entry accessible, each deck may run at most ONE fast mana piece that costs 0 or 1 mana (e.g. Sol Ring, Mox Diamond, Mox Opal, Chrome Mox, or Lotus Petal). Running more than one in the same list is strictly banned.
• Mass land destruction is banned: spells or loops that destroy, bounce, or lock down lands en masse (e.g. Armageddon, Ruination, Jokulhaups, Blood Moon locks). Spot land destruction, like Strip Mine or Assassin's Trophy, is fine.
• Early competitive stax and hard locks are banned: hard stax pieces built to completely shut down opponents' ability to play Magic before turn 3 or 4 (e.g. Winter Orb, Static Orb, Drannith Magistrate + Possibility Storm).
• Deterministic 2-card infinite combos that win on the spot are discouraged if they can be easily tutored and executed consistently before turn 5.

• Each Swiss round is 90 minutes.
• If a pod is still playing when time runs out, the current player finishes their turn, then the pod plays 3 more turns in total.
• If nobody has won by the end of the 3rd extra turn, the game is a draw for every player still in it.

• Check-in on start.gg is mandatory. It opens 45 minutes before the start (18:15 GMT) and closes 15 minutes before (18:45 GMT).
• Registered players who don't check in on time give up their seat.
• Checked-in waitlist players in Discord are moved up in registration order to fill empty seats before Round 1 pairings.

• Registration is limited to players living in the Americas (North and South America) or EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa). Registrations from other regions, such as APAC and Oceania, will be removed.
• By registering, you confirm you can provide a valid shipping address in one of those regions.
• You must join the SlingLab Discord server and have a free SlingLab account to play.

• Toxic behavior, excessive salt, or intentional stalling leads to judge intervention or disqualification.
• Tournament admins have the final say on rules interpretations, SlingLab deck checks, and board-state rulings.

Pods use weighted placement points, which reward survival and remove board-state ambiguity: 1st place (the winner) gets 5 points, 2nd 3, 3rd 2, and 4th 1.

Whenever points are split, they're rounded to the nearest whole point, with halves rounding up (2.75 and 2.5 become 3, 1.5 becomes 2).

• Time-limit draw: all points not yet awarded in the pod are split equally between the players still in the game.
• Simultaneous knockouts: the points for the positions those players knocked each other into are split equally between them.

Ties for the Top 4 cut are broken by start.gg's automatic tiebreakers: Opponent Game Win Percentage (OGWP), then head-to-head.