What in your opinion is the strongest budget aggro deck?

[JamesPr]

There are many different decks to choose from, such as R/G Beats, U/G Madness, Stompy Hate, White Weenie Hate, U/W Fish U/G Fish U/G/R Fish and FCG.  All these decks have one thing in common, they pack much maindeck disruption with the exception of FCG which mostly plays combo playing hate in the sideboard.

Now the question is, what is the strongest most resilient deck out of this bunch?  What deck packs the most punch, while having a quality hate arsenal?  

This is a very difficult question to ask, because each color has their own bombs.  Artifact Mutation for R/G Beats, Force of Will for U/G Madness, the Food Chain Goblin Recruiter combo for FCG, Swords to Plowshares for White Weenie, and pure card draw for Fish with evasive creatures.

If I had to choose I'd say I'd pick U/G Madness over all of these decks.  This is because, one it has literally about twenty strong sideboard options, and two because it's creatures are so cost efficient.  

What is your opinion on the matter, and please no pet decks.

[the Luke]

Food Chain Goblins.

It is the fastest one, it can actually benefit from being budget (ESG and Ancient Tomb get around Trinisphere), it has access to REB and Artifact Mutation, and it runs Gempalms as uncounterable removal for Goblin Welder.  It also runs 5 strips.  If I was forced to run aggro, that's what I'd play.

-Luke

[CMass]

Of the decks you have listed, I would definitely pick FCG.  It's very versatile in that it can play the beatdown or just go combo, and as a R/G deck has much the same sideboard options that you list as a plus for R/G "hate" decks.  If it hasn't made an appearance in your metagame for a while, people have likely forgotten their sideboard hate for it.  That's when it can sneak up and do really well.

[virtual]

Knowing nothing about your meta-game, I would say that FCG is the most potentially powerful budget aggro deck.  

That being said, Any of those other decks can step in and take a tournament with the proper hate.  That's the thing about hate, if you do it well enough, you can just stomp everyone.  Playing budget, that's one of your best options, but knowing your meta well enough can be difficult.

-Virtual

[Ollstar82]

It's all down to your area's metagame. If combo decks are strong, go for a weenie-rush deck.

I'd prefer (if running budget) to go with U/G Madness, because there are loads of discard cards for every type of build you could want to run. Frantic Search, Careful Study, Gifts Ungiven, Intuition, Aquamoeba, Wild Mongrol, Compulsion...need I go on?

FCG is really simple once you get used to it. Plus, it scares control-deck players...like me for instance.

[JamesPr]

Oops sorry my metagame is actually really mixed.  It has a lot of workshop, control 4CC mono blue ect, and it has a lot of aggro such as FCG, and random aggro.  There is a lot of random stuff like sceptar control suicide ect.  I guess FCG is the deck I'll stay with.  Thanks for the replies.

[doomhed]

I would go with U/G madness, because in the meta you describe, I would love to have force of will.

[sierra_gandalf]

i prefer UG Madness over FCG because of the FoW in the UG Madness, and the possibility to play B2B and usually null rod, more broken in Madness than in FCG (Crypt, Chrome, sol ring...)

[MooSE]

Definately U/G Madness.  FCG is easily housed if the opponent knows how it works.  Any countermagic can shut it down unbelieveably easily.

[bonblaireau]

Perhaps it could be WW hate. It's a good deck against dragon and oath.