What do you consider budget for a Commander deck?

[WWolfe]

Started a similar thread for 60 card decks in the general magic forum because of something I saw in another thread, curious what the answer is for a commander deck.

What do you consider budget and how did you come up with that amount?

ETA- my reasoning

For budget decks, I expect on average a cost of around $1 a card not counting basic lands if I'm going budget. That allows a little "splurge" on a card that may be $2 or $3. With that being said, I have participated in budget challenges that had limits of $50 or less to include one we did here on the site.

[Eryx92]

I think a good budget deck costs 50€ (about 59 Dollars) at max. If you want a significant power increase, going to 100€ (about 118 Dollars) is usually enough.

That my opinion based on playing Commander since 2018, it may vary depending on the format.

[robort]

Budget to me is 200 or less considering there are decks that run in the thousand dollar range

[Morganator 2.0]

What you consider budget is largely based on what your salary is.

[Elan Morin Tedronai]

Or lack thereof. I'm sick from epilepsy and I depend on my parents, but still I'm brewing with pocket money from them. Still I made great Eldrazi deck and would love to do Hydras and Ninjas in the near future. Bellow by $75 by my pocket, jobless standards. Adaptive Enchantment is somewhere in that margin.
Regards:
Chavo

[Landale]

$8-10 total for the lands, $16-100 total for everything else. So an average of about $67, with an upper limit of about $110.
The lands have a smaller range since the only prices for them seem to be <$.50 or a small fortune, while decent cards of any other type could run anywhere between $.25 and $2.

Mind you, that's just at the time of building. Modifications over time that bring the total up I'd still say is a budget deck until you start going up over $200-300, since a couple $5-10 cards a month isn't exactly expensive.

[Caveman Clay]

This is a tricky question for me. in 2018 I sold all my comic books and got into magic. Modern was hot at the time so I spent everything on nice burn deck that included 12 fetches at the time. Then come along commander. so I dump everything but 1 of each card and then I found goblins and now a proud owner of 550 of them. I started buying a draft box each month of any new set out or a older set if no new set were available. Again I kept 1 of each card I pulled the rest I traded for others I needed. So the short story is 50.00 is max and it has to be game changing for me to ever spend that much. But my average deck is around 800.00 - 1000.00  just because I own the cards not because I go out to build 1000 dollar decks. I play for fun, and I play in groups of 6-10 ppl. Must of the players have been playing for years before me and have seemlier decks.

my latest deck is a percon with 50.00 upgrade.

[kingdevere]

I actually like to really budget some decks. So I consider under precon pricing ($40~$45) to be budget. Most of my decks are around $60 (with a couple of exceptions because I drew cards like Finale of Devastation and Jeweled Lotus). But, for example, when my friends and I did a budget challenge, we were under 20 bucks (not including basic lands). And that decks is surprisingly effective.