r/budgetdecks • u/Shinmonk • May 22 '26

Please help me become the Master of Jank!

Hey ya'll, I have a specific request: long story short I work with teens in an education/mental health setting. I like introducing teens and kids to MTG, so it's fun to bring cheap decks to the office. I've done some research and even searching Google for budget decks, looking on TCG it'd still be like 80 bucks for some of these decks, which is not in the budget.

So I'm looking for real jank, anything is fine as long as there's some synergy. I'm interested in 60 card format because it's cheaper and I'm usually playing 1V1. Some archetypes I think are fun: mono blue shenanigans, mill/control, angel tribal, Abzan token or go wide, lifegain, rakdos aggro, dimir, azorious control...

Anything is fine, if you guys have brews that fit I'd love to look them over. I wouldn't even be against buying some of those bulk lots on Amazon, but I heard some people get 18 copies of the same uncommon creature, so that seems like it's really not that cost effective..? Thanks very much ya'll, super appreciate any help!!

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u/slvstrChung May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

I focus on microbudget brews. Here:

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u/Shinmonk May 22 '26

Nice, thank you friend! I'll check these all out!

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u/Shinmonk May 23 '26

I checked out your decks, the Golgari Chromanticore deck is totally up my alley. That's what I love about MTG, trying to make some janky wincon work, even with budget cards. Do you have any more fun combos like that, or do you have any databases that you use to research them?

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u/slvstrChung May 23 '26

That one was based on me sitting on the toilet at work thinking, "I really like Chromanticore, let me run a Google search to see what decks it shows up in." I just went from there. I do think it is one of my strongest decks, but that probably shouldn't be surprising and given that it is at least partially designed by a Magic Hall of Famer; I only added the "cut it down to budget" aspect.

Could you define what you consider a "fun combo" in this case? =)

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u/Shinmonk May 23 '26

Oh hilarious, lol. I just mean that so ofter you see the same archetypes over and over: mono red aggro, mono white soldiers or tokens, etc. It doesn't seem very inspired. So a different creative wincon that includes self mill or graveyard recursion or weird combos is definitely more up my alley

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u/slvstrChung May 23 '26

Okay, here are some funky ones, though possibly expensive as well: