
{"ops":[{"insert":"Greetings everyone! "},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nWelcome to the Tolarian Community College Spider-Man build-your-own precon contest here on Archidekt. For those that missed the announcement video, you can watch it "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://youtu.be/7C5GBPvhGKU"},"insert":"here"},{"insert":". We have brewed three preconstructed commander decks that were never made for Spider-Man and are counting on YOU to create another. Your precon should be what you envisioned one of the preconstructed decks to be, centered around the themes and legends featured in the Spider-Man set with a few meaningful reprints to make a functioning and fun deck. \n\nSee complete rules below:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Participants must submit your decklist through Archidekt in the contest thread here."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The commander must be a legendary creature from the set other than the three used in the announcement video video (flip Peter Parker, Gwen Stacey and Norman Osborn). Commanders can be any other legendary from the set."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"No budget or bracket restrictions, but the goal is for this to be an exciting \"lost precon,\" vibe, as interpreted by our judges. What do we mean by build-your-own precon or lost precon? Watch our video to see what we designed!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Two winners will be selected from the submissions. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Each winner will receive one Spider-Man Collector box courtesy of Tolarian Community College and Archidekt!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Strictly one entry per participant."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nSpecifications"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Submissions close September "},{"attributes":{"strike":true,"bold":true},"insert":"18th"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"19th at 12:00 pm ET"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"with winners to be announced the following week"},{"insert":". Archidekt will be notifying the winners via the email that is associated with the account, so make sure to review your contact information as well. \n\n"},{"insert":{"video":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/7C5GBPvhGKU?showinfo=0"}},{"insert":"\n\n---\n\nWe have our winners!\n\nUser: DJDextrose\nDeck: City of Immigrants\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/15946370/city_of_immigrants"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/15946370/city_of_immigrants"},{"insert":"\n\nUser: BuckysCardDen\nDeck: Grid Overload: Electro’s Megastorm\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/decks/15932386/grid_overload_electros_megastorm"},"insert":"https://archidekt.com/decks/15932386/grid_overload_electros_megastorm"},{"insert":"\n\nThank you to all who participated!\n"}]}
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Eddie Brock
Created by: Bobastan505
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is all about Eddie Brock’s transformation into Venom—hungry, brutal, and impossible to contain. At its core, this Jund (black-red-green) build thrives on a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"sacrifice-and-recursion engine"},{"insert":", leveraging death as fuel for overwhelming board states and villainous value.\nVenom isn’t alone. His deck is filled with iconic Spider-Man rogues—the "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sinister Six, Green Goblin, Carnage, Kraven, and more"},{"insert":"—who each bring chaos, destruction, and synergies to push games in your favor. Removal like "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Assassin’s Trophy"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Beast Within"},{"insert":", and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Murder"},{"insert":" keep threats in check, while ramp staples ("},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Cultivate"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Kodama’s Reach"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Birds of Paradise"},{"insert":") ensure you hit mana fast enough to unleash the monsters.\nBut where the deck shines is in "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"death payoffs"},{"insert":". Creatures like "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Carrion Feeder"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Viscera Seer"},{"insert":", and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Deadly Dispute"},{"insert":" let you cash in allies for cards or power, while finishers like "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Rise of the Dark Realms"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Living End"},{"insert":" bring back armies from the grave. Cards such as "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"The Death of Gwen Stacy"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Venom’s Hunger"},{"insert":" emphasize the tragic, parasitic flavor—sacrificing for strength and striking when the enemy least expects it.\nThe playstyle is aggressive but resilient:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Early Game:"},{"insert":" Ramp with mana dorks and fix colors. Establish value engines."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Midgame:"},{"insert":" Pressure opponents with your roster of villains, disrupt their board with removal, and feed creatures into your sac outlets."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Endgame:"},{"insert":" Unleash "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Rise of the Dark Realms"},{"insert":", swarm with symbiote-fueled minions, or close things out with your villains synergizing under Venom’s lead."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nEvery card feels like a page ripped from the comics: gritty, tragic, and ruthless. This isn’t just a deck—it’s a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"supervillain team-up where death is never the end, and power always comes at a cost."},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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Growing Genius
Created by: noobcake75
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck tries to abuse Jackal's unique copying ability in multiple ways.\nA limited +1/+1 counter package is included which tries to more finely control the amount of counters placed on creatures so that Jackal's spell copying can be used multiple times before he scales out of typical spell mana values and becomes a threat that is likely to get quickly answered. To this end there's also a few ways to remove said counters, typically with upsides of their own.\nAdditionally, there is a mostly legend rule avoidant clone/copy package that's there either to clone Jackal to provide multiple copies or options for different mana values to copy from, some of which can target opponents' creatures if they end up being more appealing options.\nThe deck also features some large payoff X cost creatures that are there to both abuse Simic's mana rich endgame and be able to hit Jackal at any power point.\nWhile there are a few ways to interact with opponents' boards and spells in the deck, interaction is somewhat limited. This is not a control deck and it wants to play for value and try to protect and/or rebuild rather than slow down its own game plan too much. \nCard choices have been made in such a way as to make them fit multiple of these roles rather than going for optimal meta cards so that the deck doesn't feel like it bricks whatever the main game plan ends up being.\nLastly, mostly for flavor's sake there are some more mechanically fitting Villains and Spiderman set cards included over more synergistic or otherwise powerful effects as to keep the feeling of a set precon.\n"}]}
Lethal Protector
Created by: Psychological
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"This precon embraces Venom’s aggressive playstyle with a mix of tokens, sacrifice synergies, and aristocrat payoffs. Agent Venom leads a team that grows stronger through death, while theft spells like Captivating Crew and Zealous Conscripts turn enemy threats into temporary allies. It’s equal parts menace, resilience, and surprise value — true to the Lethal Protector’s name.\n"}]}
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Villains
Created by: countfrederic
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Dr Oct and his villainous friends working with each other at last \n"}]}
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Twisted Equilibrium
Created by: vlamasan
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"From the shadows of the multiverse swings "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mister Negative"},{"insert":", twisting life totals like panels in a comic strip gone wrong. Every angel, wall, and cursed bargain becomes another plot twist—heroes falling, villains rising, and fate itself rewritten. This deck is a graphic novel of extremes: from the brink of zero to soaring life, from safety to sudden peril, always with a dramatic reveal. Suit up, reader—because in this story, your opponent’s downfall is the inevitable next issue.\n"}]}
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Web-Slinging & Crime-Stopping
Created by: Akira_Butterfly
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"An Azorius Sensational Spider-Man pre-con that plays a long-con control game, tapping down your opponents boards as you swing in with the Sensational Spider-Man to knock down your tables pesky criminals a peg! This deck also features proliferating as a prominent feature, in order to keep stun counters on the board, even as Spider-Man whips webs up those counters to reel in cards. Cards like Ominous Seas and Psychosis crawler feature in the deck as ways to benefit off of the mass card draw the deck often achieves. Deck is around ~120 USD when excluding basic lands. Have fun!~\n"}]}
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Ultimate Insanity
Created by: renene
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"That's right, y'all, welcome to Carnage World! Discard your hand and resurrect your smaller creatures to create a huge army! Throw in everything you can onto the battlefield with no worry. Be reckless! Be bold! Be Carnage.\n"}]}
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Web Gain
Created by: Rebel94
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"For my deck, I decided to build around a life-gain theme with a bit of control, sticking to mono-white. The main idea is to gain small amounts of life each turn, which keeps the engine running; sometimes it means buffing creatures, other times it’s drawing extra cards. I also included a small bounce package so I can reuse ETB effects and squeeze out more value. As for closing out games, I can either slow opponents down while pumping up my commander for a surprise knockout or go wide with a bunch of creatures and overwhelm the table.\n"}]}
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A Cure for Wellness
Created by: Boldirishman
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"The doctor is in with a Cure for Wellness! Cure disease and grow big and strong with proliferate mechanics! Clear out the gook with anti-bodies - (wraths effects, anti-bodies, get it? Nevermind) Draw more and more cards as your immune system (board state) grows and grows with low cost creatures with ETB (Eat the Broccoli) effects galor helping you stay healthy longer than the competition! \n"}]}
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ProlifeRate My Professor
Created by: SoRain
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Whether moving, proliferating, or doubling counters, this scientist brings double the fun to the table. Armed with advanced counter-adding tech, every shift grows your team. And through moving them on and off your favorite professor, you'll make each creature count... doubly so! \n"}]}
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The Clone Saga
Created by: shiny21
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Miles Warren, the Jackal. A former ESU professor of biochemistry who went insane after Gwen Stacy's death and fell into a mad scientist spiral of cloning and spats with the wall-crawler. He is, admittedly, one of Spidey's less iconic villains despite him being at the center of one of his most famous/infamous stories, "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"The Clone Saga"},{"insert":". This dichotomy is backed up by him being the "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"only Simic card in the set. "},{"insert":"Despite this, I think that he is an awesome commander that plays a lot into what Simic decks want to do; which led to a deck that likes Simic things but has a heavy emphasis on cloning, in line with Jackal's main gimmick as a character. Unfortunately both Pete and Ben are absent due to color identity, but the deck has a fun flow of creatures that come in (an extra time or two at that), impact the board, and keep your hand full to keep building maniacally powerful boards of creatures, until you eventually drop a back-breaking bomb or two once Jackal himself has grown powerful enough to copy them.\n"}]}
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Miles Morales Lost Precon - Brooklyn Beatdown
Created by: BR135
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Helmed by Miles Morales/Ultimate Spider-Man, Brooklyn Beatdown is all about pumping up a huge board of spiders and swinging into victory! Use Miles Morales to get your board off to a powerful start, and flip him into Ultimate Spider-Man to quickly and decisively close out games by doubling your creatures' +1/+1 counters. This deck contains everything you need to jump right into commander with your favorite Spider-Man characters!\n"}]}
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Spider-man Commander Deck Starter Series: Black (Gwenom, Remorseless)
Created by: Gangsterkiller29
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Many Magic the Gathering players have asked the question, \"What"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" is"},{"insert":" a \"Commander\" staple? \" Well let's start with the cards that are in every commander deck... \"Sol Ring\" and \"Arcane Signet\" are a fantastic place to start. Nearly every commander deck can't go wrong with these two cards, that's what makes them a \"Staple\"! But what about if we want to get specific and talk about staples in a specific context (that's where things get interesting). Let's start with the different colors! Each color has it's own unique identity and \"staple\" cards that define the colors' strengths and weaknesses! That's where this NEW product comes in... Spider-man Commander Deck Starter Series (Try saying that 5 times fast) featuring NEW black staple cards like the commander herself: Gwenom Remorseless. Let's not forget the all powerful \"The Terminus of Retu- I MEAN The Soul Stone! If you don't like the commander or other cards in this new starter deck. Don't you worry! If you don't like this commander deck most of the cards will go PERFECTLY in your other black decks or decks with black in them. ($499.99)\n"}]}
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WE ARE VENOM
Created by: antoniotrigo
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Hope I’m not too late! New to magic and you are the best professor a guy can have!"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Venom, Eddie Brock"}},{"insert":" as the commander \n"}]}
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Web Lockdown
Created by: Zeraxsas
23 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Here’s the deck I put together for the contest. I tried to keep it as close to a precon as possible. The price runs a little higher than a typical precon, but that makes sense since the Universe Beyond decks usually start out a bit pricier when they first drop. The main idea is to get Silk onto the board quickly, then take advantage of cards that either have tap abilities or useful ETB effects. With the web-slinging mechanic, you can bounce those cards back to your hand and reuse them for extra value. The win condition is pretty straightforward; flood the board with tokens and then overwhelm your opponents.\n"}]}
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