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I need some help with making a standard deck. The only deck that is consistent (with cards and a gameplan) is my bogbrew. I normaly only play causal, but I want a deck thats in standard format. New cards from the new set are appreciated btw. Also I don't have a big budget so keep it under like 35-40$ i do have a lot of cards tho so it might help. Anything is helpful I also have no idea what any of the type of decks are so if you use terminology i might not know throw out a definition. (ex would be junk) Thanks guys! I also like tri colored decks but I will take a look into all the decks

Pretty much any "known" deck is going to cost a LOT more than 35-40 dollars. The only thing I can think of that would be cheap in standard is mono red aggro and that weird blue artifact deck thing from Japan.

To be honest, I doubt you can get much help from this thread, there are no popular decks in the price range you describe, if you want to make one you will be better off working on your own.

I put together a pretty inexpensive Mono Red deck to test my other decks against. Seems pretty good and you can tailor it to your liking. There are several versions floating around the net.

Only expensive cards are in the side deck.




My son put together an Abzan Deck for pretty cheap but I did have to loan him a couple cards like one of the Ajani's and a Mistcutter and he pulled or traded for all the fetch lands. The sideboard is a little janky, but he's 11 years old. He went 1-2-1 in his first event so seems like there is some potential here.

The deck is pretty much a G/W deck splashing some B. The idea is to get counters on your guys and use the Abzan Falconer to take them to the air. Feat of Resistance can protect your creatures and put on counters while Ajani's Presence can also add protection and trigger Phalanx Leader's Heroic. Against other Aggro decks, Favored Hoplite can come off the board for some of the higher cost cards and a land to lower the curve.

The expense of this deck really depends on what you already have. The Ajani's and Windswept Heath are the only really expensive cards. Playset of Lions should be $20 or less. He has Utter Ends on the sideboard, but really I think it would better to have more Reprisals, some Suspension Field/Banishing Light or more Setessan Tactics or Savage Punch because it can trigger the Heroic on Phalanx Leader.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, if you can't get/don't have the Windswept Heaths or the Ajani, Mentor of Heroes, you could go to 4x Mistcutter Hydra and use 2 more of the Jungle Hollow, 1 more Forest, and 1 more Plains. If you have some Temple of Plenty, that would work as well. The come into play tapped lands will slow you down a little, but should be okay I think.

I like this list by Yoshihiko Ikawa

Creatures [15]

• 4 Akroan Crusader
  
• 4 Favored Hoplite
  
• 3 Phalanx Leader
  
• 4 Vanguard of Brimaz

Spells-24

• 1 Ajani's Presence
  
• 4 Defiant Strike
  
• 4 Dragon Mantle
  
• 3 Gods Willing
  
• 4 Launch the Fleet
  
• 4 Obelisk of Urd
  
• 4 Raise the Alarm

Land- 21

• 4 Battlefield Forge
  
• 4 Mana Confluence
  
• 2 Mountain
  
• 7 Plains
  
• 4 Temple of Triumph

If you start by only using basics the only cards in the main deck that are over a dollar are Launch the Fleet(about 3$) and Obelisk of Urd (about 2$)

As for the lands
- temple of triumph is about 5
-mana confluence is about 15
- battlefield forage is about 7

You can probubly get 99% of this deck for free from people if you give them the list

Obviously you want the expensive lands for the best play but if you don't use mana confluence the deck would be about 60$ and if you cut triumph as well (battlefield forage is better) it would probably be about 40$ or less

Decks can definitely be made in your price range and easily more consistent than bogbrew. However, I would say that you would safely be much more consistent were you to play 1 or 2 colors.