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Third PlaceMonte Tribal - Rakdos Standard Eggs (3rd Place)
I want to say congratulations! There were so many decks to chose from, which made this especially tough to judge.
This deck, is both unique and creative. You actually used
Pia's Revolution!
Whilst I am prejudice against B/R decks in Standard right now, you have vindicated the colours for this artefact inspired deck.
Having that recursion with Pia,
Scrap Trawler and 0 cost thopters, allowing you to replay those implements, is a great idea.
I also like the addition of
Sly Requisitioner, using improvise and its servo generation using your combo.
However, you cannot sacrifice them if you don't have the correct mana and at present, you only have 19 lands, despite having Hub and Spires.
Which is why I think you are using
Syndicate Trafficker as your sacrifice outlet to then draw a card off them?
It is a great idea, but you need a lot of pieces in place for that to work effectively, whilst holding off threats early game.
You'll have to forgive me but are you intending to use that 1 of
Fling on your potentially massive
Syndicate Trafficker?
I like your sideboard.
Phyrexian Scriptures is so undervalued. I think you could move that
Herald of Anguish into your mainboard, if you wanted.
Second PlaceJaster555 - Arcades Artefacts (2nd Place)
I've chosen this as the deck you've submitted, since it was the first.
When I started this competition I saw your deck by chance, and asked you to submit it.
Which you did, and I am glad you did, because I love the idea. It's like
Assault Formation, without, well...
Assault Formation.
Just loads of artefact walls to assign damage using toughness. Which is hilarious, as you've added
Tetsuko Umezawa, FugitiveYour
Bant deck has the right amount and types of land for your deck base to theoretically function nicely.
I like that you mainboarded
Padeem Consul of Innovation, as it protects your walls.
Not from wraths, however, which is why you might consider making a sideboard (whilst it was not a condition it would have improved your result)
Add cards like:
Negate /
Spell Pierce / Commencement of the Festivities or
Heroic InterventionI like that you've added
dive down and
Aegis of The Heavens as it adds additional toughness, at instant speed, great synergy!
However, you might want to decrease the number of these to 3 max, too many and not enough creatures will cost you late game.
The mana curve is great 2/3 max with Arcades and Padeem topping the curve at 4 (I haven't added
the Immortal Sun as it is a single addition)
I know why you have added it, and I think whilst it is good, in standard with the presence of
Abrade and
Forsake the Worldly, (Despite Padeem) it won't be that useful.
Instead, perhaps Sorcerer's Spyglass? low on the curve and stops Planeswalkers and cards like
The Scarab God and
Nicol Bolas, The Ravager.
First PlaceDelver Mage - Sram's Army (1st Place)
Whilst using vehicles isn't new and the idea of using
Peacewalker Colossus has been around, I have not yet seen a deck that implements it in this way.
So congratulations Delver Mage, this is worthy of being named first place!
I like that you have made eight changes to it, it shows that you have been finely tuning this, like a well-oiled machine! (Pun intended)
You have an assemblage of well-chosen artefact vehicles, that work well with your strategy. They don't just sit there doing nothing.
A turn 1
consulate dreadnought whilst does nothing turn 1, it is just a good 1 drop to implement your strategy.
It is also a low-cost artefact to utilise with
Toolcraft Exemplar. You then drop a caravan, to add mana, or
Aethersphere Harvester for
lifelink - Crew Exemplar
This depends on being fast, which is good since you don't need to rely on Peacewalker, you can use
Start Your Engines as a finisher.
Since you are running so few creatures, you might be able to get away with a few wraths, or even
Settle the Wreckage in your main. Worth considering?
CardAgain Sweater - Tricky Treasure
I want to thank you in advance for supporting me in pushing the community that bit further to post their decks, I am grateful.
A solid deck.
Marionette Master is a great strategy.
While I cannot put this in the top three you would most definitely would have been 4th.
I like that you aren't depending on it as your win condition, but the deck still supports it towards the end of the game. (Yahenni)
I see why you have, instead, opted for treasure, instead of the traditional servo -
Hidden Stockpile Strategy.
-
Goblin Chainwhirler is a threat to creature tokens, especially with the variety of wraths in Standard.
The cards you've selected have great synergy -
Dire Fleet Hoarder,
Gleaming Barrier.
There are some choices I am not too sure about, which I think makes this deck too vulnerable early game.
(
Dusk Legion Zealot,
Invigorated Rampage and Supernatural Samina) -
Dusk Legion is great for the early card draw, but have you instead considered
Costly Plunder? -
Sacrifice artefact/creatures to produce treasures, and will trigger
Marionette Master.
I know that you have added red mana for
Cut // Ribbons -
Abrade, etc in your sideboard, you have treasure tokens for that.
In this instance, perhaps adding
Brass's Bounty, as a 1/2 of, - sacrifice to
Marionette Master for the win.
I also think that mono-black would have been better choice, as a personal opinion. You, therefore, could put in more colourless sources, like:
Zafirin
Void, which would have been useful, or Inventor's Fair (life gain - search) /
Spire of Industry (mana fixing - if necessary)
Jk31214 - Azorius Artefacts
I haven't seen you enter one of my competitions before. I like the base idea, and you use a lot of low priced $$ cards.
The most expensive being
Karn and Tezzeret, and you only use 2 copies of each.
The idea uses non-creature artefacts, augmenting them with
Skilled Animator.
I think your deck needs to rely on one strategy. Having
Fumigate in a creature heavy deck is counterproductive.
It would work well if you focused on using low-cost artefacts (
Short Sword) using wraths
Fumigate,
Until you could put the third saga counter on
The Antiquities War, which you would swing in with lots of 5/5 artefacts.
You could even put a few Skilled Animators and Tezzeret's Touches if you don't want to just rely on that strategy.
Firegriff -
Rise of The Servos
I love the servo's and
Mechanized Production strategy, especially in combination with
Hidden Stockpile.
If wraths and
Goblin Chainwhirler weren't an issue, this deck would be formidable. However, even though it doesn't tick the competitive box,
it does tick the creativity and unique boxes.
Cog Puzzleknot and
Servo Schematic are great replacement engines - Especially with
Hidden Stockpile.
I am surprised to see that
Anointed Procession is missing? Did you consider it too slow?
Your sideboard makes me giddy, especially since you have included
Costly Plunder and
Phyrexian Scriptures.
I think you could have included
Costly Plunder into the mainboard, as a draw engine, as
hidden stockpile would have replaced a servo.
It probably would have been an idea to add some treasure sources, since you are running an Esper deck, or perhaps
Prophetic Prism (mana fixing)
Burn your Face - Value Town
This is definitely value! It works well and top marks for being competitive. It has threats left and right. (Again, whilst a sideboard wasn't stated, it would have helped)
I would say that you didn't need to mainboard
Aether Meltdown as you don't really need it - you need more energy sources.
Instead of putting
Metallic Rebuke to 4 copies would be better, perhaps add two max
Reverse Engineer, even though you have Tezzeret and
Karn.
I love that someone has added
Chief of the Foundry! It makes your thopters a serious threat instead of being just a nuisance.
Being Mono-Blue, I don't know why you haven't added at least a single copy of
Padeem, Consul of Innovation.
With the mainboarded artefact removal in standard, any artefact deck needs at least one copy! (It also helps with
Mox Amber, as he is legendary)
Robort - Thopter Exchange and Change
Haha, you come up with some unique stuff Rob. I like this deck for its creativity. I can't see this winning games.
But, if those thopters live long enough you will be ruining a lot of peoples' day. Taking control of
Nicol Bolas with
Switcheroo for a thopter is hilarious.
I honestly think the idea is there, but there are too few low-cost thopter generators for this deck to be feasible.
Combining it with servos, or perhaps splashing black for
Tezzeret's Touch to augment it further. It just needs a little more support.
Well done everyone, and good luck in the future! You all did great, so don't be disheartened if you didn't place in the top 3! It was a tough decision.
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