New to Modern. (Page 1 of 2)

Check out the modern hero blog.  The guy takes the 75$ event deck and on a budget modifies it slowly over a period of weeks.  You can see his matchups his strategies, etc... it provides a good road map to get into the modern format on a budget. 

http://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/author/alamoth/
http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/search … rict_sr=on
http://sales.starcitygames.com/carddisp … uct=551728

The cheapest good modern deck I've seen is Mono Green Infect.

It can further be improved (in my opinion) by adding Blue, but to optimize the deck then you would need a much more expensive land base.

There's people talking about the new waste not, from M15 going into 8 rack.  IDK if it's good or not.  I don't know much about the deck.

when you consider 8 rack doesnt need the sort of massive land investment many other decks need it can be a mixed bag.

A nice blinged out 8 rack is cheaper than many other decks of comparable competitive level but the cards are more limited in what they are useful for.

lol we both get along too well I think.

The new Erayo, Soratami Ascendant affinity decks are abit cheaper too I think.

Thanks. The type of deck im trying to build is aggro

Well basically I wanna find a good modern deck with aggro possibly some haste or whats really working well in modern and then i wanna tweak it a bit.

ok to further describe I wanna build an red aggro deck (not goblins) Im cool with splashing any colour.  On that trump blasts with haste or pings, I wanna trump blast with haste while still having some form of  control over the battlefield? In related news: are there any cheap Werewolf/Vampire decks?.

My budget is +- $30

Thank you. Now we know what we can work with.

I largely agree but I think this is relatively workable at least. It would be rough but that is the life of budget decks. Saving for the event deck is definitely a solid plan though.

https://deckbox.org/sets/730162

Somewhere in there I missed the part where I Wanted to mention I did a really really cut budget Burn that might do ok.

Last edited by TRZ (2014-07-14 16:33:59)

which isn't much.  $30 is like 1-3 important cards cards in most modern decks.  Magic like a lot of hobbies takes some $$ to get started.  Think of being serious about magic like getting into a new game system.  If you asked what kind of game system you could get for $30 what would you think the response would be? 

Here's the truth of the matter...

If you went and bought an xbox one right now you'd spend $500 for the system, $50 on xbox life, $100 on games, $150 more on accessories... by the time you're out of the store you're $800-$900 deep.   And that's what you need to spend to "get into" an xbox...

That's about what you need to "get into" magic imo.  That amount would get you a good modern and standard deck and then you can just start maintaining your collection.

I'm not saying you can't do it cheaper, but you will get exactly what you pay for.  And if your okay gaming on a beat up  sega gensis from the flee market down the road and Altered Beast is your only game then go for it.

To get into standard is cheaper and maybe that's where you should set you sites for now... nothing like playing limited events to get your collection going either...