Hello there,
if you like, please help me out with improving my budget vehicle deck or just leave comment or enjoy. It's available for less than 25 Euros, the only cards above 2 Euros is 4x Smuggler's Copter and 2x Skysovereign, Consul Flagship, which is 6 in total, the rest is 1-50 cent.
The idea is simple and known, but I tried to improve it to the max. Put out early creatures, which then crew your relatively cheap vehicles. And there is a ton of card draw and cycle, so you should always have the right ratio of crew/vehicle/lands as well as enough punch to drive home the victory.
Card draw comes from Sram, Senior Edificer and Thraben Inspector and Depala, Pilot Exemplar, cycling from Smuggler's Copter and some scry from Veteran Motorist.
Crew costs are low, 1 and 2 (and 2x 3), so we can always hit. It more of a go wide strategy, but also with quite heavy hits, including 6 lords (Chief of the Foundry, Depala, Pilot Exemplar), trample, flying, first strike and haste.
Two coloured with lots of artefacts makes simple lands possible to keep it cheap. Depala, Pilot Exemplar also acts as a late game mana sink, which converts into more cards on which you can spend your mana.
Ideas and comments are welcomed! Sideboard is not existent yet, but would propably include mostly removal and maybe some burn. I'm thinking of putting in some life link via Aethersphere Harvester and Aether Hub (also mana fixing) as well, otherwise I think the deck is quite safe because you just have a lot of everything at all times. Maybe put in some removal in the main deck right from the start, I'm not sure. You can always cycle it, if it's a dead removal card.
Example:
T1: Plains + Toolcraft Exemplar
T2: Mountain + Smuggler's Copter // Attack with 3/2 Toolcraft Exemplar
T3: Plains + Depala, Pilot Exemplar // Depala Crews, Attack with 4/4 Flyer and 4/3 Dwarf, Start cycling for perfect next turns (e.g.: T4: Land + Fleetwheel Cruiser ; T5: Land + Veteran Motorist // scry2 (+ optional cycle) + 0-3 Mana in Depala, Pilot Exemplar X-Ability for a refilled hand)
Many similar moves are possible. Mana curve allows for dropping something each turn, later on you can cycle and card draw to drop two cards every turn.
Cheap creatures and vehicles in vast numbers are good against control, mass removal a la Day of Judgment is not such a big threat as to other creature based decks because vehicles are not creatures in enemy turns unless you want so, and there is always a surprise drop of Start Your Engines to hit with vehicles (dwrafs can also hit instead of just crew). Flying and trample make sure your damage will not be blocked (trample + first strike is awesome anyway). Right now I fear faster decks, burn and fast combo decks, but I will have to test in real games.
The deck is meant to be played in friendly but fierce casual games with friends. We don't follow strict banned or restricted rules, but try to keep it fun and fair.
