The fantastic thing about modern is the format could be the best-of standard decks, however, with the banned and restricted list, many decks would have to be excluded. In order to make a deck in modern which can compete, it first has to be able to go toe to toe with the top decks, the main one which comes to mind is zoo. Pro Tour Honolulu was one standard event which featured Zoo as a prominent player in the meta. However the deck that won wasn't zoo, it was something else. That deck was Heezy Street Beats.
Heezy Street Beats, named after Mark Herberholtz (AKA Heezy), operates along the same principles as zoo, however not requiring Shocklands to power the deck, which allows the deck to be easily budgetable. The deck relies on using powerful 1 and 2 drops which can apply the early pressure, utilizing burn to either push through damage or serve as removal. The deck also gains some considerable late game from the former scourge of standard, Bloodbraid Elf and Boom//Bust.
The cards:
Lands
Firelit Thicket- The filter lands have really fallen in price to ~$5. It still fixes mana well and is a valuable addition to our mana base.
Karplusan Forest- Painlands have also fallen to the wayside, hovering around the same price as the filter lands.
Mountain- The perfect red producing land.
Forest- The perfect green producing land.
Skarrg, the Rage Pits- Gives some of your creatures reach with adding trample and a boost.
Tectonic Edge- A wasteland to punish ramp decks and 12 Post.
Super-Budget Options
Gruul Turf- A mana fixing land, however it does have the draw back of entering the battlefield tapped and returning a land back to your hand which mitigates the speed of the deck by slowing down the decks most important turn, the second turn.
Kazandu Refuge/ Shivan Oasis- A better option than Gruul Turf as it still allows an effective second turn, however slowing down turn 1 reduces the punch the deck has on turn 2.
Creatures
Kird Ape- One of the best 1 drops in the deck potentially being a 2/3. Being able to attack on turn 2 turns on a second turn bloodthirst creature.
Goblin Guide- Another powerful 1 drop with haste to turn on the turn 2 bloodthirst creature. However, it does have a drawblack of potentially drawing your opponent lands.
Tattermunge Maniac- A decent 1 drop with the drawback of forcing to attack each turn.
Scab-Clan Mauler- A potential 3/3 with trample. However it does require bloodthirst to turn on.
Stormblood Berserker- A better version of Scab-Clan Mauler which has pseudo unblockability.
Boggart Ram-Gang- A decent 3 drop which acts as a pseudo burn spell.
The Deck
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Lands 4 Rootbound Crag 4 Fire-Lit Thicket 2 Skarrg, the Rage Pit 6 Mountain 6 Forest | Creatures 3 Kird Ape 4 Goblin Guide 4 Mogg Fanatic 4 Stormblood Berserker 4 Scab-Clan Mauler 2 Burning-Tree Shaman 4 Boggart Ram-Gang 4 Bloodbraid Elf 2 Giant Solifuge | Spells 4 Lightning Bolt 3 Incinerate |
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