Welcome back to another week of deck madness! We just can’t keep this stuff in stock. It’s maddening, maddening I tell you! With all of this regular deckage, one has to wonder if we can keep up the pace. Can the deck continue? The only way to find out is to head to the deck.
This week I decided to try an experiment for my weeklies, because I like challenges and experiments. I have my trusty d100 with me. I am going to roll, and then take the rolled number card in alphabetical order from a random expansion set. Make sense? Probably not, but let’s do it anyway.
What’s that? Oh, you want to know why I’m doing this? I thought it was just obviously fun, but you need an explanation? Well, I love doing random things. It makes the entire event unique and interesting. Besides, I wanted something new to build around. Incidentally, this will not allow cards after 100 to count. In any set with more than 200 cards, I’ll roll a d6 and select which 100 cards the second roll counts. So, for example, if I roll Invasion as my expansion set, I’ll roll to decide first one hundred, second hundred, or third hundred before rolling my d100.
I pick up my trusty dice. It really isn’t a d100. It’s a clear purple d10, which I always use as my tens, and a clear orange d10, which I always use as my ones. I roll and get a…. twenty-something. The orange die fell on the floor but he purple die was on the two.
I use traditional HeroClix rules and pick up both dice. See, in HeroClix almost everything is decided by rolling two d6. Let’s say that War Machine needs an eight to hit Deathbird. Random Guy Jake rolls the dice, and one falls on the floor, while the one on the table shows a “one.” You can’t roll an eight when one of your dice is sitting at one, so Random Guy Jake picks up both dice and rolls again. Later, he again needs an eight, and one die falls off the table. This time, the die on the table shows a “5.” It’s easy to roll an eight when you have a five showing, so Random Guy Jake picks up just the fallen die and rerolls it. That’s not rerolling, that’s cheating. So, I use HeroClix rules here.
I get a 33. Some set is getting its 33rd card used, but which one? I assign expansion sets two numbers each, so Arabian Nights is a 01-02, Antiquities is a 03-04, and so forth. I pick up my trusty dice and get…74. That’s no good, it’s too high. I roll again…
14. No, for the love of God, please don’t be…. Homelands. Sheesh. What is the 33rd card in Homelands alphabetically? What great card did I roll?
Well, if I am going to play one Clockwork creature, I don’t see any reason to stop there…
Time Waits for No Man, v 1.0
4 Clockwork Swarm
4 Clockwork Steed
4 Clockwork Beast
4 Clockwork Avian
4 Clockwork Gnomes
4 Clockwork Dragon
4 Clockwork Beetle
4 Clockwork Condor
4 Clockwork Vorrac
24 Lands of your choice, let’s say Plains
Well, that wasn’t such a chore, now was it? What was that? You think that’s cheating? Alright, fine. I’ll work a little bit harder to create the clockwork deck. You guys are really testy this week.
Time Waits for No Man, v 1.1
4 Clockwork Swarm
2 Clockwork Steed
3 Clockwork Beast
4 Clockwork Avian
4 Clockwork Gnomes
2 Clockwork Dragon
4 Clockwork Beetle
4 Clockwork Condor
3 Clockwork Vorrac
2 Armageddon Clock
2 Clock of Omens
2 Blood Clock
24 Lands of your choice, let’s make them Forests this time
No, I did not just add a few more clocks to the deck and call it a new deck. The first deck was a White deck, this is a Green deck. I changed the color and everything. Alright, fine! I’ll build a real deck, but calm down, it’s not like you paid to see this article or anything. I’m never going to be Premium.
Creatures (22)
- 4 Clockwork Avian
- 2 Clockwork Beast
- 2 Time Elemental
- 2 Clockwork Dragon
- 4 Clockwork Condor
- 4 Clockwork Swarm
- 4 Clockwork Gnomes
Lands (24)
- 24 Island
Spells (14)
We’ve got Telling Time, Time Ebb, Time Warp, Time Bomb, Time Stop and Time Elemental. It’s high time you took a look at this deck. Sorry about that, it was too easy. Yes, I truly hate puns, I must’ve been channeling Mark Gottlieb or something.
Okay, now are you happy? I added Blue spells, Time Elemental and Time Bomb as part of a whole time theme to the deck, with several clockwork creatures, and ended up with an actual deck that I put work into. Are you satisfied now?
Hey, where’d you go? Why does everybody leave at the end of an article?
Silly Homelands cards.
Until Later,
Abe Sargent