20 Best Challenger 1 Deck (2022 Updated)

These decks offer a nice starting point into Pioneer but need a little improvement to compete at the speeds needed in tournament play. The range of play styles offers opportunities for players to explore game pacing and strategy as they start to investigate the whole Pioneer deck scene.

A good entry point for those wanting to explore something bigger than standard tournaments.

Got exactly what I ordered, the deck is really op in the first 5-6 turns and don’t underestimate Selfless Savior’s importance!

Love how these are stronger decks than the typical challenger decks, I got them as a pickup-and go kitchen table magic decks for when I have people over.

Just got it in the mail at 2:50pm today. My students will enjoy playing this deck! Thank you so much!!

Solid preconstructed token deck. Needs upgrades but fair Mana base and good start.

Came a lot faster than expected. Adding some great cards to the collection.

Easily one of, if not, the best structure decks ever printed. Containing some amazing reprints, this structure deck allows players to make a top tier meta deck at a very affordable price.

Not gonna lie, I thought this was a bit sketchy with the price- but I was pleasantly surprised! I am def gonna buy from here again when the next set rolls around.

It was too good to be true. I got the package in less then 2 weeks, and for a great price!

Ordered 3 decks, 2 were fine but 1 was horribly misprinted, probably the worst misprints I’ve ever seen. Some of the bottom text of the cards were cut off and the top border was about .5cm tall.

Quick and fast shipping! The front card was damaged on all 2 structure decks but that’s something that could’ve happened to anyone.

Child very excited. People are complaining in the reviews that you don’t get to pick what you get. That’s kind of the point? This is like a blind bag. It’s a surprise. And it was excellent. Tell your child it’s a surprise and you’re not sure which you will get and they won’t be disappointed.

Read fine print. My child was so excited to receive the deck on the main image (Thinking it to be the only product) but received one they already owned. $30 saved up pocket money wasted. “We cannot guarantee which style you will receive when you buy online” Great.

Thanks for the crying child.

An additional deck to play out of box. Good additional to the Battle Academy Box I also bought. I hoped for Blastoise but got Venusaur as it’s random choice, but still cool.

The Pokemon card game has definitely changed since I used to play! But I like the changes; there’s definitely more strategy involved. If you’re like me and haven’t played the card game in years but are wanting to get back into it, these are good starting decks.

These decks are each based around 2 EX Kyurems. The Black Kyurem deck is designed to have Magnezone load up Kyurem with electric energy. The White Kyurem deck has Delphox which keeps 6 cards in your hand each turn and has Chandelure which allows you to equip one extra fire energy per turn from your deck, while doing 10 damage to the pokemon it’s equipped to.

Each deck has cards to get energy from the discard pile since some of the attacks are stronger but require you to discard energy. All around, I think it’s good strategy and good decks!.

Awesome price for two battle ready decks. Comes with great cards. Fun to play. Get it!

Better and more competitive than theme decks, but not as beginner friendly.

When you can find these prebuilt decks on sale, they tend to be a good value w/some pretty good cards in them

Packed really well and was dry even though it was raining. Would buy from again. Thanks so much.

For $99.99 The value of the cards just speak for themselves.

I have now played against this deck and can confirm it is green/blue but behaves rather more blue than green. Will appeal to sneaky blue players who enjoy shutting down their opponents with instants and dispels.

Some surprising combos in there. Never trust a blue player with unspent mana at the end of their go. They are up to something.

Product: The challenger decks are fun and they’re a great way to get a jumpstart into the game of Magic. These decks provide a little stronger and more consistent gameplay than other products such as duel decks.

I’d recommend doing a bit more research if keeping up with standard and FNM is what you have in mind, though. The Collector Store: These guys are great. I’ve received fast shipping from them consistently and everything I’ve ordered has arrived safely.

I’ve never had the need to contact them, so I can’t really speak to the customer service beyond what I’ve said above.

Amazing deal of this deck.

Great value in this product! So many fun and exciting ways to play again and again this game! Even the coven mechanic stands up In casual games! But the real power is taking apart the humans deck and rebuilding it! The zombies deck is good that is most useful as a shambling corpse of the good cards to add to your existing zombie deck!I would recommend taking the decks against each other for a bit first and enjoy the classic battle of zombies versus humans!.

The Innistrad Midnight Hunt Commander decks are by far the best pre-constructed sets that Wizards of the Coast have produced in recent years. There are some great old cards mixed in with some spicy new stuff to make the play experience one to remember.

The decks play really well against each other and can even hold their own against more powerful Commander decks at a multiplayer table. Highly recommended for those looking to get into Commander, or for those simply wanting to add a new deck to their repertoire.

This theme deck has Pokémon go written all over it but only contains 2 Pokémon go cards that are not trainers. 1 of which is the mew you see in the window. The rest of the Pokémon, energy and some of the trainers are NOT Pokémon go! I wouldn’t have wasted my money on random cards from different sets if I knew this!!.

I just started collecting Pokémon cards and I need more v cards. This is perfect for beginners .

I don’t know much about Pokémon but the price was right on this set! My son played for hours.

I bought these gifts for my grandson who will celebrate his 4th birthday on July 15. I am sure he will be very happy with his gifts 🎁

Keyforge is the latest card game that looks like an endless money sink from Fantasy Flight, of Android:Netrunner fame. So probably best to get a few comparative notes out of the way first: 1) No, this is *nothing* like a living card game or collectable card game.

2) Yes, you can spend £stupid on Keyforge, but I don’t think you’ll want to. The big novel feature with Keyforge – opposed to pretty much anything else – is that every single deck is unique. And you can’t change it, or tell what you’re going to get before you open it.

In theory that means that any deck you get might be utter junk, but of the ten-or-so I’ve seen so far, all of them seem ok. All of them have the potential to explode into a spectacular chain of combos, drawing forth more “oohs” and “aahs” than your average bonfire night spectacular, but all of them have also fizzled like a disappointing roman candle stuck in your back garden in a persistent drizzle.

It’s a hugely swingy game, and honestly you have to be on-board with that. It’s all part of the fun. In any other game that involves you buying ever-increasing numbers of cards you’d play one game with a deck like these and then spend hours optimising some of the.

“interesting” choices out. Not in Keyforge: you’re stuck with what you have. And that’s wonderful. I love Netrunner – I really, really love Netrunner – but I don’t play it as often as I’d like to because I just don’t have the spare time to spend putting together a deck, and on top of that I’m really not that good at it.

So when I do, the quality is pretty hit-and-miss – and then I’m stuck with a potentially rubbish deck (which is all my fault). If it goes badly, I’m not likely to play again on the off-chance I just got unlucky, or played the game poorly – I’ve got to invest another chunk of time trying to fix the deck first.

I’m not saying this isn’t fun – it is! – but it’s not playing a game, and it’s an investment of time, and of money because you need the card pool to work with. I’m aware that Netrunner is now sadly out of print, and that’s a discussion for another day, but it’s just an example I use because I play it more than the likes of Mage Wars, MTG, Lord of the Rings LCG, Game of Thrones and the like.

The same applies to any card game where you have to customise a deck. They’re not just a game; they’re (to some extent) a lifestyle. It’s also terrible. Going back to Netrunner again, I recently played a game that was so tense I had to stop to dry my hands because I genuinely had sweaty palms.

Now, one of the problems with Keyforge is that the theme is paper thin, but I think this goes deeper: I’d invested time and effort into making this deck. It was on a knife edge between working and failing.

You can’t get the same tension without investing yourself in the game, and the pre-packaged popcorn of Keyforge doesn’t do that for you. And here’s where I think Keyforge really suffers: It also does almost nothing in therms of theme or gameplay to earn that sense of investment from you.

Looking at the theme, I can’t even see what Keyforge is aiming for. The cards look fine (though there’s some poor graphic design choices which makes a couple of the types of card difficult to distinguish) and yes, I can see that mechanically the flavour of the various houses marries up with the card abilities but it just feels like playing cards that do stuff in a game.

Which seems an odd statement, but think about it: Unless you’re playing a super abstract game, generally the playing pieces, the cards, the board, are stand-ins for something else. You’re not just playing a card, you’re summoning a wolf or carefully securing your server with countermeasures, or whatever.

I mean, yes, you’re playing a card but there’s more to it. It’s contributing to the story of the game. With Keyforge, I can honestly say that the flavour washes off at the lightest touch. It’s all mechanics.

There’s no story there, and no emotion. The mechanics do work though. The chains of cards you can put together are fun. It’s undeniably satisfying to throw a ludicrous combo down, wipe out the opposing forces, capture all their aember and end the turn sitting on a small mountain of the stuff as you invite your opponent to do something about it with a smug “check” – and it’s also strangely entertaining then being on the receiving end of a similar stream of nonsense as your mountain of aember gets levelled in the very next turn.

But mechanics are the word for it – although you do have a ton of meaningful choices to make each turn, starting with which house to play, as your turn begins you’ll have a bunch of cards that the game makes available to you.

You’re going to essentially pull a few levers and the clockwork of the game is then going to spin off and do a whole bunch of stuff and then you’re done. If you’re looking for any mind games, bluffing or the like.

look elsewhere. But. Sometimes you just want to open up a game, and play without high stakes, without preparation, and without stressing yourself out trying to tell bluff from double bluff. Sometimes you just want to throw cards down and laugh at the stupid overpowered nonsense that you’re each going to get to do and that – thanks to the wonders of having totally different decks – you couldn’t even see coming.

And under those circumstances, Keyforge definitely is worth taking a look at. I’ve played a lot over the past few weeks, purely because it’s very very easy to get to the table. I can play against my 11-year-old son and it’ll be just as much fun as playing against an adult and a lot of that is because it doesn’t rely on mind games, doesn’t rely on deckbuilding and most of all because, despite expectations, despite each card breaking the rules a different way, it’s really quite simple.

Now for a word of warning that has nothing to do with the game, but everything to do with the package you get when you buy it. Shamefully, Fantasy Flight have once again produced a starter set that is incomplete.

They’ve got form for this in the past – releasing starters where you need more than one to play without running out of components – but honestly, releasing a set without the rules in it? That’s absurd.

Yes, the rules are available online, but a physical rule book makes learning the game so much easier. It’s no fun to be mucking around on a tablet or phone trying to figure out rules, and it could have been solved so easily by just putting the rules in the starter set.

I can’t understand what they were thinking. You also get a bunch of tokens in the starter set, but again – these are incomplete. There aren’t, for example, armour tokens. Depending upon the decks you end up with, armour is going to be changing a lot, and having tokens to track it with is almost a necessity, but you’re going to have to dig out something for yourself to do it.

Given that you’re going to have to find the rules online, and given that you have to augment the bits of cardboard, you may as well just dispense with the starter set entirely. Pick up a couple of the archon decks, find a few tokens to use as power, armour and health counters and you’re away.

It’s a much cheaper way of trying the game out and if you like it you can make a much nicer set of tokens and keys than you’ll get in the starter set anyway. If you’re going down that route, here’s a tip for the chain counter.

In the starter set, you get a chain counter card (as you gain chains, your card draw is reduced so you need to keep track of this). I had thought these are the only items that aren’t easily replaced by coloured counters or the like.

But! Get a set of d6. Use them to track the number of chains you have (so, for example, if you have 8 chains, you’ll stick two d6 on your deck, one showing 6, one showing 2). The number of chains is the sum of the numbers on the dice, but the card draw reduction you suffer is the number of dice you have on your deck.

This has become super long, so I suppose a summary is in order: Keyforge is good. Not great, but good. It’s very lightweight compared to other games which expect you to keep buying cards, but with that comes accessibility and relatively low-effort rewards.

The lack of depth is an issue – probably not one that will stop you having fun, but it limits how deep it’s possible to dive into the game. It’s candyfloss compared to the rich Sunday dinner you might have been expecting.

Which is fine if you like candyfloss! But you probably won’t want to be eating lots of it in one sitting. And the starter set is almost insultingly poor – so pick up a couple of these Archon decks instead if you want to try it out.

Played several games of this now and have enjoyed it. The unique deck is a cleaver idea and provides a great low cost way to play a competitive card game. I played magic for a few years and it cost a lot of money.

This is a great price and you don’t need to buy anymore. I have 2 decks that I’ve played against each other and one appears much more powerful than the other. This could be me being a novice and not figuring out my “weaker” deck or it could be just something that happens with the random unique deck as You will always get one that’s more powerful than another.

More plays will hopefully figure it out. Each game has been enjoyable anyway and Would recommend giving it a try if you are even slightly interested in a 2 player card game.

Keyforge is from master designer Richard Garfield. This versus card game for two players with a few distinctives. The first thing is that each deck is unique. So if you buy one of these packs no one else will have in the world! The second is the game isn’t about beating down your enemy but rather forging three keys by gathering enough æmber.

This makes the game feel fresh and engaging, and although you could in theory just but one pack, you will more likely grab a few to try the different combos!.

This is a great deck because of some cards like harpie feather duster you are almost self pying the deck. Also you get an Obelisk to play

This is a fun and easy to use deck for a relative beginner to the game. Still getting my butt kicked by my son, though.

Konami Yu-Gi-Oh cards arrived fine and no missing cards in package was sealed perfect, cards are extra sealed inside the little box.

I was a bit hesitant a first going from a smaller base deck to a large one but after hoping on its by far the best deck I’ve ever rode. Amazing for street but also works really good for park which suits me well being a hybrid rider.

I replaced all of the horizontal boards (>1500 board feet) on my deck, including stairs with Trex Transcend. I simple got tired of re-staining the wood every 2-3 years. I stained all of the vertical wood to come close to the appearance of the Trex.

I did all of the work by myself. I thought installation was relatively easy. Aside from a few boards that were delivered with flaws (they were replaced at no charge), I encountered no problems with the boards aside from some minor warping.

That was easily corrected during installation. They do scratch – I hit one with the router and I have one where a still spinning saw blade touch it. I replaced the one and left the other. They are slippery when wet, maybe a little more than the wood, but not much.

They seem much warmer in direct sunlight, but that’s not much of a factor on our shady deck. I used the solid stain on the cut ends of some of the boards and, for now, it looks great. Not sure how long the stain will last, but the cut ends accepted the stain very well.

This requires maintenance, but not like that. Now I have to figure out an easy way to get walnut stains off of Trex.

We are planning on building a deck on the back of our home and we have been looking at sample boards and trying to find the perfect one we both like. Well, I got this Trex Sample- Island Mist and absolutely love the look, it looks like real wood with grain effects and the color is perfect.

It is really heavy and I am pleased to say it protects against rot, warp, termites and splintering. It is backed with a 25 year limited residential stain and fade warranty. Another big factor in my decision is it is made with 95% recycled materials.

To me that is awesome! I highly recommend to anyone whom is planning on building a porch, deck or any type of outdoor flooring to consider Trex, you will not be disappointed.

This is an excellent deck sample and I sincerely love the aesthetic texture of it. It’s only a 1 feet sample item but the product can be used in a variety of ways. I’m currently using it as a small shelf space item on my wall.

It can hold small books and other treasured items. It is not large enough or sturdy enough to hold televisions or full-size stereo systems but it can hold small computer speakers. The nature of this material is faux wood.

I definitely think the item will hold up with time and I sincerely think the manufacturer of this item will improve the material in the future. I love this item!.