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.