benthic_druid 51 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Voting has concluded!\n\nš„ Zugzou\nš„ Wikierrante\nš„ CunningTreant\n\nEach winner will be contacted via the email associated with their Archidekt account within the next 48 hours. \n\nCongratulations, and thank you to all who participated!\n\nUser: Zugzou\nDeck: Plague Auras\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/5231160/plague_auras"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/5231160/plague_auras"},{"insert":"\n\nUser: Wikierrante\nDeck: The Vanishing Horde - Golgari Blink\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11249970/the_vanishing_horde_golgari_blinkv10"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11249970/the_vanishing_horde_golgari_blinkv10"},{"insert":"\n\nUser: CunningTreant\nDeck: If the Izzet League were Park Rangers\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11251905/if_the_phyrexians_were_park_rangers"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11251905/if_the_phyrexians_were_park_rangers"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"#232323","link":"https://edhrec.com/articles/deckbuilding-contest-finalists-february-2025"},"insert":"https://edhrec.com/articles/deckbuilding-contest-finalists-february-2025"},{"insert":"\n\nHello brewers,\n\nHappy February! My name is Ben, and you may know me from Conditions Allow, my article series on EDHREC and Commander's Herald. This is the second contest of the year, so we're focusing on the number two. Specifically, two color decks that do something unexpected.\n\nWhatās the contest all about?"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Working within the parameters of the prompt provided below, construct a decklist with your own creative spin. Three chosen finalists will be awarded store credit to cardsphere.com. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"For February's deckbuilding contest, brew a two color Commander-legal deck with a theme or strategy not usually seen in those colors. The more unexpected your deck's theme is, the better."},{"insert":"\n\nOne of Magic: the Gathering's defining features is the color pie, which defines what each of the five colors can do in the game. This ensures each color plays differently, and allows players to express themselves through the cards they choose to include in their decks. Each of these identities can also be interpreted in different ways, which opens up many different styles of play even among the same colors.\n\nWith thirty years of cards to choose from, however, there's no reason to limit your deckbuilding to what the color pie says. Every year we get new cards that push and pull the colors in different directions. Can you build a WR landfall deck, or a RG control deck? What about a UR lifegain deck? You're not supposed to, but that shouldn't stop us from trying.\n\nThis is also a great exercise for a color you're very familiar with. Thinking outside the box is a great way to break old patterns and reignite a passion you might've lost. Similarly, this could be the perfect time to revisit a color pair you don't like. What used to be strange and unwieldy can become fresh and invigorating when approached from a different angle. If you love burn decks try porting that to Azorius, or take your favorite Orzhov deck and rebuild it as Simic.\n\n\nHereās how to participate:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Brew an EDH/Commander legal deck on Archidekt that satisfies the prompt.\nAny unreleased cards spoiled during the contestās duration are allowed."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Silver-bordered and acorn cards, while cool, are not allowed. "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Digital-only cards (such as those designed for the Alchemy format on Arena) are not allowed."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Strictly one deck submitted per user."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\nReply to this newspost, or the Discord submission post with a link to your deck before 9:00 pm EST (UTC -5, currently) on "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Wednesday, February 12, 2025 "},{"insert":"(do not submit the same deck in multiple places). Only one submission per user! \n\nFrom the eligible submissions, we'll select three finalists with lists that we believe best embody the spirit of the prompt. Deck descriptions are not required but certainly may provide valuable context!\n\nOn "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Wednesday, February 19, 2025"},{"insert":", weāll announce three finalists via Discord and a brief article on EDHREC highlighting each deck. Each finalist will be awarded credit on cardsphere.com. The value of the credit is in US dollars and depends on the finalist's placement in deck upvotes at the end of the week-long polling period:\n\n1st Place Prize - $250"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"2nd Place Prize - $150"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"3rd Place Prize - $100"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\nFinalists will be contacted via email or Discord (depending on where they submitted) regarding their winnings within roughly 24 hours following the conclusion of voting on "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Wednesday, February 26, 2025"},{"insert":". Please note, you must have a Cardsphere account in order to receive your winnings. It's quick and free-- register "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.cardsphere.com/signup?referrer=archidekt_contest"},"insert":"here"},{"insert":" if you don't have an account already!\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/contestRules"},"insert":"Official contest rules."},{"insert":"\n\nThank you!\n\nIf you have any questions, feel free to ask here, or join our "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://discord.gg/rYDFFVCmGr"},"insert":"public Discord server"},{"insert":". We look forward to seeing what you all come up with! \n\nThe Archidekt Team\n"}]}
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Loserboi 49 days{"ops":[{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11251578/gruul_selfmill"},"insert":"Gruul Self-Mill"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nCommander: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rosheen, Roaring Prophet"}},{"insert":" \nColor Identity: Gruul (Red/Green)\nLink to deck: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11251578/gruul_selfmill"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11251578/gruul_selfmill"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Strategy: "},{"insert":"Mill your own deck into your graveyard and reap the rewards ā but isnāt that normally a thing for Black decks? Well not anymore!\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Step 1: Filling your Graveyard"},{"insert":"\nUse the Mill cards such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mesmeric Orb"}},{"insert":" or play "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rosheen, Roaring Prophet"}},{"insert":" and copy her with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Molten Duplication"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Twinflame"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Heat Shimmer"}},{"insert":" to fill up the yard quickly.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Step 2: Lands for days"},{"insert":"\nSet up a land machine with a Fetch Land + Land Recursion + Additional Land drop fx.:\nĀ· "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Terramorphic Expanse"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Conduit of Worlds"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wayward Swordtooth"}},{"insert":" \nĀ· "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wooded Foothills"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ramunap Excavator"}},{"insert":" + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Azusa, Lost but Seeking"}},{"insert":" \n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Step 3: Go Tall!"},{"insert":"\nFill your board with big creatures such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Krosan Beast"}},{"insert":" or enjoy the auto-recursive creatures such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vengevine"}},{"insert":" . All while setting up for the big finale.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Step 4: Overrun"},{"insert":"\nUse "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Past in Flames"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mizzix's Mastery"}},{"insert":" to play "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Overwhelming Stampede"}},{"insert":" or copy "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Demolisher Spawn"}},{"insert":" multiple times with the copy spells.\nOr spend your oversized graveyard on "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Underworld Breach"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Seething Song"}},{"insert":" for endless mana.\n\nI hope you enjoy!\n"}]}
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Quarrenn 50 days{"ops":[{"insert":"I would like to submit this deck: https://archidekt.com/decks/10799499/umori_tribal_tribal\n\nThis is an Umori deck, but I wanted to pick something truly strange as my theme: The Tribal/Kindred card type (It could also be considered a Shapeshifter deck). This deck is running changelings to try to maximize the efficiency of the various cards in the deck. It's also running some other cards that benefit from creatures of a type to further benefit from the changelings.\n\nIn the mana base, I'm running lands that have the forest type for Reach of Branches alongside as many lands that produce colored or colorless mana to help cast Echoes of Eternity, Kozilek's Command, and Eldritch Immunity.\n\nI know this isn't the most well-rounded deck, I've only recently started to dip my toes in deckbuilding, but hopefully the idea is interesting to people regardless.\n"}]}
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ritzcrackers 50 days{"ops":[{"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11236231/deathleaper_flash_feb_contest\n\nHere's my entry. It's a gruul flash deck that focuses on combat tricks and creatures with flash. the strategy is to keep a creature with flash ready in your hand and then use combat tricks to buff your opponents attacks, if they're attacking each other obviously. When an attack does come your way, you flash out a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lictor"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Briarhorn"}},{"insert":" which gets double strike from deathleaper. Fun deck to play and always gets people when they are expecting a haste deck.\n"}]}
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Jrocko 50 days{"ops":[{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11235985/archidekt_deckbuilding_contest_february_2025"},"insert":"Cadric Boros Landfall "},{"insert":"\n\nPlay Legendary lands and copy them for extra landfall triggers. Increase the amount of landfall triggers by targeting your own copied lands with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cleansing Wildfire"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Geomancer's Gambit"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure"}},{"insert":" . \n"}]}
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Derconug 50 days{"ops":[{"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/8109092/dragons_of_adventure\nThis is simic dragons, but in order to make gale work properly it's got every dragon with an adventure in it.\n"}]}
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kcintlob@gmail.com 43 days{"ops":[{"insert":{"card-link":"CĆrdan the Shipwright"}},{"insert":" \n\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/10050546/cirdan_turbo_hug\n\nSimic Turbo Hug!\n\nRunning out of time to finish up my original idea, Izzet Reanimator, I decided to submit my tried and true Group Hug on steroids deck. Cirdan Turbo Hug.\n\nThis is a little bit of a meta entry for the prompt, because this deck does Simic things in a way very different from other Simic decks. Big mana, tons of cards, and cheating things into play; but for everyone! Instead of monopolizing game time by taking tons of game actions, you let everyone at the table play their deck turned up to 11. \n\nOne of the more interesting things about this deck is that it almost never takes something away without giving something back. The exception being bounce spells like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherize"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherspouts"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs"}},{"insert":". In practice, these function additional ways to stay alive alongside the huge suite of Fog effects the deck runs. \n\nAll of the targeted removal replaces the spell or permanent it removes; cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Polymorph"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Metamorphose"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spellshift"}},{"insert":". Even the decks single boardwipe, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Great Aurora"}},{"insert":", leaves everyone with a bunch of lands and cards in hand.\n\nThe whole point of the deck is to ramp and draw the whole table into an endgame state as quickly as possible. It wins, if at all, by decking the entire table out through insane amounts of card draw. \n\nOne of the splashiest finishers is going Great Aurora into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Folio of Fancies"}},{"insert":", to leave your opponents with 1/3 of their library. \n\nOf course, Great Aurora into "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tempting Wurm"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eureka"}},{"insert":" is sometimes the funnier and more interesting play! š¤£\n\nThe deck also runs "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Platinum Angel"}},{"insert":", because after casting a big "},{"insert":{"card-link":"New Frontiers"}},{"insert":" and having a mana doubler (or two) out, you can sometimes "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Turnabout"}},{"insert":" and float enough mana to deck everyone; including yourself!\n\nIn any case, the name of the game for this deck's path to victory is breaking parity. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Faerie Mastermind"}},{"insert":" is a huge part of this, making sure you get more cards from the shared draw effects than your opponents do. (I've considered adding "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Consecrated Sphinx"}},{"insert":" as a bit of redundancy in this role.)\nThe other part is that this deck runs 20 basic lands; more than almost any deck besides mono-colored. With all the collective land ramp spells finding basics, you'll often be the only one who can fully benefit from a New Frontiers or Collective Voyage or 15.\n\nMy favorite cards in the deck are "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Weird Harvest"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Flux"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Collective Voyage"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Minds Aglow"}},{"insert":". I would love for the Join Forces mechanic to get revisited with some new cards in the future!\n\nThe deck used to run an infinite mana combo, but I've removed Ghostly Flicker, so it can't go infinite anymore. The deck was winning too often, and that's not really the point!\n\nEvery game with this deck is memorable, and involves everyone takes lots of game actions.\n"}]}
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VolcanicWinter 43 days{"ops":[{"insert":"My entry is a "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11361066/jeska_and_alharu_boros_infect"},"insert":"Boros Infect Deck"},{"insert":", which are the rarest sort of two-colour infect decks (72 per EDHREC). It is helmed by "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jeska, Thrice Reborn"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alharu, Solemn Ritualist"}},{"insert":", a pairing which seems to have no entries on EDHREC! Jeska's damage multiplier can easily push us towards a win and Alharu offers an extra body with the ability to put counters on our infect creatures!\n\nThere is also a combo with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blightsteel Colossus"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Warstorm Surge"}},{"insert":" that can one-shot a player. There are a couple alternatives to Warstorm Surge, but it is the safest and most effective way to do the combo.\n\nI also feature a proliferate subtheme, which is very rare in Boros (a whopping 26 decks per EDHREC), albeit common with infect overall. This also works well with the commanders and a few of the anthem cards which both care about counters in their own ways.\n\nMy favorite little gimmick that separates this from other infect decks is a small myriad subtheme that uses cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Legion Loyalty"}},{"insert":" to pump out extra copies of our infect dorks to spread the love (hate?) around the whole table. Myriad works crazy well with Warstorm Surge too.\n\nAdmittedly this deck will have some issues with finding a consistent curve due to the lack of infect options in Boros. It is also a lightning rod for removal (although "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Glaring Spotlight"}},{"insert":" is a partial solution for this that can also be used to break parity in the late-game). Tutors would also help with both of these issues (and pulling off the BC+WS combo), but I felt odd including a full suite of them after the new Power Brackets were released and a bit harsh on tutoring at lower power levels.\n\nThanks for the consideration!\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11361066/jeska_and_alharu_boros_infect"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11361066/jeska_and_alharu_boros_infect"},{"insert":"\n\nEDITS: Clarity, extra details, making the urls clickable links lol\n"}]}
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Volbe(Common Patron)
43 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Hello! I'm really excited to show you all my off-color brew around a new commander, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sita Varma, Masked Racer"}},{"insert":": "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11292711/sita_voltron"},"insert":"Be Our Guest"},{"insert":"\n\nThis is a Simic Equipment deck that looks to power up Sita as large as possible for a strong voltron strategy, then catch your opponents by surprise by going super wide out of nowhere. Of course, this deck includes many of the colorless staple equipment found in most such decks like the Sword of __ and __ cycle and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hammer of Nazahn"}},{"insert":", but it also has some tricks up its sleeves too.\n\nSita's ability makes the base power and toughness of all creatures we control equal to her power. While most decks around her so far seem to be focused around the additional +1/+1 counter synergies she has, while going wide to make her ability a strong finisher, this deck takes a different approach. Using powerful equipment to pump up our commander, we then look to animate all of our equipment into creatures using cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rise and Shine"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Titania's Song"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"March of the Machines"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cyberdrive Awakener"}},{"insert":", using her increased power to pump each of our equipment to the sky. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Before you dismiss this deck"},{"insert":", yes, I know that this doesn't work on paper. According to rule 301.5c, equipment that are creatures cannot be equipped to another creature or to itself. So by the time we have animated all our equipment, it will be too late to use the buffs they provide to Sita to pump the now animated artifacts, right? "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Wrong."},{"insert":"\n\nRule 113.7a: Once activated or triggered, an ability exists on the stack independently of its source. Destruction or removal of the source after that time wonāt affect the ability. Note that some abilities cause a source to do something (for example, āThis creature deals 1 damage to any targetā) rather than the ability doing anything directly. In these cases, any activated or triggered ability that references information about the source for use while announcing an activated ability or putting a triggered ability on the stack checks that information when the ability is put onto the stack. Otherwise, it will check that information when it resolves. In both instances, if the source is no longer in the zone itās expected to be in at that time, its last known information is used. The source can still perform the action even though it no longer exists.\n\nThis rule allows us to live the dream, with a few extra steps needed. \n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Step 1"},{"insert":": Activate Sita, who is huge from our array of cheap equipment.\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Step 2"},{"insert":": Holding priority, sacrifice or destroy Sita Varma with cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lotus Ring"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lazotep Quarry"}},{"insert":", with her ability still on the stack.\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Step 3"},{"insert":": Still holding priority, give flash to one of the artifact animators using cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Alchemist's Refuge"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Emergence Zone"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ride the Avalanche"}},{"insert":", casting them before the resolution of Sita's ability to turn all of our equipment into small creatures.\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Step 4"},{"insert":": Because Sita is off the battlefield before she loses all of her additional power, her ability continues to reference the power she had "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"with the equipment attached"},{"insert":". As her ability resolves, all of our equipment are now massive beaters.\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"Step 5"},{"insert":": Swing in for the win with a surprise team of huge artifacts.\n\n...Or just win with commander damage the old fashioned way :)\n\nI also wanted to give one last shoutout to a few cards that work especially well with this plan or are just interesting cards that Mardu equipment decks don't get to run: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bloodforged Battle-Axe"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Masterful Replication"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Forensic Gadgeteer"}},{"insert":".\n\nThank you for taking a look! I had a lot of full building around this challenge and around a new commander!\n"}]}
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Every0neElse 43 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Have you ever tried to make a monkey cast spells? I have and it's super didn't work. But "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Breeches, the Blastmaker"}},{"insert":" is super good at all the other things, namely blowing up his own creatures for fun and profit. "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11310775/izzet_identity_crisis"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11310775/izzet_identity_crisis"},{"insert":"\n\nThis Izzet Aristocrats deck is legitimately so much fun to play. There isn't a single instant or sorcery spell in the deck, and that super doesn't matter. Pumping out and sacrificing artifact creatures is all you need to do to touch all your cards and make them touch everyone else's cards. I had a really long explainer for my last deck entry, but honestly, this deck doesn't need it. Cast monkey, make token, swing big beaters. Very Izzet. Definitely not made by a green player...\n"}]}
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Niforten 43 days{"ops":[{"insert":"And you thought Dimir had no ramp"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11310346\n\nHi everyone! This is my take on a dimir landfall deck with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator"}},{"insert":" as the commander.\n\nGame plan:\nGet Rona, Herald out and start drawing and discarding. You'll notice in the deck list there is a lot of looting cards ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thirst for Discovery"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Likeness Looter"}},{"insert":" ). This reason will become more apparent in step 4. "},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Ramp and play \"pingers\". You want to start ramping towards transforming Rona and then playing pingers like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thornwind Faeries"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cuombajj Witches"}},{"insert":" which will be important once Rona transforms."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Transform Rona into Tolarian Obliterator and start pinging her. Whenever Rona takes damages, the owner of the source of damage exiles a random card from their hand, and if its a land you can play it and if its a spell you may cast it without paying its mana cost. So, by pinging her ourselves we can start playing lands and big spells from our hand for free."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Go crazy! We have some very powerful landfall cards in this deck like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Roil Elemental"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ob Nixilis, the Fallen"}},{"insert":" that would be great to hit off of pinging Rona, or would be great to be on the field it we hit a land off our ping. And if we miss our lands or landfall cards off of pings, we have other powerful spells to hit as well, like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sheoldred, Whispering One"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Portal to Phyrexia"}},{"insert":". This is where our looting cards come into play, because what we hit off of Rona is random, and being able to sculpt our hand by discarding the cards we don't want to hit is very important."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Keep the engines running. You start to run out of cards very quickly with Rona getting pinged, so we need some great card draw like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Teferi's Ageless Insight"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thought Reflection"}},{"insert":" to keep our hands full and the free mana flowing."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I hope you enjoy the deck! Try playtesting it! It is fun to see how fats it starts going once Rona is transformed. \n"}]}
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erdukold 43 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Hello!\n\nEver heard someone call "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rampant Growth"}},{"insert":" a can trip? Well it is certainly a can trip in this surprisingly fast golgari storm deck called \"That's not a can trip\" with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Gitrog Monster"}},{"insert":" is the commander. "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11245723"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11245723"},{"insert":" \n\nAs an izzet enjoyer I have been wanting to brew up a storm deck in untraditional colors and finally got around to doing it after seeing this competition. The core goal of the deck is to get a way to go even and eventually mana and card positive from using ramp spells. The best card to do this is "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Squandered Resources"}},{"insert":" since it functions both as a sac outlet giving you cards, and as a source of mana. This can make cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Exploration"}},{"insert":" mana positive, cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Entish Restoration"}},{"insert":" card positive, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Azusa, Lost but Seeking"}},{"insert":" becomes both mana and card positive (when the cards you are looking for is not one of the 5 lands you already got in hand).\n\nThe game plan of this deck is to use the first 3 - 4 rounds to preemptively can trip (ramp) and tutor for key pieces like a land sac outlet and a mana source for your storm turn. Here the first priority is "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Squandered Resources"}},{"insert":", but if you only got a creature tutor the goal is to get "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lotus Cobra"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sylvan Safekeeper"}},{"insert":". During these turns using basic lands in hand should be prioritized over the use of fetch lands, since fetch lands give card draw when used after playing "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Gitrog Monster"}},{"insert":".\n\nDuring your storm turn there are two main goals: \nGetting some mass land recursion"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Going sustainably mana positive"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mass land recursion spells are a core part of this deck since it gives a large burst of mana and card draw during your storm turn, which pretty much making you able to play the whole deck. These spells are "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aftermath Analyst"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Splendid Reclamation"}},{"insert":". When you are drowning in mana and card draw off of your first mass land recursion spell you should look to make all your spells mana positive. Occasionally it can be necessary to tutor for any mana positive can trip before being able to use the first round of mass land recursion.\n\nThe fastest finisher to use in this deck is "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherflux Reservoir"}},{"insert":", but the inclusion of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elixir of Immortality"}},{"insert":" allows you to play the deck on repeat for infinite storm count, which makes "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tendrils of Agony"}},{"insert":" a win con even you're playing against 3 life gain decks and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherflux Reservoir"}},{"insert":" gets exiled.\n\nThe land base includes enough basics to satisfy the ramp spells during the start of the storm turn and includes three SNC lands like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Riveteers Overlook"}},{"insert":" since they help fill the graveyard with lands and give 2 cards and 1 mana with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Squandered Resources"}},{"insert":" and 1 card and 2 mana with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lotus Cobra"}},{"insert":". The Deck is light on removal containing only 5 cards (2 of them lands) intended for stack pieces, but contains a total of 10 recursion and protection pieces to keep the plan going, where the recursion doubles as a way to reuse tutors and mass recursion. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chain of Smog"}},{"insert":" was excluded since it didn't really feel that stormy. \n\nThanks for reading and have a nice day!\n"}]}
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KidThePhantom 43 days{"ops":[{"insert":"To start with the deck: https://archidekt.com/decks/11355698/selesnya_storm_turns_out_kutzil_was_ral_in_disguise\n\nThis is my selesnya storm deck. This writeup will be a lot less indepth/a lot more improvised, than i originally intended, since i thought the deadline would be friday instead of wendsday. Oh well, feels like uni again...\n\nWhat DOES the deck?\nWell... to let the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar"}},{"insert":" out of the bag: sometimes a lot, sometimes stone cold nothing. The idea is, to reduce the cost of your ramp spells/make the lands come in untaped to generate enough mana, to chain a lot of spells, finishing with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherflux Reservoir"}},{"insert":" (yawn), "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aeve, Progenitor Ooze"}},{"insert":" (ok) or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chatterstorm"}},{"insert":" (now we are talking). It is a pretty fair-ish stormdeck, all things considered. This is, unless you find "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Horn of Greed"}},{"insert":" . Oh boy, this deck can do disgusting things once that happens. Sadly, i only found "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"two"},{"insert":" (2!) cards, that alow me to tutor for it in the colours, and well... i am not certain if i am playing "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ring of Three Wishes"}},{"insert":" or if the card is playing me. \n\nWow! What an amazing Idea. But what is this manabase...?\nMy Threshhold for non-basics in this deck was incredibly high. Since we ramp so many basics, i decided to play at least 30 of those. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Urza's Saga"}},{"insert":" is solely here, because "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Amulet of Vigor"}},{"insert":" is so important, that i am not only fine with going down a land for it, but also with whiffing, if we already found our amulet. The fetches are here do give us a way to double our landfall triggers, if we draw them on a critical turn. An off-color green-based fetchland would probably be better than "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fabled Passage"}},{"insert":" , but i dont play those in commander. I know it is legal, i just dont like it. \n\nWhat are especially cool cards?\nI love the big, dumb spells in this deck that can do an incredible amount of work. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Awaken the Woods"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Boundless Realms"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Praetor's Counsel"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reshape the Earth"}},{"insert":" . Just imagine resolving "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Open the Way"}},{"insert":" x=4, while having "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lotus Cobra"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Horn of Greed"}},{"insert":" and\n\nWait a minute... that is just Selesnya Landfall. Thats not original at all. \nIt may seem like it on the surface, but it plays completly differently. It really "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"feels "},{"insert":"like a stormdeck goldfishing it. Having to decide, if i want to ramp now to increase my mana on later turns, or to save the resources to up my stormcount later is a very interesting playpatern. Also: I dont think there is a realistic way of winning without storming of. Our commander is only here to make sure we dont get disrupted and i just dont see "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Knight of the Reliquary"}},{"insert":" getting the job done by herself.\n\nWait another minute... this deck only plays 11 white spells, and none of them are loadbearing. This is just a greendeck with a splash!\nWhat is this... Reddit? But more seriously: fair. I would argue, that white actually makes a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"huge"},{"insert":" diference. It doubles the ways to tutor "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Horn of Greed"}},{"insert":" and improves them by roughly one billion percent (looking at you again "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ring of Three Wishes"}},{"insert":" ). But even more important: it offers us survivability and unconditional carddraw. Green sucks at drawing cards, if you dont have any creatures and having at least some boardwipes is key for a deck like this. I would have love to play some more to be honest, but the list feels suprisingly tight for how jank it is. I am very open for suggestions to improve it though, help me out guys. \n\nWait a third minute: Couldn't you just cut "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ring of Three Wishes"}},{"insert":" ? You complained twice about the card and...\nI am going to bed. Good Night. \n"}]}
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Fredrick0927 43 days{"ops":[{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11330175/urosticrats"},"insert":"Uro-sticrats ā¢ (Commander / EDH deck) ā¢ Archidekt"},{"insert":"\n\nThis deck is a spin on the aristocrats archetype in simic colors. Death triggers and sacrifice outlets to eat my creatures for their tasty benefits. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Greater Good"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Evolutionary Leap"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Altar of Dementia"}},{"insert":" are repeatable sacrifice outlets, along with exploit and casualty cards for single uses. There aren't direct life drain effects, so the plan is to load up +1/+1 counters with things like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Death's Presence"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jugan, the Rising Star"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jason Bright, Glowing Prophet"}},{"insert":" and attack with trample or flying. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Portal to Phyrexia"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Back from the Brink"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lifeline"}},{"insert":" are the main recursion engines, and lifeline works crazy well with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath"}},{"insert":", our commander, but it is a doubleedged sword. All of the removal is exile based to get around the parallel of lifeline. \n"}]}
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Byt1 44 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Hi! \nI have crafted a Dimir Burn deck, which I feel is a pretty uncommon choice for a Dimir gameplan: https://archidekt.com/decks/11351675/dimir_burn\n\nYour gameplan is to get out your commander, "},{"attributes":{"color":"#ff9900"},"insert":"Sygg, River Cutthroat"},{"insert":" as soon as possible to benefit from other players attacking each other. This will allow you to draw into many of your burn spells, which unlocks a very aggressive gameplay approach. \n\nI chose to incorporate many cards that damage opponents based on the cards in their hand or drawing cards. This makes for a very consistent bu8rn engine, as your opponents will always be trying to get card advantage with draw spells. \n\nThat's everything, I hope y'all enjoy.\n"}]}
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TannerCosgrave 44 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Dear EDHREC deckbuilding contest judges,\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/11349910/jon_ironicus_group_hugger"},"insert":"Jon IRONICus, Group hugger ā¢ (Commander / EDH deck) ā¢ Archidekt"},{"insert":"\n\nWelcome to: Jon IRONICus, Group Hugger! The ironic part of this deck is it's group hug strategy. Per the context prompt, my task was to build a deck around a theme or strategy not usually expected in the deck's colors. On EDHREC, Dimir (Blue/Black) is the least common Group Hug strategy in a two-color pairing, with only 55 decks at the time of this writing.\n\nNormally, Jon Irenicus is built around a Group Slug strategy, where you play creatures with huge downsides and then try to donate them to your opponents. In this deck, we actually want to give our opponents good stuff, and then also benefit from it ourselves.\n\nBecause we are in Dimir, there aren't a lot of good Group Hug cards to play. Most of them are artifacts with symmetrical affects that our opponents benefit from first. Here is where Jon Irenicus comes into play. If we can manage to give these symmetrical Group Hug pieces to our opponents, then we can benefit from them too, as they can draw us additional cards. The only problem is, Jon Irenicus can only donate creatures. Herein lies a major twist of the deck: Artifact Animation! In order to give our Group hug components to our opponents, we first need to turn them into creatures. Thankfully, blue has a number of ways to do this.\n\nSo how do we win the game? Through a few different ways. Because our creatures will be Goaded, our opponents will be forced to attack each other, thus lowering their life totals. Because we are giving our opponents artifacts, we are also playing a number of cards that punish our opponents for having or using artifacts. This damage will be slow, but in true Group Hug fashion, the hope is that the table won't notice what is happening until it is too late.\n\nThe key categories for this deck are:\n\n13 Artifact Animators - cards that turn artifacts into creatures to donate with Jon Irenicus. My personal favorite of these: Chimeric Coils - since Jon Irenicus means it can't be sacrificed!\n\n3 Artifact Changers - cards that turn things that aren't already artifacts into artifacts so that they can be donated too!\n\n6 Artifact Punishers - cards that punish our opponents for having or using artifacts\n\n13 Group Draw - cards that draw both us and our opponents cards, in true Group Hug fashion. My favorite of these: a new card, Gonti, Night Minister. Who incentivizes players to attack each other and makes them treasure tokens!\n\n4 Group Ramp - cards that ramp the table. Notably, if we manage to animate a Treasure token, our opponents won't be able to sacrifice it if we donate it!\n\n11 Interaction - cards that interact with our opponents. Most of these interaction cards turn things into artifacts for later punishment. Phyrexian Scriptures is great here, as it doesn't kill our Artifact Creatures and can turn Jon Irenicus himself into one!\n\n7 Ramp - cards that only ramp ourselves\n\n1 Recursion (2 including Academy Ruins) - cards to get our artifacts back when they inevitably become blocked in combat\n\n2 Token Makers - cards that make artifact tokens for us to donate. Genesis chamber is fun as a Group Hug card, and Thopter Fabricator is great because we draw lots of cards!\n\n3 Finishers - cards that can end the game quickly\n\n3 Tutors (4 including Urza's Saga) - these mages serve two purposes. 1 - to get an Artifact Animator, a ramp piece, or an Artifact Punisher. And 2 - to be creatures we can donate!\n\nThank you for the opportunity to brew this fun deck! This is my first time participating in a deckbuilding contest. It was a great challenge and stretched me as a deckbuilder. Cheers!\n"}]}
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