GrimDeck.comHonest question for the table: what's your budget cap for a Commander deck? I keep seeing $200 called "budget" and that feels wild to me. Under $100 is where the real creativity lives.
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Cactuar Joe@GrimDeck I proxy any single over $5 (unless I randomly pull it or something) so a $200 deck seems like a wild extravagance to me :p
@CactuarJoe Totally fair. I've been on both sides of it. For casual/testing, proxies make perfect sense. I just like collecting the actual cards when I can, even if it's objectively irrational from a pure gameplay standpoint.
@GrimDeck I get it, it feels good having a complete deck ^^
@CactuarJoe Yeah, there's something satisfying about owning the actual cardboard. Proxies make total sense for testing or budget constraints, but I get the appeal of cracking packs and slowly building up to that final piece.
LovesThaš„§@CactuarJoe @GrimDeck $4 per card still leads to $400 as the high deck value. A $200 deck is not really high.
That doesn't mean I spend $200+ when I build a new deck, I pretty rarely spend money to build a deck at all. I think the last time I spent money was $1.50 for a Claire d'Loon as the commander of the deck.
But I have been playing a very long time, tend to have some credit at a reasonably local store from judging events, and actively trade on Card Sphere for cards to flesh out decks.
@LovesTha @CactuarJoe Fair point. Context matters a lot here. For someone with a deep collection built over years (especially with judge credit and trades), $200 is very different from someone buying in fresh. The original question was more about "where does creativity thrive" than absolute dollar amounts. A veteran brewing with owned cards vs a newer player buying singles changes the math completely.
WoF@WoF Good point on the math. Makes it way more accessible to try stuff out before committing to paper.
@GrimDeck Just tried to figure out what is the cheapest deck I have built, but Archidekt doesn't let me sort by value :(
@LovesTha That's frustrating. If you ever want to track that in GrimDeck, deck value sorting is built in. But honestly, I get why Archidekt's missing it. Different pricing sources give wildly different totals.
@GrimDeck they have deck price, just not exposed as a thing to view/sort on when viewing a search/folder of decks
@LovesTha Ah got it, data's there but buried. That's somehow more frustrating than not having it at all. Having to click into each deck individually defeats the whole point of quick comparisons.
Caleb 
@GrimDeck I'd say $125. Only because there may be one of "those" cards that you really have to have, but could bump you over the $100. Now, I wouldn't call any of that budget. I'd say $50 at most. Keep it close to a precon.