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Deck Challenge: The magic number

Hello again fellow deck builders! Your challenge this time is to create a deck that follows the magic number 241-42-83-45. Now the "magic number" represents a special mana curve. 24 one drops, 4 two drops, 8 three drops, and then 4 five drops.

This one is probably the deck challenge with the most strict rules I'll offer. You are to abide by the number precisely. Just keep in your head 24, 4, 8, (skip) 4.

This deck must be 60 cards.

The only major form of freedom for this challenge (aside from cards and color obviously) is this: You are allowed two (2) free-roaming cards. These can be taken from your lands to make 18 lands and 2 other cards or you can just run with 20 lands and call it a day (lazy =P ). These free-roam cards CAN NOT intrude on any of the magic number slots (EVER!).

I know this might sound pretty restricting, but those of you who try this will be surprised how fun these magic number decks are to build and to play. So enjoy yourselves with this one. :D

Posted 19 November 2010 at 07:23

18 replies

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Nobody wants to try this one?

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Posted 21 November 2010 at 23:44

Alright I'll try your challenge. Give me a few minutes and I'll have something.

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Posted 22 November 2010 at 01:35

Okay here's my deck. Hope you like:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/magic-number-deck/

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Posted 22 November 2010 at 02:02

[QUOTE=Lelouch32]Okay here's my deck. Hope you like:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/magic-number-deck/[/QUOTE]

Hey, that's actually pretty damn good. I hope you enjoy playing with a magic number deck. They work perfectly :D

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Posted 22 November 2010 at 03:29

Well I'm sure I will enjoy it... as soon as I actually get the cards.

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Posted 22 November 2010 at 04:06

[QUOTE=Lelouch32]Well I'm sure I will enjoy it... as soon as I actually get the cards.[/QUOTE]

Hahaha awesome.

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Posted 22 November 2010 at 04:22

Ye GODS! Is but only one man brave enough to try this challenge?

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Posted 28 November 2010 at 04:30

Ha ha it seems that I am. Therefore I win. What do I get? :P

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Posted 28 November 2010 at 14:07

[QUOTE=Lelouch32]Ha ha it seems that I am. Therefore I win. What do I get? :P[/QUOTE]

Not so fast! The gods have heart your pride and have decided to smite you for it... BEHOLD! THE WRATH OF THE GODS!
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=119878

On a less serious note... I slightly modified my new burn deck for this competition. My old version included two Chandra Ablazes, who are 1000000% epic when combo'ed with Cinder Pyromancer. Ye see... when actions go on the stack, the prices of those actions are not actually payed until the action resolves on the stack... and tapping is fast enough to be done in responce to an instant... Not sure where I'm going? It works like this:

Chandra Ablaze's Ultimate begins... Cast Spell 1
In responce, use Cinder Pyromancer's ability
Chandra Ablaze's Ultimate continues... Cast Spell 2
In responce, use Cinder Pyromancer's ability
Chandra Ablaze's Ultimate continues... Cast Spell 3
In responce, use Cinder Pyromancer's ability
Chandra Ablaze's Ultimate continues... Cast Spell 4
In responce, use Cinder Pyromancer's ability
Chandra Ablaze's Ultimate continues... Cast Spell 5
In responce, use Cinder Pyromancer's ability
Chandra Ablaze's Ultimate continues... Cast Spell 6
In responce, use Cinder Pyromancer's ability
....
ect.

The card says "Cast any number of...". Thus each casting is a seperate action that can be responded to, and the Pyromancer doesn't tap until his ability actually resolves, so you can queue any ability as many times as you want, you just need to be able to pay the cost each time it resolves... and each time he tries to tap, he is indeed untapped.

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Posted 28 November 2010 at 20:21

[QUOTE=raggedjoe]Not so fast! The gods have heart your pride and have decided to smite you for it... BEHOLD! THE WRATH OF THE GODS!
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=119878

Dang you Matti from Captain Planet. I've been defeated by the most useless power of all Planeter powers. Don't count yourself lucky just yet. I'll get my revenge!

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Posted 28 November 2010 at 20:47

[QUOTE=Lelouch32][QUOTE=raggedjoe;16664]Not so fast! The gods have heart your pride and have decided to smite you for it... BEHOLD! THE WRATH OF THE GODS!
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=119878

Dang you Matti from Captain Planet. I've been defeated by the most useless power of all Planeter powers. Don't count yourself lucky just yet. I'll get my revenge![/QUOTE]

Bwahahahahaha! Here's my second entry
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=120074

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Posted 28 November 2010 at 22:19

I wanted to try this, sooooo here is my first attempt : )
Magic number green

Basically its based around getting a crapton of mana, using overwhelming stampede with Omnath out to give all your little elves a huge boost. Then using all your mana to drop a HUGE Warcaller to further boost all your not-so-little-anymore elves.

Let me know what you think, again I am newly reborn into magic so the newer sets are all foreign to me
: )

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Posted 30 November 2010 at 00:24

Alright, very nice submission man. Green really does do the best with this formula, even though all colors do well with it.

I think it's because of green's ability to play a lot of 3-drops on turn 2.

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Posted 30 November 2010 at 01:53

Any tips or things you noticed that I should change?

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Posted 30 November 2010 at 02:16

[QUOTE=fenrisulfen]Any tips or things you noticed that I should change?[/QUOTE]

Most people seem to like Ezuri's Archers a lot more than I do, so I'll keep shut about that =P

Other than that...Might of Masses is, in my opinion, not as good as Primal Bellow. Primal Bellow, in my opinion, is one of the damn best cards printed for green in years and it's one of my "go-to" cards for aggro green decks. :D

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Posted 30 November 2010 at 02:29

Next submission to this deck challenge!
(I'm having fun with this challenge XD )

MTGVault link : W/U magic number

Tappedout.net link : W/U magic number

White blue landfall mill, my friend runs a deck similar to this but without the magic number constraints so he has J2NW and Cancels

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Posted 30 November 2010 at 17:49

Nice. I'm glad you're enjoying it.

What is J2NW? :confused:

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Posted 30 November 2010 at 17:56

Journey to nowhere, i guess J2N would work better lol

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Posted 30 November 2010 at 18:03