Hello and happiest of days to each of you! I hope your day is going as well as possible! A few weeks ago I built a 5C deck around Commander Infinite Guideline Station around multicolored stuff, tokens and 12 planeswalkers here. It's my favorite list from Edge of Eternities! Then I just printed my positive thoughts on Planeswalkers today in multiplayer here, and a few weeks ago I published my latest Budget Commander brew, Boros with Sami. It's here, with a budget of $31.15.

I wanted to combine these all into one Budget Commander brew in Five Colors around planeswalkers to see if it was possible on a budget.

She's the pricier option at $1.99 cheapest NM version here at CoolStuffInc.com vs other dollar options. But the three-drop can spend one of each color of mana for that legendary permanent onto the battlefield with a cost less than her power and then she can grow equal to the colors of legendary stuff you control to make that a bigger range over time

How do we make the mana base and ramping work for us in a budget deck? In any Five Color brew we need mana to cast stuff, so I am making the same call I made with my first Colorless brews with Wastes being very pricey on the secondary market. I am giving myself another $31.15 for my ramp, mana rocks and lands too. Make sense?

Normally a Commander deck creation -takes around 3-4 hours total to write up on Monday, but budget brews around double that, but with another set of lands and budgeting I got up early today on Labor Day and started around 8 am. Enjoy it!

Mana, Lands, Rocks and Ramp Stuff

$3.99:

• 1 Staff of Compleation

$3.49:

• 1 Chromatic Lantern

$2.99:

• 1 Karn's Bastion

$2.49:

• 1 Faeburrow Elder

$1.49:

• 1 Cascading Cataracts

$0.99:

• 1 Oath of Nissa
• 1 The Wandering Minstrel

$0.75:

• 1 Gatewatch Beacon

$0.49:

• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Kher Keep
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Secluded Starforge
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• The Temple Cycle

$0.35:

• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel

$0.29:

• 1 All-Fates Scroll
• 1 Burnished Hart
• 1 Command Bridge
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Gateway Plaza
• 1 Interplanar Beacon
• 1 Scuttlemutt
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 Urza's Factory
• 1 Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree

Total $16.85 with lands alone. 31.20 after - 5 cents more, pretty fine to dine on! Then 1.99 for our leader too.

Let's kick this off with the lands. Interplanar Beacon ETBs untapped, taps for colorless and then with one for two for Planeswalkers and then when you cast them you gain that key life! Then Great Hall of the Citadel taps for colorless, also arrives untapped and then taps with one to make two for legendary spells.

Now let's turn to every cheap token making land to keep our Planeswalkers alive. The best is the White tapper above that taps with four mana to make a 1/1 dork. Then the latter can be searched out by our leader since it's legendary and then taps with two to make a chump blocking 0/1 Kobold token. I also tossed the rest of them like Vitu-Ghazi too.

Now let's finish the land part of this deep dive here! These two are my priciest cards in the set but are pretty cheap compared to normal budgets. The land taps for one and then with four at instant speed to proliferate! Then the Manalith arrives as soon as we have three, taps for any colors and then your lands for any color too. Massively great here!

Now stuff good for Planeswalker or 5-Color brews are next. Gatewatch Beacon arrives with three loyalty counters you can hop this over too as they arrive. Great! Then All-Fates Scroll can be sacked with seven and tapped to draw equal to your land count equal to the different names - very strong here in all of the places!

The three-drop artifact can tap with four different options at a cost of life no mana and then untap with five - great mana sink. The second is two life for a mana, the third is three life for a proliferate and then the latter is four for a card. A proliferating mana rock must be here. Then the one-drop legendary (cough Sisay cough) Green enchantment arrives, digs three and then you can draw a land, dork or planeswalker and then your mana can be used for planeswalkers no matter their cost!

The two-drop 1/3 Simic legendary The Wandering Minstrel forces all lands to enter untapped! Adore that so much here! Then you can make free dorks if you control enough Towns but none are here. Solemn Simulacrum is actually a bulk rare now, it enters and ramps a basic tapped and then when it dies, you'll draw - toss it in front of your planeswalkers to save them!

My Synergies and Good Planeswalkers

Normally in my regular and budget brews I turn to answers after land, but I need to make sure that I keep everything rolling budget wise for this good stuff. Now let's do this next!

$0.99

• 1 Deepglow Skate
• 1 Jared Carthalion
• 1 Vraska the Unseen

$0.89:

• 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion

$0.75:

• 1 Jaya's Phoenix
• 1 Oath of Ajani
• 1 Oath of Teferi

$0.74:

• 1 Commodore Guff

$0.49:

• 1 Djeru, With Eyes Open
• 1 Oath of Chandra
• 1 Oath of Gideon
• 1 Unnatural Restoration

$0.29:

• 1 Fog Bank
• 1 Grateful Apparition
• 1 Guard Gomazoa
• 1 Thrummingbird

$0.25:

• 1 Beloved Chaplain

Cost - $12.96

Now let's turn to budgeting synergies and win-cons! The five-cost 3/3 Fish Deepglow Skate arrives with a doubling of all counters of anything, not just ours! Great! Then the Azorius five-drop legendary enchantment Oath of Teferi arrives with a flicker of your thing like planeswalkers and then you can activate them twice each turn.

The White legendary enchantment costs three, arrives with two tokens to attack or chump and then our planeswalkers arrive with another loyalty. Then the two-cost Selesnya legendary one ETBs and then tosses counters on all of our stuff and then our planeswalkers cost one fewer to drop! This two-drop legendary in Red arrives and Bolts a creature, then in our end step will Shock each foe if a planeswalker arrived this turn.

Then the 2-drop White 0/4 Onakke Oathkeeper is good for blocking. Then your foes cannot attack your planeswalkers unless they also spend a mana each. Then you can spend six in your graveyard, and then Reanimate a planeswalker to the battlefield from your graveyard too.

Now let's turn to these two synergies! The four-drop Jeskai planeswalker can be our Commander with five loyalty and then in our end step tosses a counter on another planeswalker and then +1s to create a 1/1 Wizard with tapping for mana to cast your buddies and then -3 to draw and deal damage to each foe equal to our planeswalker count! Then the three-drop 3/3 mono-White lady when another planeswalker or dork gets counters add another! Love her much in all of the places.

Jaya's Phoenix, the five-drop 3/3 in Red with haste too can copy the next planeswalker ability this turn we activate! Then when we cast a planeswalker we can reanimate this if dead! Then the two-drop Horror Thrummingbird can punch and proliferate and in White Grateful Apparition can do the same upon hitting a Planeswalkers as well.

Let's finish with this synergetic trilogy! The dork costs five for a 3/4 that has vigilance to swing and stay back to block our stuff and then ETBs, and Tutors for a planeswalker! Then all damage to them is reduced by one. Love that flickered. Then the five-color planeswalker costs five, has 5 loyalty, and then +1s to make a great blocking 3/3 all color Kavu, and then -3s to toss counters onto up two dorks equal to their color count. Then the Golgarifive-drop 5 loyalty too can +1 to make anything that punches her die, unlikely here, and then -3s to Desert Twister a nonland as emergency removal, but don't! You need to get her to -7 to make a bunch of player killing tokens.

Answers

$1.49:

• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion

$0.99:

• 1 Garruk, Apex Predator

$0.49:

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Oath of Liliana
• 1 Oath of Kaya

$0.29:

• 1 Fuel for the Cause
• 1 Kaya, Bane of the Dead
• 1 Reject Imperfection
• 1 The Wanderer

Budget - $18.56

Let's start with this legendary duo! The three-cost Black ETBs and each foe is Edicted! Then in your end step you can make a 2/2 Zombie Dork if a planeswalker arrives. Then the three-drop Orzhov one ETBs and then Lightning Helixes a target and then when someone attacks your friends you can shoot them for two and gain it too. Then the seven-drop Golgari planeswalker ETBs with five loyalty, can +1 to destroy a planeswalker, +1 to make deathtouch Beast of the 3/3 size or -3 to Murder and then gain its toughness in life.

Now let's turn to a proliterating trio! Reject Imperfection costs three and then does so if it's cheap and then four mana for Fuel for the Cause will proliferate anything! Then the artifact Contagion Clasp costs two ETBs and tosses a -1/-1 counter on something and then taps with four to proliferate!

Now let's finish with this sweeping duo. The four-cost uncommon Blue can sweep all attackers - great to save your team from that lethal damage! Then the six-drop lady arrives with 4 counters and then +1s to toss three dorks out there of the 1/1 size to save them, and then -3s to mass remove larger power stuff like a Retribution of the Meek!

Card Draw

$0.99:

• 1 Dovin Baan

$0.75:

• 1 Ajani Unyielding
• 1 Jace, Mirror Mage
• 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited

$0.49:

• 1 Kaya, Intangible Slayer
• 1 Oath of Jace

$0.35:

• 1 Tezzeret's Gambit

$0.29:

• 1 Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor

$0.15:

• 1 Vivisurgeon's Insight

Now let's turn to card draw and a proliferating sorcery speed duo. Tezzeret's Gambit costs no more than four and then draws you two, and then Vivisurgeon's Insight costs five for three drawn.

Now let's turn to these two Jaces each of which are legendary permanents for three. The enchantment arrives, you draw three, discard two and then in our upkeep scry equal to our planeswalker count! Then the planeswalker with four loyalty and then two kicker is next. When it's kicked make a copy and then you can +1 to scry 2 and then 0 one to draw and then lose loyalty equal to that mana cost, so scry first, and that's another reason to run the scry lands too, or the Oath.

Now let's finish card draw with these planeswalkers that draw! Kaya, Intangible Slayer can +2 as a win-con to drain three from your foes, and then zeros for drawing two and then your foes scry and then -3 her to exile a dork or enchantment and then make a copy as emergency removal. Then the uncommon four-drop Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor arrives with 5 loyalty, your stuff and planeswalkers have ward two! Then you can -2 her to draw, discard and then make a 2/2 chump blocking Wizard! Then the Selesnya costed six-drop Ajani Unyielding arrives with four and then you can +2 him and dig three and then draw all nonland permanents and then -2 him to Swords something as emergency removal.

More Planeswalkers and Synergies

Now let's turn to the last 11 cards and a 10-buck budget!

$2.49:

• 1 Brokers Ascendancy

$1.25:

• 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

$0.99:

• 1 Chandra, Legacy of Fire
• 1 Geyadrone Dihada
• 1 Jaya, Fiery Negotiator
• 1 Kasmina, Enigma Sage
• 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

$0.49:

• 1 Carth the Lion

$0.29:

• 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Budget Spent - $31.27

This 5-drop legendary planeswalker with 3 loyalty will in our endstep deal damage to each foe equal to our planeswalker count and then +1s to make them in red mana for anything and then 0s to pull a counter from any number to exile and cast that many spells from your library this turn. Then the three-drop Esper one arrives with loyalty equal to land count and then +1s to surveil two, -3s to exile a dork too.

The four-drop legendary Carth the Lion with good blocking numbers will ETB and then when a planeswalker dies too you can dig seven and then draw one. Great with flickers, and then their loyalty costs are one fewer! Then the Kasmina, Enigma Sage costs three, has two loyalty, and then your other ones have her abilities to +2 scry 1, then -X and make a dork with X size, and then -8 to Tutor for a spell and cast it for free. Then the three-drop Brokers Ascendancy in your EOT will toss a counter on each dork and planeswalker too.

Now let's turn to these three classic board-filling Planeswalkers. The three-drop uncommon Simic one will turn casts of non-dorks into a 1/1 Servo and then -2s to make an artifact a copy of another artifact or dork you control. Then the Orzhov four-drop with three loyalty can +1 to make a lifelinking 1/1 Vampire and then -2s to make a dork power pumping emblem that cannot be answered! Then the four-drop White mythic with four loyalty can +1 to make him a dork, then 0 to make a 2/2 chump blocking Knight and Ally and then an Anthem for all dorks -4 on arrival for such a strong board presence!

Jaya, Fiery Negotiator can +1 to make a prowess 1/1 Monk or you can -1 her to exile cast a spell or -2 to shoot an opposing dork your foe controls equal to our attackers. Then Geyadrone Dihada can +1 to drain two life from each foe and then toss a corruption counter on a dork or planeswalker which she'll have protection from. Then you can -3 her to Act of Treason one of those and then untap it, and then it gets a counter too. Love her much here!

There we go! Decklist time!

Scheming with Raffine | Commander | Abe Sargent

• Commander (1)
• 1 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

• Creatures (16)
• 1 Beloved Chaplain
• 1 Burnished Hart
• 1 Carth the Lion
• 1 Deepglow Skate
• 1 Djeru, With Eyes Open
• 1 Faeburrow Elder
• 1 Fog Bank
• 1 Grateful Apparition
• 1 Guard Gomazoa
• 1 Jaya's Phoenix
• 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
• 1 Onakke Oathkeeper
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Scuttlemutt
• 1 Thrummingbird
• 1 The Wandering Minstrel

• Planeswalkers (21)
• 1 Ajani Unyielding
• 1 Chandra, Legacy of Fire
• 1 Commodore Guff
• 1 Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
• 1 Dovin Baan
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Garruk, Apex Predator
• 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• 1 Geyadrone Dihada
• 1 Jace, Mirror Mage
• 1 Jared Carthalion
• 1 Jaya, Fiery Negotiator
• 1 Kasmina, Enigma Sage
• 1 Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor
• 1 Kaya, Bane of the Dead
• 1 Kaya, Intangible Slayer
• 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
• 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1 The Wanderer
• 1 Vraska the Unseen

• Spells (6)
• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Fuel for the Cause
• 1 Reject Imperfection
• 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1 Unnatural Restoration
• 1 Vivisurgeon's Insight

• Enchantments (9)
• 1 Brokers Ascendancy
• 1 Oath of Ajani
• 1 Oath of Chandra
• 1 Oath of Gideon
• 1 Oath of Jace
• 1 Oath of Liliana
• 1 Oath of Kaya
• 1 Oath of Nissa
• 1 Oath of Teferi

• Artifacts (6)
• 1 All-Fates Scroll
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Contagion Clasp
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Gatewatch Beacon
• 1 Staff of Compleation

• Lands (33)
• 3 Forest
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cascading Cataracts
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Bridge
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Gateway Plaza
• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1 Interplanar Beacon
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kher Keep
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Secluded Starforge
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Temple of Abandon
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Temple of Plenty
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Temple of Triumph
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 Urza's Factory
• 1 Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree

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There we are! We tossed in the cheap check land duals and then Temple cycle - all bulk rares! You can Sakura-Tribe Elder for 99 cents to block attack and ramp like the Hart! I tossed in three-great blockers to save your planeswalkers that cannot die in combat like Fog Bank. I'd like to add in Commander Eesha for Beloved Chaplain she's too pricey. You might! What did you like or add? Enjoy it and I think this would be tons of fun!