Topic: Building U/W Deck with a budget. I got a rough outline of what I want.

Can anybody help me shave off what I don't need? I see some $20 cards here that are just SO AWESOME, but might not be worth it. This is also my first deck and I'm so excited to be playing, but I also don't want to kill the little money I have right now. What can I get rid of and what can't I?

http://deckbox.org/sets/307866?s=e&o=d

Thanks!

P.S. I'm trying to get it under $60.

Last edited by loverthehater (2013-02-02 06:56:46)

Re: Building U/W Deck with a budget. I got a rough outline of what I want.

So the first question would be, what are you looking to build the deck for?  Casual play?  Potentially competitive play?  Is there a format you're looking to play?  Most of the deck appears to be standard, but then you have items from the original Ravnica block and other older sets that result in it being a legacy deck.

The reason I ask is because each level of play and format carries different expectations and different requirements.  Casual decks can afford to have 1x of most cards like you do as people typically aren't as ruthless in casual play and are just looking to have a good time.  Competitive play would require a lot more attention to the decklist to ensure that you have higher amounts of consistency and more powerful combos.

That aside, if you're looking to shave value off of the deck, the two most obvious places would be Serra Ascendant and Sphinx's Revelation as those two cards alone are almost $30.  Personally, I would take out the ascendant as its value is inflated by EDH and legacy players far more than anyone else.  It doesn't really fit into what you appear to be doing with the deck and aside a few cards, you're unlikely to reach the 30 life to make it a real threat anyway.  That would bring the deck value down to $77.70.  If you were to drop the Revelation, you're already down to $60.06.

If you were to keep the revelation, you'll end up having to drop Grand Arbiter Augustin IV and a bunch of other $1-3 dollar cards (most notably Glacial Fortress).

Ultimately it's up to you what stays and goes, but if you're looking to keep it under $60, those two will definitely get you there.

Re: Building U/W Deck with a budget. I got a rough outline of what I want.

I want to start out casually, but I would be willing to pay more money if I were to go to competition. I knew it was going to be legacy, as I studied all of the formats before-hand and my friends that I wanted to play with really don't care.

Anyways, if you check back with the deck, I did get rid of that $20 Sphinx and the Revelation, as well as some of those $3 land cards and replaced them with something that was just as useful, but in a different way. I got rid of the Glacial Fortresses and added in a Sejiri's Refuge and a Soaring Seacliff. That's about it, I believe.