$15 Gate Deck for Standard (Tested)

[Earth2Fire]

Just wanted to share a pretty decent budget deck for standard I have been working on. You could probably get it down to $10 dollars if you wanted by weakening the sideboard, or by asking people to sell you their commons for cheap. A lot of these are cards that people might easily be willing to part with or have spares.

It's given some more expensive decks a run for their money, and has been effective against many different strategies in my test on MTGO.


Deck: $15 Gate Deck for Standard (Tested)

//Main
2 Azorius Guildgate
4 Cerulean Drake
3 Deafening Clarion
2 Expansion // Explosion //
1 Forest
4 Gate Colossus
4 Gatebreaker Ram
4 Gates Ablaze
4 Gateway Plaza
3 Glaive of the Guildpact
4 Gruul Guildgate
3 Izzet Guildgate
2 Negate
4 Open the Gates
4 Opt
4 Plaza of Harmony
2 Quench
2 Selesnya Guildgate
4 Simic Guildgate

//Sideboard
2 Applied Biomancy
2 Crushing Canopy
2 Disdainful Stroke
1 Expansion // Explosion //
2 Forest
2 Negate
2 Sinister Sabotage
2 Thassa's Intervention


Strategy notes:
Inexpensive board wiping / Partially scaling
Deck/Mana fixing for multicolor. (Lands ramp up strength of cards, slight mana flood = still good)
Counter spell (cheap and counter expensive cards) (protect integral cards for strategy)
Some life gain to "legitimize" stabilization
Core cards: Gatebreaker Ram, Deafening Clarion, Gates Ablaze, Gate Colossus