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Post by Daij_Djan on Oct 12, 2020 14:10:03 GMT
Welcome to the Deckbuilders' Challenge originally created by sdfkjgh! To participate in this Contest you'll have to design a deck along the contest guidelines and throw it into the arena with other competitors' entries! At the end of every two weeks, a winner will be determined by forum poll, and the winner decides the challenge for the next fortnight's Contest! Here we go, competitors: our fifteenth challenge!
The winner of the “let Zen bring peace to your mind“ poll was Lady Mapi with... |
(Casual)
{Comments} The strategy here is pretty simple. Step 1: Get a Scute Swarm and six lands onto the battlefield. Step 2: Mutate something nasty onto the Scute Swarm. Step 3:  Step 4: Slam into your opponent with your huge swarm of monsters. All three of our mutate creatures can ramp out more lands, and coincidentally replace those 1/1s with something scarier. EDIT: I might make an alternative version that's 237 legal. But this is the first thing that popped into my head (other than my DIMIR MART deck¹, which is way less silly.) ¹ Blue-Black Mill-Aggro Rogue Tribal. Shop smart. Shop DIMIR MART. |
And the challenge issued by our winner was... Build a 3+ color deck that uses no permanents (lands, mana rocks, mana dorks, or similar) that can produce multiple colors of mana other than the Ravnica Bouncelands. And now, time to begin the challenge! Best of luck, competitors! |
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Post by Lady Mapi on Oct 14, 2020 19:23:19 GMT
Did I make this one too hard/too boring?
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Oct 15, 2020 2:12:49 GMT
Did I make this one too hard/too boring? It's only been 2 days so I'd say give it another shitpost seven day or two. I do have some ideas but I think the hardest part for me in challenges like these is to hit on an idea that actually makes me want to put the deck together, for what it's worth. I don't usually associate bouncelands with 3 or more color decks (not counting EDH) so finding a good reason to put these two concepts together is a bit tough. Also, while I'm considering it - do fetches like Evolving Wilds count as lands that can produce more than one color of mana? |
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Post by Lady Mapi on Oct 15, 2020 2:43:59 GMT
Naw, Evolving Wilds is fine.
Basically, this is a combination of some people talking up a Bounceland-focused cube on another forum I'm a part of, and the way that ZNR supported landfall by bouncing lands.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Oct 16, 2020 8:03:59 GMT
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Post by Lady Mapi on Oct 16, 2020 18:34:37 GMT
Bant Bounce Ramp
So, bouncelands. They do three things that this deck tries to exploit:
1. They increase the amount of mana you have available without increasing the number of lands you have out.
2. They let you play a land without reducing the number of cards in your hand - perfect for when you're trying to loot.
3. They tap for two mana, which makes them really good in conjunction with untappers.
This deck could probably be much more optimized, but eh.
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Post by melono on Oct 19, 2020 9:50:05 GMT
 Wall To The FaceList is here: manastack.com/deck/wall-to-the-faceA janky pauper deck in which you use Glyph of Destruction on one of your walls, then you Soul's Fire and Fling them at your opponent's face. The wall can be replaced with the 7/1 Elemental made with Zektar Shrine Expedition. Also, I didn't use any bouncelands because there was no need. It would just make this deck worse than it already is and the challenge didn't say you had to use them. Only that they were allowed. |
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Post by sdfkjgh on Oct 20, 2020 19:26:13 GMT
ZephyrPhantom: I see you.
Glad y'all started to post entries. Especially glad that they're all much more creative than my only thought of searching up the best Amulet Titan deck and copypasting. |
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Oct 20, 2020 22:23:00 GMT
ZephyrPhantom: I see you.
Glad y'all started to post entries. Especially glad that they're all much more creative than my only thought of searching up the best Amulet Titan deck and copypasting. My first thought was to build Amulet Titan as well but I felt that really took the fun out of the challenge because all you had to do was take out the shocklands and replace them with basics. I think knowing fetches don't violate the rules here is helpful because it allows you to fulfill the challenge with just Evolving Wilds/etc... and Basics like melono did, which I think is a valid interpretation that provides a challenge of its own too. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Oct 26, 2020 22:02:20 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 
