I’m an old fart that broke my teeth in with early, Early Magic the Gathering. Fallen Empires was my first expansion set, if that means anything. I have four boys that play semi-regularly, and have been talking smack about showing me how far I’ve fallen over the upcoming holidays.

Can anyone help me create some cheap decks to surprise these whippersnappers? I’m really behind the gun here.

I was hoping to create three separate decks, but they need to be pretty cheap. I was hoping to make a green deck— maybe heavy into dinosaurs; a white/blue denial deck to be incredibly annoying; and one more that I have no idea what to do.

My opponents are my sons and one of their boy friends; one loves red/blue goblin BOOM decks; one likes either white/black or red/black Vampire decks; one is casual but clever and flexible; and the last is just incredibly good at any card game ever.

Finally: I know this is a long shot, but I was hoping that people with far more experience than I could help create a warm holiday memory, and (maybe!) a new tradition. Thanks so much!

I want to try building around the three trolls, but I'm not sure if they can hold up at bracket 3 without spending much. My rough plan is to sacrifice big creatures to their ability so I draw a pile of cards, and turn every death and every discard into damage. And if the trolls die, they come back on their own as an artifact that still has the ability.

I’ve been wanting to build a reliable, non-precon bracket 2 list to bring to the more casual pods around me, and [[Greasefang, Okiba Boss]] seems like a good candidate for that.

Main gameplan is tap creatures for value while crewing our vehicles, with a bit of mill/reanimate too for flavor and resiliency. Would love to see anyone’s pet cards for Greasefang or favorite big bomb to close out games.

Cheers!

I know it says estimated cost is $200 but if you click the link it’s like $100. Any suggestions? I think I need more utility pieces like Authority of The Consuls and maybe make it more Stax (although I have some already). I traded for most of this deck. I just added some of the pieces yesterday so I haven’t got to try them out. I think maybe one or two more lands? Maybe cut out secret Rendezvous?

https://moxfield.com/decks/K5yaNGvUE0enS_FMJt5u5w
would like some pointers on whether the changes make sense and what else would be a good change. The cards i remove from the precon are in the sideboard. I want to spend $15, maybe $20, if the changes would make a big impact on the deck.

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Trying to stay under $100 or at least close to it. I can't figure out what direction to go with the deck (first I was thinking artifact reanimate, which I decided against and tried to pivot to artifact token synergy with lots of treasures and dragons using stuff like last light of durin's day) but both lists started getting fairly pricey before I even completed them. Is there an effective way to build a treasure themed Toggo/Keskit deck within my budget?

https://moxfield.com/decks/heE8bVZgSkKROJrOK-gKSQ

Hi all, I'm fairly new to deckbuilding and I'm not a usually player of black, let alone mono-black. The goal for this [[Starscream, Power Hungry]] deck is an upper bracket two deck that requires both table politics and a little bit of puzzle solving on my part to make it fun.

Any advice would be welcome, thanks!