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Troll_ov_Grimness
03-25-2013, 02:22 PM
How would you build a budget mana base utilizing these cards :

Black & White

Fetid Heath (Filter land)
Caves Of Koilos (Pain land)
Reflecting Pool , Tainted Field (buddy lands)
Basic Plains & Swamps
Marsh Flats or other fetch lands

: You can't use cards on the Reserved List.

From 20-24 lands.
*I would use tainted lands for the lands from 20-24

Kich867
03-25-2013, 02:51 PM
How would you build a budget mana base utilizing these cards :

Black & White

Fetid Heath (Filter land)
Caves Of Koilos (Pain land)
Reflecting Pool , Tainted Field (buddy lands)
Basic Plains & Swamps
Marsh Flats or other fetch lands

: You can't use cards on the Reserved List.

From 20-24 lands.
*I would use tainted lands for the lands from 20-24

A manabase with no wastes in Legacy needs only like 22 lands, otherwise you're going to flood--hard. Just run 4 Marsh Flats, 2 black fetches, 2 white fetches, and basics.

A friend of mine had a budgety-Deadguy Ale for awhile and had absolutely no mana issues using almost exclusively basics. In fact he has Scrublands now and still fetches almost exclusively basics. It's not hard to do with a 2 color deck.

Megadeus
03-25-2013, 03:19 PM
Especially a two color deck with not so intensive mana requirments like deadguy. Where You have lily at double black.. And that may be it.

Beatusnox
03-25-2013, 05:37 PM
Or you could just use swamps and dark depths and make. The Gate. Or just plains and build Ascension....

Karhumies
03-25-2013, 06:58 PM
Fetches, basic Plains and basic Swamp. Possibly, 1x Urborg into the mix as well. With Urborg on the table, you can tap also white fetches and Plains to gain black mana. 1x Bojuka Bog is also worth mentioning because of its graveyard hate effect, and 1x Karakas because it helps to fight vs. Show and Tell, Sneak Attack and Reanimate.

DragoFireheart
03-25-2013, 07:02 PM
Considering that mono-black is shit, you need to do something unfair.

Dark Depths is fun. Run that with lots of removal and discard to piss off your opponent.

Greenpoe
03-25-2013, 11:00 PM
If you're on a budget, start with building Ascension and start compiling the pieces that you would need for Deadguy, and you could go for black-splashed Ascension while in transition between the two decks (while you're buying the cards for Deadguy).