$43 Budget EDH | Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist | Deck Tech | Magic: The Gathering 

I've made budget and non-budget builds of this deck and have been playing brawl on arena quite a lot with Ashnod. This commander is so much fun because it has a set game plan I try and follow every turn. In my opinion, inspiring sanctuary is not the play, because if you do not get it, it makes the nonartifact high end spells pointless since you have to cast them like normal. Ideally, this deck ramps turns 2 through 5, then sets you up for fun artifact shenanigans in the late game. The best Sac Fodder creatures you can sac turn 2, and immediately and continuously recur turns 3-5, in case you don't draw other sac fodder targets. S-tier: Reassembling Skeleton Haunt of the Dead Marshes Clay Revenant Brood of Cockroaches Persistent Specimen Sanitarium Skeleton Bloodghast (worth even in budget builds) Next tier I feel are cards that allow you to cycle through your deck. A-tier: Clattering Augur (maybe could be S-tier since you can recur it, but you can't do it on turn 3) Disciple of Perdition Dusk Legion Zealot Guildsworn Prowler Novice Occultist Last tier are cards that leave a body behind. B-Tier: Butcher Ghoul (better than cards that leave behind a token because of Midnight Reaper and Grim Haruspex) Putrid Goblin (better than cards that leave behind a token because of Midnight Reaper and Grim Haruspex) Hangarback Walker (doubles as a sac fodder target and a late game artifact payoff) (worth even in budget builds) Carrier Thrull (gives you access to five mana on turn 3) Some budget artifact pay-offs are: Elbrus, the Binding Blade Ancient Stone Idol Herald of Anguish Meteor Golem Sandstone Oracle Lithoform Engine (another card I think worth even on budget, gives you ability to copy abilities and permanents) Soul Conduit Wondrous Crucible Noxious Gearhulk Myr Battlesphere Phyrexian Triniform

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As soon as I saw this girl I knew I had to make something like this around her. I was so happy to pull her in my prerelease ^.^ I think people really undervalue the powerstones, and Ashnod making so many of them so fast is a great way to show how useful they really are. Can't wait to give this a shot.

These cheaper cmc commanders are great, they always seem to have more effect on the game when you can get them out on turn 2-3.

I pulled her in the prerelease and put her in my Lazav the Multifarious deck. That ramp means Lazav will be shapeshifting into whatever big boy hits the graveyard.

Hell yeah. I have a mechagodzilla hanger back walker I've been needing to put somewhere

I'll be using some of these budget pieces to tune my Zimone & Dina deck as I'm trying to sac 4 profit there as well

I cast a feign death on my wurm coil engine and then sac it with ashnod to get the 2 3/3 and the wurm coil back

In your deck list are 2 two offs: Transmogrant's Crown and Moira, Urborg Haunt Just wanted to let know that.

Would you do a 100$ upgrade follow up video? I'd like to make this decks a Little more competitive before I consider getting it. Maybe bringing it to a 7-8?

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i dont even bother protecting her or equiping her, first strike or thieves tools can be nice but the stones outright pay for her tax. often 1 or 2 powerstones is all you need anyway so just getting the cheapest possible dorks out helps there. some games you get the giant 7 drop stuck in hand so the recursive creatures are the keys. letting mana rocks tap for 1 over the powerstone 1 is a waste of a card, a slot and your tempo. you dont get the oppurtunity to drop giant bombs often but when you do they have to just dominate the board so steel hellkite and myr battlesphere are WAY better. For example, my tuned list has only 6 finishers since its so hard to get them out. pack rat is the actual GOAT, just a monster that turns your hand into 1 cost giant rats. haste equips are really good, i run all of them in this Hbrawl deck. nettlecyst is one of the most underrated cards, construcst are terrifying and ashnod just churns out rocks every turn. to that end DOM karn is great if in budget and so would urzas saga LMAO. the swords are good too but without the protection i wouldnt even think of any other protection effect. removal is a waste over card draw since you need to be able to turn ramp into actionable choices. also after 2 stones they realize that youre going to end up with infinite mana and trade at all costs with ashnod so protecting her is very difficult, but letting her trade is a great source of card advantage and tempo. Ive made zombies with her 2 times, and never seen enemy ashnods do it either. so zombie tribal is not good. undead augur as all id play in that sense. People will kill your aristocrats cards on sight so i ddint even bother since they dont do much in the long term, youre only losing 2 creatures a turn at most so its not very effective. Sweeper punishers like blood artist are ok just for the finisher capability not for the syncergy ends up with 18 sac dorks in the tuned list, with heavy room for improvement like with token engines or further recursive creatures.

Awesome deck! The desync of the audio with your avatar is really distracting.

I'm surprised you didn't mention reassembling Skelton, or Phyrexian Weatherlight, it gets counters when creatures die and let's you scy when it's not a creature and is very cheap for budget decks

Budegt or not the deck you made is a janky zombie tribal with no wincon