MTG : Budget standard deck (up to KTK legal standard) - update Boss Sligh

With the high price of standard decks (approximately 20k) to be competitive, lets try to look for deck that have a low budget but still is competitive.

Checking sites and finishes from large tourney i have came across decks that i think is budget.

1. Boss Sligh - previously Red Deck are generally budget but due to increase in splash in RED on other decks parts (jeskai for example); building RDW is now quite expensive. rabblemaster, Stoke the Flames have increase significantly in prices.

but lately there is a RED variant that can be on the budget and yet be competitive.

sample deck here :

•  Grand Prix Stockholm
• Garnd Prix Los Angeles
• Grand Prix Santiago

Though it has the rabblemaster and Stoke, this deck is a budget compared to Jeskai and other Red Variants out there.

Stoke has no alternative, but the rabblemaster can be swapped for Holdering Outburst.(not as effective but can be a trigger for our monastery.)

Played the deck, and one thing for sure, if the game goes long, chances are you will lose.
Also playing this deck saves you a lot of time in between rounds. 

2. Heroic - most successful variant of heroic deck is the UW variant.  

This is the deck that i am using right now, though mine is a mono white heroic. This deck can swing huge, as in huge, on one turn if left unchecked.

sample Heroic decks variants

• Grand Prix Stockholm - UW
• White Winnie 
• not really heroic but it has heroic cards

Depending on builds budget can go as high as 8k php, most expensive addition to the deck would be Brimaz 

If your on a 2 color variants then mana confluence, fetches, and duals are expensive.

My current deck list generally compose of this cards

Seeker of the Way	4
Favored Hoplite	4
Phalanx Leader	4
Vanguard of Brimaz	2 or 3
Ainok Bond-Kin	1
Abzan Falconer	1
Gods Willing	4
Defiant Strike	4
Feat of Resistance	4

3.  U/x Artifact Aura - this deck generally plays Ensoul Artifact on an Ornithopter or a Darksteel Citadel on turn 2, 

Played against this deck, and on God draw this deck is pretty GOOD.

Variants would be here.

There are other budget decks out there but this three is what i think is competitive.


~ Another take on a budget deck, one of which contains my favorite color -- Black!
This is a good read Mono Black Midrange by Mark Ian Alloso.