How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People for <$99

Commander / EDH Budget Control Exile Flashback Group Slug Multiplayer Reanimator Sacrifice

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Land (37)

• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Baldur's Gate
• 1x Basilisk Gate
• 1x Black Dragon Gate
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Citadel Gate
• 1x Cliffgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 2x Forest
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Gond Gate
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Heap Gate
• 1x High Market
• 3x Island
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Manor Gate
• 1x Maze's End
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plaza of Harmony
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Sea Gate
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 2x Swamp
• 1x The Black Gate
• 1x Thran Portal

Draw (11)

• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Nasty End
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Perilous Research
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Village Rites

Removal (7)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Back for More
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 1x Diabolic Edict

Counterspell (5)

• 1x Abjure
• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Void Shatter

Reusable (4)

• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Worthy Cause

Other (2)

• 1x Nearby Planet
• 1x Nine-Fingers Keene

Maze's-End (28)

• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Baldur's Gate
• 1x Basilisk Gate
• 1x Black Dragon Gate
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Citadel Gate
• 1x Cliffgate
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x District Guide
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Gond Gate
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Heap Gate
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Manor Gate
• 1x Maze's End
• 1x Navigation Orb
• 1x Open the Gates
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Sea Gate
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x The Black Gate
• 1x Thran Portal

Reanimation (15)

• 1x Back for More
• 1x Demonic Vigor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x False Demise
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Obzedat's Aid
• 1x Rescue from the Underworld
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Unburial Rites
• 1x Unhallowed Pact
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Zombify

Retrieval (11)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Diregraf Rebirth
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Genesis
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Makeshift Mannequin
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Timeless Witness

Lifegain (4)

• 1x High Market
• 1x Plaza of Harmony
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Worthy Cause

Discard (2)

• 1x Mind Extraction
• 1x Perplex

Commander (1)

Sacrifice (21)

• 1x Abjure
• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Diabolic Edict
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x High Market
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Mind Extraction
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Nasty End
• 1x Perilous Research
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Rescue from the Underworld
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Worthy Cause
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Fixing (12)

• 1x Cascading Cataracts
• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x District Guide
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Navigation Orb
• 1x Open the Gates
• 1x Plaza of Harmony
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Ramp (8)

• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x District Guide
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Open the Gates
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Tempt with Discovery

Beatsticks (4)

• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Villainous Wealth
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Tutor (4)

• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Sylvan Scrying

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Sub-$100 Secret Sultai, Child of Alara deck, focused on Maze's End wins, and repeatedly finding and casting Villainous Wealth to use our Opponents' decks and strategies against them while achieving our stated goal. Child of Alara is massive value and offers exceptional board control once in play

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Due (mostly) to the nature of MTG Finance, and the general trend of MTG cards to gain value, this has slowly crept from a $50 list to a $70 list to now one that hovers just below $99. It's still budget by most standards, and punches above its weight class due to the highly synergistic nature of the card selection

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This is a foiled out, budget build, of a Child of Alara deck. Based upon a list I found on Facebook (sorry, no link available), which used almost exclusively commons.

The stock build has incredible synergy and interwoven card interactions (when was the last time you saw someone Splice onto Arcane?), and is tough to beat on it's own... It's quite fun taking down 3-4 decks with one that can cost about the same as $117 on TCG...

It's a fun, 5C-Sultai deck that aims to win by Maze's End, or by repeatedly casting Villainous Wealth and beating our opponents at their own game. Child of Alara is used to repeatedly and reliably wipe the board as threats come your way. Although I have pimped it out to Blingtown, the deck can currently be bought for as little as $117 on TCGPlayer. The goal is to have a competitive deck that costs next to nothing, to show that Commander does not have to be expensive to be powerful and fun. I hope you'll enjoy perusing it

Finally, I decided to foil the deck out because, SHINY! Non-foil, the current list costs $117 on TCG... Incredibly affordable.

Here is the list on which this beastie is based:

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1x Child of Alara

1x Anarchist
1x Arcane Denial
1x Archaeomancer
1x Auramancer
1x Azorius Guildgate
1x Bojuka Bog
1x Boros Guildgate
1x Brainspoil
1x Breath of Life
1x Capsize
1x Collateral Damage
1x Command Tower
1x Counterspell
1x Cultivate
1x Darksteel Ingot
1x Death Denied
1x Diabolic Edict
1x Dimir Guildgate
1x Dimir House Guard
1x Disturbed Burial
1x Dutiful Attendant
1x Elven Cache
1x Ethereal Haze
1x Evolving Wilds
1x Faerie Trickery
1x False Demise
1x Far Wanderings
1x Fling
5x Forest
1x Gatecreeper Vine
1x Ghostly Flicker
1x Golgari Guildgate
1x Grave Robbers
1x Gravepurge
1x Grim Harvest
1x Gruul Guildgate
1x Hana Kami
7x Island
1x Izzet Chronarch
1x Izzet Guildgate
1x Joyous Respite
1x Kodama's Reach
1x Krosan Tusker
1x Maze's End
1x Mind Extraction
1x Mnemonic Wall
3x Mountain
1x Muddle the Mixture
1x Mulldrifter
1x Mystical Teachings
1x Oblivion Ring
1x Ondu Giant
1x Opal Palace
1x Orzhov Guildgate
1x Peer Through Depths
1x Perilous Research
1x Perplex
1x Petals of Insight
2x Plains
1x Primal Growth
1x Qasali Pridemage
1x Rakdos Guildgate
1x Reap and Sow
1x Rolling Thunder
1x Rupture Spire
1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
1x Scrivener
1x Selesnya Guildgate
1x Shade's Form
1x Shred Memory
1x Simic Guildgate
1x Soulless Revival
5x Swamp
1x Terminate
1x Terramorphic Expanse
1x Tilling Treefolk
1x Transguild Promenade
1x Treasure Cruise
1x Unhallowed Pact
1x Urborg Uprising
1x Vedalken AEthermage
1x Wrecking Ball

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 39 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.08
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Treasure
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