$35 Modern Infect | Budget Magic
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- This week we're playing what might be the cheapest Modern deck in the history of Budget Magic: a $35 build of Infect! Can a deck actually compete in Modern on such a tight budget? Let's find out!
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Match 1: 5:49
Match 2: 12:41
Match 3: 20:12
Match 4: 25:25
Match 5: 34:18
Seth, every other sentence: "Wow, we're doing great with this super budget deck!"
Seth, every third sentence: "And this is where our budget really hurts us."
Mr. ShinyObject Lol
That's why we love him
It’s infect you can literally do whatever you want if you cherrypick the opponents for the video prolly took him a full week to get the wins for this
1. I hate Infect. BUT 2. Seth, you stick it to those $600-$1,000+ decks with your $35 deck!
I'm confused, all those numbers are basically infinite in Seth's numbering system.
- Sees 48 minute video
"This either gonna go really bad or really good very quickly.
Being infect, the chances of any game going long were not high
People are so used to Veil of Summer doing everything that they forget what the card even does. I had an opponent today cast it in response to a field of ruin. Broken cards can only carry people so far.
When your one mana counterspell doesn't do enough already: Shocked Pikachu.
Yeah, I've had people try to fizzle Lightning Bolts with it :)
One time i was playing a mono red deck and my opponent had one untapped forrest so i was trying to play around veil... then i realized it did nothing against me
Haha, happened to me too one time. I had a guy trying to defend his batterskull against wear/tear. That card is literally 2 colours NOT protected by veil. He even had the audacity to tell me to "read the card"
@@ahigherplace1542 you should have read it. Out loud. To them.
Wow Seth, lol
Everybody brace yourselves for the amount of infect players that are gonna be flooding the meta thanks to the Safronolive effect haha jkjk great content as usual
As someone who plays mtgo in two mans, I kinda wanna build a melira control deck overloaded with spot removal
Haha jokes on you we don’t own mtgo
@Pumpin George I was just joking
But I was referring to the deck potentially inspiring infect players w/ budget and non-budget builds etc haha but solid point
@Pumpin George believe me, there are MANY players that want to play modern but don't have cash to do it
This deck will enable lots of people to get started, even if it is far from optimized
@@cacs2201 I've won tournaments with mono green infect. Granted, mine had inkmoths and a couple other "pricey" pieces, but still.
Seth could definitely have won that game 1 against Amulet at 14:25 after the Titan resolves. In fact, he might be favored. Vines to counter the haste, untap, play Pendelhaven and attack. He has lethal with double Groundswell + Pendelhaven if his opponent doesn't block, or he can kill the Titan with just Pendelhaven and one Groundswell plus keep the Elf. Opponent would be empty handed and dead after just a couple chump blocks if they don't draw something soon.
yep
From the intro it looks like Seth believes Vines gives target creature hexproof (Which is a common misunderstanding), so I think he actually didn't realize that line.
Seth would have nothing after killing primetime and then that would give his opponent 2 turns to find an answer to the elf while Seth has no answers especially when he had no infect damage to this point so I can see where he thought this was fruitless.
nice spot. didnt see that one^^
The hexproof on opps creature that is
Seth betrays the MTG community by becoming a dirty infect player. Almost as bad as Tron D:
Lance Han as someone who plays Legacy Infect I am offended
Now we need infect tron.
zizi orens did you say...INFECTRON!
Andrew Rhoads WHICH IS WHAT A DIRTY INFECT PLAYER WOULD SAY
@@lancehan7631 hey now if you don't like infect play magic the honest way and play Burn. Have to kill your opponents the old fashioned way: 3 points at a time
Budget until Seth plays it for a video. It will probably double in price online, maybe more. Granted that's still very cheap for modern, never underestimate the SaffronOlive effect on MTGO prices.
Didn't happen yet
As a long time infect player, that Ad Naus matchup is really not indicative of the deck at all. Infect is like, 95% to win against Ad Naus because they play no removal, and none of their "survive another turn" cards do anything to stop the game plan. Also, the Ad Naus player played really, really badly. Veil of Summer doing nothing, Angel's Grace doing nothing.
Yeah, Ad Nauseum, Amulet and Scapeshift are three of Infect's most favored matchups (although Scapeshift gets closer depending on subarchetype choices), he was just missing a Tron opponent to really show how nice it can feel to play Infect. And lucky that he didn't have to play against Jund.
always overhyping
@@SheepDoggyDog i swtg im cursed against scapeshift i know i should win but never do
I love budget modern. It is my favorite style of play. Thank you
Pauper... every deck is cheap, and still really fun to play. -\_(ツ)_/-
Kris Keyes agree
Luckily at this point I've learned to start MTGGoldfish videos hovering over the "Skip ten seconds" button like a western gunslinger.
I always skip to 30 seconds in ever video when I see Seth's hosting it
Do people just not like Seth? I've been watching for roughly 5 years and only recently started reading comments and personally I like Seth over everyone else. But then I'm reading a lot of hate comments towards Seth and I feel bad for the guy. He seems like such a happy wholesome man.
"We are playing one of my most hated archetypes, which is, in fact"
In fact what, Seth??? Don't leave us hanging like this, the suspense is killing me
gosh i haven't seen a flooded grove/cryptic command scapeshift deck in actual years. wild
I know that feel, almost made me Nostalgic
Seth plays ad naus with infect...Seth: i hope they don’t have removal!........lmao this the most polarizing matchup in the modern meta game. I have NEVER seen infect lose a match to ad naus. They literally get boned to infinity.
i watched an ad naus deck tech and the guy said this
tbf he did beat ad naus
You've played pretty cheap decks before. Unfortunately, as a consequence of playing them, you've caused the price of past budget decks to nearly double! 😆
It's a good thing though. A $40-$50 deck is still plenty more affordable than average.
Haha this deck will be $50 by morning
Please stop spoiling your best games in the intro! Why did this become a thing??
26:13 what are mutagenic growths even for ?
The power of f6, what really wins mtg games
Right? I thought for 2nd maybe I just did badd Math or looked away or something
Good call, I missed it right along with Seth.
If there's a tron budget magic next week I will riot
Hmm, I might have to try that :)
Do it!! 🐺
@@MTGGoldfish I think you can easily get below 100 with tron. Cut Karn for myr battlesphere and cut ugin for sundering titan. I guess chromatic stars are a few bucks and O-stone too. Maybe just cut ballista for stonecoil serpent! I wanna see!
+1/+1 or haste?
Pls Seth do that
I'm still trying to understand why that 1st round opponent brought in Veil of Summer
Might of thought he was blue green infect and just didn't draw blue
@@leonash7845 that still doesn't make a lot of sense though. The simic deck mostly targets its own stuff with pump/protection spells. It has a few hits.The only hits I can think of off the top of my head are spell Pierce, vapor, snag and maybe pact of negation if infect plays that. Also dismember I guess.
They probably thought we were normal infect but just had a weird draw where we didn't hit any blue mana.
They also played angels grace to live till untap, I think they were new to the game and renting a deck, not really knowing what to do
Normal infect has quite a bit of disruption in the sideboard, ceremonious rejection and spell pierce can be a big problem for ad nauseum. But really, infect is *almost* an unwinnable match up for Ad Naus, none of there very strong defensive tools interact well with what infect is trying to do and most lists run very little spot removal, so you have very few ways to actually interact with infect, and infect goldfishes a turn or two before ad naus, even when ad naus draws extremely well.
So hear me out, Ichorclaw myr is the most badass creature design in MTG
A very frustrating Budget Magic showing how important the little things matter, and those little things cost a ton of money because WotC refuses to make the game accessible
My 1st deck mono green infect! Ahh the memories of either winning on turn 3 or not winning at all.
First it was playing Tron. Then we joked about playing infect. Seth, you don't need to prove anything. Even if the world is ending. Before we know it, you may start burning Panharmonicon's or Blood Moons.
Jack Pabich 😜
This deck seems like it could take inspiration from Pauper and play a few Apostle's Blessing to get around most blockers and also protection. Or maybe any trample pump spell like Larger than Life or Predator's Strike. As like a 1-2 of. I know they aren't great, but mono green is low on options. Red offers a lot more trample options whereas blue is protection and unblockable.
Got into MtG years ago and made an infect deck, soon after nobody wanted to play against me and I gave up since at locals people preferred avoiding my deck instead of side decking against it.
Might give MtG arena a try and go with this budget deck and slowly build towards a more expensive deck
like I hate infect in commander. but it 60 card format is anoying but not the worst at less you interact. like combo player that just try to ingnore your existence and combo off
26:11 double mutagenic, next turn scale groundswell win?
Just realized this
SETH ON INFECT, that was my first modern deck, gods do i miss it
Budget infect? What, you're going to play budget Tron next? Lol
Maybe ;) Or Bogles. I think I could build a pretty cheap Bogles deck.
Seth could have won that scapeshift match if he used mutagenic growth to save his only creature instead of letting it die to the bolt.
now make it 5 dollars so it can be within my budget
If only this wasn't complete budget. Vexing Shusher would be freaking amazing in this deck
Yeah, or Veil of Summer.
ACKTUALLY! The cheapest deck you can build is one Treasure Hunt, one Glint-Horn Buccaneer, 58 basics. It's like 59 cents lol
4 lost in the woods and 57 forests is cheaper
@@qdfxrg But you can't win with Lost in the Woods, just keeps you out of combat.
You can delay playing creatures early turns so you can save them with blossoming. You've lost 2 creatures.
And now @44:05 you can play a land so you can get lethal with groundswell l. Just bait the opponent. Or i dunno, just my 2cents on how you play. keep doing vids!💪💪💪
am i the only one who literally just can't watch these videos because of this dudes cadence.... I'm sorry but doesn't matter how good the tech is, I just simply cant listen to your voice for more then 10 seconds its drives nuts
I see infect I like. :)))
Also god damn autums veil! :))) OG SOM budget SB hahaha
It’s not that aggressive it’s just fun :) to make your rage when you hit them to 10
Mono-G infect is how I got into modern back around 2013. I had the Rot From Within event deck in standard and added the full playsets of inkmoth nexus, blight mamba, and ichorclaw myr while I was playing standard at my LGS. When all the infect stuff rotated out, I ported it over to modern. I traded the GSZs that weren't legal and took out other stuff that was too slow to include a couple copies of Cathedral of War, and playsets of rancor + might of old krosa.
When Khans was out, I picked up playsets of Windswept Heath and Wooded Foothills when they were like $10 each along with 2 breeding pools, at which point I switched it over to UG infect without hierarchs. I just replaced the blight mambas with blighted agent and kept the ichorclaws in there until I got hierarchs when they were reprinted in whatever masters set that was when their price went down to a little over $100 for the playset. I also picked up 2 Pendelhavens when they were reprinted a few years ago.
Overall, I'm pretty sure I've only spent around $250 on the deck over the years. It's definitely a solid way to get into the format on a budget.
Infect was the first deck I ever picked up in Magic, a starter deck with Phyrexian Swarmlord.
Old school Infect. I like it.
Seth you do amazing things for the community keep it up man you're the best!
Thanks :)
I would have love to have seen the match up against urza. I figured this deck has a good match up against the titan/scapeshift decks would be good. If this has a good urza matchup is good, then this could be great in the meta.
infect will always be a good deck in any aggro form, but this was very insightful :D love ur stuff seth!!
Imagine First FNM After coronavirus playing infect. So much flavor 🤩
Ultra budget content?
That's what I like to see! 👌😁
You could consider Apostle's Blessing for the build.
Hey Seth, Infect nerd here, a bit of advice on this list:
-Try apostle's blessing! It's removal or evasion depending on what you need, and I think having no distortion strike makes it all but necessary!
-Mono red and burn are pretty popular, why not have wild defiance in the sideboard? The card is under 5$ and sticks it to those matchups!
-You should probably have dissenter's deliverance or Viridian corrupter in the board, you don't want to lose to chalice!
-Become immense is really more of a sideboard card
Great video as always!
There are 2 wild defiance in his sideboard 👍
We do have two copies of Wild Defiance, but maybe we want more. Viridian Corrupter is a really good suggestion!
@@kampuput619 Season of growth really isn't great in the deck, because it draws you card off of targeting your creatures with spells but if you're doing that you should either be A) protecting them, in which case you probably dont want to take turn two off to play season or B) Winning the game. It's really only good against control, and at that point a card like spell pierce is kinda just better, though you can play shaper's sanctuary if you really feel like you need a season of growth-like effect.
*Pulls out wallet*
Cathedral of war?!?!?!?!? It's still budget.
Comes in tapped and doesn't produce green.
Ohh, might be worth considering (although coming into play tapped is rough).
Yea Seth show that Jace! Show him that being more expensive than your whole deck means nothing!
How much does this deck cost? I don’t think he mentioned it.
So many views this early is a testament to Seth's ability to draw a crowd (while everyone is home for quarantine.) Hooray Budget Modern.
Minus the scale ups season of growth and blossoming defences this was literally my first 5-0 modern deck list!
Budget Infect was my very first Modern deck way back when! Love to see an updated version of it still hold up.
26:10 you should of used both Mutagenic Growths for life to save it from the Lightning Bolt since you don't have another Creature and if you draw a land you have lethal with Groundswell and Scale Up
That Ad Nauseam player was not the sharpest knife in the drawer
Closer to a spoon I think
This is great everybody has a point where they wish there was a deck that wasnt 1000 big ones
I know there is a big difference in price between this deck and the average Modern deck, but just looking at the metagame on MTGGoldfish, there are only 4 decks in the top 20 decks in Modern that are $1000+. Most decks are floating between $400 and $700. In that top 20, there were more decks below that common range than above for that matter.
Note: Prices are at the time of this posting. All prices are in USD.
A fun upgrade to my Mono Green Pauper Infect to annoy some Modern players at my LGS :D
I feel very conflicted when I see an Infect vs. UW Control match: I can’t figure out which deck I *hate the least*. I guess there’s little chance that they can both lose ;-)
Rooting for the draw :)
Seth I think you are playing infect wrong but I’m no expert. I don’t think you should be pumping if you don’t have lethal. Like around 32:00 you put them to 9 infect but you just used up both mutagenic growths (which save your creature from an Izzet charm, which you know is in their deck). Plus you can pump with those at any time at all so if you don’t need to protect your creature, and you are representing LETHAL, then pump away
Autumn's veil is a card?! I guess it shows the power of veil of summer. As it does the same thing but draws a card for the same cmc 😵
Yeah, it's sort of funny how much better Veil of Summer is.
@@MTGGoldfish I didn't even know autumn's veil existed 👀
I am still waiting for winter's and spring's
This is the first deck I made for modern, sometimes it pays off! sometimes it doesn't but anyway I'm having so much fun with it... I'll upgrade this bad boy when I have the chance, but I do really enjoy playing it as budget as possible :) thanks for the deck idea!
The last time I played was during the Grand Prix Detroit during the Eldrazi modern decks. I was using a GU infect budget deck. I made it to day 2 using the deck. I found it a bit funny because my deck cost less than the cost of the entry fee. (The deck was 60$ while the entry fee was 65$, iirc).
Great video. Especially love the budget Magic format, as it helps beginners and returning casuals to build a competitive deck without spending hundreds of dollars. Especially on Arena where you cannot trade or buy singles and are forced to play the loot box game. I love building decks and trying out different strategies in standard, but I don't have the money to burn for dozens of wild cards and would refuse to even if I had it. Would be awesome if they introduce Pauper or some other constructed format with a limit for rare cards to Arena at some point. I think it would only help the business and they would sell more in the long term, rather than putting the pistol on the chest of the player and basically forcing them to spend money before they even get to really play the game.
I might have missed something, but couldn't seth answer to the lightning bolt turn 2 of the opponent, during the match against Scapeshift, try to double mutagenic growth in response? I reckon the creature might die anyway when the opponent untaps, but still he had plenty of pump spells in hand as backup to kill the turn after if he untapped? I am no expert in playing infect so I might be very wrong, so I am asking as a genuine question ^^'
Seth, you are having too much fun with your most hated deck! But I understand. There's nothing better than winning with a ultra. Budget deck. Keep sticking it to those ultra expensive decks!
At 18:19 we’re your opponents just flexing their life total since you are playing infect? Like if they just choose not to pay 2 life, the amulet will untap the lan anyways. And I can’t imagine they have any card that benefits their life being low in an amulet titan deck
The intro game playplay has gotten a bit better. It is a good way to show examples of what Seth is saying but I felt it was too much at first. This video had like one or two clips it seemed perfect. Thank you all for the great work. PS Pauper for life
TECHNICALLY vector asp is a 1 mana infect creature, you just have to pay 1 black mana for it every turn.
I don’t understand why people hate infect so much, i absolutely love it. People gotta be fuckin crybabies
9:45 what about Virulent Sliver over the Myr? Not strictly “infect” but it fits the curve better and poison is poison, no?
Virulent sliver can only ever place 1 poison counter per attack. Poisonous 1 is an added effect onto regular damage and power buffs to the creature don’t affect it.
I knew Path to Exile was really good but I never really understood why until that match with the triple Path and Settle. (and the match after that, too, lol)
Congrats to my friend, who made this deck. Not joking. He showed it to me a few months ago.
Is this deck still viable? Trying to find a fun budget modern deck for a beginner that still has potential to win games
I could sit here all day and watch $900+ decks get sweeped by a pauper deck. So vindicating.
"So what did we learn this week?"
That you can't count to 10? :D
What a big boy :D
$35 today, $75 tomorrow lol
Game 1 of match 5 double mutagenic could have saved the Myr then you had lethal with scale up groundswell
29:29 "Big money no whammies" hahaha. just like that guy who was playing Unexpected results and kept whiffing. You know, I don't think I've EVER seen someone hit something good with Unexpected Results. It's always lands or something that would have been cheap to cast anyway.
If people didn’t hate modern already, they are going to hate it more now.
infect hasnt been a problem in modern for a while lmao
I'm pretty sure Ignoble Hierarch is a pretty cheap card so you could run that instead of Noble
Against the Titan deck, you can vines their Titan in response to them giving it haste and vigilance. Stopping them winning on the turn.
Seth could of won the game at 26:05 if he just used both mutagenic growths to save his only creature....
You almost coulda FOILED this out and been under buget
The player in that first game... Played... Wrong... Lol happens to us all sometimes.
Budget modern for three weeks in a row ? this is the best present ever
(Fuck pioneer and fuck standard)
I think the fact that this 35 $ deck still managed to win this much is really a testament to what a broken mechanic Infect is.
Speaking of infect. Seth what do you think about infect with mutate?
Could be interesting, although likely a lot slower than more traditional pump-spell style Infect builds.
opp in 1st match just learned that veil of summer isn't really 1 - mana cryptic command
As many have said.... Cool deck, but it's a great example of how OP/BS infect is as a mechanic. I hate it so much, maybe I should just play it so at least I'm the one who's turn two killing people at my FNM (when the world's pause button is hit again and we can HAVE a FNM).
infect folds to removal so its not really that op. it preys on combo decks, dies to midrange decks
I strongly advise you to go see a speech therapist, you are straining your voice by speaking this way
if you could only have one and of course you were allowed to use it is berserk better than Rancor for this deck?
The deck is even cheaper if you swap Rancor out for Unnatural Predation
i think this deck is hard to get through discard spells
Anyone have any experience taking this deck to the good ol' LGS?
I'm excited I get to see the day Seth plays infect!
Why can't you use Virulent Sliver as another 1 drop?
Wait you should add Pili Pala to an against the odds poll I wanna see that card go infinite
yo saph... i still pronounce chimera as 'chai-mera'. thanks a lot
Actually built Mono G Pauper Infect from a list posted by one of the MTGGoldfish crew from back in the day, always enjoyed & been intrigued by the infect mechanic, and I can actually turn the pauper version into this one relatively easily, thanks for the content, and love the work you guys do
How would you upgrade the deck besides the inkmoth?
Well, as far as i know seeing those games, maybe might of old krosa could be better than season of grow. I mean, season of grow is a great way to fill the Hand and recover but trying to push the turn 2 kill for me is better than slowing the deck too have a backup , just my opinion .Incredible video and deck btw
This is amazing does this deck meet multiple formats like pauper