Budget Decks: A Real Zoo

by NorthernWarlord on 14 February 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (11 cards)

Creatures (3)

Enchantments (4)


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Deck Description

Are you bored? Does Magic: The Gathering feel old and vapid? Got any useless bucks in your bank account? Ladies and Gentlemen, I have solution.
Use your bank account on nearest MTG marketplace website and buy some cheap cards, craft a deck, and challenge your friends! To double the fun, ask your friend to create such a deck too!
The Budget Decks -series is meant for your free time! These are meant to inspire you, and deck's value is meant to be low! (Between 10 and 20 bucks.)

How to Play

I have seen quite a big bunch of Zoo decks around here of MTG Vault, so I wanted to give them my own budget touch you know?

Here is the summary of it! Enjoy!

Deck Tags

  • Zoo
  • Naya
  • Budget
  • Cheap

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

13001819

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Budget Decks: A Real Zoo

No Giraffe? No Zoo......

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Posted 15 February 2015 at 16:17

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No Penguin, No Zoo

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Posted 18 February 2015 at 21:40

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Awesome deck! I may just get this one

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Posted 15 February 2015 at 16:18

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There are alot of 1-2 mana cost auras that have draw abilities that you could play then built up to Ethereal Armor.

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Posted 15 February 2015 at 17:27

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Maybe yes. Maybe.

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Posted 15 February 2015 at 17:58

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I've always wanted a good zoo deck and now I can get one for cheap

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 00:47

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i know this isnt budget but, throw in some RTR shocklands in there and your Zoos trigger sooner.

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 05:20

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Temur battle rage over double cleave? Also maybe become immense because it works well with the evolving wilds?

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 06:50

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In a three-color deck that by its nature can't have great mana-fixing, I think the more flexible casting cost of double cleave makes sense over Temur Battle Rage. A difficult choice, though.

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 20:05

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A Zoo deck without schock lands and Fetch lands will not always work properly. I think this list depends on luck too much when it cames to lands.
Maybe if you add

4 x Nylea's Presence

You can both fix your mana and have all the land types at the same time without losing card advantage since it lets you draw a card when it enters the field. But you will lose some tempo.

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 10:00

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I'd just go with 4 Evolving Wilds and 4 Terramorphic Expanse and drop the dual lands. Also probably some Lightning Bolts

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 12:14

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The duel lands come into play tapped when he searches for them with the two search cards. Whats wrong with some extra life and mana fixing?

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 13:02

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1) the search filters out a card his deck doesnt need
2) the dual lands don't set him up with all the +triggers for his creatures, and since he's not using shock lands he'll need as many ways as possible to make sure he has all 3 basics every time.

so the coming if the coming in tapped doesn't make a difference either way, then the gain 1 life won't help him as much as stronger creatures would.

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 13:16

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Mayber Ghor-clan rampager instead of colossal might?

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 19:03

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colossal might is a little more versatile because you can play it anytime whereas the rampager is only on attacking creatures and the on point of toughness isnt as important

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 19:22

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my bad, 2 points but still not a big deal

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Posted 17 February 2015 at 02:06

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really nice zoo is kinda cheap except tarmogoyf lol check my deck out and tell me what you think if you don't mind please

http://www.mtgvault.com/gregorion/decks/blitz-turbo/

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Posted 16 February 2015 at 22:02

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Pls someone tell me what to cut here:
http://www.mtgvault.com/theswarmer/decks/budget-phyrexian-mana/ I think it needs everything in there.

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Posted 17 February 2015 at 10:38

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You need elephants and rhinos!!

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Posted 18 February 2015 at 16:29

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i made my own budget deck, if you would look at it please northy....
http://www.mtgvault.com/planeswalker999/decks/nayaferocious-budget-deck/

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Posted 18 February 2015 at 17:44

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Why don't you play:
Loxodon Smiter
Woolly Thoctar
Kessig Wolf Run
Burning-Tree Emissary
Tarmogoyf - Definitely the most budget card ever
Also, and I know this from expirence, if you are playing a zoo deck, you should be running anywhere between 8-12 removal spells, these can be lightning bolt, lightning helix, path to exile, or any other number of things. There are budget replacements for all of these!

You also need to run Ghor-Clan Rampager as a 4 of. Super budget, and super good!

If you want an example of a non-budget:
http://www.mtgvault.com/vanguard487/decks/naya-zoo-4/
That deck has been worked on for about 6 months!

Please, if I reiterated anything, don't get mad at me... I was too lazy to read everything else :P
Good luck!! And nice brew!

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Posted 19 February 2015 at 23:09

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