benthic_druid 9 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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The Blue Knight
Created by: ChronicRane
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Enter The Three Kingdoms as you take command of the Wu clan and lead their knights to victory!\n\n"}]}
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Rakdos cats
Created by: Deathwing17
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"If I'm seeing cat tribal, I expect to see Mono White with something like Arahbo, The First Fang, or Selesnya with something like Arabho, Roar of the World. I even have my own Arahbo deck if you look at my profile. If someone told me they were playing Cat tribal in rakods. I would tell them they were out of their mind. \n\nHow could you build cats without green or white, where all the cats are.\n\nBut here we are with a cat tribal Rakdos deck with sack trigures for bigger cats. Hope you like it.\n\nThe attempted goal is to add up enough treasures to make one of the fire-breathing cats get very big and kill someone. \n\nHope you like it.\n\nP.S. Freejam Regent and Skyship Stalker got errata to have the cat creature type in there. \n"}]}
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My Hans is Made of Brick
Created by: Uncle_Piss
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is primarily a Gruul Walls deck. Hans, the commander, has decided to retire and build him a house. Using the may walls and defensive spells in the deck, Hans is constructing his \"home\", turning a normally aggressive color combo into the most defensive deck possible using walls. For added flavor, there is a \"big bad wolf\" in the deck intent on blowing the house down and using its pieces to damage your opponents in the form of Furystoke Giant. :)\n"}]}
Selesnya Dragons
Created by: Raser43
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Dragons but green and white? Not unheard of, but often the color most left out of dragons is white, with very few white dragons being printed, and most of them only as part of cycles. Using these rare dragons as well as the similarly small pool of green dragons as the basis for the deck as opposed to red, or other more traditional colors makes for an interesting challenge.\n\nDragonlord Dromoka leads this dragon army, with the dragons filling out the top and mid range. We will use the strengths of green and white to our advantage. Ramp and card draw allow for a fresh supply of resources to allow for both fast casting and buffing of our dragons. Solid protection and removal while the dragons expand in size and scale is the main plan for retaining control of the board and winning the game.\n"}]}
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Blue Eyes White Dragons
Created by: RayvnByrd
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Dragons..in Azorius!?!?! It seemed like a fun idea! \n\nmuch of this deck focuses on the tribal theme or flying creatures ^^ Many of the banner effects either buff typal or flying creatures (cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Banner of Kinship"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Favorable Winds"}},{"insert":" ). Even "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kangee, Sky Warden"}},{"insert":" found a home in this deck making dragons all a bit bigger and scarier. There are also cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sylvia Brightspear"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Herald's Horn"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Warden of Evos Isle"}},{"insert":" in this deck that just fit super well with the theme and really help a lot with damage and cost reduction \n\nHope you enjoy this interesting color combination for dragons! 🐉\n"}]}
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Knight Barrage
Created by: FoxBlade
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Mono Red Knights about winning combat, and using 1 damage to punish opponents\n"}]}
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Selesnya blood suckers
Created by: DarnOldMan
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Go wide with a team of vampire tokens, pump them with anthems and counters, and overrun your opponents.\n\n"}]}
The Elements of Demise
Created by: MyxinLattes
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Elementals and Lands go hand in hand, but why go Gruul? With "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Marchesa, the Black Rose"}},{"insert":", we can have all the fun of "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Omnath, Locus of Rage"}},{"insert":" with none of the Green! Animate your lands into Elementals and keep swinging them, and Marchesa will make sure you never lose them and can keep getting those sweet landfall triggers!\n"}]}
The Last Eldrazibender
Created by: SaffronSpringbok
9 days
{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"\"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Eldrazi broke free from their prison.\""},{"insert":"\nThis is, in my estimation, the single-best Eldrazi Commander I've ever played. In the first 24 hours of his reveal, the truth of Monk Gyatso's ties to the horrifying truth of Zendikar were made clear, and two games in, my theory proved true. Gyatso enables a Nadu-style repeatable cast outlet for our Eldrazi, with the key piece being Eye of Ugin, which allows us to Airbend our Eldrazi for "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"free"},{"insert":". Coupling this with White's ramp package, in lands which reduce our land count, and the many Equipment which untap them to go mana-positive, and you have a shockingly mana-dense Kindred list which wins through a variety of combos.\nOnce you've assembled Gyatso, a free targeting effect, and any means of reducing costs by {2}, you're free to infinitely cast any Eldrazi you can dream of. Take "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"all"},{"insert":" of your opponents' turns with Emrakul. Mill them out with Oblivion Sower. Show them the might of Airbending made manifest.\n\nRead the full article about this decklist "},{"attributes":{"link":"Eldrazi for a long time in Commander were something of a white whale, with their Commanders being only tangentially-related to the type as a buildaround. This changed in rapid succession, with the release of \\[\\[Zhulodok, Void Gorger\\]\\] and \\[\\[Ulalek, Fused Atrocity\\]\\] in a two-year span, but these Commanders suffer from being a bit...polarizing. Certainly, if they stick, next turn you'll have a great value engine to play with, but emphasis rests on 'if'. Eldrazi are broadly high in mana value, like cast triggers, and desperately yearn for an endgame beyond 'make a large dude, perhaps two'. \\[\\[Monk Gyatso\\]\\] fixes those problems. Releasing in ATLA: Eternal, Gyatso has several legs up over the competition, whipping into shape the \\[\\[Eye of Ugin\\]\\] like no Commander before. You can cast him retroactively, as opposed to before your threats (unlike Zhul and Ula), he provides protection for the board, and crucially - he's cheap. Whether you're casting it for \\{2\\} or \\{0\\}, an airbent \\[\\[Void Gorger\\]\\] feels good. Gyatso somehow manages to combine the play patterns of Nadu and Eldrazi, and good lord is it a fun time. I've covered the Monk's guide to tentacled beasts here, in full: [https://www.goonhammer.com/magic-the-gathering-commander-focus-airbending-eldrazi-typal-monk-gyatso/](https://www.goonhammer.com/magic-the-gathering-commander-focus-airbending-eldrazi-typal-monk-gyatso/) You can find my decklist embedded in the article!"},"insert":"here"},{"insert":"! Cheers to the Archidekt team.\n"}]}
Mono red Hydras
Created by: danielmarh
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Mono-red hydras is not an usual thing to see, and to me, any x-spell counts as a hydra\n"}]}
Dancing Mad Angels
Created by: GlitchHunter
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Usually Angel decks show the good side of things, however, this Grixis Angel deck with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin"}},{"insert":" at the helm turns that on its head. This is a semi-casual drain/sac strategy, with Angel typal being the primary focus; no Shapeshifters are used to keep things challenging\n\nGameplan: "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Repercussion"}},{"insert":"+"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dictate of the Twin Gods"}},{"insert":" are for explosive damage. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"The One Ring"}},{"insert":" are for pressure and draw advantage. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Goldnight Castigator"}},{"insert":" infiltrates an opponent's board with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Harmless Offering"}},{"insert":" to further accelerate burning\n"}]}
Rakdos Elves
Created by: livinmediocre
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"I love off color themes and cards and such, and Rakdos is my favorite guild so I built Rakdos Elves! I've built so many different variations and decks, but this one is kinda interesting because there are like 3 red elves in all of Magic, making it mostly feel mono-black but there are are some neat things that can happen by splashing in red.\n"}]}
Grixis Wurm Kindred
Created by: PlesioDigger
9 days
{"ops":[{"insert":"Wurm is one of my favorite creature types in commander so a while back I built a Grixis Wurm deck to see how well it would do outside of green since green is tha main color associated with Wurms\n\nThe commander is Miracle Max (Marchesa, the Black Rose) which is currently my favorite Grixis commander, but I might switch him out for Fire Lord Azula and change the focus of this deck into flashing in Wurms. Currently the focus of the deck is swinging with the Wurms and getting them +1/+1 counters so Max can return them for free on the next end step if they die (either by combat or from sacrificng for other reasons)\n\nThe deck has literally every Wurm possible in Grixis, even the bad ones like Water Wurm (though there's no changelings or changeling effects, it's just pure raw Wurm power)\n"}]}
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