Trying to make a budget Red/Blue control deck for casual gameplay, don't really care for legality or anything, please comment if you have any tips, or have better alternative to some cards.
So far my deck consist of:
Creatures:
×4 Enigma Drake
×4 Goblin Electromancer
×2 Spellheart chimera
×2 Arcanis, the Omnipotent
Spells:
×4 Counterspell
×3 Essence Scatter
×2 Supreme Will
×4 Lightning Strike
×2 Searing Spear
×2 Mizzium Mortars
×2 Earthquake
×4 Fact or Fiction
Enchantments:
×4 Clout of the Dominus
Lands:
×5 Island
×4 Izzet boilerworks
×5 Mountains
×3 Myriad Landscape
×4 Swiftwater Cliffs
It depends on what you consider "Budget" Here's my deck and I'm replacing my Izzet Guildgate with Steam Vents and my Goblin Electromancers with 2 Pteramander. The Right Side is my Sideboard.
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Preordain and Ponder are great cheap spells to help you find the cards you need and fill up your graveyard faster for your Drakes. Thought Scour may be good too.
Fault Line lets you play at instant speed so you can hold up counterspells or Fact of Fiction and play your kill spells at the end of their turn.
Rune Snag might be more flexible than Essence Scatter, letting you counter noncreature spells too. It depends on your playgroup, but currently most of your cards only deal with creatures and you have few answers to noncreatures.
Yeah, niv mizzet is kinda on the expensive side, I would consider any cards below $2 budget, as this deck is not going to see competitive gameplay, only playing this with my freinds. unless it has a really big impact on my gameplay(eg wincon) wouldn't really look for cards that are too expensive. sorry for the late reply
It never hurts to throw in the Niv Mizzet, Parun - Curiosity infinite combo as well. One copy of each card in deck will cost you the princely sum of $2.40 at time of writing. I just put it into my Izzet pinger deck as an alt win con. PLUS, the flavor is on point for your deck, Play a dragon that incinerates the minds of the unworthy and uninteresting!
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So far my deck consist of:
Creatures:
×4 Enigma Drake
×4 Goblin Electromancer
×2 Spellheart chimera
×2 Arcanis, the Omnipotent
Spells:
×4 Counterspell
×3 Essence Scatter
×2 Supreme Will
×4 Lightning Strike
×2 Searing Spear
×2 Mizzium Mortars
×2 Earthquake
×4 Fact or Fiction
Enchantments:
×4 Clout of the Dominus
Lands:
×5 Island
×4 Izzet boilerworks
×5 Mountains
×3 Myriad Landscape
×4 Swiftwater Cliffs
Thanks for helping out!
3 Opt
4 Sulfur Falls
4 Izzet Guildgate
4 Enigma Drake
4 Crackling Drake
2 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
2 Skewer the Critics
6 Island
8 Mountain
4 Shock
2 Ionize
2 Goblin Electromancer
3 Lightning Strike
1 Precognitive Perception
2 Sinister Sabotage
3 Lava Coil
1 Chart a Course
3 Dive Down
1 Negate
1 Fiery Cannonade
2 Skewer the Critics
2 Essence Scatter
2 Negate
1 Murmuring Mystic
1 Lava Coil
1 Sinister Sabotage
1 Ionize
2 Light up the Stage
Lightning Bolt is better than Shock, Lightning Strike and Searing Spear. Burst Lightning is pretty good too.
Preordain and Ponder are great cheap spells to help you find the cards you need and fill up your graveyard faster for your Drakes. Thought Scour may be good too.
Fault Line lets you play at instant speed so you can hold up counterspells or Fact of Fiction and play your kill spells at the end of their turn.
Rune Snag might be more flexible than Essence Scatter, letting you counter noncreature spells too. It depends on your playgroup, but currently most of your cards only deal with creatures and you have few answers to noncreatures.
4 Enigma Drake
4 Goblin Electromancer
2 Spellheart chimera
2 Arcanis, the Omnipotent
Spells:
4 Counterspell
3 Essence Scatter
2 Supreme Will
4 Lightning Strike
2 Searing Spear
2 Mizzium Mortars
2 Earthquake
4 Fact or Fiction
4 Clout of the Dominus
Lands:
5 Island
4 Izzet boilerworks
5 Mountains
3 Myriad Landscape
4 Swiftwater Cliffs