So I'm starting afresh with modern (leaving standard :)), and I am thinking of playing Affinity. It looks cheap; under $500; plays well (most common top 8 aggro deck); and looks fun to play too! However as I am starting with a very small budget $60 so far, I am going to buy the cards slowly over time and gradually build up to the deck. However I have a few questions now;
1. How does Affinity fare against other competitive decks (I have read the primer but I want real persons experience)
2. What cards should I buy first with that amount of money in hand (I live in Australia so I will probably buy of SCG unless someone reccomeneds an alternative). And is there any order I should buy them in,(for example is one going to rise soon)
OK guys, I want to ask you what would you do in this situation;
I have very little money right now, and only a handful of money rares (basically a RDW deck that includes Boros Reckoner, Ash Zealot, etc). I wanted to build a new deck through selling all my cards and starting fresh and hopefully with some money. However after searching through the competitive decks there is only 4 ones that pop up frequently. All of these decks are super expensive (and I mean super as I live in Australia were every card costs like double)and I find the standard meta game pretty boring - either getting bashed slowly by mutavaults or having everything good thought-seized away on T1. Also with soccer season starting up I probably won't have time to go to many tournaments ;(. So my options are these; invest in standard right now ;(, or wait for Journey to Nyx/Rotation and hope the new cards shake the meta game up a bit. If I do invest in a current standard deck which one should it be?
Also in my town modern is only held once a month so thats not really an option ;(
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1. How does Affinity fare against other competitive decks (I have read the primer but I want real persons experience)
2. What cards should I buy first with that amount of money in hand (I live in Australia so I will probably buy of SCG unless someone reccomeneds an alternative). And is there any order I should buy them in,(for example is one going to rise soon)
Thanks, here's the decklist
2 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
4 Vault Skirge
4 Steel Overseer
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Etched Champion
1 Master of Etherium
4 Mox Opal
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Cranial Plating
4 Thoughtcast
2 Galvanic Blast
Lands:
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Glimmervoid
1 Island
I have very little money right now, and only a handful of money rares (basically a RDW deck that includes Boros Reckoner, Ash Zealot, etc). I wanted to build a new deck through selling all my cards and starting fresh and hopefully with some money. However after searching through the competitive decks there is only 4 ones that pop up frequently. All of these decks are super expensive (and I mean super as I live in Australia were every card costs like double)and I find the standard meta game pretty boring - either getting bashed slowly by mutavaults or having everything good thought-seized away on T1. Also with soccer season starting up I probably won't have time to go to many tournaments ;(. So my options are these; invest in standard right now ;(, or wait for Journey to Nyx/Rotation and hope the new cards shake the meta game up a bit. If I do invest in a current standard deck which one should it be?
Also in my town modern is only held once a month so thats not really an option ;(
Thanks
4 Steam Vents
9 Mountains
8 Islands
2 Mutavault
Instants;
4 Izzet Charm
4 Turn / Burn
4 Steam Augury
4 Lightning Strike
4 Magma Jet
3 Quicken
1 Mizzium Skin
4 Spellheart Chimera
4 Young Pyromancer
3 Guttersnipe
1 Goblin Electromancer
1 Ral Zarek (Planeswalker)
4 Experiment One
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Voyaging Satyr
4 Kalonian Tusker
4 Reverent Hunter
2 Nylea, God of the Hunt
4 Boon Satyr
2 Arbor Colossus
3 Polukranos
3 Garruk, Caller of the Beasts
20 Forests
What do you guys think? I want to make this somewhat cheap but I can afford all of these cards. I was thinking maybe cutting Voyaging Satyr?
Also how do you think Green will stand after Born of the Gods if legal?
Cheers
4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Ash Zealot
4 Firefist Striker
4 Gorehouse Chainwalker
3 Fanatics of Mogis
4 Burning Tree Emissary
3 Boros Reckoner
2 Hammer of Purphoros
Cheers
1 Hammer of Purphoros
1 Dynacharge
4 Ash Zealot
4 Boros Reckoner
4 Burning Tree Emissary
4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Firefist Satyr
4 Gore-House Chainwalker
4 Legion Loyalist
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Fanatics of Mogis
18 Mountains
This is a standard RDW deck, any improvements?
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
9 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Ash Zealot
4 Goblin Guide
3 Grim Lavamancer
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Keldon Marauders
4 Vexing Devil
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Rift Bolt
2 Shard Volley
1 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Molten Rain
2 Relic of Progenitus
4 Searing Blaze
4 Smash to Smithereens