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Title: Deck building challenges!
Date Posted: Fri Mar/11/11 at 11:53am

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

Now,
i know im not the only one whos been thinking "this site needs more features" ,
one of which should be...
contests for deckbuilding!

So, post a challenge,
and then people will take the challenge and try.

I will start:

The first deckbuilding challenge:
Build a fully functional 60 card deck with 10 (or less?) lands
Date Posted: Fri Mar/11/11 at 3:37pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Good idea but you need criteria to keep the deck within, for example,  for this I can make a fully functional deck with no lands using the 6 mox's as the mana base.

So for this first one lets make it easy and the criteria is that it needs to be playable in a legacy tournmant, therefore we need to follow the legacy banned and restricted lists, which is available here:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=judge/resources/banned
Date Posted: Fri Mar/11/11 at 11:21pm

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

Hmmm...
Ok,
well how about this:
A fully functional 60 card LEGACY deck with 45 lands.
(keeping in mind the Banned/Restricted list for legacy)
Date Posted: Sat Mar/12/11 at 1:32am

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

45 land? that will for another day.  Meanwhile here is my 10 card submission

Lands


  • 2 Phyrexian tower

  • 8 Swamps
Creatures

  • 4 Haakon, stromgald Scourge
  • 4 bog witch
  • 4 Basil Silver
  • 4 Crypt silver
  • 4 skeletal changeling
  • 4 mindlash sliver
  • 4 Putrid Imp
Spells

  • 4 Ashes of the fallen
  • 4 veinfire borderpost
  • 4 chrome mox
  • 4 tendrils of agony
  • 4 bitter ordeal
  • 2 absob vis
Date Posted: Sat Mar/12/11 at 2:09pm

lin sivvi
Posts: 1608
Joined: 14-Jan-10

Is putrid imp really the best card to get Haakon in the grave?
Date Posted: Sat Mar/12/11 at 2:15pm

lin sivvi
Posts: 1608
Joined: 14-Jan-10

maybe knock one out for an Avatar of Discord
Date Posted: Sat Mar/12/11 at 2:20pm

lin sivvi
Posts: 1608
Joined: 14-Jan-10

Maybe a hidden horror
Date Posted: Sat Mar/12/11 at 5:12pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

I did consider the horrorhowever decided againest it mainly for the curve. I would have been to heavy in the 3 drop if I had it while the one drop was running a little light. The avatar runs into the same problem. The putrid also allows me to combo out sooner. I have not tested this yet so I might add them depending how it flows
Date Posted: Sat Mar/12/11 at 6:40pm

ForgerOfPie
Posts: 377
Joined: 06-Feb-11

45 lands?

Done.

4 Avenging Druid
4 Tideforce Elemental
3 Prismatic Omen
4 Psionic Gift

15 Forest
30 Island
Date Posted: Sun Mar/13/11 at 1:44pm

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

Not to be mean but...
1: use nonbasic lands.
like creature lands are ESPECIALLY needed...
2: cards for playing extra lands...

3: synergy...? ...

here,
i made a deck for this, which actually works VERY well.

LANDS:
1 - verdant catacombs
4 - mutavault
3 - tranquil thicket
2 - horizon canopy
4 - misty rainforest
3 - celestial colonnade
4 - kor haven
4 - dryad arbor
4 - stirring wildwood
4 - tolaria west
4 - nantuko monastary
4 - plains
4 - forest

OTHER SPELLS:
1 - Primeval titan
2 - Azusa, lost but seeking
2 - Knight of the reliquary
2 - Oracle of mul daya
4 - Constant mists
1 - Abundance
2 - Living plane
1 - Earth surge
Date Posted: Sun Mar/13/11 at 1:52pm

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

If anyone else wanted to do the 45 land challenge...
go ahead,
i kinda wanted to try cards that let you discard lands to do shit...
but that would be green-red probably O-O

Ok,
but...

Next challenge anyone? ill post 2:

A deck with the only non-land cards being 1-drops?

A Planeswalker focused deck? (must have AT LEAST 10 planeswalkers in it and ways to use them to your advantage better)

A deck based on shuffling your library?
Date Posted: Sun Mar/13/11 at 2:39pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Morbid part of a deck challenge is exploration into differant ideas. Your comments concerning the need for nonbasic manlands and ways to put more lands into play are extremly short sighted. As for synergy I think pies deck is very synergistic and frankly ill take his machine gun over your manlands anyday
Date Posted: Sun Mar/13/11 at 9:51pm

ForgerOfPie
Posts: 377
Joined: 06-Feb-11

Thanks, Gericault5.

Morbid, to be totally honest, I really don't appreciate your (in my opinion, snide) comments about my deck:

"This is my deck, which actually works VERY well..."

*cough* arrogance *cough*

Magic's all about CREATIVITY! That's partially why I play it! What are combos? Certain cards combined in ways that dance circles around rules!

Who said that the deck couldn't be combo-based? I was actually almost tempted to post a Seismic Assault or Wild Mongrel deck focused around a lot of Treasure Hunts.

If you're going to post a deck building challenge, I'd suggest a few things:

1: Give a very rigid frame of the rules for the deck.
2: Don't post 3 deck challenges at once; let one roll for awhile, and when people stop posting on that, make a new one.
3: Be flexible. See what creativity comes in! Maybe you'll even make a deck out of the list.

But they're all just suggestions. I hope you don't take this the wrong way. I'm just trying to help you be a better member.
Date Posted: Mon Mar/14/11 at 3:52pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Ok got my 45 land submissions.  2 of them actually though the first is a modification of a deck proposed by Twogunkid, back when we did the sins

So the first one

  • 56 Islands
  • 4 Shared Fate
 

and the 2nd one


  • 45 plains

  • 4 Endless Horizon

  • 3 Baneslayer angel

  • 2 adakar valkeryie

  • 3 Oversoul of dusk

  • 3 fireshrieker
Date Posted: Tue Mar/15/11 at 7:52am

lin sivvi
Posts: 1608
Joined: 14-Jan-10

For the first one, I would put drawing cards in
Date Posted: Tue Mar/15/11 at 9:52am

W@W Podcaster
Posts: 445
Joined: 01-Jun-10

Okay, here is a cool one, try to build a deck where its main win condition is a spell with the epic ability. E.G. A deck with huge, splashy spells, and 4 Undying Flames.
Date Posted: Tue Mar/15/11 at 11:11am

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

@ forger of pie:

sorry, didnt mean to be arrogant :S
Date Posted: Tue Mar/15/11 at 11:13am

MorbidAnimosity
Posts: 557
Joined: 18-Apr-10

@ hungry123: thats actually a good idea... :P ...
the cards with the epic ability's always seemed wierd O_O ...
Date Posted: Tue Mar/15/11 at 6:21pm

ForgerOfPie
Posts: 377
Joined: 06-Feb-11

A deck built around a spell with epic... That's just completely EPIC!!!

: )
Date Posted: Wed Mar/16/11 at 12:12am

Akinas86
Posts: 327
Joined: 16-Jun-10

fully functional? how bout a 1 land deck using glimpse of nature which ends in grapeshot?
Date Posted: Fri Mar/18/11 at 5:32pm

ForgerOfPie
Posts: 377
Joined: 06-Feb-11

My friend tried that once... Let's just say it didn't end well...
Date Posted: Sun Mar/20/11 at 5:59pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Ok for Epic got 2

1)  enduring Ideal-just like the idea of using the hondens and words together, humily and nights reach create a lock, paradox for obvious reasons, thought about wheel of moon/sun but went with the quest so everything can get returned to library not just the stuff that came after

  • 4 enduring ideal
  • 4 paradox haze
  • 3 dovescape
  • 2 humility
  • 1 honden of seeing winds
  • 1 honden of nights reach
  • 1 honden of lifes web
  • 1 honden of cleansing fire
  • 1 honden of infiniate rage
  • 1 words of war
  • 1 words of waste
  • 1 words of wilding
  • 1 words of worship
  • 1 words of wind
  • 1 night of souls betrayal
  • 1 glorous anthem
  • 2 quest for ancient secrets
  • 3 pentand prism
  • 4 azorius signet
  • 3 mystic tutor
  • 3 bonjusti, who shelters all
  • 3 tolaria west
  • 19 assorted other lands
2)  Neverending Torment-artifacts to increase hand size, creatures can be played from grave using abilitys rather then casting.

  • 4 Neverending torment
  • 4 font of mythos
  • 4 howling mine
  • 4 rimebond dead
  • 4 reassembing skeleton
  • 4 nether traitor
  • 3 netherborn phalax
  • 1 akuta born of ash
  • 2 death baron
  • 2 grave titan
  • 2 graceful adept
  • 2 spell book
  • 3 strands of night
  • 4 reliquary tower
  • 3 bonjestu who shelters all
  • 13 snow covered swamps



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