Building a Magic: The Gathering Commander deck can become expensive quickly, especially when you start looking at powerful staples, premium lands, and highly sought-after cards of the format.
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Sideboarding can feel intimidating for budget Magic: the Gathering players, especially when competitive lists seem to rely on expensive staples. However, an effective sideboard isn’t necessarily about having the most expensive cards; it is about understanding what your deck struggles against and finding affordable answers to those problems.
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One of the simplest but most important decisions in Magic: The Gathering deckbuilding is deciding how many copies of a card to include. For budget players, this decision matters even more because buying four copies of every card can quickly become expensive.
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Few classic Magic: The Gathering archetypes captured the reckless aggression of early black decks quite like Suicide Black. The philosophy was straightforward: use your own life total and resources aggressively to deploy cheap, powerful threats, disrupt the opponent, and win before the drawbacks became relevant.
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Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance could give Standard discard strategies an interesting new angle by turning every discard event into direct damage. At three mana for a 2/1 body, it is not particularly impressive in combat, but its triggered ability can generate substantial value when paired with effects that make opponents discard multiple cards.
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Building an eight-creature midrange deck takes a different approach from traditional creature-heavy strategies, where the battlefield is constantly filled with threats. With only eight creatures to rely on, every card needs to serve a purpose—from protecting your threats to controlling the board and generating enough value to eventually close out the game.
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