Jessie

Yeah, I have heard Zendikar prices are expensive. Not sure why.
Maybe they didn't sale that well and not many people have the staples like Goblin Guide.
Or the booster packs could of been very pricey like Modern Masters.

I think it will not make a huge difference because Dread Return is still banned in Modern.
If they removed that card from the banned list, than I would expect Golgari to be 25-30 dollars each.

Regardless, I bought one for 4.99.
Will wait and see. I will just turn around and sale it (hopefully) for 12 bucks or so...and spend that money buying some sort of silly casual/budget deck.

I just picked up 1 Golgari from Duel Deck Izzet for 5 dollars.
TCG Player has it valued at 3 dollars but has it selling at median price of 11 dollars!!!
Something is definitely brewing!

I hear you and feel your pain.
I am in the same boat here.

Bargain deck was brutal.
Skirge/Bargain/Will/Moxes....extremely brutal.

Same with Opalescence...was extreme too.
Turning everything you had into an army of 1/1 or 2/2s. Yuck.

Combo Winter.
Lots of people...me included quit around that time.
Who wants to lose on Turn 1 or Turn 2?
Again, who wants to lose on Turn 1 in Standard?
Nothing has come close to that.

Want to hear my dumbass story?
Way back in early Magic Dragons were very expensive.
Most Dragons were 5 dollars at least.
Mainly because they rocked...we didn't have stuff like Tarmo or Confidant.
I spent hundreds on Dragons.
An entire notebook of Dragons.
10 years later I join back up with MTG...do a price search for my Dragons...and they are worth around 50 cent each.
And crap like Lion's Eye Diamond...which people couldn't sale or give away went from 3 dollars to the god-awful price it is today.
Wish I could go back and spend all that money on Force of Will and Lion's Eye Diamond.
As of now, I just have several dozen Dragons that no one will buy.
Lame.

I bet money that he had to trade several fetch lands.
Besides a several hundred dollar goblin deck...I don't see where he got fair money for his lands.
So I am thinking he got cheated out of them without realizing (or caring) about there value.
Maybe not...he hated to play 3 color decks...so he might of hated the Fetchlands and gladly traded them away so that he could buy more Booster Packs.

150 dollars worth of lands...it does feel decadent, doesn't it?

Thank you for making this deck.
Northy...for everyone talking bullshit...I didn't see anyone make a Budget deck.
But you still made an expensive one.
Way to go dude, again, haters gonna hate.

I thought the original Sligh was more mana extensive with stuff like Orcs and Librarian and Cursed Scroll...the second version (with Mirage) was less mana extensive and more pure burn. Meaning...the first Sligh version was more worried about mana then he second version of Sligh.

We are nitpicking there, lol :)

Goblin Guide says "hello" too.
I do feel lucky.
Before I quit magic I collected entirely Urza's Saga.
Lots and lots of them.
I quit for 10 years.
An old friend drops by says here you go. If I keep them I will keep spending thousands of dollars that I don't have, on them.
He gives me a 50 pound box of Magic cards.
90% of them are Zendikar and Worldwake and M10.
Lots of good cards! For free.
And now I here people compare Zendikar to Urza's Saga.
I am one lucky dude...that out of all the Expansions I could collect I picked Saga...and out of all the cards my friend could of gave to me he gave me Zendikar!!

However, that dumbass must of sold all of his Fetch Lands.
Just by the sheer number of cards he gave me would dictate that he pulled several fetch lands.

I am with Puschkin on this.

Urza Saga...by far.
Urza Block was brutal.

In all, The Urza block has had more cards banned from tournament play than any other block. Over the course of the block's history, 16 different cards have at one point been banned in at least one DCI sanctioned format, nine of which debuted in Urza's Saga (Stroke of Genius, Time Spiral, Windfall, Yawgmoth's Will, Goblin Lackey, Voltaic Key, Gaea's Cradle, Serra's Sanctum, and Tolarian Academy).

10 years later, getting back into Magic...did you know how proud it made me to realize that I collected the Urza block right before quitting? That I always thought it was an overpowered expansion...now 10 years later no expansion has come close to being as broken.

Anyone, google the Tolarian Academy/Windfall deck.
Or Memory Jar/Megrim deck.

Turn 1 wins in Standard!!
Yep, let me repeat that, Urza Block allowed for 1st turn wins in Standard.
And not just once in awhile Turn 1 wins...The Academy deck had a 60-75 percent ratio of Turn 1 wins. Turn 3 over 90 percent of the time.

And the Memory Jar deck was banned in two weeks!!!
Now, instead of Megrim we have Liliana's Caress. Jesus!
Glad Will and Memory Jar are still banned!

For an idea of how overpowered Urza Saga was...go look at Gaea's Cradle.

Off topic: I think Goblin Guide will be reprinted very soon.
Maybe in Modern Masters 2.
The price is steadily dropping.
My card place is giving me 10 dollars less if I sale them 3 Goblin Guides compared to this time 3 months ago.

My place I buy cards from has
Birthing Pod---6 dollars
Troll---5 dollars (out of stock)

I bet people bought out Troll realizing it was about to see a lot more use in Modern.

I wonder, for these cards if 16 dollars was pre-banned price.
Meaning...now that people can't play them in tourneys...how much are they going to drop, if any?

Capable of Turn 4 and Turn 5 wins, right?

Thanks Puschkin.
I think I have the red deck completed.
And, amazingly, I only have to buy 9 cards for it to be complete.

http://www.mtgvault.com/jessie/decks/killer-mono-red-budget-burn/

It is semi sligh.
The mana curve is sligh with:
Lots of 1 mana cards.
Almost as much 2 mana cards.
Very few 3 and 4 mana cards.
And a very few x mana cards.

It isn't pure early sligh because I am not as worried about using every mana every turn (stuff like Librarian and Cursed Scroll) but it isn't late sligh (straight burn)...it is somewhere in the middle.

Considering it will be running against simple mono budget decks of other colors...it has a chance to win.

Yep...sorta like morph..but not exactly.

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/mechanics-fate-reforged-2014-12-29

Pricey!! The normal Ugin is 30 bucks.
He is a lucky prick, that is for sure!

With the white deck I want it all around average and able to disrupt opponent.
Stuff like Hallow, O-ring, Banisher Priest, Disenchant, War Priest of Thune, etc.
And some sort of beat down angel as the win con.