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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 25, 2021 22:17:00 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 twenty-second challenge! The winner of the “Out with the Old poll“ was SilentKobold with...And the challenge issued by our runner-up 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 Flo00 on Jan 26, 2021 6:17:21 GMT
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Post by melono on Jan 26, 2021 20:38:02 GMT
Soooo, Pauper?
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 27, 2021 6:52:33 GMT
Sure, go wild.
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Post by melono on Jan 27, 2021 9:38:41 GMT
Introducing my Uncommons only Pauper deck! Uncommon Big Tronny Paupers! Which can be found here
Cantrip and cycle your way through your deck, assemble Tron, then shove all that mana into your Ivy Elemental or Slime Molding in order to kick large chunky ass. All cards in this deck have both a common and an uncommon version, making them legal for pauper while also having pauper-unfriendly editions. PS: there seems to be a bug with the playtesting on the site I'm using. It should be fixed by removing "%7D" from the url when you're in a table.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 27, 2021 10:03:25 GMT
@ melono: That's a clever concept
Since my last entry was a Pauper deck already, I think I'll give something else a try this time. Currently pondering about a Reki, the History of Kamigawa mono-rare Commander deck..
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 30, 2021 6:12:50 GMT
Since my last entry was a Pauper deck already, I think I'll give something else a try this time. Currently pondering about a Reki, the History of Kamigawa mono-rare Commander deck.. Kudos if you go for no basics - all rare lands
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 30, 2021 6:31:50 GMT
Just curious, shouldn't be the poll for the last Deckbuilder's challenge be up by now? Or am I just not looking at the right place?
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 30, 2021 12:30:27 GMT
Just curious, shouldn't be the poll for the last Deckbuilder's challenge be up by now? Or am I just not looking at the right place? There's normally a small delay in poll setup since COTW Poll comes first but seeing as it's been a few days I can tag Daij_Djan and see if he can provide an update on where that's at.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 30, 2021 13:34:00 GMT
Omnath Locus and the Kingdom of The Jeweled Lotus(Legacy, Mythic Rares Only)DecklistWriteupIntroductionGoing into Mythics only, you might notice a few practical strategies that you can do that don't look too out of place in the limited cardpool - Omniscience and Show and Tell, for example, or and easy control shell setup featuring Counterspell, Force of Will, and Brainstorm. (It shouldn't surprise you either that the vast majority of these cards are Blue.) Well, you know what card would totally be cool to exploit? Jeweled Lotus, a 0-mana artifact that does nothing outside of Commander! But wait... it does!So Jeweled Lotus actually has a grand total of one very unusual interaction with its fellow Mythic brethren - since Omnath, Locus of Mana only cares that we hold Green mana in our mana pool, we can crack the Lotus while Omnath is out, and permanently boost its P/T by +3/+3 unless our opponents happen to be running that pesky old Mana Short. This this end, we pack 12 "discount" Lotuses - Jeweled Lotus, Lion's Eye Diamond, and Lotus Petal to try and live the dream of swinging with a giant 10/10 Omnath as early as turn 2. With that in mind, the next few cards I added were cards that worked naturally with this package - Ox of Agonas to turn Lotuses inside the graveyard into extra fuel for a creature, and Ancient Stirrings to help us dig for even more Lotuses. Expanding the Deck FurtherSo I tried a few options at this point but eventually focused on a Painter's Servant + Millstone combo package, which goes naturally with Ancient Stirrings because both are colorless artifacts. Ideally, by the time we've got both cards in hand as a Plan B, it doesn't matter if Ancient Stirrings is rendered useless by the color-assignment, because we try and trigger the infinite combo all in one turn with a combination of artifact mana (or Lotus Cobra + Fetch mana if we tutor it up). A lot of the support cards are thus chosen accordingly - we expect to throw a lot of cards into the graveyard and may have to "switch" Lotuses at times to get the most out of our situation, so Goblin Welder is a great cheap utility creature to have around. Most of our important creatures can be found by Imperial Recruiter, so we run 4 of it to tutor up the creature we need to fill our current combo.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 30, 2021 22:08:16 GMT
Yeah, sorry for the delay. I planned on setting up the poll on Wednesday shortly after my post from above - but then my son's homeschooling and an on short notice changed work shift totally wrecked my schedule
As I had already finished most of the prep-work though, poll will now be up in a few minutes!
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Post by Flo00 on Jan 31, 2021 0:52:43 GMT
No problem - private life is more important than the internet!
Thanks @ all the mods for spending so much energy to make this place awesome!
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Robot_Face
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Posts: 20
Formerly Known As: Robot_Face
Favorite Card: Charging Badger
Favorite Set: Khans of Tarkir
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by Robot_Face on Feb 1, 2021 21:51:32 GMT
Rare Human Tribal (Modern-legal)
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Post by Daij_Djan on Feb 8, 2021 23:07:46 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge!
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