Deckbuilding Competition: The Mastery Gauntlet

[CactusKing]

THE HAUNTLET
A haunted house told to contain vast treasures guarded by terrifying spirits and terrible puns from the underworld. Will you make it out alive?

The first thing you notice when you enter the house is that cobwebs cover everything, from the decaying furniture to the ornate coffins and piles on old bones lying on the floor. Lightning briefly illuminates the mansion through the shattered windows, revealing the hoard of spiders rushing towards you.

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Arachnophobia

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You manage to slay the spiders, but the ghosts that inhabit the house have been disturbed. They curse you with flashbacks and nightmares, and your attempts to forget them only hurt you further.

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Ghostmare

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With the ghost apparently slain, you hurry upstairs in search of treasure. Down the hall, a door opens slightly. You walk in; no-one appears to be there. The light switch is missing and the window is boarded up. As you feel around the in the darkness you come across various bottles, a little knife, and a sandbag of some sort, with needles sticking in to it. You pick it up, and it suddenly bursts into flames...

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Burning Doll

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All the monsters of the house are out to get you now. Grab the gold and run!

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The big boss, equipped with a double mark.

Spectrum Spectre

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[CleanOnion]

Entries are coming in quick - just 7 hours left to join the Gauntlets!

[kaempfer13]

Toad Trouble

You want to join a research team studying optimal conditions for animals to thrive. Your deck must contain at least 6 creatures.
Turns out your division is full of toadfish and pufferfish fans, although they are not entirely sure whether the evolved form -the pufferfish- is actually better suited for survival. When you arrive the rest of the team is furious at your lack of puffer-/toadfishes (or if you did bring them they are eager to compare). In order to redeem yourself (prove yourself in case you did bring toad-/pufferfishes), you have to show that the biome you prepared is superior to theirs.

The student assistant hasn't specialized in anything, you should try to overwhelm him. However his biome is richer than any of his colleagues'.

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Student Assistant

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The research associate is a bit more focussed. Focussed on leaving a toxic atmosphere.

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Research Associate

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The first postgraduate learned that sometimes simple is better. He doesnt bother with toadfishes toxic properties and instead pools them together with stronger creatures that still wouldnt survive a fight with a toadfish and thus instead keep other threats away rather than try to kill the toadfishes.

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First Postgraduate

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The second postgraduate on the other hand used hormones to boost the pufferfishes power:

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Second Postgraduate

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Finally, you face the professor. He paired the most intelligent creatures with the pufferfishes and knows that you have to be patient for your biome to thrive:

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The Professor

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Spoiler for Winning:

You have successfully destroyed the biomes your Team was supposed to study and likely brought a biome that you werent supposed to study. The higher-ups prepare to fire you. However an investigation shows that the rest of your team was all incompetent. Their shortsighted desire to fight resulted in the mixture of biomes that just arent compatible, resulting in all but yours to be destroyed. Still, yours survived somehow, so the higher-ups are confident that if you are told what to do next time you might create the most stable biome anyone has so far. You now got your own research project!

[Aves]

Spoiler for Creator's notes/Ooc:

Many of these decks are normal in build, modifying only in health, mark, and size. Since the ruling on anything about stats is legal, as well as no rule on the decks having to be "legal" in game, I decided to take as many liberties in how the decks could be. This made me imagine how many ways i could change rules outside standard rules. Chroma mark Crusaders rainbow and the armory deck came to mind. If the COs decide that this is illegal, I agree to take the decks out of the gauntlet.

AI controlled decks tend to have less restrictions, given the precedent set by existing cases such as Paradox. The Chroma mark is a bit iffy, but I don't have major qualms against it. Your submission is fine.

[Kalinuial]

The Sadistic Chef

The sadistic chef has prepared a day's worth of meals for you.  Digest them all for a delicious reward..

Meal one
You call yourself a champion?!   Don't even think about skipping the most important meal of the day -- breakfast!  I'm heating up the pans right now with a bit of butter. Do you like your eggs scrambled, runny, hmm? Looks like you're going to get them many ways..

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Breakfast of Champions

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Meal two
How about a nice sushi buffet for lunch?  The best sushi chefs in Japan use rice, raw fish, eel, and remove the poison from the puffer fish. Gosh that's so lame.  I substitute cockatrice for rice, steel golem for eel, and leave the poison in the puffer for a heartier meal.  And why use raw fish when your fish can crawl inside your body alive?  Sushi chefs take a short bow before serving the food.  But I do you honor by taking a long bow.  Now eat! Itadakimasu!   

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Sushi Buffet

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Meal three
It's time for a happy hour. I've concocted the most delicious electrum punch for you. You'll drink from a giant hourglass. Don't let the punch dissipate, and don't black out before siphoning it all.     

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Electrum Punch

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Meal four
Ah, the final meal.. the hottest BBQ you will ever attend.  It may very well be your last meal.  I'm serving you the hottest birds and even fire and ash itself. 

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Sizzling Nightmare

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