Me and a few friends play mostly limited, but occasionally the giant pile of useless cards we get left with after we draft gets a little depressing. So we came up with a quick constructed format to play:
40 card minimum
Commons and uncommons only
Singleton
8 card sideboard
It's pretty straight forward, and you can make a deck in about an hour that's pretty fun to play. In a casual environment you don't wind up fighting for cards in more limited card pools and you get to experiment a little. More long term I like building decks, but when I think of investing 300 dollars into something I can't be bothered. You can draft 20+ times for that money and you can't really just swap your Modern or Standard deck for another one, it's a huge hassle. But playing with cool cards like Lightning Bolt, Delver of Secrets, maybe Bloodbraid Elf or Hedron Crab is fun so recently we've tried using older cards and seeing what the decks can turn out to be like. I'm running a red-blue deck based on Modern Delver:
Still a work in progress. I'd like to run Act on Impulse but it's not as efficient as Treasure Cruise or useful in early game as Magmatic Insight so it's a bit sad. My friend currently experimenting with some black brews.
I'm concerned about the size of the card pool. Although 22-24 cards is a tiny space to fill there aren't that many good spells to do it with either so a lot of decks might end up looking similar. I'm considering adding a 2 card with same name limitation instead to see what would happen, but I would like to play test the format more before deciding on that.
We play on MTGO so if you're interested in throwing together a deck we might be able to play.
1x Delver of Secrets
1x Ponder
1x Preordain
1x Vapor Snag
1x Jeskai Elder
1x Remand
1x Write into Being
1x Treasure Cruise
1x Lightning Bolt
1x Magmatic Insight
1x Monastery Swiftspear
1x Incinerate
1x Lightning Strike
1x Mage-Ring Bully
1x Magma Jet
1x Searing Spear
1x Young Pyromancer
1x Guttersnipe
1x Hordeling Outburst
1x Blistercoil Weird
1x Goblin Electromancer
1x Electrolyze
1x Fire // Ice
7x Mountain
7x Islands
1x Evolving Wilds
1x Terramorphic Expanse
1x Counterspell
1x Mana Leak
1x Negate
1x Goblin Grenade
1x Dragon Fodder
1x Krenko's Command
Still a work in progress. I'd like to run Act on Impulse but it's not as efficient as Treasure Cruise or useful in early game as Magmatic Insight so it's a bit sad. My friend currently experimenting with some black brews.
I'm concerned about the size of the card pool. Although 22-24 cards is a tiny space to fill there aren't that many good spells to do it with either so a lot of decks might end up looking similar. I'm considering adding a 2 card with same name limitation instead to see what would happen, but I would like to play test the format more before deciding on that.
We play on MTGO so if you're interested in throwing together a deck we might be able to play.