There's a format in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering for everyone. However, some of these formats have been around for a long time and have cards that price out the casual player. Modern, for example, has a lot of powerful cards that are just too expensive for your average player to enjoy —🌜 the average competitive deck in Modern costs upwards of $1,000.

Don't have a lot of expendable income? Don't want to invest your firstborn to play a card game? Fear not; you don't have to avoid Modern completely. There are plenty of cards to pull together that make a cohesive and competitive deck, and they won't break the bank.

Updated March 7, 2024, by Sean Murray: Magic: The Gathering's Modern format doesn't have to break the bank. We've updated this list with a few more viable budget decks that punch way above their price points. We've also given this guide more helpful links to other MTG topics.

10 🐬 Calibrat🤪ed Blast

Going Out With A Bang

Playing Calibrated Blast is all about one thing: playing Calibrated Blast. The idea is to find a Blast and then play it to hopefully catch one of the ludicrously high mana-cost cards to deal that much damage to your opponent's face.

Everything else is to attempt to build the combo up or delay your opponent just long enough to get your combo off. There is one big problem, of course: Autochthon Wurm is 15 mana, which is five less than a starting life total. That means you'll either have to Blast twice, or get a Wurm into play with Throes of Chaos in order to win.

Shadow of Mortality is an interesting budget card from Streets of New Capenna that might make for a good replacement for Autochthon Wurm if you're willing to splash a bit of black mana. You could eventually cast Shadow of Mortality, whereas you can never feasibly cast Autochthon Wurm.

9 ꧃ Mono-Green Stompy 📖

Go big or go home

Aggression has been a cornerstone of green strategies since the very beginning of Magic, and it's no surprise that Mono-Green Stomp has seen a bit of a resurgence in budget Modern lately. The idea is simple: power out a bunch of early threats like Steel Leaf Champion, Groundbreaker, or Old Growth Troll, and pump whatever makes it past your opponent's defenses w🥂ith spells like Aspect of Hydra or Vines of Vastwood.

To give this deck a bit of staying power, Werewolf Pack Leader will help refill your hand as you throw down as many cards as possible. Rancor and Strangleroot Geist are difficult to get rid of, and even Old Growthไ Troll can come back for another round unde💝r the right circumstances.

8 🃏 🗹 Four-Color Dredge

Looking For Combos In All The Wrong Places

Getting a four-color deck to work doesn't typically come cheap, as a four-pack of City of Brass can attest (accounting for nearly half the deck's value alone). But so long as you draw a hand capable of starting the Dredge engine, this deck can do some remarkable things.

Darkblast and Otherworldly Gaze are great first-turn plays against more aggressive decks, but Cathartic Reunion or Thrilling Discovery can start filling your graveyard so long as you don't have to sweat the first turn. After that, Stinkweed Imp and Goglari Thug can start churning your library in the hope of finding some of those potent graveyard combos (like Silversmote Ghoul, Creeping Chill, and Prized Amalgam). There are certainly ways of improving this deck if you've got the money, but Dredge provides a lot for under $100.

7 🎐 Manaless Affinity

Who Needs Lands?

Affinity is a popular and efficient artifact deck that is difficult for players to go against. Unfortunately, not everyone has $500 to spend. So some players got creative and created a budget-friendly version that doesn't play nearly as many lands or the bank-breaking cards like Urza's Saga, but the strategy is the same.

Play artifacts with affinity and overwhelm your opponent with creatures before they can play anything that will win them the game. Manaless Affinity might not play Shadowspear or Urza's Saga, but it plays other impactful artifacts like Salvage Titan and Barricade Breaker.

6 Free Light-Paws Au🎃ras ꦛ

Never Pay For Enchantments Again

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice offers a potent update to mono-white Auras. Sram, Senior Edificer and Kor Spiritdancer still keep your hand full as you play aura after aura, pumping both All That Glitters and Ethereal Armor to truly terrifying levels. And with Light-Paws, you can have both, giving you two times as much power and toughness. Karametra's Blessing is a key card here, keeping Light-Paws alive and swinging.

At just $40, mono-white Auras is one of the cheapest options available to Modern Magic players on a budget﷽.

The key to the deck is to know when to attack and when to defend until you draw something like Spirit Mantle or Gryff's Boon to break the stalemate.

5 Infect

No Need To Break The Bank To Poison Your Opponent

Besides a combo deck that doesn't let you have a turn, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:no deck is scarier than Infect. You don't need to worry about dealing 20 points of damage to win. Instead, you only need to deal ten points of poison damage.

Unfortunately, the premiere Infect deck costs upwards of $700, so it might be kinder to your wallet to play a $60 version. It doesn't play as many creatures, but it prioritizes pump spells over something like Thou🌊ghtseize. Paying a tenth of the price while accomplishing the same thing is a good deal.

4 ౠ Daemogoth Dealings

A sacrifice worth making

This deck is all about taking advantage of the absurdly low mana costs of both Daemogoth Titan and Daemogoth Woe-Eater. The catch is that these two Demons require a regular sacrifice to stick around. Providing your hungry Demon꧑s with something to eat are Fists of Ironwood, Awakening Zone, and Creakwood Liege.

Once you've got a token generator to keep your Daemogoth's happy, it's time to smack your opponent until they die. Unnatural Growth creates an extremely l𒆙arge Demon that could easily one-shot your opponent if they manage to get through, while Vines of Vastwood keeps your Demon save from r💫emoval spells.

The Daemogoths are the lynchpin of this deck. If you don't draw one in your opening hand, it's probably a hand that should be mulliganed.

3 🌱 Star Reckoner

An extinction event for your opponent

Similar to Calibrated Blast, Star Reckoner goes for an explosive finish and just seeks to stay alive in the meantime. Your main goal is to play either Boros Reckoner or Brash Taunter and then hit it with either a Volcano Hellion or a Star Extinction. The damage dealt to your 𓆏own creature will then bounce𝓀 and hit your opponent for 20 damage.

Ideally, it's Star Extinction doing the damage as Volcano He💝llion would need a bit of burn to make sure your opponent dies and not yoursel𝓡f.

Everything else is to make sure that you can find the combo and live long enough to cast it. Seasoned Pyromancer offers tokens to block and a bit of card searching, while Runaway Steam-Kin and Irencrag Feat help pump out your expensive Star Extinction (or Sundering Stroke if you just can't find Star Extinction).

2 🦋 Gleeful 8-꧋Whack Goblins

Rage With The Machine, Not Against It

The eight cards of Goblin and Reckless Bushwhackers are what gives this deck its name and its relentless tempo. Ideally, you're looking at a first-turn Gleeful Demolition (either of Ornithopter, Memnite, or Mishra's Bauble) followed by a second-turn Whacker. Attack until you whittle your opponent down to a single-digit life total. Then, Goblin Grenade and Shrapnel Blast take care of the rest.

The most expensive card is Legion Loyalist, but it doesn't even make it onto the mainboard. Without the sideboard, the whole deck costs just over $50 USD.

1 Black Burn 🎃

It's Not Just For Red Anymore

Burn has always been around in Magic, but it's usually mono-red. An entirely black strategy follows the same general theme of trading cards for your opponent's life but substitutes spells that can potentially gain life as well as take it (such as Sovereign's Bite, Soul Spike, and Collective Brutality). Combined with the card draw provided in Sign in Blood, Black Burn has potentially more staying power than a traditional re💛d burn deck.

The most expensive cards in the deck are the Marsh Flats and Silent Clearings, but those can be replaced by Swamps to bring the deck under $100. They're only present because it's almost always better to draw a Sovereign's Bite on turn three than it is to draw another Swamp.

It's sometimes worth taking a mulligan to find Chancellor of the Dross for your opening hand. It's highly unlikely games will go to turn seven and even less likely you'll be hitting your land drops each turn in order to cast Mr. Dross.