budget affinity

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Posted on Feb. 15, 2017, 7:59 p.m. by Username

Is tis possible. I turned away from budget jund and this seems easy to budgetize I don't have a deck yet but with your guyses help i will soon.

JerryW72 says... #2

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February 15, 2017 8:29 p.m.

Username says... #3

thank you so much

February 15, 2017 8:40 p.m.

KillDatBUG says... #4

No, it's not actually. The deck is made 100000000000x worse without its key cards because they are so important to your game plan. Mox Opal is absolutely necessary for the explosive starts where you play a turn 1 Ravager or Overseer, Arcbound Ravager is by far the best creature in the deck and a key part of your plan when the game goes long, Inkmoth Nexus is an important win con with Cranial Plating, Steel Overseer, and Arcbound Ravager to give it several +1 counters, and Glimmervoid is an essential card for casting colored cards game 1 and for having a sideboard games 2 and 3. The reason why, say, Jund works as a budget deck is because it's not a tightly focused synergy deck that needs all its cards to work. You can still play alternative cards that work decently well without messing up your core game plan. For example, you can play Scavenging Ooze instead of Tarmogoyf and you're just playing a slightly worse 2 drop. You can play more removal spells or whatever instead of Liliana of the Veil and you're just lacking in versatility and power. You can play Khans fetches instead of Verdant Catacombs and you're just making your manabase less consistent. None of those decisions ruin your core game plan, because Jund isn't a tight synergy-based deck that's super fragile otherwise. Affinity is a tight, synergy-based aggro deck that needs all its cards to function.

February 16, 2017 3:02 a.m.

MollyMab says... #5

Killdabug Liliana is key to the deck though because you are aiming to put both players into top deck mode. And rely on your better top decks to win.

If you want a cheap deck, don't look at decks you can "budgetize" because you will end up with a shitty deck that doesn't deliver. Instead, brew something that can be built into the deck you want over top and attacks from an angle it can. For example, for control you can do a cheap UR Delver deck that can be upgraded with the expensive cards over time into Grixis Delver, Grixis Control, Jeskai Nahiri, Gifts, etc.

February 16, 2017 5:46 a.m.

Wurmlover says... #6

I agree with LeaPlath. It is better to play a deck that is already budget and not tier 1 instead of a tier 1 deck that was crapified. in terms of affinity specifically, you can't build actual affinity without its key cards, all of which are at least $10. you could do something like a Blasting Station combo. that can be built on a budget. My budget but good deck go-to is always Polymorph. its just a really fun deck to play and can be really budget.

February 16, 2017 3:37 p.m.

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