I hear you want to play U/B control but you don't have money for U/B dual lands in standard, or you don't have money for Liliana, or The Scarab God or hell even for Torrential Gearhulk.
Lucky for you I'm in the same boat (no lands, no scarab god or gearhulk) and no money to invest in those but I still want to have a relatively competitive U/B control type deck. This deck should be about $40-$50 depending on prices of cards in your area, you can also change some of the sideboard cards if you don't want to buy them.
Without further ado here is the deck that I am testing right now and it's quite good actually and on a budget, the few rares in the deck are all around $1 each.
So, basically the deck stalls by killing creatures until you can get kefnet and golden guardian out, and make them fight and flip golden guardian and start making 4/4 golems every turn and beat face with them.
The deck has 4 chupacabras and 1 noxious gearhulk to kill creatures and it has 4 bounce and 3 replay spells to keep reusing these creatures. It also stalls in the first couple of turns by using Aether Meltdown or moment of craving or even using Consign to bounce an early creature.
The deck also runs 5 counters main deck, using Disappearing Act to return Aether Hub or a chupacabra to hand and cast it again next turn and also 2 Negates main deck to take care of random planeswalkers or other problem spells.
There are also 2 mastermind's acquisition to be able to grab something from the sideboard when you need it.
After sideboarding the deck turns into a more aggro version adding the extra creatures and taking out the counters and the bounce spells.
Let me know what you think and hope you can enjoy playing this deck as I have making it.
I hear you want to play U/B control but you don't have money for U/B dual lands in standard, or you don't have money for Liliana, or The Scarab God or hell even for Torrential Gearhulk.
Lucky for you I'm in the same boat (no lands, no scarab god or gearhulk) and no money to invest in those but I still want to have a relatively competitive U/B control type deck. This deck should be about $40-$50 depending on prices of cards in your area, you can also change some of the sideboard cards if you don't want to buy them.
Without further ado here is the deck that I am testing right now and it's quite good actually and on a budget, the few rares in the deck are all around $1 each.
4 Aether Hub
3 Evolving Wilds
1 Hostile Desert
1 Arch of Orazca
8 Island
7 Swamp
Creatures (12)
4 Golden Guardian
3 Kefnet the mindful
4 Ravenous Chupacabra
1 Noxious Gearhulk
4 Consign // Oblivion
3 Release to the wind
4 Aether Meltdown
4 Glimmer of Genius
3 Moment of craving
2 Negate
3 Disappearing Act
2 Mastermind's Acquisition
4 Ammit Eternal
2 Plague Belcher
2 Crook of Codemnation
1 Vizier of many faces
1 Nezahal, primal tide
1 Hour of Glory
1 Negate
1 Confiscation Coup
2 Golden Demise
So, basically the deck stalls by killing creatures until you can get kefnet and golden guardian out, and make them fight and flip golden guardian and start making 4/4 golems every turn and beat face with them.
The deck has 4 chupacabras and 1 noxious gearhulk to kill creatures and it has 4 bounce and 3 replay spells to keep reusing these creatures. It also stalls in the first couple of turns by using Aether Meltdown or moment of craving or even using Consign to bounce an early creature.
The deck also runs 5 counters main deck, using Disappearing Act to return Aether Hub or a chupacabra to hand and cast it again next turn and also 2 Negates main deck to take care of random planeswalkers or other problem spells.
There are also 2 mastermind's acquisition to be able to grab something from the sideboard when you need it.
After sideboarding the deck turns into a more aggro version adding the extra creatures and taking out the counters and the bounce spells.
Let me know what you think and hope you can enjoy playing this deck as I have making it.
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