2 or less mana deck ideas?
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Posted on Nov. 30, 2014, 11:25 p.m. by Kutdra1
So I love fast, but strong decks. For my past four decks it's been impossible for me not to have 6-9 cards three drop or higher. Which is fine, but I just like a deck 2 or under. I play casual and prefer to not play red or blue
Yeah, and as an affinity player (whose curve is literally 2 or less), I can confirm that if I don't have something ready by turn 2, I'm going to be made toast very, very quickly. Also, blue and red have a good number of the best <2 spells in modern and standard, so you're going to be hard-pressed to build a powerful deck without either.
November 30, 2014 11:52 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #4
You can literally make mono red burn to your specifications if you'd broaden your horizons a bit. Lightning Bolt, Lightning Strike, Magma Jet, Searing Spear, Spark Jolt, Incinerate, Young Pyromancer...
There's most of your deck right there!
November 30, 2014 11:55 p.m.
VampireArmy says... #5
the only things I can think of where this is remotely do-able is tribal X (humans, Vampires, elves) aggro, Selesnya Hexproof, and possibly infect? All of which really become a hell of a lot better when you add 3 mana spells. If anything, play elves if you MUST have everything be 2 mana and below. If standard than look at Mono red boss sligh. I'm sure you can do that minus the rabblemaster (sorry but I really don't think the 2 drop thing is going to work out in standard if you're not playing red or blue)
November 30, 2014 11:58 p.m.
slesnya aggro with Loxodon Smiter, Centaur Healer, Advent of the Wurm and planeswalker's like Ajani, Mentor of Heroes and Elspeth, Sun's Champion, then you have your instants and sorceries like Eladamri's Call wich i use in my slesnya aggro deck and other ones like Selesnya Charm, Heroes' Reunion and the best ones and the one's i seem to use more is Reap What Is Sown and Reknit! Also loxodon smiter cant be counterd and its a fast card wich can wreck your opponents board state when enchanting it later with Unflinching Courage, Ordeal of Nylea or even Angelic Destiny! Lands obviously are 4x Windswept Heath, 4x Temple Garden, 4x Temple of Plenty and maybe a playset of Mana Confluence, then the basics wich is (depending on if your running 24 lands wich i do) 4x Forest and then 4x Plains and thats basically the mana base i use!Hope this helped!
December 1, 2014 6:18 a.m.
There's been a number of suggestions covered here, but to expand on ThatBlueMage's black aggro suggestion:
You can definitely make a solid black aggro deck for 2 or less mana with some older cards. Dark Ritual, Carnophage, Sarcomancy, Black Knight, Dauthi Warlord and other <=2 mana shadow creatures as a start - Even Flesh Reaver if you're feeling a bit brave. Some hand disruption with Hymn to Tourach and Thoughtseize, and cheap removal like Diabolic Edict. I'm pretty ignorant of everything that came out starting at Mercadian Masques up until Theros Block, so there's probably some alternatives in there that are as good or better.
A deck like this would be much better served topping out at 3 mana rather than 2 though. At least for Necropotence if nothing else, but Priest of Gix is also really good.
I make no claim that this is any better or worse than the other suggestions, but at least I really enjoy this deck style, and it is very aggressive.
December 1, 2014 9:36 a.m.
Play tarmogoyf. like the best 2 drop ever. just make this your deck: 22 forests, 38x tarmogoyf. youll win for sure.
December 1, 2014 9:41 a.m.
Burn, affinity, and Delver aggro. That's about what you're looking at here.
December 1, 2014 10 a.m.
How about infect? Most of your cards are 1- and 2-drops, you play explosive buffs, and you don't have to worry about hitting for 20 points of damage. These decks can be expensive, but you can build them for dirt cheap as well.
December 1, 2014 11:32 a.m.
Hm fantastic ideas. Thanks all! (oh and I already have an infect deck)
Servo_Token says... #2
If you don't want to play blue or red, then you're going to be very hard pressed to find a deck style that you're looking for.
Maybe some sort of artifacts deck using things like Memnite, Mox Opal, etc, etc, but really the only deck that works like what you are describing is Blue Red Delver in modern or legacy.
I'm sure that you can build a fairly decent mono black aggro deck that costs 2 or less for casual, though. But stopping at two just seems like poor deck building, because you'll run out of gas by turn 4, and then just lose to anyone who is trying to disrupt you.
November 30, 2014 11:30 p.m.