Fun and Affordable Blue-Green Aggro Deck

Hello peeps and fellow Mtg fanatics! Welcome again to another episode of Building on a Budget. For this week, we’re going to build a deck with the color combination that was popularized by the Madness deck way back in the Odyssey expansion. Yep, its the Blue-Green color combination. If you are a fan of doing early beats with fat and cheap creatures while countering your opponents’ threats, then this color combination is for you.

As for our list, we’re going to utilize the U/G hybrid cards from Eventide. Here is the list that I’ve came up with, along with the prices:

U/G Aggro by Mark Ian Alloso
Main (37)
4 Selkie Hedge-Mage ($0.75 each, $3)
4 Shorecrasher Mimic ($0.10 each, $0.40)
4 Slippery Bogle ($0.10 each, $0.40)
4 Sturdy Hatchling ($0.50 each, $2)
3 Murkfiend Liege ($3 each, $9)
4 Wistful Selkie ($0.50 each, $2)

4 Favor of the Overbeing ($0.10 each, $0.40)
4 Snakeform ($0.25 each, $1)
2 Invert the Skies ($0.50 each, $1)
4 Cancel ($0.50 each, $2)

Land (23)
12 Forest ($0.10 each, $1.2)
11 Island ($0.10 each, $1.1)

Total price is $23.5 or approx. P1,128.

*prices are based on our local store price and trading price.

Ok you might say that I got awkward card choices but our goal here is to abuse Shorecrasher Mimic and use cards that won’t give you headaches on off-color mana screw.

The Beaters

Selkie Hedge-Mage - very useful in providing board advantage by bouncing your opponent’s critters
and gaining you three life.

Shorecrasher Mimic - he’s the one incharge with the early damage as every hybrid spell you play pumps him.

Slippery Bogle - you would say that he’s not a threat but when Favored by the Overbeing on turn two, its an early GG baby.

Sturdy Hatchling - the same purpose with the mimic on abusing every U/G hybrid spell you play. The
shroud activation is also a bonus.

Murkfiend Liege - what every liege does, pumps your hybrid creatures.

Wistful Selkie - a cantrip with a 2/2 body and also feeds your mimic and hatchling.

The Card Tricks

Favor of the Overbeing - since all of your creatures are hybrids, this card can be really abused once its online. Not the mention the combo with Slippery Bogle.

Snakeform - a cantrip that deals with fatties and threats at the right moment in combat.

Invert the Skies - I consider this one as the peasant’s blue wrath, getting your creatures in for the alpha strike.

Cancel - of course U/G wouldn’t be complete without the counterspells and this fills the spot.

The Sideboard

As for the sideboard, my suggestion would be using cards against the varieties or classification of the deck and the metagame. For aggro decks like Kithkins, Sower of Temptation is a good answer. For control like QnT, my sideboard would be Negate and I would bring in cards like Firespout and Cloudthreshers for Faeries. Also an addition to Snakeform in dealing with large creatures, I would use Curse of Chains.

My sideboard would look like this.

2 Cloudthresher
3 Curse of Chains
2 Firespout
4 Negate
4 Sower of Temptation

So there you go with my version of a U/G aggro or should I say a U/G Hybrid aggro deck. Try playing it and I’m sure you’ll love it. It won’t give you as much winning record like your Tier 1 deck but hey, Magic isn’t just about winning. Always remember the “fun” side of it.

Till next time y’all.