Use wisp and a shoal to search out your library for various auras while not falling a step behind. The Idea behind this deck is to play lots of different types of removal to combat every type of situation. Of the auras to look for, some interesting ones are Temporal Isolation (instant Speed) Angelic Destiny (quick Clock) Spirit Link (life gain or virtual removal) or the Pentarch Ward (Also draws cards) + Pariah (Also is removal + fog) Lock.
This deck really isn't meant to beat combo very well. That's why you should pack a ton of sideboard hate. Rather, this is more of an anti aggro, and especially anti-Jund Deck which I think composes a much larger portion of the meta.
Non Budget Improvements: Other than the land base, it could use better discard and hosers, but I am content right now
Type: $20 or less
Used $19.15
Remaining $0.85
Wins by a fireball, Vent Sentinel, or Primodrial Hydra.
It probably needs, more draw, more consistent manabase.
I decided to convert a budget standard deck Ive been working on based on Seance and give it a go in modern. Modern allows you to include Sundial of the infinite so that you get to keep the monsters you bring out on your turn, as well as bringing some pretty serious ETB's into the deck for alternate kills (the main being self mill with mirror-mad combo-which is an instant win sans removal)
If my math is correct it come to 15.00 board and all. Its untested and the manabase/card choices can probably be improved immediately. Counterflux , Magus of the Bazaar, and more removal/disruption would probably be best along with more ways to take advantage of sundial of the infinite. Annul is in the board to deal if you think rest in peace is coming in, or affinity/auras.
Ok, this was inspired by a cool little kid (9 or 10 years old) at my LGS who plays a rat deck because that is what he wants to do! I also own a table top Legacy deck I used as the starting model for this. To bad Crypt Rats hasn't been reprinted in Modern.
It is pretty easy for follow. You play rats and control the hand. Half the budget is Nezumi Shortfang. If I had more of a budget I would use Marrow-Gnawer. Since http://magiccards.info says they are $11.29 I am not using them, but ebay says I can get them for about $4.00 each.
Needs more thrumming stone and relentless rats. Fewer actual rats. If you'd like I can trawl out my relentless rats deck and post it up somewhere; its not budget by the rules of the thread though, since apparently thrumming stones are $4.85 each....
I know the deck, but I wanted this to be a tribe themed. My point in this deck was that it can hold it's own and has the "Rat coolness" and appeal to younger players that would want to get into playing MTG. Tell a 10 year old that you have a rat deck for him and watch his eyes light up.
Budget: $19.85
How the deck plays: This is a combo control deck that uses burn and counter to control the board and then goes infinite with Izzet Guildmage + Training Grounds + Manamorphse. WIth training grounds, the guildmages copy ability only costs U or R to activate, which means that if you copy 1 manamorphse while its on the stack, you get near infinite mana and near infinite draw. You then cast and copy a Lightning Bolt. This deck works because (1) the combo is harder to hate out with traditional storm/twin hate such as Mindbreak Trap,Ethersworn Cannonist, Torpor Orb etc... (2) the combo is instant speed with Leyline of Anticipation and (3) most of the cards are decent without a combo piece so playing control works. You can definitely win with just the guildmage+lightning bolt/see beyond/manamorphose or Training Grounds+Azure Mage
Non Budget Upgrade. Here is my non-budget list. It uses white for the ever insane Azorius Guildmage for complete and utter domination.
Budget: $19.74
How this deck plays: Burn is pretty good but people have cards in their hand and that sucks becaus they can play threats and hate. How about changing that? This deck focuses on playing a bunch of discard made burn with The Rack and Liliana's Caress.
Budget: $19.74
How this deck plays: Burn is pretty good but people have cards in their hand and that sucks becaus they can play threats and hate. How about changing that? This deck focuses on playing a bunch of discard made burn with The Rack and Liliana's Caress.
Ya know, its funny you mentioned this because I was fiddling around with a mono-black discard deck and that runs Liliana's Caress and thought to myself how awesome it would be to run Blightning in a deck with Liliana's Caress. With even a single Liliana's Caress on the field Blightning would do 7 damage and 2 discard for 3 mana. That's incredible. Assuming you aren't worried about counter spells you could even hit them with a Sign in Blood to give them more cards to discard and ping them for another two. Add in Underworld Dreams and Sign in Blood now gives them 2 more cards for you to Blightning or whatever and does 4 damage for 2 mana. That's on par with Boros Charm and if its down to the last 4 damage of the game, slinging a Sign in Blood at your opponent isn't a bad idea. I feel like their could be a very abusive discard deck available here running some number of The Rack, Liliana's Caress, and Underworld Dreams (which may end up being unnecessary).
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Type: $10 or less
Used: $9.26
Remaining: $0.74
Non budget upgrades: Aether Vial, Figure of Destiny, Ranger of Eos, Spectral Procession, Path to Exile, Honor of the Pure, Knight of Meadowgrain.
Budget: $17.70
How the deck plays: This deck takes into the Suicide Black's aggro mode with the Death's Shadow combo deck to make a aggro version of suicide black. Suicide White! Play Plunge into Darkness as your main dig and enabler to get Fateful Hour and play massive tokens and pumps! Then swing away with this fun deck. There are a lot of really cool interactions involving plunge, townsfolk, and the Thraben Doomsayer. I don't know its viability as burn and the stupid Deathrite Shaman can pose some pretty big problems but I would say that this is really fun to build
The plan is basically throw down evasive dudes that also make them discard. Also includes the Mimic Vat lock with both Liliana's Specter and Ravenous Rats. If you aren't familiar with that lock you imprint either of those on the Mimic Vat and then on their draw step make a copy. They never get to draw again once you empty their hand. Then you just keep beating them in the air with your Specters, and Faeries. Ninja dude for some draw and also returning your ETB discard effects. Same for the impostor. Also a removal package for getting things out of your way, killing things to imprint, etc. I've had a blast playing this in testing.
Other Budget Options: Blackmail as a 1CMC discard spell. Its not as good as the non-budget things but after you drop a rat/specter or two, they will be holding on to a few gems that they didn't want to discard and you can rip them away. Duress might just be better here. Nyxathid could also be a very viable option as a beat-stick here.
Strategies:
Drop creature: Turn one War Falcon is beautiful.
Drop more creature: Battlecry pulls together the extra damage to finish on time.
Finish them: Dropping a creature on turn four won't do much good here. Use Brave the Elements, Apostle's Blessing, and/or Guardians' Pledge for the win.
With BtE in hand there's some room to hold back an attack for the turn four sweep. If there are five creatures swinging and two have battlecry there's probably 20 damage there. Plan A should always be "turn creatures sideways" but if you're getting walled this might save the day.
+Billion Karma to the person who can make me a budget combo deck that has at least 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Archaeomancer. Any colour deck will do (+Blue)
+Billion Karma to the person who can make me a budget combo deck that has at least 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Archaeomancer. Any colour deck will do (+Blue)
2 Restless Apparition
3 Graveborn Muse
4 Tallowisp
4 Tidehollow Sculler
2 Angelic Destiny
1 Dead Weight
1 Hideous Laughter
3 Nameless Inversion
1 Pariah
1 Pentarch Ward
1 Pillory of the Sleepless
4 Shining Shoal
3 Sickening Shoal
1 Spirit Link
2 Temporal Isolation
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Caves of Koilos
1 Mistveil Plains
2 Orzhov Guildgate
9 Plains
9 Swamp
Total Budget:$19.13
Remaining Budget: $0.87
Card advantage galore with Tallowisp + Graveborn Muse + Tidehollow Sculler and recursion with Angel of Flight Alabaster + Restless Apparition
Use wisp and a shoal to search out your library for various auras while not falling a step behind. The Idea behind this deck is to play lots of different types of removal to combat every type of situation. Of the auras to look for, some interesting ones are Temporal Isolation (instant Speed) Angelic Destiny (quick Clock) Spirit Link (life gain or virtual removal) or the Pentarch Ward (Also draws cards) + Pariah (Also is removal + fog) Lock.
This deck really isn't meant to beat combo very well. That's why you should pack a ton of sideboard hate. Rather, this is more of an anti aggro, and especially anti-Jund Deck which I think composes a much larger portion of the meta.
Non Budget Improvements: Other than the land base, it could use better discard and hosers, but I am content right now
Creature (26)
4x AEther Membrane
4x Axebane Guardian
4x Carven Caryatid
4x Overgrown Battlement
2x Primordial Hydra
4x Vent Sentinel
4x Wall of Roots
4x Faithless Looting
4x Lightning Bolt
8x Forest
8x Mountain
4x Evolving Wilds
Type: $20 or less
Used $19.15
Remaining $0.85
Wins by a fireball, Vent Sentinel, or Primodrial Hydra.
It probably needs, more draw, more consistent manabase.
Raise Your Spirits! ($4.59)
4 Tallowisp (.36)
3 Vassal Soul (.04)
4 Drogskol Captain (1.16)
4 Lantern Kami (.04)
3 Niblis of the Urn (.08)
4 Spell Pierce (2.64)
2 Terashi's Verdict (.08)
Enchantments (14)
4 Ethereal Armor (.04)
4 Unstable Mutation (.08)
3 Spectral Flight (.04)
3 Weight of Conscience (.03)
9 Islands (FREE)
13 Plains (FREE)
Budget: Extreme: $5
Strategy: Abuse Tallowisp to consistently find strong enchantments, then beat them down. Not complex by any stretch, but extremely cost effective.
I have a few more to post later!
Budget Modern Seance: TIME:1/31/13
must have rares:
4 Seance - 2$
1 Mirror-Mad Phantasm - .50
1 Labratory Maniac - .50
1 Sphinx of Uthuun - .30
1 Slayers Stronghold - .49
1 Furystoke Giant - .50
1 Tyrant of Discord - .10
1 sphinx of lost truths - .15
Spells:
4 faithless looting - .75
4 Izzet Charm - 3
2 Sundial of the Infinite - .30
3 Izzet Signets - .24
2 Boros Signets - .15
4 mulldrifter - 1.6
4 Cathedral Santifier - .5
4 Seller of songbirds - .5
2 Riftwing Cloudskate - .50
lands:
4 Sejiri Refuge - 1
4 evolving wilds - .8!
4 Azorius Guildgate - .8!
4 Boros Guildgates - .8!
2 Islands
2 Plains
3 Mountains
24 (counting the slayers)
4 Annul - .50
4 essence scatter - .10
3 Journey to nowhere - .75
1 negate - .15
2 Kor firewalker - .20
1 Sudden Disapperance - .10
If my math is correct it come to 15.00 board and all. Its untested and the manabase/card choices can probably be improved immediately. Counterflux , Magus of the Bazaar, and more removal/disruption would probably be best along with more ways to take advantage of sundial of the infinite. Annul is in the board to deal if you think rest in peace is coming in, or affinity/auras.
Decks I play and stuff.
Legacy Burn
Modern Mono U Tron
3 Aven Riftwatcher
2 Blade Splicer
2 Flickerwisp
4 Judge's Familiar
4 Leonin Arbiter
4 Mangara of Corondor
1 Mulldrifter
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Stonecloaker
3 Crystal Shard
3 Journey to Nowhere
4 Leyline of Anticipation
Lands [22]
4 Adarkar Wastes
2 Island
12 Plains
4 Sejiri Refuge
Budget: $19.89
Remaining Budget: $0.11
How this deck plays: No Aether Vial, no problem, this is a blue-splash version of Death and Taxes that uses Leyline of Anticipation to generate speed of course all of the Mangara of Corondor, Flickerwisp, and Stonecloaker shennanigans that we all know and love. The leyline makes us go into blue, which is fine thanks to Ninja of the Deep Hours, Crystal Shard and Mulldrifter. So life is good.
Non-Budget Upgrades: Aether Vial!!!!
4 Chittering Rats
4 Drainpipe Vermin
4 Nezumi Shortfang
4 Ravenous Rats
4 Typhoid Rats
2 Throat Slitter
4 Smallpox
4 Tragic Slip
4 Duress
2 Swarmyard
20 Swamp
Budget $18.08 (5 Feb 2013)
Remaining $1.92
It is pretty easy for follow. You play rats and control the hand. Half the budget is Nezumi Shortfang. If I had more of a budget I would use Marrow-Gnawer. Since http://magiccards.info says they are $11.29 I am not using them, but ebay says I can get them for about $4.00 each.
I know the deck, but I wanted this to be a tribe themed. My point in this deck was that it can hold it's own and has the "Rat coolness" and appeal to younger players that would want to get into playing MTG. Tell a 10 year old that you have a rat deck for him and watch his eyes light up.
Currently playing in Modern:
BBB8Rack
Currently Playing in Legacy:
Foil BELCHER
"Never interrupt your opponent while he's making a mistake"
3 Azure Mage
4 Izzet Guildmage
Spells [30]
1 Echoing Truth
3 Leyline of Anticipation
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Mana Leak
4 Manamorphose
3 Muddle the Mixture
4 See Beyond
2 Spell Pierce
4 Training Grounds
1 Turn Aside
9 Island
2 Izzet Boilerworks
3 Izzet Guildgate
9 Mountain
Budget: $19.85
How the deck plays: This is a combo control deck that uses burn and counter to control the board and then goes infinite with
Izzet Guildmage + Training Grounds + Manamorphse. WIth training grounds, the guildmages copy ability only costs U or R to activate, which means that if you copy 1 manamorphse while its on the stack, you get near infinite mana and near infinite draw. You then cast and copy a Lightning Bolt. This deck works because (1) the combo is harder to hate out with traditional storm/twin hate such as Mindbreak Trap,Ethersworn Cannonist, Torpor Orb etc... (2) the combo is instant speed with Leyline of Anticipation and (3) most of the cards are decent without a combo piece so playing control works. You can definitely win with just the guildmage+lightning bolt/see beyond/manamorphose or Training Grounds+Azure Mage
Non Budget Upgrade. Here is my non-budget list. It uses white for the ever insane Azorius Guildmage for complete and utter domination.
2 Azure Mage
4 Izzet Guildmage
Spells [28]
2 Echoing Truth
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Lightning Helix
2 Mana Leak
4 Manamorphose
2 Remand
4 Serum Visions
3 Spell Snare
4 Training Grounds
4 Arid Mesa
4 Hallowed Fountain
5 Island
4 Mountain
1 Plains
4 Steam Vents
2 Day of Judgment
3 Mindbreak Trap
3 Path to Exile
3 Rest in Peace
4 Spell Pierce
2 Hypnotic Specter
3 Liliana's Specter
2 Nyxathid
2 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
4 Ravenous Rats
Spells [27]
4 Blightning
2 Burning Inquiry
3 Duress
2 Funeral Charm
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Liliana's Caress
1 Sign in Blood
3 Terminate
3 The Rack
1 Underworld Connections
2 Bojuka Bog
6 Mountain
4 Rakdos Guildgate
8 Swamp
Budget: $19.74
How this deck plays: Burn is pretty good but people have cards in their hand and that sucks becaus they can play threats and hate. How about changing that? This deck focuses on playing a bunch of discard made burn with The Rack and Liliana's Caress.
Non-budget Upgrades: Liliana of the Veil, Manabase
Ya know, its funny you mentioned this because I was fiddling around with a mono-black discard deck and that runs Liliana's Caress and thought to myself how awesome it would be to run Blightning in a deck with Liliana's Caress. With even a single Liliana's Caress on the field Blightning would do 7 damage and 2 discard for 3 mana. That's incredible. Assuming you aren't worried about counter spells you could even hit them with a Sign in Blood to give them more cards to discard and ping them for another two. Add in Underworld Dreams and Sign in Blood now gives them 2 more cards for you to Blightning or whatever and does 4 damage for 2 mana. That's on par with Boros Charm and if its down to the last 4 damage of the game, slinging a Sign in Blood at your opponent isn't a bad idea. I feel like their could be a very abusive discard deck available here running some number of The Rack, Liliana's Caress, and Underworld Dreams (which may end up being unnecessary).
Also, if you are running Underworld Dreams then mirrored card draw such as Howling Mine, Temple Bell, Font of Mythos all become sources of damage.
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4x Goldmeadow Stalwart
4x Wizened Cenn
2x Cloudgoat Ranger
4x Kinsbaile Borderguard
4x Goldmeadow Harrier
4x Augury Adept
4x Ballyrush Banneret
2x Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile
4x Kithkin Harbinger
4x Surge of Thoughtweft
20x Plains
Type: $10 or less
Used: $9.26
Remaining: $0.74
Non budget upgrades: Aether Vial, Figure of Destiny, Ranger of Eos, Spectral Procession, Path to Exile, Honor of the Pure, Knight of Meadowgrain.
2 Champion of the Parish
2 Death's Shadow
1 Fiend Hunter
4 Hex Parasite
4 Soul's Attendant
4 Thraben Doomsayer
4 Tidehollow Sculler
2 Dismember
3 Duress
4 Gather the Townsfolk
3 Journey to Nowhere
1 Phyrexian Unlife
4 Plunge into Darkness
4 Orzhov Guildgate
12 Plains
6 Swamp
Budget: $17.70
How the deck plays: This deck takes into the Suicide Black's aggro mode with the Death's Shadow combo deck to make a aggro version of suicide black. Suicide White! Play Plunge into Darkness as your main dig and enabler to get Fateful Hour and play massive tokens and pumps! Then swing away with this fun deck. There are a lot of really cool interactions involving plunge, townsfolk, and the Thraben Doomsayer. I don't know its viability as burn and the stupid Deathrite Shaman can pose some pretty big problems but I would say that this is really fun to build
Non-budget upgrades: more Champion of the Parish, Path to Exile, better disruption, better lands
Cost: $17.61 (Timestamp 2/13/13)
4 Jwar Isle Refuge
4 Dimir Guildgate
9 Swamp
5 Island
Creatures 20
2 Hypnotic Specter
4 Liliana's Specter
2 Faerie Impostor
4 Ravenous Rats
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Oona's Prowler.
2 Dismember
2 Smother
2 Go for the Throat
2 Mimic Vat
3 Telling Time
3 Gitaxian Probe
4 Mana Leak
3 Illness in the Ranks
3 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Flashfreeze
3 Doomblade
4 Vampire Nighthawk.
The plan is basically throw down evasive dudes that also make them discard. Also includes the Mimic Vat lock with both Liliana's Specter and Ravenous Rats. If you aren't familiar with that lock you imprint either of those on the Mimic Vat and then on their draw step make a copy. They never get to draw again once you empty their hand. Then you just keep beating them in the air with your Specters, and Faeries. Ninja dude for some draw and also returning your ETB discard effects. Same for the impostor. Also a removal package for getting things out of your way, killing things to imprint, etc. I've had a blast playing this in testing.
Other Budget Options: Blackmail as a 1CMC discard spell. Its not as good as the non-budget things but after you drop a rat/specter or two, they will be holding on to a few gems that they didn't want to discard and you can rip them away. Duress might just be better here. Nyxathid could also be a very viable option as a beat-stick here.
Non budget options: Inquisition of kozilek or Thoughtsieze and Better lands. Liliana of the Veil would probably be a good addition as well. Also Damnation.
Credit to Rivenor for the AWESOME sig.
RKrenko, Mob BossR
RWBAlesha, Who Smiles at DeathBWR
BRRakdos, Lord of RiotsRB
BGRProssh, Skyraider of KherDeckRGB
Modern:WBTokensBW
Standard: BUGSultai DeliriumGUB
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Skarrgan Pit-Skulk
4 Young Wolf
4 Safehold Elite
4 Silhana Ledgewalker
Pumps (22)
4 Bonesplitter
4 Vines of Vastwood
4 Groundswell
4 Gather Courage
4 Hunger of the Howlpack
2 Predator's Strike
18 Forest
4 Spore Frog
4 Nature's Claim
4 Faerie Macabre
3 Healing Leaves
Price: $4.05
Not $1 like my Infect but hey, still cheap.
Commander: Child of Alara BURGW, Adeliz, the Cinder Wind UR
Tiny Leaders: Gwafa, Hazid Profiteer UW
Regular Pauper: Stompy G, Mono-G Tron G, Infect G
Cost: 4.42 (TIMESTAMP: 2/17/2013)
22 Plains
CREATURES (30)
4 Boros Elite
4 Elite Vanguard
4 War Falcon
4 Signal Pest
4 Hada Freeblade
4 Kazandu Blademaster
2 Porcelain Legionnaire
4 Accorder Paladin
4 Brave the Elements
2 Apostle's Blessing
2 Guardians' Pledge
TYPE: EXTREME BUDGET ($5.00 LIMIT)
CURRENT COST: $4.42
REMAINING BUDGET: $.58
NEXT NON BUDGET UPGRADES: Champion of the Parish and lands to support Thatcher Revolt, Legion Loyalist, Boros Charm and/or Goblin Bushwhacker.
Strategies:
Drop creature: Turn one War Falcon is beautiful.
Drop more creature: Battlecry pulls together the extra damage to finish on time.
Finish them: Dropping a creature on turn four won't do much good here. Use Brave the Elements, Apostle's Blessing, and/or Guardians' Pledge for the win.
With BtE in hand there's some room to hold back an attack for the turn four sweep. If there are five creatures swinging and two have battlecry there's probably 20 damage there. Plan A should always be "turn creatures sideways" but if you're getting walled this might save the day.
I think the next upgrade would be going Boros, but only with a fast land base to keep the tempo alive. Sacred Foundry, Arid Mesa, Battlefield Forge, Clifftop Retreat, Rugged Prairie. Then getting some Hastey dudes for turn four.
4 Crystal Vein
4 Archaeological Dig
4 Ghost Quarter
1 Forest
4 Plains
Eggs (20)
4 Conjurer's Bauble
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Skycloud Egg
4 Sungrass Egg
3 Mossfire Egg
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
4 Faith's Reward
3 Noxious Revival
3 Reclaim
Other (13)
4 Tinder Wall
4 Rest for the Weary
4 Edge of Autumn
1 Laboratory Maniac
$19.89 based on magiccards.info main prices today.
Didn't test but it might suck a little bit due to unreliability, but hey
Commander: Child of Alara BURGW, Adeliz, the Cinder Wind UR
Tiny Leaders: Gwafa, Hazid Profiteer UW
Regular Pauper: Stompy G, Mono-G Tron G, Infect G
Talrand, Sky Summoner, and Archaeomancer. Any colour deck will do (+Blue)
20 Island
Creatures (18)
2 Talrand, Sky Summoner
4 Archaeomancer
4 Vedalken Aethermage
4 Augur of Bolas
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Ghostly Flicker
4 Gitaxian Probe
3 Impulse
4 Memory Lapse
4 Delay
3 Mana Leak
$19.92. Good Luck
Commander: Child of Alara BURGW, Adeliz, the Cinder Wind UR
Tiny Leaders: Gwafa, Hazid Profiteer UW
Regular Pauper: Stompy G, Mono-G Tron G, Infect G