Viability of these Budget Decks
Modern forum
Posted on Feb. 27, 2015, 1:16 p.m. by scottemery
I have recently sold my RW Burn deck as I find the playstyle basic and as a result boring. I now fancy a new Modern deck and have identified 4 decks that are withing my budget: Death and Taxes, Gifts Tron, UWR Delver and Storm.
So, the question I pose is, of all these decks which is the most viable in the current meta and more importantly which is the most interactive or fun to play with?
Thanks in Advance
(I hope this is the right thread)
ThisIsBullshit says... #4
I'm not really sure. Delver is pretty much tier 2, storm is 1.5, Gifts and Tron are both 1.5, and DandT is 1.5 too. For this particular meta, almost all those get hosed by things like Blood Moon or that one card that only lets people cast one spell per turn. However, I'm not an expert on this so take my advice with a grain of salt.
February 27, 2015 1:30 p.m.
Of those you mentioned, I'd personally say the strongest one in this meta is probably U/W Gifts Tron. Depending on the particular build, it's probably also the most interactive. Storm just goes off, Delver counters everything, and D&T is fairly mediocre.
February 27, 2015 1:45 p.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #6
kmcree great minds think alike, huh? Or are you just mocking me?
February 27, 2015 1:49 p.m.
Haha definitely not mocking. TBH I'm sick and feel like shit, so I just barely skimmed your comments. Didn't mean to repeat what you said.
February 27, 2015 2:08 p.m.
tron probably. I used to love hate bears but Tasigur and siege rhino have killed it.
February 27, 2015 2:10 p.m.
scottemery says... #10
Looks like I'll be going for Gifts Tron then, cheers guys.
February 27, 2015 2:29 p.m.
Dalektable says... #11
Gifts Tron is cool, UWR Delver has always been a pet deck of mine so I'm a bit biased on it. Though I admit it's not quite good enough yet...it needs something, but i dont know what.
February 27, 2015 3:06 p.m.
Dalektable says... #13
Nope geist is half the reason to run white on the first place haha. Even with geist it doesnt feel quite there and i've tested the deck extensively.
February 27, 2015 4:21 p.m.
Agreed Hatebears is in a bad place right now.. :( Worse, peeps shoving that abzan liege build thinkin its automatically hatebears, leading to others suggesting abzan cards for my hatebears deck... >.< Irritating.. to say the least..
I would agree with Gifts-tron. Sure your going to be hated out a lot.. Id say its a lot stronger as gifts can just tutor up all the answers you need..
Death and Taxes is better in Legacy where it has access to Stoneforge Mystic and things like Phyrexian Revoker are actually good.. Less removal.. and the biggest one... Mom... (Mother of Runes)
February 27, 2015 4:58 p.m.
AllAroundGeek says... #16
I don't know about interactive, but storm is the most fun... well, to me at least, but I've been told I don't have a soul
February 27, 2015 5:07 p.m.
scottemery says... #17
Have been testing and wow, gifts tron is an interactive deck, requires a lot of knowledge on the piolet's behalf, which I like.
February 27, 2015 7:15 p.m.
bijschjdbcd says... #18
If you go into UWR Delver you could potentially build into UWR Control down the track.
February 28, 2015 9:09 p.m.
scottemery says... #19
Not a huge fan of UWR Control, kiki UWR I don't mind but that's a few hundred dollars away.
March 1, 2015 8:38 a.m.
Just a side note, if you go with gifts Tron, should Blood Moon become too much of a problem, you can easily convert the deck to mono U Tron. I've been doing well with it in the current meta and bloodmoon honestly doesn't scare me.
March 1, 2015 12:35 p.m.
Fair enough. I'm really not a gifts specialist, but if you make a list, link it here, I'd love to look it over.
March 1, 2015 12:57 p.m.
scottemery says... #23
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/27-02-15-gifts-tron/
This is what I'm looking at right now.
March 1, 2015 1:01 p.m.
Nice, when I have time to sit down quietly I'll figure that beast out. Many thanks.
March 1, 2015 1:06 p.m.
Wait. By all that is holy. I just had an Idea... I dunno if it can be done. Imagine having a mono U Tron deck, and instead of a typical sideboard, you turn it into gifts Tron for game two.
Now that, would be a bucket of laughs.
March 1, 2015 1:15 p.m.
scottemery says... #26
No problem dude, knock yourself out.
It's a fair suggestion and I've previously thought about it but the problem is that generally speaking, the decks U Tron is good against Gifts Tron is also ok against, this works vice-versa.
March 1, 2015 1:24 p.m.
That makes sense. Well. It could be funny for the surprise value.
ThisIsBullshit says... #2
Interactive? Probably gifts tron. Storm just goes off, Delver just counters everything, and I'm not sure about death and taxes.
February 27, 2015 1:21 p.m.