You have no way to get to DRS and only have two of. While I understand it's a powerful card, its seems it will only see inconsistant play. Might want to use that money on others things instead of having to get two more DRS.
You have no way to get to DRS and only have two of. While I understand it's a powerful card, its seems it will only see inconsistant play. Might want to use that money on others things instead of having to get two more DRS.
There is the Voice token but you should be running Dryad Arbor for getting to DRS. I would honestly consider getting 2 Verdant Catacombs since it gets everyone of your shocklands
The reason I did not add fetches and thoughtsieze is because that is what makes pod over $1000. I picked up 1 verdant catacombs and will use it and if you want to use more DRS be my guest.
Adding the Catacombs will not get the budget anywhere near the $1000. The reason Project Melira is so expensive is because it plays 4 of the ~$40 Chord of Calling which has three Green its casting cost therefore requires both Green Fetches. I think your build (which I have priced just under $400) could really use the $150 or so investments in 4 Verdant Catacombs to really get it to work well. No one really plays Thoughtseize maindeck anymore for this deck.
Chord of Calling is stopped by gaddock teeg and at $40 something I will not include alongside Fulminator, linvala, and misty rainforest. Mindcensor also nulls Chord and fetches, and is $10. As I said, I have already picked up 1 Vcat so you could add your playsets of fetches if you feel the need.
You're viewing things in the wrong light, yes chord is stopped by Teeg. Mindcensor doesn't null Chords and fetches, it neuters then to looking at the top 4.
Play test Chords and you'll see that they can STEAL games you otherwise should not have won and would not have without them. Fetches help smooth out draws esp when you sometimes want all 3 colors available on turn 2/3. In the long run they can also mitigate the amount of shocking yourself you have to do.
Its certainly possible to play a budget version, but do not expect it to be refined or get frustrated with it when it whiffs.
Thoughtseize can be replaced by Duress/IoK depending on your meta
Even with 8 Shocks, 2-4x Voice, 2-3x Chord, Melira Pod should only be 650-750. Far from $1000. Adding Thouseize will get you there, though, you can just use Duress and IOK in those slots.
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Legacy- Miracles, Aluren
My favorite win conditions cost 4 mana and are sorcery speed.
The goal here is to achieve <$500 deck that could top 16 at least. So far it does insanely well, I don't have all the cards and proxied ones I don't have against friends.
Once you add the voices and fetchlands and chords, it is no longer any sort of budget deck imo. What else is there that is expensive that you are avoiding? Thoughtseize? IoK is frequently just as good or better than thoughtseize.
You could potentially drop the cost 100 with only slight pain by using 4x marsh flats instead of 4x misty rainforest. Sometimes you'll wish you could fetch a forest, but usually you'll either have plenty of green (and thus a pains or swamp will work) or can just grab a shock.
Avoiding the extra Thoughtseizes, linvala, Fulminator, and I at first did not include Chord, Made it drop $300 or so already, and dropping 1 or 2 Voice also helped. I also am taking out another misty for an additional marsh flats.
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I looked it up after people were mentioning it's combo with Archangel of thune (which is unforunately not budget atm).
it actually seems really good in the deck... like another kitchen finks that can also reset kitchen finks
also great with gavony township and Varloz
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
4 Bloodthrone Vampire
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Birthing Pod
2 Deathrite Shaman
1 Entomber Exarch
1 Eternal Witness
3 Forest
1 cartel aristocrat
3 Gavony Township
3 Godless Shrine
4 Kitchen Finks
2 Lingering Souls
2 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
2 Murderous Redcap
1 Orzhov Pontiff
4 Overgrown Tomb
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Razorverge Thicket
1 Reveillark
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Swamp
4 Temple Garden
2 Viscera Seer
2 Voice of Resurgence
1 Wall of Roots
2 Woodland Cemetery
calling liberals loons=not okay
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There is the Voice token but you should be running Dryad Arbor for getting to DRS. I would honestly consider getting 2 Verdant Catacombs since it gets everyone of your shocklands
In fact now the only real budget decks I see are soul sisters and mono u tron, that don't require fetches
4 Verdants
4 Misty
3 Chords
3 DRS
2-3 Voices
4-5 Shocklands
Hate Creatures (Linvala, Mindcensor, Fulm mage)
all make this deck quite pricey
Play test Chords and you'll see that they can STEAL games you otherwise should not have won and would not have without them. Fetches help smooth out draws esp when you sometimes want all 3 colors available on turn 2/3. In the long run they can also mitigate the amount of shocking yourself you have to do.
Its certainly possible to play a budget version, but do not expect it to be refined or get frustrated with it when it whiffs.
Thoughtseize can be replaced by Duress/IoK depending on your meta
like right now I'm running linvalla main, IoKs over abrupt decay main, and testing a varolz sac outlet.
Yes nonbudget I was lucky to get my fetches at more than half their current price
4 Verdant catacombs
1 Marsh Flats
4 Misty Rainforest
3 forest
1 swamp
1 plains
3 Razorverge Thicket
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 temple garden
2 godless shrine
3 deathrite shaman
2 Voice of resurgence
3 bloodthrone vampire
4 Kitchen finks
2 murderous redcap
2 Melira, sylvok outcast
1 eternal witness
1 reveillark
1 orzhov pontiff
1 entomber exarch
1 phrexian metamorph
2 wall of roots
1 spellskite
1 viscera seer
2 abrupt decay
2 Chord of calling
It is definitely not as budget anymore, but it will work (for me at least).
Legacy- Miracles, Aluren
My favorite win conditions cost 4 mana and are sorcery speed.
You could potentially drop the cost 100 with only slight pain by using 4x marsh flats instead of 4x misty rainforest. Sometimes you'll wish you could fetch a forest, but usually you'll either have plenty of green (and thus a pains or swamp will work) or can just grab a shock.