So I have hit 150 followers on my Tumblr blog, and I can tell you that I am sincerely flattered. And I want to show my thanks, not just through words, but through actions. Through something that I can be proud over, and something that is from me. Something that would symbolise all that that you are following me for!

I want to create a giveaway. I want to you to have something, but I can’t give it to all of you. No matter how much I would like, my economical situation would not allow me to do so. So I will do a giveaway, but it will also be a contest. And to tie it in with what I have done the last week, it will be a contest based in the casual, wonderful format of Elder Dragon Highlander (Or Commander, choose freely!).

For those of you who haven’t noticed, I have been running a showcase of Commander’s Debt for the past six days. If you would like to catch up, here’s the Commander’s Debt’s Table of Contents. This fan made set of Custom Magic Cards would contain five pre-constructed decks, 62 new cards of which there would be five new planeswalkers commanders, a whole new mechanic, and a cycle of enchantments that grants planeswalkers new abilities. But I will let you in on a secret!

Commander’s Debt isn’t, and wasn’t ever intended to be, finished by me. 32/62 cards have been completed, but for the rest I want to do something special. Hence this giveaway. So hang on, because here comes the contest:

The Background

Everything that I put up on this blog is something I am proud of. Something that I have a plan for. A deck, a combo, a player, there is always something planned for all that Glimpse The Thinkable contains. This time, it was commander decks. And this time, I want your help!

The Contest Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to choose one of the five enemy color pairs in Magic the Gathering. Having chosen this pair you will be granted the corresponding general from planeswalker week, along with the secondary general, the trademark spell, one of the five teachings cards, the two mana providers, and one of the five support cards. That is seven cards in total. From these cards, you will show me your deck building skills and your design skills. Having chosen the pair I want you to present to me one of the other fifteen new cards provided within the deck, along with the other 85 reprinted cards. I want you do describe the theme of the deck, what its name is, what its plan is, and why it is the best deck possible for the chosen general! I want you to do this by reblogging this post, sending me an ask, a submission, or a fan mail. You will, if possible, provide a render for your card design, and you will provide a clean list for the deck with proper card splits. (I would recommend card types, and I would love to get the list via Tapped-Out). You will submit this before the end of the month, that means; Deadline is the 1st of September 2015. The Price After the deadline I will select the winner. There is no clear rubrik on this, but I will choose depending on deck description, card design, deck plan, and any other array of words that you decide to put into your submission. Got a great, new combo? Put it in! Got a fancy interaction? Mention it! The winner of this contest will, together with me, design the rest of the fifteen new cards for the deck they submitted. We will discuss card design, development, and general EDH things. We will, if desired, test decks on Cockatrice. After we’ve designed these fifteen cards we will do a proxy printing of the cards, which I will pay, and the cards will then be sent to the winner to use as proxies in their EDH decks. I will sadly not be able to pay for the deck, but I will give you all the cards that we designed! The Bonus Now that’s the basics! However if this contest puts me above 200 followers, I will select two winners. They will each receive fifteen proxy cards, designed together with me, and we will each playtest, discuss, and develop.

An example

For this contest to be understandable, I took help from Cara over at commandollar​ to build a budget Orzhov deck that I could showcase. After a simple ask I got a wonderful deck from Cara, 85 cards thick and with a clear theme all for around 75$. The deck looked like this, where (*) notes a new card, one that I designed as an experiment:

Commander

Creatures (25)

Instants (3)

Sorceries (16)

Enchantment (14)

Artifact (4)

Land (37)

Last words

I hope you’ve enjoyed your stay over at Glimpse the Thinkable, even when I was known as Sgt Failure. This contest is done to thank you all, and if you have any questions, send them my way! Thanks, and good luck!