benthic_druid 11 days{"ops":[{"insert":"Hello brewers,"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nWelcome to the Archidekt Deckbuilding Contest! For those unfamiliar, this is a monthly contest with a different theme each month. Your goal is to build a Commander-legal deck that fulfills the prompt in a creative or unique fashion. At the end of each month, three finalists will be selected for you to vote on.\n\nWhat’s The Contest All About?"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nWorking 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://cardsphere.com/"},"insert":"cardsphere.com."},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"For November's deck building contest - build a Commander-legal kindred/typal deck in colors that you wouldn't expect for that creature type. For example, a Gruul Merfolk deck, or Temur Vampires. Decks will be judged on their creativity, originality, and how unexpected their color identity is for the chosen creature type."},{"insert":"\n\nFor more details about the prompt, check out the "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://edhrec.com/articles/archidekt-deckbuilding-contest-november-2025/"},"insert":"full announcement article"},{"insert":" over on EDHREC!\n\nHow To Participate\n 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":"\nTo submit a deck, select the orange button labeled \"Submit a deck to this contest\" and follow the form prompt. Submissions are accepted until "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"9:00 pm EST"},{"insert":" (UTC -4, currently) on "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Wednesday, November 12, 2025"},{"insert":".\n\nOnly one submission per user! If you change your mind and want to submit a different deck before submissions close, you may do so by first deleting your submission. To edit your description, you can do so from the deck page itself. From the eligible submissions, we'll select three finalists with lists that we believe best embody the spirit of the prompt. Deck descriptions are not required but certainly may provide valuable context!\n\nOn "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Wednesday, November 19, 2025"},{"insert":", we’ll announce three finalists via the Archidekt Discord and a brief article on EDHREC highlighting each deck.\n\nEach finalist will be awarded credit on "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://cardsphere.com/"},"insert":"cardsphere.com"},{"insert":". The value of the credit is in US dollars and depends on the finalist's placement in deck upvotes at the end of the week-long polling period:\n 1st Place Prize - $250"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":" 2nd Place Prize - $150"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":" 3rd Place Prize - $100"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nFinalists will be contacted via email regarding their winnings within roughly 24 hours following the conclusion of voting on "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Wednesday, November 26, 2025"},{"insert":".\n\nPlease note, you must have a Cardsphere account in order to receive your winnings. It's quick and free-- register "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.cardsphere.com/signup?referrer=archidekt_contest"},"insert":"here"},{"insert":" if you don't have an account already!\n\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://archidekt.com/contestRules"},"insert":"Official contest rules."},{"insert":"\n\nIf you have any questions, feel free to ask here, or join our public "},{"attributes":{"link":"https://discord.gg/rYDFFVCmGr"},"insert":"Discord server"},{"insert":". We look forward to seeing what you all come up with!\n"}]}
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Witching Hour
Created by: filx180
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"This is Grixis Cat tribal deck with a focus on curses.\nLynde makes sure that curses Stick around, and to trigger the combat related ones she uses all of her familiars, cats, which are surprisingly good and avoiding defences\n"}]}
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Varolz, the Scar-Striped(because of dragons)
Created by: Doorman1
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Golgari dragons with silly scavenge oops you're dead things \n"}]}
Naya wizards(Nov 2025 challenge)
Created by: Josh1207
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a wizard tribal deck that instead of the spell slinging side of wizards it focuses on getting value using tribal synergies and pumping your wizards to attack your opponents.\n"}]}
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What do you mean the dragon is a Sliver Lord?!
Created by: Jasa182
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"What do you think of when you think of Big Butt Betor? If the answer was Slivers, you get a cookie!! Go wide, go tall, halve your opponents' lives to within flying range. And if you play Hivestone and Banner of Kinship, BAM, Betor and his brood swing for lethal!\n"}]}
BWr Wizards!
Created by: Ducklett
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Terra and Celes are Wizards! So why not kick blue to the curb and play some fun-time reanimating Wizards with as little yucky red as possible!\n"}]}
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Azorius Dragons
Created by: coreyjbowen
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Use Elminster's -3 to exile Draco and other high-costed cards to create lots of Dragons tokens!\nThe deck includes many anthems to make your dragon tokens scarier! Real dragons also populate the deck to benefit from these as well.\nThe goal is to get Draco specifically on top of the library to make 16 dragons. Tutoring to the top is cheating; scry and brainstorm effects is glory.\nWhat makes this deck unique is how many surprisingly interesting white and blue dragon synergies exist. It's not just making Dragons and using Patchwork Banners and such-- it honestly has blue and white cards that specifically call out dragons!\n"}]}
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True Fire Breathing Dragons
Created by: adamkelley32595@gmail.com
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"The Only Way To Play Dragons Is To Use Red Dragons With The Best Dragon Ever Made As Commander.."},{"insert":{"card-link":"Zirilan of the Claw"}},{"insert":" ENJOY!!!!\n"}]}
Elemental tribal Orzhov - November 2025 Deckbuilding Contest
Created by: dereck.desjardins@hotmail.com
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Loved the idea of making a deck in my favorite color combinaison for this challenge so I started from there... What would be a very unique creature type for Black and White? Dragons... too generic, Eldrazi... mostly colorless not a great pick... Merfolk? thats a nice idea with Lorwin coming up and then it hit me, Elementals! So I started working on that idea with no real thematic in mind and it just clicked together so well with the new Eirdu that will come out next year. Most elementals in Orzhov have the ability Evoke and it fits really well with the persist ability of Eirdu and from that I developped the deck with what I know and love from orzhov, good reanimation and death/sacrifice value. \nI also love the fact that I can put some Elemental lands and some niche Elemental card that dont usually make the cut in more traditional Elemental decks like Lightning Coils and the overcosted 5+ mana Elementals.\nI also added the condition of banning Shapeshifters from the list since in my opinion, they make Kindred decks really boring and repetitive.\nHope you find this decklist neat and fun!\n"}]}
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Gruul Zombies - November 2025 Archidekt Building Challenge
Created by: MattBazer4427
11 days
{"ops":[{"attributes":{"color":"#000000"},"insert":"Zombies in Gruul?! Those are neither of zombies' colors what the heck?! Anyway this deck is super fun becaus not only do you get to play gruul zombies, but you opponents get to as well! This deck incorporates many red and green zombies which have lots of different payoffs such as burn and ramp. This deck has many spells which give away your own zombies to your opponents after you get their etb effects so that you can kill them and draw cards. This deck has a lot of different burn mechanics which will start to dwindle your opponents life! After playing lots of zombies, giving zombies to your opponencts, killing zombies, and drawing cards, there are a ton of different finishers for all different end games such as you having many zombies, burning your opponents, killing your opponents boards to gain power, and making huge creatures with trample. Overall this deck plays very different than your usual zombies deck, but I guess that makes sense as this isn't your usual color of zombie deck! "},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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How did bill ferny pass testing?
Created by: T1rbalrog
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":{"card-link":"Bill Ferny, Bree Swindler"}},{"insert":" this guy and kindred are like peanut butter and toothpaste. I truly don’t know who thought “blue horses, ummmm ok” and then proceeded to make this abomination lol. It’s actually really fun and constantly laughing at this is part of the deck too.\n"}]}
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Mono-Blue Slivers
Created by: SoggySandwich
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck began with me trying to make a colorless slivers deck using "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thrumming Hivepool"}},{"insert":", but alas, my "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Warring Triad"}},{"insert":" deck was not able to consistently find and then cast Thrumming Hivepool. The solution I found was "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcum Dagsson"}},{"insert":" , who not only tutors for Thrumming Hivepool but also puts it on the battlefield for free! \n\nThe deck is pretty simple to start with.\nTurn 1 you play a land and any one drop\nTurn 2 play an artifact mana dork\nTurn 3 play Arcum\nTurn 4 sac the artifact mana dork to Arcum to fetch Thrumming Hivepool onto the battlefield. \n\nThis is of course not a guaranteed outcome but fairly consistent with the amount of artifact mana dorks. \n\nAfter Thrumming Hivepool is out, you then play to what makes sense on the board. You can fetch a "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sculpting Steel"}},{"insert":" to copy Thrumming Hivepool, you could find "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chimil, the Inner Sun"}},{"insert":" to generate some passive value or change all of your creatures into slivers with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Maskwood Nexus"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hivestone"}},{"insert":" . Once you have reached an acceptable number of slivers, you can search with Arcum for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Akroma's Memorial"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Obelisk of Urd"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Banner of Kinship"}},{"insert":" to help your slivers finish off your opponent.\n"}]}
Green Machines
Created by: drunkforestnymph
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Artifact creatures, artifacts, and a few artificers in mono green. Who says nature and technology have to be enemies? \n"}]}
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Mono-Green Allies
Created by: DMGeneral
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a mono-Green Allies deck with a land sub-theme. Although the rules didn't specify, I wanted to keep this deck at a Bracket 3, but I just had to add all the Ally type green creatures, and I had to keep "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Maskwood Nexus"}},{"insert":" , which goes infinite with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Turntimber Ranger"}},{"insert":" , so it's actually a Bracket 4. I'd almost always tutor for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Roaming Throne"}},{"insert":" with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Worldly Tutor"}},{"insert":". Win conditions would usually involve going broad, even without the infinite combo, but it's also easy to get a few big creatures. There's no "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Craterhoof Behemoth"}},{"insert":" or anything like that because no non-allies are allowed, and there's not enough interaction to make this deck really competitive, so this really plays more like a mid-3 Bracket deck, but it's a fun one!\n"}]}
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Colorless Walls
Created by: RadicalEaston
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"You would think it surely can't win....."},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"OH HOW WRONG YOU ARE"},{"insert":"......"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"well"},{"insert":"......"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"eventually"},{"insert":".....\n"}]}
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Fallen Angels (November 2025)
Created by: ValkyrieVixenn
11 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"I've created a Rakdos Angels deck. Sadly there are no Legendary Angels(or actually any at all) that have the Rakdos color duo, so I've got "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls"}},{"insert":" as demonic commander of a host of Fallen Angels that are black and that are red. Welcome to the fiery pits of... well, you get the idea!\n"}]}