Mtg cards like entangler
These lands would make the mana fixing better than just adding a second cycle of two-colour lands, like the Gates: effectively, any two-colour deck looking for more colour fixing would have access to one two-colour land and up to three different tri-colour lands.
With all that in mind, I decided to add all ten of the tri-colour lands from Shards of Alara and Khans of Tarkir. I was already planning on using the cycle of generic tapped lands, but that wouldn’t be enough, especially with all of the CCDD creatures floating around. There are also cards like Walking Wall, Mobile Fort, and Prison Barricade that can attack for a price.A lot of Cubes will typically include a combination of Shocklands and Fetchlands for better mana fixing, but that mana base can be expensive, and I certainly didn’t want to steal any lands from my Modern decks to build my Cube. As long as my walls can attack, they are huge creatures for low mana investment or in other cases a single wall can block a horde of incoming enemies. I have added redundancy with cards like Animate wall, Wakestone Gargoyle, and also added cards like Entangler that allow one wall to block all creatures coming my way. With Doran on the battlefield (or with Assault Formation by itself), your walls can now attack and assign combat damage via their toughness instead of their power, in effect making them */* creatures where * is equal to their toughness. Then, you can use things like Diabolic Tutor or Plea for Guidance to tutor up one or both of the main win-cons, Assault Formation and Rolling Stones. The idea of the deck is to play walls early and often, giving you defense to protect against opposing forces. There are two enchantments that help with this win condition. The main win condition combos with Doran’s passive. Here are the only cards that cost more than $1 in this particular build, along with my reasoning for their inclusion: Either way, my deck is sitting a few cents above $50 on, even counting Doran. This particular commander costs about $9 by himself, so that limits the build but we were also considering not counting the commander cost in the budget. My friend who built his at the $50 mark said that he didn’t care what the cost of the individual cards were, just that the total was at or close to $50, so I took those same parameters. It sounded like the perfect sort of jank I was looking for, and at the same time once I put the thing together I found that most of the cards were under $1! Most of the time when people build budget decks, they tend to have a couple of limiting factors - the total deck price, and the price per card.
My first thought was that he sounded like a good commander for a Wall deck, which actually happens to be a thing. However, his ability is interesting and can be used in a number of ways. I give you:Īs you can see, Doran is a 3 drop 0/5 which sounds like something you would want to avoid. Unfortunately the amount of legendary creatures in this color combination is limited, but I found one that sounded sufficiently janky to build around: Doran, the Siege Tower. I started thinking about color combinations that I hadn’t tackled yet, and one that came to mind was Abzan or Black, Green and White. I was actually in the middle of revamping existing decks, finding small tweaks that I could use in order to either lower the mana curve or exploit some combo further. So today I’m sharing a new brew with you that was created with a budget of $50 in mind - this is a similar amount to what my friend has used, and it sounded like the only way I could build a deck from scratch and be able to purchase it in one order.
#MTG CARDS LIKE ENTANGLER PLUS#
Similarly, I’m in a position where with the holidays and having taken some time off of work plus other expenses piling up, I could use a good budget deck myself.
He’s an expecting father and funds have become more tight for him, so he’s thinking a bit outside the box and trying to see what he can do to get the most bang for his buck. Recently one of the guys in my Friday playgroup decided to build a budget deck.