The Suboptimal Choice (TSC)

[Alfred]

I like playing games, and I'm assuming that because you are browsing an internet site about magic cards, you do as well. I propose a new blockbuster format: The Suboptimal Choice or TSC for short.

This format is quite simple really. The point of this game is for someone to suggest a card, a terrible card, a card that if you had to play with it, you would probably punch yourself in the face, HARD. This card suggestion is now the focal point of your deck, the tiny nugget of crap that all of your plans revolve around. This card should be one of the central cards in the deck, which is somehow used to further your goal of winning the game (putting a Mudhole in your psychatog deck doesn't count). Once a card is suggested, it is your job to create the best possible deck around the card in question, and once you have made the deck, you are now allowed to suggest a suboptimal card for someone else to build a deck around. Card suggestions should be interesting:

Example of an interesting terrible card:
Wood Elemental

Example of an uninteresting terrible card:
Squire

After a little while, the decks that have been created by you, the loyal members of TMD will face off against one another and may the best creation win!

The Suboptimal Choice for this round is:

City of Shadows

Now go my little pretties! Create the best deck you possibly can around this card!!!

[Matt]

You'll get a much better payoff/effort ratio if we just name cards that it would be hilarious if anyone ever actually did build a deck around it.

Rakalite.

[Nazdakka]

Hmmm. Why does it have to remove the creature from the game... that means I can't use Myr Servitor to abuse it :-/

Anyway...

City of Stalling.dec

4 Savannah
4 Windswept Heath
2 Brushland
4 Deserted Temple
2 Plains
2 Forest
3 Treetop Village
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring

4 City of Shadows
3 Candelabra of Tawnos
4 Raise the Alarm
4 Preacher
4 Nuisence Engine
4 Decree of Justice
4 Squirrel Nest
3 Riptide Replicator
3 Deranged Hermit
2 Staff of Domination

I'll give something slightly less awful for the next one:

Morality  Shift

Edit: Preacher. Doh. Added him in place of the Walls of Blossoms. Also added on-colour power... if I'm going to make a bad deck, I may as well make it a massively accelerated bad deck

[Jacob Orlove]

What, no Preacher? Oldschool combos are the best combos.

[Alfred]

That city of traitors deck looks pretty goddamn sweet! I like the fact that the more critters you sac to city, the more creatures you can make with it.