MTG Salvation

We all remember our first card, our first booster, and (most importantly) our first deck. That feeling of putting together a haphazardly (or maybe not) bunch of cards we felt had potential. Seeing that deck come together was probably the hook that got of us into Magic. It was a gateway to card design, drafts, and tournaments.

The fact many of us still are dedicated to the game and community around it is a monument to our endurance.
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Clan Contest #2: ENDURANCE is the segue between the Survivor Contest, and the later Clan Contest #3: Name TBD (A Deck Auction followed by Tournament).

Clan Contest #2 is open to everyone, while CC#3 will sadly be limited to those clans that participated in Endurance.

This is how the contest works:
After that we have
After that's done we have
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Sign Ups Start Now
(No additional information is required other than interest. Cards will be assigned when registration ends)

All Clans Interested Must Register By April 17.

Consider The [Soundtrack] in!

In b4 sticky.

[Izzet] signing up!

The whole non netdeck is to promote creativity, and 40% of a deck is 24, which is 6 playsets of cards. However, no deck will be DQ for net decking, without proper review from an Extended laision. But honestly, there are 5180 cards in the Extended rotation.

5180. I'm pretty sure people can figure out new ground to break.

But still, we'll have a Extended Laision determine net decks.
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Oh, and ARD's in (of course)

499 is in!

The 40% rule sounds harsh, but I think any evidence of "netdecking" will be pretty obvious when it gets down to it.

[The Family] is in to lose

Of course [Clan Mono-Black] will compete and crush all competition!

House Dimir is in.

Good news everyone! We're back
Shinjutsei has agreed to help us

And the following clans have PM'd with the intent of joining Endurance
-Pack
-Clan Mono Blue
-Planar Chaos
-Called

Would those clans restate their intentions to join here.

And once again, signs up end the 17th.

The more, the merrier!

CALLED reinstating it!

The netdecking thing is more like, your deck shouldn't look like an Affinity deck with Epochrasite thrown in, Godsire in Naya Zoo, or 5c Get There. Not to say you can't have

Basically when building your deck, make sure it isn't too similar to an existing one in the EXT competive.

The entire idea of this is to make a deck with your clan and not copy someone elses. And (b/c this may become an issue) if our Laision deems it to a netdeck, you can petition for an overturn.

[The Æsir] in this like flynn.

[The Greek Alliance] is in like Flint.

The [Mono Blue Clan] is in like Venser.

Quote from seratonin

All Clans Interested Must Register By April 17.

Signups closing ~7 hours, get /in while they're hot!

Planar Chaos re-confirming that we're in.

Alright, we have a total of 14 Clans participating.

We'll have card assignments and the final roster this evening.

Without further ado (Remember, all cards were picked using a RNG and the listed brackets are for organizational purposes only)

'Survivor' Bracket
-Soundtrack is graced with Godsire
-Dragons-Nyxathid
-Izzet-Higure, the Still Wind
-ARD-Scion of the Ur-Dragon
-Clan Mono Black-Ravenous Baloth
-Dimir-Cloud Key
-Called-Epochrasite
-Pack-Prognetius
-AEsir-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
-Greek Alliance-Glimpse the Unthinkable
-Planar Chaos-Zur, the Enchanter

'Non-Survivor' Bracket
-499-One With Nothing
-The Family-Child of Alara
-Mono Blue-Telemin Performance

Get a head start, Part 1 doesn't officially start until tomorrow!

So, in one week's time, this thread needs to be repopulated with a progress report of your deck.

Also, point clarification. There is no 'net decked cards'. There are card when used together form a netdeck. The restriction is too prevent people from throwing their card into something from EXT competive and calling it a day.

Happy Builidng
(PR due 4/26)

Question (and I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask this)

Does the card have to be a 4x of in the deck?

Not at all. The deck just needs to be built around the card (interpret that as you will.)

Wait, so after all the trash talk from NYCDK during Survivor about how they were going to rape us all with one arm tied behind their back, they don't sign up for the deckbuilding contest (+ are therefor excluded from the tourney)?

Weak sauce, NYC. All talk after all.

I can probably predict the answer to this question, but I want to make sure because something in my mind is telling me to ask just in case...

Does the deck need to be only the color of our card (like EDH) or is it allowed to go free with the rainbow of Magic?

How is the 40% net-deck thing calculated?
In another words if a card is used in a popular net-deck as a one of and we use it 4 times in a 60 card deck are we at 6.67% of our max net deck capacity? And what if the reverse is true, a net-deck uses it 4 times we use it once have we still used up 1.6 percent of our net-decking? Also you say non-land cards that still means I could have 4 of each piece of the Urzatron and still not be using any of my net-deck budget. To be honest I think the rule is stupid but also needed, I wish we could just use the honour system.

I would like to add my voice to the silliness of the 40% netdeck rule. I'm sure intentions were good but this contest is supposed to be about cool design, so that's all we should be judging it on (NOT on power/playability). So let people net deck, an if they do they get crappy scores from the other clans who are all like "you are an unoriginal netdecking bastard and this contest is about interesting deck design. I refuse to vote for you."