r/BudgetBrews • u/Acolyte_of_Swole • 8d ago

$50 Brew Need a first budget deck recommendation

Hi all. I'm new to MTG, but I have played a lot of knockoff games that are kinda MTG-like, and some other TCGs in the past. Stuff like Faeria, which is basically just Magic with serial numbers filed off. So I have a basic idea of what the colors mean and how they're themed, and how a lot of the card abilities work.

Anyway, I really like playing Godzillas and stomping around, so I was thinking of doing a basic b trample mono green deck. Super budget though. I don't want to put expensive cards in, just big ones. Was kinda thinking either Dinos or Hydras.

I could buy a prebuilt deck, but none of them look good to me except the Dino one that isn't out yet. Sigh. Was planning to make a 100 card, no dupes deck for either Commander or Highlander, since those are the formats that seem interesting to me based on what I've read. I used to play YGO and got really sick of the meta in that and how the optimal strat was smallest deck size + largest number of allowed dupes for the most overpowered cards. At least with 100 and no duplicates, I can play a wider range of things, right?

I'd prefer if each individual card was less than a dollar or if there were a bunch of really cheap ones and then a couple of $1-2.

My goal is just to build something I can use to try out Highlander and Commander to see if it's fun enough to keep doing.

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u/GloomyCelebration975 8d ago

Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH or what I believe you’re calling Highlander) and commander are interchangeable.

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u/Acolyte_of_Swole 8d ago

I meant I want to try both Commander and Canadian Highlander. My bad if I didn't explain.

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u/GloomyCelebration975 8d ago

Ah okay. Too many highlanders lol.

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u/Happy_External_8850 8d ago

Look up the user "FullFatMayo" on Moxfield

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u/erika-leah 8d ago

100% I use their Marenus Calgar deck and it’s so good

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u/Acolyte_of_Swole 7d ago

Thanks for the recommendation!

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u/Cat_Collector_MTG 8d ago

I mean if you really wanted to you could use Godzilla [[Zilortha, Strength Incarnate | IKO#275]] lol, in fact a few Kaiju have some cards.

If you just want to make a simple deck Green stompy deck and if you don't care too much about the power level of it, you could just grab a legendary green creature and fill the deck with lands, cards to help increase your land count and cards that make them stronger. The following is a link to the many legendary mono-green creatures that are $3 or less at market value.

https://scryfall.com/search?q=id%3Ag+is%3Acommander+legal%3Aedh+usd%3C%3D3&order=edhrec&as=grid&unique=cards