I would like to nominate Blessings from Nyx for the Pauper cheap deck folder. This deck runs wicked strong, and players can get it for only $3.20 on MTGO. It's easy to understand, fast to play, and is perfect for someone looking to give Magic a try without breaking the bank.

Blessings from Nyx

Pauper saturnosring

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@flintshadowrider,

No problem!

@Panzerforge,

Thanks for the suggestion!

This is rather off-topic, but is Pauper a format for 60-card decks made entirely with commons?

This is a question for Panzerforge?

@ThoAlmighty

The Pauper Format

Tolarian Community College video on Pauper

It says it's a Magic Online format, but it is just as easily a paper format.

I have a decklist for you: $20, usually wins on the early turns. Infinity Budget.

(If that didn't work)

Sure!

Yes ThoAlmighty, Pauper is 60 card decks, all common, with a 15 card sideboard, also common.

Normal Pauper is any card that has been released in common on MTGO. "Paper Pauper" is any card released common in print.

Decks are fun to build, and will run you between $10 and $50. It's my favorite format.

Thanks TheHroth, Panzerforge, and ThoAlmighty.

@Trockenmatt, thanks for the suggestion. I've sent it to the committee for reviewing!

That actually sounds like an awesome format, because I really don't like shelling out more than $50 for a deck, and it helps that they playing field is (mostly) even. The only problem I worry about when I make a deck is "how large is the player base?" I usually only play Modern and EDH, because I know I can always find someone else with a deck in that format. I don't use MTGO, so I'm wondering if I'd end up using my deck often enough to make it worth getting.

Pauper has a good playerbase. There is a nearby shop doing big tournements, and they sell standard pauper commons at 50 per $1!

Atony1400 what do you think of this:

It is an Honor to be Sacrificed (Budget Build!)

Standard ninjaclevs13

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@ninjaclevs13,

I was honestly considering it from the thread. I'll send it to the committee for reviewing!

Thanks very much!

No problem ninjaclevs13!

I don't believe the modern decks are even viable.

http://tappedout.net/users/BudgetMTGDecks/ this YouTube channel has a page here with decks that are really cheap and competitive

bah-bammmm, would you mind elaborating please? Do you think all the modern decks in the folder are not competitive?

no i just wanted to say that they would be competitive with all the synergy they use.

I think that those budget options are great decks for casual play, but I also believe that if you were to take any of them to a modern tournament, you would go 0-4. If you want a tournament viable deck, you have to spend money. It's a rule of thumb. You need fetches, and shocks if you aren't going mono colored. Even so, the monocolored competetive decks use expensive cards. Just look at burn, it even uses fetchlands to thn out the deck.

As for the decks requested by the community, "temur midrange" and "azan midrange" all require fetches and shocks. And any good aggro strategy sadly requires tarmogoyf.

There are so many cards in magic you can't narrow down a format like that. Tarmogoyf is really good but it's expected and it's beatable. My friend beat jund (with goyfs) easily with a GW aggro that has 0 Tarmogoyfs at this year's regionals that just happened. I have a goyf-less jund aggro deck (not a budget deck, link below) that stands up well in my play group. Honestly it's quite good just under tested at this point. Personally I think "budget" for modern is anything under $200 that is semi-competitive and we may be changing some things around here to include decks like that. Is that something you or other users might be interested in?

Delve into my Junderwear

Modern Squirrel_of_War

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Maybe. Even though Tarmogoyf is expensive, it is great. There is a reason it costs that much. It's a wonderful card, and it never really hurts to have it in any green deck, unless it had some delve aspect. Yeah, you don't NEED Tarmogoyf, but it is so good that it cant just be ignored.I'm sure a $200 budget modern deck would do pretty ok at a local tournament, but these modern budget decks listed here just wouldn't do very good at all in a local store. you can get away with a budget deck in the standard format, mostly because it is a limited format. that's why I hear black white warriors did well at fnm, it is because standard is a limited format. these modern decks just aren't very good outside the kitchen table.

It's hard to be competitive and money-friendly in one action, but thinking about so, a raise in the "budget" cap for Modern seems appropriate. In a format like modern, it's pretty much a fight of wallets more than anything else when it comes to the "competitive" aspect. Even some of the better "fun" decks can be ridiculously costly.

Despite all that, though, what matters in MTG is that you're having fun. When you think only of the formats that consist of the same 3~5 decks and tossing mad money just to win in a few turns and nothing else, you're kind of forgetting what makes MTG the diverse, fun game it was meant to be.

I think I see what your saying, DeeLight, and bah-bammmm. Let me talk to the committee and see what they think.

Yeah fun matters, but this "club" is supposed to find budget competetive decks, which don't really exist.