BR Vampires deck

You probably wonder, why would anyone splash the mighty Black Vampires with another color? Red in Vampire decks has some advantages, removals like Terminate or Blightning, even Lightning Bolt, type of removals that lack in mono-black decks.

Check out this list below:Creatures:
4 x Bloodghast
4 x Kalastria Highborn
4 x Gatekeeper of Malakir
4 x Vampire Nocturnus
4 x Vampire Nighthawk

Spells:
4 x Terminate
4 x Blightning (or Lightning Bolt)
4 x Urge To Feed
3 x Bituminous Bolt
2 x Grim Discovery

About lands... We'll it depends. You can use various combination of Dragonskull Summit, Lavaclaw Reaches, other Fetch lands and of course, Swamps and Mountains.

Have fun.

Budget BR aggro deck

I need a budget aggro deck, built from what I have in my collection and other "regular prized" cards, so I stumbled upon this. The cards are easy to get. The deck itself it might not be very competitive on tournament play, but it's fun in casual MTG.

Check it out. Goblins, vampires and zombies combined in a fun aggro! Build from Zendikar, Shards of Alara and M10 cards.

Lands:

4 x Akoum Refuge
4 x Terramorphic Expanse
8 x Swamp
8 x Mountain

Spells:

4 x Lightning Bolt
4 x Burst Lightning
4 x Blightning
4 x Terminate

Creatures:

4 x Goblin Outlander / Goblin Deathriders
4 x Black Knight
4 x Vampire Nighthawk
4 x Shambling Remains
4 x Goblin Ruinblaster

Building a Naya budget deck, Part I

I decided to give Naya a try and build a deck based on the shard. I won't be spending much money on it because I have other cards to trade. I had most of the cards, bought few commons and here we are.

I've just started, so I'll need to find few more fatty creatures for an unpleasant beating of the opponent. I think there are enough mana fixers, removals but the deck lacks the giant beasts. Of course, filter lands could fit too, but they're not what I call "budget deck" cards.

Here we go.

NAYA BUDGET DECKLIST

CREATURES:
3 x Mogg Fanatic
2 x Druid of the Anima
2 x Steward of Valeron
4 x Wild Nacatl
4 x Woolly Thoctar

SPELLS:
4 x Incinerate
4 x Soul's Fire
4 x Oblivion Ring
4 x Giant Growth
2 x Fertile Ground
1 x Titanic Ultimatum

PLAINSWALKERS:
3 x Ajani Vengeant

LANDS:
2 x Jungle Shrine
2 x Naya Panorama
7 x Forest
7 x Mountain
5 x Plains

That would be it. I'll make some changes as soon as possible, like kicking out the Fertile Ground and Naya Panorama for something better, like huge beasts or Naya Charm, because I have (more than) enough mana sources. And another thing, I must take back my bad words for Shards of Alara. It's a great set, far from worse. I really enjoy playing this kind of deck.

Conflux aftershock

Well, Conflux is officially out. I played on the pre-release event and I still don't know what I'm gonna do about the release, because I'm a little bit low on cash. I never played worse deck on limited. For the first time, I played Bant, with a awful deck, but that was the maximum I could pull off the cards I got.

For the first time after a long period, I lost all the matches, finishing with a "bye", leaving the event with the release. The only valueble card I got was the Noble Hierarch which I'm gonna trade for Banefire or Voracious Dragon.

Bant is really cool, but it's definetly something I wouldn't play. The exalted abillity is very, very cool but it's just not for me. I like red and burn.

I got few cool Naya cards that can be used for fun Naya budget deck, I'll try to compile a deck list soon and if it turn out to be competitive I might be playing Naya (if it's too hard to find the two damn cards I need).

Rise of Esper?

I have a Esper deck, built on the intro pack Esper Artifice. This Shard is my favorite, interesting to play, but it seems that is far from competitive. It's a bit slow, with creatures which are easy to be killed and it requires a lot of counter strategy that can screw up the tournament play even more.

But, now three cards are changing my plans for investing in this kind of deck. So, I might be buying some new cards after all. Check them out below:

A life gain defender with 6 toughness plus flying? Oh my, this can be awesome.

Just imagine what could you possibly destroy with this on. And if you have enough mana, you can take two big beasts at once.My favorite. You can return anything you want, and put Sharuum The Hegemon into play, and there you are, return another artifact from your graveyard to play. Awesomeness.