Budget Delver on MTGO
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on June 2, 2017, 11:23 a.m. by ducttapedeckbox
I've been wanting to get into MTGO due to the lack of a magic community in my area, and think that Modern would be the best format to start with. I'm still wavering on the extent to which I want to commit to MTGO, so I want to play on a budget (let's say, absolute max, 50 tix, but ideally less).
I'd also like to play a deck that can incrementally evolve into a more robust control deck, so I came up with this ~30 tix Delver deck:
Budget Delver
Modern*
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Is this strong enough to go 3-2+ (break even) in a friendly league? Are there changes you recommend, or an entirely different deck?
ducttapedeckbox says... #3
Thanks for the feedback, DevoidMage. I'm testing the waters with this deck (or whatever I decide to play) to see if I want to start converting my paper collection to MTGO. I'm mostly curious to see how the lack of a social aspect and tangible cards affects my experience.
I like the commander suggestion, how is the Commander community on MTGO?
I was thinking that playing in a tournament structure (even a friendly - is there a noticeable difference?) would encourage me to continually improve and get proficient with a deck so that I can do well and ideally break even.
June 2, 2017 6:46 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #4
Commander is fairly open online, infinite combos are obviously discouraged because they take forever, and you get the occasional salt pile, but this GS are usually pretty fun.
As for the tournaments, friendly leagues have basically all the same decks as competitive leagues, people just mess up more. It's basically the difference between going to a main event and a side event at like a gp. If you want to run the gauntlet, go for it, I'm just saying it's pretty difficult to "go infinite" without a tiered deck.
Servo_Token says... #2
If you're looking to budgetize on MTGO, commander is easily your best bet. you can make really powerful and synergistic decks all for like 10 tix.
But if modern is just overall more appealing, Delver is a fine place to start on a budget. I'd recommend more a mono colored deck obviously, but this would get there well enough. If you know the format though, you know your deck and what the opponent is likely doing, modern isn't going to be very fun unless you have a non-budget build or you're trying something wacky. That's been my experience at least. Since decks are relatively cheaper and cards are infinitely more obtainable online, people tend to stick with whatever the best deck is in the leagues and such. I'd personally only play modern if I were doing like an MTGGoldfish much abrew sort of thing.
June 2, 2017 2:04 p.m.