Wasted Manaforge (Budget Modern)

Modern BR (Rakdos) BRG (Jund) Budget Burn Combo Discard

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Sorcery (15)

• 4x Burning Inquiry
• 3x Dark Deal
• 2x Incendiary Command
• 2x Rakdos's Return
• 4x Reforge the Soul

Instant (5)

• 1x Empty the Pits
• 4x Manamorphose

Land (22)

• 2x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Graven Cairns
• 6x Mountain
• 6x Swamp

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Liliana's Caress
• 4x Waste Not

Creature (10)

• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 3x Manaforge Cinder
• 2x Master of the Feast
• 4x Simian Spirit Guide

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 4x Ravenous Trap
• 2x Terminate

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Slaughter Games

Creature (1)

• 1x Master of the Feast

Artifact (3)

• 3x Pithing Needle

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Blightning
• 1x Collective Defiance
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sever the Bloodline
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Torrent of Souls
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Whispering Madness

Instant (8)

• 1x Desperate Ritual
• 1x Dream Salvage
• 1x Ignorant Bliss
• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Pyretic Ritual
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Surgical Extraction

Creature (5)

• 1x Eidolon of the Great Revel
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Grim Lavamancer
• 1x Mogis, God of Slaughter
• 1x Wild Cantor

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Emblem of the Warmind
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Leyline of Punishment
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Pyromancer Ascension
• 1x Rain of Gore
• 1x Spiteful Visions

Artifact (1)

• 1x Locket of Yesterdays

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Taking my budget version of this deck and making it even cheaper! (Wasted Manaforge)

The primary goal with this deck is to utilize Waste Not to generate mana and draw for successive Burning Inquiry , Dark Deal , Incendiary Command , or Reforge the Soul .

Damage comes either from Liliana's Caress or from swinging in with zombies (either from Waste Not or from Empty the Pits ), or from Rakdos's Return . Master of the Feast gives an early, big threat that can add some damage in, and force your opponent to draw an extra card or two. Dragonlord Kolaghan gives your zombies haste and punishes your opponents for playing any creatures or planeswalkers that they have been forced to discard.

Manabase: The checking dual lands have worked well for me and are much cheaper than their big brothers. Graven Cairns and Manaforge Cinder change the mana from Waste Not from black to red as needed (or filter your land). Manamorphose is a free draw and helps converts mana as needed. Simian Spirit Guide is a great way to get more red mana to keep your combo going, or get it off earlier.

Ideal Hand: 2 land, 2 Liliana's Caress , 2 Burning Inquiry , 1 Simian Spirit Guide . Draw another Simian Spirit Guide or another land. Win on Turn 3.

Considering Grapeshot to follow up going off with Waste Not . Considering as a finisher and to grant your zombies haste. Considering Torrent of Souls as a way to grant haste, and potentially to bring back another creature (you've likely discarded at least one).

Top Ranked	Achieved #39 position overall 9 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 12 Rares 11 - 1 Uncommons 11 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.68
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Modern, Changing miller light, LOL, Modern Ideas