What to do with my money
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on Feb. 18, 2016, 9:56 p.m. by ninjaclevs13
So I have about $260 in trades on pucatrade.com, and I am planning on building an Abzan company deck. With $260, I can get the majority of the core cards for the deck, but very few decent lands. Would it be better to just get the cards or invest the $260 in khans fetchlands in the hope their price will rise (and to use in my deck)?
This is my personal viewpoint. Fetchlands can be used in any deck. Abzan Company cards will usually only be used in Abzan variant decks. Let's say you start playing the deck and you find that it isn't for you. The lands that you have you will be able to keep and use in other decks that you will want to build later. So my suggestion is to invest in the lands first before the deck itself.
February 18, 2016 10:03 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #4
The fetches are more than likely the superior investment here, but you'll probably be able to get most of your Company cards easier/faster. I don't know how often fetches are traded on Pucatrade, but you might need to offer bounties on them to get them in a timely manner.
February 18, 2016 10:03 p.m.
TheFoilAjani says... #6
If you get fetches, you will have them for other decks if Abzan Company ends up being bad in the future. Abzan Company pieces are only useful in AC or an type of Melira/Anafenza deck.
February 18, 2016 10:05 p.m.
ninjaclevs13 says... #8
Thank you all for the feedback. The bad thing is, though, the $260 is the only money I have right now to build a deck. Will it be rewarding enough in ths future where I can just say up for the rest of the deck over time?
February 18, 2016 10:29 p.m.
EXCALIBRAHHHH says... #9
Stuff like fetches will always be higher in time and are the bse for decks, can put them in other decks as you need
February 18, 2016 10:36 p.m.
Well even though there have been plenty of talks about economics in Magic, that is just one aspect of it. Magic is also a game that is meant to be played and one that I enjoy playing very much. So to contradict my previous statement, if I was in the exact same position, I would probably build the deck first so that I can play with it while I wait for the budget to open up other options even though getting the fetches is probably the better of the two options economically speaking.
February 18, 2016 10:41 p.m. Edited.
Then I'd seriously wait on making a deck and buy fetches. Save up money, and build a deck in the future. Fetches have the aability to hit 100$+ marks, a la Scalding Tarn
February 18, 2016 10:41 p.m.
KillDatBUG says... #12
Play Standard. Or EDH. Modern's a wide and diverse format, but the lowest you can go is gotta be about $4-500. The best you'll get for $260 is too fringe or else just too weak for it to be worth.
February 18, 2016 11:10 p.m.
@KillDatBUG You can build mono red chalet than that, his budget is pretty damn close to a tier 1 burn deck
February 18, 2016 11:47 p.m.
I had a cheap W/R Burn deck starting at like, 40$. I played Clifftop Retreat and Battlefield Forge along with 13 Mountain and I played some somewhat garbage burn spells, but I was still winning vs the tiered decks because Burn is fucking silly like that lol.
So long as you're running Lightning Bolt, Lava Spike, and Rift Bolt, you can pretty easily win against most decks.
February 18, 2016 11:55 p.m.
KillDatBUG says... #16
Look, being able to win games against Tier 1-2 decks doesn't mean your deck's good. Any deck is capable of winning some games against a Tier 1-2 deck. However, if its actual win rate is shit, it doesn't matter! If your deck is strictly worse than the full-priced deck, nothing's gonna change that until you actually spend the money needed to get that deck upgraded to its Tier 1-2 counterpart.
And no, being able to win on a budget in Standard isn't the same thing as being able to win on a budget in Modern. Standard has less cards, less power, less consistency, less variety, less everything. And to reflect that, it's a lot cheaper. That doesn't mean it's a bad format, though; it's just different.
February 19, 2016 12:16 a.m.
EXCALIBRAHHHH says... #17
Vastly different. Coming from standard and into modern, my bank account hates me
February 19, 2016 12:28 a.m.
Im not saying it ONLY won vs tiered decks, I won a good chunk of games against virtually anything I played against. To be fair, the decks around my meta at the time were SUPER greedy when it came to manabases (A lot of Gifts, Jund and the like), but it still did well against a lot of the other decks around. Burn has and always will be a solid deck, at any budget point. Look at most mono-red decks for example. Without the Goblin Guides and Eidolon of the Great Revels, they function and perform nearly the exact same. So it may be "strictly worse", but even that will still do good in Modern with the right archetype. Hence, Burn.
February 19, 2016 12:31 a.m.
EXCALIBRAHHHH says... #19
Burn has and is always the same, it is cheap and consistent. 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' they say. It is very solid for the price point, you are right, but it is just the same game every time. I find burn too boring to play, personally
February 19, 2016 12:41 a.m.
Oh, I totally get that Burn gets boring after awhile. That's why I play BG Rock and Ad Nauseam with the Death's Shadow + Rite of Consumption combo in it.
However, Burn is just a good starting point for most people in magic. It's budget-friendly (Which helps OP in the way of funding fetchlands), and it's easy to pilot. Plus, it is a good point to learn where you stand as a player and what kind of playstyle you like.
Not to imply that OP is new to magic, it's just a point of why I recommend burn to people alot.
February 19, 2016 1:02 a.m.
EXCALIBRAHHHH says... #21
Yeah, that is fair. Burn is very easy to play. 'Do I have mana? Do I have a spell? Yes, I play spell'. But as you said, great starting point and in modern, it is unlikely the staples will be replaced anytime soon, not much beats Lightning Bolt.
Trying to fund Blue Moon at the moment makes me want to play burn instead :P
February 19, 2016 1:09 a.m.
I always keep a naya burn deck onhand, just in case I want something to keep my mind off of the $2.1k I spent on my modern deck.. eases the mind, y'know?
February 19, 2016 2:05 a.m.
ninjaclevs13 says... #24
Guys I think you are misunderstanding me. I don't want to build a deck for $260, I just want that to be my starting amount of money. Either I buy fetchlands and maybe get rewarded in the future, or just get the core cards for a deck I want.
February 19, 2016 8:41 a.m.
ninjaclevs13: Sorry for misunderstanding you. Yeah buy the fetchlands for sure. They are a better investment than Abzan Company because you never know how things are going to pan out for certain decks. (Just look at Twin...)
Scouty says... #2
Buy a Tarmogoyf, lol.
Real talk though, the Khans fetches are a very good thing to invest in. They're only gonna go up from where they are now, and that's a guarantee
February 18, 2016 10 p.m.