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  • posted a message on [$50] *** shinbatsu's Budget Modern Challenge! *** *** More deck for less money! ***
    Background:

    While watching some old coverage it dawned on me that a lot of RB midrange cards are pretty cheap. This deck wants to stall the game with tokens and draw a cards. You get a fair amount of value from your graveyard. Upgrades to main board would be exchanging duress for better discard spells but the most important way this deck could be improved is making the mana base better, probably by adding field of ruin and more dual lands. The sideboard would be better with

    Timestamp: 23/09/2020 17:11
    Cost@ $55.28 including sideboard (replace a Dreadbore with a village rites to be under budget)

    Lands: 23
    Creatures: 8
    Planeswalkers 8
    Instants and Sorceries: 21

    Lands (23)
    4 Lavaclaw Reaches
    7 Mountain
    4 Rakdos Carnarium
    1 Stensia Bloodhall
    7 Swamp

    Spells
    Instants (12)
    1 Cling to Dust
    4 Lightning Bolt
    4 Terminate
    3 Village Rites
    Planeswalkers (8)
    3 Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
    3 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
    2 Sarkhan the Masterless
    Sorceries (9)
    4 Dreadbore
    4 Duress
    1 Read the Bones
    Creatures (8)
    4 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
    4 Young Pyromancer

    Sideboard:
    3 Agonizing Remorse
    2 Fry
    2 Languish
    3 Rakdos Charm
    3 Stone Rain
    2 Underworld Connections

    The sideboard could use more work, and it is possible that molten rain/pillage are better than stone rain but with the current mana base destroying a tron land on turn 3 seems important. Languish probably wants to be anger of the gods if your budget goes that far, it can be flashed back and the exile matters in some matchups. It could also be cry of the cranium but -2/-2 might not be good enough.

    Posted in: Budget (Modern)
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