Mtg Budget Deck Tech: $45 B/R Sarkhan's Unsealing in Core Set 2019 Standard!
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
- Dev sits down to show off a flashy Sarkhan's Unsealing deck for under $50!
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Hey guys, I know there is s R/G version, so you can stop telling me. That deck costs more money and has already been shown by MtgGoldfish. I’m trying to bring you something that you haven’t seen before while remembering that not everybody has $100 or more to spend on cardboard
Strictly Better MtG that's why I subscribed, keeping it real with your fellow wizards lol and those puns. Bro, lit af
What do you think of Traxos in this build Dev?
IhsantheDemon he's cheap but the untap may be a problem. I still run him but with a more legendary build.
I appreciate that. Do you still think you would revisit a R/G version with Goreclaw in the deck as well? The Goreclaw also works off of cards that go well with Unsealing. Keep up the great work!
your list i think is much more fun to play because of all those puns! keep it up!
YOUR JOKES AND PUNS IS FIRE MAN! I AM A FAN TO YOUR FLAME! :D
I am just getting back into Magic. I started in 4th edition and took a few years off here and there, but I have been gone since Scars block. Your channel is absolutely phenomenal. You have helped me get back into standard in a major way. Thank you! Your style of deck building and sense of humor is 10/10. Preaching to the choir. Good Job Dev
"Floor on... Un-ceiling". I Un-hate you, Dev!
You guys want to see this one played?
SideboardMTG totally
I love some Unsealing Jank
Definitely!
99% of Dev's decks are worth giving a shot so yes I'd love to see it piloted.
Yes please.
"BLAAARRRGGGRRRRHHHRRGGG MY CREATURES AND MY FACE" is probably my favorite SBMTG quote to date
Goreclaw+Unsealing seems really sweet. I hope we see that deck at some point in the future. I know we've got a lot of decks to go over. Thanks for the sweet content, man! Keep up the great decks and stay punny!
Glad someone else is trying a black/red unsealing deck. I've been playing one with a lot of success for a few weeks now. I don't really care for this version much though, it is way too top-heavy in the casting cost. I run dismissive pyromancer over the glint-sleeve since it dies so easily and you don't have to attack or have energy to draw cards. I also don't like scavenger in the deck. If it is for early game, that is when you most want to be able to block, plus it doesn't trigger unsealing. Black and red have some 4-power creatures for only 2 mana, I'd rather run some of them. Being able to trigger unsealing 2-3 times in a single turn is great, especially when it is the turn right after playing it.
The only cards from this version I run in my deck are the inferno and lathnu hellions and ammit eternals. The rest seem too expensive or go against what the deck is trying to do. My deck tops out at 4 casting cost which lets me trigger unsealing multiple times in a turn. It also lets me be able to cycle extra lands through the pyromancers without hurting my mana base. Duress is also the most-played card in standard right now for a reason. Seems to me like those should be in the sideboard since that is one of the advantages of running black in a deck like this.
I've had a lot more success with the black/red unsealing deck than the green/red version. The mana base is just so much better. You don't have to worry about having 3 green or 5 green to play your creatures. The only card in my deck that has even double of a color to cast it is Heart-Piercer Manticore which has been one of the standout creatures in the deck. Play it triggering unsealing, then sack another cheapt large-powered creature dealing 8+ damage in a single turn.
Thank you, Dev, for the humour and the originality. 10/10 would recommend.
Totally putting this together. Your decks always get me amped up for FNM!
If you wanted to use demon of catastrophes, use stuff like doomed dissenter for extra sacrifice value or even that 1 drop saproling removal for a neg 1. Also makes torgaar come down 4 cheaper for 2 saprolings if it comes to that. You could also use crash through/ sure strike to make stuff live longer or make damage get though on yargle.
Any thoughts on including maybe 1-2 Fling/Thud for finishing with Inferno Hellion/Yargle?
Honestly feel like the green splash is much more competitively viable.
The creatures are just more resilient, and you get to ramp into them faster
**budget**
haha I knew you'd say that. Very good reason
Your M19 Elves deck is sick and you speak the truth I clicked thr link and hit optimize cart and it was unreal the difference between TCGPlayer and other sites. I'm still in testing with Elves but man you make so many great brews wish I could try them all.
Can you gear towards making your next deck techs rotation proof? Thanks Dev for the deck techs!
Corey Berg It's a few months before rotation and new standard still has a lot of meat to it to be discovered.
He usually starts doing rotation exclusive decks a month or so before rotation - and he'll intersperse them in the mean time (like with the green stompy rotation proof deck)
Some of his decks work well post rotation with minimal modifications. The Life gain deck works really well and I expect this will too with appropriate changes
I'm not gonna pretend I'm poor or anything, but it hurts to buy a deck for 45USD that it's gonna rotate in 2 months and it's sad... BECAUSE THIS LOOKS AWESOME!! playing those hellions and hearing at the opponent say "the f*ck are you doing?" would be so cool.
what I mean is... 45 bucks it's a little too much for me in this moment of my life, specially since I have to buy singles from random people cos I'm not from a country were you can buy the whole deck just with a click BUT I love your channel anyway and I'm soo glad you are back.
Also I can't wait for your next rotation free ultra-budget and ultra-fun deck, that I know for sure, you will be giving us in the next weeks/months
Thanks you for everything Dev!
Inferno Hellion deserves a whole deck around it
Nice budget deck! Great to see low end up. Great for FNM and even a blast of two on a standard night.
To help after rotation, I'd swap out glint sleeve for suspicious bookcase from M19. Mid game an unblockable hellion or yargle seems wrong.
"Plenty of ways to break the seal" 😂😂 I love it
Love the puns, love the deck! Can we see something budget and rotation proof?
give my seal of approval for these puns!
I want to see this deck with fling/thud with all the big dudes. Great deck man. I love it.
I played against a version of this on MtG Arena, except it played at least three copies of Macabre Waltz. I was on a suboptimal Mono Green Stompy, and I couldn't match those refills with my card draw. That being said, if I had 4 Brontodons in my deck, maybe it wouldn't have mattered.
I've been playing BR unsealing and it's really sweet.
This is a really great budget build But tbh I'd personally spring for the Red/Green build because it has so many cards that are great AND triggers unsealing, and it may be a little over a hundred but that's concentrated in the value of Carnage tyrant, ghalta and steel leaf none of which are rotating tho
And Gigantosaurus.
uh naw gigantosaurus is like 5 bucks for a playset
Branden Adams uh naw lol
Really cool deck and as always love the puns the rock and I’ll keep with my comment train of thought and please do grixis midrange/energy it just won the SCG and placed like 4 in top 16 of the classic and the open. I’m playing it non stop till the RPTQ and id really like to see your take on the list and the sideboard plan and maybe you could even tell us a bit about how to sideboard vs certain matchups. I think that would be a great idea to start giving simple sideboard options vs certain matchups
Fun Fact - Slough is a common term in the Canadian Prairies.
Missed opportunity to add Fling into this package!
FaunKeH and thud
Nah, I don't think Thud is good here. You wanna be able to Fling your Yargle at instant speed when then try to block/Abrade it.
FaunKeH fair point, but if they don't reprint fling in the next set. Then you got to use thud.
In relation to this decklist, I don't think Fling would be the thing you're worrying about rotating...
Do you ever go back to decks after rotation?
Love this one, def going to run this deck. Looks really fun. Treasure from the trashcan, cant beat it lol
What could this deck play after rotation to replace the lost stuff? I can replace Glorybringer with Demanding Dragon, but on the rest i feel a bit stumped
Volley Veteran is a Flametongue Kavu for the # of goblins you control. And unlike FTK, you don't have to target one of your own.
Unfortunately it is also the only goblin with 4+ power in standard right now. So you'd either do 1 damage or have to run a bunch of creatures that won't trigger unsealing.
As soon as I seen the first card, I knew ol' Yargle was coming! lol
Friend of mine plays this deck. One of his major changes though is "Fling". VERY DANGEROUS.
I played someone with this deck yesterday in arena. People are quick.
Never stop being punny! your yokes are cracking my up they are that egg-cellent
Your wall makes me think my screen is dirty but your videos are great so it's ok.
I'm surprised you didn't put something like a Goblin Motivator in this deck, he helps Yargle and your Inferno Hellions to guarantee their attack.
neheb the eternal is auto include for this deck. after Sarkhan's Unsealing you get 4 mana back. also would go green not black better creatures and more good legendarys so i can play kraxos. actually G/R historic could be deck with Sarkhan's Unsealing maybe play couple black blade reforged in it too just for fun :D
also red gearhulk maybe sunbird's invocation
I fought this deck in Arena the other day and it actually crushed me. Might pick it up just for the lulz!
It feels good to fling inferno hellions ftw
A BR take on a usual GB deck?
I never miss a chance to play jund. Time to jank these together
Tried this deck out on Xmage. Not bad at all!
Dev, you are a beautiful human. Thank you for the deck tech :)
Dev how much do i have to donate for you to play a deck on stream?
Just watch SideboardMTG. He plays all of Dev's decks for at least one stream
What do you think of Traxos in this Dev?
Awesome deck Dev looks pretty sweet
Why is Dev so good with the #Bars
No Goblin motivators to give the big beasties haste?
Hey I have been watching for awhile and was wondering how to ask you about putting together
I Sar-kan't get enough of those puns
I am gonna go try it on arena
Where can I get one of those shirts.
Don't ever change dude, you pun with pride ;p
Dev you truly are a, wonderful word wizard while wondering on which word would wisely whip won of us wild
@6:50 Scorpion God underplayed?? Are you even playing this game? It is everywhere since M19 released. UB scorpion (sometimes +r for bolas) is one of the most prevalent control decks on Arena - moresso even than the much hated WU control.
There is nothing underplayed about Scorps now. Sure it took him awhile to come into his own but he is there now.
Edit my bad im thinking a different God (Scarab?) sorry
Mike Spiel this is your deck!!!!
Your cat(s) need to be in every video. That is all
Weird you didn't build this in R/G ? … bit of ramp, large green stuff for budget prices ?
This is my kind of deck :D Nice Big monsters, Nice damage. Damn, let's make the expensive boys cry a lil bit
Dev I've been wondering for a while... How do you rate the decks? Is there a template or is it totally custom? I'd like to rate my decks so methodically.
Oops, I just watched your 10k subs video! Anyway, if you read this thank you. I learn a lot from your videos and have lots of fun
Ok I will play this as is today guys/gals. Yargle win huh? I will see what we can do.
Y no green/red?
It is much more expensive, this is supposed to be budget. Also, the mana requirements are pretty bad with steel-leaf costing GGG and Gigantosaurus costing GGGGG.
Thought it could be a more competitive option as well. Running llanawar and goreclaw ramping into red/green dinos with triggered burn from unsealing.
The G/R version would be better than this version of a B/R unsealing deck, though definitely doesn't fit in the range of being a budget deck. Also, keep in mind that Goreclaw doesn't reduce the cost of steel-leaf or gigantosaurus though they do at least get the +1/+1 and trample when it attacks.
The biggest problem with the G/R version is that the mana base is pretty rough. Since so many cards cost multiple green, the amount of red mana in the deck is very limited and the ones you do get often come into play tapped. It slows the deck down and dilutes it, especially since you get a loss in tempo the turn you play unsealing. Honestly, it would probably be better to just play mono G stompy at that point. You can watch Seth's video on MTGGoldfish to see some of the issues with it, including plenty of mana problems.
I've had a lot more success with a B/R unsealing deck than I did with G/R, though mine looks quite a lot different than this one. This one is too top-heavy with casting cost and has too many creatures that don't trigger unsealing. There is a video uploaded today on SideboardMTG where he played this version of the B/R deck and you can tell it has a lot of problems.
Id rather play carnage tyrant over solid green mana cost.
Wouldnt the red/green work just as well if not better? Llanowar elves, dragon disciples and other accelerant can really make this deck come out in turbo mode. Or for black/red, wouldnt Lilianna, Death's Majesty make sense to pull out creatures for -3 without paying its cost and avoid counterspells?
**budget**
If budget was not an issue, would greed/red make more sense?
yeah for ghalta
Yes. You get better mana fixers along with Rhonas, SLC, and a bunch of Green fatties. Goreclaw seems fun, but there are also Pelakka Wurm, Ghalta, Giganotosaurus, and other powerful things. But there is also the argument that Black has better removal (especially V-contempt+Fatal Push). So Green is not the strictly better option.
Where is the Bloodshed Brawler?
hey i've seen you put up $100+ decks with only a few more points, i'll take a 61 fpr under $50
Likes the Deck . Tis something I plain to test
Heart-Piercer Manticore?
Finally a budget deck!!
This deck is bananas bro. Can't wait wreck some faces with yargle.
Please never stop with the puns dev.
Guttersnipe deck?
love the deck and the jokes!
I Need Gabos now that you've made all others
I definitely would have gone for green over black as the secondary color.
**budget**
Who dares bargle with Yargle?
Dev is the man!!!
Fling?
No Thud?!?! The value!!!!
He got me at Unsealing
I thumbed this up just for the puns. And, yeah, I want to Yargggggggglllleeee in my opponents face.
Love it!
GOOOBLINSSS!!!!!
Love the puns keep it up dev
This looks insane
Puns on pointé!
This is a deck? What the hell
ERRORx uhh i think you mean what the hellion.
It's time to bargle with yargle
that card was really good... guess i'm old as fuck.
The entire cycle of rare cycling lands is pronounced coleslaw.
god I love that shirt, gimmie 10
Hellion tribal, lol...
Would be better if you didnt explain the puns...
keep the puns coming
You need to fling yargle
Or play Heart-Piercer Manticore which triggers unsealing and still lets you fling something.
What ever works
Calling it at 1:30 there will be a playset of yargle
Neat!
I like that shirt
FInally! Someone who knows how to pronounce "slough."