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Post by RockBass on Sept 29, 2011 17:49:48 GMT -5
Anyone have any ideas of budget standard decks they're thinking about assembling? It feels really weird to have unsleeved my standard decks and not have any replacements. I guess that makes me an official pauper player.
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Post by grumpyoldgamer on Sept 29, 2011 21:21:00 GMT -5
Good question. There are still a decent amount of budget options available, and more are likely to appear as the new format evolves. Human tribal comes to mind, as well as some sort of R/G Werewolf deck.
From existing decks, Tempered Steel fits the bill. The deck loses Ornithopter and Steel Overseer, but these can easily be replaced by something like Blade Splicer or Phyrexian Revoker. Hex Parasite could also be an option maindeck considering the counter sub-theme in Innistrad and the amount of Planeswalkers we are likely to see. The most expensive card in the deck is Mox Opal, but you can run only two of those (or even none really), and the rest of the deck is fairly cheap.
And you can always go with Birthing Pod. The card is a little more expensive now, but many players already have their set from past Standard. The rest of the deck is mostly a bunch of 1 or 2-ofs. Gerry T posted an especially spicy list this morning: a B/G deck with Artifact creatures, Heartless Summoning and Glissa, the Traitor. Pretty sweet.
Personally I mostly focus on Modern now. In Standard I'm likely going to keep playing Puresteel Paladin, but with Mentor of the Meek added to the pile, or a creature heavy W/U CawBlade-type deck. I may also tinker and tweek my JundBlade list. It's fairly budget... except for the swords obviously.
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Post by RockBass on Oct 7, 2011 14:53:03 GMT -5
I agree with the focus on Modern. Two purges of my standard pool is enough to convince me that keeping up with the standard arms race isn't worth it anymore.
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Post by grumpyoldgamer on Oct 8, 2011 16:29:30 GMT -5
I agree with the focus on Modern. Two purges of my standard pool is enough to convince me that keeping up with the standard arms race isn't worth it anymore. Not to derail the Standard thread, but have you started tinkering with the Modern format a bit?
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Post by RockBass on Oct 8, 2011 18:55:10 GMT -5
I agree with the focus on Modern. Two purges of my standard pool is enough to convince me that keeping up with the standard arms race isn't worth it anymore. Not to derail the Standard thread, but have you started tinkering with the Modern format a bit? I really want to, but my issues are my weekly Pauper Podcast, my family, and a self-imposed budget of 50 tickets a month. If I'm playing, I'm doing Pauper matches or the occasional draft. The appeal of the modern format is that I'm in no rush to try out a deck, or even build a deck. It's not gonna rotate like Standard.
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Post by grumpyoldgamer on Oct 9, 2011 9:03:00 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a... 50/50 thing with eternal formats. It's less expensive in the long run because your cards do not rotate, but the barrier of entry is a little higher because of staples and stuff. But the long-term investment is usually worth it, if you're really into the game and know that it's something that you'll want to do for a long time.
But there are some pretty good and fairly inexpensive decks in Modern. Most of the combo decks are pretty cheap. The most expensive cards in them are usually the Shocklands, and while many people do, you don't have to run a full set. A couple with Fetches is okay and Buddylands (M10-type dual lands) are perfectly fine. Soul Sisters with Martyr of Sands and Proclamation of Rebirth is surprisingly good and dirt cheap to build.
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Post by gabochido on Dec 16, 2011 14:27:39 GMT -5
As far as building a budget deck with the latest set, I found that Block Constructed can be pretty cheap, specially during the first set. At least in MTGO block constructed is quite popular and there are usually quite a few decks you can build that are competitive and can slowly be transformed into a standard deck.
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