[Budget] The Endless Machine

Modern BG (Golgari) Budget Toolbox

augury.owl

Instant (4)

• 2x Abrupt Decay
• 2x Tragic Slip

Artifact (5)

• 4x Birthing Pod
• 1x MImic Vat

Creature (28)

• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Entomber Exarch
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glissa, the Traitor
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 2x Perilous Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 2x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 2x Skinrender
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 4x Strangleroot Geist
• 1x Thragtusk
• 2x Viridian Emissary
• 1x Wakedancer
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (23)

• 10x Forest
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 2x Jungle Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 4x Woodland Cemetery

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Welcome to "The Endless Machine"!

This deck is a budget deck I put together while reminiscing about my favorite standard deck ever: Birthing Pod

I started by purchasing the DKA Event Deck (Spiraling Doom) and used it as a framework to start building with the ultimate goal being a strong deck for around $100.

This deck has two main game plans:

1) If the opponent has a slow start, use fast aggro and increasing pressure to run them over
2) Use the Birthing Pod toolbox and midgame recursion loops to grind the opponent out

To support these plans, the deck features a lot of multiples in it's early drops, more than you would normally see in a dedicated toolbox build. This is to create consistent aggro if the situation requires it, with ETB/LTB removal to keep the momentum going. When you are playing the midgame toolbox role, the early drops turn into blockers (perilous myr is amazing for this) and recursion engines such as Glissa and ETB abuse via Mimic Vat work well with Birthing Pod to ensure you stay ahead. The meat of the utility cards are found in the 3-5 drop sections and try to deal with a wide variety of situations. You pod into whatever is needed at the time.

The possibilities are numerous, and this machine is endless. While this deck falls short of Tier 1 by a large margin, it makes up for it by being fun to pilot and cheap to build.

Don't forget to comment or leave me a +1 :D

This deck as of 1/17 is $101.20 to build and order on tcgplayer

Thanks for looking and suggestions are always welcome (votes too!)

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Myr 1/1 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Modern, Budget, Need to try!, Possible Decks