SOI Standard Budget Brews?
Standard Deck Help forum
Posted on April 11, 2016, 3:20 p.m. by MagnusMTG
It's been a while since I tried building a serious Magic deck. I love doing silly, themed, janky casual decks, but I haven't done much competition lately. I feel like I don't know how to build a deck anymore.
After the SOI rotation, I want to try playing some Standard again. I want to try several different 'budget-but-upgradeable' deck ideas, then after I settle on one to compete with, I'll invest more in it.
The archetypes I'd like to try first are:
Mono-black aggro
Blue/black zombies
Esper something
Blue/x control
White/x aggro or midrange
Colorless/devoid/wastes/eldrazi whatever
Aggro allies
I might also consider b/g something, because that looks like it has a lot of possibilities. I don't know the current cards well enough to know if r/g monsters or Jund something would be good, but I'm open to argument. Mono-red is usually always strong and fun to play, but I don't think I'm in the mood for that this season.
Note well: my criterion for "a good deck" is fun/interesting to play, and not necessarily win-every-match, Spikey competitive. I want to test out different things over the next couple of weeks to see what the local meta is.
Links to decklists are welcome, as are suggestions for cards that would 'play well together' in the archetypes I listed above. Arguments for why certain decks would be good would help; I'm trawling through the forums now looking for those.
p.s. I'm interested in themes based around the SOI mechanics, Madness and Delirium. I prefer (if not strictly balls-to-the-wall aggro) "toolbox" decks with a lot of variety and answers to several different threats.
So far, in my local meta, I've seen decks with a lot of removal that can field lots of big creatures, and are rather hard to deal with.
Mono white is the way to go, 20 plains and a bunch of 1-3 drop humans. Kytheon and Declaration in Stone are the only things over 5$ really
April 11, 2016 4:16 p.m.
Nkrautheim says... #5
Actually G/U Simic investigate has possibilities in the new standard, imo. I made a decent brew. Been playtesting and finetuning it to make it more consistent in my playtesting. Basically you use the combo of Briarbridge Patrol + Tamiyo's Journal to play things like Newlamog for free. I thinks its fun and according to tcgplayer only about $125, too, not a huge investment. Basically, fight big creatures with big creatures at your local meta.
April 11, 2016 10:29 p.m.
Dalektable says... #6
UR Fevered Visions control, using lots of bounce spells to control the board. Its super cool, actually and is only like sixty bucks. My version uses Thing in the Ice Flip, but most builds dont which cuts the price down significantly.
April 11, 2016 11:15 p.m.
Great suggestions, guys!
I like that it still feels like there is hope for a lot of variety.
I think I'll try Esper Control first. It's been a long time since I played a control deck; I don't even know what's good for that.
April 15, 2016 9:41 a.m.
Actually going to start with a simple mono-black based on stuff I already have to see how it plays together. If I can make an Esper deck out of that by then just splashing white and blue goodies and getting some good lands, then that will be easy enough.
Other option is to build an Esper control deck from the ground up. I'm kinda feeling more aggro there still.
Maybe a mono-blue or a blue/black hard control deck can be a side-project.
I'll post a link to a decklist soon after I upload it (still just scribbled on notebook paper right now..)
fdn2 says... #2
Extreme budget:Credit to Slush
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/delirium-of-death/
it isn't mine but I like it a lot and have been playing it on untap, and it's been faring pretty well,for a $9 deck. There are obviously a lot of non-budget cards that you could put in there.
April 11, 2016 4:03 p.m.