dknight27

Ideally, at least from my standpoint, the variables a deck should communicate are as follows:
1- format
2- level of competition
3- budget (if that's not already communicated via number 2)
4- theme (if it's not obvious from the title)

I don't see this happen very often.

Urza's Saga seems like a natural consideration right?

Abundant Growth comes to mind.

Is there a reason you want to play this in legacy when it's modern legal?

No Mox Opal?

This build confuses me. Half ponza half burn, no acceleration, high curve, and equipment thrown in.

Mystic Forge feels like a must in here.

That's wildly surprising to me, but then again, I'm hardly a pro these days. I haven't seen a card that I thought was more D&T than Sentinel since Stoneforge hit.

No Esper Sentinel?

You're missing some classic 1-drop zombie options. Gravecrawler, Stitcher's Supplier, Dread Wanderer, Carrion Feeder.

I didn't expect to like Archon as much as I do after thinking about him (guaranteed equivalent material after ETB). But maybe cut 1 copy to change the chances of Emrakul from 25% to 33%?

Dwarven Mine also seems a touch questionable, as it sucks if you don't have 3 mountains, there are only 5 total mountains in the deck, no fetches, and they don't produce blue or white.

I like the potential Days Undoing shenanigans in here. Makes me want to experiment with the idea in modern.

I've been trying to build a deck like this for a while, it's a fantastic idea in my opinion, especially with On Thin Ice available as delicious affordable removal that ups the enchantment count. I'm not sure black is really doing enough in the build as is to justify its spot. Switching black for red gives you lots of wonderful options, such as Klothys, Blood Moon, and Cindevines.

Here's my take on the build, for what that's worth.

https://www.mtgvault.com/dknight27/decks/modern-budgetarcades-defender/

I'd give some consideration to dropping black altogether here and focusing on white, blue, and green. Four colors is quite a lot to run in what I assume is a budget deck, aka with no expensive fetch lands. A focus on white over black will also allow you to run very useful cards like wall of omens. I know you want to run black for the search and skulk, but both effects can be achieved within blue/white/green, which you're stuck with as you're going for arcades over doran.

You also obviously need to fix the lands, but that shouldn't be too tough. You'll need at least 21 I'd think, with more colors, even with the unbridled growth.

Not sure how well 2 Vantresses fit, as they're basically useless till you've got 5 lands, they're redundant, they're mono blue, and they enter conditionally untapped.

4 counterspells mainboarded in a rainbow deck that has 25 white mana symbols seems like it could be problematic from a color standpoint, even with abundant growth.

Witherbloom command seems like such a natural fit for decks like this.

What legality and budget are you going for here? Modern semi-budget perhaps?

It gets old after a while, doesn't it? The meta wheel.