Budget Modern Combo

by laservader2 on 26 February 2020

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (19 cards)

Land (5)

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Deck Description

The idea of the deck is pretty simple, its a three piece combo.
Enduring Renewal+a 0/0 creature+Altar of the brood/soul warden

Playing a 0/0 creature with enduring renewal will trigger the warden or brood,then the creature will die, return to hand, and you can play it an infinite number of times to mill your opponent out or gain infinite life.

Upgrades can always be made to the mana base, as well as putting in hangarback walker and walking balista, these are just better creatures to play when you have extra creaturs or need a threat on the board, stone coil is the best creature in the deck as of now.
The seaside citadel acts as a green/white dual, but i thought i would be cool to do a bit of transformative sideboard if needed, where you take out some forests for islands, remove some of the components that let you dig for the combo and instead play more controlling. I have not been able to test it too much, veil of summer is just great against anyone trying to counter your combo.

Enduring Renewal has been a bit of a pet card of mine for a while, and I have made several iterations of this combo deck. Turn four kills happen often enough to keep playing the deck, and infrequently enough you want to keep playing to get one.

(I have since put soul warden in instead of essence warden).
There really is no reason to play essence warden instead of the white versions, i just enjoy the art and thing the card looks sweet.

How to Play

See above.

The deck does pretty great against non-interactive decks, as you can stall them out with some creatures and then just play your combo and win.

Ineractive decks you can also beat by beating down with some creatures, and you have so many of each combo piece that you can find them quickly with a commune or vessel if something is countered.

The transformative sideboard has been working nicely so far, but I haven't gotten to test it a considerable amount.

This is fairly obvious but you should be keeping hands that have 2 of the three pieces, and it is heavily preferred if those two pieces are altar/warden and enduring renewal. you have a lot more creatures to combo with than any other piece of the combo, and the creatures are the only aspect of the combo that can be found with all three spells that search, commune, vessel, and ancient stirrings. Stirrings finds creatures, lands, and altar, commune finds creatures and enchantments, and the vessel finds everything.

Chamber sentry is a heavily discounted walking balista with obvious draw backs and there are lots of other x costed creaturs that would probably work fine in its place.

I have path to exile in the deck as a bit of interaction. I don't really know if something else should be put in instead, or if there is a way to make the combo faster etc. Another option for this deck that I thought about is changing the secondary color. White is obviously necessary as the combo is really based around enduring renewal. But its possible that the deck could be better in some sort of blue shell thats more controling.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Combo
  • Mill
  • Life Gain
  • Infinite
  • Enchantment

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Budget Modern Combo

Red ETB triggers like Impact Tremors could work for a different coloration of the deck as a whole - Boros with bolts or even Skred with the new snow support. I'm out of touch with Modern and have been for several years, so my perspective may be dated.

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Posted 24 February 2021 at 15:19

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impact costs 2, so its just strictly worse win con then the altar which is colorless, and you are running white regardless for the enduring. I think this deck could go a lot of different directions since the winning package is fairly small and simple. you could play this white blue control, red white etc etc.

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Posted 25 February 2021 at 03:14

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