Jeremy 19 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"}]}
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Micldawg 19 months{"ops":[{"insert":"The theme is simple, Humanoids and rituals/things I wouldn't want to run into if I turned into an alleyway.\nhttps://www.archidekt.com/decks/4516696\nI tried to avoid vampires cus that makes it kind of easy but there were some that just looking at made me like \"Yeah wouldn't wanna run into that one\" or fit too well with the functions of the deck I didn't notice I had going till I actually read some of the cards. I also may have learned I'm scared of Teysa in any iteration and I don't completely know why.\n"}]}
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bigfatmac92 19 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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Alantis_Clovenpine 19 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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TEschaton 19 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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ColossalDreadmaw 19 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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DMGriff 19 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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DarkWolfsAsylum 19 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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AshDude 19 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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BaleKenyon 19 months{"ops":[{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4496699/hidden_pictures?sort=alpha&stack=custom"},"insert":"Hidden Pictures"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(Best viewed as a grid)\n \nPac-Man, a surfer, and more treasures await to be found!\n \nPlay a game of hide-and-seek with everybody's favorite homunculus, Fblthp, witness the rise and fall of a titan, and meet Magic's unluckiest character in this deck featuring artwork with hidden pictures and other Easter eggs. \n \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Karona, False God"}},{"insert":" , who makes special guest appearances in seven other cards, leads this scavenger hunt. \n \nCan you find the winning combo first or will your opponents tire of your games?\n"}]}
Edited 5/7/2023, 11:39:56 AM
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Cole9873 19 months{"ops":[{"insert":"I made a deck of a struggle between the gods of Theros. It shows the struggles of our failures and mistakes in life while giving hope of redemption. A more detailed description is in the deck. I call my deck: Grief and Redemption.\n\nDeck link:\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4496227"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4496227"},{"insert":"\n\nColors:\nBlue, Black, Green\n"}]}
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Foggy_Vala 19 months{"ops":[{"insert":"I present to you, Jace Lore Tribal. This deck features only cards that depict Jace or have some resemblance to Wizard's favorite boy. The deck centers around Jace Planeswalkers of course, as well as cards that refer to him in the art and even the flavor text for some special choices. However, not every single card in the deck centers around Jace there just aren't enough Jace cards quite yet to make the cut. So we look at Jace's history as he travels through the multiverse all the way back to when the mind mage first started to gain his powers of magic. \nWhile unfortunately in commander, only certain planeswalkers can be your commander, this one has a special Jace that can be your commander. Introducing Jace, Vryn's Prodigy. This Jace allowed me to have a center theme around the deck and where I wanted to go with it; taking a special consideration on mind magic. This means that I would use cards that would take control of other people's creatures, such as control magic, and looking into people's minds and taking control of the players thoughts, such as looking at their hands or using their library through cards like Lay Bare and Mind's Dilation. Along with that, Jace himself is able to make people forget and extract thoughts, such as how he once invaded the one and only Niv-Mizzet's mind, which I represent in this deck through the idea of milling opponents and even wanting to mill my own deck at times as Jace has made himself forget memories in his story. However, don't think I'm glossing over that idea of Jace invading Niv-Mizzet's mind, since he was able to do that early on in his story and show his prowess, thus motivating me to put Enter the Infinite in the deck as Niv-Mizzet himself says "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"\"Don't just have one idea - have all of them\" "},{"insert":"which may not entirely fit but I wanted to include it somehow. Also, there is a lithoform engine because Jace once fought Nissa, a planeswalker who is all about nature and hates anything mechanical, to defend the machine.\nFinally, there is an odd creature tribal hybrid in this deck that may seems odd at first glance. but upon further thinking adds up. I centered around sphinx's and illusions as sphinx's play a huge part in Jace's design and his own teacher, Alhammerett, is a sphinx! And Jace is known for his illusions so I couldn't help but include those as a subtle nod to the mind mage's signature technique.\nOverall, the deck is just based on getting out planeswalkers, specifically Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, to draw the whole deck and win through Enter the Infinite or win through milling out opponents through value in casting many instant and sorceries to win the game. Oh, and there is an Atemsis, All-Seeking since we're drawing a bunch of cards to just flat out make someone lose the game. Hope everyone who sees this and tries themself enjoys it!\n\nJace Lore Tribal edh\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/4275693/jace_lore_tribal_edh \n"}]}
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TevishSzat 19 months{"ops":[{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4496033"},"insert":"Beneath These Waves"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThe rule is simple: Every card in this deck has its art underwater, conforming to the \"Atag:underwater\" search to be sure in case of dubious wetness. The result is some fishy beatdown chock full of obscure tech.\n\nI will be fully honest, this is a lower-power deck: it plays merfolk, maybe interacts with you some, and can mostly try to beat down with its various aquatic monsters. However, while lower power, it still has the makings of a good basic EDH deck. It has card draw, it has answers for various threats and card types. It has a good curve, and it has reasonable threats including Galina herself hijacking somebody else's. It is, in all senses, a reasonable and playable deck and not just an art gallery.\n"}]}
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TomDanks 19 months{"ops":[{"insert":"When learning MTG you learn the importance of the \"Mana Curve\" casting spells on curve to accumulate the most advantage. \nWell you can go right ahead and throw that concept right out the window, cause this deck doesn't have a curve, it has a Mana Point.\n6 Mana Tribal starring Rith, the Awakener. Every card in the deck outside of lands costs 6 Mana. \n\nIf every spell is a big splashy haymaker the deck has to be good... Right?\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/3404375/6_mana_tribal_complete\n"}]}
Edited 5/7/2023, 5:23:57 AM
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HeresyMachine 19 months{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is all about dynamic duos, with every card having two characters on it. Sometimes friends and sometimes foes, but always deadly. The deck's theme leans into this as well with a whole lot of copy effects to make your own friends.\n\nRashmi and Ragavan's "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4493965/two_pair"},"insert":"Two Pair"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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HelenaBruh 19 months{"ops":[{"insert":"For my submission, it is my pleasure to introduce The Bone Zone, led by none other than "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Myrkul, Lord of Bones"}},{"insert":", as it should be. Every nonland card in this deck features bones in the art in some way, including the ramp, removal, and board wipes. The basic lands are also fairly boney. I tried to avoid art where you really have to squint to see the bones. The strategy of the deck follows some hallmarks of a standard Myrkul deck, where many of the creatures are still useful as noncreature enchantments and can be sacrificed for value accordingly. There are a few different ways in which this deck can win, many of which are easily tutorable with cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Increasing Ambition"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Altar of Bone"}},{"insert":".\n\nThe main goal is to outvalue your opponents. Some ways we can do this include symmetrical sacrifice effects with Myrkul on board, such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Necrotic Hex"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Taste of Death"}},{"insert":", which leave us with several board pieces that recur with Myrkul's ability, death triggers such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shessra, Death's Whisper"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grim Haruspex"}},{"insert":" , and even taking our opponents' creatures with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dance of the Dead"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grave Betrayal"}},{"insert":". With a sufficiently large board, we can overwhelm our opponents by having Myrkul sit on his bone throne, AKA the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dragon Throne of Tarkir"}},{"insert":".\n\nWe can also bone our opponents with the massive amount of mana generated via "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Black Market"}},{"insert":" using the almighty death lasers known as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Debt to the Deathless"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Death Grasp"}},{"insert":". If this proves insufficient, with the massive amount of life gained from these or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Deathgreeter"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Whip of Erebos"}},{"insert":" or even "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dogged Pursuit"}},{"insert":", we can pull off the alternate wincon of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Test of Endurance"}},{"insert":" with its new boney alternate art from Dominaria Remastered. Cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Skullclamp"}},{"insert":" (40K art), "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Read the Bones"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Necropotence"}},{"insert":" can also ensure we keep our hand full. Finally, we can keep Myrkul protected in the early game with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Skeletal Grimace"}},{"insert":". As the saying goes, you're never fully dressed without a smile.\n\nFind it here: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4493222/the_bone_zone"},"insert":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4493222/the_bone_zone"},{"insert":"\n\n"}]}
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