Deckbuilder's Challenge LXXXIV: Taking, took, token.

Daij_Djan
Global Moderator

You need to write @daijdjan to tag me.

Posts: 2,895
Set Hub: Under Construction
Favorite Card: Doran, the Siege Tower
Favorite Set: Innistrad
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Green

Deckbuilder's Challenge LXXXIV: Taking, took, token. Sept 18, 2023 18:50:21 GMT

Post by Daij_Djan on Sept 18, 2023 18:50:21 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 eighty-forth challenge!

The winner of the “Wilds of Oldraine“ challenge was melono with...

Sharae of Tipping Cows

(Pauper Commander)

SPOILER: Click to show

{Comments}A pauper commander deck all about tapping your opponent's creatures and using that as a political tool, while accumulating cards and getting to some of your kinda big boys while keeping opponents left over tapped down.
Old Eldraine cards are visible in the maybeboard and new Eldraine cards are visible in the Sideboard.

And the challenge issued by our winner was...

melono said:

Create a deck where creating tokens, whichever token, is (part of) your main strategy.

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!

"When in doubt, do a common."

sdfkjgh 20/20 Avatar Posts: 3,205 Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green, Colorless	Deckbuilder's Challenge LXXXIV: Taking, took, token. Sept 20, 2023 0:00:16 GMT vizionarius likes this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sdfkjgh on Sept 20, 2023 0:00:16 GMT Well, this one's right up my alley.

Flo00
20/20 Avatar

Posts: 2,454
Favorite Set: Time Spiral, Rise of Eldrazi

Deckbuilder's Challenge LXXXIV: Taking, took, token. Sept 20, 2023 14:22:54 GMT sdfkjgh likes this

Post by Flo00 on Sept 20, 2023 14:22:54 GMT

My Treasure!

A commander deck entirely focused on treasures. Nocturno naming "Treasure" makes 49 cards of that deck into cantrips (that shock me, uh-oh).
The main win conditions are Hellkite Tyrant, Revel in Riches and Mechanized Production. (Note that you can attach the latter to any artifact and it can still win you with treasures.) There is also a sneaky Etrata, Mari, Ravenloft Adventurer combo. Aside from that, there is also Fathom Fleet Swordjac and Mirkwood Bats for major damage/life loss.
Magda has only a singe friend but can find six powerful Dragons including named win condition.

Last Edit: Sept 20, 2023 14:23:20 GMT by Flo00

"It's not difficult to make Magic players feel smart." - Mark Rosewater

Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed.

vizionarius 20/20 Avatar Posts: 1,254	Deckbuilder's Challenge LXXXIV: Taking, took, token. Sept 21, 2023 17:28:11 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by vizionarius on Sept 21, 2023 17:28:11 GMT I use Blood tokens to overwhelm my opponents! Plunder and Diversion Note: I didn't use any cards over $20 to keep the deck not too expensive.
	Last Edit: Sept 26, 2023 5:31:16 GMT by vizionarius Useful keyword finder: www.wordhippo.com

melono
20/20 Avatar

Posts: 1,138
Favorite Card: Araumi of the Dead Tide

Deckbuilder's Challenge LXXXIV: Taking, took, token. Sept 27, 2023 16:15:05 GMT

Post by melono on Sept 27, 2023 16:15:05 GMT

Dreaming of bigger things

This is a pauper commander token deck, that wants tokens to become monsters. At first, create tokens. Second, get the commander out. Third, at the end of your turn, henshin-a-gogo baby!

Daij_Djan
Global Moderator

You need to write @daijdjan to tag me.

Posts: 2,895
Set Hub: Under Construction
Favorite Card: Doran, the Siege Tower
Favorite Set: Innistrad
Color Alignment: White, Blue, Green

Deckbuilder's Challenge LXXXIV: Taking, took, token. Oct 2, 2023 16:23:21 GMT sdfkjgh likes this

Post by Daij_Djan on Oct 2, 2023 16:23:21 GMT

Token Mayhem

(Commander)

This might come up as a supprise to some of you, but for these challenges I tend to settle on a theme fitting to the challenge - and then drive it into the ground as much as I can

This time, the task was "simple": How many differnt types of tokens can I fit into a Commander deck to still look like it'd still play solidly? The answer is 57 (Skyclave Relic is missing in the token list due to not having an official token apparently.) apparently

And yes, not two cards create the same type of tokens.

Small note: I decided to group mechanics creating token copies together even though they'd technically create different tokens - for example both Ultramarines Honour Guard and Space Marine Devastator fought over the single "squad copy" token slot.

This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here.

And here's the next challenge!

Last Edit: Oct 9, 2023 22:30:23 GMT by Daij_Djan