Well thats simple. As far as changes to make to the budget build of the deck, I'm pretty happy with the main deck. Use the options below to exercise this right, and please review our privacy policy for complete information on how your data is used and stored. Learn about the most powerful format that spans Magic's entire history. Hunters Insight is another way to have two creatures fight two different creatures with the twist of letting you draw some cards. I love to mutate a migratory greathorn on scute swarm on turn 5. Souvenir Snatcher lets you gain control of target noncreature artifact. By the time you're ready to pump out tokens they tend to be flying over you for lethal. I also cut Scavenging Ooze because it just doesnt have a lot of targets here. </i>. Discussion. Utokian Fractalnator by artontherun. Heres the breakdown: Breeding Pool | Illustration by Mike Bierek. Aggro Combo 0. Totally! 96% of 7827 decks +95% synergy. While we can win just by making a big board of mutate creatures and beating our opponent down, the most exciting thing our deck can do is to combo off by mutating onto a Scute Swarm, putting a bunch of lands into play, and making a truly massive board of mutated Scute Swarms all in one lethal turn! Giant Slayer does the same thing, but doubles down later to keep whatever is biggest tapped down. Thanks to Scute Swarm and the absurd value that cards like Auspicious Starrix can generate, we can win the long game in most matchups, so it's usually best to order our mutate piles in a way that is most likely to keep them alive, rather than in the way that gives us the most immediate power. I cut Lotus Cobra because it is a terrible blocker, attacker, and a magnet for the Bonecrusher Giant. Is Koth actually good? With the amount of ramp and repeatable land tutoring, you could switch out the fetch lands. This makes having cheap creatures on the battlefield to mutate onto essential to our deck's success. Your primary wincon is either commander damage with a supped-up Ivy or general damage from multiple iterations of severely mutated creatures and Ivy sprinting into your opponents faces. Budget Magic: 13-Rare ($60) Poison Proliferate Control | Phyrexia Standard, Budget Magic: 13-Rare Mono-Black Persist Combo (Historic), Budget Magic: $106 Combo Zombies (Modern), Top 10 Modern and Pioneer Budget Decks from 2022 | $100 or Less, Budget Magic: 10-Rare Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (Historic Brawl), Budget Magic: $43 Dimir Draw Two (Standard). If you target your commander with something, you can create a token of Ivy too since the tokens arent legendary. I also debated just slotting this in as the head for my beloved Adrix and Nev deck, but I was already dealing with thousands of tokens with that. You might think cutting Greathorn is the response but I dont think so. Before I go over matchups, I will just say most of all the matchups you play against seem at least even. The additional creatures (if you targeted any), Errant, and Ivy phase out, and then all other nonland permanents are returned to their owners hands. Budget Magic: Is $35 Mono-White Soldiers the Best Deck in Standard? At its heart, this is a Voltron/mutate deck that heavily relies on Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief being on the battlefield and soaking up the benefits of your mutations and other spells. Just as importantly, many of our best mutate cards allow us to put extra lands on the battlefield, so our Scute Swarm mutate pile will sort of snowball itself. It almost seems weird to not be playing it. It has the following text: Landfall: when a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green insect token. You should also make a point to not leave it on the battlefield alone for very long or someone may make you sacrifice it. We're hoping Third Path Iconoclasts will help us make this Grixis Artifacts deck a bit more aggressive! I often cast these on any Rogue in play when there is a threat of them flashing in Zareth San, the Trickster. 21-22. Plus, the lands come into play untapped, which means we can use their mana to immediately mutate again, putting a bunch more permanents onto the battlefield! I moved Glass Casket to the sideboard and trimmed one overall from the 75 because I think the card is fantastic, but worse than it was before. Migratory Greathorn is basically a free 2-for-1 for them if they remove it so I dont even bother. Either way, lots of decks got some nice upgrades. MTG Tournament Strategy: Open Decklist Events, Shadows Over Innistrad Remastered Card Spoilers, Set Information, Release Date, and More, MTG Arena Meta Snapshot: Phyrexia: All Will Be One Week 4, Its Time To Battle! Those two cards don't go "infinte", no. Divide By Zero is an iffy card though. I am waiting for the free Doomskar that comes with the new starter decks and then will definitely be running 3. Theres also the color branded Simic Signet, Simic Locket, and Talisman of Curiosity. Highlighting the Pauper format where only Commons are allowed. It's convoluted, but I still find it very clever: . At any point, you can throw down a mutate target and get it online. Dreamtail Heron. NM-Mint, English, limit 8. $1.00. This bug happens most of the time when I have a scute swarm with an auspicious starrix and a migratory greathorn on it. DL_Ojutai . If I was only playing red decks, then sure, 4 all day, every day. Against Control decks cards like Esika's Chariot and Felidar retreat will bait out control decks' removal and then get run over by Scute Swarm. My mind immediately went to one of my favorite mechanics from a couple Standards ago: mutate. Or turn 6 scute, land, mutate migratory greathorn. 4. Deploy lands for mana Ramp as much as you can possibly ramp; Play scute swarm Mutate migratory greathorn onto scute swarm Continue to mutate it and search out lands till you can send in a stamped to swing; Deck. Bringing back a blocker or threat should also not be overlooked. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon: I have took him in and out of the deck multiple times because sometimes it just feels like you have ramped into nothing. You may opt-out at any time. I am sure there are a couple homebrew decks that its secondary ability would be good against. budget scute swarm deck. This site works best with JavaScript enabled. Deck Guides Standard. Scute Swarm doesnt trigger it with tokens. The only real relevance of this card is finding 2 lands, especially in Standard. At least 1 basic land. Rhonass Monument is like Kefnets Monument. If they just have all the outs, then they just have all the outs. It's there to bounce cards like Blood On The Snow and Alrund's Epiphany to blow out games but generally is not good against aggro. Double Major and Irenicuss Vile Duplication are great ways to get the Ivy copies going before you have the other duplication engines online. Gladecover Scout is a mutation target built in hexproof for a single green mana. Most matchups will just come down to does our opponent have the out. I will still discuss key things to look for in each matchup. (I put in a mix of Ketria Triome and Zagoth Triome, but use whatever you happen to have in your collection. Migratory Greathorn. 4 Lotus Cobra. 95% of 7827 decks +94% synergy. Adntrate en el Japn ms rural. Scute Swarm is a 1/1 Insect creature for 2G. Enemy goes from no health to 70+ health 2 turns later because they abuse Prosperous Innkeeper and Scute Swarm How is that fun, to know you win the game because you are exploiting? Of course, for our plan to work, we need a critical mass of mutate creatures so that we can keep adding to our mutate pile to tutor up more lands with Migratory Greathorn and put more permanents into play with Auspicious Starrix. But neither is something I look forward to playing with this deck. I am posting the decklist to give anyone else who loves Scute Swarm a deck idea, and get some more ideas of how to use him. Right click and save image or click the button. It's also important to know that we're going to get two- or three-for-oned on occasion when our opponent manages to kill our mutate pile. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Sea-Dasher Octopus draws you a card when that creature deals combat damage to a player. Standard Selesnya Toxic Deck Guide: Where The Opponent Only Has Ten Life. Migratory Greathorn tutors a basic land onto the . Essence Symbiote is the first mutation assistant. Pollywog Symbiote makes all your mutate creatures one mana cheaper to cast. What this beast does that other cards dont is that it give us constant Landfall trigger fuel. My favorite thing this deck does so far is Prosperous Innkeeper + Scute Swarm healing you comical amounts against aggro decks that were a turn away from closing out the game. 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Archipelagore has a stacking freeze effect for each time it mutates. Maybe I cut Divide for Lotus Cobra. Thrashing Brontodon blows up Embercleave and The Great Henge while being a great blocker. It is also worth noting that if you have Scute tokens already in play and mutate on one you have effectively divided your threats so that Extinction Event is no longer a blowout because Greathorn and Gemrazer (post-board) are even CMC while Scute Swarm is Odd. Whenever we mutate, we get to Rampant Growth a land from our deck and put it onto the battlefield, which triggers the Scute Swarm ability of our mutated creature to make a copy of itself (assuming we have at least six lands), but rather than getting just a 1/1 Scute Swarm, we get to copy the entire mutate pile! 27% of 2939 decks +24% synergy. Heres also where you can make cuts. The MTG Hero. I cut Greathorn because it is just too easily punished with removal or a counter.