Budget Duel: Rivaling Allies

by NorthernWarlord on 11 May 2014

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Deck Description

This is only one half of the duel deck. Below is link to the another:
http://www.mtgvault.com/northernwarlord/decks/budget-duel-rivaling-allies/

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.)

Notice to the commentors:
This is a DUEL DECK. That means it is mostly meant to face the other side of it. Try to understand that the card in the deck picture is the "boss-card" of the deck, and like in every duel deck, there is supposed to be only one of those cards.
I also do not like editing duel decks afterwards.

How to Play

Hah! Those brutal savages will have no chance against our discipline!
Time to finish them off!
This part of the duel deck tries to hold down your opponent until you have chance to turn the tables. Sleep is often finisher card.

Deck Tags

  • duel deck
  • Ally
  • Budget
  • Cheap

Deck at a Glance

Social Stats

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

1724000

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Budget Duel: Rivaling Allies

This thing is cool! Maybe cut one divination for one opportunity?

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Posted 11 May 2014 at 19:36

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Interesting idea, although i would use something like Serum Visions instead of Divination, or maybe think twice.

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Posted 12 May 2014 at 07:38

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i personally think this deck is much better than the r/g version.

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Posted 12 May 2014 at 08:13

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White and blue are the most powerful ally colors in my opinion. Talus paladin, halimar excavator, sea gate loremaster, hada freeblade, and of course ondu cleric.

Super powerful.

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 03:20

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ah yes, allies. back when they tried to do interesting things in standard. or at least succeeded in doing interesting things. tell me, why did you go blue white? 5 color is usually the way to go with allies, that way you can use all the best ones.

edit: oops my bad, saw the theme of ally duel decks too late. nice job, too bad you left out black though :(

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 04:14

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Meh... what black, green, and red allies would you actually put in here? and what would you swap for them?

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 04:16

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well, the op has a RG allies list which has the generally accepted-as-strong allies in those colors in the deck, so there are those. and out of the 4 black allies, bala ged thief and hagra diabolist are the strongest, yet agadeem occultist works well with the halimar excavator in this deck. maybe to align with the theme and make use of the black allies, add the thief an occultist to this deck and the diabolist and bojuka brigand to the gruul list? they seem to synergize with the respective strats enough, and jund vs esper is always more interesting than azorius vs gruul.

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 18:56

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My thinking (based on my own experience with allies) I'd that they would support the main focus enough, thus slowing down the flow of the deck. Plus adding more colors always shows things down because of mana needs.

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 20:43

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but if you use green you can always use that green ally that makes any colour of mana

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 20:46

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Yes, but how do you use that to mill? It isn't supportive of the focus of the deck. Sure you could structure a deck around just about any set of allies, but the non-creatures become super important to focus on, and that is where the differences really are.

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 20:50

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eh, i suppose thats why allies aren't used very much then

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 20:54

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Add "nynick7" on skype if you'd like to try skype-video duels. We have a small community going so far

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 19:20

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why don't you get cockatrice? it is really easy to use

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 20:40

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Because i'd rather use the decks I have in person, I prefer the paper cards over online magic. Counter intuitive to my wanting to do it on skype i know, but the point is i want to use my decks and it's fun to video chat duel

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 22:25

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Fair enough then

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Posted 13 May 2014 at 22:27

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Nice deck Northern. These duel decks seem really fun to pit against each other. Maybe my friends and I will play through a pack of cards. You know, pool together to buy a pack of cards, then play a game for each card, switching decks after each round. Then yu have a group trade, if anyone wants to. Good times.

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Posted 14 May 2014 at 01:02

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Oh man, I just realized that both of these decks together are under $20 ... NICE work!

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Posted 14 May 2014 at 01:03

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Thank you.
: )

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Posted 14 May 2014 at 05:07

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both? they were both the same person

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Posted 14 May 2014 at 05:14

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Wait, wut? Foolish me.

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Posted 14 May 2014 at 05:29

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Lol, nice job magic. I almost had him fooled!

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Posted 14 May 2014 at 06:28

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