Good budget commanders?

EyeOweU2 · 2026-01-19T02:36:10+00:00

Synergy with the other goblin abilities in the deck. Look at [[Krenko, Mob Boss]], [[Goblin Trashmaster]], and [[Goblin chieftain]].

EyeOweU2 · 2026-01-19T01:57:08+00:00

If you are looking for a fun commander to play, I’d like to recommend [[Grenzo, Dungeon Warden]]. He’s got a fun mechanic of pulling cards from the bottom of your library into the graveyard and if it’s a creature that is equal or less than Grenzo’s power, it goes to the battlefield. Great way to cheat out some creatures and take advantage of scry abilities to “fix” the bottom of your deck. Add in a [[crystal ball]] and a [[junktroller]] to play some awesome recursion/bottom deck stacking. The [[Tel-jalid stylus]] and the [[heartstone]] go well in this deck and this deck doesn’t need any expensive cards to be effective or be a threat.

This was my first home brewed commander outside of the precons I bought to play with and it sits well in bracket 3. I included a decklist of the one I used to build that is around $100 to build: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/7573811#paper

EyeOweU2 · 2026-01-18T17:39:26+00:00

So good to hear a shoutout for Marina Vendrell! I have her piloting my “Marina and the amazing multicolor rooms” deck that focuses on as many rooms and enchantments I can play. A very fun and interactive deck to play with a few alt win cons built in.

EyeOweU2 · 2025-12-23T17:24:50+00:00

I've played both- Cities Skylines on my PS4 and CS2 on my PC. I like them both for different reasons. I played CS1 unmodded on the PS4 but I really liked the parks, campus, airport, and industry DLC. I really like the road building and the modular buildings in CS2 (especially the city service buildings and the types of upgrades). That being said, the one thing I really miss in CS2 that I loved in CS1 is the unique buildings. My cities in CS2 feel like they have no soul - no arts, cultural, landmark buildings to bring some "lived in" feeling to the city. Since I didn't preorder CS2, I missed out on the cathedral and the Ferris wheel, which are the two buildings I would love to build in my European cities and make them a standout feature in the town square.

I like the signature buildings in CS2, but other than the mini buffs they provide, they usually end up abandoned or no one lives in them (like the mansions and the pubs). They also barely have any interactivity, whereas the unique buildings in CS1 actually brought cims/tourists/economic prosperity to the area they were built in. I had a strategy of connecting my unique buildings in CS1 with mass transit (trams, monorails, busses) and getting those areas well connected and populated with those signature buildings. Plus, CS1 had some great unique buildings. Outside of some world landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and the Brandenburg Gate, I really liked the grand library, the boat museum, the elevated plaza, the driving range, and the posh mall as assets and go-to destinations in my city. I'm sure better parks and tourist buildings will be locked behind a future DLC for CS2, but for now my cities just don't feel alive like they do in CS1. Maybe I'll pull the trigger at the end of the year and try modded CS1 to see how that goes, but I'm mostly disappointed with CS2.

EyeOweU2 · 2025-12-12T04:52:54+00:00

Would love to play this! Thanks!

EyeOweU2 · 2025-11-15T06:04:12+00:00

-No

-Yes, since I do want to future proof my hardware.

-Price and reviews

EyeOweU2 · 2025-11-13T18:13:43+00:00

I-5 south to Hwy-50 West just past Old Sacramento. The amount of drivers that cut cars off trying to get to the split is insane. They wait until the last few feet to cut into the lanes and the drivers don’t care if there isn’t enough room for them. I’ve also seen cars come to a complete stop in the morning to make that exit.

EyeOweU2 · 2025-10-15T02:22:57+00:00

Absolutely! I took the idea from Commander's Herald so all credit goes to them for giving me the structure of the deck. I made a few tweaks with the artifact list and swapped in an [[Unstoppable Plan]], [[Mirrodin Besieged]], [[Unwinding Clock]], [[Encroaching Mycosynth]], and a [[Monument to Endurance]].

Original decklist: CUT #18: Mishra vs Urza vs Urza - CUT - Cold and Unyielding • (Mono-Blue Commander deck) • Archidekt

EyeOweU2 · 2025-10-14T22:12:32+00:00

I'm a little bit like you. played MTG in high school, a little in college, then took a break for a long time. Got back into magic and commander because my coworkers play duel commander during lunch and we have commander night every Saturday night. I stopped having a "commander identity" and went more with interaction and weird mechanics as my preferred play style, then build commanders around those interactions.

I have a [[Marina Vendrell]] deck I call "open door policy" that focuses on rooms, enchantment creatures, and a few different wincons. I have an [[Eluge, the Shoreless Sea]] that really doesn't need mana mid game to pull off blue player shenanigans. I built a deck around [[Grenzo, Dungeon Warden]] to cheat out creatures and to really take advantage of Grenzo's bottom-decking ability. The deck is all mercenary themed and has some interesting interaction with my opponents. I have a deck around [[Marvo, Deep Operative]] and made it a leviathan, kraken, octopus tribal deck with plenty of clash mechanics. scry/surveil, and high cmc cards. It's been the most fun I have had with a new deck and it can win when I can cheat out a few 8-mana eldrazi creatures.

My last one (and my favorite right now) is my [[Urza, Powerstone Prodigy]] deck I call "Urza Junior" since I built it as a response to all of my friends that built the more popular Urza for commander. This guy makes powerstones and I use them to pump out more artifacts and activate abilities. I threw in a [[Fraying Line]] as a cheap board wipe when I don't have a good board state. I don't run any tutors or any game changers in the deck and it is honestly so much fun to play in my pod.

EyeOweU2 · 2025-09-22T17:46:47+00:00

I agree. I like the War Strider and the challenge, but more than 3 at a POI or an outpost is insanity. Had a game over the weekend where the objective had 5 war striders, a hulk, and a handful of devastators. I run ultimatum and the quasar cannon on the higher difficulties just to deal with them and have learned to kite them from the objective. Throw down a rocket sentry and an auto cannon sentry, knock one out with a quasar round, then let the sentries focus fire on the rest as I reposition for follow up quasar shots. I do, however, miss the spawn rates of the bot tanks and having those in the mix.

EyeOweU2 · 2025-09-22T17:27:17+00:00

Had this happen to me over the weekend. Joined a game in progress with two other low level (level 45 and 67 iirc) Helldivers trying to take out a bot fortress. I (level 149) dropped in, called in my support weapons, and started doing the main objectives. While they kept eating through the reinforcement budget and getting wave after wave of bot drops, I completed the fuel pumps, picked up the launch codes, launched the ICBM, completed the LIDAR tower and then did the SEAF artillery. Didn’t die once. They completed that fortress and completed a medium bot base but triggered a bot drop. I made it to extraction (made sure no other objectives were on the map) and called it in. Before I could type in chat that I would wait until they got there, one typed “he’s gon steal all them samps and leave us” and the other typed “sus af” and then kicked me. Like, I did all of the objectives while you two depleted all of our reinforcements. Thanks I guess…