Cheap VS Expensive MTG Modern Decks! (Gameplay)

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[@HarryMTG]

Have had very limited time to play over the past week because I am moving! What should I play/do next? Support my content: www.patreon.com/HarryMTG

[@JohnFromAccounting]

Play Cabal Coffers

[@throwaway7425]

try the timeless lotus deck you beat, its actually really fun to play after you get the hang of it

[@tomgrimard8075]

Use Garth One Eye lol

[@lizardsofthetoast]

In modern i would say gift storm or gruul infect. My gruul infect deck is so consistent. Turn 2 wins are pretty common turn three is just what it does...gifts decks are seeing alot of play though

[@calebross8174]

I wanna see a deck work with assault formation! My buddy thought that card was gonna sky rocket and bought like 100 of them, I still make fun of him for it.

[@tildeumlaut6833]

Watching how Nourishing Shoal did in the $10 deck was impressive. Free spells always OP.

[@Matteo_Consiglio]

I dare you to make a Fungus/Saproling deck work in Modern

[@zacharymeyers528]

yessss

[@paulkelemen4199]

Yes. Make Magic players eat their greens

[@capitainecl]

Yes please

[@OrchettoMetallaro]

Life and Limb go brrrr

[@44KoRn44]

Oh yes. Modern needs more good tribal Decks!

[@andrewsparkes6275]

The deck I used to play was: 4x Diligent Excavator 4x Altar of the Brood 4x Paradoxical Outcome 4x Tormod's Crypt (and because you don't wanna mill their flashback/reanimation pieces) 16x other 0-cost artifacts 2x Erayo 4 Remands 22 lands Was fun, pretty budget, and silly as hell to make them mill their whole library in a single turn sometimes with only 3 or 4 0-cost artifacts, so long as you had enough Altars/Excavators on board! Also had 4x Reckless Fireweavers and 2x Aetherflux Reservoirs (to switch out for the Excavators/Altars) in the sideboard, to enable a game 3 win if they mistakenly sideboard into mill hate themselves for the remaining games after the first!

[@petrie911]

"We have Blazing Shoal at home." Blazing Shoal at home:

[@morgunkorn_]

Absolutely love the idea of this video! Making modern more accessible is fantastic, thank you Harry!

[@jaggededge11]

I played around with Titanoth Rex before in mono-green infect. I used it as a way to give my creatures trample (Along side Rancor) as a way to punch through my opponent's defences. The deck also ran Ram Through as a form of removal, or extra infect once your creatures have Trample.

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

I run a Ram Through in a Brokkos infect Commander deck and it's easily one of the best cards in the deck.

[@laleyenda2792]

Great video concept, would like to see more of these; was a bit surprised to hear a Brit pronounce Fortifying Draught as "drot" rather than "draft" though!

[@japplek]

It's a bugger of a word to be fair. But I'm glad you pointed it out as that's what I was here to do as well!

[@OtterSIaughter]

I've been playing Draught in my GW Magecraft list. Love casting Fortifying Draught + Weather the Storm.

[@malign3158]

Harry, you didn’t kill the Amulet Titan player with 3 Amulets. You killed them with ALL FOUR amulets being played. They got their fourth one before they were killed. They could not have drawn more perfectly to answer your answers, and your deck still won

[@t4kato147]

Big thanks of course to Spike for making decks lower powered

[@iscaleto]

This is a great series! I would love to see more of these for other Modern decks, and who knows, other formats as well!

[@OneDemonsAdvocate]

Venerated Rotpriest plus 2 Spellskites, you can keep bouncing the target back and forth between the two until they die to poison!

[@lizardsofthetoast]

I run this as a combo in my gruul infect...very chic 😍

[@kingginger3335]

I want to see you put a turn 2 Ancient Imperiosaur in play. All you'd need is a bunch of 0 drop creatures and 2 Llanowar Elves. Then you could tap all of them for a colorless mana or a Green mana to convoke the Imperiosaur to the battlefield. It enters as a 20/20 and because it has ward 2, it's almost guaranteed to make it to your next turn where you swing for lethal.

[@fr3y920]

Great video format! Would love to see more of it

[@shamwhoa]

This is such an awesome video concept, I would love to see you explore other formats and budget options for those decks.

[@Pigzit]

This video was awesome Harry, loved every minute. Would you do this video style for other formats? I'd love to see this in Pioneer!

[@matthewleitgen8871]

I have to wonder if "shoal-fect" is something worth trying out with full optimization. You only need 1 mana (but 3 cards) to pump up, so you could shoot for a turn 2 kill with a 1 mana counter up. All you need is a 7+ cmc card to pitch so turntimber symbiote and sea gate restoration could replace some lands for that purpose

[@Esper_Compleat]

Sadly the shoals need an on color card, but turntimber for sure

[@ADudeWhoExperiences1393]

Would it be worth running the green chancellor in that build?

[@GB-kw8vg]

Become emense would be amazing for shoal as it’s a pump spell in itself at 7 mama with delve to give a creature +7/+7 for one green

[@tarotdactyl752]

I love your creativity and this video! Hope to see more like this!

[@metalfreekz13]

For the $10 deck, you could have included a playset of Massive Might to push damage through, which is an instant for G that gives target creature +2/+2 and Trample until end of turn, and is like 20 cents for a playset.

[@eric.ingram]

Dope video Harry. This is quality content that I would like to see more of.

[@teamdemonygo462]

Watched this to see the difference, and got to see a different list than mine that was worth trying out at the end. All in all very nice video.

[@Hinaguy749]

Doesn't help that when Seth first made that list upgrading it with Inkmoths was only about $40 total.

[@lizardsofthetoast]

I run 2 inkmoth and they are necessary and really closers for turn three or four wins. But I got mine before they were so pricey

[@Hinaguy749]

@lizards of the toast same, got mine when they were like $8 a piece then within a few months they jumped to $30. Picked up the Secret Lair versions when they came out and have been waiting to sell the originals.

[@TheSniped117]

Rancor could solve the Evasion issue in the first two lists. When considering budget, creativity is key.

[@dks6515]

Awesome video, love these budget builds!

[@papersnow8707]

Haha I was waiting for this video to release, knew I was going to make it into the video when I played burn into you :D

[@ptodd5373]

Also in the $100 deck you could of added Gemrazer to give your creatures reach, trample, infect, 4/4 and also the destroy effect on the mutate. Also they are under $4 each

[@stevesmith5883]

This is almost exactly what I did back in 2015/16, built a very budget mono-green infect build, then slowly upgraded it to the then T1 version. It's still what I do with commander decks now, build them for usually less than 100 quid, then buy/trade for more expensive stuff down the line.

[@ethanhickle2929]

I love this idea! Please do more!

[@mangoalias608]

yeahhhh fortifying draught!!!! that spell was one of my favorites when i was first getting into standard in 2021

[@NinjaPicnicers]

Great editing, more mtg youtubers should be making short for content like this

[@MrCintari]

Very interesting video, sir! Will you make more videos like this one? I really want to see some "Stompy" decks, "Burn" decks ... :D

[@flewphernegro1516]

That nourishing shoal tech was hilarious

[@44KoRn44]

I like this Kind of Video very much. More please! ❤

[@CptManboobs]

Back when I first started playing Magic I had a really silly Green stompy deck that played Voracious Wurm and Preadator's Rapport.

[@poldosfamily2490]

need more videos like this!!!

[@Icenri]

Try venerated rotpriest with TWO spellskites and laugh maniacally.

[@blast0isek1d37]

WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU WOULD PUT OUT A BUDGET ESK VIDEO! Thank you! Can we do a series on decks through the tiers?? With their budget counterparts???

[@beaunannie8951]

I’ve tried to make cheap Mono Blue Delver tempo for modern, $10 seems like an interesting challenge

[@Hunted0LessShirt]

The standard deck is a pretty good place to start, they're around $60 usd on average by the looks... Now that I'm trying though, $10 is a very difficult challenge for something that looks good. Even things like 4x Spellstutter Sprite is $13!

[@error00001]

I feel like a lot of opponents didn't understand rotpriest

[@nathanaelmcmahan872]

This is how I did it. I did have a lot of the expensive cards for tron because I got them when they were cheap or at pre release. I'm slowly buying cards one at a time for a painter's servant deck (I have 3), and glimpse which is a budget deck. Neobrand isnt too bad. Neither is the NeoSaur build with Gishath. It's cheaper. Start with your lands. I wish I spent my store credit on lands instead of 2 boxes.

[@Servbot40]

I don't know if I agree with the upgrade path, I feel like you could have added blighted agents in much earlier by adding budget color fixing like pain lands. Yavimaya is less than a $1 and waterlogged cove is around 4. This would also Give access to distortion strike and corrupted resolve in the side. Basically the main issue with you $100 build was blockers. For about a $50 add (in paper) you could have had rot priest, agent, strike, and 8 painlands

[@bertilandersson6606]

Your content is among the best on you tube.

[@juanortega6837]

as infect player with a thigt budget i have to say thank you and great video

[@Lunamowon]

time to buy this for my friend who wants to get into the format

[@danielgraves13]

white black toxic is pretty strong with the P:AWBO set. skrelv, skrelv's hive, crawling chorus, and a lot proliferate.

[@malakimphoros2164]

Then add some Phyrexian tribal from MOM and you have a decent Standard deck

[@tarmotaipale5704]

Obviously fetch lands and shock lands are out of 100$ budget but could something else work, such as painlands, fastlands or checklands? So that you could splash blighted agent for some evasion?

[@Tyral25]

I’ve told a bunch of people wanting to get into modern to do just this. Buy the basics of the deck to make it work and slowly upgrade over time. Took me just under 2 years to buy into my fully built modern deck. Also teaches you why your buying the upgraded cards and how to better use them

[@0ropher]

Could you upload the $1000 list to mtggoldfish please, it's not the same one that appears in the video description

[@stonepatberg]

Before any MH sets the average cost of a deck was only $600, 1k decks is ridiculous

[@johnmorton4750]

What about something like rogue's passage to help deal with blockers while keeping the deck cheap? I'm just getting back into the game, let me know if I'm missing something here haha

[@Gruune2841]

Rogue's Passage is really hefty at 4 colorless mana and tapping it, effectively 5 mana just to give something unblockable, with a large likelihood of it just being exiled or killed since you don't have any mana for protection to the large swath of interaction in Modern, Solitude, Leyline Binding, Path to Exile, Lightning Bolt, Fatal Push, etc.

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

With a Rot Priest and two Spellskites you can pay two life to give one poison counter, as long as there's a spell that could target a Spellskite on the stack...

[@peterviviano4722]

WHAT IS TEH PROGRAM YOU USE TO MANAGE THE CARD AND VIEW ALL THOSE INFECT CARDS

[@LordOfCrabz]

Make a Modern Pants deck (Mono White) and I'll be impressed! :D

[@Dracomandriuthus]

Where's the Chancellor of the Tangle though? Very good with Ichorclaw Myr

[@ha7e777]

Hmm, I think kuldotha could be great solution for budget modern. Also half of the deck is pauper staple.

[@breaking_mana]

need cheap evasion play apostles blessing to give a card protection from a color of your choice

[@josecalcedo9461]

Hey, could you build a viable deck that features Mystic Enforcer?

[@DKforever24]

5:25 Burn player did not have lethal. You would be at 2 when the stack resolved meaning you conceded when you had the win. 8:00 That deck the op has abuses Amulet of Vigor with Timeless Lotus to win with Door to Nothingness.

[@HarryMTG]

I didn’t concede, my burn opponent did.

[@papaflowers5726]

Couldn't you stack triggers from spellskite with as much life/blue mana to keep triggering rotpriest?

[@error00001]

Only if you have two of them

[@JacoDeltaco]

so the green shoal since infect made the red one ban

[@LeatherMiasma]

Play delver or grim flayer in modern please

[@ZaqueFrasieur]

“Fortifying DRAWT” 😂 not to be that guy but it’s “draft” haha

[@ArtisticTomahawk]

An 11/11 good againt burn? Yes. lol

[@ptodd5373]

Where can I find players that tap out and don't leave a blocker VS infect??????

[@Sarkhamy]

I dare you to make death and taxes work in modern😊

[@notcaboose4415]

aint it funny how mono green does life gain in a better way than white

[@potato_cm]

Almost all the cards in rb goblins besides vials and lands are really cheap if people are looking for a more midrangey strategy. Not $10 but maybe $30

[@ChaosArchmage]

I'm confused as to why opponents were conceding to Scale Up on Venerated Rotpriest when it has Toxic and not Infect, meaning the Scale Up doesn't add a ton of extra poison. Several opponents in thia video did this. Is there something I'm missing?

[@HarryMTG]

One opponent scooped quite early, but you can just kill people by attacking! I believe against esper control I had 12 damage when they were at 11.

[@TheLuminousCleric]

Money is the main reason I dont buy cards but proxy them.

[@anorouch]

Ten dollar ten/tens on turn two.

[@SifnTCG]

First and love you harry

[@patritchie1317]

What city are you moving to? (If you're willing to answer. You don't have to if you don't want to.)

[@ImaginaryMdA]

It's not that expensive... You've got 2 kidneys. You don't need the second one.

[@jayden_rico]

i think draught is pronounced draft

[@LuciferLuckless]

Draught is pronounced like "Draft" by the way. Just English being weird as usual.

[@broodlingg]

Wasn't that loss against burn not a loss. wouldn't you be at 5 life after the boros and your spell resolving? then the 3 isn't lethal??????????????

[@naomicoffman1315]

He won the game (and the match).

[@HarryMTG]

I’m at 7, opponent has 7 damage and I gain 2 life. The opponent conceded cause I have lethal on board. Or am I thinking about a different spot?

[@thiagoschernikau4769]

Shoal in stack

[@addisonyoungblood4501]

They HAD lethal. Then he gained life and they didn't anymore

[@broodlingg]

@@HarryMTG oh. I'm so dumb. I wasn't paying attention, I thought you lost.

[@nothiiiiiiiing]

So I can buy 75 good Modern Decka for a kidney

[@dm9910]

draught is pronounced "draft"

[@SpiRit1290]

+

[@namelecc841]

Is it just me or... Venerated + 2 spellskite = win?

[@HarryMTG]

It is!

[@jaggededge11]

As long as you have enough life/mana.

[@Dizzy2death]

Can we name that cheapest version "gainfect"?

[@troylambert1601]

its pronounced DRAFT.

[@schwarzertee7586]

you are not really fair here..... Burn is not a 1000$ Deck, also Burn loses to massive Lifegain. So.. your matchup was heavily favored and you didn't play against a 1k deck. This sounds like Mitch here.

[@HarryMTG]

Did you even watch the whole video? I was beyond fair

[@harleydean5591]

The $100 deck is shit. No need for noble hierarch and put in tayamio safekeeping. Switch out the ground swell for tyvars stand. And no need for the duel land. With all that money saved you can put in an inkmoth nexus or 2.

[@willisexcellent]

The thumbnail is hella clickbaity

[@egghunter2122]

Wtf is this clickbait lmao, the first card costs like two cent and the right one 5 bucks, wdym 1k xd

[@livanbard]

All this rambling to say the mana base makes the decks? We all know that. Now try an actual monogreen expensive that see how you fare.

[@petarknezovic9447]

Waste money, but slower.

[@lordovthorn2747]

bounty of the hunt ;)