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Post by Daij_Djan on Dec 22, 2020 23:41:26 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 twentieth challenge! The winner of the “Premodern Times poll“ was ZephyrPhantom with... |
(PreModern)
{Comments} It's decks like these that make me glad the kitchen-table Magic environment is still a thing; when I first rolled Plant Elemental, I was honestly thinking "How the heck is this going to work?" A good portion of my time spent trying to build this deck involved some kind of Threshold engine which inevitably made me throw my hands up in frustration because Plant Elemental was both slow and not helpful for getting more expensive Threshold cards onto the board. Turns out having a chance to try out an idea I viewed as really dumb during a very chill game was exactly what I needed to hit on something that felt fun to play. Basically, we flip the idea of Ramp on its head by playing a bunch of enchantments that let you play extra lands. We're intentionally running extra Forests because we want to start with a decent number in our hand +1 of the above enchantments to start racing them out ahead of time - if we do it fast enough, we can slam down a Growth Elemental on turn 1, making it almost a super janky Tarmogoyf of sorts! The rest of the cards follow through on a similar logic - whether we're bouncing out own lands with Bull Elephant or flinging trees with Heartwood Giant, the deck simply wants to get ahead of the curve and beat face like any true MonoG Stompy. It does so in a rather bizarre way that might not seem obvious until you play the deck, but once you do I think it's a great twist on the type of deck I'd want to break out against newer players. There is one particular disadvantage this deck suffers from, and that's pretty much the age old "Dies to removal" problem. You'll probably have an easier time against Blue and Red decks: Counterspells won't leave you high and dry of lands, and the players rocking the best spells will often have to spend 2 Lightning Bolts to kill your creatures. It's probably best suited for more casual games where people don't want their stuff removed and want to play more "battlecruiser magic" online - in which case, you can break out this deck and see if your Thelonite Druid's army of Forests will get around their Obsianus Golems and Krosan Cloudscrapers before they can lumber their way onto the battlefield. That said, if you don't mind lowering the odds of having a good burst opening hand (which this deck is admittedly reliant on - Green wasn't getting a ton of card draw back in these days!), you could swap 4 Forests for 4 Avoid Fate to try and keep your fatties better protected from Terrors and Pacifisms. Good luck with your uprootings! |
And the challenge issued by our winner was... Please provide a decklist using deckstats, tappedout or similar. Feel free to add some comments as they will be included in the final poll. Please provide a deck name as well as choose a card to represent your deck in the poll.And now, time to begin the challenge! Best of luck, competitors!
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Post by Daij_Djan on Dec 22, 2020 23:49:28 GMT
Calling dibs on Pauper Minotaurs. Seeing so many broken cards the first thing I could think off somehow ended up being the Pauper format
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Dec 23, 2020 0:13:51 GMT
Calling dibs on Pauper Minotaurs. Seeing so many broken cards the first thing I could think off somehow ended up being the Pauper format If anything, I'd especially love if people gave underrated or easily forgettable cards on this list a try. ^^ Currently looking at Bogardan Phoenix myself, though there's plenty of other wacky stuff like Chaos Harlequin, Phantasmal Sphere and everyone's favorite Phelddagrif, Phelddagrif.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Dec 23, 2020 1:06:30 GMT
Decks I'm tempted to attempt to build:
1) It is the will of Zedruu that Rainbow Vale should be taken off that damned List. 2) Divine Intervention "Stop having fun, guys!" 3) Lands.deck, using only the most useless lands (ie Legends banding lands, Homelands tri-filter* lands) The Reserved List has to offer. 4) "It averages out to 0": All the most powerful acceleration and card draw The List has to offer, all to bring out the shittiest, most useless creatures also on The List (Veldrane of Sengir would be considered too powerful for this deck). Merchant Ship would be first under consideration.
Reasons I prolly won't build any of these: You mean aside from the fact that they're all terrible ideas? Ok, how about I'm a lazy fuck who just can't be bothered. If any of you wanna use these deck ideas, go ahead with my blessing.
*Moar liek "try-filter", amirite?!
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Post by Lady Mapi on Dec 23, 2020 16:30:30 GMT
I'm seeing a surprisingly large number of Red control cards. There's also the appeal of Bösium Strip... I'll have to think about this one.
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Post by melono on Dec 24, 2020 12:12:40 GMT
WHITE PROWESS (Pauper)A prowess+heroic deck that's about boosting your heroic creatures, and at the same time boosting your prowess creatures, using cantrips.
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Post by SilentKobold on Dec 25, 2020 21:30:03 GMT
Hmmm, so many directions to take this. I was going to go for a mono-reserved deck, but the prison jank of Living Plane, Drop of Honey, and Moat is too fun to pass up making a somewhat functional deck
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Dec 25, 2020 23:28:01 GMT
Decks I'm tempted to attempt to build:
1) It is the will of Zedruu that Rainbow Vale should be taken off that damned List. 2) Divine Intervention "Stop having fun, guys!" 3) Lands.deck, using only the most useless lands (ie Legends banding lands, Homelands tri-filter* lands) The Reserved List has to offer. 4) "It averages out to 0": All the most powerful acceleration and card draw The List has to offer, all to bring out the shittiest, most useless creatures also on The List (Veldrane of Sengir would be considered too powerful for this deck). Merchant Ship would be first under consideration.
Reasons I prolly won't build any of these: You mean aside from the fact that they're all terrible ideas? Ok, how about I'm a lazy fuck who just can't be bothered. If any of you wanna use these deck ideas, go ahead with my blessing.
*Moar liek "try-filter", amirite?! Illegal Shitposting on the Fives: What if you did #4 but made it a deck all about rushing out your sitcom cast? Ral, Telim'Tor, etc....
Really happy to see this is a popular prompt so far!
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Post by sdfkjgh on Dec 26, 2020 16:45:05 GMT
Decks I'm tempted to attempt to build:
1) It is the will of Zedruu that Rainbow Vale should be taken off that damned List. 2) Divine Intervention "Stop having fun, guys!" 3) Lands.deck, using only the most useless lands (ie Legends banding lands, Homelands tri-filter* lands) The Reserved List has to offer. 4) "It averages out to 0": All the most powerful acceleration and card draw The List has to offer, all to bring out the shittiest, most useless creatures also on The List (Veldrane of Sengir would be considered too powerful for this deck). Merchant Ship would be first under consideration.
Reasons I prolly won't build any of these: You mean aside from the fact that they're all terrible ideas? Ok, how about I'm a lazy fuck who just can't be bothered. If any of you wanna use these deck ideas, go ahead with my blessing.
*Moar liek "try-filter", amirite?! Illegal Shitposting on the Fives: What if you did #4 but made it a deck all about rushing out your sitcom cast? Ral, Telim'Tor, etc....
Really happy to see this is a popular prompt so far! Dammit, stop making me wanna build a deck!!!
SilentKobold: Killer bees?!?
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 5, 2021 0:13:17 GMT
For the record: Just as with the previous CotW challenge, this one will also last for one addiotional week because of the holiday season. So get your final entries and votes in, everybody!
Speaking of entries..
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So yeah, in the end I just couldn't resist making a Pauper deck from Magic's most expensive collection of rares The deck features two copies of Anaba Ancestor as well as for the lol'z a single Anaba Spirit Crafter (to be fair, it's not like we have any other good Minotaur lords at common)
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 11, 2021 7:31:51 GMT
AT-TEN-TION!This is your local Telim'Tor advocate, Kasib ibn Naji, calling to remind you maggots that We execute ALL Dissenters!(Legacy)The basis of this deck is to rush out an Abyssal Persecutor or Demonic Pact as fast as possible using Dark Ritual or Lotus Petal to cause a lot of damage very fast. We invalidate the pesky can't-win or you-lose clauses by following up with a Telim'Tor's Edict, Perilous Research, Donate to 'execute' our dissenter in way that hopefully causes our opponent to lose the game in the process (Getting rid of a Persecutor when opponent is at negative life, donating a Demonic Pact when the only choice left is "You lose the game", etc...). Even if we don't defeat the opponent this way, we do draw cards and gain advantage to get additional fodder to pitch to Force of Will, and failing that, we can pitch most of our executioner-style cards this way to it if we don't need them.
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 11, 2021 7:36:35 GMT
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 11, 2021 7:55:26 GMT
Kasib ibn Naji is a man/woman/muck drubb of practical concerns, like executing dissenters, executing dissenters, and executing dissenters. Why don't you make the big man show up to demonstrate some other priorities of his army club?
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Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 11, 2021 21:34:14 GMT
Kasib ibn Naji is a man/woman/muck drubb of practical concerns, like executing dissenters, executing dissenters, and executing dissenters. Why don't you make the big man show up to demonstrate some other priorities of his army club? Like I explained before, Telim'Tor is dead. However, one of the major reasons I retired the character that I didn't mention, at least not publicly, was that with a malignant narcissist in the White House, I didn't want to continue having one as a character. Even though it looks like he'll soon be out (hopefully via full removal, to make up for the closure and catharsis denied this Nation by Watergate), along with all his traitorous supporters, I still do not enjoy having to enter and empathize with that pathological mindset.
Tl;dr: Mr. Toilet is flushed for good. It was a mildly amusing joke while it lasted, and I still get a kick out of the fact that it sparked a minor debate about whether or not I was behind it on the discord, but he's not coming back.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 11, 2021 22:46:02 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge!
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