Could Budget Charge Counters Be a Thing?

Modern Budget Pillow Fort

sdonovan

Card Draw (4)

• 4x Thoughtcast

Counter Generator (8)

• 4x Coretapper
• 4x Energy Chamber

Mana Base (25)

• 4x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 3x Glacial Fortress
• 5x Island
• 2x Mountain
• 7x Plains
• 2x Wind-Scarred Crag

Other (3)

• 3x Filigree Sages

Pillow Fort (8)

• 2x Ethersworn Canonist
• 4x Ghostly Prison
• 2x War's Toll

Removal (5)

• 3x Ghirapur AEther Grid
• 2x Lux Cannon

Win Con (7)

• 1x Darksteel Reactor
• 3x Ghirapur AEther Grid
• 3x Titan Forge

Counter Generator (3)

• 3x Animation Module

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 1x Celestial Flare
• 2x Crumble to Dust
• 3x Disenchant
• 3x Holy Day
• 1x Leonin Abunas
• 2x Pithing Needle
• 3x Sun Droplet

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Maybeboard

Other (15)

• 4x Animation Module
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Clearwater Goblet
• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Ivory Mask
• 1x Leonin Arbiter
• 1x Lightning Coils
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Power Conduit
• 1x Serum Tank

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I love weird, I love to brew, I have no money. while playing around on magiccards.info I came across Darksteel Reactor and needed to brew.

Here is what I came up with. Pillow Fort Charge Counters.

The Fort

• Ghostly Prison - Classic
• Tumble Magnet - Tap their world down and I can add more counters as needed.
• War's Toll - Great synergy when a Ghostly Prison is out
• Ethersworn Canonist

Generating Counters

• Coretapper
• Contagion Clasp - great place to dump extra mana as the game progresses and offers a wee bit of removal
• Energy Chamber
• Surge Node
• Vedalken Infuser

Removal

-Oblivion Ring- Lux Cannon - hits all permanents which is nice- Ratchet Bomb

Win Cons

• Darksteel Reactor
• Titan Forge
• Ghirapur AEther Grid

Side Board

• 2x Crumble to Dust - for Tron and and incidental Valakuts
• 3x Leonin Abunas - I'm expecting sideboard hate
• 2x Pithing Needle - need a way to disrupt combos
• 4x Sanctimony - burn is going to be an issue
• 4x Disenchant - Stony silence is going to wreck me

So the goal here is to pillow fort hard and to use other artifacts to add to the charge count. Because so many cards care about charge counters we can leverage Lux Cannon and Ratchet Bomb. The back up plan is to start grinding out 9/9 golems with Titan Forge but as stated that's only one back-up plan and I wouldn't mind hearing thoughts on this. I feel like I am lacking on life gain and card draw but not sure what to cut/ add for that. Constructive feedback is appreciated and lets remember that I'm poor so keep it MTGO budget friendly

Top Ranked	Achieved #45 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 3 Rares 18 - 5 Uncommons 5 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.69
Tokens	Golem 9/9 C, Servo 1/1 C
Folders	Budget, Budgets, Modern, Combo Decks, decks i like