Dear Jumbo Commander, can you please start a Budget series?! I'm not sure of the best price cap, but maybe it could rotate between $50, $100, and $200 or something. All I know is that I love your videos, and, usually, your decks are $300+.
Dearest Bonehead Cycler,Most of the time I care about a theme or strategy instead of a budget. I will always make sure to create budget content ... maybe I'll create a little more in the future. Thanks for the comment. Sincerely, Jumbo Commander
This was my first deck I had to come back and watch this again for nostalgia. I highly suggest this deck for first-timers, it's a lot of fun an the best thing about budget decks is that you can always upgrade them later on.
one card that i had in mind, in case you don't want Ruric Thar to attack but you want to keep him on board for his ability, is Throne of Tarkir. 4 drop equipment, 3 to equip, equipped creature gains defender an "2, tap: other creatures you control gain +X/+X and Trample until end of turn, where X is this creatures power." That's a double Overrun for 2 mana!! Awesome for a creature heavy deck. Also, it costs less then $0.15!
I rarely comment on RU-vid, but you sir, deserve an applause. Congratulations for your hard work! I think this ia the best budget deck on this channel.
I appreciate the comment. It is the cheapest that I have ever tried to build and I have to say ... I love it. It plays really fun and I don't feel like I'm limited.
Sooooo much love for this deck. I think the skill of a brewer is shown when you can put self imposed limits on and still build a competitive and cohesive deck
NIN_tendo 64 same. I’ve been working on a version of baral polymorph with the promised end, and this is a cheap red green deck with tons of creatures, the complete opposite
I wonder if you want to do an update, how the price developed, what new cards you would include. Just to have some sort of review of the past year based on this deck
I like seeing some of the cards on here and how the budget has changed on some of the cards like Mina and Denn, for example. From $.25 to ~$2+ is wilddddddd
Hiya Jumbo, Loved this video! I hope to see more like this as its kinda fun to play budget as it doesn't feel so...intense when playing our competitive decks back in our play group. We even decided to have everyone make a commander deck with budgets of about 20 to 50 bucks and its actually even more fun as we see more and more different stuff!
Hi Jumbo! Excellent video, always good to see more budget decks showing their power! I've watched the video till the end and have one question. How often do are you dealing 6 damage to yourself because of the non-creature spells in the deck? - David
I have only played a handful of games so I don't have a lot of data points. It only happened once and that was for a really important spell (wave of vitriol). The wave dealt 6 to me and destroyed my monument BUT it still wrecked everyone else WAY more.
I have a pretty low budget ruric tar deck, and most often I take 6 dammage to put down a dammage doubler, so that the next player will take 12, or a big draw spell. So perhaps I'd take around 12 dmg on avarage.
I often only take...18 or so damage throughout the game. I do have a couple of really powerful lifegains, though, like engulfing slagwurm ($0.80, whenever it becomes blocked or blocks, destroy the other creature at the end of the combat, you gain life equal to that creatures toughness) and putting shadowspear (expensive $7.11, equipped creature gets +1/+1 trample and lifelink) on ruric thar, which usually is enough to counteract the life drop. Edit: Especially since if ruric thar has lifelink, it counteracts the damage that he deals to you, as you gain the same amount as you lose. Honestly, if you can find a bugdet way to slap lifelink onto that beast of a commander, TAKE IT. No questions asked. Edit end. I realize that this was 2 years ago, and you may have already moved past ruric thar. I'm commenting anyways.
Took me a bit to get to this video, but I'm really happy I did. I have a friend who's looking at getting started in Commander and I think I might buy this deck for him. It's super budget but also pretty competent and relatively easy to understand too. Thanks a bunch!
I just pulled a foil Ruric Thar from my Masters 25 pack and initially felt bad that I got such a cheap rare foil. Now, I may build this deck around him and get to show off my foil commander, so thanks for putting together this cool budget deck!
I have 6 pauper commander decks and 2 60 card pauper decks (monoblack control and Elves). My friend has a pauper gauntlet with ... maybe 40 decks ... I love the format but I don't know if I have enough experience to give solid insight.
Old video and even of prices have fluctuated every so slightly... This. This is going to be my first commander I build my own deck for, especially since I actually got some nice cards that could replace some of the weaker ones in there. Thank you so much Mr. Jumbo! ^^
this is a great deck ! A low budget makes you think twice about cards, but challenges you all the more to become more creative with the limits you have. So definitely like to see more of those vids.
That is how I bought my version (and I still had to add some non-deck cards to shipments to reach a minimum). I obviously went for the LOWEST possible. Someone said they bought the deck for $22 shipped which I think is still pretty solid.
After several failed attempts at buying a complete edh deck from my lgs I switched to online orders quite a while ago. There is nothing more frustrating than spending all day looking through thousands of commons to end up like twenty cards at least short. I like taking my time and spending hours creating my deck, not buying it lol.
Jumbo, bro, I am by far the biggest spender on cardboard in my playgroup and I win a lot of games. Sometimes people will say it's just because I spend more $ and have more powerful cards. So when I saw this deck tech I immediately bought the pieces I didn't have and built it. Just piloted it to victory in a 5 player pod. Was awesome talking smack to everyone about how expensive their cards were. Yahenni player drops a Cabal Coffers and I'm like "whew! Big $ grip, you could buy two of my decks with that $" lmao. Warmonger Hellkite was an all star forcing attacks and people didn't want to attack into me because of Ruric and whatever else I played that turn. Zealous Conscripts stealing a Sigarda to kill him with it sealed the deal. Was some of the most fun I've had in a while. Keep up the good work!
I built this deck on MGO and found out the hard way that Radha's "Add 2 Mana" effect only takes effect during your combat phase to cast instant effects. It can't be used for the secondary main phase to cast a spell like a creature.
Dude the second you made this video I remembered that I used to run Ruric Thar in a 60 card deck and I already had a large amount of these cards and more just sitting around, gave me the idea to make a new deck. Thanks dude! Been having trouble lately because no new deck ideas were interesting me and then this just hit me like “fuck that’s a great idea!”
Love the budget deck, great for both a new player to try the format and for experienced commander players to build real quick. What I love about these budget decks as well is how flexible they can be in regards to upgrades if you do want to put more money into them.
I am building this because I like the idea of playing it against the expensive decks at my LGS and seeing how it does. I can always upgrade it later, but what a great starting point. Where would you put it on the 1-10 scale you discussed on the Command Zone?
The best part about this deck is the upgradablity is easy to see. Replace ok draw card with a better draw spell. Bigger and better beater. Def going to make this deck.
Dude this couldn't be any more perfect! I have a friend who's just started playing Commander not long ago, and she has a Ruric deck! I was also in the middle of giving deck advice on Discord, and I got a notification that this video was uploaded! Haha! Dude building a good deck for under $15 is tough! That's awesome! Congratulations!
Kinda just learned about the whole gruul mind set and found the 30 dollar gruul deck box at my local game store has most of the base cards you have here plus a few i think may work as well! loved the video thanks so much!
4:20 Radha's mana can only be used for flash-creatures or spells (not wanted in this deck) because after attacking the mana is gone ... its just a good looking ramp-elf :D
I'm really glad you're trying this out. Let me know how this performs in your meta. I am a little sad it's as expensive as 30 pounds. Does that seem pretty much what you expected for something that's, more realistically, $25 USD?
Yeah its about right, I think magic cards are typically a bit more expensive in the UK from my experience. I am head in next weekend so I'll let you know how it stands ☺️
This is great! Just got all the pieces to the ezuri budget deck you posted too and it plays like a dream so far! Now I have this deck in my sights!! THANKS!!
That's fun! My Rurik Thar runs three non-creature spells- Primal Surge + Where Ancients Tread + Warstorm Surge. I'll keep that Primal Surge in my hand if I am not feeling cruel, but that is generally not when you are playing Rurik Thar anyhow...
Got Ruric Thar was wanting to but him in a commander deck but since seeing this video. Know I have to make him the commander. The local board game cafe sells cards for like $0.15 for commons and uncommons and some rares.
I got 4 of this deck and I train people with it when they start commander and sometimes my pro friends and I use them in a four way it’s fun thanks allot
My friends and I have been having a fun time making commander decks that are $20 or less, with a commander worth $2 or less. My Sigarda, Heron's Grace deck is a lot of fun.
Still getting mileage out of this deck in 2024. Last week, I sat down with a pretty casual group, first time playing them so I fully intended to just go it slow and amass a board state over time. Opening hand was forest, dual land, Sol Ring, Llanowar Elves, Arbor Elf, Khenra Charioteer, Nullstone Gargoyle. Turn 3 Ruric Thar, one opponent is locked out of the game and the other is struggling to find an answer. Terrifying deck; I had to stress that I just had an amazing hand but the deck was sure part of it. I drew into Stalking Vengeance and Terastodon a handful of turns in and I had to actively let off the gas not to just run everyone over without a fight.
Jumbo, Was introduced to you via Command Zone and really loved your insite to the format. This was the first video I saw of yours and I had to immediately put this deck together. It is really nice to see options to build powerful decks without having to drop a lot of $. Please keep up the content. Have you thought of distributing audio versions of your content to go with the RU-vid content for those that would like to listen while commuting?
Jumbo Commander built a Voltron, but i used Oketra. Im having a blast, because my tokens are just as big a threat as my commander. 3-0 with it this week 😤
Awesome vid, just bought all the deck through TCGplayer Direct, convenient for cheaper cards like this. Also, Lifecrafter's Bestiary went down to $1, so I definitely recommend adding it in.
I've built this deck , using a couple proxys in casual play until I got the cards i needed. Out of the dozen or so games I've played I've only taken the 6 damage 3-4 times. Also I bought the cards ( 90%) from cardkingdom.com, spent about $23
Cool list! A few suggestions that might make it a little better without much more budget. Hellrider, rubblebelt raiders, and ogre battledriver are all really solid in creature focused decks. Swiftfoot boots will help protect ruric thar once he hits the board, and rampent growth will help get him faster. Again, not cheap enough for this ultra budget but all still sub 1$ cards.
I usually don't buy other peoples decks, i have way more fun making my own. Thing is that price tag on it is so awesome. To be honest i was kinda thinking about buying it, but not too sure, but then we came to the last section when you started talking about all the hilarious control and hate cards and i am sure that i have to buy this right now
Hopefully, they have good prices for bulk cards. Some stores say: Minimum on cards is $0.25. I know if you talk to other commander players they might just hook you up with half the deck out of their scraps :)
Molimo, maro-sorcerer with a high land count and creatures base off land count (Allosauros Rider, Gael’s Liege, Kalonian Twingrove, ext.) and land fetch cards (Explosive Vegetation, Font of Furtility, Search for Tomorrow. Ext.) I built a few for players and the not bad and super cheap
A friend gave me 20$ and what bulk red/green cards he had and asked me to make him a gruul commander deck. Using this as a template. I'm throwing a few other cards like savage ventmaw and blood rush cards to give him combat tricks to keep ruric on the field.
This is the kind of green/red deck i have been looking for with an ogre commander in it :D nice. Although i kind of wanna make an ogre themed deck as well (i just like giants, orges and orcs ^^) But most of the ogres i know are simply x/x creatures with no interesting abilities (as far as i know of course). Cool deck and it seems rly interesting :) saving money for a world trip though so even budget decks are a no-go atm.
Awesome! Let me know how he performs in your meta. I only have a few data points it'd be awesome to hear how the deck performs in different situations.
sweet budget deck. quick note, ulvenwald tracker does the targeting so it can't take out mother of runes, as moru can just give herself pro green. and the way fights work, both targets have to be legal when it resolves for the fight to happen (unlike many other abilities that will still resolve to the best of their ability when it has multiple targets and some become illegal)
Check out possibility storm for an enchantment if you like the chaos aspect. Basically it gets rid of instants and sorceries exiling them, then having the player search for another and playing that one instead.
Jumbo Commander It is a part of my Yidris Wizard tribal deck. This combo has won twice, and the other win was using Galecaster and about 10 other wizards to clear everyone else’s battlefield. Yidris + Sunbird + Rashmi = a most exciting game of commander. Free spells are the best.
Actually, if you already have the unique lands(which you already should have) this whole thing'll cost somewhere in the Neighborhood of 10-12 buck(with shipping! )...;D
Hey so I know this is pretty old video. And I have made some changes to the deck and made it a little bit more expensive but this is been one of my favorite decks I’ve ever played.
Would love to see a update for the deck. Like what if you had an extra $20-30 bucks? Or suggested upgrades if you find the cards? I got lucky and added a vorinclex and old emrakul that I happened to get lucky and pulled from packs.
Hey man, great video. It would be awesome if you made more super budget commander decks. I really want to get into commander with my friends but we all are short on money. Definitely a sub earned from me!
Two cards I'd really like to see would be elixir of immortality, because you can get back some of that life you might lose to ruric plus recursion, and heartless hidetsugu, who even though is a little bit under a dollar, will be perfect at scaring people from casting noncreature spells, I'm surprised it wasn't already in the deck
Here's a challenge. Make a full EDH deck with only classic boardered cards, a deck entirely of of the classic sword and sorcery art that's been missing from magic for a long time.
