Building a Modern deck with a budget of $20,000 gives you a lot more flexibility in terms of card choices, as you will be able to afford some of the most powerful and sought-after cards in the format. Here’s an example of a sample Modern decklist using a budget of $20,000:
Creatures:
- 4 Tarmogoyf
- 4 Snapcaster Mage
- 3 Scavenging Ooze
- 2 Knight of the Reliquary
Planeswalker:
- 4 Liliana of the Veil
- 2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- 2 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
Spells:
- 4 Lightning Bolt
- 4 Path to Exile
- 4 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 3 Thoughtseize
- 2 Abrupt Decay
Lands:
- 4 Verdant Catacombs
- 4 Marsh Flats
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 4 Blood Crypt
- 2 Overgrown Tomb
- 2 Godless Shrine
- 1 Forest
- 1 Swamp
Sideboard:
- 2 Collective Brutality
- 2 Surgical Extraction
- 2 Liliana, the Last Hope
- 2 Fulminator Mage
- 2 Pithing Needle
- 2 Engineered Explosives
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Forest
This is an example of a “Jund” archetype, which is a black-green-red color combination that focuses on using discard, removal, and big creatures to grind out opponents. The card choices in this list are some of the most powerful and efficient options in the format, and are often considered “staples” in Modern.
Tarmogoyf, Snapcaster Mage and Knight of the Reliquary are all very powerful creatures that can dominate the battlefield, while planeswalker like Liliana of the Veil and Jace, the Mind Sculptor can provide a lot of control and card advantage. The spells are a mix of powerful removal spells like Path to Exile and efficient discard spells like Inquisition of Kozilek and Thoughtseize. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon is a colorless planeswalker that provides a big card advantage with his +2 and -X ability.
The sideboard gives you a set of cards that can combat against different strategies and metagames, like Collective Brutality and Surgical Extraction as removal and hand disruption against different combo and graveyard strategies, Liliana, the Last Hope and Fulminator Mage as additional threats and removal, and Pithing Needle and Engineered Explosives as artifacts and enchantments hate.
Keep in mind that the prices of the card fluctuates, and it’s important to keep track of the market values to optimize the cost of the deck, and also that this is a general example, and as always, playing test is important.
Let me know if you have any more questions or if there’s anything else I can assist you with.
some of the more expensive cards in the decklist I provided would include:
- Tarmogoyf : $200-$350
- Liliana of the Veil : $70-$150
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor : $200-$450
- Snapcaster Mage : $40-$80
- Ugin, the Spirit Dragon: $70 – $150
- Knight of the Reliquary : $20 – $50
- Marsh Flats: $30 – $50
- Verdant Catacombs : $20 – $50
- Blackcleave Cliffs : $20 – $40
- Blood Crypt : $20 – $40
- Path to Exile : $10 – $20
- Cryptic Command: $20 – $50