Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Affordable ~ Legacy Deck 2018
As legacy goes, this is a slow deck. Thus, I have cards to slow it down: Fog, Moment's Peace, Tangle, and Undergrowth; this sort of theme is common to a few of my decks. Then, I have Blanchwood Armor, Primal Bellow, and Gigantiform, which are designed to pump smaller creatures that cost 1-2 mana, such as Dryad Sophisticate, and Treetop Scout, such that both are seemingly unblockable, and even if they are there is always Rancor that connects well with Blanchwood Armor.
Friday, November 24, 2017
Deck The Walls ~ 2018 ~ Pauper
Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian, along with the 15 other defenders, reel in the mana to cast the fat creatures. Carnivorous Plant and Grave Bramble add some prevention with their power. As far as mana ramping goes, respectfully, I think the Overgrown Battlement and Axebane Guardian combo is far better than the similar Priest of Titania and Elvish Archdruid combo goes, because the defenders usually offer a better trade off. They are both harder to kill, and better at defense, such that one can have some time to bring out the beat sticks better than Elves do.
The defenders, or "Walls," is how this deck got its name. It is a spoof off of the Christmas song, "Deck the Halls."
Monday, August 14, 2017
Terrifying Alliance - Pauper 2017
This deck, Terrifying Alliance, is made up entirely of 35 Allies, and 25 lands. The reason for that is that almost all of the allies in this deck get pumped when another ally enters the battlefield, such that while a single ally alone in this deck is not impressive, Terrifying Alliance has a tremendous amount of synergy that is hard to fight off due to the sheer number of ally creatures. Likewise, the converted mana cost of most of these cards is good for playing against blue, as the lower the cmc of an ally, the more worthless a card like Counterspell, or even the white Journey to Nowhere becomes.
This is the 3rd and by far the best version of this deck, or at least the most competitive.
Most of the more recent allies are not used because they are not good cards.
Allies never got that popular in MTG, but this is a good deck, at least for pauper, and last I checked, all the cards in it cost only a few pennies.
The strategy is to play that cards that boost first, and then have them boosted again and again once other allies come into play.
It is also worthy of note that the abilities of many of these cards occur when they come into play, including themselves. For instance when Ondu Cleric enters the battlefield, it, itself will gain a life. Similarly, with the Oran-Rief Survalist; when the card enters the battlefield it becomes a 2/2, due to a +1/+1 counter it gives to itself, and if Ondu Cleric was in play you would gain 2 life because both Ondu Cleric, and Oran-Rief Survivalist are both allies.
This is the 3rd and by far the best version of this deck, or at least the most competitive.
Most of the more recent allies are not used because they are not good cards.
Allies never got that popular in MTG, but this is a good deck, at least for pauper, and last I checked, all the cards in it cost only a few pennies.
The strategy is to play that cards that boost first, and then have them boosted again and again once other allies come into play.
It is also worthy of note that the abilities of many of these cards occur when they come into play, including themselves. For instance when Ondu Cleric enters the battlefield, it, itself will gain a life. Similarly, with the Oran-Rief Survalist; when the card enters the battlefield it becomes a 2/2, due to a +1/+1 counter it gives to itself, and if Ondu Cleric was in play you would gain 2 life because both Ondu Cleric, and Oran-Rief Survivalist are both allies.
| Land - 25 | Allies Black - 10 | Allies Blue - 4 | Allies Green - 12 | Allies White - 9 |
| 3 Rupture Spire | 2 Mana Allies | 3 Mana Allies | 2 Mana Allies | 2 Mana Allies |
| 4 Transguild Promenade | 4 Bojuka Brigand | 4 Umara Raptor | 4 Oran-Rief Survivalist | 4 Makindi Aeronaut |
| 2 Bant Panorama | 4 Kalastria Healer | 39 | 4 Ondu Cleric | |
| 2 Esper Panorama | 4+ Mana Allies | |||
| 2 Evolving Wilds | 3 Mana Allies | 4 Graypelt Hunter | 3 Mana Allies | |
| 2 Terramorphic Expanse | 2 Vampire Envoy | 4 Tajuru Pathwarden | Makindi Patrol | |
| 2 Forest | 35 | 51 | 60 | |
| Island | ||||
| 2 Plains | ||||
| 2 Swamp | ||||
| 3 Abundant Growth |
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Pauper: Deck the Walls This Christmas
| Walls Pauper | Defender Walls | Offense | Other |
| Land | 2 Shield Sphere | 4 Viridian Longbow | 4 Narcolepsy |
| 7 Forests | 3 Wall of Vines | 4 Tajuru Pathwarden | 2 Freed From the Real |
| 7 Islands | 3 Wall of Tanglecord | 3 Vulpine Goliath | Giant Growth |
| 4 Thornwood Falls | 3 Consulate Skygate | Wickerbough Elder | Vines of Vastwood |
| 3 Simic Guildgate | 4 Overgrown Battlement | 12 | Mana Leak |
| 21 | 3 Axebane Guardian | 51 | 9 |
| 18 | 60 | ||
| 39 |
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Buying Time ~ pauper green
Green Creatures
Artifact and Colorless Creatures
Enchantment
Urban Burgeoning (to give an edge casting instant spells)
Instant
4 UndergrowthLand
21 Forests
Recommended Side Board
Gleeful Sabotage
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