Fun viable deck ideas?
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2015, 6:25 p.m. by durzostarfire
I have a few poor/mediocre decks and was wondering what is a good deck idea that's fun to play and doesn't break the bank so I can play my friends with more success
PepsiAddicted says... #4
its crazy but i wouldnt recommend it for anything else than very casual kitchen table magic ;)
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SCORE: 4 | 2 COMMENTS | 351 VIEWSFebruary 20, 2015 7:21 p.m.
I mean you could use Blistercoil Weird but I was talking about cards like Undying Flames and Grip of Chaos. Maybe even Conjured Currency. This is assuming that you are playing group games though. Typically if I read a card that just does something really seemingly bad like Warp World I would try and throw It in one of these decks and change the deck to it. Ex. Warp World with any cascade and Bogardan Hellkite.
February 20, 2015 7:37 p.m.
You've asked an incredibly broad question there; it depends on what you find fun about the game, how strong the decks you play against are and how much money is too much for you. Is there anything you can tell us to help narrow down the kind of deck you want? Do you like to play a more aggressive or controlling game? Do you like combos? Any colours or colour combinations you particularly enjoy? What sort of decks do your friends play? Just how budget do you want it to be? Less than $100? Less than $50? $25?
That being said, all of the decks listed on my profile are budget casual decks that I've refined to be at least half decent against my playgroup, so you might find something there to inspire you.
February 21, 2015 11:25 a.m.
durzostarfire says... #7
my budget is $100 I am not a control fan prefering aggro or combo. I've only played G/W but am open to other options My playgroup has some stong decks varying in archetypes, the stongest being a U/W tempo with battlewise hoplite, D-sphere and martial law.
February 21, 2015 12:22 p.m.
Red Deck Wins is basically always a cheap and viable aggro archetype; aggressively costed red creatures like Rakdos Cackler, Stormblood Berserker and Hellspark Elemental with the curve topping out with something like Hellrider and backed up by efficient burn spells to clear out blockers or remove the opponent's last few points of health such as Lightning Bolt, Magma Jet and Searing Blood. You can see the decks tagged with "Red Deck Wins" and "Budget" sorted by score here.
You can also make a very aggressive artifact deck for cheap with metalcraft cards like Ardent Recruit and Galvanic Blast and free artifacts like Memnite and Ornithopter. My own attempt is Deus Est Machina.
For a more combo-y aggro deck there's infect, bogles and Kiln Fiend decks. They all very explosive, usually winning around turns 2-4, and work by pumping up a one or two creatures to deal lethal damage with a single attack. Infect uses the infect mechanic with creatures such as Glistener Elf, Plague Stinger, Blighted Agent and Ichorclaw Myr and cheap pumps spells like Groundswell and Mutagenic Growth. Examples can be seen here.
Bogles uses hexproof creatures and enchants them up to the eyeballs with auras; Gladecover Scout and Slippery Bogle with things like Rancor, Ethereal Armor and Spirit Mantle. You can read a modern primer for it here, which is mostly budget friendly already, I believe the only thing you'd probably want to skip is Daybreak Coronet.
Kiln Fiend is my favourite of the three, although it's presumably the weakest since both bogles and infect see modern play and I'm pretty sure Kiln Fiend does not; it is, unsurprisingly, built around Kiln Fiend and Nivix Cyclops and cheap instants and sorcery cards to pump them up; cards like Assault Strobe and Titan's Strength to increase damage, Artful Dodge and Distortion Strike to avoid blockers, Mizzium Skin and Turn Aside to protect the creatures. My deck is Killin' Fiend.
Hopefully you find something here you like the look of.
February 21, 2015 2:05 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #10
It's possible to build a really solid deck out of nothing but commons and uncommons. My Bargain-Bin Affinity deck is my own personal example. Right now it's built for resilience in longer multiplayer games, but if you want to make it more aggressive you can replace Tree of Tales and Gaea's Blessing with Vault of Whispers and Cranial Plating.
sirbar says... #2
U/R weird stuff is really cool. With pretty much any card in those colors that just does something funky.
February 20, 2015 6:40 p.m.