Deckbuilding Competition: The Face of Mother Nature [VOTING]

[ddevans96]

Here are our lovely disasters. Please vote for your favorites! Here's the submission rules for reference.

Spoiler for Naesala:

Hindenburg Disaster

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Simple little deck based off of the Hindenburg disaster, it can perform as necessary though it's not very good for obvious reasons, I'm playing up the angle of "the man made failure".
Man made  disaster in the West 
Quanta sources because the deck is playable
Four copies of pandemonium to represent both the four major theories for the cause of ignition, and due to the chaos and damage the event caused.
Two Graviton Mercenaries and One Green Nymph to represent the 23 crewmembers and 13 civilians who died.
Six (useless) Fire Eaters to represent how the consumption of fire led to downfall (here being played as the need for fire quanta being the downfall of the deck)
Three SoFo for the destruction of the Hindenburg
One Massive dragon, the Hindenburg itself (Upped because Massive is a better word)
One scorpion to represent the possible saboteur, who may have been Joseph Späh or Eric Spehl. (Upped because I didn't want the word "forest" involved)
Cards are mostly unupped to show the failure of insufficient technology that propelled us to do better in the future.
Bonus connection: Lightning could have been what caused it's failure (kills most cards in deck) but likely did not (Dragon can live through lightning) ^_^

Spoiler for Discord:

Japan Tsunami

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Medium range deck based off of the Tsunami in Japan.
Earthquake  in the ocean  , and disaster in the east  .
Deck is playable, though not sure how well.
Hematite Golems to represent what people might've died.
Titanium shield to represent the "wall" people took cover on for protection from the flood.
Earthquake to show that buildings were destroyed.
Trident to represent Tsunami.
Mind flayer to represent other dead civilians of japan.
Flooding to represent water everywhere.
Silence splash, for aether mark.

Spoiler for andretimpa:

Hurricane Katrina

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The deck itself mixes CC, PC and some medium hitters (it can take AI3 and with a lot of trouble AI4). The theme is not so hard to figure out, a huge storm (Lightning Storm) causing a flood (inundation complete with puffer fishes) and chaos (pandemonium and butterfly effect). Damselflies are less thematic but are the targets for your Butterfly Effects (imagine they are butterflies  ).

Spoiler for TiankPL:

Asian Flu

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Deck based on Asian Flu that happened in 1956-1958, but basically it can be any epidemic.

Starts off with a single virus, that turns into plague - hard to stop and spreading over time and space. Virus can multiply itself via Mitosis and Fractal. Fractal symbolizes its massive spreading. Used Aether Pends for slower quanta generation, as it takes some time for virus to spread like that (massively). Boneyards symbolize death toll (for this particular epidemic estimated for around 2 millions).

Spoiler for RavingRabbid:

Vajont

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A dam, in the valley of the Vajont. It would've supplied electricity to the surrounding area.
A 200 metres tall dam, right under the Toc Mountain.
Toc Mountain, what a name. In one of the local languages Toc means piece. And in the other one means Rotten.
Who could've ever guessed landslides were frequent?

9th of October, 1963.
22:39.
A 260 million cube metres mass of rocks slides down from Toc Mountain to the dam's basin.
The dam stood, as the builders had claimed. But the landslide generated a huge wave, that swept the Vajont valley. The small town of Longarone was wiped away, along with Erto and Casso, two towns in a different valley that were hit by a different wave.


The mountain's spirit, like in folklore tales, rising to punish those who rose a dam where no dam should have been built.
Golems, Earth, Blood, Bone
Carved out of Stone.
Wardens of the mountain.

The storm that was, the water accumulating over the safety limit in the dam basin
Rain, Bolting Rain, Lightnings.
The Patience of the water rising.

The earth moving, shifting. The destruction of the landscape.
The flooding, the huge wave that swept them all away.

Silence and the Wisdom to not make this mistake again in the future, all that was left after.

The deck works, kinda. It doesn't yield the best results, and the flooding looks very out of place and with no synergy the rest of the deck, but it was thematically too important to not be included. I also find both the deck (without flooding) and the name to be moderately decent for a False God, so I built this thinking of an AI/Spirit using this. Also, since it was the spirit of the mountain, I used an mark.

It could also have been considered a landslide by some, but the true disaster was the huge wave, so I just went with Flooding/Tsunami. It could also have been described as man-caused really, because that's what it was.

The Vajont Dam was at the time the tallest dam in the world, and even now is the 7th tallest dam, even if in disuse. I don't really know how known is this outside of the local area.

Spoiler for JonathanCrazyJ:

The Battle of the Somme

Uncounted, they continued, proud,
They did the duty asked of them.
The countless, pointless, nameless crowd
Marched on, the knowingly condemned.

Loud guns, and loud their beating hearts -
The morbid, brave cacophony,
They stood as men, and played their parts,
Faced silence, for eternity.

Those guns, those men, those painful ends,
The bloody, senseless, great disaster.
They may as well have launched themselves
as wasteful, but much faster.

The little lesson, salvaged thought,
(If anything can be learned)
Humanity is all for naught,
If life itself is spurned.

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[Zyardran]

Voted hurricane Katrina and Vajont

[CleanOnion]

Ugh, it's a close call between three for me

[Tymaret]

Very interesting work, all! Creative in both the deckbuilding and the connections. If it was a writing competition, I'd definitely have to choose either JCJ or RR!

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Congratulations RavingRabbid for winning with your outstanding submission 'Vajont'! We will work on your award, and distribute it shortly.

[Zyardran]

grats RR, well desereved imo

[RavingRabbid]

Grats self.
This was competition was fun, and it was also engaging to use a local happening.
If anyone wanted to see more, there is both a good 2001 film and a monologue play by Marco Paolini on the Vajont Dam Disaster.