How to Build a Commander Deck on a Budget | Commander Guide | Deck Tips | EDH | Commander | MTG
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- The Commander's Quarters is your Magic the Gathering source that helps you Command Your Budget! Today Mitch talks about The Best Way to Build Commander Decks on a Budget!
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Just from the title, this may be the video I’ve been hoping you would make for a long time. So time to pause, make a cup of tea and enjoy it!
Honestly this channel has become a staple for my references, and because of that my own deckbuilding skill has grown immensely. I have built decks that costed my almost only 1$-2$ spent plus some stuff in my stash and then I sold those decks that are around 10$ or more...! I'll say, its pretty refreshing to me to build something that's actually pretty good on a budget. And i have this channel to thank for that.
Who do you usually sell it to?
Ask your local game store if you can snag some lands - most of them have a land station ready for those that might need them. As long as you're not grabbing 100+ lands they usually won't charge you for them or charge you a cheap price. Enough to get one or two decklists.
These are things I've done when building, especially buying the lands in bulk and buying multiples of Sol Rings, Arcane Signet, Command Tower etc all in one go. Also Scryfall is amazing.
My group does a gift exchange around the holidays, and we do $5 max on commanders and $30 max on the 99 not counting basics. It's the most fun I have with Commander and I look forward to it every year.
So you each built a ~$35 deck to then give to someone as like a secret Santa?
Sometimes we do Secret Santa, sometimes we do White Elephant. But yeah.
Thanks for the 500 basic lands on Amazon tip!
Returned after a long break and so far limited and commander are how I play MTG now.
I'm glad for channels like this or else I'd give up on commander.
I will never need to buy basic lands. I have one of those 5000 ct boxes full (BCW Super Monster Storage box). The giant ones with 5 lanes for cards. Ofc I've been playing since the 90's. I have so many I make it a point to never have duplicate land art in decks I build.
this is such a cool idea, thank you mitch
Another tip, create a list of cards you need, share it with your friends. You can usually give them more than a trade-in value and still get a great deal. Win-win.
another thing about tokens: lots of traders wrap other cards in tokens to protect them so just be patient! if youre buying cards regularly online through things like card market, alot of tokens will just come your way on their own. same thing with basic lands!
also another thing about trading: attend your local game nights in stores and what not. alot of the time, people are much more likely to trade you stuff when you get a promo card or a booster from the store. socialize, chat around, youre gonna make a lot of connections that will not only benefit you in your MtG career but might just help you find some friends.
I find that the TCG player optimizer does not always work well and that I need to go through the entire order and select alternate copies for as little as $.01 more that are from another seller in my cart rather than order a $.10 card for $1.09 with shipping.
Just started building a Chiss-Goria Budget Voltron deck. This definitely has helped me with how I want to decide on cards, and am looking for any inspiration for specific cards I should include.
nice! been goldfishing a version recently and shes (they?) pretty fun to play. Do you then plan on mainly going the equipment route ?
Thank you for sharing your method how to build commander on a budget.
Back to the roots baby!!!
I actually just built a Dynaheir deck with every card $0.35 or less. Budget building is a blast
Although not low budget, the 5 Strixhaven commander decks for 150$ was a pretty incredible value. Thats .30 per card and precon Commander decks are stuffed with rares. It was an Xmas gift from my wife and a real winner. Even if some decks don't work well in the modern game theres plenty of material for other decks.
Draft chaff piles are a great source of cards as well!
I tend to be willing to spend about $100 a deck (Canadian so about $75 USD) which is in theory, a dollar a card but it allows me to go cheap on certain options so I can grab a few $10-$20 heavy hitters and still stay close to on budget. To be fair, I only have 3 decks but I built my last one with this consideration and will be buying my next deck with a similar budget, hoping and thinking it'll come in closer to $80 this time around.
Those dry erase cards are a great idea! 180 cards for 8 bucks is a good deal.
You should check out Quest for the Janklord if you haven’t already. My buddies and I have played multiple games creating “jank” decks, where each card (including the commander) is $0.79 or less. You’d be surprised how many super powerful cards are between $0.80-$1.00, hence the $0.79 price.
I built Jalira which was pretty nasty, and I still have my Tuya Bearclaw deck and have won multiple times against non-budget decks.
They are awesome! I actually was lucky enough to be on their channel a few times!
@@TheCommandersQuarters oh duh! You had the MLP deck. I want to build Rarity for my daughter. :)
I am determined to use Iceberg one day.. also Oasis (for Horobi)
So how do you select cards from your lists once u have in the budget parameters set?
Can you and Eddie get together and make a guide on Scrfall? It would be helpful.
Erasable cards > infinitokens when it comes to number count, drawing space, and price
Once a deck is built, how do you test it and know that it will work? Thank you in advance.
In my experience, 100% of TCGplayer "Optimize" costs 2-3x just buying from 2-3 different sellers in budget builds.
I don't understand how to use TCG player. I had a cart that after I optimized was 48 bucks total with shipping but when I went to check out the shipping made went to 40 making the total 90 something. What am I doing wrong?
I would always recomend checking out non-English cards if you dont want proxy and want legal cards. I got a darksteel forge in Japanese that was like $10, at the time the English card was about $35.
Where would you recommend searching for cards in other languages?
@@anti-consumertechnologies4857 tcgplayer has a option to search for cards in different languages, I just turn on all the languages available except for English
@@anti-consumertechnologies4857 cardmarket is about the best place for finding foreign language cards. If in US/Can and worried about only shipping to EU. Just send the seller a message. Some will gladly ship to US if you just pay slightly more to cover post (sense its often single cards its never been crazy). Even if they cant/dont want they have been nothing but friendly. You can also go the Ebay route if you accept that fakes do exist. However most counterfeit cards are english print so there is that. Or you can even just ask around your local community of players. Some peeps prob have some non-english cards they will be willing to get rid of for cheap price or trade offers. I hope this helped.
For the multiple copies thingy I just ended up buying one copy and proxying it in other decks bc well I have the damn card I’m not gonna buy it again :/
Woot
I go budget with the expensive optimal cards by creating a toolkit binder and proxying the cards into multiple decks. If 5 decks need a $30 card why spend $150 on 5 copies when you can spend $30 once and you really only spend $6 per deck by proxying. You own a single copy and your deck can only run one anyway, so…
How often are y'all buying basics?
2 years ago i bougth 300 full art lands (100 Forest, 50 of the rest)
and this year 25 wastes, just to have them
and over the last 2 years i bougth 25 (5*wubrg) for the Art that are now in a picture frame on my wall
My playgroup normally has a budget around 15 dollars, but will also have other challenges. 37 dollars, 50 dollars, 100 dollars, 25 dollars, 5 dollars. Total cost of the deck is shown on Tapped Out on the day of purchase. but we also use higher budgets. I've got decks at the 5, 15, 37, 50, 100, 200, and unlimited price limit. In regards to tokens, I just, have a lot of them whenever I've opened boosters or commander precon products. Now, I've got so many that I can give them away to the kids that I teach now. we save money on damaged, heavily played, and whatnot cards. but when we look at our price limit it's what the cheapest copy that's medium lightly played.
As a broke kid, this is perfect
Wait…. People buy basic lands???
115 edh decks
50 regular decks
Still have easily 5000 lands lying around in a box just from packs!
What?
I don’t have a problem!
I don't understand why you should limit yourself to cards under 1 $ if I want a 50$ budget deck I could put a card in that is 5$ and still be within the budget.
Simplicity of scryfall searching I imagine
I think it's more for a challenge less for budget.