ok ive thought about melek and i see that there is one thing that should go here: Sphinx-Bone Wand

If you feel like spending money, take a look at my melek deck

Dalek, Izzet Paragon

Ohhhh. That you are right! it should. I'll have to look around for one of those. Thanks for the suggestion! And yes, you are correct. While my decks don't have the "budget" tab placed on them, I'm a cheap-o when it comes to magic. I own every one of these and they were just sitting around in my library. lol.

There, added budget. lol.

Am I reading this right? A complete Commander deck for $20? That gets a +1 from me.

How well does it perform?

I made a melek budget deck as well. You might from some cards that would be useful here. Everything in the deck is less then $5.00 [most being less then $2.00]Melek Double casting for EDH fun-time

But I would highly recommend:

Soothsaying - Scry every turn using extra mana.

Cast Through Time - All your spells get another go.

Arcane Melee - reduces your Instants and sorceries by 2 color mana

Reliquary Tower - Having no max hand size in EDH is extremely helpful.

Djinn Illuminatus - Got extra mana, why not use all of it to cast that one spell even more

Joshuawesome: Thanks for the vote! I've played a few times in theory games just throwing out cards onto a board and dealing with them. It's done alright. It's maiden voyage will be next weekend. I'll be able to make some solid adjustments then. Veshuliq: Soothsaying would be amazing here. So would Arcane Melee and Reliquary Tower (as well as Library of Leng and the like, for that matter) and Djinn Illuminatus would just be sick. Got four mountains? Then have a 12 damage Lightning Bolt . But the Cast Through Time 's rebound ability has to be cast from your hand. It wouldn't trigger Melek's copy ability. On a side note: Would Melek's copy ability double up with the djinn's replicate ability? Or is that just wishful thinking that 4 mana creates a 24 damage Lightning Bolt in this combo?

The main thing with Cast Through Time is not all of your spells will be from you deck, no matter how much you want them to all be in your deck, its to help when you have spells in your hand you want to double on.

And melek does not copy the replicate. Melek just copies the effect ignoring the replicate so if you replicate a Lightning Bolt 4 times. You get the normal cast + Melek's cast + the 4 times you replicated it.

Veshuliq: True true. Good point. And thanks for the info. I've added these to my acquire list. Once I play a few games with the set as is, I will make adjustments.

I almost forgot:

Spiraling Embers can be useful as a late game finisher especially if people are making you draw alot of cards

Acquire can also be useful [average price is $1.60)

Red Sun's Zenith - a reoccuring Fireball to someone's face

Cards you can play just for fun.

Rivals' Duel - Make your opponent's creatures fight for your amusement :D

Thanks! I'll add that to my list as well. I Also added Ral Zarek . It kinda breaks my whole "budget" thing, but I recently pulled that during the prerelease. Thoughts on adding him?

its your call on that. If you want to use him, then do it

to bad Scroll Rack cost so much

I am not pro in EDH but i am interested to Melek deck as well.try Braid of Fire , Sensei's Divining Top , Fog Bank , Seething Song

The Fog Bank is an excellent idea. However, Braid of Fire won't be of much use because mana pools empty every phase. The Divining top is a little on the expensive side for me. Seething Song while an excellent idea for generating mana for red, there's not enough red cards that do similar things to make the effect pop up more than 1% of the time. However, on second though, It might be a good idea to hold onto. What would you suggest that I take out for the Seething Song ? Suggest it again and I'll accept it. I had already denied it by the time I started writing this. lol