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XSivPSI
01-05-2008, 04:23 AM
Hey all, I'm looking for ideas for a local tournament... each card must be $2 or less by the current scrye and legal in legacy. What would you play? please list specific cards.

TheLion
01-05-2008, 05:10 AM
each card must be $2 or less

Hard to do...

I can imagine too decks here:

1.) Affinity without Ravagers: Artefact Lands, Disciple of the Vault, Atog, Fling, Cranial Plating, Frogmite, Myr Enforcer, ...
or even a blue based Affinity, more controllish, with Broodstar and some Counters.

2.) Mono Green Stompy: Rogue Elephant, Giant Growth, Winter Orb, Jungle Lions, Ghazban Ogre, Wild Dogs, Rancor, ...

Ceridan
01-05-2008, 05:43 AM
maybe you should remain a casual player?

FredMaster
01-05-2008, 06:06 AM
Not maybe.:wink:

Wobbles The Goose
01-05-2008, 08:38 AM
4 [US] Polluted Mire
4 [US] Remote Isle
4 [US] Blasted Landscape
4 [US] Smoldering Crater
4 [AT] Slippery Karst
4 [AT] Drifting Meadow

4 [UL] Cloud of Faeries
4 [US] Sandbar Merfolk
4 [US] Pendrell Drake
4 [LE] Keeneye Aven
4 [US] Sandbar Serpent
2 [US] Drifting Djinn
4 [FUT] Street Wraith

4 [US] Fluctuator
1 [PLC]Simian Spirit Guide
1 [GP] Wild Cantor
2 [UL] Miscalculation
1 [WL] Haunting Misery
1 [A] Dark Ritual

Builds of the deck was discussed at lenght over here: http://mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4393

Unfortunatly, lotus petal was cut for the SSG/Cantor combo because petal clocks in at a steep 2.99.

That deck's alot faster then this one but almost certainly loses to any deck running counterspell. Speaking of counterspell:

4x Stasis
4x Brainstorm
4x Ponder
4x Orb of Dreams
3x Hoodwink
4x Thwart
4x Boomerang
4x Daze
2x Chronatog
4x Counterspell
20x Island
3x Forsaken City

This deck is a laugh a minute, I tell you what.


2.) Mono Green Stompy: Rogue Elephant, Giant Growth, Winter Orb, Jungle Lions, Ghazban Ogre, Wild Dogs, Rancor, ...

Rancor/ Jungle Lions are unfortunately almost double the budget.

porcupinetreeman
01-05-2008, 11:44 AM
Pox

22 Swamp
3 Nether Spirit
4 Chimeric Idol
4 The Rack
4 Innocent Blood
4 Dark Ritual
4 Smallpox
4 Pox
3 Skeletal Scrying
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Duress

Whole deck is about ~30 dollars, it's competitive and fun to play.

Cavius The Great
01-05-2008, 12:42 PM
Here's a budget deck I came up with and posted on my team forums. I'm just going to cut and paste. :tongue:

Colgate Titan.DEC
By Cavius The Great

Mana:28
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
1 Seat of Synod
3 Minamo, School at Water's Edge (Bosh tricks, gives him vigilance basically)
4 Wasteland
4 Quicksand
4 Island
1 Academy Ruins
3 Mox Diamond

Spells:32
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Trinisphere
4 Thirst For Knowledge
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Argivian Restoration
4 Sundering Titan
3 Bosh, Iron Golem
4 Propaganda
2 Compulsive Research

Sideboard:15
4 Arcane Laboratory
4 Null Rod
3 Take Possession (takes away Exalted Angels and equipment. Seven mana seems iffy though for being uncounterable when Confiscate comes out a turn earlier. Let me know what you guys suggest.)
4 Blue Elemental Blast (Lackey tech. 4 Quicksand and 4 Chalice make up 12 cards to deal with Lackey. Not too shabby.)

The deck basically abuses Argivian Restoration and draw/discard blue spells and big artifact creatures. Some cards are over $2 bucks obviously but this is the best I can do. :wink:

APriestOfGix
01-05-2008, 12:57 PM
Unfortunatly, lotus petal was cut for the SSG/Cantor combo because petal clocks in at a steep 2.99.

You can pick them up for $0.25 almost ANYWHERE!

XSivPSI
01-05-2008, 04:27 PM
I actually played pox in the 1.5 tourny last night. I also had that fluctuator deck built back in the day and I have a deck thrown together with the jungle lions rancors elephants and winter orbs... I'm going to pick up a scrye now and see what I can do. Thanks for the ideas, keep them coming.

I was also thinking of some sort of pestilence deck with problack creatures or something...

mattkru
01-05-2008, 05:04 PM
Here's a budget deck I came up with and posted on my team forums.
...
4 Wasteland
3 Mox Diamond
3 Crucible of Worlds


Here in Germany those 10 cards will cost ~ 85 € (~125 $). That doesn't sound like a budget deck.


@topic: A burn deck should be the cheapest deck to build.