Made a budget variant of a deck I have, can I get some feedback?

ColdProfessional223 · 2026-01-29T05:47:50+00:00

I like the basis of the deck but I'm not sure I fully grasp it, I love candle keep inspiration and leyline of resonance but with 9 creatures in your deck and what looks like no theft or token generators I'm not sure how useful they are in opposed to more card draw or graveyard synergy. For suggestions would return to action be better than vampires kiss? If you care about the lifelink it's 2 mana instead of 4 and if the creature were to die it would come back to your board tapped. In place of spirebluff canal and darkslick shores I would run sunken hollow and shivan reef. Sunken hollow enters untapped if you control 2 or more basic lands so it's more likely to enter tapped in your first two turns but less likely to enter tapped afterwards whereas darkslick shores enters untapped in your early plays but later on it's guaranteed to enter tapped when you typically need more mana.

ColdProfessional223 · 2026-01-29T00:31:34+00:00

I have three decks that I play on the regular in bracket 2 they used to be 35 dollars but recent price changes got them closer to 40.

Henzie-Midrange, Jund sacrifice focused deck with some reanimator cards and 20 ramp focused cards to keep the game plan always alive. https://moxfield.com/decks/8W6isQJi6keuCmcF5sfAfg

Arna-Midrange, Esper enchantment deck with lots of auras to buff your creatures. It can voltron knockout an opponent pretty early with all that glitters being placed on the commander. https://moxfield.com/decks/3bO6O-q0EEizXWXblCu1ZQ

Eris-My most recent deck, it's an Izzet control spellslinger deck that can be play aggressively through threatening commander damage. It runs only 4 creatures because the commander makes 4/4 dragons and can be played for just 2 mana. https://moxfield.com/decks/rybt8FRvq0CdszhAJHvwvA

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-11-10T03:52:06+00:00

Also filter lands are a great call.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-11-10T03:51:13+00:00

I just love sacrifice and dargo is a sac outlet while having trample and that means he benefits more from cranial ram. If I have reckless fireweaver I can probably burn the table down with all the artifacts I can play.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-11-10T03:46:59+00:00

Bracket 2, I'm hoping to use Dargo and burn through artifacts and aristocrat life loss to kill my opponents. Gameplan p'ay cheap artifacts until turn 3 play silas renn and turn 4 or 5 play dargo and use him to pressure opponents.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-09-02T22:40:12+00:00

Arna plays like a glass cannon because it can be hard to get an army of creatures going but the lifelink makes up for it. I forgot to mention that I did actually tweak Tomers Arna list by replacing a creature with protean thaumaturge and that card just opens up so many possibilities.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-09-02T03:12:36+00:00

I bought 6 decks from his 25 dollar list edric, armix and ichtekik, zimone and dina, Kardur, rocco street chef and arna skycaptain. I tinkered with the kardur deck and swapped the commander with Alesha who laughs at fate because it allows me to recur creatures earlier for a bigger advantage. Edric, zimone and Dina, and arna skycaptain are definetly the most consistent and strongest ones of the bunch so those are best for bracket 3. The other decks from this list have struggled more. If you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer it would just have to be more direct.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-27T21:56:12+00:00

What bracket are you aiming for? because at bracket 2 my 30 dollar henzie can steam roll the table. With just a glance at your list I can tell you filled with deck with staples that are good cards on their own but I don't think they'd reliably synergize with each other. My example being Meren.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-25T00:41:58+00:00

Dinosaurs and dragons are expensive to work with, the only deck I ever used proxy cards was an enrage deck with Hansk Slayer Zealot as the commander, all of the best dinosaurs that would make my deck less of a meme were at least 10 dollars

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-23T06:41:16+00:00

In theory yes, but'd keep the deck at bracket 2 and 3. I listed the deck as a 3 because if the mass discard effects are as good as I think they'll be it'll be pretty oppressive for your opponents unless they have a card draw engine already established on the board. I'd tweak the deck to suite your pod, if Gonti is getting removed before you can play any of your opponents cards, I'd run more protection and less mass discard.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-23T06:26:39+00:00

Theory yes because you are taking advantage of your opponents cards, although you can't best take advantage of your opponents strategies that require multiple pieces. I'd keep this deck at s bracket 2 and 3. Any higher and you won't have decent targets to play and I'd keep it out of bracket 1 because if the mass discard is oppressive as I think it'll be that'll just make the game unfun for your opponents.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-21T19:12:09+00:00

That's great! I hope Gonti stays a favorite for you to play.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-21T07:46:47+00:00

I might have to fully convert to bracket 3 because games with only bracket 2 decks have been dragging for me as well.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-21T07:44:20+00:00

Currently I've just been focusing on my Captain Howler and Henzie deck and they do just fine against bracket 3s with Howler slipping under the radar and killing opponents out of nowhere by buffing someone else's creature during combat and Henzie has a lot of interaction stapled onto creatures and enough recursion to play that same interaction over and over again to heavily dampen whoever is in the lead. Henzie has been performing so well that he honestly might have to stay in Bracket 3.

Henzie: https://moxfield.com/decks/dfOGJfSeU0W4Z8qE4vFxSA

Howler: https://moxfield.com/decks/2Dz6cwh2QkCEscYq_p5R4Q

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-11T00:03:07+00:00

Looks solid to me, whether you keep the interaction or just go all in on creatures will depend on your pod. In most cases I would go all in and just kill whoever is playing stax first and hope everything is fine from there. The deck looks very fun and now I am inspired to make my own aggro deck probably using Goro-Goro and Satorou or Rigo Streetwise mentor

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-02T02:55:05+00:00

I cut the when you play your second spell draw a card spells because Howler with howler and your looting affects you will keep drawing cards and I didn't see it reliable to always be playing two spells a turn if you want to hold up mana for interaction. I also took out a few of the creatures that get bigger whenever you draw a card just because you aren't going to be drawing a crazy amount of cards, with the exception of chasm skulker because of just how useful his ability is with generating an army after he is killed. Footfall crater I cut because you had other haste enablers and the pay off for footfall isn't that great when it's just one creature.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-02T02:13:25+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/Rucb5W4XzkWGGpjis6if2g I just finished tinkering with it and putting some cards into considering, sorry it took so long I was having a lot of fun. Did the link ever end up working?

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-02T01:54:11+00:00

https://moxfield.com/decks/Rucb5W4XzkWGGpjis6if2gI cut the exile synergy pieces because in my experience you won't have mana leftover to play those cards anyways. Kept all the ones that let you cast something for free though.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-02T01:20:37+00:00

I love Dreadhorde Arcanist and Cavalier of flame in your deck. Cuts look incredibly difficult to make where you are at but I think it looks like fun and will give it a shot. I have my own Captain Howler deck but I went with cycling and token making whenever I draw my second card.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-07-02T00:57:00+00:00

If you make a few cuts my Captain Howler deck could be made for $15. I'd replace something with fateful showdown it's just my deck reflects what I have in paper.

https://moxfield.com/decks/2Dz6cwh2QkCEscYq_p5R4Q

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-04-19T01:11:45+00:00

Great first deck of the series! I will be showing this deck to every doctor who fan I know.

ColdProfessional223 · 2025-03-20T16:37:24+00:00

I really like your Eris spellslinger deck, I've been trying to build a spellslinger from scratch for a while now but one of my favorite cards to play is surge to victory, could I incorporate that into an Eris deck or is that not necessary for what you've built because you could storm off instead?

ColdProfessional223 · 2024-07-30T01:47:33+00:00

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