How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People for <$99 (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People for <$99

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

Ender666666

Land (37)

Draw (11)

Removal (7)

Counterspell (5)

Reusable (4)

Other (2)

Maze's-End (28)

Reanimation (15)

Retrieval (11)

Lifegain (4)

Discard (2)

Commander (1)

Sacrifice (21)

Fixing (12)

Ramp (8)

Beatsticks (4)

Tutor (4)

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

This is the current list, which I will incorporate into my groups later. Enjoy!!!

1 Child of Alara (FTV)
1 Abjure (WTH)
1 Aftermath Analyst (MKM)
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse (FDN)
1 Anguished Unmaking (LTC)
1 Archaeomancer (M14)
1 Assassin's Trophy (MKM)
1 Azorius Guildgate (FDN)
1 Back for More (IKO)
1 Baldur's Gate (CLB)
1 Basilisk Gate (M3C)
1 Beast Within (MIC)
1 Black Dragon Gate (CLB)
1 Boros Guildgate (GRN)
1 Cascading Cataracts (AKH)
1 Caustic Caterpillar (ORI)
1 Chainer's Edict (DMR)
1 Circuitous Route (FDN)
1 Citadel Gate (CLB)
1 Cliffgate (CLB)
1 Command Tower (CMR)
1 Corrupted Conviction (OTJ)
1 Costly Plunder (XLN)
1 Crop Rotation (DMR)
1 Deadly Dispute (CLB)
1 Demonic Vigor (DOM)
1 Diabolic Edict (MH1)
1 Dimir Guildgate (MM3)
1 Diregraf Rebirth (MID)
1 District Guide (GRN)
1 Dread Return (CMM)
1 Dutiful Attendant (JMP)
1 Eternal Witness (PLST)
1 Eviscerator's Insight (MH3)
1 Evolving Wilds (WOE)
1 Fabled Passage (PBLB)
1 False Demise (ALL)
1 Forest (FDN)
1 Gatecreeper Vine (RTR)
1 Gateway Plaza (WAR)
1 Genesis (MH1)
1 Genesis Wave (FDN)
1 Gift of Immortality (THS)
1 Golgari Guildgate (FDN)
1 Gond Gate (CLB)
1 Greenwarden of Murasa (BFZ)
1 Gruul Guildgate (FDN)
1 Heap Gate (CLB)
1 High Market (C15)
1 Island (FDN)
1 Izzet Guildgate (FDN)
1 Journey to Eternity / Atzal, Cave of Eternity (PLST)
1 Kaya's Ghostform (WAR)
1 Life's Legacy (M15)
1 Makeshift Mannequin (ARC)
1 Malakir Rebirth / Malakir Mire (ZNR)
1 Manor Gate (CLB)
1 Maze's End (PDGM)
1 Mnemonic Wall (THS)
1 Morbid Curiosity (KLD)
1 Mountain (FDN)
1 Muddle the Mixture (RVR)
1 Mystical Tutor (DMR)
1 Nasty End (LTR)
1 Navigation Orb (CLB)
1 Nezahal, Primal Tide (RIX)
1 Obzedat's Aid (DGM)
1 Open the Gates (RNA)
1 Orzhov Guildgate (RNA)
1 Outrageous Robbery (MKM)
1 Perplex (RAV)
1 Plains (FDN)
1 Planar Nexus (M3C)
1 Plaza of Harmony (RNA)
1 Rakdos Guildgate (DGM)
1 Reckoner's Bargain (PLST)
1 Scholar of the Ages (CMR)
1 Sea Gate (CLB)
1 Seasons Past (SOI)
1 Selesnya Guildgate (GRN)
1 Simic Guildgate (FDN)
1 Skyclave Relic (MOC)
1 Stitch Together (JUD)
1 Swamp (FDN)
1 Sylvan Scrying (M3C)
1 Talon Gates of Madara (M3C)
1 Tempt with Discovery (C16)
1 Terramorphic Expanse (CMM)
1 The Black Gate (LTC)
1 Thran Portal (PDMU)
1 Timeless Witness (MH2)
1 Tithing Blade / Consuming Sepulcher (LCI)
1 Unburial Rites (AFC)
1 Unhallowed Pact (AVR)
1 Victimize (MOC)
1 Village Rites (J25)
1 Villainous Wealth (OTC)
1 Void Shatter (OGW)
1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan (CMM)
1 Zombify (FDN)

** If you like this, or if it made you smile, please show your support by +1 Upvoting! **

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

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:

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

Suggestions

Updates Add

Image View Timeline

Card Odds v1 Draw hand

Add to folder Copy

Download / Export / Embed Code

Comments View Archive

Attention! Complete Comment Tutorial! This annoying message will go away once you do!

Comment:

Become a supporter of TappedOut and hide ads for only $3/month!

Important! Formatting tips — Comment Tutorial — markdown syntax

Please login to comment

Revision 68 See all

(1 year ago)

+1	Nearby Planet	main
+1	Nine-Fingers Keene	main
-1	Scholar of the Ages	main

Top Ranked	Achieved #3 position overall 7 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Exile 1 year ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Five Color 5 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 days
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
Folders	EDH, Potential Decks, Interesting, EDH - Child of Alara, Edh, EDH, good ideas, EDH Decks, Inspiration, Cool Decks
Votes
Ignored suggestions
Shared with
Views

Magic the Gathering, FNM is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. This site is unaffiliated. Articles and comments are user-submitted and do not represent official endorsements of this site.