Jeremy 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Hello brewers,"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nOne of the toughest parts about getting new players into Commander– or any Magic format for that matter– is the cost. Sure, you can point them to a $40 precon, but seeing multi-hundred dollar price tags on custom decks can be super intimidating. With that in mind, we’re brewing budget decks for this month’s Card Kingdom-sponsored deckbuilding contest! Details below.\n\nWhat’s the contest all about?"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Working within the parameters of the prompt provided below, construct a decklist with your own creative spin. Three chosen finalists will be awarded store credit to "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.cardkingdom.com/"},"insert":"cardkingdom.com"},{"insert":". \n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"It’s budget month! For June’s deckbuilding contest, construct a Commander-legal deck that costs $100 (USD) or less using Card Kingdom pricing (basic lands not included). Playability and uniqueness will earn additional consideration!"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nNote: Prices can fluctuate over the course of a week, so we’ll afford decks a little bit of wiggle room on the $100 limit when selecting finalists. Just make sure it’s at that mark or lower when you submit!\n\nHere’s how to participate:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Brew an EDH/Commander legal deck on Archidekt that satisfies the prompt."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Any unreleased cards spoiled during the contest’s duration are allowed."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Silver-bordered and acorn cards, while cool, are not allowed. "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Digital-only cards (such as those designed for the Alchemy format on Arena) are not allowed."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Strictly one deck submitted per user."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Reply to either this newspost or "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://twitter.com/archidekt/status/1672326188318982144?s=20"},"insert":"the announcement tweet"},{"insert":" from the @archidekt account on Twitter with a link to your deck before "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"9:00 pm EDT (UTC -4, currently) on Friday, June 30"},{"insert":". Only one submission per user!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"From the eligible submissions, we'll select three finalists with lists that we believe best embody the spirit of the prompt. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Deck descriptions are not required but certainly may provide valuable context!"},{"insert":"\n\nOn "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Saturday, July 1, 2023"},{"insert":", we'll tweet out a poll for the community to vote on its favorite of the three selected finalists' lists. Any finalists who submitted their lists on Archidekt will be notified via the email associated with their account. We’ll also publish a newspost on Archidekt announcing the finalists and linking to the poll on Twitter. Each finalist will be awarded store credit to cardkindom.com. The value of the credit is in US dollars and depends on the finalist's placement in the community poll at the end of its two day duration:\n1st Place Prize - $50"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"2nd Place Prize - $30"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"3rd Place Prize - $20"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Finalists will be contacted via Twitter or email (depending on where they submitted) regarding their winnings following the conclusion of the poll by "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Tuesday, July 4, 2023"},{"insert":". Please note, you must have a Card Kingdom account in order to receive your winnings. It's quick and free-- "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.cardkingdom.com/register"},"insert":"register here"},{"insert":" if you don't have an account already!\n\nAn important note:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Unfortunately, due to wild variance in contest laws, eligibility is limited to residents of the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec). We’d love to allow all of our users to participate, but ensuring we are legally compliant with each country’s national laws is too great a barrier. For additional information regarding eligibility, check our official contest rules. \n\nSomething newish:"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"As you might have noticed, we added a new “"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/community"},"insert":"Community Stuff"},{"insert":"” tab to the homepage. In addition to a variety of curated decks and stats, we display contest winners on this page until new ones are selected. If you haven’t already, check out May’s winners before they’re replaced in a week!\n\nThank you!"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If you have any other questions, feel free to ask here, reach out on "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://twitter.com/archidekt"},"insert":"Twitter"},{"insert":", or join "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://discord.gg/eZg3mvJd7v"},"insert":"our public Discord server"},{"insert":". We look forward to seeing what you all come up with! \n\nThe Archidekt Team"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nEdit: We have our finalists! Assuming Twitter will open for you (it's been uhh... pretty rough lately), please consider stopping by "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://twitter.com/archidekt/status/1675269614056402944?s=20"},"insert":"our poll"},{"insert":" to vote. Congratulations to KnightOfTheNorth, Pheresis and wade42! "},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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GlitchHunter 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"So many choices... Seriously, all but four of my (non precon) EDH decks fit the prompt.\n\nbut, I will go with my roughly 90$ ($88.27/$83.02 excluding basic lands, at the time of submission) Glass cannon deck, "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4741815"},"insert":"Throwing Shade"},{"insert":". My $35 mono-black hyperbudget deck ($1.01 on TCG Player) was a close runner up for my submission.\n"}]}
Edited 6/23/2023, 9:41:35 PM
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xTGE 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"How does Throwing Shade play? I've always been interested by the Shadow ability. Do you find that you have enough power to end games quick?\n"}]}
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evanloeb 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"I love this $90 Raffine Shadow build. \n\nI absolutely LOVED playing with the Shadow creatures from Tempest block on the school yard, but they've never quite had a home in EDH... until Raffine!\n\nWith Raffine in play our gameplan is to swing out each turn, turning our pesky little unblockable weenies into huge problems with the +1/+1 Connive counters. The card selection from conniving is supported by a deep esper card draw package, so we're constantly churning through the library to make sure every turn we're getting both wider AND taller.\n\nThe risk of Shadow is that you leave yourself wide open to attacks, so the deck also runs ~10 propaganda effects to keep the hordes at your doorstep.\n\nThis is a great deck for players who love combat damage but hate combat math!\n"}]}
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evanloeb 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Oops maybe I should have included the link:\n\nhttps://archidekt.com/decks/2750092/raffine_shadow\n"}]}
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DrMathis 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Brudiclad was made with this in mind. cheap, fun, easy to learn deck, who doesn't like making an army of tokens out of things that aren't normally tokens. https://archidekt.com/decks/4327494/brudiclad_telchor_engineer\n"}]}
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Daurock 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"I suppose i can throw this one into the mix. It's An aristocrats, strategy mixed in with landfall, and uses the new Zimone and Dina Commander from March of the Machine. It comes in at just under a hundred, and has more ways to win than you can shake a stick at. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"ZeeDee's Random Value Engine"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4774046/100_zeedees_random_value_engine"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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Boneman(Common Patron)
10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Here is my entry into this months contest. \n (https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4101559/poprocks) \nI wanted to make a deck with the idea around unassuming junk becoming the actual threat.\n"}]}
Edited 6/23/2023, 9:22:00 PM
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FunkyDragon 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"When "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tatyova, Benthic Druid"}},{"insert":" was first spoiled, I couldn't believe how good it was. I built a budget deck ("},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/547741/tatyova_budget_druid"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/547741/tatyova_budget_druid"},{"insert":") around it, and it was every bit as good as I'd hoped. Later, I built a no-budget version with all the cards, but while being more powerful, it was far less fun, so I went back to the budget build. This is my go-to deck for loaning to new players, and some have even loved it enough to build their own versions. You're never short on land or cards in hand, and it's just a lot of fun to pilot.\n"}]}
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Vader94 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"werewolves! https://archidekt.com/decks/4774188/tovolar_dire_overlord \n"}]}
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Nik245go 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Yea i just love this commander..... but definitely make a budget build thats nasty\n\nhttps://www.archidekt.com/decks/4774149/budget_blanka\n"}]}
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StannumMantis 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a new deck I built around "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Watcher in the Water"}},{"insert":" that draws cards on everyone else's turns. The eventual wincon is to amass an army of "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"orcs"},{"insert":" tentacles and exile them all with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Day of the Dragons"}},{"insert":" at flash speed and swing in with an army of dragons. There are also alternate routes using "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Triskaidekaphile"}},{"insert":" to win on upkeep.\n\nAll told the deck ends up being just under $50 without basics and plays pretty well (from my experience). I hope you enjoy\n\nLink: "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4738488"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4738488"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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KyleHaleYeahscarus_vetula 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Here's one I built intended to be a learning deck (to put together and to play with). I think a monocolor deck is good for learning with and a creature deck is fun for new players, so I'm submitting my"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4609446/renata"},"insert":" Renata, Called to the Hunt deck"},{"insert":".\n"}]}
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BadBrewsRUs 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4749865/casualedh_lonely_robot\n\nHere's a \"creatureless\" build of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shorikai, Genesis Engine"}},{"insert":". Draw a lot of cards, untap the robot, draw some more cards, and generally take a ton of game actions. Conditional evasion, a backup mill wincon, and I even fit intruder alarm somehow.\n\nIf that's not enough, there's also three reserved list cards in the $100 budget!\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chain Stasis"}},{"insert":" is a repeatable untap effect to dump all our available mana into Shorikai activations"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Teferi's Realm"}},{"insert":" can phase out all nontoken creatures, opening the way for attacks"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reparations"}},{"insert":" for the legendary flavor text (and drawing cards is good I guess)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}
Edited 6/24/2023, 8:56:59 PM
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gitaxianprobe 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a Ghost of Ramirez DiPietro and Tana, the Bloodsower deck that looks to take advantage of Ghost's ability to return cards that you have discarded or milled to your hand from the graveyard. The main way this deck wins is with cards that have bloodrush that allow you to discard them to pump creatures. Tana is the main target for these pumps to make lots of saprolings and hopefully take people out with commander damage. Cards with transmute are especially potent with Ghost as he can return them each turn for repeated tutoring. Cards that grant double strike like Berserker's Onslaught and Bloodmist are also very nice in this deck as both commanders have combat damage triggers. Looting and cycling cards and then returning them make it so this deck rarely runs out of cards. Hope you like it! "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4486102/bloodrush"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4486102/bloodrush"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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Philbert_001 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"This is my very favorite budget brew for The Mimeoplasm ($49.88 as of this post). It's a voltron battlecruiser style deck leveraging the synergy of large cycling creatures to create a massive 1 or 2-hit kill.\n\nI've tried to make everything in the deck dovetail into one another. Landcyclers like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Generous Ent"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Troll of Khazad-dûm"}},{"insert":" find colors in a budget 3-color deck while filling the graveyard with 5+ power targets. The mill effects ensure your cheap kill spells ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ghastly Demise"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Overwhelming Remorse"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Murderous Cut"}},{"insert":") are active from very early on while also setting up for a big Mimeoplasm. Even the political cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fact or Fiction"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sauron's Ransom"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hostile Negotiations"}},{"insert":" can benefit you by adding more options to your graveyard. Lastly, the deck is set up to run on it's own but keep an eye on your opponents' graveyards as well! You can snag a useful combo piece or expensive beater that's normally out of this deck's price range ;)\n\nYou also get to play massive 11 power creatures like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Titanoth Rex"}},{"insert":"!\n\nI'm comfortable bringing this deck to any shop or kitchen table, it punches high above its weight class by presenting large threats while being very interactive. I hope you enjoy!\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4774182/mimeos_monster_mash"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/4774182/mimeos_monster_mash"},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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MooGiGon 10 months{"ops":[{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.archidekt.com/decks/4774689/and_you_have_my_bow"},"insert":"And You Have My Bow"},{"insert":" \n\nA new spin on the Fight/Bite deck I originally brewed up for Oathbreaker month (with Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler), this deck is all about "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Legolas, Master Archer"}},{"insert":" mowing down opponents' creatures with a ceaseless barrage of arrows. As the centerpiece of the deck, it's important that Legolas remains on the battlefield to stack up counters, so I've loaded him up with an array of protection effects. To ensure his quiver never runs dry, I also run an ample mix of card draw & recursion spells. Non-creature interaction rounds out the rest of the 99 along with one of my pet cards, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Greatbow Doyen"}},{"insert":", to turn Legolas' fighting & biting into direct damage. Not bad for $98, lands included.\n"}]}
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Chilly72 10 months{"ops":[{"insert":"Here is a budget Charix the Raging Isle deck I brewed up that is meant to exploit the new skulk-like aspecting of The Ring. \n\nhttps://www.archidekt.com/decks/4765113/charix_the_ring_bearer \n\nWhen the ring tempts you, make Charix the bearer of the ring and he's virtually unblockable. After blocks aren't declared, pump him up with all of your islands. \n\nIts a fairly straightforward deck with a focus on controlling the board and protecting Charix with instants. It would be a great way for a beginner to get experience with instant-speed spells while playing with a goofy and fun commander concept. \n\nThanks!\n\nChilly72\n\n\n"}]}
Edited 6/24/2023, 3:17:10 AM
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