Kelsien, the Plague | $100 Budget Deck Tech | EDH | Commander | Commander 2020 | Assassins

On BudgetEDH we build fun and optimized commander decks with a budget in mind. In this week's episode, we build a $100 budget Kelsien, the Plague deck. This new Assassin from Commander 2020 is synergistic with deathtouch spells.Giving Kelsien deathtouch can mow down your opponents creatures as he will kill them by using his activated ability. In addition, we have lots of interaction that will control the board and make life difficult for our opponents.
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[@crovax1375]

I'd like to shout out the brilliant goblin engineering that went into Goblin Sharpshooter's rig!

[@Sainthlink101]

Nice! I'm going to try these, thank you very much!

[@LoganMartinezletemhaveitl]

Thanks for this I’m a new commander deck builder so this helped a lot

[@MTG_Ronin]

When I was building this I opted to not put in target creature removal since most of my board is already dedicated to that.

[@NerdJake]

Thrilling Encore and Command the Dreadhorde do have way too high CMC. Athreos and grave betrayed are a very good advice, I might get those cards for my Deck. What I do in my Deck is I play almost no additional pinger, instead I build around the you-cannot-attack-me cards in white, because Kelsien is really bad against Token Decks. Then I play cards that just really shut my opponents down like Sorin Markov, Overwhelming Splendor, Kulrath Knight, Kambal (Consul of Allocation), Stranglehold, Elrish Norn, Stigma Lasher (I can really recommend this in a Kelsien Deck), Kunoros (Hound of Atheros), The Immortal Sun, etc. Some of those might really increase the price though...
I try to shut other peoples creatures down with Kelsien and cut off their other strategies they might have. This is a different theme that just serves as an alternative idea. The reason I chose this way is because I was looking at Kelsien, obviously I wanted to give him Deathtouch. But when he has deathtouch I didn't consider cards like Torbran to be that effective anymore so I tried to go into anotheer direction.

[@howardgreen9718]

Great deck tech thanks

[@Zombie1Boy]

Primary win with kelsien: Commander damage
Secondary win with kelsien: lock down the board with some urborg (all lands are swamps), and kormus bell (all swamps are 1/1s) Jank and watch everybody hate you for eternity

[@jacket2848]

I'll definitely be building this 😅

[@Oakenbull]

Call of the Death-Dweller is fun in this deck

[@adrianrobles8622]

This deck is so solid

[@chrisgallo2236]

Grafted Exoskeleton + Chandra’s Ignition makes you needing less counters to win. Soul’s Fire and Gravitic Punch can also do this however to only one player at a time.

[@BudgetEDH]

Grafted exoskeleton! Nice! Didn’t think of that card!

[@kaysentomas7772]

Instablaster...

[@sorren001]

Ultimatum at 1.80 is crazy.

[@cloudyboi13]

Must...build...Commander...

[@TnumsProd]

This guy will become my favorite deck very quickly.

[@BetterCallKahl]

Odric would be nice

[@homerpimpson2436]

Would fiery emancipation be good in this? I wonder what would come out for it

[@chrisblack556]

It would certainly give it a boost but it won't be used to it's full potential like it would in a Ruric Thar deck.

[@s7121n9s]

For anyone who's interested this deck runs about $30 on mtgo

[@spencersonnier1]

This deck is sweet. But...
THORNBITE STAFF IS 10 DOLLARS?!

[@BudgetEDH]

Crazy, right?

[@John_Doe742]

25 now

[@spencersonnier1]

@@John_Doe742 Jesus Christ

[@LB_GOAT]

If kelsein has deathtouch and you play Chandran ignition, does kelsein kill them all?

[@ultharlightbringer4248]

Very late response, but I believe it doesn’t. Kelsien isn’t what does the damage to the creature, Chandra’s Ignition does. It just scales off of Kelsien’s power.

[@LB_GOAT]

@@ultharlightbringer4248 raja thanks!!!