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Ded Challenge: 200th deck

Anyone who checks my Vault profile will see that (at time of typing this) I have 199 decks and to celebrate my 200th deck, I'm posting a challenge.

The challenge is to challenge me to make a deck of any type you suggest, but I can only choose one challenge so make it sound interesting or I won't do it. The person who's challenge I accept will get a special mention on the deck. I'll post a link to the deck here when I do it.

Rules:
1) Have fun
2) Cut off date for challenging me is 08:00 Sat 23 July 2011 +2 GMT (my time zone)

The challenges I like so far:

Poxtraction / PAL [Poxtraction Agrrolock] (surewhynot)
An Earthbind deck (Pauliuk)
An archaeology themed deck (Prizrak)

And the winner is - Prizrak :D
I chose to do the archaeology themed deck because it sounded like fun:
200th Ded - Archaeological Dig

Posted 19 July 2011 at 07:03

15 replies

Make an Extraction! :D

Either Iso-Seek, or Poxtraction (Make a PAL [Poxtraction Agrrolock] design if you're really feeling adventurous)

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Posted 19 July 2011 at 08:29

[QUOTE=surewhynot]Make an Extraction! :D

Either Iso-Seek, or Poxtraction (Make a PAL [Poxtraction Agrrolock] design if you're really feeling adventurous)[/QUOTE]

Lol, I was kind of hoping you'd be first :p

Questions, I know what Iso-Seek is, but what's Poxtraction? Use Pox or Smallpox to get cards in grave to Surgical Extraction or Haunting Echoes them?

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Posted 19 July 2011 at 09:47

What about something were you really go against the colors. Like a blue or black stompy deck, or a white burn deck. A deck that challenges the colors and yourself could be a nice way to celebrate the 200.

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Posted 19 July 2011 at 18:30

[QUOTE=DedWards]Lol, I was kind of hoping you'd be first :p

Questions, I know what Iso-Seek is, but what's Poxtraction? Use Pox or Smallpox to get cards in grave to Surgical Extraction or Haunting Echoes them?[/QUOTE]

Use Pox (and more modern designs also tend to run 1 of both Curse of the Cabal and Living End) and then after those, use Bitter Ordeal. Often the "BitterBomb" that results will completely destroy someone's deck.

About 1-2 years ago a few Extraction players (I was part of this effort) worked to make a Poxtraction design that could be a competitive alternative to the current best Extraction design, Iso-Seek. The result was Poxtraction Aggrolock, or "PAL". It's often :manab::manau::manag: in color and is a strange mix of lockdown control and aggro. I'll link you to both my :manab::manau::manag: design, and my :manaw::manab::manau::manag:

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=208040 <--- :manaw::manab::manau::manag:

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=169004 <--- :manab::manau::manag:

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Posted 19 July 2011 at 23:02

I would like to suggest a Psychosis Crawler deck. Possibly giving it infect and drawing away.

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Posted 20 July 2011 at 01:56

Make a goat tribal!

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Posted 20 July 2011 at 18:46

[QUOTE=rsweeney56]Make a goat tribal![/QUOTE]

Already designed one:

Screeching Bleat
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=154313

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Posted 20 July 2011 at 20:15

[QUOTE=Col_Snugglecakes]I would like to suggest a Psychosis Crawler deck. Possibly giving it infect and drawing away.[/QUOTE]

Already got one based off of Psychosis Crawler, but I'm still not happy with it so I haven"t posted it on the Vault.

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Posted 20 July 2011 at 20:20

Here it is... A deck around the limited use of Earthbind. Sorry I just really love this card and I wish I could see what people can do with a playset in a main deck. I know this will be an unlikely pick for this challagne but no harm in trying :)

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Posted 21 July 2011 at 01:33

[QUOTE=Pauliuk]Here it is... A deck around the limited use of Earthbind. Sorry I just really love this card and I wish I could see what people can do with a playset in a main deck. I know this will be an unlikely pick for this challagne but no harm in trying :)[/QUOTE]

As awesome a card Earthbind is, it's more of a situational card (ie sideboard material) than a mainboard card, but I will look into ways to manipulate it :p

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Posted 21 July 2011 at 06:01

Congrats on your approaching 200th! Here are some ideas as I drift around through Gatherer.

- Win with Ink-Treader Nephilim
- Phyrexia has infected House Dimir
- Ravnica block. After game 1, switch guilds with the sideboard
- Win with Helix Pinnacle without infinite mana. Alternate win condition: stalling the game until your opponent dies of natural causes.
- An archaeology themed deck ('cause I study it!)
- In honour of your 200th deck, a Battle of Wits deck. BONUS: Make it a creatureless deck and include Proteus staffs to bring battle of wits to the top. O__O

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Posted 21 July 2011 at 09:51

[QUOTE=Prizrak]Congrats on your approaching 200th! Here are some ideas as I drift around through Gatherer.

- Win with Ink-Treader Nephilim
- Phyrexia has infected House Dimir
- Ravnica block. After game 1, switch guilds with the sideboard
- Win with Helix Pinnacle without infinite mana. Alternate win condition: stalling the game until your opponent dies of natural causes.
- An archaeology themed deck ('cause I study it!)
- In honour of your 200th deck, a Battle of Wits deck. BONUS: Make it a creatureless deck and include Proteus staffs to bring battle of wits to the top. O__O[/QUOTE]

What would you consider to 'feel' like an Archaeological deck? I'm thinking that cards from Zendikar would have the closest affect.

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Posted 21 July 2011 at 18:08

[QUOTE=DedWards]As awesome a card Earthbind is, it's more of a situational card (ie sideboard material) than a mainboard card, but I will look into ways to manipulate it :p[/QUOTE]

I know but I think I made a good deck to force that situation.

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=142479

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Posted 21 July 2011 at 20:39

Try building a tribal deck based around some obscure creature type.

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Posted 21 July 2011 at 22:07

[QUOTE=DedWards]What would you consider to 'feel' like an Archaeological deck? I'm thinking that cards from Zendikar would have the closest affect.[/QUOTE]

Yes, Zendikar has a lot of great cards for that - the expeditions, the legendary lands, ruins filled with traps &c.

Another take on it (or another aspect to the deck) could be artifact recursion - after all, archaeologists are well known for taking artifacts out of graveyards. "Argivian Archaeologist" would of course be perfect. =)

"Soldevi" cards seem to be part of an archaeology story that I'm unfamiliar with - you could use some gems like Soldevi Excavations.

EDIT: ooh, and there's a new M2012 "Buried Ruin" that's also artifact recursion

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Posted 22 July 2011 at 01:08