Ye Olde Deckbuilding Challenge #16- Modern Splash
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Posted on Jan. 4, 2014, 10:02 a.m. by doinitwrong
This challenge is for two types of people: the Old Fogey that soothly misses the good olde days of Magic, before the mischievous age of Miracles, Infect, and Annihilator, and the Young whippersnapper that wants to know what the game was like when artifacts were brown.
Want to request a challenge? Visit the YODBC Request Page.
This is the deck with which Femme_Fatale won the previous challenge, Ye Olde Deckbuilding Challenge #15… Standard?:
Dr.Millington, How May I Help You? Playtest
Legacy
SCORE: 0 | 0 COMMENTS | 98 VIEWSThis challenge was requested by Dritz.
What to do:
- Build 1 60-card deck (Thou shalt not count to 61, nor to 59).
- 48 of the cards must be Legacy legal cards first printed prior to 8th edition (printed with the old card frame).
- 10 must be Modern legal.
- The final 2 may be from either of those groups.
- No normal Sideboard will be used. However, if you run a card which would access the sideboard (Like the Judgment Wishes), then you may have a wishboard of up to 5 cards.
Post your deck here by Sunday, January 19th, at which time I shall take all submissions and have a tournament to determine the superlative one. The tournament will be a few rounds of swiss, with the top 4 (or 8 if enough submissions are made) doing single-elimination afterwards.
Good luck to all and may the best antiquarian win!
If anyone wants me to ping them when I post a new challenge so you don't miss out, let me know.
Help Wanted
If anyone would be willing to help out by playing a match or two each round and emailing me the writeup, let me know.
Next challenge should be "aggro decks only": no counterspells and no cards with a CMC cost higher then 3.
March 5, 2014 10:44 a.m.
doinitwrong says... #3
Apoptosis I've got something like that in the works, but not until probably #19. The next challenge, however, is going to be utter hell.
March 5, 2014 12:56 p.m.
cabal seems that you name the card and target the player at the same time im not 100% sure on this but i have had this ruling go for me at tourneys before as name a card comes before the targeting
March 5, 2014 1:44 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #5
Utter hell to play, utter hell fun, utter hell bad, or utter hell to build?
March 5, 2014 4:48 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #6
Utter hell to play, but utter hell (fun) to build and watch unfold.
March 5, 2014 4:52 p.m.
Absinthman says... #8
@Azure124: Then the ruling at the tourney was wrong. See Cabal Therapy
on its Gatherer page: LINK
You name the card during resolution, then your opponent reveals their hand and discards if appropriate. There is no way for your opponent to do anything between you naming the card and them discarding.
March 5, 2014 5:35 p.m.
Don't tease us, Mr. Pants Who may be Bunny Fluffy.
;-)
March 27, 2014 4:26 p.m.
fluffybunnypants says... #14
Who's teasing? I'm mad proud of the monstrosity that I created for this challenge and I'd like to see how it ends.
My bunny pants are wicked fluffy.
March 27, 2014 5:14 p.m.
I would like to see how it ends too good sir. In the meantime can I interest you in taking a gander at a deck I'm working on? Hark the Herald , I'm building around a white core, and looking to fine tune it. Right now the deck is W/B/r, but I'm not sure whether it's the correct direction. As long as that white core is intact, I'm open to suggestions. Trying to satisfy my inner Johnny while maintaining that inner Spike and all that...
...perhaps someone else might "Do it right" in the meantime while we wait... looks in the direction of doinitwrong innocently
;-)
March 27, 2014 5:24 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #16
Didn't the last challenge die like 3 times as well?
March 27, 2014 5:45 p.m.
smash10101 says... #19
Was I supposed to be running a match right now? Sorry, I've been away from T/O for a while.
April 13, 2014 5:11 p.m.
anyone remember when this challenge started... 5 months ago?
May 16, 2014 3:35 p.m.
Absinthman says... #22
I'm so sorry, guys. It seems it was me who pointed out the last misplay. I did it. I'm the thread murderer. At least I hope you fix me a decent steak for my last meal.
May 16, 2014 8:14 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #23
Sorry guys. I suck. A lot. I guess I just fell off the radar without even finishing the match I was working on. I think I was expecting smash10101 to do a match, and was waiting for him it post it before I posted mine. After waiting for a while, I stopped checking the site as often, eventually stopping altogether. I'm really sorry. I'll try and finish this challenge as quickly as I can.
May 28, 2014 4:18 p.m.
smash10101 says... #28
It's back! (Sorry if it's my fault. If you want me to do a match or two, I have a ton of time next week.)
May 29, 2014 12:42 a.m.
doinitwrong says... #29
For the matches that had a game with mistakes, I decided to just redo the whole match:
Apoptosis's Flare, imprison, and burn YODBC#16 vs. GoldGhost012's YODC #16: Attack First, Ask Questions Never
G1: A T2 Peacekeeper thoroughly disgruntles Attack. Attack is stuck at 2 lands for a while, meaning his board is full of cheap goblins and his hand is full of expensive ones. Right after Attack finds Skirk Fire Marshal with Goblin Matron , Flare goes off. He Earthquake s for 3, clearing the board and preventing Fire Marshal from activating should he be played. Flare then throws down a Mana Flare and tutors for Candelabra of Tawnos . Next turn, he plays another Flare, the Candelabra, and Banefire s for 25.
G2: Attack laughs off Winter Orb with Goblin Lackey . The Orb hurts Flare more as he can't get enough mana to take out Krenko, Mob Boss , who continues the onslaught with the help of Goblin Lookout , soon getting the win.
G3: Peacekeeper holds the goblins at bay until Moat arrives. Skirk Fire Marshal blows the field, trading 4 pacified goblins for a Sylvan Caryatid . Flare throws down a Candelabra and Mana Flare , with a second Flare in hand, but is 1 mana shy of getting the win. Attack topdecks a second Goblin Grenade , plays a goblin, and double Grenades for the victory.
YODC #16: Attack First, Ask Questions Never wins 2-1
fluffybunnypants's turbo-bloom vs. Azure124's U/W delver yodbc 16
G1: Bloom gets the mana for Dream Halls relatively quickly. Delver gets stuck with 1 land, preventing him from winning the counter war with Counterspell . Bloom promptly Banefire s for lethal.
G2: Wasteland wreaks havoc on Bloom's mana base, but Bloom topdecks enough Islands to play Show and Tell . Again, Delver loses the counter war and the match.
turbo-bloom wins 2-0
May 29, 2014 3:46 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #30
If any of you claim there's a mistake in there, I will hunt you down and make Hatred 's flavor text look like child's play.
May 29, 2014 3:48 p.m.
Absinthman says... #31
You've got my vote in Threat of the Year Awards, doinitwrong.
May 29, 2014 4:08 p.m.
But if you tapped the caryatid in response to the... just kidding. Well done doinitwrong and congrats GoldGhost012!
May 29, 2014 5:20 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #33
That's a... extremely graphic image doinitwrong...
Barely managed to squeak out a win, congrats to Apoptosis for the close games!
May 29, 2014 5:29 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #34
Apoptosis The Fire Marshal went off during GoldGhost's turn; it wouldn't have helped you.
May 29, 2014 5:33 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #35
GoldGhost012 It was really close. I was about to go Goblin Chieftain -> Krenko, Mob Boss -> make tokens-> Blow Fire Marshal again to force a draw, but then I realized I could just win with the Grenades.
May 29, 2014 5:36 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #36
Top 4 Results:
heuertag's YODC#16 - HeuerTag vs. fluffybunnypants's turbo-bloom
G1: T2 Iona, Shield of Emeria naming blue makes Bloom cry.
G2: Bloom fails to topdeck the third mana needed to combo off on turn 2. Heuer gets another T2 Iona.
YODC#16 - HeuerTag wins 2-0. Of the 11 games this deck has played, Iona has singlehandedly won 8 of them.
truble's UBG_CHALLENGE vs. GoldGhost012's YODC #16: Attack First, Ask Questions Never
G1: Goblin Lackey quickly gets out Krenko, Mob Boss . UBG can't find a way to overcome Attack's ever-growing board presence and succumbs.
G2: UBG is able to deal with every early threat Attack throws at him. When Blood Moon gets cast for a third time and finally resolves, however, the responses end, allowing Krenko, Mob Boss and Goblin Piledriver take UBG down.
May 30, 2014 11:10 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #37
Wait... Did I make it to the finals? Awesome! Honestly didn't expect that... Good match truble!
A T2 Iona's gonna blow me out of the water though. Calling it.
May 30, 2014 11:57 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #40
Final Result
GoldGhost012's YODC #16: Attack First, Ask Questions Never vs. heuertag's YODC#16 - HeuerTag
G1: Attacks early onslaught is swiftly quelled by Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite . Iona, Shield of Emeria also arrives to hasten the beating, though this doesn't count as one of her singlehanded wins.
G2: T2 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite doesnt let Attack do anything. Sphinx of the Steel Wind arrives to accelerate the endgame.
YODC#16 - HeuerTag wins 2-0
May 31, 2014 10:11 a.m.
doinitwrong says... #42
Congratulations heuertag! And thank you to everyone who participated. The next challenge will take some time to set up, so please be patient.
May 31, 2014 10:35 a.m.
smash10101 says... #44
Great job guys, especially you, Iona, Shield of Emeria . MVP of the tourney. Thanks for putting this together doinitwrong, and put me on the ping list if you have one for the next challenge. If I don't make a deck, I'll help out with the matches again (and hopefully more timely).
May 31, 2014 9:30 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #45
smash10101 Added.
GoldGhost012 You didn't call it. You said Iona would wreck you, not Norn.
May 31, 2014 11:30 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #46
Was wondering if I would be called out on that... Well, I called the result. Meh. I kinda feel like trying to argue that they're similar, but I'm tired and that'd make me sound too much like an idiot. At the end of the day, I knew I could not win.
May 31, 2014 11:43 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #48
Apoptosis I'm not sure yet. There was a request I was planning on doing, but I think I'll instead do a simpler one while I get back in the swing of doing these challenges. Maybe that "aggro decks only" you said earlier this thread, or something similar.
June 1, 2014 10:38 a.m.
doinitwrong I can probably help run some of the matches as long as decks using older card sets that I'm not familiar with are not too difficult to pilot.
What was the other idea? I can't remember anything that I said before, but here are two suggestions:
- "When worlds collide." Decks can be built from any block, but can only contain cards from that block (e.g. Innistrad, Theros, etc.)
- Tribal. Deck has to have a tribal theme (goblin, elf, zombie, angel, demon, etc.) I'm not sure what the rules would have to be in regards to the use of Lords, how many non-tribal cards would be allowed, etc.
June 1, 2014 11:29 a.m.
Absinthman says... #50
Here're a few a suggestions of my own:
"Enemies of Old": Only pre-8th cards allowed (no modern or other splash), decks must be of two enemy colors (U/R, B/W, etc.).
"Sophie's Choice": Only pre-8th cards allowed (no modern or other splash). Players must choose wisely when building their decks, because they are only allowed three nonland cards of which there must be 4-of-a-kind in their decks (4 is mandatory). Other nonland cards can only be there once (or maybe up to twice if that seems too strict).
truble says... #1
wow, that is the longest we have ever played one match :P
March 5, 2014 8:02 a.m.