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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 1, 2022 13:46:23 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 forty-eighth challenge! The winner of the “Plowshares to Warcraft poll“ was BinaryBolas with... |
{Comments} An egg-centric deck since Araumi deck feels too cheap for this challenge. Most of the artifacts in the deck are cheap in cost, can replace themselves and/or sacrifice themselves, since this deck tries to repeat the ETB effect of Rona to rebuy them for value. There are a fair number of tutors so that searching for Crystal Shard can be relatively easier. Tormod from CMR, Disciple of the Vault and Efficient Consruction are the major synergy cards in this regard. If the match goes slow enough, there are cards like Brain storm/ stone or the Top to take advantage of Rona's second and less appealing ability. |
And the challenge issued by our winner was... At the beginning of your design phase, choose two among equipment, vehicle, aura, and host/augment. Build a deck featuring permanents of those two types but none of the others. 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 ZephyrPhantom on Mar 1, 2022 18:30:25 GMT
Vehicles and Auras for me. There was a deck idea I didn't use for Mechwarrior's Company that I want to revisit here, given the chance.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Mar 7, 2022 2:07:48 GMT
SOFLCopter(SOul-FLying Copter)Decklist Budget Decklist ($25 USD) Combining two different classic beatdown strategies from different Standards, Ensoul Artifact and Siege Modification are here to provide double the trouble. This deck aims to animate Smuggler's Copter or Consulate Dreadnought as fast as possible and follow up with Surgehacker Mech or Skysovereign, Consul Flagship to clear the board of opposing threats. Esika's Chariot is a plan B if we don't draw either Aura, allowing us to crew vehicles normally and go on a more regular beatdown plan with the help of typical removal staples Lightning Bolt and Counterspell. While it might seem like a straightforward deck, it's also very satisfying to play as your deck has a very high consistency. Typically two-card combo decks have to do a bit of mulligan or control/draw out the combo - with the sheer number of redundant effects we have here it's very easy for us to put down a self-driving copter to go to town with. If you want a more creative take on aggro to keep durdly combo decks in check, this is likely the deck for you. The budget version mainly does away with the expensive manabase and our more expensive (but mana efficient) vehicles and compensates with more redundancy. We play both Colossal Plow and Peacewalker Colossus more for raw P/T than anything else (though the edge case of making extra Vehicles into creatures might be useful somewhere, I guess) and we add Mech Hangar to have more untapped mana fixing and another way to animate Vehicles. This version of the list also features Darksteel Citadel and Silverbluff Bridge to pressure opponents with surprise indestructible beaters via Ensoul Artifact.
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Post by Flo00 on Mar 10, 2022 22:19:26 GMT
Either I'm partially blind or there is no poll for the last challenge.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Mar 11, 2022 0:27:55 GMT
Either I'm partially blind or there is no poll for the last challenge. Usually this happens because daij is busy - I'll give him a nudge ( Daij_Djan ) to see what's happening and if he doesn't respond for a while I'll see if I can get them up.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 11, 2022 1:06:19 GMT
Well, while I was indeed rather busy last week, I'd normally have set up the poll by now since things are cooling down this week - yet I didn't because I completely forgot you managed to sneak in an entry at the last moment ZephyrPhantom and though we'd have had a default winner xD
I'm literally going to bed right now, but the poll will be up tomorrow!
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 14, 2022 22:25:00 GMT
For the record: Since last contest's poll pretty much just went up, this challenge will also go for one additional week. ~Daij_Djan
On a more personal note: Really wish there were more Runes out there..
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Mar 15, 2022 18:21:28 GMT
For the record: Since last contest's poll pretty much just went up, this challenge will also go for one additional week. ~Daij_Djan On a more personal note: Really wish there were more Runes out there.. Isn't there a Naya Runes deck out there that's been doing well in Arena? Seems like it's been in Standard and Alchemy at minimum so you could use it as a starting point.
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BinaryBolas
3/3 Beast
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Color Alignment: White, Blue, Black, Red
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Post by BinaryBolas on Mar 20, 2022 16:34:17 GMT
I'm currently busy on some irl agendas so I'm afraid there won't be my entries this time or the next. I will wait until my business is over.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Mar 21, 2022 19:34:33 GMT
Isn't there a Naya Runes deck out there that's been doing well in Arena? Seems like it's been in Standard and Alchemy at minimum so you could use it as a starting point. Big thanks for the heads-up; had no idea since I never cared about Standard anyway and am also still boycotting Arena
Sadly, that's not really the type of "Runes deck" I had in mind. To me, the entire point of rune is that you can also put them onto Equipments - where that deck just uses them as normal auras which a discount.. I thought about maybe usig Runed Crown to instantly get the Neon Dynasty WB archetype rewards (but those weren't really worth it), or to maybe use Runes with Reconfigure cards (but in the end I didn't really have the time to make this work at least somewhat decently)..
Anyway, this thread is now closed. Since we only have one entry (for real) this time, there won't be a poll. And here's the next challenge!
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