Budget Cuts: Fun Guy

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Zimbardo

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  1. Nice article! I had several people asking me for a cheap way to enter the format. I was actually always thinking about building a deck like this for the casual room but never found the time. Will give it a try and see how it goes.

  2. Great budget article Zim!!!

    I like that you made a focused budget deck. So many people will just throw together piles of bad cards with the idea that the deck is budget, but that really isn’t a deck it is a pile of random cards.

  3. Nice deck, less blood thirst but more fun interactions.Btw grats to so many trolls who won the last weekend PE with a REC/SUR rock build, i am tempted to try it but i don’t understand alot of the interactions, for example…

    Hermit druid to mill guys in the GY to REC back?
    Krovikan Horror with ?
    Reveillark and Saffi Eriksdotter.. some interaction?
    Natural order as a 2nd copy of REC/SUR’s effect for a primus/progenitus?

    As you can see, i am pretty clueless about how this deck works.An article dissecting the deck would be absolutelely golden.

    Chris

  6. Hah..just noticed you already had sprout swarm…

    man! are 100cs lists difficult to completely parse or what? :)

  8. I thought about including Verdant Force, and I agree that it seems like a lot of fun. I didn’t think of Gauntlet of Power, but that also seems fun. Good ideas, and I know that there are a whole bunch of other cards on top of those that would be fun. That’s part of the appeal of casual decks in this format. SO many cards to try out. I made a list of a lot of them, but ultimately I left it out of the article. People will have more fun if they get to dig up those cards on their own.

    If I wasn’t going for a budget article, I would have definitely thrown in Doubling Season and Englightened Tutor to fetch it. Thallids belong to that golden subset of cards that deal in both counters and tokens, so Doubling Season becomes Quadrupling Season. You don’t even want to know how often I used Doubling Season in casual Extended decks a couple of years ago.

  9. I just now noticed the inquiry about the deck I played this prior Saturday. Zimbardo is a man I not only respect but also fear, so I will answer your questions in my last article.

    Again, this is a really great piece, Zim. Were I your middle school softball coach, I’d shout, “Jolly good show, me pip!”