Well I hadn't really had a mind for all of us competing with the same deck restrictions/themes (although that does sound wicked fun and I absolutely want to do that). My primary motivation for starting this thread was to provide all of us a forum for when we want to build a new deck but feel uninspired. Like, I've got my
Trollcker deck that I cherish from my physical-card-playing-days, but beyond that I'm sort of out of ideas.
Given the feedback received thus far, I propose two different ways for us to interact in this thread:
Deck Requests"I want to build a deck but I can't figure out what I want to build."---
When you make a Deck Request, supply any up-front criteria you wish to abide by: block, format, cultures, etc. You can also make a Deck Request blindly, which may lead to more interesting results. Your post in this thread can be nothing more than
"Deck Request: Anything, Any Format". I don't think you'd have to go with whatever is first-suggested, and maybe you'll want to discuss the suggestion with whomever is suggesting it - maybe they know something about this deck that you don't! (Or, in my case, loooooong forgotten.)
In either case, I think it should be mandatory that any Deck Request you make must be played at least ONE time and your deck list shared before you can put in for another Deck Request. This way, we all improve, and
spammy posts will be kept to a minimum. (Unless we can get some old CC members in here.)
Deck Contests"I want to follow a list of restrictions and play against others beholden to identical restrictions."---
Might be easiest to just use the example we've already got going in this thread: Let's say that this week we have 4 players interested in participating in a Deck Contest, and through some agreed-upon means of negotiating we've determined to build
BoGS decks in the Expanded format. And then we'd face-off with our Smeagol decks and have a romp of a slimy time.
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Does that sound like what's bouncing around in all your heads? It seems really easy, and the best part is that it isn't reliant on a specific person "running" the show for it to work.