(Budget) UR Wizards

Modern Aggro Budget UR (Izzet) Wizards

saj0219

Instant (19)

• 3x Dispel
• 4x Lightning Bolt
• 4x Mutagenic Growth
• 4x Opt
• 4x Wizard's Lightning

Sorcery (7)

• 3x Assault Strobe
• 4x Sleight of Hand

Creature (16)

• 2x Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear
• 2x Siren Stormtamer
• 4x Soul-Scar Mage
• 4x Stormchaser Mage

Land (18)

• 5x Island
• 5x Mountain
• 2x Shivan Reef
• 2x Spirebluff Canal
• 4x Sulfur Falls

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 3x Smash to Smithereens
• 2x Spell Pierce
• 2x Vapor Snag

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Banefire
• 2x Pyroclasm
• 4x Rift Bolt

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Maybeboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Electrolyze
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Logic Knot
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Smelt
• 1x Titan's Strength
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Creature (4)

• 1x Bomat Courier
• 1x Izzet Staticaster
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Enchantment (1)

• 1x The Flame of Keld

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Welcome to a super budget modern deck that is... surprisingly reasonable. The deck is a litle hit or miss, but it was initially built as a budget MTGO deck that started to (surprisingly) win at a reasonable rate (I've seen Death's Shadow decks, Tron decks, U/W control decks, Affinity, and Storm so far and have been 40-60% in each, though it's admittedly been a small sample size).

How the deck works

The deck plays out in a fairly straightforward play pattern. You roll out some early creatures and cantrip your face off. There are some interesting decisions to be made on when to play some spells/swing, but generally: swing early and swing often. Most of our spells are instants so that we can wait until combat to cast them (or cast them in response to an opponent's move). If there's an opportunity to cast Mutagenic Growth, it's almost always right to do so. As games progress, our opportunities grow fewer and the closer and faster we can get an opponent into bolt range, the happier we'll be.

Major Players and Game Winners

Some of the most important cards in the deck:

• Stormchaser Mage (and to a lesser extent Monastery Swiftspear). As cheap hasty creatures, these guys are great targets for things like Mutagenic Growth and Assault Strobe. Stormchaser Mage has the added benefit of being a single Opt away from being out of bolt range and having flying
• Adeliz, the Cinder Wind is expensive and not an every game threat, but she is the key to some really busted turns
• Mutagenic Growth and Assault Strobe pair for some massive damage. Throw them both on a Stormchaser and you're looking at 10 damage in the air...
• Lightning Bolt and Wizard's Lightning give us effectively 8 copies of Lightning Bolt with next to no restrictions (we almost always have a wizard out when we want to use Wizard's Lightning). These are useful for clearing the way for our creatures, but will often function as the nail in the coffin when we've taken an opponent down to single digit life totals.

Other Cards

• Opt and Sleight of Hand give us some card selection and pump up our prowess creatures.
• Dispel and Siren Stormtamer are there to largely protect our creatures. Siren isn't great on its own, but as a wizard it does enable Wizard's Lightning and does present a deterrent for targeted spells.
• Soul-Scar Mage has prowess, turns on Wizard's Lightning, but most importantly does a killer job of shrinking enemy threats. Fine, if I bolt your Tarmogoyf, it's going to survive... but it's going to be a 0/1
• Adeliz, the Cinder Wind is a little expensive for the deck, but she is a hasty flyer who effectively has prowess and pumps up all our other creatures pretty intensely.
• Unclaimed Territory is pretty garbage when we're trying to cast a bunch of instants, but all of our creatures except for Siren Stormtamer are humans, and this is a budget build... so it's fairly helpful for casting our creatures.

The Sideboard

... needs a lot of work.

Anyway, I'm looking for any and all feedback! It is a budget deck, but I'm happy to move out of that area eventually (I have a fairly extensive collection, so this doesn't need to be budget). I'm particularly interested in sideboard help, as I know the sideboard is currently a (huge) mess.

Top Ranked	Achieved #23 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 2 Rares 20 - 6 Uncommons 18 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.38
Folders	Modern?