r/BudgetBrews

Hi all

I'm having fun lately making ultra budget decks (€30). Searching for, finding and playing completely new ultra budget cards has been so satisfying. Some of them i would consider budget staples by now.

My best example for this: I've been playing a grixis reanimator list lately, namely [[Sauron, Lord of the Rings]] and in which [[Glimpse The Impossible]] has been overperforming as early game "mill" and ramp or late game card advantage, or a combination of the two. It's just so flexible and a lot of value for a 3 mana common. It feels like a must include now should i ever build another reanimator or gy centered deck with Red.

Do others have found budget "staples" like this? If so, share them pls and tell us why you think it should be a considered as such!

I recently got into commander and have a precon and a B2 deck under my belt, but I'm quickly finding out that no one at my LGS actually plays at that bracket or at least wants to. I spoke to a few of the regulars last time and they said the vibe was mostly B3, but I've seen some turn 4 or 5 wins that make me think they're high 3 or 4. I'm still figuring out the bracket system.

I've been browsing this sub for a bit now and from all the helpful threads I've read, it seems to me there's 3 ways to compete with these decks on a budget: Run enough removal/stax to power them down, win faster, or play combo. I'm looking for some good suggestions or tips regarding commanders that fit these bills. My budget is $100 a month to spend on hobbies so I'd like a deck to be in that ballpark for cost.

I've seen a lot of cool commanders that allow for heavy removal or control gameplans: Wren, Kraven, Eluge, and general spellslingers like Talrand and Lord of the Nazgul have piqued my interest. In the card games I've played previously, I lean more towards control, so these may be more my style, but those games tended to go a lot longer than the EDH games I've been a part of.

As for going faster, I've seen a lot of cool tempo lists who aim to win through going wide with flyers like Edric or Raffine or decks that combine aggression with stax like Kutzil. I'm typically not a combo player in the other card games I've played, but I am open to suggestions on it.

Sorry for the personal story and thanks for all the useful information that's been posted here. Its been really helpful so far!

I am fairly new to Magic (about a year at most). I haven’t put a ton of effort into learning the game outside of my play group yet since we only play every few months.

I’m trying to find a commander/deck with a fun, unique mechanic or win condition that isn’t overly complicated to pilot. One thing I’d like to avoid is decks that generate huge chains of triggers every turn, as those can feel like a lot of work for me to keep track of.

Please don’t bash me for this question. I’ve searched online, watched videos, browsed Reddit, and even asked AI chatbots for ideas, but nothing has really grabbed my attention yet.

Currently, I have:

Ms. Bumbleflower (Group Hug)

Sergeant John Benton (Voltron)

Witherbloom Pestilence (with EDHREC-recommended upgrades)

Some commanders/mechanics that I found interesting:

Volo, Guide to Monsters

Nalia de’Arnise (Party)

Some things I’ve seen that don’t really appeal to me:

The Wise Mothman

Scute Swarm-style decks with tons of triggers

Most red-focused decks (for some reason they tend to feel a little too aggressive for my taste)

I’m open to any recommendations. Thank you for your time!

Heya, i bought the sultai arise precon and wanted to play teval as a selfmill - reanimator deck. i am new to sultai and this theme and this is my 4. deck overall. a friend of mine said my v1 of this upgrade was all over the place and tried to do everything but cannot finish games.
so we reworked it to focus on reanimation and cut a lot of selfmill.
if there is less in my graveyard, it is easier to decide what i want to reanimate and my turns dont take so long?
i tried to stay budget with this deck.

i dont really want a lot of landfall in my deck cause my rounds usually are a bit longer, but i think those i have in the current deck are okay.

every card i have that fits teval is in considering.

do you think this deck can finish games now? would you suggest i swap something out for another card in considering or a budget alternative? dont really want to buy new cards, except they are really cheap (<2€).

thank you!

I'm a solo dev. Like a lot of you, I've got a few thousand cards sitting in random binders and bulk boxes — most never see play.

Most deck tools start with “what should I buy?” I wanted one that starts with “what do I already own?” So I built Binderbrew: upload your Moxfield/ManaBox/CSV/plain-text collection, pick a commander, set a missing-card budget, and it builds a legal 100-card Commander deck using mostly what you own. Then it gives you the hopefully-short buy list.

Free during beta. Some advanced features unlock with an email right now because I’m testing whether people actually want them before I wire up billing.

Site: https://binderbrew.com

Two things I'd love feedback on:

1. After upload, do the suggested commanders match what you'd actually want to build?

2. Does the missing-card list feel like a budget upgrade path, or like a Christmas wishlist?

so I’m not necessarily a new players so much as ive just never played paper MTG. I already play YGO and Ive played enough arena and know enough about mechanics to know basically how the game works, and as a YGO player, I’ve gotten used to hella complex bs so no matter how crazy the cards are, I’ll understand what they do individually. if anyone has any crazy super budget lists (whether it’s like $30 or $50 for a super budget half-meta list or like a comically bad $5 list (I know ten cent cards exist, so I know it’s technically possible, just insanely terrible) I’d love to hear it. I get stuff off tcgplayer and I’m not looking to spend too much on anything for my first time, just something relatively playable for a Saturday to kick it. I’d just need someone to explain to me in basic terms the goal of the deck 😅 like Edric rampimg for crazy card advantage and such. also I like card advantage bs, I like Edric. if someone has an Edric list ily forever.

Hey, so as the title says I’m thinking about making a clone or copy commander and I’m struggling to find one and hopefully someone has some ideas! I have found two that may work, which would be brudiclad or Satya. The reason I’m looking at these two is because I pulled the copper dragon from the FF set and want to make a deck I can potentially make copies of him. With blue being in their colors it makes it easier to counter any kill or remove spells. I wondering if anyone has any other ideas!

Have you been wanting to cast [[Sway of the Stars]] without feeling bad about it? [[Sanar, Unfinished Genius]] is here to help you do just that.

I’ve been wanting to build a deck around [[Mizzix’s Mastery]] for a while now, and Sanar came around as the perfect commander for this idea. He comes down early to provide us with ramp and then tutors for our secret commander letting us basically guaranteeing we get to cast it around turn 6 or 7.

About halfway through this build I realized it would be fun to leave out all permanents other than lands to guarantee an extremely high density of instants and sorceries to fuel our storm cards. So while Sanar sits on the battlefield by himself and aura farms, we are doing our best to fill up our graveyard with Mizzix fodder. Some of the best spells we want to find include [[impending flux]] and [[Mind’s desire]], but while I was looking for spells I wanted to cast with Mizzix I had a realization.

With the unbanning of Sway of the Stars I can put it on top of a Mizzix stack, resetting the game, but having an entire stack to resolve afterwards, breaking parity if not immediately winning the game. Better yet, you usually won’t even have to resolve the full stack. ([[Prisoner’s Dilemma]] under Sway is my favorite, and Mind’s desire finding Sway also breaks parity which is fun.)

Now I’m still tuning this build, I’m not sure about the copy spells I have included to amplify the win condition spells, but it’s feeling pretty good. I’m happy to take feedback.

TL;DR Mizzix Mastery into Sway of the Stars into Prisoner’s Dilemna is pretty funny.