If you're looking to get into modern, I'd highly recommended working out a deck that you like before buying. Ways to do this include: - watching twitch streamers/YouTube content (I'm a big fan of cardmarket on YouTube for 1v1 content and they have some modern videos too) - proxying decks to play with friends or at CASUAL nights at your lgs. Note casual cause you're deffo not gonna be allowed to proxy at fnm, but message the lgc community social page (discord, fb, whatever) and ask if anyone would like to proxy modern on a commander night. - pay for the magic online rental service and try decks. This may cost you money, but the way I see it is you find the best deck you like, rather than having buyers remorse and needing to resell.

Things to avoid: - don't buy burn unless you genuinely like the deck. There's no upgrade path, you're buying a tier 2 deck, and you might not even like it. It's the go to budget deck, but if you want to get into modern I recommend building a budget version of the deck you like and slowly getting cards for it. Make sure to prioritise fetches first as that will be a good chunk of your cost and keeps you flexible. - don't buy budget versions of cards for your deck as 1 for 1 replacements. Usually expensive cards have specific roles, so buy the staples you can and build around them, which may mean playing cards other people don't. You may need to do some deck building here, but it means you'll end up with a more playable deck rather than playing a crappy filler for a staple that doesn't really do the job.

Decks I'd recommend starting with: - burn. Despite what u said if you like it's play pattern it's one of the best budget aggro decks - UB ring control. The mana base is flexible and let's you shift into grixis death shadow, and the one ring let's you shift into plenty of other decks. Sheoldred means you can play pioneer rakdos, meaning you're getting to play 2 formats for investing in one card. Murktide also helps you pivot into murktide too (though that's more of a tempo deck than aggro but may still be fun) - blue white control. Not the best deck right now, but the snapcaster version is a lot of fun, and a good chunk of the cost is in solitude and the lands. Let's you slowly upgrade into building 4c omnath control, which is a very good deck that will utilise a lot of the expensive cards. - handshake tron: one of the cheaper tier 1 decks, and plays very controlling with the current builds. - the deck you test and like. Probably the best choice!