Budget Decks: Standard Warrior

by NorthernWarlord on 30 October 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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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

"For the horde!"
Raise your sword and yell your best battle cry! Charge into an onslaught with this Warrior based, 9-buck-worth budget deck.

Cast some cheap Warriors like Mardu Hateblade and Oreskos Swiftclaw to start the early aggro. Keep pressing at your opponents since turn two or three to maintain the steady flow of damage.
When there are enough beatsticks in play, both chiefs, Dauntless Onslaught, Spear of Heliod and Dictate of Heliod can easily help you unleash some deadly attacks. Your opponent will not hold long against this horde.
If you have some eye for tactical playing, you can always drop Brave the Sands and watch your opponent's problems: "What can I do since my opponent attacks every turn and can still block more efficiently than me?" you can also throw in Devouring Light, a tactical removal card for almost all kinds of problems.

When your deck needs some different kind of punch, make sure to go through your sideboard!

Deck Tags

  • Standard
  • warrior
  • Budget
  • Cheap

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Budget Decks: Standard Warrior

I'd take out the Dictate for one more spear. Otherwise, looks good to go! XD

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 01:02

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I like it. How about a few more 1 mana cards to make it even faster? Tormented Hero and Blooksoaked Champion would fit right in, though the latter is a bit more expensive. Defiant Strike has draw, and Oppressive Rays slows down your opponent's defense.

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 02:36

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along with oppressive rays is crippling blight, it may even be enough to kill one of their creatures, if not no worries then they can not block with enchanted creature... i run crippling blight in my standard black aggro, works like a charm :)

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 02:52

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Athreos, God of Passage would be really nice for this deck. I mean, I know he costs as much as this deck, but two of him will probably still keep you under $25.

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 10:50

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Guess it is something that a player could add if they had one in their collection. I can throw it in to the sideboard.

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 11:25

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chief of the scale is bad. should be Bloodsoaked Champion. also, you should be running 4x Seeker of the Way, as it is easily the best card in this list. Sorin, Solemn Visitor , Heroes Downfall, and Murderous Cut should also find a home in a deck like this.

edit: didnt recognize this as a budget list. I am running a similar list to great success in tournament play, because its fast enough to get under the midrange decks quickly. the change to make this less budget isnt that expensive, so take my comment as that: a way to take it to the next level.

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 12:46

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I'm glad your making warrior tribal work!!! I'm pretty tired of green devotion and Abzan midrange netdeck lists. I won a 22 man game day with an odd robots list! Give me a look
http://www.mtgvault.com/zaklax13/decks/mr-roboto/

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Posted 08 November 2014 at 23:35

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definately feel like having launch the fleet instead of devouring light or even going 2/2 on each would definately help, just continue pushing the aggression especially with spear of heliod on the field. i also enjoy feat of resistance in these kinds of decks, i feel it gives you a nice get out of jail free card to keep a creature on the battlefield when its about to bite the dust, as well as it adds a viable counter to them. bellowing saddlebrute is aslo a nice warrior to add, just a bigger warrior that should be cheap to fit into these kinds of decks

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 16:33

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return to the ranks maybe in the sideboard. You have enough low drop creatures to make that card pretty scarey. that + athreos will keep creatures around

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 18:19

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Pretty cool deck. My friend plays this one and it works pretty good.

On another note, I'm trying to get in to Commander. Can I please get some help making my first commander deck. The link is right here.
http://www.mtgvault.com/majesticshark/decks/zurgo-edh/

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 18:28

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Hey Northy with the new EDHs comming out could you do a duel commander deck Gisa vs Geralf?

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 19:35

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I'll do it. Right away when it is possible.
: )

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 21:20

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Thx mate :3

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 21:58

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Hey Northy just informing you the commander 2014 cards are added to the database, hope to see the decks soon :3

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Posted 09 November 2014 at 03:31

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Didn't you see those decks already? I created them like, week-and-a-half ago!
Here are the links:
http://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/decks/budget-duel-gisa-geralf/
http://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/decks/budget-duel-gisa-geralf-2/

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Posted 13 November 2014 at 21:38

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You need rush of battle!!!!!!!!

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Posted 01 November 2014 at 20:06

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y u no preeminent captain?

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Posted 03 November 2014 at 05:02

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You know that it isn't a warrior... Soldiers are cool and all, but guess it doesn't fit here...
Thanks for suggesting though.

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Posted 03 November 2014 at 06:27

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oh sry. I thought preeminent plopped down warriors. :/

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Posted 25 November 2014 at 03:58

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It is alright. We all make mistakes.

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Posted 25 November 2014 at 06:51

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you should add a hall of triumph

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Posted 03 November 2014 at 18:18

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Probably.

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Posted 04 November 2014 at 06:41

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Your creatures have all the same type, so i don't see why there isn't a "Obelisk Of Urd" in your deck.

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Posted 04 November 2014 at 15:22

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Obelisk of Urd is a good choice. Maybe even a maindeck card...

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Posted 04 November 2014 at 18:02

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Still think rush of battle can be a game ender for you

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Posted 04 November 2014 at 20:45

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I think this should be maindeck.

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Posted 05 November 2014 at 11:01

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I play a similar deck (WBG Warriors). I was wonder why no rush of battle. Also, how is Raiders spoils working out for you?

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Posted 04 November 2014 at 22:30

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Posted 05 November 2014 at 03:15

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bloodsoaked is not budget friendly. this is a budget deck

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Posted 05 November 2014 at 04:24

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Posted 06 November 2014 at 04:41

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I like the deck for a budget deck, especially because this one really takes the cake as budget sitting under $10. I wonder though oh I wonder why you aren't running Mardu Skullhunter at least in the sideboard!! coming in tapped isn't an issue because I assume you won't be doing much blocking, and you get to rob a card from your opponent. 2 power at that.

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Posted 06 November 2014 at 08:38

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Path of Bravery is a great enchantment to have when you attack with a hoard. I run it with my boros and always find it a great way not only to gain life but also power up your whole army, seeing how you're already ahead on life with the current setup.

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Posted 08 November 2014 at 00:44

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OMG i love this deck first, great idea making this deck and i like the whole warrior theme in this deck :). go check out my new deck Abzan. Will u marry me?

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Posted 08 November 2014 at 20:51

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I'll check out your Abzan.

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Posted 09 November 2014 at 00:19

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thx bro :))))

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Posted 09 November 2014 at 02:34

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Great idea KalebsBane, but unfortunately, Path of Bravery isn't standard legal anymore. But yeah, it would be great in this deck.

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Posted 13 November 2014 at 19:17

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I'm building this today, I had none of the cards and it was like 10€ for the whole thing!

Let's see how it goes in the FNM

Thanks @NorthernWarlord!

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Posted 14 November 2014 at 12:29

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Well, good luck with FNM then! Hope you'll get some good opening hands!

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Posted 14 November 2014 at 17:49

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Deck is awesome, I got it exactly has you have it posted minus some of the more expensive sideboard items. As is is pretty awesome but just a few things I tweaked for my play style: I added another seeker of the way, feat of the resitance is an awesome card, a took out of the timely hordemate and mardu hordechief and put in ordeal of heliod and ordeal of erebos (I feel like you can't go wrong with those cards. I went through the comments and got the cards people suggested and their in my sideboard and I'll try and integrate it into my games. But awesome deck, I love it.

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Posted 22 November 2014 at 18:43

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Thumbs up for you. I'm glad that this deck works.

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Posted 22 November 2014 at 20:04

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Can you build a standard pauper budget deck?

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Posted 02 December 2014 at 00:35

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Yeah. Guess I could.

By the way, you seem new around here, thanks to the amount of your posts.
Pleased to meet you cdabs.

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Posted 02 December 2014 at 07:05

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Yeah, I am new to magic and trying to get a good feel for it and I love the decks you build and your ideas. Thank you for being willing to build one.

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Posted 02 December 2014 at 17:59

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Here's your deck cdabs!

http://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/decks/budget-decks-standard-pauper/

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Posted 03 December 2014 at 06:38

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So i liked this idea, so much that i made one for FNM that my friend will run. it is budget(ish), because this strategy just doesnt need super expensive cards. let me know what you think:

http://www.mtgvault.com/zaklax13/decks/aggro-good-stuff/

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Posted 02 December 2014 at 18:08

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I made a mardu version of this by just putting in some rabbles, war-name aspirants, and some mardu ascendancy. It isn't really budget anymore but it sits around $40 so not terribly expensive

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Posted 03 December 2014 at 00:38

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Great use of cards that most would not use!

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Posted 03 December 2014 at 18:08

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Thanks a lot mate!
: )

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Posted 03 December 2014 at 18:08

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Have you thought of using Master of Pearls? Give great boost to creatures for an all out assault. He is a really cheap rare and worth the investment.

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Posted 03 December 2014 at 18:31

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Going to the sideboard. Thanks!

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Posted 03 December 2014 at 18:33

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Another option would be dictate of heliod. It is expensive but has flash and stays on the field. Good for tricking your opponent to not block and hit them for more after blockers are declared. Similar to Master of Pearls, but bonus is permanent instead of one turn.

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Posted 03 December 2014 at 18:45

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There are some crazy warriors coming out in Fate Reforged:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/frf-cig-en
I noticed how aggro this deck is, so much early pressure. I think some of the 1-drops could put even more pressure (aven skirmisher and mardu shadowspear). I would really like to see how you format this tribal warrior deck with the new cards ;-)

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Posted 09 January 2015 at 18:52

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Yeah... There are so many good new warriors in Fate Reforged, so I guess I have to create a whole new deck for them...
XDDDDD

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Posted 10 January 2015 at 20:31

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Hi Northern Warlord! Since i just returned playing mtg again. I like to build this deck as a start but since fate reforged is approaching. I am hoping for the updated version of this deck when it comes out. More power to you Sir!

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Posted 12 January 2015 at 20:47

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Thank you. The Updated Version will come as soon as possible.

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Posted 13 January 2015 at 20:40

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I'm excited to see your new additions after fates comes out. warrior tribal is by far the cheapest competitive deck in standard

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Posted 14 January 2015 at 05:42

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Okay dokay lokay everybody!
The updated version of this deck is now ONLINE!
Check out the link below!

http://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/decks/budget-decks-warriors-of-fate/

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Posted 22 January 2015 at 20:03

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Good use with the warriors. they may be weak, but at least they can still deal some damage.

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Posted 08 June 2015 at 02:23

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