 12/2/03.
Contest entries will be reviewed soon and posted hopefully before
12/15/03. Thanks for visiting Magic Deck Vortex!
...In
an effort to beef up MDV's theme deck selection, this contest will be a
very open one. Your goal to win the contest is to make the
best tribal (creature based) theme deck that isn't already on the list of
theme decks on MDV. You can click the icon below to see the list of
theme decks on MDV.
You can use any creature
type that is legal and to give you an idea of some creature types that I
don't have a theme deck for, here's the list:
Abomination Aboroth
Advisor Aladdin Albatross Alchemist Ali-Baba Ali-from-Cairo Alligator
Ambush-Party Ancestor Ant Antelope Archaeologist Asp Assassin
Assembly-Worker Aurochs Avatar Avenger Avizoa Badger Ball-Lightning
Bandit Banshee Barishi Basilisk Bat Bear Bee Beeble Behemoth Being
Berserker Boar Bodyguard Brother Brownie Brushwagg Bull Bureaucrat
Butterfly Camarid Camel Caravan Caribou Carnivore Carriage Carrier
Cavalry Cave-People Centaur Cephalid Cheetah Citizen Clamfolk Clone
Cobra Cockatrice Constable Cow Crab Crocodile Crusader Dandan Demon
Dervish Deserter Devil Devouring-Deep Dinosaur Djinn Dog Doppelganger
Dragonfly Drake Drill-Sergeant Eater Eel Effigy Efreet Egg Elder
Elephant El-Hajjaj Enchantress Entity Erne Essence Exorcist Fallen
Farmer Ferret Fiend Fish Flagbearer Flying-Men Force Fox Frog Frostbeast
Fungusaur Gaea's-Avenger Gaea's-Liege Gargoyle Gatekeeper General Ghost
Ghoul Giant Goat Gorgon Graveborn Gremlin Guardian Gus Gypsy Hag
Harlequin Hell's-Caretaker Heretic Hero Hipparion Hornet Horror Horse
Horseman Human Hunter Hyena Illusion Incarnation Infernal-Denizen
Inquisitor Island-Fish Jackal Jellyfish Keeper Kelp King Kithkin Kraken
Lady-of-Proper-Etiquette Leech Legionnaire Lemure Leper Leviathan
Lhurgoyf Lichenthrope Lizard Lord Lurker Lycanthrope Mage Maggot Maiden
Mammoth Manticore Mantis Marid Martyr Master Medusa Meerkat Mercenary
Merchant Mindsucker Minion Minor Miracle-Worker Mist Mistfolk Mob
Mold-Demon Monger Mongoose Monkey Monster Mosquito Mummy Murk-Dwellers
Mystic Nameless-Race Narwhal Necrosavant Nekrataal Niall-Silvain
Nightstalker Noble Nomad Octopus Ogre Orb Orc Orgg Ouphe Ox Oyster
Paladin Peacekeeper Pentavite People-of-the-Woods Phantasm Phelddagrif
Phoenix Pig Pikemen Pixie-Queen Plant Poison-Snake Poltergeist Pony
Preacher Priest Prism Pyknite Rabbit Raider Ranger Reflection Rhino
Robber Roc Rock-Sled Rooster Rukh Sage Salamander Sand Satyr Scavenger
Scorpion Scout Serf Shade Shapeshifter Shark Sheep Ship Shyft Sindbad
Singing-Tree Sister Slug Smith Sorceress Spawn Speaker Sphinx Sponge
Sprite Spuzzem Spy Squire Stangg-Twin Starfish Stone Strider Survivor
Swarm Tactician Tarpan Taskmaster Tetravite The-Biggest-Baddest-Nastiest-Scariest-Creature-You'll-Ever-See
Thopter Thundermare Tiger Titan Toad Tombspawn Tortoise Tracker Treefolk
Troll Turtle Uncle-Istvan Undead Unicorn Vedalken Villain Viper Vulture
Walking-Dead War-Rider Warrior Warthog Wasp Wave Whale Whippoorwill
Wight Wiitigo Wildebeest Will-o'-the-Wisp Witch Wolverine Wolverine-Pack
Wolves-of-the-Hunt Wombat Wood Worm Wraith Wretched Yeti
Here's a more concise
list of doable creature types that give you a few more selections to
choose from than all of the above:
Archer, assassin, avatar, bear, boar, carrier, centaur, cobra, crab,
Cyclops, demon, Djinn, drake, Efreet, elephants, fish, ghosts, human, lizard, monger,
monsters,
night-stalker, nomad, ogre, Orc, paladin, phantasm, salamander, shades,
Shapeshifters, ships, Spellshapers, toads, Treefolk, trolls, unicorn, and vedalken
Not all creature
types have enough creatures to make a theme deck, but there are cards
which can help you out to fill the gaps. Mistform Ultimus, for
instance, is every creature type. There are artifacts that generate
a creature type of your choice and then there are cards which can be lords
of your type (brass herald) as well cards which can boost your particular
tribe (like Shared Triumph or Tribal Unity). Anyway, to the right is
a list of cards to help you out in your journey to discovery.
Here is a sample deck
list for the contest that would satisfy it's requirements (listed below):
Sample M.H.T. Deck
by John Streetz @ www.magicdeckvortex.com
Colors: Blue-Green-Red
Deck Type: THEME: Monsters (with help from Soul Foundry and
Ultimus)
4 Flailing Manticore
4 Moss Monster
4 Tidal Kraken
4 Elf Piper
3 Brass Herald
4 Mistform Wakecaster
4 Mana Leak
2 Soul Foundry
2 Spore Frog
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Mistform Ultimus
10 Forest
10 Island
3 Mountain
1 Gaea's Cradle
DECK DESCRIPTION: Use the Soul Foundry to clone your Birds,
Frogs and/or Monsters and go to town once you get the mana out.
Mistform Ultimus fills in the 4th creature gap. Note that there are 6
different cards that help the Monster theme out. Gaea's Cradle
boosts your mana and satisfies the two legend rule along with the
Ultimus. Not the best deck, but it's an attempt at monster.
If you see any cards that
are missing from the list to the right, please email the webmaster. Good
luck! Email you
submission(s) to streetz@magicdeckvortex.com.
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Contest
Guidelines.
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The deck cannot be more
than 60 cards and not less than 60 cards.
Your
deck must use 16 cards which specifically make your deck a theme deck. Your
deck must use other cards to support the theme. -
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. If a card is 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. 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. This includes legendary
lands, artifacts and/or creatures. 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. The
rating system has recently changed so you might want to review it again. 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.
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