[Budget]
Percentage of MTGS Users On a Budget.
Poll: Your PRIMARY competitive modern deck can be best described as:
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Your PRIMARY competitive modern deck can be best described as: - Multiple Choice
- $1.3k-3k deck, 100% optimized and up to date with current meta trends. 25.6% of Users - 42 votes
- $1.3-3k deck, 80-100% optimized (eg: small % of budget substitutions for high value staples, 2 of 4 goyfs, ect) 4.3% of Users - 7 votes
- $1.3-3k deck, 50-80% optimized (eg: high % of budget substitutions for high value staples, $20 sideboard cards) 0.6% of Users - 1 votes
- $600-1.2k deck, 100% optimized and up to date with current meta trends. 14.6% of Users - 24 votes
- $600-1.2k deck, 80-100% optimized (eg: small % of budget substitutions for high value staples, 2 of 4 goyfs, ect) 7.3% of Users - 12 votes
- $600-1.2k deck, 50-80% optimized (eg: high % of budget substitutions for high value staples, $20 sideboard cards) 0.6% of Users - 1 votes
- <$600 deck, 100% optimized and up to date with current meta trends. 11% of Users - 18 votes
- <$600 deck, 80-100% optimized (eg: small % of budget substitutions for high value staples, 2 of 4 goyfs, ect) 7.3% of Users - 12 votes
- <$600 deck, 50-80% optimized (eg: high % of budget substitutions for high value staples, $20 sideboard cards) 9.8% of Users - 16 votes
- <$600 deck, 100% Kitchen table competitive, lucky mono color, conveniently unknown brew 3.7% of Users - 6 votes
- I'm able to switch between decks valued between 1k and 3k each as I wish. 10.4% of Users - 17 votes
- I switch between decks valued at between 1k and 3k given expensive staple crossovers (junk/jund, twin/deliver) 12.2% of Users - 20 votes
- I only play online via MTGO or free software (X-Mage, The Cock) 8.5% of Users - 14 votes
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It also helps that my collection goes back several years, so I could play Burn if I picked up Eidolons or I could play Tron if I found a way to acquire Karns and Ugins.
Modern:
Something new every week
Legacy:
Something new everyweek
One of the cards I actually remember spending a lot of money on for Modern was actually Glimpse the Unthinkable, which I spent $68 on a play set because I wanted to play Dredgevine. This was a year ago after looking at a CFB list.
Now Legacy is another story. I have spent a lot and despite owning numerous staples that have continued to go up, I still buy more.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)GX Tron XG
UR Phoenix RU
GG Freyalise High Tide GG
UR Parun Counterspells RU
BB Yawgmoth Token Storm BB
WB Pestilence BW
The amount of money I've spent acquiring this stuff is probably high-ish but not even close to what it's all actually worth. I buy the occasional booster for fun, I enter tournaments and save credit, and I might buy a box here and there when a set comes out. I'm just not afraid to play the long game when it comes to collecting cards and saving tournament winnings to get stuff. I had to play Tron for over a year straight every week, twice a week, in order to get the credit to even start building different things. I waited until MM2015 dropped to get Cryptics and V. Cliques. I waited for Khans to get any fetchlands at all. Peeps just gotta realize that they need to start somewhere, even if it's like a $60 monogreen stompy deck which earns them enough credit to buy some lands that can turn into something like Abzan Company or Wilt-Leaf Abzan, which can turn into freaking Jund if given enough time to simmer. It all comes together as long as you got the patience.
Seriously though Blood Moon is ridiculous and I'll probably just not get any. Easier that way. I can play Twin without them.
Modern
RGTron
Legacy
UBRDelver
Also Playing:
Dragon Ball Z TCG
That's how I do it. I started out with a Legacy Burn deck for $90 and took it to tournaments, it won me a good $500 in credit over a year. That credit bought me a Standard deck which let me play more often and get about $1000 in credit plus trade material. Trades kept me current with Standard while I was able to buy into Modern with credit starting with the formats announcement. These days I'm lucky enough to have a store where I can play Modern twice a week, and stockpile a lot of store credit. The store doesn't always have the singles I need but with online trades it's pretty easy to convert store credit into any cards I need/want. These days I've gotten to the point where I've gone infinite off of paper drafts, I get to draft with credit, open packs, then win more credit than my entry fee in draft prizes which is a great way to pile up the trade stock, especially with MM2 drafts going on.
If you can win enough to get credit it's a fantastic way to build into a format, that said by definition not everyone can be a winner so this strategy only works for a subsection of players. My advice to new players if this is how they want to work their way into the game is to pick a powerful but inconsistent deck. Those types of decks have the best shot at spiking a small tournament and getting you some winnings. Under most prize structures (though not all) it's much better to go 4-0, 1-3, 0-4, 1-3 over a month than 2-2, 2-2, 2-2, 2-2
My particular issue here is that after a 3-1 or 4-0 or something with a tier 1 deck I go back to playing something stupid because its what I really enjoy. Junk is cool, and I'm a competent player with it(which I didn't really know before when I was playing mono-crappy.dec), but I mostly just want to use gifts ungiven--so the credit is semi-sparse.
With out a doubt, if not for my stock of duals which I got for $15-$32 each during the days of Odyssey, I would not be able to have both a Burn and Zoo with enough trade value left over for sideboard cards and future inclusions. I cannot even begin to imagine trying to start with this format from scratch.
RDW
Zoo
CoCo Elves