I Made 50 Commander Decks Under $50!

Find all the deck lists here: www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/...
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Armix, Filigree Thrasher // Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer
02:57 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch
05:13 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
07:49 Breena, the Demagogue
10:31 Bruna, Light of Alabaster
12:11 Demonlord Belzenlok
13:06 Depala, Pilot Exemplar
15:21 Dralnu, Lich Lord
18:32 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
20:30 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur // Esior, Wardwing Familiar
22:07 Evra, Halcyon Witness
24:13 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator
25:43 Galadriel of Lothlorien
28:00 General Ferrous Rokiric
29:47 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
30:57 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
32:52 Hallar, the Firefletcher
35:06 Iname, Death Aspect
37:18 Isperia the Inscrutable
39:29 Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge
41:24 Jodah, the Unifier
43:42 Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
45:31 Kalamax, the Stormsire
49:02 Kardur, Doomscourge
50:37 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
52:48 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
53:53 Minn, Wily Illusionist
56:38 Myra the Magnificent
58:26 Nahiri, Forged in Fury
1:00:28 Narset, Enlightened Exile
1:01:53 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
1:04:22 Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper
1:06:37 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
1:08:35 Omnath, Locus of Creation
1:10:41 Otharri, Suns' Glory
1:12:34 Ramos, Dragon Engine
1:14:29 Sauron, the Dark Lord
1:16:35 Sefris of the Hidden Ways
1:18:10 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
1:19:27 Siona, Captain of the Pyleas
1:21:50 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave
1:23:48 Stangg, Echo Warrior
1:25:44 Torens, Fist of the Angels
1:27:17 Tovolar, Dire Overlord
1:29:04 Vadrik, Astral Archmage
1:31:36 Verazol, the Split Current
1:33:22 Volrath the Fallen
1:35:36 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
1:37:35 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
1:39:48 Zada, Hedron Grinder
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[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

You can find all the decks here: www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/i-made-50-commander-decks-under-50 The commanders in this video: Armix, Filigree Thrasher // Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer Baba Lysaga, Night Witch Braids, Arisen Nightmare Breena, the Demagogue Bruna, Light of Alabaster Demonlord Belzenlok Depala, Pilot Exemplar Dralnu, Lich Lord Edric, Spymaster of Trest Eligeth, Crossroads Augur // Esior, Wardwing Familiar Evra, Halcyon Witness Firkraag, Cunning Instigator Galadriel of Lothlorien General Ferrous Rokiric Ghalta, Primal Hunger Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor Hallar, the Firefletcher Iname, Death Aspect Isperia the Inscrutable Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge Jodah, the Unifier Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir Kalamax, the Stormsire Kardur, Doomscourge Kozilek, the Great Distortion Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice Minn, Wily Illusionist Myra the Magnificent Nahiri, Forged in Fury Narset, Enlightened Exile Niv-Mizzet, Parun Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin Omnath, Locus of Creation Otharri, Suns' Glory Ramos, Dragon Engine Sauron, the Dark Lord Sefris of the Hidden Ways Shorikai, Genesis Engine Siona, Captain of the Pyleas Skullbriar, the Walking Grave Stangg, Echo Warrior Torens, Fist of the Angels Tovolar, Dire Overlord Vadrik, Astral Archmage Verazol, the Split Current Volrath the Fallen Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow Zada, Hedron Grinder

[@aidangray7087]

Do you end up playing Hallar more than Verazol or is it a pretty even split?

[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

@@aidangray7087 I end up playing Hallar more because it's more aggressive and I tend to enjoy aggro decks more these days.

[@armandoacosta9828]

What does 400 bad request mean?

[@NickLyttle]

This rules - what a crazy amount of work to put together Tomer. Big ups, much appreciated for the budget brewers out there.

[@bens3671]

I don’t normally comment, but Tomer deserves all the props for this video, and for just being an amazing deck builder in general. I purchased the Ob-Nixilis deck when Tomer did the original Short. I liked it so much that I followed his $100 upgrade guide and then even added a couple of premium upgrades. Definitely happy with my experience and I can 100% recommend this as a way to cheaply try out decks.

[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

I appreciate the kind words! Glad I could help :)

[@Sh1nosukeh]

Tomer I love you, and this is now my EDH bible. I've sent it to all my friends so that we can play some budget pods and see how these beauties fare against one another. Thank you ❤

[@oblivions_guide]

Just a note, in your article, the "Tovolar Werewolves" list is posted twice, the second being replacing the "Torens Go Wide Humans" list.

[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

Fixed thanks!

[@MaxMckayful]

Read that as Torens Go Wild, which um, yeah.

[@pauldyson8098]

Tomer does yeoman's work for the format and the community. This is excellent. I have a budget Light-Paws deck and I built it, honestly, because I wanted to see if it would still be good without all the money cards. Turns out it is.

[@efnfen]

Wow Tomer, excellent work. This is dense content that a person can come back to again and again to try something new. Thank you

[@neimaddamienjackson9256]

It is 100% an art making budget decks that are as compelling and competitive as these. I really appreciate all the time and effort that was put in to designing these and making the video. it has been super helpful. I love playing budget as much as possible. Purely to save money and get people scratching their heads w a bunch of "jank" at 100% synergy. Thank you Tomer on behalf of the budget peeps worldwide!

[@blipboyy]

Thank you for all of your time and dedication towards this!

[@geeknseek]

Tomer, this video is AWESOME! Going to recommend this video and article to all new players and my friends when they get an itch to try something new. As always, thanks for what you do for the commander community

[@TazChannel101]

This is quite the achievement Tomer! Thanks for all the work you put into this community.

[@aahansen82]

You're awesome, Tomer! Thank you so much for putting this together!

[@flashoxmtg]

This video is super impressive! What a monumental undertaking!

[@MonsterCC]

This is amazing! Thanks Tomer!

[@travisknapp5022]

Tomer you're the reason I got into Commander and love the format! This video freaking rocks. I'm definitely going to play the Narset deck. Thanks for the video and all the work put into it! Love your builds and quality work.

[@moralessanchezoscarelias6412]

Hello, friend Tomer! This is a crazy amount of work, amazing!

[@gareth542]

I really appreciate this. I needed some lower powered decks to match power levels, but I just dont have the time (or frankly interest) to brew budget decks. Your decks have been a huge help.

[@Potaytoes38]

This video was a ton of fun to watch and listen too. Looks like a TON of work so I appreciate you putting this together. A group of friends of mine are doing $50 builds and there's so many fun off meta ideas here.

[@unusuallycloudy]

Really enjoyed this. Helps shine a light on lesser used commanders and archetypes! Thanks Tomer!

[@skabba]

I keep coming back to rewatch this video - incredible content! Looking forward to more!

[@ultra_3534]

The Dralnu build idea is amazing! Thanks for the inspiration!

[@Slatefield100]

Might be weird, but shout out to the title card - considering how samey a lot of them can look, this one popped out at me in my feed. Simple but sweet.

[@BuddyTheCat2020]

Awesome Video, would love Chapters to make it easier to search through.

[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

Good suggestion! Chapters are added now :)

[@Asian_Caleb]

Wow, thanks for all the ideas!

[@SalmonColor]

Amazing video! I'm going to try out a handful for myself and share this with some friends that are getting into budget commander!

The amount of time that should have to be taken to create this video and article....WOW! Thank you for the effort Tommer, I'm looking forward to try several of these decks

[@-homerow-]

I would so love to see a $50 deck tournament!!!

[@DieJG]

Nice video Tomer, always doing a good job!

[@ryaankang5452]

Budget commander back at it again with a banger of a vid! Thanks for the great ideas

[@kemperfranklin1935]

Great video tomer, can’t wait to try some of these out

[@artcherkashyn7416]

Thank you for your work, Tomer!

[@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai]

I have a feeling that anytime someone on reddit asks about good budget ideas, this is going to be the first thing people link to for the next few years, at least. What a great tool for budget brewing!

[@heavenlyevan]

I watched the whole video! Really thorough and well made.

[@ardras4649]

You did WHAT?? Awesome work, Tomer!

[@dpriopelle]

This is straight up one of the most useful and commited videos ive ever watched

[@martinprybylski2392]

Tomer, this is some kf your best content. Thanks for your hard work. A+

[@ryaneiler1422]

Incredible work, well done

[@MentalCrusader]

Fantastic work! I hope you do this again sometime in the (probably far) future! Maybe each member could do 10 decks?

[@benrichardson5662]

This makes me feel inspired to build up a similar list. I thoroughly enjoy budget lists because the restriction of price forces creativity.

[@-homerow-]

I've been wishing for Budget Commander videos and I'd say this pretty much does the trick haha!

[@wanderyak5749]

Nice work Tomer! Just ordered the missing cards for the Firkraag and the Evra deck.

[@mtg4204]

I already love the first deck, wow 50 decks is real dedication!

[@mjunhzbgt1]

Wow, budget commander paradise! :D

[@Nathanael_Forlorn]

This is just on time! Brewing my first ever commander deck right now and realising that some of the decklist is 50 dollars for a single card. :x

[@damens-xn9pu]

I barely have time playing All the decks i own and now this :) much appreciated especially since a lot of them are very unique and not just generic decks.

[@ThorgisArcade]

Great video, I might have to try out that Firkraag deck.

[@blakeevans5724]

Just got into magic a week ago. Love this video ^ will definitely look at building some of these

[@thibaultlion9952]

What a video ! Tomer is the hero we don't deserve 😲

[@dudemetslagroom8065]

i love this. Just simple cheap fun commander decks!

[@danielbaker5365]

Good job Tomer. Love the vid

[@TheGrantross]

Might be the best video ever. I love budget and deck techs. Ya just gave me 50 of each ❤❤❤❤

[@moabd1366]

Fantastic video. I just started playing MTG and have not chosen a comander yet, but this help a lot with knowing play style and cheap. May i suggest a follow-up video with upgrades or substitutions to upgrade the deck one likes.

[@Schmanton]

Thanks Tomer, you inspired me to make an atteaction deck on my own ;)

[@blakeevans5724]

Just got into magic a week ago. Some of the green decks sound fun. I’ll definitely look at building some of these 👌🏼

[@aidangray7087]

I would love to see some data on all 50 deck lists combined. Which cards were most commonly included, what cards were worthy of spending more on, how do the rules for lands, ramp, card draw etc apply when the budget is $50?

[@technetin]

Great video thanks, gonna try Sauron

[@mtg1022]

Tomer is a mad man for doing this much work and the whole community thanks him for it Edit I would love to see 50 dollar versions of cedh decks like winota

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

I've seen _$20_ Winota lists - most of the cost is in the fast mana, dual lands, and stax pieces, so if you cut the stax elements in favor of just pure aggro and accept an entirely basic landbase, you can have a really cheap deck that still kills on turn 5-6.

[@SilentGe42]

Best series. Never stop this budget decks series q

[@leofireball8064]

Vadrik was a deck I made one evening when I forgot to bring my decks but had a few of my binders at my buddies house and surprisingly won against them. Definitely upgraded since then and is now a staple deck I play

[@sadfrog2575]

Great video! ❤

[@froggystrap1232]

incredible work !!!!

[@joey0g152]

Maximum effort toomer and love this video please do one every 3 months

[@wingusdingus1019]

This video is perfect for me, thanks king

[@starmanda88]

TOMER. THIS. IS. SO. SICK. THANK YOU!!!!!!

[@erelfink8822]

Can't wait to build some of these decks

[@nwoizaakgoldmann4519]

Thanks for the awesome video and the amount of work u have put in. Which one you guys think is the most powerful commander of these list?

[@Belena711]

Awesome project, Tomer. :) Very cool. It must have been fun to make, but the whole time I was thinking "man, this must've taken FOREVER", but you can't take TOO long, cuz prices change! Haha. Anyway, very cool, Thanks!

[@RefaTheGreat]

Thanks for the great work! These decks are sweet. Honestly the two big surprises for me were Feather and Talrand not being there, as they've always been the premier budget decks in my mind.

[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

Both are great yeah, I've done both before (Talrand was one of my very first a decade ago!). For this I just updated my most recent brews plus a few new ones.

[@ekolimitsLIVE]

That’s some hard work! Ggs

[@courtneylacroix1265]

Thank you for all the work you put into this ❤ got an awesome gift for my partner.

[@benrichardson5662]

I built a variation on the General Ferrous Rockiric deck. Man is it a ton of fun. It's amazing how much value you can generate. A surprise heavy lifter is Éomer, King of Rohan. By coincidence, most of the best Boros creatures just happen to be humans.

[@MixTwentyOne]

I'd love to see a Commander Clash video with the guys playing one of these decks each.

[@Halinn]

For a goad deck, I really like Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer partnered with Raised by Giants. Just permanently goad anything with less than 10 power (and you can voltron it up for even higher, as well as that being your own wincon)

[@SalmonColor]

The light-paws and Ob-Nix decks played really well! I won two games back to back!

[@ethanwebb5334]

Will this video finally break my decision paralysis for deckbuilding? Maybe! Thanks regardless, this is all super helpful

[@MaxMckayful]

Woah, quite a milestone! Quite the compendium.

[@FirstLast-to6nj]

Just bought the singles to build this Omnath deck, and decided to get Azusa and Locus of Roil as well for upgrades. Looking forward to see how it stacks up against a precon.

[@michaelpohl9077]

Pure class, thank you for this. I have used two decks myself and recommended other for my friends; they are a blast to play even convincing some of the spikier players to enjoy the format in another way. Is there a Decklist for your boyfriend's Eligeth deck?

[@Larkinzzz]

Love this type of content! Building a budget deck is a lot more fun (brain exercise) than mindlessly throwing together a $2000 deck. I'm currently in the process of trying to build a budget deck for each 2-color combination for MTGO where each deck must be under 3 tickets total cost. Was going to ask if you created all of these as some kind of challenge for this video alone, but luckily the article mentioned that most of these are updates to older budget brews you've made in the past. Would've been a ridiculous time commitment otherwise, even now with just the updates it must've cost a lot of time to finish these decks! Any chance there will be another commander clash soon where each deck must cost under like 2 or 3 tickets total?

[@kismet8010]

much appreciated my dude

[@RobWestTV]

Just wanted to say thank you for this video and the article. I've been very disheartened with the current state of Yugioh and being able to find comprehensive lists for cheap has really got me wanting to give Commander a go. Just bought the Baba Lysaga deck for myself today!

[@tylerfoster2814]

Good jorb!👍

[@grantmurdock7385]

To those looking at Edric, might I suggest Hypnotic Siren. 1/1 flier for 1, fits into the plan,. but it's been clutch late game. And 25 cents! Man, what an undertaking. I'm gonna try a couple of these.

[@DMCDCW]

Congratulations, this might be the most helpful content in EDH history. What would you recommend for upgrades to Firkraag, cunning instigator?

[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

It depends what you want to focus on. If you want to go all-in on Firkraag then invest in more cheap protection spells and clones like Spark Double and Sakashimas. If you want to focus on Dragons then grab the Ancient Dragons, useful Sarkhans etc.

[@Dikad132]

More of that 🎉🎉🎉

[@person3176]

this would be a fun commander clash episode, each player picks their favourite from this list and plays it as is.

[@SpecialKail]

I'm pretty sure Tomer has played almost all of these. Maybe not the exact lists but I def recognize a ton of these

[@mal3k1th]

I'm almost finished building your galadriel deck. just in time to start building one of these bad boys after.

[@TalonAires]

Nice video Tomer!!! It must have taken a lot of work!! Quick question for the Braids deck what would your first take outs be if you are trying to upgrade it.

[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

A general rule is upgrade cards with the same "role" so if you add a removal take out a removal, add a land take out a land.

[@SxTheBo]

All i can say is Thank You

[@brianokafor9748]

Hey tomer. Love these decks. I really like the sefris dungeon deck. What would be the first upgrades if you increased the budget to $100?

[@chrisgallo2236]

Saw the list for Torens and built a slightly upgraded version of it but it’s definitely my job of deck! Very much an Aggro player so I’m looking at Rockrik next I think…

[@mightyone3737]

Tomer seems like he's been busy! I love how Equinox feels like a fixed Pyramids. I think Ob Nixilis has a lower ceiling than Niv Mizzet, but Ob has a much higher floor I'd argue, more cards are good with Ob I think. I very badly want to just bite the bullet and build Sauron, the Dark Lord as Army Voltron, and just throw in all the support I can. Yuriko is one of the prominent low budget cEDH Commanders, offering consistency and power such that you can actually play against good decks and eek out wins due to the raw power of your Commander. I think I've seen $100 lists that are playable in most cEDH pods, but will suffer in the most powerful/fast ones as the deck isn't especially fast at that price. Really enjoyed the vid! Thanks for posting, I used to do low budget stuff, but I found it was too hard to compete with the $500-$1k decks with a $50 build, so I ended up aiming for 100-300, this range felt like I could probably build whatever I want and have it be fairly good, which is what I wanted. I do have a $50 deck still, and I am trying to keep it there. It's the kind of deck where you don't have consistency because it's too easy to draw the wrong half of the deck, but it's also incredible when it goes off.

[@MTGGoldfishCommander]

Glad you like it! Yuriko at $100 is way stronger than the $50 one, the major difference is consistency: at $100 you can fit in better mana-fixing lands and most importantly topdeck manipulation to make sure each trigger is lethal. It also doesn't help that a lot of the cards I used to love in my original budget build like Snuff Out was $2 just two years back and is now $11!

[@SmashCentralOfficial]

Hey Tomer. Love the content ❤ just wondering about the mic quality. I see you have a mic on the desk there but it sounds super echo-y like you might be accidentally using the camera mic. Maybe do a double check? Hope you have a great week dude!

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

There's nothing wrong with the audio. Would you mind time-stamping your concern.

[@Rice_Spicee]

Acererak is a good upgrade for the wilhelt deck. Combos with rooftop storm to drain infinitely. Maskwood Nexus would also be very good for Yuriko, although there are already a lot of good ninjas to run

[@thenightangel05]

Tomer, omg, sleep, please. This is so amazing and I hope you know we appreciate your hard work and effort!

[@amarauk9687]

A note on Ayara's Oathsworn: it only tutors once: only when you put the exact 4th counter on it. To do it again, you have to remove/sac+reanimate it

[@davidsterner5453]

The ability only adds a counter if it has less than 4, but it will tutor each time it does combat damage as long as it has exactly 4 +1/+1 counters (or 3, adding the fourth with its own ability).

[@RefaTheGreat]

@@davidsterner5453 Nope. From Gatherer: If Ayara's Oathsworn has four or more +1/+1 counters on it as it deals combat damage to a player, its ability won't trigger at all. None of its effects will happen. You won't put a +1/+1 counter on Ayara's Oathsworn and you won't search for a card.

[@davidsterner5453]

@@RefaTheGreat Neat. It helps when I read carefully. Those intervening ifs will get you.

[@benrichardson5662]

Loads of awesome ideas here! Noyan Dar is a commander I really want to like. If he was Bant, I think he would be perfect. It's too bad none of the other land animate decks have white and so they can't run Equinox and Land Eternal.

[@-homerow-]

I love this video ❤❤❤

[@ThexSlothxKing]

God bless you Tomer

[@sirmegallot3276]

At first I read it as you made 50 commander decks whose total value was under 50 dollars. Now it makes sense lol