How budget do you consider budget for a 60 card deck?

[WWolfe]

Kinda saw something in another thread that sparked this in my mind...

So say you're building a casual 60 card deck and you want it to stay budget, how much are you spending? How did you arrive at that amount?

ETA- my reasoning

I voted for $30. My logic is an average of .50 cents a card for a casual deck. So actually a little more than that not counting basic lands. Casual meaning not something to take to a FNM for Modern or Standard. I say that but then I have built $20 Standard decks back in the day and done ok with them.

[Elan Morin Tedronai]

Same as you. I make Tribal decks and probably should've given $20, but $30 is good. However, I spend only Euros (€) so I guess I'm around that amount 15€-20€ at utmost.

[BoBWiz]

Hm... the MtgGoldfishs calls around 100$ for budget.
So I took that for my own budget-definition.
Below that I call it Ultra-Budget.
Below 20$ it is No-Budget.

As Elan Morin Tedronai I pay in €. For some reason the prices of certain cards are sometimes pretty different between US and Europe (belonging what's en vogue I guess).
The most expensive stuff in the tier-decks is the manabase I guess. Beside that, you can build pretty solid budget-decks imo.

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I vote for 30$ as well.

[Aetherium Slinky]

I only play casual non-format 60card so my "budget" is less than 20€ because I'm not willing to drop more than that into a deck that I don't play that often.

[MonteTribal]

Depends on format I guess. Modern is way more pricy than a fun casual deck

[BoBWiz]

Depends on format I guess. Modern is way more pricy than a fun casual deck

It's said: "So say you're building a casual 60 card deck"

I would say it isn't the format but the competitivity, that make a deck expensive. But you are able to make a budget-deck (however you define budget) and still compete with a tier deck. But in a tournament you'll still loose at the end.

One time I managed it to win one round (of 3) against a legacy burn deck with a very first version of my 10%u20AC Kor-Deck (modern-legal) without sideboard that time. If i had a sideboard that time, I may would be able to win the match! Who knows?

The most problem is, as I mentioned before the very expensive manabase in almost every format and the accompanying speed.

One last question about budget and format: What's a budget-deck in pauper?

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[hotrodscott]

I think the challenger decks are a pretty good baseline for this... reasonably synergistic, fun to play and fit a theme more than the cheap starter decks. They're 30-ish.   You could round it out with better cards and easily have a fun and decently competitive tabletop deck for $40-50.     For Modern, that $100 mark is for reasonably competitive decks.   I've got a modern homebrew that's like $60 on paper now (i think it was $25 when I built it)  that won't win any tournaments, but it wins a lot of games.   (Maybe .500 win rate, but has beaten a lot of expensive decks it shouldn't have and that makes it worth it :p)     8-whack prices have come down, so it looks like you could build that deck, (even with Goblin Guide in it) now for $75!  (even the "budget version" MTGGoldfish did back in the day didn't have those and is crazy competitive!)

As far as Pauper, many of the tier decks are $50, so might as well go big! hahaha. The problem with going super cheap is that there are so many Pauper staples that are like $3 each that really do make a big difference. (lightning bolt, mutagenic growth etc.)    You can build a decent decks for $25, but when you can get really strong decks for 2x that, it's hard to argue :p   

[Lusunu]

I feel like $50 is the mark for a deck that's budget but workable in most formats. Less than that and it's hard to include much worth having.

$20 is for *really* budget decks. I have made successful decks in that budget range but it's *very* restrictive.