Hello all! My sister-in-law recently acquired a
Korvold, Fae-Cursed King Brawl deck and wants to make it into her second Commander. She has no collection beyond her currently existent Rashmi deck she got as a gift and three boosters worth of Battlebond from a draft. So, she brought the deck to me and made a deal - she'll trade me the
Arcane Signet and a
Mindblade Render from her pile of draft chaff in for a
Sol Ring plus 40 more cards to get the deck up to 100. She wants this thing to swing as close to a 75% deck as possible, and to be able to hold its own in a metagame that is light on interaction, but very heavy on ramp and explosive value engines with players that have decades worth of cards or a considerable budget to chuck at their new builds.
So, our challenge is to find a way to get this thing up to 100 cards on a truly minuscule budget. She's got about $7 in trade value left and my wife and I are willing to toss in another $8-10 worth of cards (either purchased from our LGS or taken out of our collection) as a birthday gift (alongside sleeves and some non-MtG essentials).
As a reminder, here is the stock Savage Hunter deck, minus a Signet and plus a Sol Ring:
In a perfect world, she'd cut some of her weaker cards like Angrath, Pollenbright Druid, and Bloodsoaked Altar but we need to get to 40 cards before we start cutting stuff from this stock list. Now, before one despairs - straight off the bat, we're gonna roll this thing up to 39 lands as we don't want to miss a drop, and I'm not going to hold a pile of basics + a
Terramorphic Expanse against her in the budget. So with 14 more lands, we need to add 26 more real cards. I also won't consider vanillas and french vanillas as "real cards" if we need to use them to pad the list, but it's a grim day indeed if we're filling this list out with
Typhoid Rats and
Colossal Dreadmaw.
First, looking through her draft chaff, there are a few non-terrible additions:
Doom Blade and
Culling Dais are actually both really really solid, and easy additions. We've also got
Screeching Buzzard,
Doomed Dissenter,
Seer's Lantern,
Sengir Vampire, and
Royal Assassin which are a LOT less good, but at least support the theme or are playable without just being vanillas or french vanillas.
I've got my own ideas, but from here where would you guys go to...
- Add an additional 19-24 cards to the deck.
- For $15 or less.
- Making the deck as competitive as humanly possible.
- And ideally being under budget, so that we can cut weak cards for better ones and cut guildgates for the likes of
Opal Palace,
Exotic Orchard, and/or
Savage Lands.
Thanks in advance!
Zacama
