u/officiallyFree

Best $50 Budget Commander for winning FNMs?

Hello all, title. I want to start participating in official FNMs in my LGS instead of staying in proxies with my pod. I'm looking for a commander that has a consistently high winrate in FNMs on a $50-$80 budget, as well as the deck being money-efficient when it comes to upgrading the deck later on (going past $100-200) in the future to push to high power B3 or even B4. That said, I asked around some of my podmates and they suggested me these commanders:

  1. [[Tifa Lockhart]] Landfall Voltron
  2. [[Lyse Hext]] Voltron
  3. [[Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice]] Voltron
  4. [[Xyris, the Writhing Storm]] ???
  5. [[Winota, Joiner of Forces]] Aggro Stax

I am leaning more towards Tifa Landfall out of them all actually, but there are already a few Tifa Landfall players from my LGS' previous tourneys so I feel like it's getting too cramped there unless it's fine. There's also Lyse Hext voltron who has access to blue counter spells and white protection spells to keep her safe as a voltron. I am curious about Winota as well since I have heard she is a scary/broken commander, but one of my podmates told me she's easy to beat since all they need to do is remove her and the deck falls apart. What do you guys think about that and who do you guys think I should pick?

I'll leave more info as well regarding our LGS' tourney meta if it helps you guys further, I believe it's roughly 60% spellcaster/storm players, 30% big creatures on field, and 10% token swarm. I'm perfectly okay with one trick pony decks since I usually have variety in proxy decks that I play with my B3 pod, and that this deck I'm asking for right now is purely for winning official FNMs.

reddit.com
u/officiallyFree — 18 hours ago