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Budget U/W High Alert Tough Crab
Deck Size: 60
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Est deck cost: $83.82
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Creature

Quantity: 19Price: $8.45
Aegis Turtle

Creature
Aegis Turtle (jmp) 138
Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost {2} more to cast. {3}: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Charix, the Raging Isle (znr) 49
Giant Ox

This creature crews Vehicles using its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Giant Ox (j22) 188
Loxodon Lifechanter

When this creature enters, you may have your life total become the total toughness of creatures you control. {5}{W}: This creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is your life total.

Creature
Loxodon Lifechanter (m20) 27
Mirrorshell Crab

Ward {3} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.) Channel — {2}{U}, Discard this card: Counter target spell or ability unless its controller pays {3}.

Creature Artifact
Mirrorshell Crab (neo) 63
Surge Mare

This creature can't be blocked by green creatures. Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {1}{U}: This creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Surge Mare (m19) 77

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Planeswalker

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Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. −3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Planeswalker
Huatli, the Sun's Heart (war) 230

Planeswalker

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Enchantment

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Gauntlets of Light

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Enchanted creature has "{2}{W}: Untap this creature."

Enchantment
Gauntlets of Light (m20) 17
High Alert

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender. {2}{W}{U}: Untap target creature.

Enchantment
High Alert (rna) 182

Enchantment

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Instant

Quantity: 6Price: $6.26
Azorius Charm

Choose one — • Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn. • Draw a card. • Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Azorius Charm (plst) IMA-192
Deadly Riposte

Deadly Riposte deals 3 damage to target tapped creature and you gain 2 life.

Instant
Deadly Riposte (bro) 5
Destroy Evil

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater. • Destroy target enchantment.

Instant
Destroy Evil (dmu) 17

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Land

Quantity: 26Price: $64.94
Brokers Hideout

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Brokers Hideout (snc) 248
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Idyllic Beachfront (dmu) 249
Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Irrigated Farmland (c20) 282
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (one) 263
Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (snc) 252
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (one) 262

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Crystacean

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

Creature
Crystacean (iko) 46
Forbidding Watchtower

Forbidding Watchtower enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}: Forbidding Watchtower becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Forbidding Watchtower (10e) 352
Indomitable Ancients

Creature
Indomitable Ancients (mor) 13
Isleback Spawn

Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.) This creature gets +4/+8 as long as a library has twenty or fewer cards in it.

Creature
Isleback Spawn (shm) 40
Kami of Old Stone

Creature
Kami of Old Stone (9ed) 24
Looming Altisaur

Creature
Looming Altisaur (plst) XLN-23
Mystic Skull

Artifact
Mystic Skull // Mystic Monstrosity (mid) 256Mystic Skull // Mystic Monstrosity (mid) 256
The Fair Basilica

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
The Fair Basilica (one) 252
The Surgical Bay

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
The Surgical Bay (one) 260

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21 pips - 21 cards
14 mana - 14 cards
27 pips - 18 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Now, more than ever, toughness matters, especially inexpensive toughness. Only keep a hand that contains at least one of (Gauntlets of Light, High Alert, Huatli, the Sun's Heart). Cast a low-cost, high-toughness creature on turns 1 and 2, if possible. Turn 3, get your High Alert or Gauntlets of Light or Huatli, the Sun's Heart online, turning your high toughness into high damage. Huatli can pad your life total, or get back some incidental damage by gaining no less than 5 life and possibly 17! with its -3 ability. Turn 4 cast Charix, the Raging Isle. That's 17 crabby toughness, fella!!! Turn 5, double spell with a 2-drop and a 3-drop. Lost some life, even with Huatli? Don't worry. Turn 6, cast Loxodon Lifechanter, and swing that lifetotal back in your favor. Channel the Mirrorshell Crab for interaction on turn 3 and later, or cast it on 7 for more dangerously tough crab.\n\nNote: Nearly the entire projected cost of the deck is in the 4x Hallowed Fountains in the manabase, so there is a massive level of budgetary savings below this that can be achieved simply by removing the Shocklands and replacing them with any other U/W dual land.\n"}]}
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