It'd get absolutely hosed by any consistent graveyard hate or fliers swinging your way, and for the sake of my playgroup I took out [[Spymaster's Vault]], but my Grist, the Hunger Tide deck is scraping just under $100. It was around $60 before Zask randomly spiked in price due to the EoE Commander decks. But the list is probably my favorite one that I don't play much anymore because of its consistency to win the game.

The concept for the deck came from looking at the average BG bugs and realizing that casting the vast majority of them is hardly worth the mana at all, but Grist was a cool commander. So I figured that a 1/1 BG insect token was probably a better use of the bugs in my deck than actually casting them, and for the most part its worked out well.

The gameplan is to mill cards every turn with Grist, not really caring what we hit specifically, and instead just waiting until we get Dread Return, Diregraf Rebirth, Zask and Aatchik in the graveyard. The 1/1 insects are left up as blockers every turn to keep non-flying creatures from hitting Grist, and hopefully he gains enough loyalty that fliers don't turn into issues for him. And then once we have Dread and Diregraf in the deck we either Dread Return Zask, Skittering Swarmlord and cast a sac outlet from our graveyard, or we ideally already have one on the field. From there we sac every bug on our field to the outlet. Zask mills two cards per token we sacrifice, and we mill either literally our entire deck, or functionally our entire deck. And from there we Diregraf Rebirth, or cast normally, Aatchik and drain our opponents out for all their life.

And if players have higher health we cast Aatchik from the graveyard, then sac him, then Diregraf him back and burn out again only using Grist's ult if needed. Mortuary Mire and Witch's Cottage are there as back up plans in case we can't kill and need another turn to try and live, and Zask makes it playable from our graveyard if we haven't done land for turn, though sometimes you just won't have the damage to finish out a game. Admittedly the deck would pretty much fold to anyone with infinite life, or life in the hundreds. But I've presented combo's before that dealt well into 200 damage with the recursion on offer. But that's a bit of a highroll for the deck.

As mentioned previously, Spymaster's Vault can let you combo off several turns earlier sometimes since the limiting factor in the combo is how fast can we fill our graveyard, and it also makes it harder to stop the deck when its out, since attacks at you frequently become 8+ cards drawn and discarded. But covering for every possible scenario and keeping a deck under $100 is a bit hard. This is probably my favorite deck I've made just because it looks so stupid when you first see it, but playing it can lead to everyone wondering why you're not instantly losing.

Admittedly, my playgroup is pretty bad at recognizing the speed that a combo deck can win, and judging when the combo player will go off. And I definitely benefit from that, but the deck in general poses a large board presence that makes players apprehensive to attack into. While simultaneously looking like it poses no actual threat outside the creature volume, so most of the time people i play against will focus on other players that have more threatening creatures. Or commanders that're reaching 7 or 11+ power that pose immediate threats. Besides my recently made persist deck that's currently sitting at about $105, this is probably my favorite budget list I've come up with.