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3 years ago ::
Mar 23, 2010 - 3:12PM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Building on a Budget, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 23, 2010 - 9:08PM
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Surprisingly, I am fine with JVL not caring about the Jund matchup
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3 years ago ::
Mar 23, 2010 - 9:19PM
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Finally, a budget deck in the Building on a Budget column. It's been a while, hasn't it?
And seriously, JvL, was that really so hard? Why can't you do something like this every week? Admittedly I'd prefer not playing Nissa Revane, but it's not $20/card anymore IRL, so I'll live with it.
Anyway, finally, I can say this was a BoaB article I'm happy with, although albeit I scrolled directly to the decklist then directly to the "Discuss on the Message Boards" icon without actually reading the content.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 23, 2010 - 9:23PM
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Jan 17, 2010
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Pretty much buget eldrazi monument.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 23, 2010 - 9:26PM
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@Ertai87: nice to know you're happy with an article you didn't read.
@JVL bravo at once again nailing it on the head! I always try to sleeve up your decks when I have the cards necessary to do so. Will definitely sleeve this one up.
I would have killed, literally ended someones life, to NOT have Arrogant Bloodlord  riding a giant ant... Good times: Spoiler:
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but where DID the other fork come from?
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Lord_Zed:
I was at my friends house when this happened. He's married and his wife was an excellent baker. She had baked a homemade apple pie the night before.
I was hungry, and my friend convinced me to try those low carb monster drinks. Before this day, I had never triend energy drinks before.
Boy was I in for a treat.
When I tried that first monster, I really enjoyed the flavor, but the taste that it left in my mouth wasn't so good. What was my solution? Drink another!
before I could finish drinking that 2nd monster, I felt it already kicking in(these drinks were not very far apart, we're talking minutes here) my friend decided that it was a good idea to whip out that fresh pie his wife made the night before. I didn't know what to do, since I felt incredibly invigorated, and at the same time, freaked out by the rush I was feeling, but I was also hungry, and my friend have me an entire plate with a fork and said "help yourself." He extended his saucer to me, and I cut him a piece of the pie and handed it to him, then I looked at the pie, noticed that the pie was in an aluminum holder, and dumped the entire pie onto my plate and started eating it with 2 forks. I don't know where I found that other fork, it probably came from my friend. Anyhow, his wife wasn't happy, and I was already in magical christmas land. 2 days later, I was in my friends bed and I slept for 14 hours.
His wife outlawed my from having any of her baked goods for a while(which sucked because I could just show up at there house, steal some sweets, and leave) and said I couldn't have any energy drinks at her house, unless under close watch.
My friend, on the other hand, had to take me out to a steak dinner, because apparently I won a bet where I climbed a tree and didn't die.
The great land debate:
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Zendikar had fetchlands, and Worldwake had manlands. What are the new Scars duals called?
Explosive Peanut Lightning lands. Well, that's just what I call them.
i'm just trying to figure out what the point of saying this is. it's just really random.
And so the pot met the kettle.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 23, 2010 - 11:12PM
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I'd just like to chime in that I care way more about the building part of these articles than the budget part. The latter is mostly interesting just because it provides a deckbuilding constraint (my own constraint is mainly the cards I have available). I don't copy the decks, but I think a lot can be learned from watching the thought process that goes into designing these.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 23, 2010 - 11:35PM
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No one really likes to play against elves in the casual room. It seems like every time I pull out my elf deck the opponent complains or just conceeds on the spot. Last week I put it on the shelf for a good while and I probably won't pull an elf deck out again in standard or extended for at least a couple of months. So in that regard I didn't really like the article all that much. Add to this the fact that he made a totally fun and super powerful extended elves deck just a couple of weeks ago (seemed a little bit more of a budget deck than this one too but I could be mistaken). I appreciate some of the great budget combos / individual cards that are part of this deck. leatherback baloth  is a budget friendly card that is super powerful. The quest and joraga combo is a pretty strong budget combo. I don't know how Nissa (or even elvish archdruid really) is considered budget but that is a different topic for a different time.
Don't be too smart to have fun
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3 years ago ::
Mar 23, 2010 - 11:50PM
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Feb 23, 2010
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Nissa may not be "budget" in the usual sense, but she is a budget planeswalker. Since she is not even needed, aside from assuring you have a steady stream of 2/3s hitting the board, you could easily add in a substitute. Anything that involves tons of creatures attacking in unison seems like prime Beastmaster Ascension  material.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 24, 2010 - 1:42AM
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Oct 11, 2007
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Boooo! Cats > Elves. :P
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3 years ago ::
Mar 24, 2010 - 4:18AM
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Jun 11, 2009
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Pretty much buget eldrazi monument.
My thoughts exactly. Nothing to see here, moving on...
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Kicker Aggro (Invasion Block)
