Hey Ajeman, I have to say, you are by far the best deck builder on youtube. Hands down. You go through your choices with precision, making us understand why each card is in the deck, and how they work in synergy. What I would like to see though, is two things: 1) Coming from your budget decks, if you had a little bit of cash to improve on them, what would you add to do so? One would obviously not just throw in a matching color, correct?
This deck is perfect for my girlfriend. She loves green/white and tokens and it's perfect for her budget. We thank you both for uploading this, man. :)
Despite the flashback, I prefer the instant speed of Midnight Haunting. Suddenly dropping flying blockers or pumping your wayfaring temple after blocks are both very useful. You also can't Transguild turn 1, which is the ideal turn to play a guildgate if you have to since we have no 1 drops.
if you can, try Parallel Lives. Doubling your tokens is really fun. -2 Wayfaring Temple +2 Geist-Honored Monk. Little more expensive, but the Monk creates tokens to compensate and has vigilance. The new Advent of the Wurm is an absolute monster to populate for this deck as well.
Defintely go with the Trostani. She's cheaper to play, you gain life whenever a creature enters the battlefield (great when you are playing tokens) so she takes great advantage of the populate mechanic, and you can create a token every turn with her, so it means you can gain life every turn she's on the field if you make another token.
The strength of selesnya event deck up is really awesome, tis essentially the same deck but with a splash of black for lingering souls. But it comes with insane bombs like advent of the warm and a godless shrine
Hey! A tip if you play a tokenspamming deck, there is a fuse card in dragonsmace called alive/well. The well ability only costs 1 white mana and it gives you 2 life for each creature you control :D
I would like to add that Renowned Weaver from Nyx might work too to help with blocking against flying creatures, and in Red, maybe Flurry of Horns from Nyx mixed into a Red/multi-style deck.
I'd like to see a budget control deck, which will be a good introduction to the play style. I mainly play agro builds and have always wanted to make a control deck but never been able to make something which will finish the game. Everything I put together either gets overrun mid game or I don't have any finishing power when I get to a late game stage. I'm not sure if it is my play style, my deck construction or a combination of the two I like to call both, but I just can't get control to work.
You can pick up actual token cards for pretty cheap. I've got 40 or so cards of all the tokens I can summon. It's nice to have. If we don't have token cards, what we do is put unused cards face down and put dice on them. The dice are to keep track of what power they are. Then you just have to remember which have vigilance/flying etcetera. It works fin unless you get up to a LOT of tokens out at once. Put the dice on top of a card rather than just put the dice out there, so you can tap it.
Well, with Growing Ranks, you pay 4 mana and get to populate each turn. With the Guildmage, you have to pay 6 mana to get a 3/3 or 4 mana each turn to populate; which is fine in Limited, but very ineffective for Constructed.
drop midnight haunting , run lingering souls, change the mana to add 4 Transguild promenade, its same speed as a guildgate so it will slow you down just a little bit but wont hurt you since L-souls can just sit in the gy till you get the land (taps for any color)
Armada Wurm is at about $5 right now, so I'd say even just a one of of that would be good. Then you run one or two Mwonvuli Beast Trackers to get him on top of your library. Seems to work great for me (i run two armadas in my deck)
2) With Gatecrash around the corner, what impact do you think it will have on Standard decks with the spoilers shown as of now? 3 color standard decks being the norm? If so, which ones, etc etc, and then building a mock up of said decks. Once again, excellent videos. Love watching your views on the game. Keep up the hard work. I am off to abugames. :)
If you take the higher cost higher mana token producers and you stick to cards like Raise the Alarm but then use a higher mana cost Essence of the Wild and then you have two 6/6's for 2 mana
Question: For the most part, I'm on a budget, but i've managed to acquire some thragtusks and armada wurms at a fairly low price. Where do you think I should put them in? I feel like Slime Molding is the weakest link, but maybe i'm just dumb.
QUESTION: for example, can you populate a creature who buffed up by intangible virtues, ex. 3/3 centaur who is now 4/4 due to intangible virtues, do you populate a centaur who is 4/4 ? or original 3/3?
How about add it with " Beastmaster Ascension" ( +5/+5 all creatures) + "Parallel Lives" ( x2 populate enchantment ) + Champion of Lambholt (Creatures with power less than Champion of Lambholt's power can't block creatures you control. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of Lambholt )
Hey Ajeman, I was just wondering what deck you were going to play in the modern PTQ season? Please answer back I am trying to figure out what I'm playing as well.
keep the budget techs coming i'm a budget player and i love these decks you make. they aren't like some other budget decks which are kind of trashy your budget decks are some of the most competitive that i have seen. i want to run control (specifically esper) and i cant afford it... is it possible to have a budget version while still being competitive i know i said that im a budget player but with christmass i have about 100 dolers to shell out on a deck... any thoughts??
it might be worth it to combine simic with selesnya now that its out which would give you a good combo with evolving all your tokens everytime another big one comes out
i have a question: can you tell me where the border between low budget and normal decks is (thinking about making my own channel :) ) would be awesome to know, just need a guess :D
Ajeman can you make a new version of this once Dragon's Maze comes out? It might be a good deck with the populate mechanic. (Cards like Advent of the Wurm, Voice of Resurgence, Wake the Reflections could make it good).
Thanks for the video, it was really good. I am slightly new to the game, I have the played the PC version and understand the game. I also have a few cards too. I think this is the kinda deck I want to use, is this layout still good for today? I am thinking of changing a few things though. Thanks for the inspiration!
Bruna's, Ethereal Armour, Spectral Flights, Sphere of Safety, Martial law... that's only around 10$ there, and input some more control, like Arrest/Pacifism.
when gate crash comes out u should make a BUG +1/+1 counter deck with simic guild leader corpsejackmence and primordial hydra and stuff like that i think it would be a pretty good deck this is what iv thought of so far. 4x arbor elf 4x farseek 4x primordial hydra 3x simic guild leaders 3x think twice 4x strangleroot geist 4x corpse jack mennace 3x experiment 1 and the land base i have not figured out yet
I really like this deck but some of the sideboard doesn't fit at all with the rest of the deck. Take silkslash spider for example, does it do anything with tokens???
I know this is a budget deck but I find growing ranks to be way to slow to be of any use especially since the large majority of your tokens are 1/1 and if you dont have enough anthems on the field its kind of a trap. You could replace it with Phantom General which is still a pretty cheap card.
hi! dude, is not gonna be easy to cast Angel of Jubilation, you need 3 white mana, with dual color deck, that's hard... but nice deck :) just missing the Voice of resurgence, knight of reliquary, and maybe a Archangel of Thune, to pump all your tokens. take care
Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage is too slow for constructed play. It's an awesome card for limited because limited is a slower format, but constructed is far too fast for it to be played.
Hey Ajeman,
I have to say, you are by far the best deck builder on youtube. Hands down. You go through your choices with precision, making us understand why each card is in the deck, and how they work in synergy.
What I would like to see though, is two things:
1) Coming from your budget decks, if you had a little bit of cash to improve on them, what would you add to do so? One would obviously not just throw in a matching color, correct?
This deck is perfect for my girlfriend. She loves green/white and tokens and it's perfect for her budget. We thank you both for uploading this, man. :)
I was able to buy this on MGTO for 3.95. Its a really solid deck that is fun to play. subscribed!
Despite the flashback, I prefer the instant speed of Midnight Haunting. Suddenly dropping flying blockers or pumping your wayfaring temple after blocks are both very useful. You also can't Transguild turn 1, which is the ideal turn to play a guildgate if you have to since we have no 1 drops.
Great video. Something that would be really cool would be to make a video testing the deck out.
Never watched a MTG vid EVER, but sir u got my sub.
I made my own deck like this and they are almost exactly the same! by the way nice sideboard
if you can, try Parallel Lives. Doubling your tokens is really fun. -2 Wayfaring Temple +2 Geist-Honored Monk. Little more expensive, but the Monk creates tokens to compensate and has vigilance. The new Advent of the Wurm is an absolute monster to populate for this deck as well.
Defintely go with the Trostani. She's cheaper to play, you gain life whenever a creature enters the battlefield (great when you are playing tokens) so she takes great advantage of the populate mechanic, and you can create a token every turn with her, so it means you can gain life every turn she's on the field if you make another token.
Awesome.... I'd love to see more standard budget decks.... especially for the other rtr guilds.... Helps me help new players at my local store...
The strength of selesnya event deck up is really awesome, tis essentially the same deck but with a splash of black for lingering souls. But it comes with insane bombs like advent of the warm and a godless shrine
Hey! A tip if you play a tokenspamming deck, there is a fuse card in dragonsmace called alive/well. The well ability only costs 1 white mana and it gives you 2 life for each creature you control :D
I would like to add that Renowned Weaver from Nyx might work too to help with blocking against flying creatures, and in Red, maybe Flurry of Horns from Nyx mixed into a Red/multi-style deck.
I'd like to see a budget control deck, which will be a good introduction to the play style. I mainly play agro builds and have always wanted to make a control deck but never been able to make something which will finish the game. Everything I put together either gets overrun mid game or I don't have any finishing power when I get to a late game stage. I'm not sure if it is my play style, my deck construction or a combination of the two I like to call both, but I just can't get control to work.
Please keep ding the budget decks, I find them very useful.
You can pick up actual token cards for pretty cheap. I've got 40 or so cards of all the tokens I can summon. It's nice to have. If we don't have token cards, what we do is put unused cards face down and put dice on them. The dice are to keep track of what power they are. Then you just have to remember which have vigilance/flying etcetera. It works fin unless you get up to a LOT of tokens out at once. Put the dice on top of a card rather than just put the dice out there, so you can tap it.
thank you dude iv been wanting a good deck list for this.
Well, with Growing Ranks, you pay 4 mana and get to populate each turn. With the Guildmage, you have to pay 6 mana to get a 3/3 or 4 mana each turn to populate; which is fine in Limited, but very ineffective for Constructed.
drop midnight haunting , run lingering souls, change the mana to add 4 Transguild promenade, its same speed as a guildgate so it will slow you down just a little bit but wont hurt you since L-souls can just sit in the gy till you get the land
(taps for any color)
Could you possibly do an Izzet budget build? , I'm curious to see how you would make that deck.
I'd reccomend a fungal sprouting looks like you should be able to usually drop it for 3+ 2/2s or better on turn 4 most of the time
Awesome new intro man, keep the good content coming :)
Armada Wurm is at about $5 right now, so I'd say even just a one of of that would be good. Then you run one or two Mwonvuli Beast Trackers to get him on top of your library. Seems to work great for me (i run two armadas in my deck)
Will you ever do Commander or other singleton formats? What do you think a good guiding principle for card selection would be in Singleton?
2) With Gatecrash around the corner, what impact do you think it will have on Standard decks with the spoilers shown as of now? 3 color standard decks being the norm? If so, which ones, etc etc, and then building a mock up of said decks.
Once again, excellent videos. Love watching your views on the game. Keep up the hard work.
I am off to abugames. :)
Hey Ajeman, do you think you could do a budget Azorious deck before Gatecrash? You the man!
Thank you bud! I love magic but useless with deck building! I don't have a big budget but this helps me out! Cheers
If you take the higher cost higher mana token producers and you stick to cards like Raise the Alarm but then use a higher mana cost Essence of the Wild and then you have two 6/6's for 2 mana
I would really love to see a budget golgari deck tech :)
Question: For the most part, I'm on a budget, but i've managed to acquire some thragtusks and armada wurms at a fairly low price. Where do you think I should put them in? I feel like Slime Molding is the weakest link, but maybe i'm just dumb.
QUESTION: for example, can you populate a creature who buffed up by intangible virtues, ex. 3/3 centaur who is now 4/4 due to intangible virtues, do you populate a centaur who is 4/4 ? or original 3/3?
I think you can run Vitu-Ghazi as a one of in this deck, might help a little in midgame.
How about add it with " Beastmaster Ascension" ( +5/+5 all creatures) + "Parallel Lives" ( x2 populate enchantment ) + Champion of Lambholt (Creatures with power less than Champion of Lambholt's power can't block creatures you control.
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of Lambholt )
Hey Ajeman,
I was just wondering what deck you were going to play in the modern PTQ season?
Please answer back I am trying to figure out what I'm playing as well.
keep the budget techs coming i'm a budget player and i love these decks you make. they aren't like some other budget decks which are kind of trashy your budget decks are some of the most competitive that i have seen. i want to run control (specifically esper) and i cant afford it... is it possible to have a budget version while still being competitive i know i said that im a budget player but with christmass i have about 100 dolers to shell out on a deck... any thoughts??
Parallel lives? Advent of the wurm?
Precinct captain?
Can someone please explain the ideal turn one two and three of this deck? What would be the best couple of turns for this deck?
consider armada wurm and advent of the wurm. great cards.
i like those budget deck checks. I DEMAND MORE ;)
it might be worth it to combine simic with selesnya now that its out which would give you a good combo with evolving all your tokens everytime another big one comes out
i have a question:
can you tell me where the border between low budget and normal decks is (thinking about making my own channel :) ) would be awesome to know, just need a guess :D
Ajeman can you make a new version of this once Dragon's Maze comes out? It might be a good deck with the populate mechanic. (Cards like Advent of the Wurm, Voice of Resurgence, Wake the Reflections could make it good).
Sublime Angel just for the fun of it. With that many tokens having Exalted, it should be a blast.
Just wondering, but why the 12 forests and 8 plains? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
since modern masters came out could you make some modern/budget deck techs.
i would put a primordial growth in it
its a little more money for it but you double the amount of tokens on the battle field
I think parrel lives will be good in this deck
Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach. agreed I run this in my populate. beautiful card especially with growing ranks
Different decks, huh. I've got a LOT of White and Black coz I hardly ever trade those colors. So I'm thinking of tuning it into a deck. Any ideas?
Thanks for the video, it was really good. I am slightly new to the game, I have the played the PC version and understand the game. I also have a few cards too. I think this is the kinda deck I want to use, is this layout still good for today? I am thinking of changing a few things though. Thanks for the inspiration!
Bruna's, Ethereal Armour, Spectral Flights, Sphere of Safety, Martial law... that's only around 10$ there, and input some more control, like Arrest/Pacifism.
when gate crash comes out u should make a BUG +1/+1 counter deck with simic guild leader corpsejackmence and primordial hydra and stuff like that i think it would be a pretty good deck this is what iv thought of so far.
4x arbor elf
4x farseek
4x primordial hydra
3x simic guild leaders
3x think twice
4x strangleroot geist
4x corpse jack mennace
3x experiment 1
and the land base i have not figured out yet
Where do you get your personalized stuff like the playmate and sleeves?
Archangel of Jubilation? Could easily be replaced by Arrest for only 3 mana.
would it be a good idea to add 2 avacyns pilgrims to add a little mana ramp to the deck?
when does inastrad, dark assension, and avynican restored get rotated and i would have to change the deck up a bit
I really like this deck but some of the sideboard doesn't fit at all with the rest of the deck. Take silkslash spider for example, does it do anything with tokens???
The sideboard is to fight the meta in games 2 and 3 not to be something that can work with this deck.
I was playing against this deck last night except they ran grove of the guardian and parallel lives. It was pretty devestating.
Nice foil growing ranks I have one too.
Would phantom general be good in here? He's a creature and an intangible virtue. 4 of him and 4 i.v. can really make the tokens big
Zendikar is a set where all the land was nice and full art like that :)
I would love to see a U/W budget spirits deck
This is an awesome deck. Almost similar 2 mine. :D
there zendikar full art land, if u want any of them u can buy them on any online store like abu games, star city games magic on a budget etc.
I would like to see a new Boros, I would like it a budget deck but well worth using lol :D
I know this is a budget deck but I find growing ranks to be way to slow to be of any use especially since the large majority of your tokens are 1/1 and if you dont have enough anthems on the field its kind of a trap. You could replace it with Phantom General which is still a pretty cheap card.
when the next set do u think it would be right to add golgari guildgate and orzhave guildgate to splash black for lingering souls?
Do you think any of the RTR guildmages are playable in constructed?
can you make a gruul aggro with pumps i would like to see how you would run it.
Can you do a red white green token agro deck with the new cards from gate crash
what set are those lands from ..those are badass
lol, very nice, seems like you really stocked up on a lot of Unhinged lands :)
Why did you run more forests than plains even though you have way more white cards than green?
Hi, nice work with your channel, love it. Can you make a budget deck tech for blue mill deck if possible, thx a lot.
A standard burn deck would be something interesting to see
How could you fit parallel lives in, or is that less useful?
Is running grove of the guardian in this deck worth it? As long as you dont have any mana issues I mean why not right?
Can you make a version of this non-budget? thanks
I am also slightly concerned about the triple white for the Angel of Jubilation.
Would you suggest using parallel lives in this deck?
Please make a modern budget tokens
If you can do some sort of standard slime deck that would be cool
Could you update this deck to Theros standard rotation?
Ajeman what do u think about pauper decks?
Can you do a deck tech on esper tokens? Thanks =)
Which card will help this token deck tech more: garruk relentless or mayor of avabruck??????????????????
Ajeman is it good to add an Elspeth in the deck?
why midnight haunting as opposed to eyes in the skies?
can you do a deck based around sire of insanity?
Could you do modern infect some time?
you should try boros tokens with splah of black or something!
What do you think of Thraben Doomsayer?
4c is almost becoming the norm if you count the splashes of black in control decks and most midrange decks are 4 color goodstuff its kinda insane
hi!
dude, is not gonna be easy to cast Angel of Jubilation, you need 3 white mana, with dual color deck, that's hard...
but nice deck :)
just missing the Voice of resurgence, knight of reliquary, and maybe a Archangel of Thune, to pump all your tokens.
take care
but he doesn't run black, how do you plan on flashing them back?
Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage is too slow for constructed play. It's an awesome card for limited because limited is a slower format, but constructed is far too fast for it to be played.
what kind of lands are those they look cool
Hey can you do a red white green agro token deck?
Which card will help this deck since I'm making this deck: armada wurm, or trostani, selesnya's voice????????????
Could you do a sliver deck?
would it be bad to add some one drops like avacyns pilgran