It's time to ditch your pre-con, play this instead!

[@eebbaa5560]

i feel like people severely underrate how strong and effective of a deck you can make on a budget, and the budget constraints often force you to become really resourceful and creative in order to build a focused and powerful deck. high-powered budget decks are one of the most fun parts about commander. you can still be fairly competitive without spending hundreds of dollars on overplayed staple cards if you just know how to build a good deck. budget commander is awesome

[@quietninjariot]

Or you can just proxy the "overplayed staple cards" for very cheap...

[@Akwaz0]

100% agree, in my playgroup, I'm known as the guy who budget tech but slapping decks. Lastly I've done a izzet aggro deck with Val candle keep researcher

[@Controlqueen31]

I have a Satya energy deck that's only 100$ and the removal and ramp cards are very good, low cmc and effective. Draw engines are not that good, but the deck is limited in that way and to energy strategy. Overall works perfect except when you don't get a energy engine on board for a few turns.

[@xxhellspawnedxx]

​@@quietninjariot That's very easy though. Anyone can proxy a cookie cutter, goodstuff-ridden deck. It won't feel special for long, no matter if you've proxied it or actually invested the money in legit cards. On the other hand, it takes true chops in the deck building department to build on a budget, and more so, build really good decks on a budget, and from scratch. And when you get down to it, this is what it's about, isn't it? To be able to come up with and realise an original/unprompted concept?

[@deckdriverMTG]

I totally agree with all of this! A big reason I've been delving into more budget builds. I'm still 100% for proxies and love using them myself!

[@Millus1987]

I have played a similar Gut deck. It was very fun and very effective.

[@deckdriverMTG]

Agreed! I quickly fell in love with the deck while building it! He's a super awesome commander!

[@0rcd0c]

Gut with Veteran Soldier might be an even stronger pairing on a budget. 4x Impact Tremor triggers on each commander swing, Valor in Akros, Goldnight Commander, Starlight Spectacular, Ogre Battledriver, Skyhunter Strike Force (doesn't work directly with and off the created tokens but still strong in go-wide), Devilish Valet (grows to 16 from commander and easily one-shot with 1-2 more drops).

[@michaelpatalano9884]

I have a Gut and Cultist of the Absolute deck. It’s $25 and a POWERHOUSE. It swings every turn w a 4/1 menace, and it has all the typical aristocratic cards, but Cultist makes Gut a Voltron threat too. Just an insane deck

[@pedroozzello6006]

Would you mind sharing the decklist?

[@Blacklodge_Willy]

You had me at Lazav 💙🖤

[@deckdriverMTG]

He's a great choice!

[@RENEG4DE4NGEL]

I made a Pauper deck with Gut & Guild Artisan. GA provides you with mana ramp + a guaranteed artifact to sac every turn. I use "can't block" spells when I need safe passage for Gut, but the _real_ brutality is that I stuffed every red "Gain control of target creature until end of turn" card. What's better than sacrificing one of the two treasure tokens you get just for swinging? Well, sacrificing your opponent's commander, of course.

[@Absntlight]

I have a gut deck with the cloak wood hermit background. Super fun to add the squirrels and cheap token doublers!

[@bagley3506]

hey mate just wondering why theres 0 card advantage in the yurlok deck

[@jolestahr1989]

I have also a Gut Deck with Agent of the Iron Throne. Super fun to pilot

[@Lanto90]

Amazing decks, do you have a suggested upgrades guideline for these ?( Im interested in Lazav in particular)

[@deckdriverMTG]

For Lazav, upgrade interaction and protection, and upgrade the creatures you copy. Maybe some eldrazi monsters!

[@skinnyraptor9111]

7:50 I play a pauper edh deck with gut/leader. Still ridiculous in pauper. Also, gut’s not a he.

[@TLWHDX]

You had me at yurlock

[@ВасяПупкин-ш3ф4у]

Gut has to sacrifice other creature than him or other than attacking one who triggers this ability?

[@deckdriverMTG]

There are token makers in the deck and plenty of value artifacts that you can Sac

[@BloodyScythe666]

help, there is still no pop filter D:

[@Aaron.Seabolt]

Can we get a video like this wherever WOTC drops a new precon set?

[@deckdriverMTG]

Absolutely! Planning on doing some precon upgrades/changes videos as more decks come out!

[@JohnSmith-vk9ds]

Just stopping by to join in the masses saying that that Gut, True Soul Zealot, is a she. 😅 Awesome deck lists though, I love Background and token aggro decks and I'll probably give it a shot.

[@deckdriverMTG]

Oopsie! That's totally my b ahah

[@enso8379]

Say you haven't played Baulder's Gate 3 without saying it.

[@wolffow223]

"He" 😭

[@exige021]

Gut is a female ;)

[@deckdriverMTG]

Gotcha🤣

[@cantrememberusername]

But I love my precon

[@XmortoxX1990]

No, I won't dirch my precons. I'll still play some of these precons, especially the Jund one. I got my first taste with the Disa precon, and now I want some more 💚 🖤❤️ in my life. Also as Simic main, I'll also try the Snek dek 💚💙🐍

[@Jack958]

The problem is most precons are chock full of cringe art and fugly commanders. As are most commanders these days but it’s a lot worse amongst precons.

[@otterfire4712]

Bloomburrow seems like an exception.

[@Jack958]

@@otterfire4712 I don’t disagree, but notice it’s as soon as they can’t print humans take that for whatever you will

[@otterfire4712]

@@Jack958 There's still a fair number of humans/humanoid that look pretty good. I'd put it at the worst, it's 40% good, 60% bad/ugly.

[@alexroel123]

Kaseto, no. Lets not do unblockable stuff, especially not for beginners. You'll get hated alot for playing it. Kutzil, yes! Very nice and great for beginners aswell. Yurlok, absolutely not. This whole deck falls apart as soon as yurlok is removed. He is the biggest ''remove me and my deck does nothing'' commander in the game. Do not recommend. Lazav, yes! Cute and grave hate is always handy to have. Gut/Leader, yes! Nice idea and definitely accessible to beginners aswell.

[@quietninjariot]

Why not just use proxies if you can't spend money on the real thing? You'll get better cards to play with and not have to resort to weaker cards to play a cheap deck.

[@DylanMarkTwo]

Sometimes it is fun to play the game with some constraints, not to mention how many game stores can’t allow proxies at wizards sanctioned events. But proxies can be a good option for some.

[@deckdriverMTG]

I'm totally for proxies, and I'll make videos with decks that become very expensive. Budget lists allow players to play with real cards at a more casual power level, and is quite a challenge for me in terms of deck building due to keep costs as low as possible. Most of these decks can be easily upgraded with "best in slot" kinda cards that are strictly better but just more expensive!

[@quietninjariot]

@@DylanMarkTwo It can be fun to play with some constraints but its more fun to play with expensive yet powerful staples instead of weaker cards and there are proxies out there that look like the real cards so it's a way to play proxies in Wizards sanctioned tournaments. Besides, there are many people using proxies in commander tournaments.

[@quietninjariot]

@@deckdriverMTG There are also cheap proxies you can get that look so real like real cards.

[@TheKreve]

Kutzil my beloved, my first ever commander 💚🤍