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Erhnamageddon is an old deck I always try to build, on paper or MTGO. The main difficulty of playing this decks is that Strip Mine is restricted. It's easier to explain with a list: Creatures (14) 1 Autumn Willow 4 Erhnam Djinn 2 Fyndhorn Elves 2 Llanowar Elves 2 Order of Leitbur 1 Serra Angel 2 Spectral Bears Other Spells (24) 3 Armageddon 1 Balance 2 Wrath of God 2 Land Tax 2 Sylvan Library 4 Disenchant 4 Swords to Plowshares 2 Fellwar Stone 2 Icy Manipulator 1 Ivory Tower 1 Zuran Orb Lands (22) 4 Brushland 6 Forest 1 Havenwood Battleground 6 Plains 1 Ruins of Trokair 4 Strip Mine (Bertrand Lestree built it, I found the list on  David Leavitt  's website) With 4 Strip Mines, the deck's extremely frightening: you don't have to play the Strip Mines turn 1 like in other decks, instead, you save them up on your hand. Cast them til you get a Balance or Armageddon, then your opponent's mana source is completely disrupted for the rest of ...

Around 2003 - 2004, a GR deck with perfect mana curve swept the meta with its ability to win in one turn. I remember the original version used Port, Plow Under and Avalanche Rider to disturb opponent's mana base. It could be super fast!

Needless to check, this deck is lower than 1 tix. With the VM cards, it's possible to let us feel one of the top decks in the 2004- 2005 standard. I remember the meta at that time was either GW Astral Slide

In our deck, we can afford 1 copy of Brainstorm which has dropped to 0.07. Counterspell is less then 0.05. The most expensive card in this deck is Upheaval, 0.17tix.

It's real, you are not dreaming and I am not bragging. I knew it eventually came true when I saw these prices: Yes, I built Reanimation for 1 tix!  As the prices of Reanimate and Anumate Dead are still over our budget, I decided to make a deck with Recurring Nightmare and Living Death first.

Who still thinks MTGO is an expensive hobby? Try out my first deck for 1 Tix Challenge: UG Madness . Tonight, I started to build decks with Vintage Masters cards for new players. With the 5 tix in their new accounts, now they can try at least 5 different decks representing certain milestones in the history of MTG. This green ramp deck I built was a deck storming the meta during the period from Marcadian Masques to Invasion. Although in this simplified version I didn't add  Rishadan Port and Plow Under , I found the deck perform quite well against other casual decks: Rofellos, Masticore and Cursed Scroll are respectively 0.06, 0.03 and 0.05. They make up 0.53 tix of the total cost. Saproling, Deranged Druid and Yavimaya Hollow are all under 0.04, so they are roughly 0.28 tix. The rest cards cost around 0.01 each. You can definitely bring home a competitive Green deck for 1 tix.

The market's boring right now, I don't want to buy Vintage Masters in large scale. I feel the bottom is not today, not in this month. Never can we predict the bottom of prices, we usually recall it with agonies, regrets. But as careful traders, we must also be patient - profits don't come with hurry. I so bored that I decided to give myself some tasks to do. The first one of those is "1 tix challenge". Everyday, I 'll try to build one Vintage deck with 1 tix. Then I'll put the complete deck list, playtest videos(after I sign up Twitch) and history of the decks here. Today, I did UG madness: You can get all the uncommons/ commons for 0.02 each in Goatbot, so they will cost you 34 x 0.02 = 0.68 tix; Sea Drake and Grand Coliseum are 0.04 in many bots, that's 7 x 0.04 = 0.28 tix.