https://deckstats.net/decks/144662/1659435-budget-changelingsSo this is changeling tribal. Allies are pretty lame imo, but a tutor in the command zone certainly is not! This deck wins by using unlikely cards to generate a lot of value for little mana investment, and then swinging out using Tazri's activated ability or
Mirror Entity's activated ability. The fact that Tazri can search up any changeling allows the lack of a ton of good changelings to be somewhat nullified in a singleton environment.
Because Tazri is used in this deck primarily for her ETB, there is a little bit of blink in here. This synergizes well with pretty standard cards that care about ETBs such as
Mulldrifter,
Coiling Oracle, and
Risen Reef, but it also synergizes with the Modern Horizons changelings, many of which also have valuable ETBs. I tried to
squeeze in a
Conjurer's Closet, but I couldn't make the numbers work, however that would be a bomb.
The bread and butter of this deck is the tribal support. This is a Sliver deck just as much as it is a Goblin deck just as much as it is an Ally deck. Probably my favorite interaction is using
Goblin Recruiter to fetch up 4 changelings and a
Goblin Ringleader to the top of the library, then casting
Goblin Ringleader to put all of the tutored changelings into hand.
Goblin Recruiter, or any other changeling can also be tutored for with
Goblin Matron.
Arcane Adaptation also turns all tribal tutors into Eladrami's Calls, as well as turning non-changelings into Allies for Tazri's ability.
Rooftop Storm is a bomb in this deck for obvious reasons.
Overall, besides the compromises that had to be made for the mana base (10 more dollars and it would be much stronger), I expect this deck to be very consistent, and any new player armed with the knowledge of how changelings work should be able to pilot this. The only complicated line in here is the
Goblin Recruiter line, but it's not that hard to learn.
This was really fun to make. This is my first forum post so please excuse any formatting issues (such as not knowing how to make the card names blue). The final deck cost as of today is $49.24.