Fair Decks in Modern?

Is this the only consistent way?

Hey guys, it's GuitarSlam.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about Modern recently.  As many of you know, I've been playing a UW Tempo list lately (which I have posted about a couple of times) and generally it's not a bad deck, but I can't help shake off the feeling that I should just be playing combo instead.  I proxied up a Storm deck and began testing it and while it doesn't win every time, I feel like it is just a significantly more powerful deck (which frightens me, honestly).  I've also been considering working with Elf Combo (as most recently inspired by Travis Woo's deck (here).  It has a lot of ways to go infinite with both creatures and mana, thus allowing for general beatdown or Craterhoof shenanigans.

So my general question for you guys is: are combo decks the best way to win in Modern, especially on a budget?

I know that a lot of the best decks in Modern aren't combo driven (Jund, Junk, Tron, Zoo, Affinity, etc) but all of these decks are fairly expensive (Fetchlands, Tarmogoyfs, Karns, and Mox Opals, just to name a few), which pushes me away from them.  I know that it's only a one time investment in the cards, because of Modern being an eternal format, but I still hate spending all that money.  So, keeping that in mind, I'm beginning to feel like the best thing that I can do for myself as a budget player is to break down and just play combo.  Not that combo's necessarily a bad thing, but it usually doesn't play very interactive games of magic (which is the idea behind tempo and many other "fair" decks).

Just as a note: when I say fair, I'm not saying that the decks don't have unfair cards.  Take Jund for example.  It's a much more "fair" deck than Storm because it plays interactive magic, but no one would ever say that Liliana of the Veil, Tarmogoyf, Dark Confidant, and Thoughtseize are fair cards.  It's the play style of the deck that determines whether it's fair or not.  In short, interactive is fair, solitaire is not fair.

I hope to hear your opinions on Modern as a whole and the budget side of the format as well.  I really am enjoying Modern the more I play it, but this is becoming something that I feel is true, and I hope that I can be told otherwise.  I'm most certainly not a combo player at heart, and while I do enjoy the strategies of Storm or Elves somewhat, I would almost always prefer to play out a real game of magic.

See you guys later.