Alright heres the situation, my younger cousin asked me for a black-red or green-blue modern deck and has a budget of around 250$. Problem is I have no idea what is the modern metagame is.
Can someone suggest me a good archetype to build from? Going a 3rd color is not out of the question and preferably something easy to play and fun. Also not a combo deck if possible.
You could do a lot worse than Jund. Blightning, then bloodbraid elf into blightning is always going to be pretty good.
You won't be able to build the popular jund lists for $250, but there are a decent amount of cheap replacements that aren't terrible.
Its going to sting going without tarmogoyf, dark confidant or liliana, but he should still be able to put up a good record. Tarmogoyf and Dark Confidant are pretty much the top of the cards that would go into any type of "lets reprint card for modern" product, such as the ones WotC has alluded are in the pipe. And Liliana can also be used in standard, or failing that, her price will drop once she rotates out of standard.
Best money saver is probably Sakura Tribe Elder. You can get a playset for like a dollar. No its nowhere as good as tarmogoyf, but it does some damn good work, and it also eases pressure on your manabase so you can skimp a little on the expensive duals.
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I support WotC's goal of shaping Modern in favor of diversity.
I ran a thought experiment on my blog Modern in a Nuclear Wasteland
of an extreme case of banning 20 more cards to make sure they get everything, then scaling back where appropriate. WotC seems to be on a slowly build up approach. Both ways probably reach similar end points.
The post Gatecrash metagame is proving to be closer to the endpoint than I estimated, so its very possible that few (if any) more cards need to be banned.
A fairly cheap blue-green deck could be a modified heartbeat combo. If you land heartbeat of spring with a number of time walk effects. Then run 4 time of need for a 1 of emrakul.
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Can someone suggest me a good archetype to build from? Going a 3rd color is not out of the question and preferably something easy to play and fun. Also not a combo deck if possible.
Ty
You won't be able to build the popular jund lists for $250, but there are a decent amount of cheap replacements that aren't terrible.
Its going to sting going without tarmogoyf, dark confidant or liliana, but he should still be able to put up a good record. Tarmogoyf and Dark Confidant are pretty much the top of the cards that would go into any type of "lets reprint card for modern" product, such as the ones WotC has alluded are in the pipe. And Liliana can also be used in standard, or failing that, her price will drop once she rotates out of standard.
Best money saver is probably Sakura Tribe Elder. You can get a playset for like a dollar. No its nowhere as good as tarmogoyf, but it does some damn good work, and it also eases pressure on your manabase so you can skimp a little on the expensive duals.
I ran a thought experiment on my blog
Modern in a Nuclear Wasteland
of an extreme case of banning 20 more cards to make sure they get everything, then scaling back where appropriate. WotC seems to be on a slowly build up approach. Both ways probably reach similar end points.
The post Gatecrash metagame is proving to be closer to the endpoint than I estimated, so its very possible that few (if any) more cards need to be banned.
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:rakdos::selesnya: goblins
:symr::symb::symg: Glass Cannon Griselbrand
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