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You have to be careful with the pain lands though. They are great, but you only should add the ones that help the most, which is about to be sulfurous springs if I remember right. Otherwise I would suggest a full set of battlefield forge and rest be basic so you can fetch them with mire and wilds. And while 24 is the usual go to number of land, I would actually suggest 22. You're going to need too thin out land add much as possible so you don't want too many in there ruining your draw late game, should it go that long

Bloodstained mire would be best for your red and black, and for a general purpose fetch use evolving wilds. For wilds I would run a full set and mire I would run three. Popping a fetch is incredibly useful since it lowers your chance of late game top decking a land

that's why game 2 or 3 if that happens you sub in any number of the 6 counterspells that are in the sideboard

yes i understand that its a cash grab in the end, but it does enable people to get cards that are normally so expensive for a better price and possibly even entice new players to attend events or tournaments. for example, i just managed to get my hands on a full set of All is Dust for about $20, as opposed to about $80, simply because it got reprinted in MM15. as a player, i like being able to get cards that are useful and good, but often those cards are beyond my reach. goyf and snapcaster are great examples of this. i would love to have a full set of both, but unless they see reprints, the chances of that happening are slim. i already have two decks that would greatly benefit from these two cards, one of which i built and have tested extensively for competitive play (Modern WU Control. it has made even the almighty RG Tron its personal bitch). snapcaster would easily make the deck several times better. as for goyf, i really dont run zoo, which is what he sees the most play in if i remember correctly, but having a set sounds fun. i like to make super janky casual decks and im sure i could find a way to exploit his ability easily, but i dont have any because even after getting reprinted twice he still costs over $150 per card.

so to recap: yes i know its a cash grab, yes i know trying to pick out the next big thing and getting it before its a hot commodity is a royal pain in the wallet (while not losing money on standard bombs that fizzle post rotation), and yes i know the pain of the luck of the draw from boosters and the sheer amount of commons and uncommons and junk rares you get while treasure hunting. i may not have been playing since the alpha and beta timeframe, but im also not so stupid that i dont see what wizards is really doing, and if they really wanted to reprint anything just so they could get more money out of it, then why havent they done a limited run of cards from legacy that make or break a good legacy deck? because they do still value the collector, otherwise they would've just reprinted the moxen and the black lotus already.

I guess wizards really is trying to get prices down on stuff. I'm holding out for reprints of the original zendikar fetch lands now! They already reprinted all the pain lands and did the onslaught fetch lands in tarkir, so that would be perfect for BoZ!!

Dude the foils alone are worth the pack!

Indeed you can. And seriously all is dust is like $5 right now. I snatched up a full set earlier today

Exactly. I play casual magic because I can have fun, but my "budget" might be getting good cards for a deck slowly over time because of the cost of the card. Like I have a mono black vampire deck that costs about $150 in cards, but I didn't just outright but it all. I have a casual green white wurm deck that is actually so good at what it does that it could actually stand a chance in competitive play if it weren't for the multiple copies of fastbond in it that allow it to work (although I am testing it with exploration to see if that would also work). That deck costs over $250 (land mainly). Budget doesn't have to mean the whole deck costs under a certain amount, it could easily mean you just aren't running a full set of snapcaster mage or lilliana of the veil because you can't afford that kind of pricing, but that$5 all is dust is doable for sure

I feel you man. No offense to people like northy but the amount of budget decks had gotten ridiculous. I miss actually seeing truly great decks that aren't limited but aren't expensive getting attention

yay! makes me happy :D

im not racist, i just dont know what kind of insult "trip in pepperonis" is

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also, what about Mire's Toll?

Just wish I could do that a second time lol

Lol same here. Still haven't finished the competitive version yet

Yay northy is back! I tried to celebrate the (late) 1 year anniversary of the deck that broke the hot page, my old gilder bairn infinte counters combo, but no luck. Lol do you remember it? That craziness went on for like two months

I understand that, but when a single addition to a deck is going to cost what the deck is already worth, then you might as well just make a new deck with the rest of the expensive spells that go in that type of build. So unless you happen to have 4 snapcaster mages just lying around, it's not worth and extra $200 just to add a single set of a card

No problem. Just leave him a shout out on his deck. He likes the attention lol

There are infinitely better options that Lily when it comes to mill. You don't make an army with mill, you mill until they can't draw, then win. Plus she takes too long to get out and up to 8 loyalty. You would've already won by that point

Completely worth it. I have a buddy who runs dragons and all it does is shit tokens for days. Broodmother, valkas, Utvara hellkite, and Dragon tempest makes for one hell of a combo. Will post his for you to look at

http://www.mtgvault.com/razzan/decks/the-dragon-standard/

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