I bought the Merfolk vs. Goblins duel deck for the Merfolk deck. So this is the beginning of my modern Merfolk. Right now I am playing only kitchen magic with a few friends but I want to eventually take this to my LGS to play. At the moment I have to keep it budget and am SLOWLY (I have had some medical issues so only working part time at the moment) getting the cards I need. Damn you
Aether Vial
for being so expensive haha! It does pretty good at the table, winning 85% of the time.
The next cards I will be purchasing will be
Lord of Atlantis
so I have both playsets of lords. I am using
Aquitect's Will
in place of
Spreading Seas
at the moment but it is a horrible replacement.I It helps enable islandwalk but cant be used to screw up their mana base and doesn't help with
Master of Waves
. I have been thinking of getting some cheap
Sea's Claim
as stand ins for
Spreading Seas
for now. That way I'm getting most of the benefits of
Spreading Seas
.
Obviously, I want to eventually purchase
Aether Vial
,
Mutavault
and
Cavern of Souls
and sideboard cards such as
Relic of Progenitus
but for now I am looking for the best budget options to improve it.
I am using
Tidebinder Mage
as my son runs a Gruul deck with hydras and
Ghalta, Primal Hunger
and another friend runs a Simic energy deck so tapping down her creatures is nice. There is also a good amount of red at the table. The one deck i haven't used it against yet is a
Bogbrew Witch
/
Festering Newt
/
Bubbling Cauldron
deck. That's why I have
Pithing Needle
,
Tormod's Crypt
, and
Grafdigger's Cage
in the sideboard.
Im not entirely sold on
Spell Pierce
, although, it does work very well with
Kopala, Warden of Waves
on the battlefield, and was wondering what people think of using
Cursecatcher
.
So, with that being said, I was hoping for some advice on what the next best budget purchases, after the
Lord of Atlantis
and possible
Sea's Claim
would be.Thank you for any help you can give!!