

Total cost for my suggestions (NM/LP through TCGplayer Direct): $2.66, so you'd still have more space to work with as well. I totally respect budget deckbuilding because it's harder, and a lot of the staples are ruled out off the bat, but the overall goals of deckbuilding don't change - you still want ramp, card draw, interaction, and some sort of end game. I guess my general advice would be to cut down on cards that do little or nothing on their own and increase the number of cards that have an immediate board impact or useful persistent effect. I'd cut down to like 37 lands also and include more creatures.

If you want to run Panglacial Wurm, you might want to run Evolving Wilds and Terramorphic Expanse in place of a couple of Forests so that you give yourself more opportunities to find it if Yisan gets removed. I'd probably run ] over Kalonian Behemoth because it can stabilize your board by gaining you some life, can trample over creatures in case someone just has 1/1s that can chump all day, and will draw you a card if it dies. ] would probably go well with your deck depending on the overall prevalence of 3+ power creatures. ] would be a little less good than Soul of the Harvest, but it's an effect you want. ] would be a great way to allow your creatures, large and small, to connect. ] could be really good in the mid-late game. Yisan, the Wanderer Bard ( 3 ) Legendary Creature Human Rogue Bard (2/3), , Put a verse counter on Yisan, the Wanderer Bard: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of verse counters on Yisan, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. ] could potentially be good if your creatures are substantially larger than your opponents'.

] synergizes really well with Yisan and could accelerate your chains. ] is a fantastic creature for rebuying ETB effects. You could play ] instead of Manalith, then you'd have a creature you could tutor for, a creature that would synergize with Priest of Titania, Sporemound, and Karametra's Acolyte, etc. ] is great creature based ramp.Īnd then I'm looking at Battlegrowth, Giant Growth, Viridescent Wisps, and some of the other buffs, and just don't understand why they aren't just green creatures that provide more utility. ] could be good at protecting Yisan from spot removal. I get that they're cheap and have relatively good stats for their mana cost, but there are going to be more situations where I'm wishing I could tutor for a ] (about 25 cents more than Alpine Grizzly) or ] than wishing I had a vanilla 4/2. I'm looking at cards like Alpine Grizzly and Kalonian Tusker and really don't understand why they're there. You have room to work with ($3.23 cents, specifically) if you want to stay under $30. Are you using TCGplayer? According to the sidebar it's $26.77 on TCGplayer currently. I get that you want this to be a budget deck.
