Everyone has those decks where the idea is solid, but the implementation is proving tricky. Tell us about them!
#(10-9-24) What's a deck you're excited to build, but is causing you challenges, and why?
nimble mist
mellow thunder
Minigame tribal under Negan has been surprisingly awkward to build. I feel like the usual process I use to sort cards for decks is failing me, and building from a top-down mentality is not something I often do.
Frankly, I feel like I may just take a step back in thinking and run the idea under Starke of Rath instead.
Like, assembling the deck itself isn't as hard as finding the motivation to actually pull the trigger on it
regal otter
Minigame tribal under Negan has been surprisingly awkward to build. I feel like ...
I had a similar idea under [[gollum scheming]]
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regal otter
It looks fun, but probably just durdles lol
cunning current
Lara Croft "legends matter." I think it ends up having to be Voltron because there's a good bit of equipment and her abilities want her attacking anyhow. But I always struggle with Temur and it's just becoming an unfocused pile of cards that are expensive (both in mana and money)
mellow thunder
I had a similar idea under [[gollum scheming]]
He seems like he'd be a cool card to include should I stick with Negan actually
regal otter
Yeah! He’s my favorite because the minigame is quick and the payoff for winning the game is nice
snow gale
I’m still working on a fourth deck for the morph/disguise/cloak/manifest pod I’ve been brewing up and while I have found a commander for it, every time I go to start the brew I just lose all energy and impetus for it.
Maybe its because Tarkir revisit is coming soon so we might be getting more, maybe its because I feel like I’m forcing it too much…i dunno, just cant seem to actually build it.
burnt girder
I’m still working on a fourth deck for the morph/disguise/cloak/manifest pod I’v...
I'm having a similar problem. I've been working on a list because of the manifest dread cards with Kadena and it's just.. a lot?
glossy bramble
Coram, arwen mortal queen to name a few. I'm struggling on balancing fun with wincons.
snow gale
I'm having a similar problem. I've been working on a list because of the manifes...
I think a not small part of it is I’m trying to push Mardu colors when the options there for creatures in theme are…old, bad, or outdated in most cases.
Kadena and Kaust came together naturally, Zimone was an interesting challenge but workable, but this last one is a struggle
burnt girder
Yeah those would be. Have you looked at Missy?
I'm assuming you don't want 3 blue containing decks in the pod though
sly elbow
I’ve been working on a Kydele/Vial Smasher cycling reanimator deck for a while. It’s a blast, even becoming one of my favorite lists. However, I’m very much struggling to get it to the power level I want.
It’s been my problem child for quite a while now.
snow gale
I'm assuming you don't want 3 blue containing decks in the pod though
Thats part of it. A bigger part is just Missy can take over games in the biodome of morph-adjacent stuff.
mellow thunder
Thats part of it. A bigger part is just Missy can take over games in the biodome...
Wait, is this like a bit of a battlebox for morph decks?
snow gale
Wait, is this like a bit of a battlebox for morph decks?
Yes
burnt girder
It's fitting though because mardu doesn't feel like it's a color id that would want subtlety/deception
Oh, what about just gruul?
[[yarus, roar of the old gods]]
burnt girder
Oh! Or [[magar of the magic strings]]
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Legendary Creature — Minotaur Performer
: Note the name of target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard and put it onto the battlefield face down. It's a 3/3 creature with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may create a copy of the card with the noted name. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost" and "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."
3/3
burnt girder
They're face-down
coral harness
I've wanted to build a [[Savra, Queen of the Golgari]] deck but with [[Lich's Mastery]] as the secret commander, but I'm facing a lot of decision paralysis for how to go about it.
snow gale
At this point I am gonna spin up a thread for this in #1020353936592470147 @burnt girder
Dont want to clog up this chat too much with a different topic 😂
mellow thunder
I've wanted to build a [[Savra, Queen of the Golgari]] deck but with [[Lich's Ma...
That sounds kind of sick, I can see where the paralysis starts though
burnt girder
Sorry, my brain is just all over.
coral harness
Yeah the idea is essentially Golgari control that can pivot to lifegain Storm to win the game.
Savra is also great for losing life so I can use spells like [[Profane Transfusion]] to flip the totals and draw a ton off of Lich's Mastery
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coral harness
It'll just take a lot of work to put the right aristocrat package together to enable this.
Using Pest tokens should help a lot though since it triggers both of Savra's abilities
untold prism
Been trying to work up the courage to build a rule 0 deck for years, in this case “mono-green” Golos
coral harness
I've seen Golos played in mono-green devotion in Modern/Pioneer
Turning that into 100 card singleton should work, since you're guaranteed to find Nykthos or lands like [[Crystal Quarry]]
loud lavaBOT
Land
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"How tragic that greed eclipses beauty." —Seton, centaur druid
sly elbow
Or [[the world tree]].
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Land
The World Tree enters tapped.
: Add .
As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have ": Add one mana of any color."
, , Sacrifice The World Tree: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
coral harness
Yeah the idea is essentially Golgari control that can pivot to lifegain Storm to...
This idea isn't all mine btw, I was inspired by this guy's Blex list
https://youtu.be/-07A1tcv2Mc
snow gale
Sorry, my brain is just all over.
No worries! You are all good, just taking the opportunity to finally go through with what I had been intending to do for a while anyways.
untold prism
Turning that into 100 card singleton should work, since you're guaranteed to fin...
That was the plan
thick monolith
So. One of my favorite constructed tournament decks was an Astral Slide w/u control back in the Onslaught blocks days.
No matter what I try (mono white, azorius, boros, jeskai, esper...) I am never satisfied with how a cycling deck feels in this format. I've made probably a dozen attempts over almost 20 years now, and something about it keeps feeling off, and I usually disassemble it after only a handful of games.
I mean, to be fair I also miss exalted angel being good, so maybe I'm just disillusioned by the power creep at this point? It's weird. I love the concept of a cycling deck, but I never enjoy playing it much outside of 60 card formats.
gray escarp
[[Toby]] blink as I am only able to understand boros blink due to my history with allies and now I am midway though paper but unsure to make the deck mine in the last 40 slots
red inlet
[[hazoret the fervent]], wanted to make her about [[expedited inheritance]] and self damage to creatures but couldn't really find a way to tie that into a well-defined package
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Legendary Creature — God
Indestructible, haste
Hazoret the Fervent can't attack or block unless you have one or fewer cards in hand.
, Discard a card: Hazoret deals 2 damage to each opponent.
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red inlet
well just remembered i got it into a more reasonable burn shell, but wish i had more ways to get inheritance into hand 😔
sinful saddle
BOROS. Because I still am waiting for a Commander that is going to be absolutely incredible.
I've been waiting for so long and yet there still hasn't been one that's given me enough inspiration to really build em.
ebon garden
Titania, Protector of Argoth, ugh getting all the land matters cards is just painful. They are spread over so many sets and dont get reprints enough to cheap them out.
fiery inlet
Voltron Juri with some artifact related shenanigans. I'm just restricted by card knowledge so I have to really research more but its pretty daunting.
teal depot
I struggle to build a Bant and Grixis decks : I didn't find yet a commander or a non-wheel theme to build something around. I have also issues with [[Feather, the redeemed]], [[Thalisse]], [[Alana and Halena, Partners]] ... I wanted at first to build a deck of each bicolor and tricolor combinaisons but its conclusions is still far away ...
glass saffron
Gev, Scaled Scorch because I can’t find my happy medium of focusing on Lizards, Outlaws and Noncombat Damage
[[gev scorch]]
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worn solstice
[[Archimandrite]] teacher typal is my constant deck-in-progress. The idea of the deck is legendary artificers et al (the faculty) searching the gym closet for equipment, but I’ve had a hard time getting the right balance of creatures for a typal deck and artifacts/equipment to make the deck really hum.
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kindred tree
[[Shu-Yun, the Silent Tempest]] is just beating me every time I sit down to build it as a spellslinger.
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Legendary Creature — Human Monk
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may pay 
. If you do, target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
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shy cradle
Currently brainstorming a [[Flubs]] deck based around gathering the 22 Major Arcana. I just can't seem to find the right cards to represent the Arcana. I've got... maybe 10 of 'em down, but the others are eluding me.
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cunning current
Currently brainstorming a [[Flubs]] deck based around gathering the 22 Major Arc...
This is a project I could get on board with. Three color makes it a challenge, but post your current list in #1020353936592470147!
buoyant fulcrum
I dont think it counts because I finished it but I built a [[Momir Vig]] deck that has a combo where I play fourty one ones and it legit took like 4 hours over 2 days of searching to find the combo pieces I needed to make the deck be able to do the combo I wanted it to
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buoyant fulcrum
[[Momir Vig, Simic Visionary]]
