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This is a good strategy point.

Cards like Wall of Omens, Plumeveil, Augur of Bolas, Edifice of Authority can force the opponent to commit multiple creatures to the battlefield so you can clean up...

20 lands should be enough if you also have 4 Sol Ring, Timeless Dragons, and blue draw spells like Brainstorm/Preordain. Those cards help you find the right lands on time.

I prefer a lot of basic...

Prairie Stream is to have an Island-Plains searchable by Timeless Dragon so Dragon can fix blue mana. At least 1 copy seems good. The other budget Island-Plains enter tapped. Untapped Prairie Stream...

Classic Island is a very strong card. It enters the battlefield untapped, costs 0 life, and doesn't lose to things like Blood Moon or Back to Basics. You could even play your own Back to Basics if...

9. FTW: Oboro, Palace in the Clouds, Darksteel Citadel, Convincing Mirage, The Blackstaff of Waterdeep

I had this with Rise and Shine a few rounds ago, the same round Rise got banned. Mirage would...

I agree with silkster. The sacrifice is not optional. Cruel Reality appears to be the best in the mirrors. Should be
DD 2-2 vs dte
WW 6-0 vs Rooster

Agree on Celestial Colonnade. I didn't realize how much cheaper those have become. When UW was big in Modern, they were over $20 a piece. Now they are budget-friendly. 2-3 copies seems fine. It's a...

In your shoes, I'd start with UW control.

You've said:

no broken combos (unfun for friends)
don't want to accelerate a big threat on turn 2 or end the game too quickly (unfun for friends)...

This is the #1 problem.

UR's only plan is to be the most efficient and race. That's because UR lacks lategame tools. UW and UB scale better into the lategame, but UR's Lightning Bolt and Daze look...

It's not just that. Many card choices in the deck don't make sense in the budget version.

Brainstorm is bad without fetchlands. Ponder gets worse too. Preordain could be better.

Daze is bad...

So what kind of deck style are you looking to play then?

You don't want fast broken combos, right? Do you want to play a fast aggro deck? A disruptive deck? A slow control deck? You have many...

In a no-ban budget Legacy format, the low-hanging fruit starts with
4 Sol Ring
4 Dark Ritual
4 Mind Twist
and other big mana black haymakers.

With access to that much mana, you're just going...

11. FTW: Breeding Pool, Piracy Charm, Dismember, Sprout

With little time I just submitted a variation of my last deck. Again, I metagamed against the deck I wanted to play instead of playing it. I...

Trinity Green could slow down the game better and also boost the Saga/artifact plan.

Sorry, forgot the day, submitting something now.
I kept checking the thread earlier but the round was never posted. Forgot to check yesterday.

I tested a few games. It's not good enough. If you cut back on the Grindstone plan, it's just a GSZ + NO deck, which means it plays out as a worse version of Elves. The only thing going for it is the...

Ok, so if the deck was more focused on GSZ


//Lands: 20
4 Ancient Tomb
3 Urza's Saga
3 Boseiju, Who Endures
3 Windswept Heath
6 Forest
1 Dryad Arbor

Unfortunately the best green hatebears are symmetrical. Collector Ouphe is awkward with Grindstone, Gaddock Teeg is awkward with Natural Order, and Scavenging Ooze is awkward with Saga+Tomb colorless...

Re control playing cards dead until turn 4: there are many Yorion piles playing things like Aluren, Primeval Titan, Field of the Dead, Wandering Emperor, Mystic Sanctuary. In an 80-card deck with...

Do you need to go aggro-Sanctum though? (curve out T1 enchant T2 enchant T3 Sanctum taps for WW)

If this is a Yorion control deck, what's wrong with Sanctum only taking over on turns 5+? Why do...

I tested a few variations of this in monogreen and GW (for StP and ETutor) but it just wasn't good.

It works better as monogreen ramp+NO (without Painter) or Saga+Tomb+Painter combo (which has...

If FoW + Yorion + Sanctum is the core, you still want high enchantment count and ETB triggers, so Estrid + Aminatou + Teferi fits well. The combo with Trial of Ambition is very strong, too.

How...

I'm late to reply, but yes, it should be DD 2-2 vs alphastryk.

I never have to tap lands before opponent's end step, so I can always hold up Offer for sorcery speed cards.

My threat had to be...

ThrabenU recently tested a version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-2D2NHDyZM

Donation version

//Lands: 21
4 Urza's Saga
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
4 Saprazzan Skerry
4...

A version with Breakthrough and without the Artificer's Intuition cheese got 7th place in Sunday's Challenge...