Budget storm combo

[Spartacus210]

aka reallybadtendrils.dec

I've been working on playing Storm combo, and a friend of mine drafted up this list for me. I'm working on a pretty low budget at the moment, though that's about to widen up pretty quickly.

I play non-powered Vintage among friends, and we don't do proxies. There are a list of things I am 100% positive I need to get, and am going to get as soon as I can.

I like how this list runs at the moment, but I'm trying to see if theres any way I can improve it:

// Lands
2 Island
2 Polluted Delta
2 Seat of the Synod
2 Swamp
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Vault of Whispers
1 City of Brass

// Creatures
1 Darksteel Colossus

// Spells
3 Cabal Ritual
1 Tinker
1 Chrome Mox
1 [card]Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Windfall
4 Dark Ritual
4 Chromatic Sphere
1 Necropotence
4 Helm of Awakening
1 Memory Jar
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Force of Will
2 Tendrils of Agony
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Brainstorm
3 Meditate
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Duress

Random explanations:

Helm of Awakening: This is quite possibly the coolest card ever for budget Storm combo. It just does so many things well it's beautiful. Mana Vault for 0 anyone? YawgWin for 1B? I'd hit it.

City of Brass: Fairly random, but I only have 1 at the moment. It's on my list of things I know I need to get, to be discussed more at the end of this long-winded explanation.

The ass-ful manabase in general: I'm lacking the cash for Seas/more Deltas/a good manabase, but it's definitely on my list of things to change. Should I, in the meantime, add more City of Brass to make up for the badness?

Everything else is fairly standard. Broken stuff, etc. Working on a budget, what should be my proposed manabase? Gemstone Mines, etc.

Any other suggestions? Stuff I could take out, things that would work better in here, etc?

[policehq]

Get Cities. I don't think I'd play artifact lands even in Vintage Affinity anymore.

Sorry that I don't have time to post about the rest of the list.

-hq

[GrandpaBelcher]

For budget Storm, I always went with Easter Tendrils.  You use Helm of Awakening and the cycle of Eggs (Darkwater, Skycloud, Mossfire, Sungrass and the RB one) to power through your deck.  If you don't run into a lot of control, this is definitely the way to go.  Mine ran on 8 lands at its lowest point, I believe: 2 Polluted Deltas, 2 Underground Seas, 1 Tolarian Academy, 1 Swamp, 1 City of Traitors and 1 Ancient Tomb.  If I get time a little later, I'll post a list.

Good luck!

[Spartacus210]

Thanks a lot.

The artifact lands are there to make up for lack of power, so I don't run out of Tinker targets. But 3 more CoB are definitely going in here.

Thanks for the hint on Easter Tendrils! This deck originally had 4 of the UB eggs in here too, but those were cut to make room for disruption, as it at first had none. I might draft a list of it myself later, but if you ever find one, drop it here. I'm very interested.

[policehq]

Look at the KI.TT lists in the Open forum. They can easily be built on a budget (or, at the worst, 5-proxy), and they have a high first turn kill consistency.

-hq

[GrandpaBelcher]

I think this is about what I played.  Mana fixing is not a problem, colorwise, but Mind's Desire isn't really ideal for this deck since a third of the deck is just eggs and is bad to find, even if you can play it for free.

4x Helm of Awakening
4x Chromatic Sphere
4x Darkwater Egg
4x Shadowblood Egg
4x Skycloud Egg
4x Mossfire Egg
4x Dark Ritual
3x Cabal Ritual
3x Tendrils of Agony

1x Windfall
1x Wheel of Fortune
1x Memory Jar
1x Yawgmoth's Bargain
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Burning Wish
1x Tinker

3x Duress
1x Chain of Vapor

1x Mana Vault
1x Sol Ring
1x Lotus Petal
1x Lion's Eye Diamond
2x Underground Sea
2x Polluted Delta
1x Tolarian Academy
1x City of Brass
1x Ancient Tomb
1x City of Traitors

This deck pretty much rolls over to Null Rod, Trinisphere, Chalice for 1, etc., but once the engine starts rolling, it's easy.  Whatever power you can put in this only makes it better.  I don't have a Mana Crypt, but that's huge for playing Helm and then going off.  First turn wins aren't too uncommon with something like City of Traitors or Ancient Tomb -> Helm -> Sol Ring -> a bunch of eggs and draw spells mixed with Rituals and miscellanea -> Tendrils.  In one multiplayer game I did one storm for more than 100 damage divided among three opponents.  It's a lot of fun to play and super cheap.

[Twaun007]

Whenever we played I would always get smoked by the egg deck, its pretty trick. For a budget storm combo deck I would think it is the way to go. Just watch out for null rods. Lochinvar81 is not joking about the tendrils for 100+. w00t.