Budget Decks: Modern Extract

this is not a modern deck because dark ritual is banned in modern

I know, but that can easily be changed.

Yeah. The Sacrament is pretty hard to kick, but if you somehow succeed in it, (maybe with Dark Rituals,) it is basically that you win the game. Your opponent will lose all the remaining key-cards from his/her deck.
Though I cast Sacrament every time without kicker. It is good even then.

Hmm ... if this weren't budget, I'd suggest lake of the dead.

http://www.mtgvault.com/lycandros/decks/need-a-hand/ Love to get Ideas on my hand destruction deck.

Looks like fun, dispese maybe, fixed may hag deck made a couple others

Yeah, it would, but it is pretty priceful.

There are ten cards that make your opponent discard...
Is it clever to add it? I'm not sure.

Slith Bloodletter is mainly there because when your opponent's plans have been ruined and you have killed their possible blockers, you can start hitting. You hit harder every turn.

And otherwise it is almost like Drudge Skeletons.

nice. I like the bloodletter. fits very well with that in mind. :)

Slith Bloodletter does not synergize with anything in the deck. Sure it gets bigger every time it hits, but if they have any creatures whatsoever it's pretty much useless. As a game ender, it's too small and too slow. To which you reply, you can use it for defense! Tell me, do you want to save two mana every turn to regenerate a 1/1 just for chumpblocking? Is that worth the mana inefficiency of not playing the rest of your cards on curve? (That's not even considering the idea that the opponent has trampling or evasive creatures) And the regeneration doesn't really offer it much protection. It can be bounced, countered, exiled, sacrificed, or subjected to -/- effects.

The opportunity cost is what really kills it for me: consider that on turn 2 you could be playing Ravenous Rats or Distress, Geth's Verdict or Ritual into a Specter. All these would push card advantage or develop your board, getting you closer to the kind of endgame you want to be in: them topdecking the least effective cards in their deck while you have a couple of okay creatures in play and some good answers in hand to help clear the way.

In order to get to that endgame, you need to have an effective attrition game even early on while developing your board. In other words: your creatures should all provide you card advantage. To this end, a better choice would be Liliana's Specter, Chittering Rats, or Hypnotic Specter. Or maybe you for some reason are in love with the regeneration flexibility and/or 2 drops, in which case I would recommend Augur of Skulls instead.

All of these things would be better than Slith Bloodletter, a card that was only really decent in its limited environment.

Thanks, man. I appreciate it.

that is kinda the point. this is a budget deck. no expensive cards. :)

never hurts to mention the pricey 1s that help tho some1 might decide to use the budget deck as a shell and add the $

In that case, surgical extraction .

that is true... but most people who look at this budget series do so BECCAUSE it is cheap, and usually work really well. NorthernWarlord is a great deckbuilder with a small budget. :)

i know that budget is the point which is why i said extirpate ($3) instead of surgical extraction ($6) althought the latter is most definitely the better card

true. surgical is incredibly powerful. but still, even the 3 dollars pushes where Northern usually keeps his decks. he likes to stay within $10 total, usually. Except on Fridays.

You said it Kazzong.
Though I guess I can find room for one Extirpate.

Well, it's a whole lot easier to de-budgetize a deck, and the finished product ends up far more powerful.

Thanks. I used to run cards like Distress and Duress in my first deck back when I was a starter.

And you still run a black deck ... I see how it is. =).