Conceptualized by Bradley Rose, #MTGMoxtober is a variation of the ever growing monthly challenge, #Inktober. For those not familiar with the now annual tradition, Inktober was started by Jake Parker in 2009 as a daily challenge to create a new drawing for each day of October. Moxtober is the MTG variation of this challenge originally intended as a card design challenge for each day in October. Inspired by a prompt, card designers create new MTG designs every day throughout the month.
As much as I love seeing new card designs, and occasionally conceptualizing my own, card design is not my passion. The goal of these monthly challenges is to form a habit, and forming a habit of something I don’t really want to do on a regular basis isn’t very constructive. Instead, inspired by Bradley’s video at the beginning of the month, I decided to use each prompt to inspire a new Mono White Commander deck build. When I started creating content, my goal was to display the capabilities that Mono White has in commander. What better way to display the diversity, complexity, and depth of the white color pie than building a brand new commander deck for 31 days in a row? My objective for this challenge was not to build perfect decks, optimized decks, or even necessarily finished products. Instead, my goal was merely to display a new deck concept in mono white. Now at the halfway point, I’m still going strong. So far, I’ve created 15 new decks, with 15 different commanders. Some days have been more challenging, inspiring, or tricky than others, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the process thus far and look forward to the next 16 days of building.
If you’re curious to see a full list of decks you can find them here.
The following is my extremely arbitrary rankings of my five favorite brews from the first 15 days of #MTGMoxtober:
#5: Anafenza Counter Combos
Prompt: Brew – October 10th
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This prompt provided me with my toughest challenge, and for that, it sneaks onto the list at number five. It also helps that I stumbled upon a great beer while looking for inspiration. This deck was inspired by the Old Rasputin Imperial Stout by North Coast Brewing. The deck is full of tons of combos that take advantage of the variety of counters in the deck. How good are the combos? I’m not sure, but they are combos none-the-less.
#4: Frankie “The Cynic” Peanuts
Prompt: Cynic – October 5th
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I had always wanted to build a black border Frankie Peanuts deck, but the impetus for doing so was never really there. I love the character, Loxodons are my favorite fantasy lineage, and the idea of a Loxodon Mobster definitely sounds like a D&D character I would make. Moxtober finally gave me the drive to make it happen. This deck gets to run a ton of niche cards and effects while simultaneously featuring a ton of politics. This deck does drop down to number four since, in the end, you’re still going to have to get permission from the table to play it.
#3: Kwende Life Gain
Prompt: Lance – October 6th
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Kwende comes in at number three because I like the take on the traditional white life gain strategy. This deck is all about swings; both swinging with creatures and the huge life gain swings you’ll generate with it. If you can’t win with dealing huge amounts of damage, the back up plan is to use a variety of life gain payoffs to steal the game. There’s not as many individual cards that stand out in this list but the unique spin on a classic strategy is something I enjoyed creating.
#2: Divine Intervention Pact
Prompt: Pact – October 11th
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There was really only one direction I could go when I saw the prompt was “pact”, and let me say, building a deck around Intervention Pact was not easy. This deck is not ranked at number two because it’s powerful. The reason it’s so high on the list is because finding a use for Intervention pact was extremely satisfying, even if the combo is extremely mediocre and doesn’t win the game. You can see the tweet below for a description of the combo.
As I said, it’s not good, but it is a combo!
#1: Oriss Grandeur
Prompt: Firstborn – October 14th
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This deck take the top spot for two reasons: 1) Using Grandeur in a singleton format is hilarious and 2) I actually think this deck is kind of good. Creating a situation where you can use grandeur isn’t actually too hard and the pieces that let you use grandeur are actually just good cards. Paired with a variety of White’s best enters the battlefield effects, these effects become a great engine for the deck. This deck has a ton going for it, and I can’t wait to actually be able to build and play it in paper.
Conclusion
To those of you who have seen and commented on my decks, thank you, it’s greatly appreciated. I’d love to hear what your favorite #MTGMoxtober creation has been thus far. There have been a ton of awesome people contributing to the hashtag and a big thank you again to Bradley for championing the idea!
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