Valakut on a 100$ Budget

by ebaskes on 12 January 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (0 cards)

No sideboard found.

The owner of this deck hasn't added a sideboard, they probably should...

Submit a list of cards below to bulk import them all into your sideboard. Post one card per line using a format like "4x Birds of Paradise" or "1 Blaze", you can even enter just the card name by itself like "Wrath of God" for single cards.


Deck Description

I was looking around the site and I noticed that there aren't really any valakut decks under 100$. They ranged anywhere from 125-1000+, and most were on the upper end of that scale.
*NOTE, PRICES MAY FLUCTUATE SLIGHTLY, WHICH COULD PUSH THIS SLIGHTLY OVER 100$*
This is my actual Valakut deck, except I run Lightning bolt over Mizzium Mortars, but I don't know why, MM may be better in this deck. I have played with this deck for ages and I can tell you that it works just fine, even without any fancy lands. You just have to mulligan sometimes, which isn't too big a deal. (You have 12 green sources on T1, it's not too frequent).
This deck is a combination of a few lists that I have seen, it was structured similarly to some extended lists with modern twists.
My one (and only) complaint about this deck is that It tends to be weak in multi-player, due to fewer 'Mountain' cards. Otherwise this has never been an issue for for me.
This deck is able to win out of nowhere. One turn it's an empty field except for 6 lands, the next, it's 8 Lands, Primeval Titan, Two cannons of doom and destruction, and (at least) two more lands on the way.
Or you can Scapeshift for 18 when you get your 7th land. Or for 36 when you get you eighth.
In the hands of an experienced pilot, this deck can have the opponent on a very consistent 4-5 turn clock.
This deck is weak to aggro decks, but it's not so weak that it will lose more than 6/10 times.
This deck is solid against my 8-Rack deck, generally whichever goes first wins; it's kinda spooky.

How to Play

T1-Forest, Fetch-forest, Search for tomorrow Sus-2 (1)
T2- Sus-1, Land, Khalni HEx, S-TE, Explore/Fetch or valakut. (2-3)
T3-Sus-0, search land (go for Mountains if you have any 2 forests), Land, Harrow, sac any land so that you have 2 forests when it resolves, Any 2 Drop. (4-7)
T4- Land Play a Win-con; Primeval Titan->get 2 valakuts onto field then start getting Mountains, Scapeshift->2 Valakut, 6 Mountain, Summoning Trap->Primeval Titan->Sac Khalni to bring in two mountains, Cultivate, Harrow, etc... (8-10)
T-5 Land, Clean up what's left of them with an attack or any spells you've got left.

Deck Tags

  • Budget
  • R/G
  • Modern
  • valakut

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

1
Like

This deck has been viewed 1,600 times.

Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

000238

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Valakut on a 100$ Budget

to post a comment.