Build-a-deck #1: Sydri, Galvanic Genius.
Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 11:26 am
So if we're going to try and move into becoming a bigger and better community, I think we need to have more interaction between members in the form of comradery instead of criticism. That being said, let's put our collective heads together and try and build a community commander deck once a month.
How it works:
Each poster can submit a total of ten cards, until we reach 99 cards. You can submit your ten cards all at once, or you can stagger them to see what other people propose before using up all of your submissions. You may also use votes to propose to remove a card that's already on the list. You can post as many cards as you want, but once you hit ten cards included into the deck, you are out of submissions. (This may change depending on the popularity of this activity and the time frame that we have left.)
Each time you submit a card, you
should do your best to try and explain both the pros and the cons of the card. Try and be specific, although it is understandable that some cards are just no-brainers. Mana rocks will not count as using up one of your submissions, however proposing to REMOVE mana rocks does count as one, as long as you can make a proper case for doing so!
Players can agree with propositions by thanking the corresponding post. (Unless someone has a cleaner way to handle this, I'm all ears.) Once a card reaches a certain threshold (will change later, for now we'll say 3 votes) it will be added to the list in the original post and it's in the deck!
A few rules to keep things civil, as well as to keep the thread easy to read for archival purposes:
1.) Use lists, preferably numbered or with bullets, to illustrate your pros/cons lists.
2.) Disagreeing with a post is fine, as is responding to allow proper discourse, but remember that this activity is supposed to be light hearted community-building, so keep it
clean and try and remain on point and civil.
3.) Try and use card tags, it makes things easier for those of us who don't have AutocardAnywhere installed or are browsing on our phones.
4.) Stay on focus. Nobody wants to read ten posts about a card that is clearly not a worthy include. If you want to put Door of Destinies in the deck, there should be a thematical and logical reasoning behind it. Try not to waste our time with cards that do not fit the theme of the deck or cards that otherwise make no sense at all. (No, we're not interested in playing Search the City.)
Now that this is all out of the way, I think I'll pick a commander to start off with at random. I just sat on Gatherer and hit the random button repeatedly until I hit a Legendary Creature, and the one I got first was...
So let's get to work!
[deck]Community Sydri, [/deck]
Number of cards submitted:
Sasky: 1. (Cloud Key)
DocLawless: 3. (Power Artifact, Phyrexian Metamorph, Master of Etherium)
DroppinSuga: 3. (Darksteel Forge, Treasure Mage, Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas)
Alex: 5. (Arcum Daggson, Darksteel Juggernaut, Reshape, Spine of Ish Sah)
Freedom: 3. (Sensei's
Divining Top, Trinket Mage. Tezzeret the Seeker)
Valdarith: 3. (Enlightened Tutor, Dispatch, Scourglass)
PS: I am completely open to suggestions about a better way to run something like this, feel free to PM me. As it stands, I just kind of came up with this idea off of the top of my head.
How it works:
Each poster can submit a total of ten cards, until we reach 99 cards. You can submit your ten cards all at once, or you can stagger them to see what other people propose before using up all of your submissions. You may also use votes to propose to remove a card that's already on the list. You can post as many cards as you want, but once you hit ten cards included into the deck, you are out of submissions. (This may change depending on the popularity of this activity and the time frame that we have left.)
Each time you submit a card, you
should do your best to try and explain both the pros and the cons of the card. Try and be specific, although it is understandable that some cards are just no-brainers. Mana rocks will not count as using up one of your submissions, however proposing to REMOVE mana rocks does count as one, as long as you can make a proper case for doing so!
Players can agree with propositions by thanking the corresponding post. (Unless someone has a cleaner way to handle this, I'm all ears.) Once a card reaches a certain threshold (will change later, for now we'll say 3 votes) it will be added to the list in the original post and it's in the deck!
A few rules to keep things civil, as well as to keep the thread easy to read for archival purposes:
1.) Use lists, preferably numbered or with bullets, to illustrate your pros/cons lists.
2.) Disagreeing with a post is fine, as is responding to allow proper discourse, but remember that this activity is supposed to be light hearted community-building, so keep it
clean and try and remain on point and civil.
3.) Try and use card tags, it makes things easier for those of us who don't have AutocardAnywhere installed or are browsing on our phones.
4.) Stay on focus. Nobody wants to read ten posts about a card that is clearly not a worthy include. If you want to put Door of Destinies in the deck, there should be a thematical and logical reasoning behind it. Try not to waste our time with cards that do not fit the theme of the deck or cards that otherwise make no sense at all. (No, we're not interested in playing Search the City.)
Now that this is all out of the way, I think I'll pick a commander to start off with at random. I just sat on Gatherer and hit the random button repeatedly until I hit a Legendary Creature, and the one I got first was...
So let's get to work!
[deck]Community Sydri, [/deck]
Number of cards submitted:
Sasky: 1. (Cloud Key)
DocLawless: 3. (Power Artifact, Phyrexian Metamorph, Master of Etherium)
DroppinSuga: 3. (Darksteel Forge, Treasure Mage, Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas)
Alex: 5. (Arcum Daggson, Darksteel Juggernaut, Reshape, Spine of Ish Sah)
Freedom: 3. (Sensei's
Divining Top, Trinket Mage. Tezzeret the Seeker)
Valdarith: 3. (Enlightened Tutor, Dispatch, Scourglass)
PS: I am completely open to suggestions about a better way to run something like this, feel free to PM me. As it stands, I just kind of came up with this idea off of the top of my head.