Intro:
It's no longer even close to a budget deck. I'm revamping and adding onto it. Originally the list cost about $65ish and I'm tacking on about $35 more to that with the new lands/Abrades. And I want to throw in 2-3 copies of Liliana, Death's Majesty, but only after I've tested a little bit. So the price should be in the range of $120 assuming everything holds. Which aside from Liliana (cuz who ever knows with Planeswalkers) shouldn't be a problem. I believe I can budgetize this list tho, so maybe I'll throw that in the description as well.
We are basically Mardu Control now and our win-cons are Gearhulks. No I don't need/want Fatal Push because as great as it is, we survive the early game really well with our red. It's super hard to get BLACK T-1, but it's super easy to get RED T-2. Plus Noxious really helps us stabilize from early aggro.
Anyways, on to the Cards of Note:
Tormenting Voice and Cathartic Reunion - Great filter. This deck wouldn't be a thing without these cards. Cathartic especially.
Refurbish, God-Pharaoh's Gift and Pia's Revolution - Refurbish and G-PG gets the gearhulks back. Then, Pia's Revo gives them back to us to hard cast them, or bolts the opponent. We are a shell of our former reanimator-self, but I think it'll work.
Sweltering Suns, Cut / Ribbons, Abrade, and Unlicensed Disintegration - Our removal package. Very nice stuff.
Noxious Gearhulk, Combustible Gearhulk, and Cataclysmic Gearhulk - The meat and potatoes of the deck. We're the Mardu deck formerly known as a Reanimator, so they aren't so much reanimation targets, as they are the cards we need to get to in order to win the game.
Possible additions:
Liliana, Death's Majesty - She does what this deck wants most after rotation, and I believe that I want 3 copies of her in here. I'd drop the stupid Gods Pharaoh's Gift and probably Pia's revo for her.
Rummaging Goblin - I may want him here... gigantic may tho lol. He loots. We may need it to get through the deck. He's no Sin Prodder like in any sense, but I may test with him when the set drops.
Vraska's Contempt - I would like one in the main and one in the side, but I think since we lose the best Gideon ever, Hour of Glory is a viable option cuz it's really just to deal with the gods. One of the two probably will see play in here.
Ixalan's Binding or Cast Out - Can't tell which one I like more.
Trove of Temptation - HEAR ME OUT. So this kinda sucks ass, but if we go up against control...idk I think it's pretty good fixing cuz if you resolve it you basically just ramp every turn. Pretty sure this is a noob trap tho.
Budget Options:
Drop all copies of Abrade, Sweltering Suns, Inspiring Vantage, Concealed Courtyard, Angel of Sanctions, Authority of the Consuls and 1 of Pia's Revolution.
Replace with:
3x Lightning Strike
2x Fiery Cannonade (1x in the board) OR the same number in the main/board of Yahenni's Expertise
1x Evolving Wilds
1x Mountain
2x Plains
1x Swamp
And for the side add in 2x Angel of Condemnation, 1x Approach of the Second Sun and move one copy of Unlicensed Disintegration to the board.
ULTRA MEGA BUDGET:
For ultimate penny-pinching, addition to the above changes also...
Drop all the Dragonskull Summit and both God-Pharaoh's Gifts and replace with 2x Mountain, 1x Swamp, 1x Plains and 2x Indomitable Creativity
Also cross your fingers and pray that a $40, 3 color deck will get you anywhere lol.
