Island

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Artatras on The Many-Faced God - [Primer]

3 days ago

Providing budget alternatives is not that simple because the deck is balanced as is and changing any single card would alter its equilibrium. I will try my best, but do keep in mind that with the following changes you will need to play the deck a lot slower than before. Without free counterspells you will need to wait for when you can leave mana open, and so on and so forth. Hopefully, the fact that all the decks in the tournament follow the same budget restrictions can make up for this. Here are my budget changes:

Mana Crypt and Mox Amber: any two-mana rock, like Arcane Signet and Mind Stone.

Force of Will and Fierce Guardianship: a copy of Foil and Dispel. Depending on your specific meta, you could consider Mental Misstep.

Mana Drain: any two-mana counterspell. My choice would be Countersquall.

Ancient Tomb: a basic Island.

Cyclonic Rift: Echoing Truth. This can bounce a single permanent or an army of tokens, which seems particularly useful in your case.

Damnation and Toxic Deluge: your choice of Languish, Whelming Wave, Evacuation or AEtherize.

Dark Confidant: I once used Disciple of Deceit, which was suboptimal. Alternatively, Looter il-Kor or any draw spell.

Intuition, Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor: Diabolic Tutor, Forbidden Alchemy and Beseech the Queen are okayish.

Training Grounds: Heartstone is the closest comparison, but do keep in mind it works for your opponents as well.

These are all direct substitutions. I took the cards you mentioned and replaced them with their budget counterparts. If you think some of them aren't good enough (and in most cases they are not), then you can consider including something completely different instead. I'm thinking about cards like Propaganda, Torpor Orb, more removal, more card draw, more ramp. You have the privilege of knowing the decks you will be facing, so you can tweak the deck according to your matchups.

If you want to be prepared against a token deck, try shaving some single target removals or counterspells for a few extra board wipes. Just be extra careful against Meren because they tend to play a lot of Fleshbag Marauder-like effects, which is something this deck really struggles with. Make use of your haste enablers to kill your opponent during the very first turn you play Lazav, before he or she has the opportunity to play those cards.

I wish you good luck for your tournament, and let me know about your results!

Xenerai on Zombinstein

4 days ago

forgot to do the mana base. 4 - Dimir Guildgate. 9 - Swamp. and 6 - Island

Xenerai on Zombinstein

5 days ago

if this deck is for casual then i'd say its pretty alright for a fun break from the norm. Only 10 cards short of a commander deck too if you want to go that route. But if you're looking for more competitiveness, I'd say to do the following:

The first thing we need to do before anything, is to figure out the strategy we're going for. Obviously a token based liliana deck is way out of reasonable budgets. The blue you added does give me an idea for a control based zombie deck.

So the first thing to do is remove the cards above 60 that we wouldn't need, along with cards that will don't either assist or protect our strategies. I would start by removing the following: 2 - Advanced Stitchwing. 2 - Certain Death. 1 - Collective Brutality. 1 - Corrupt. 1 - Corrupted Roots. 2 - Disentomb. 1 - Doom Blade. 1 - Essence Harvest. 1 - Gnawing Zombie. 1 - Grixis Slavedriver. 1 - Grixis Grimblade. 1 - Hunted Ghoul. 1 - Haunted Dead. 3 - Ingenious Skaab. 4 - Laboratory Brute. 1 - Lamplighter of Selhoff. 1 - Maalfeld Twins. 2 - Macabre Waltz. 2 - Midnight Recovery. 1 - Mistvein Borderpost. 1 - Moan of the Unhallowed. 2 - Paranoid Delusions. 1 - Polluted Dead. 2 - Psychic Strike. 1 - Recover. 1 - Rise from the Grave. 1 - Scrapskin Drake. 1 - Shambling Attendants. 1 - Sibsig Host. 1 - Sibsig Muckdraggers. 1 - Sidisi's Pet. 1 - Sip of Hemlock. 1 - Skinrender. 1 - Spineless Thug. 1 - Stitched Mangler. 2 - Thraben Foulbloods. 1 - Strange Augmentation. 1 - Undead Executioner. 1 - Zombie Outlander. 15 - Swamp. 10 - Island.

It IS Quite a lot, but it's because we need to make room for the cards that'll make the bulk of our strategy, not to mention there are cheaper, better alternatives to most of these cards (lands were removed because the mana base will be changed later). With these cards taken out, that leaves us with the following: 3 - Cemetery Recruitment. 1 - Ghastly Conscription. 1 - Sign in Blood. 1 - Graf Harvest. 1 - Rooftop Storm. 2 - Gavony Unhallowed. 1 - Jhessian Zombies. 1 - Vedalken Ghoul.

these are pretty linearly focused for an effective strategy. to fluff out the rest of the cards for the deck, I'd recommend:

+1 - Cemetery Recruitment. +3 - Sign in Blood. +4 - Mana Leak. +3 - Duress. +3 - Vedalken Ghoul. +3 - Jhessian Zombies. +1 - Rooftop Storm. +4 - Go for the Throat. +4 - Rotting Rats. +3 - Claim / Fame.

desmondwrite on HOKUSAI'S NIGHTMARE

1 week ago

Ikoria & Commander 2020 released.

SPELLS

Replaced Pounce with Beast Within

Replaced Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi with Voracious Greatshark

Replaced Caustic Caterpillar with Overwhelming Denial

Replaced Cackling Counterpart with Sea-Dasher Octopus

Replaced Maraleaf Pixie with Ominous Seas

LANDS

Replaced Forest with Temple of Mystery

Replaced Island with Command Tower

SquirrelPenguin on The Ultimate Budget Treasure Hunt Deck

1 week ago

But also an Oathbreaker deck with that Jace and Treasure Hunt with all Islands should theoretically work

SquirrelPenguin on The Ultimate Budget Treasure Hunt Deck

1 week ago

I managed to convert this into a historic brawl deck with Reliquary Tower, Command Tower, Thassa's Oracle, and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries as the commander, and the rest were Islands. And somehow I managed to win.

Flooremoji on Species Gorger Eats Mc.donalds (2.0)

2 weeks ago

You should probably give a look back at some of your alters, because I doubt that they are supposed to look like Islands. :)

ninetoe on Allies mill

2 weeks ago

Edit:

I listed some cards that are not Modern legal in the comment above.

Here's the deck made modern legal:

60 Card List

• Creature
• 4x Adaptive Automaton
• 4x Halimar Excavator
• 3x Harabaz Druid
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 4x Ondu Cleric
• 3x Sea Gate Loremaster
• 3x Unsettled Mariner
• Enchantment
• 4x Ghostly Prison
• Instant
• 2x Cloudshift
• 4x Ephemerate
• Sorcery
• 2x Rite of Replication
• 3x Serum Visions
• Land (My lands need some refinement)
• 2x Breeding Pool
• 3x Cavern of Souls
• 4x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 2x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 2x Misty Rainforest
• 3x Mutavault
• 1x Plains
• 2x Temple Garden
• 2x Windswept Heath

Sideboard

2x Glaring Spotlight

3x Detention Sphere

2x Rest in Peace

4x Path to Exile

4x Veil of Summer