That's fair about budget, I've been looking through a lot of lists and a lot of them haven't been budget-constrained, so I just forgot.toctheyounger wrote: ↑3 years agoHuh, yeah. I guess it's worth going over in the OP. It's been so long since I even considered rocks in the deck I just hadn't even thought of discussing it.
I probably sound like a broken record, but Mana Crypt is well outside of my budget, so it's just a non-starter. Sol Ring is fine, but has no real immediate synergy with anything else in the rest of the deck. Ramp elves I can bounce, creatures do other extra stuff, the Ring is just the Ring. Which is not nothing, it's still very good, but I just see it as relatively far from essential to the list.
As far as sol ring, I wouldn't think about it as replacing a ramp spell, I'd think about it as replacing a land. Outside of really aberrant cases when someone counters or destroys it immediately, it's going to function pretty much like a land except much better. Sure, it's not particularly synergistic, but its power level is already so much higher than anything more synergistic could ever hope to achieve.