Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn

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Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 2, 2024 0:21:24 GMT

Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 2, 2024 0:21:24 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 ninety-first challenge!

The winner of the “The Third Impact“ poll was ZephyrPhantom with...

Conqueror's Wake

(Alternatively: Top Ground Gear Force)

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{Comments} Ponza meets Humans, essentially, representing our race's urge to trample all that stand in the wake of our destiny, eliminating homes, species, and possibly the Earth itself in the long run.

Alternatively, a bunch of blokes from a tv studio make a perfectly fine rower's garden cease to exist.

Features every theme except for Mechs, which I wanted to avoid doing because I've already made Mountain Movers and SOFLCopter covering that theme.

And the challenge issued by our winner was...

ZephyrPhantom said:

(BBC)

Happy New Year. May your year on this spinning blue orb be a kind one. Or go live life dangerously and build that 99 Almighty Brushwagg format you've always dreamed of. C'mon, you know you want to.

The first DB challenge of this year will be themed around things you're excited to experience with others; for that reason, this challenge is a joint one from me and Daij.
– Zephyr

Love that idea

Happy New Year from me as well to our wonderful users all around the world!
– Daij

Your challenge is to make a deck themed on something you'd like to play with others and a new start, a new beginning, taking a new opportunity, or similar.

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!

Last Edit: Jan 2, 2024 0:22:24 GMT by Daij_Djan

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Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 2, 2024 19:08:40 GMT

Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 2, 2024 19:08:40 GMT

I love 60-Card Multiplayer, as it's the format I cut my teeth on at Valley College, so I hope to do more of that this year. In honor of that, here's the classic Lorwyn block 60-Card Multiplayer challenge decks I built: Treefolk vs. Rogues vs. 10-Power Elementals (They're all Modern-legal).

DDouble DDs
11 Forest
4 Murmuring Bosk
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 Temple Garden
1 Windbrisk Heights
3 Treefolk Harbinger
3 Springleaf Drum
2 Nameless Inversion
4 Bosk Banneret
1 Lignify
3 Doran, the Siege Tower
4 Dauntless Dourbark
3 Unstoppable Ash
3 Cloudcrown Oak
4 Leaf-Crowned Elder
3 Reach of Branches
3 Timber Protector
1 Thorntooth Witch
1 Woodfall Primus
Sideboard:
2 Nameless Inversion
3 Thorntooth Witch
3 Lignify
4 Rootgrapple

Rogues

SuperNOVA
1 Clifftop Retreat
3 Island
8 Mountain
2 Plains
2 Spinerock Knoll
1 Steam Vents
1 Temple of Epiphany
4 Temple of Triumph
4 Flamekin Harbinger
4 Brighthearth Banneret
4 Lash Out
4 Smokebraider
4 Incandescent Soulstoke
3 Thousand-Year Elixir
4 Nova Chaser
3 Brion Stoutarm
4 Mulldrifter
4 Supreme Exemplar

I could've sworn I'd posted both DDouble DDs and SuperNOVA here, but I guess I'd only ever posted those two over on the old MSE boards.

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Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 2, 2024 23:06:02 GMT Daij_Djan and sdfkjgh like this

Post by vizionarius on Jan 2, 2024 23:06:02 GMT

This challenge is extremely timely for me! My sister gave birth to a baby boy on Christmas Eve, and I proposed to my girlfriend on Dec 30! So, I plan to submit a deck making use of at least some of these.

Last Edit: Jan 2, 2024 23:07:57 GMT by vizionarius

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Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 2, 2024 23:57:35 GMT vizionarius likes this

Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 2, 2024 23:57:35 GMT

Jan 2, 2024 23:06:02 GMT vizionarius said:

This challenge is extremely timely for me! My sister gave birth to a baby boy on Christmas Eve, and I proposed to my girlfriend on Dec 30! So, I plan to submit a deck making use of at least some of these.

Congrats.

Use them all. Make "Make Relationship"-tribal happen 2024!

Last Edit: Jan 2, 2024 23:58:51 GMT by sdfkjgh

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Daij_Djan Global Moderator You need to write @daijdjan to tag me. Posts: 2,896 Set Hub: Under Construction Favorite Card: Doran, the Siege Tower Favorite Set: Innistrad Color Alignment: White, Blue, Green	Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 5, 2024 22:20:43 GMT sdfkjgh likes this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 5, 2024 22:20:43 GMT Working on a Shizuko, Caller of Autumn Commander deck - time for some monogreen group hug and much love to share at the beginning of each players' wurns
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Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 6, 2024 21:35:33 GMT

Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 6, 2024 21:35:33 GMT

Jan 5, 2024 22:20:43 GMT Daij_Djan said:

Working on a Shizuko, Caller of Autumn Commander deck - time for some monogreen group hug and much love to share at the beginning of each players' wurns

Any chance you'll be including these cards:
scryfall.com/search?q=vineyard&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name
Rites of Flourishing

Daij_Djan Global Moderator You need to write @daijdjan to tag me. Posts: 2,896 Set Hub: Under Construction Favorite Card: Doran, the Siege Tower Favorite Set: Innistrad Color Alignment: White, Blue, Green	Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 6, 2024 21:59:46 GMT sdfkjgh likes this Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 6, 2024 21:59:46 GMT @sdfkjgh: Absolutely will do so. Every single one of them.
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Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 15, 2024 7:49:23 GMT

Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 15, 2024 7:49:23 GMT

Power to the People!

A Bant deck built around the power of democracy. And by democracy, we mean using Greater than One, Brago's Representative, and Ballot Broker to gather up as many like-minded voters as possible to mass smite your foes with the one-sided wrath of Trial of a Time Lord and Council's Judgment!

You know, something doesn't sound entirely right about how you described that.

Well, yes, that is what happens when you have to omit things like political parties and all the more complicated bits.

Last Edit: Jan 15, 2024 7:52:45 GMT by ZephyrPhantom

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Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn Jan 16, 2024 20:29:31 GMT

Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 16, 2024 20:29:31 GMT

Oh wait, it's been two weeks already

Sadly, my deck is only halfway finished - as much fun as I have with Commander decks for these challenges, I might want to overthink this approach since these also take more time than I currently have..

Anyway..

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

And here's the next challenge!

Last Edit: Jan 16, 2024 21:04:45 GMT by Daij_Djan

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Deckbuilder's Challenge XCI: Twice Upon a Dawn

Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 2, 2024 0:21:24 GMT

Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 2, 2024 19:08:40 GMT

Post by vizionarius on Jan 2, 2024 23:06:02 GMT

Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 2, 2024 23:57:35 GMT

Post by vizionarius on Jan 5, 2024 20:27:33 GMT

Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 5, 2024 22:20:43 GMT

Post by sdfkjgh on Jan 6, 2024 21:35:33 GMT

Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 6, 2024 21:59:46 GMT

Post by ZephyrPhantom on Jan 15, 2024 7:49:23 GMT

Post by Daij_Djan on Jan 16, 2024 20:29:31 GMT