KrazyCaley's Deckbuilders' Challenge- Best of the Worst (And Results from Two-Headed Antagonist!)

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KrazyCaley

28 September 2010

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Look, everyone, I am indeed alive despite having my own newly-founded law practiceOHGODITBURNS.

First, results from that last one I did that I vaguely remember writing the challenge for:

Lots of honorable mentions to pass out here:

Honorable Mention - Zazi - Burn Baby Burn and Great wall of Magic

This entry couldn't quite crack the top 10 because it often couldn't finish off its opponents, but I liked it. There's just something so appealing about hiding behind tons and tons of defenders and flinging FIRE out at your enemies while doing so.

Honorable Mention - zerotimestatechamp - Support the Army

Support is nothing but counterspells, basically. Army is nothing but Relentless Rats, basically. By god, I like the way you think, 0-time.

And now, the top 10.

10 - Orbrack - Ancient and Tiding

Score- 19

One of the curious things about this challenge that really surprised me was that the limitation I placed on "no sharing spell types" didn't really hurt most of the decks. In fact, it made them BETTER for many builders. Witness Orbrack, who originally turned in two decks that shared spell types. When zerotimestatechamp pointed out the error, Orbrack fixed it, and made his deck pretty scary. Ancient has a bunch of modular creatures. Tiding supports Ancient in a number of ways, including cloning its modular creatures, counterspelling, and throwing umbras down. It was a simple and effective fomula- those damned modular creatures are pesky. Orbrack is on the board with his first top 10 appearance.

9 - quiller - Two Headed Screw You and Two Headed Screw You 2

Score- 19.5

A familiar formula during this challenge was Control, control, control for one deck, plus some win condition on the other deck. quiller not only has the most evil of this kind of control deck (it can win by itself thanks to Isochron Scepter ), he also put together a very solid beatdown deck for the purpose of winning. quiller has a second top 10 appearance; we last saw the Q in the Sadism challenge.

8 - squire1 - kill em all and let me sort em out

Score- 21

Oh look, Squire has yet another top-10 deck. The Deckbuilder Lord (he gives all other deckbuilders +1/+1 and Intertubeswalk) comes at us with one deck that wraths, and another that is VERY interested in what's in the ol' graveyard. One of the more drastically effective decks entered in the competition; it was very difficult for anyone to beat. This is Squire's 14th top-10 appearance, and the fourth consecutive challenge in which he's appeared in the top 10.

7 - NoWai - Im just here to Storm

Score- 21.5

The "Storm" deck is as you might expect it to be- full of storm spells. The hilarious way of making those spells do severe damage is by having more or less every zero or X cost spell allowable. You'll basically always get a storm with 7 extra copies as soon as you can cast it (or more, given the presence of Reliquary Tower and Spellbook ), and that will usually go most of the way, if not all the way, towards killing your unfortunate opponents. A great second top-10 by NoWai, who we also last saw in the Sadism challenge trying to kill people with Razor Boomerang, which is not difficult to do because it is the best card Wizards has ever printed.

6 - lotusreport - Empty Mind and Empty Body

Score- 22

Empty Body has 4 lands, and that's it. Oh, and also Barren Glory. And then a bunch of artifacts and such that you can immediately sacrifice or cast for X = 0, thus killing them. But how to get that Barren Glory onto the battlefield? Why, with Empty Mind, which will probably Show and Tell it for you if you ask nicely. And it might even back you up with a suite of protective spells while you're at it! A pretty creative and effective combo deck from Lotus, who nets a second top-10, the first coming from the Menagerie challenge.

5 - $ªmHεiπ - VigilantStasis

Score- 24.5

You know what, I'm not going to even say anything about these decks. That's what's awesome about them. You just see the names and you know you're in trouble. This is Samhein's 6th top-10 appearance, another winner from this crafty veteran.

4 - SocialistElite - Some Quick facts

Score- 25

Some Quick is one badass deck. Leyline of EVERYTHING. And then you drop Sterling Grove. And Opalescence. Good luck with that. It doesn't even really need 'Facts to screen it with its mad, mad, mad collection of artifacts, but it certainly helps. This team produced severe glee in those playing it just because they got to start by dropping so many leylines. Good times indeed. Socialist has his 3rd top-10.

3 - landot - twins and sniwt

Score- 26

twins makes you draw cards. It makes you hurt when you draw cards. Then, you have more cards, but less life. Then sniwt makes you discard cards. It makes you hurt when you discard cards. Then, you have no cards, and even less life. Then, twins makes you draw cards. landot has created a truly poetic way to kill opponents, a vicious circle ringed in rusty barbed wire. A classy way to get on the board with your first top-10, there, landot.

2 - zerotimestatechamp - DoubleR and DoubleD

Score- 28

Boil and trouble. DoubleR has every card that copies a spell (except Wild Ricochet, I think), plus some counterspells, some defensive pieces, and the occasional Jace, the Mind Sculptor just for kick. DoubleD has x spells. Profane Command for 6? Have another one on the house. Gelatinous Genesis for 7? How about I copy that once, or twice, or maybe actually three or four times? Good game, and an awesomely creative idea as well. zerotimestatechamp has his second top 10.

1 - Zylo - Cops and Robbers

Mortal. Combat.

Mortal Combat.

MORRRTAAALLL KOMBAAAAAAAT!

Cops mills the hell out of Robbers. Robbers gets 20 creature cards in the graveyard almost immediately. On turn 4, Robbers drops Mortal Combat and wins. You could try to counter it, but Cops also comes standard with an arsenal of counterspells of its own. So good luck with that. Nothing beat this deck during playtesting. NOTHING. It was merciless and awesome and incredibly creative, everything that a #1 deck should be. Zylo snags a very well-earned Master Deckbuilder title in his very first top-10 appearance. Well done to you, sir.

Leaderboard

Minimum 3 top-10 appearances.

1st Place & Deckbuilder Lord (Gives other deckbuilders +1/+1 and Intertubeswalk): squire1 - 14 top-10 finishes, 2 Master Deckbuilder titles, average finish of 6.29

2nd Place - TAMA - 9 top-10 finishes, 1 Master Deckbuilder title, average finish of 3.89

3rd Place - blueclay - 7 top-10 finishes, 1 Master Deckbuilder title, average finish of 5.43

4th Place - Zanven - 6 top-10 finishes, 1 Master Deckbuilder title, average finish of 6.00

5th Place - $ªmHεiπ - 6 top-10 finishes, 0 Master Deckbuilder titles, average finish of 5.60

6th Place - Illiad - 5 top-10 finishes, 0 Master Deckbuilder titles, average finish of 5.60

7th Place - Dr. McMeen - 5 top-10 finishes, 0 Master Deckbuilder titles, average inish of 6.00

8th Place - I_Call_BS - 4 top-10 finishes, 0 Master Deckbuilder titles, average finish of 6.75

9th Place - luckyfirefox16 - 3 top-10 finishes, 1 Master Deckbuilder title, average finish of 2.67

10th Place - SocialistElite - 3 top-10 finishes, 1 Master Deckbuilder title, average finish of 4.33

11th Place - Siegfried - 3 top-10 finishes, 0 Master Deckbuilder titles, average finish of 4.67

12th Place - Darkness1835 - 3 top-10 finishes, 0 Master Deckbuilder titles, average finish of 7.67

Next challenge.

Welcome. The rules are these.

1- Your deck must be legacy legal. Go here if you don't know what that means:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=judge/resources/sfrlegacy

2- Your deck must be based around one or more very, very, very bad and/or silly cards. I mean really bad. I mean Razor Boomerang for STARTERS. And it has to be LEGITIMATELY based on that card or those cards. No just throwing in a Razor Boomerang into some random other deck. And remember that the more your deck is based on the bad card, and the more it crazily turns it somehow into a GOOD card, the more I'll like your deck.

3- You will be judged on the usual three criteria of creativity (original idea?), effectiveness (does it win?), and theme adhesion (did you stick to the main theme or idea of the challenge well?).

4- Deadline is the end of Wednesday, October 13, though if you get it in right after that, no big deal, though you risk me actually being proactive for once and grading the decks at the stroke of midnight, which I HAVE done once or twice before.

5 - Limit three entries per user.

Good luck, and remember, Zephyr Spirit ftw.