[Budget] Gruul Aggro
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:54 pm
So, bringing the discussion back to Magic, my LGS has been having this tournament, called Guild Wars, where everyone builds a Legacy legal deck, but only in the 2 colors of your chosen guild, which you must stick with for the whole tournament. Your cards are also limited to your guild's color identity. This means that there are no Tier 1 decks in this tournament, although there are some very powerful ones, as well as some very interesting combo lists. You're on a team with members of your same guild, and you you can play anytime during store hours, usually just between rounds. It goes until July, and the guild with the highest win percentage at the end splits a box. I went Gruul, and just put together this cheap standard fare aggro deck.
[deck]Guild Wars
Creatures
4 Goblin Guide
4 Skyshroud Elite
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Flinthoof Boar
4 Ghor-Clan Rampager
4 Bloodbraid Elf
Other Spells
n4 Rancor
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Forked Bolt
2 Gruul Charm
2 Colossal Might
Land
4 Copperline Gorge
4 Stomping Ground
5 Forest
7 Mountain[/deck]
The (incredibly shitty) board looks like this:
[deck]Sideboard
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Ancient Grudge
3 Flame Slash
1 Gruul Charm
2 Electrickery
2 Magistrate's Veto
1 Choke
1 Sulfur Elemental[/deck]
Cards I'm considering adding:
[cards]Stormblood Berserker
Experiment One
Skarrg Guildmage
Arc Trail
Kird Ape[/cards]
Cards I'm considering cutting:
Most of the sideboard
[cards]Forked Bolt
Gruul Charm
Colossal Might[/cards]
What's the best thing that an extra $20 could do to this deck? Also, what should I do for a sideboard for a largely unknown meta limited by the fact that all decks are 2 colors?
[deck]Guild Wars
Creatures
4 Goblin Guide
4 Skyshroud Elite
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Flinthoof Boar
4 Ghor-Clan Rampager
4 Bloodbraid Elf
Other Spells
n4 Rancor
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Forked Bolt
2 Gruul Charm
2 Colossal Might
Land
4 Copperline Gorge
4 Stomping Ground
5 Forest
7 Mountain[/deck]
The (incredibly shitty) board looks like this:
[deck]Sideboard
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Ancient Grudge
3 Flame Slash
1 Gruul Charm
2 Electrickery
2 Magistrate's Veto
1 Choke
1 Sulfur Elemental[/deck]
Cards I'm considering adding:
[cards]Stormblood Berserker
Experiment One
Skarrg Guildmage
Arc Trail
Kird Ape[/cards]
Cards I'm considering cutting:
Most of the sideboard
[cards]Forked Bolt
Gruul Charm
Colossal Might[/cards]
What's the best thing that an extra $20 could do to this deck? Also, what should I do for a sideboard for a largely unknown meta limited by the fact that all decks are 2 colors?