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Arc-Bound-ery Results.
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your entries to this email address: streetz@magicdeckvortex.com |
 2/1/04.
Your challenge: Make a deck using at least 12 cards of Arcbound
creatures. Your deck must include a title, a description, your name,
and two legendary cards. See the guidelines below and a list of
Arcbound creatures from Darksteel. Your deck cannot be colorless
(i.e., you must include colored spells) and cannot include any power nine
or banned/restricted cards in any format. Please, no infinity decks.
Below is a sample deck for the
contest.
Sample Arc-bound-ery. Deck
by John Streetz @ www.magicdeckvortex.com
Colors: White
Deck Type: TRIBAL: Arcbound - Thran Forge
4 Suntail Hawk
4 Arcbound Overseer - Requirement (4/12)
4 Arcbound Stinger - Requirement (8/12)
4 Arcbound Ravager - Requirement
(12/12)
1 Commander Eesha - satisfies Legend requirement
4 Mother of Runes
4 Thran Forge
4 Test of Faith
4 Disenchant
4 Thran Dynamo
21 Plains
1 Kor Haven - Fills requirement for
Legendary Land.
DECK DESCRIPTION: This deck is all about the Arcbound
creatures. When one of them goes to the graveyard activate the
Thran Forge on your Suntail Hawk and move all of those +1/+1 counters to
the Hawk. You can do the same for Eesha or the Mother of
Runes. There are better choices for the creatures but when in
doubt.. just use the Disenchant - Thran Forge combo. Thran Dynamo
is in their for speed to cast the Overseer. If anything, this is a
fun deck which could use some tweaking for fit your personal playing
group.
Even though the above deck is said to
be a Tribal deck, this doesn't mean it has to be a tribal deck. Try
a combo or a beatdown deck. Heck, go rogue!
Good luck! Know you can submit
as many decks as you like.
Contest
Guidelines for future contests.
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The deck cannot be more
than 60 cards and not less than 60 cards.
Your
deck must use other cards to support the concept. -
You
must have a title and short description.
If you don't, you submission will get a -1 penalty.
You
can use cards from any set. You
must have at least 12 cards which say Arcbound in the deck. (for
example, 2 Stingers, 2 Ravagers, 3 Workers, 1 Overseer and 4 Fiend). Please,
do not submit any infinity attempt decks. You
deck can be any style. I suggest combo or beatdown. If a card is banned
or restricted in any format, you must restrict that card to a quantity of only
one. No
power nine cards (original Moxes, Black Lotus, Time Walk, Ancestral
Recall, and Time Twister)
There
is a -5 penalty for using any of these cards. The deck can be any
number of colors but not no color. In other words you cannot
make a deck of all artifacts.
If
you go the no-color route (using no color spells and only artifacts,
then you get +1.5 bonus points.) Your deck must have
at least two legendary cards. One must be a creature Legend and
the other a Legendary Land.
If
not, your deck will lose 1 point. Feel free to use
the combo pages to give you ideas for your deck. Try not to copy any
deck already on Magic Deck Vortex Decks are rated
based on the information below. Have fun and be
creative
If
you win the contest you get to pick one of the next contest themes and
you get to choose the next TOP
30 CARD listing or the next FEATURED CARD. Or, MDV will feature
an article about casual Magic: the Gathering by YOU!
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| How does
your deck get scored? |
You can get a total of
35 points in the following 5 different categories:
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BALANCE
If you have a mono color deck, you don't have to worry about this
score. If you don't, then worry. Do you have an equally balanced
card selection. Is it 50% - 50% in terms of say blue - white? If
not, try to balance it out so that you have equal chances to cast any of the
spells in your hand with the lands you have. There can be hard to
accomplish with 3 or four color combo decks; just try to keep it
simple. If you balance is all off, let me know why in your
detail. You get the idea. You can
score a total of 5 points here.
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COHESIVENESS
Do all
of your combos and cards work together? Do certain cards contradict
the benefits of another? Well, if your cards don't work together well
you are likely to score poor in this category. Cohesivify your deck
and be sure all cards work efficiently together with your ultimate goal:
winning. For instance, if you have Myr Mindservant and Psychogenic
Probe, this is not a good combo. In fact, it hurts your goal and thus
you would not score well for having these two cards in your
deck. You can score a total of 5 points
here.
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FOCUS
A
perfectly focused deck has 20 lands and 40 spells and 10 different spells to
choose from. That is as focused as you get. The closer you are
to this the higher you rate in this category. If your card variety
exceed 20 different cards, then, well.. you will probably score low.
Lands don't really count towards this one unless they play an intricate role
in the deck (a.k.a. Rishadan Port or Gaea's Cradle). The sample
deck above would score a 4.8 in this category. You
can score a total of 5 points here.
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CREATIVITY
Are you
making a copy of some already well established combo deck? If so, then you
are not being creative. Creative isn't copying your deck out of SIDEBOARD
magazine and tweaking one land to a Grand Coliseum... its being original and
making a new combo, even if it isn't the best. Show me you are
thinking about your cards interactions. If you do, you are likely to
score high. Also, show me you put some thought into the deck in your
description. Last month's contest detailed his thought process
in making the deck and it won him the contest. You
can score a total of 10 points here.
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OVERALL PLAYABILITY
With
all of the above in mind, after the deck is finished.. will it play
well? Or will it bomb even against a low-budget real deck. You
don't have to have the cards to make a deck for this contest. Know
that and go all out. Black Lotus and Mox... go for it (if it
fits). Don't go crazy though. I don't score more just because
you have the power nine cards. Those, honestly, mean nothing to
me. Make sure you deck has win conditions and win potential and you
will score well in the overall playability category. You
can score a total of 10 points here.
I would encourage you to try this out.. and how bad could
it hurt. It won't. You can submit any number of decks to the
contest, so try a few different angles. Email you contest entries to streetz@magicdeckvortex.com.
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