Jeremy 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"\nHello brewers,"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nAfter taking a brief break in April, we’re starting May’s "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.cardkingdom.com/"},"insert":"Card Kingdom"},{"insert":"-sponsored deckbuilding contest a bit early. To follow-up the aggressive lists from the Oathbreaker contest in March, we’re going for something a little more chill. This month, we’re looking for Commander decks designed around a shared visual theme. Details below!\n\nWhat’s the contest all about?"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"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 cardkingdom.com. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"For May’s deckbuilding contest, construct a Commander-legal deck designed around a shared visual theme. This is meant to be very open-ended: "},{"insert":"You might build something flavorful like a deck where all cards depict members of the Gatewatch"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":", or something silly like only using cards with chairs in their art. Extra consideration will be given to decks that are both thematic and playable!"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nHere’s how to participate:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Brew an EDH/Commander legal deck on Archidekt that satisfies the prompt.\nAny unreleased cards spoiled during the contest’s 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":"\nReply to either this newspost or "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://twitter.com/archidekt/status/1654591720732913665?t=nz-s9G9ZiBEbcJQ7Wsxsiw&s=19"},"insert":"the announcement tweet"},{"insert":" from the "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://twitter.com/archidekt"},"insert":"@archidekt"},{"insert":" account on Twitter with a link to your deck before 9:00pm ET (UTC -5, currently) on Friday, May 12. 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. Additional characteristics by which your deck may be judged include playability and uniqueness (i.e. “spice”); budget has no direct bearing on your chances to win. Deck descriptions are not required but certainly may provide valuable context!\n\nOn Saturday, May 13, 2023, we'll tweet out a poll for the community to vote on its favorite of the three selected finalists' lists. Any finalists who submitted their lists on Archidekt will be notified via the email associated with their account. We’ll also publish a newspost on Archidekt announcing the finalists and linking to the poll on Twitter. Each finalist will be awarded store credit to cardkindom.com. The value of the credit is in US dollars and depends on the finalist's placement in the community poll at the end of its two day duration:\n1st Place Prize - $50"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"2nd Place Prize - $30"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"3rd Place Prize - $20"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Finalists will be contacted via Twitter or email (depending on where they submitted) regarding their winnings following the conclusion of the poll by Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Please note, you must have a Card Kingdom account in order to receive your winnings. It's quick and free-- "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.cardkingdom.com/register"},"insert":"register here"},{"insert":" if you don't have an account already!\n\nAn important note:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Unfortunately, due to wild variance in contest laws, eligibility is limited to residents of the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec). We’d love to allow all of our users to participate, but ensuring we are legally compliant with each country’s national laws is too great a barrier. For additional information regarding eligibility, check our official contest rules. \n\nSomething new:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"As you might have noticed, we added a new “Community Stuff” tab to the homepage. In addition to a variety of curated decks and stats, we display contest winners on this page until new ones are selected. If you haven’t already, check out March’s winners before they’re replaced in a week!\n\nThank you!\nIf you have any other questions, feel free to ask here, reach out on Twitter, or join "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://discord.gg/eZg3mvJd7v"},"insert":"our public Discord server"},{"insert":". We look forward to seeing what you all come up with! \n\nThe Archidekt Team"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nEdit: Our finalists have been announced! Check out "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://twitter.com/archidekt/status/1657435003628789760?s=20"},"insert":"our poll on Twitter"},{"insert":" to vote for your favorite. Congratulations to users BlueSquirrelGirl, Caramel_cactus, and powergirl!"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
Edited 5/15/2023, 7:23:28 PM
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enbypotato 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Who doesn't love a spooky, scary, skeleton? *insert \"doot\" sound effect here* Every card (excluding the basic forests, because the closest I could find was just spooky looking) has skull(s) and/or bones in the art. With Skullbriar at the helm, I give you \"Rattle 'Em Boys\" \n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4498105/rattle_em_boys"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4498105/rattle_em_boys"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
Edited 5/7/2023, 10:05:17 PM
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ignominous 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"I got bored during an English class while watching the film Passing, based on the novel by Nella Larsen, and since the movie is in black and white, I decided to make a semi-functional orzhov Liesa, Forgotten Archangel deck using (almost) entirely black and white cards! This was largely possible due to Innistrad Double Feature, but I also included some secret lair things and the recent oil slick raised foils. The main issue with this deck is that no matter how much I searched, I could not for the life of me find good ramp in black and white, but otherwise there's a decent amount of synergy between the cards. Also <3 Junji Ito secret lair!\n\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/4497770\n"}]}
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AshDude 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Headed by King Macar, the Gold-Cursed, every card in this deck has gold or something that is (or reasonably could be in a couple ambiguous cases) gilded or made of gold or silver. In mono-black and featuring thieves, murderers, corruption and treachery, this deck, like King Macar himself, illustrates the high price of greed and ill-gotten wealth.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4492005/goldlust"},"insert":"Goldlust"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
Edited 5/9/2023, 3:49:39 AM
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DarkWolfsAsylum 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"The deck I am submitting in "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4500947/phodias"},"insert":"Phobia's "},{"insert":" it is a deck with every card someway will try and trigger someone's phobia in every card. The land base was very hard with the deck to trigger a phobia. The main phobia on the lands was Astrophobia. \n\nSome cards are automatic adds but once I got close to the end it took a lot more searching to encompass a vast variety of phobia's.\n\n"}]}
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DMGriff 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Hoping this isn't too on the nose, but it's Classic Lightning! \n\nMono-red aggro to the extreme, using ONLY cards with lightning/electricity/sparks/thunderclouds, with the aim to draw cards with Syr Carah and deal massive spell damage as fast as lightning!\n\nhttps://www.archidekt.com/decks/4502041\n"}]}
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ColossalDreadmaw 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"I bring you LLL (ladies looking left). There is a surprisingly large amount of women looking to the left in mtg. So I thought this would be a good idea to make an mtg edh deck around that. "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4502740/lll_ladies_looking_left "},"insert":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4502740/lll_ladies_looking_left "},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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evolution1988 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Swords! - https://archidekt.com/decks/4490633/swords\n\nEvery card has a sword. All of them. There are a couple cards that aren't immediately obvious, but I promise they have swords. Lands were tough, but I did the best I could to get the theme consistent. Stick your opponents with the pointy end. And do it twice with Isshin. \n"}]}
Edited 5/10/2023, 8:33:25 AM
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Ramsey0319 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"I doubt this will be in the running and ill be honest i havent been able to fully test in paper as finding some of the cards with specific art has been tricky. I present the deck i call \"you there!\" It features as much art as i could gather with people pointing off camera. Ended up being a lot of goblins...\n\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/3728420/you_there\n"}]}
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Bigballsmaster 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4206171/ulashtocrats\n\n"}]}
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DestTestLister 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Here's what I've got for you all:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":">>>"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true,"link":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4506363"},"insert":"👌"},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"bold":true},"insert":"<<<"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nEverything in the deck 👌 one way or another. The perfect circles, tight and circular spirals and the almost perfect ovals. \n\nBest part of all this is the deck is playable. \nUse your commanders to pressure life totals while digging for value pieces or flat out win with Rise of The Second Sun. For games that drag on, you've got Debt to the Deathless to drain massive health and put yourself ahead. If all else fails, just keep pushing for a combat win.\n"}]}
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TEschaton 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4507423\n\nI call this deck Bird Watching, every pice of art has at least one bird in it. Some easier to spot than others, just like real bird watching! Yet there are no actual bird creature type cards in the deck at all. Its still funtlctional and quite fun to to play, though it is on the lower end of the power scale\n"}]}
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Alantis_Clovenpine 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"When I saw the challenge I instantly thought of one thing: Yawgmoth Phyrexians. I've always wanted to build a Yawgmoth deck built around Phyrexians, but for this I gave myself another rule, being that I cannot use any versions of Sheoldred and anything that refrences the Praetors (Except for Phyresis's flavor text but that card just fits too well). I additionally wanted to build the artifacts and enchantments around Phyrexians, so my options for ramp ended up being pretty limited. The deck functions somewhat like Yawgmoth decks usually do, except since this was phyrexian based it was gonna be with an infect subtheme. There are good dies triggers, fodder for sacking, infect and toxic, more proliferation, and overall Phyrexian awesomeness in mono black. (also I threw in Urborg for pure flavor)\n\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/4505727\n"}]}
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SpaceBacon 11 months{"ops":[{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4507885/pondering_my_orbs"},"insert":"Queza - Pondering My Orb(s)"},{"insert":"\nEvery nonland card in this deck contains an orb or spherical object of some sort (most of them have multiple!)\nIt operates similarly enough to a Queza deck - draw cards and drain your opponents - but also has a cheeky alternate win condition in "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Monument to Perfection"}},{"insert":", aka the "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Pillar of Many Orbs"},{"insert":". With a grand total of 16 differently named Locus, Sphere, and Basic lands (shoutout to "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wastes"}},{"insert":" for existing), we should have little issue assembling the orbular death machine. We can also "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirrormade"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Echo Storm"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Mycosynth Gardens"}},{"insert":" our Monument to attack multiple opponents at the same time, then hit them with a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Glistening Sphere"}},{"insert":" for that tenth point of poison.\n"}]}
Edited 5/9/2023, 4:39:40 AM
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bigfatmac92 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Left handers unite! The era of the lefties is upon us! Destroy your opponents with an onslaught of left handed spells! \n\n\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/4503667/left_is_right\n"}]}
Edited 5/9/2023, 2:38:59 PM
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Deadalus 11 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Since the category was a bit open to interpretation I also decided to be a bit open minded with my choice of criteria. In every artwork there is a lease some piece of a structure. Those pieces can include stairs, windows, walls, doors, and even entire buildings. Hopefully, my deck idea meets the overall spirit of the building contest. Thanks for taking a look.\n\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/4493147/jan_janson_structures_and_arcitecture\n"}]}
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