2DH storm with Zada. (Under 50 dollars)

Hey guys, I'm here with another deck to discuss but we're doing something a little different. We're still going to optimize but with a Budget...let's say...oh every card has to be under two dollars.

For a shiny quarter this guy
can draw you so many cards

Why that? Well, sit on down and let Uncle Doomblade weave you a story...

Long long ago this super cool guy was beating all these people at his local gaming store, so naturally, after months of abuse, they decide to make their own format where every card cannot be over two dollars. Makes sense, this stupid format has been a success for years now and has got people playing all over.
And I'm only insulting it because I know the people who started it (Hi Joel <3), I actually think it's pretty cool.

Anyway with the rules that every card must be under two dollars let's see what we can build...


The basic idea of this deck is simple.
Play some token makers, play Zada, play a draw spell on Zada, draw a ton, play ramp and more draw, kill everyone with something.

Let's start at the beginning,
though.


LANDS!

1x Forgotten Cave

1x Foundry of the Consuls

1x Hanweir Battlements

1x Kher Keep

1x Mirrorpool

1x Mishra's Factory

24x Mountain

1x Spawning Bed

1x Springjack Pasture

Pretty simple here, all the lands either are mountains or give us tokens. There are a few exceptions but more or less that's the goal of this deck. Often you aren't wanting to make tokens off Foundry of the Consuls because you can win the same turn but it certainly doesn't hurt.

Often will net you 8-12 Gobos

Zada is four mana but before we cast him we need a few cards to make sure we can abuse his ability.


Token makers:

1x Dragon Fodder

1x Empty the Warrens
1x Hordeling Outburst
1x Krenko's Command

1x Mogg Alarm

1x Molten Birth
1x Beetleback Chief 

1x Emrakul's Hatcher
1x Mogg War Marshal
1x Siege-Gang Commander
1x Young Pyromancer
1x Goblinslide 

1x Hanweir Garrison

 Pretty simple here, you play these guys before Zada so you can draw even more cards with his ability.

 So we made 4-6 tokens and cast Zada, cool now let's make sure we don't run out of mana for spells


Ramp!:
1x Infernal Plunge
1x Mana Geyser
1x Rite of Flame
1x Helm of Awakening
1x Battle Hymn
1x Brightstone Ritual
1x Desperate Ritual
1x Pyretic Ritual
1x Seething Song

1x Hedron Crawler
1x Manakin
1x Millkin
1x Plague Myr
1x Burnished Hart
1x Iron Myr
1x Treasonous Ogre

A lot of these cards will either net you mana for the turn or act as dorks for you to cast Zada the following turn so you can draw even more cards off of them.
MVP from all of these has to be Treasonous Ogre, he lets you exploit the life as a resource to the max and will often win the game if unanswered.





Sweet, so now let's get to the massive draw spells you need to close out the game

Nothing quite like gaining 7 mana in one turn

Draw all the cards:

1x Cathartic Reunion

1x Faithless Looting

1x Fiery Gambit 

1x Reforge the Soul

1x Magmatic Insight

1x Tormenting Voice

1x Renegade Tactics

1x Aleatory
1x Accelerate
1x Wild Guess
1x Skullclamp
1x Boiling Blood
1x Crimson Wisps
1x Commune with lava
1x Expedite

1x Chaotic Strike
1x Balduvian Rage

1x Panic
1x Stun
1x Outpost Seige


 With the targeted spells on Zada, you can net a card for every other creature on the field. You can easily amass 40+ cards in one turn since there is plenty of ramp spells in the deck to make sure you never run out of mana to cast these cards.

Sweet, so now your hand is so big cards are falling on the floor, well you don't want to look silly and not kill people with that many cards so let's discuss the kill spells


Death from above:
1x Heat Shimmer

Budget combo allstar

1x Dualcaster Mage
1x Twinflame
1x Aetherflux Reservoir
1x Grapeshot
1x Reckless Charge 1x Invigorated Rampage

1x Soul's Fire
1x Impact Tremors


 Not all kill conditions are created equal in here.
Heat Shimmer/Twinflame + Dualcaster mage is the primary win con as it will create infinite creatures with haste to kill the table.


 Plan B is Aetherflux Reservoir, cast a ton of spells then blast the table for 50

 Plan C is Aggro out opponents, you have Zada plus a bunch of tokens. Reckless Charge and Invigorated Rampage pump up the whole team netting you 30 extra damage in combat.

Finally, we have a bunch of slots left over so let's throw in some various crap


Stuff:

Pew pew pew

1x Chaos Warp

1x Pyroblast
1x Blasphemous Act
1x Recoup
1x Past in flames

1x Red Elemental Blast

1x Titan's Strength

1x Goblin Chirurgeon

1x Skirk Prospector

Most important card here is Past in flames as you can easily net another dozen mana off your ritual effects then draw into another twenty cards for easy wins. The rest of the choices are fairly self-explanatory, they're protection and recursion for if the deck doesn't go off the first time. Lots of the time flashing back a Recoup to make sure you can draw some more off an Expedite or whatever will be enough to draw you into more gas and win the game.


The deck is light on answers to other threats, however. It's meant to win fast between turn 3-5 but there are chances for opponents to mess up the game plan. With everything being under two dollars there are some restrictions but that doesn't mean that this deck cannot win against other stronger decks. I've piloted it for a little over a week now and already have beaten 3,000 (No exaggeration) decks with it. That is so satisfying.

So if you want to build a storm deck for 40 dollars then give Zada a try, he's surprisingly fast and consistent and I'd recommend it to plenty of players on a budget.


Full Decklist: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/02-02-17-budget-zada/

Things I'm considering:
Reverberate
Increasing Vengeance
Goblin Dark-Dwellers
Inner Fire
Priest of Urabreask
Grinning Ignus
Inventor's Fair
Cultivator's Caravan
Heart of Ramos
Hedron Archive
Indomitable Creativity (Does this work?)

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