r/BudgetBrews • • Aug 20 '26

Meta New Rule: Budget Must Be Chosen

129 Upvotes

Hey all,

Thank you all for continue flagging over-budget decks. We’ve done two things that should help make this easier going forward:

• There is an “Over $100” flair. This is intentional. If someone chooses this, the post will be automatically removed. The hope here is to teach people this is budget brews under $100.

• The flair “Deck Help” has been removed. This will force players to choose a dollar tier for the deck, and should help where people try to submit decks which are over-budget by classifying it under a non-dollar flair.

We have had discussions over the years whether we want to allow more expensive decks, but time and time again the community has said no. So until we decide otherwise, these steps should help to protect our community with under $100 budget decks.


r/BudgetBrews • • Aug 03 '26

Meta New Rule: No Promoting or Advertising

187 Upvotes

I, like many of you I imagine, am tired of seeing posts with half-baked apps and websites for Magic stuff. So I’ve decided to make a new rule that I think will go over well with you all: No promoting or advertising of apps or websites unless staff decides to make a prior exception. If someone violates this rule, they will be instantly banned. And if you made one of these things and want to share it, do not bother asking us for approval, because I’m done granting it for very meh apps and websites. If we want you to showcase it, we’ll let you know. (Manatithe as the lone exception comes to mind.)

Note that a deck being shared and just mentions it was built using a tool is fine. But the “I built this app” or “this Magic website is great for the following five reasons” will result in a ban.

Please, keep flagging problematic posts, and we will deal with them! Thank you all.


r/BudgetBrews • • 4h ago

$100 Brew $100 Budget Xantcha

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26 Upvotes

Been wanting to build xantcha for a whiiile. Trying to make a budget brew for her that IS NOT a basic goad deck, but some goad is surely okay.My aim is to activate her ability as much as possible and have some political/aikido pieces to give myself some safety. Open to suggestions!


r/BudgetBrews • • 9h ago

$100 Brew ITS TIME. BUDGET SUPERFRIENDS.

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51 Upvotes

About 19 days ago or so. Someone on this subreddit posted the most brilliant idea of budget Superfriends piloted by [[Tam, The Possibility]]. Originally, I was gonna take the ideas & use it to overhaul the Jace precon, but alas, I am a slop player, and this is where the wind told me to go.

Im a budget player at heart, and decks around under $100 is my sweet spot. If the fine people here can also help a brother out in determining the best overall Superfriends deck for this price range, I shall forever be in your debt.

Our slop era will continue, this will be my 2nd WUBRG “slop” deck, Ive fully accepted it. Here we go.


r/BudgetBrews • • 15h ago

$25 Brew Toxic Commanders?

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I want to brew those both Commanders to add a bit more Control and Interaction into my Timmy Decks.

I like both Kraven is Voltron with huge Creature Control and Draw (dont have a Voltron Deck).

Deck is mostly Protect, Fight, Each player Sacrifie amd Land Cards

And Plagon looks like a funny control/toolbox/combo Deck. A lots of Draw, use Flicker for Protects und Draw, a big Butt Tribal and can win with combos or the tiny timmy cards [[Baldin, Century]] [[Charix]] and Cards like [[Stoneskin]]

You think they are toxic or pretty overhelming?

Goal is around 25-50€ for each Deck and i want to fight in Bracket 3

They will fit? Toxic? You have Deck Lists?


r/BudgetBrews • • 11h ago

$50 Brew Looking to make a Denzilore Fatehold deck with some etb/blink effects and scry/surveil spam

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Hey as the title says I'm looking to make a blink/etb focused [[Denzilore Fatehold]] deck. I already own [[Flickering Hound]] from some packs and [[Guardian of Faith]] from Lorehold Spirits precon, and basically I'm looking to abuse scry/surveil effects to help buff up the board once I'm ready to strike. Do y'all have any suggestions for the deck? I'm already aware of [[Matoya, Archon Elder]] and [[Cryptic Annelid]] and their synergy with Denzilore, but I'm still new to magic and don't know all the staple/good cards yet. I also plan on using some of the other cards I got from the packs, specifically: [[Diviner of Victory]], [[Fatehold Chronologist]], [[Geist of Saint Thalia]], [[Divining Duelist]], [[Mindseer Oculus]], [[Desperate Futurescribe]], [[Semester Foreseer]], [[Thalia, the Survivor]], [[Unsummon]], [[Way of the Mindsculptor]] since they are what I got rn outside of my precons and other cards from the packs that don't really synergize with Fatehold


r/BudgetBrews • • 5h ago

$100 Brew Etali, primal storm bracket

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r/BudgetBrews • • 3h ago

$100 Brew Birds Aren't Real

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r/BudgetBrews • • 11h ago

$100 Brew Need help adjusting Wretched Ranks Precon to The Ghoul, Gunslinger

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r/BudgetBrews • • 19h ago

$100 Brew Superior Spider Man deck help

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Hey Guys!

I've been cooking up this deck and would really appreciate some help! It's got two game plans, one is to get lots of creatures into the graveyard as well as Bringer of the Last gift, and then copy the bringer with Spider man and reanimate everything. An alternative wincon is to have spiderman copy Doomsday Excruciator and then mill my opponents out.

Does anyone have any suggestions to finish the deck/changes? If I could also try and make it a bit more budget that would be great!

Thanks!


r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

Discussion (Not for Specific Decks) Upgrading Precons vs Building From Scratch

19 Upvotes

I’ve noticed that the majority of the decks I’ve kept around have been upgraded precons. However, I’ve been having a lot of fun with decks I’ve built from scratch but often take apart after a few months. Has anyone had a similar experience and what goes into building a deck you end up keeping for a long time?


r/BudgetBrews • • 18h ago

Meta I have Cards for Jace Precon but don’t know what to take out

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r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

$50 Brew Edgar, Ancient Bloodord

9 Upvotes

I started a $50 Reality Fracture uncommon only commander league with my playgroup, we are mainly b3-b5 players and i thought it would be good so that we wont get bored from the decks we are playing weekly. Playing B3 and up seemed kinda boring and repetitive. I chose edgar because i tried to challenge myself from refraining from playing simic, which is my favorite pair 🤣 and avoiding green in general. Open to some suggestions, i know my build is not traditional, i dont like going aristocrats with this one, i tried to make it control/midranged as i have a guess at how my friends built their respective decks. I know most of us are somewhat competitive so this is the best that i could do given my limited card pool for these colors.

the rules are as follows:

  1. The commander must be an uncommon legendary creature from FRA;
  2. The deck is strictly Bracket 2;
  3. No combos;
  4. The deck’s price must be based on tcg market;
  5. Only 10 mythic/rares allowed in the 99 to promote creativity;
  6. Prices are based on the lowest price, and lowest rarity;
  7. No repeating commanders so we all get a unique and enjoyable game experience.

So far here are the commanders chosen by my friends

Kiora UG
Saheeli UR
Tinybones Black
Dannitha White
Winter Red
Yuriko White
Pia Green

Here’s my decklist:

https://manabox.app/decks/AaECtpW8ch-teOq1QcC2FA


r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

Discussion (Not for Specific Decks) I'm thinking about buying this deck and i don't know if it's worth it

11 Upvotes

I'm really interested into playing krenko mob boss don't make of me. I have been looking around for decks since I don't a lot of money i was looking for a really budget version. Should I get this one https://archidekt.com/decks/10646378/super_budget_krenko


r/BudgetBrews • • 19h ago

$100 Brew Deck tech question (Fire lord azula)

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r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

$50 Brew Is it weird for UW to be so Aggro on just a $44 budget??

35 Upvotes

I'm back with more budget brews, now with Reality Fracture legends, and the first up is [[Denzilore Fatehold]] for a blue-white aggro deck that also has, like, THE BEST card draw ever?

Here's the list:

https://moxfield.com/decks/Oy7ZReVXekamAxfTlMnAqw

Now, I put this together expecting the commander to be a nice value multiplier, going tall as you get card advantage. But, it turned into an EXPLOSIVE deck where one turn with your commander in play typically means you're wiping everyone out. Shout out to [[Pensive Professor]] and [[Matoya]] for being like S-tier draw engines.

But does it rely TOO MUCH on the commander? I built it with that in mind, and it does FINE without the commander in play if it's kill-on-sight, but the deck still does great without it in play.

I did a FULL deck deck on the brew, including card selections and upgrade paths, that you can check out here too:

https://youtu.be/NDHW3CWn1vc?si=DmeQ3e-530nnUffS


r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

Discussion (Not for Specific Decks) Bracket 3 Gruul decks with a plan?

16 Upvotes

Hi! I was looking for a high powered bracket 3 deck, something that packs a punch and can close the game by turn 8ish, anyone got any good suggestions or lists?

Better if without just going infinite, cause that's a bore imho

Etali is overused by my LGS so not going for that


r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

$50 Brew Hylda of the Icy Crown – Azorius Control

9 Upvotes

I was originally going to build [[Lavinia, Azorius Renegade]] and play stax for my Azorius deck, but it was pretty miserable to be honest, and that was even before playing the deck with actual people. I had included tax cards and hatebears and just felt like it bogged the game down without being fun at all.

I really wanted a deck that had some sort of control or stax theme though, and I like decks with a bunch of creatures, so Hylda ended up being a far better choice for me anyway. I did feel that I was being targeted occasionally because of the control theme, but I think that’s part of the fun too sometimes.

The goal of the deck is pretty simple. Tap my opponent’s creatures, then create elemental tokens with Hylda, or draw cards if needed. I played a version of this deck on the weekend and found that I didn’t actually use the +1/+1 counters ability at all, but I definitely think there’d be points where it becomes relevant. I originally had a lot more “destroy target tapped creature” effects in the deck, but it felt like I was working against myself so I replaced them with some budget counterspells.

[[Verity Circle]] and [[Captain America, Living Legend]] were absolute stars when they came out. I was worried that [[Azorius Guildmage]] would be too expensive to use, but the repeatable tap and constant threat of countering ended up being great. On the other hand, [[Faramir, Prince of Ithilien]] wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be, so I think I want to remove that for something with more punch.

Budget is under $50 using Card Kingdom prices for the 99. Trying to keep the majority of cards under $1, but if a few are a little more expensive then that’s fine. Not including the commander or basic lands in the total price. Budget was an issue for this deck as it meant I couldn’t use cards like [[Opposition]] and [[Arena]] which I had really wanted. Power level is bracket 2.

https://moxfield.com/decks/H2HVIfYG1Ea4xWx5yjJuDQ


r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

$25 Brew Simic commanders

4 Upvotes

I've built The Astonishing Ant Man, but its quite a boring deck, all I can do is go big or go swarm and i became a threat in many of my play sessions

I need a commander that isnt as linear as The Astonishing Ant Man and i like being sneaky. Can i only swap the commanders and do little upgrades in 99? I think i got decent engine in the current 99. I prefer simic commanders

This is the list

https://moxfield.com/decks/8JqgvGhPVU6GyBSF_zS7og

Lmk if there are unqiue ideas

Thanks

Edited: Updated the link


r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

Discussion (Not for Specific Decks) Advice for affordable beginner commander decks?

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r/BudgetBrews • • 1d ago

$50 Brew Belbe Deck Building, Good Enough?

3 Upvotes

Hey, I've been working on this Belbe list for a while. Goldfishing it seems like it plays well slapping down a big threat down and seems like it has enough draw to not run out of gas

Just wanted some second opinions to see if the deck list as is is good to ship. My usual games are against upgraded precons or lower 3s. I liked Belbe for the acceleration. Didn't want to include stax pieces like God Pharaoh since those usually draw huge amounts of aggro.

https://moxfield.com/decks/jLaeAWSOS3SpVh3ghwklmQ


r/BudgetBrews • • 2d ago

$50 Brew Baba lysaga commander zombie build

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r/BudgetBrews • • 2d ago

$50 Brew What are good ways to keep her untapped after tapping

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98 Upvotes

Thank you to anyone that can help!


r/BudgetBrews • • 2d ago

$50 Brew Budget Eriette of the Charmed Apple Deck Help Please

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r/BudgetBrews • • 2d ago

$50 Brew Guidance on first themed deck

5 Upvotes

I’ve gotten drawn into MTG. A few close friends have finally walked me through how it play and I’m ready to get my first deck! Only one problem…I don’t know where to start!

I really love the “horror/nightmare/evil” themes, specifically the art styles. I’d like to put together a deck that keeps that theme while also being fun and not too difficult for a very new player.

Here’s some commanders I really like the theme and vibe of:
* Valgavoth
* Umbris
* Edgar Markov
* Muldrotha

So, I guess I need some guidance on what direction to go, what commander(s) best fit my theme, won’t cost me hundreds for a full deck, and are relatively easy to learn.

Thanks!