Hey Bloodymary once again with a personal EDH list, since a friend of mine had trouble with an Ertai, the Corrupted EDH I am setting my list online for him as reference, and to give tips.
First of all this is not a budget deck, but making a budget list could be doable so if anyone is interested hit me up.
The idea behind this deck was building up a lockdown with Grave Pact and bros while hiding behind your counterspells and slowly taking control over the board state until you have won.
The list:
RAMP:
Grim Monolith
Mana Crypt
Sol Ring
Thran Dynamo
Wayfarer's Bauble
Burnished Hart
Temple of the False God
Ancient Tomb
Myriad Landscape
----Fixing:
Land Tax
SAC FODDER:
----Cards that keep coming back:
Bloodghast
Nether Traitor
Reassembling Skeleton
Spirit Loop
----Cards that create fodder:
Bloodline Keeper
Brimaz, King of Oreskos
Chainer, Dementia Master (Could be used to bring back some fodder or simply reanimate something good)
Darien, King of Kjeldor
Ghoulcaller Gisa
Heliod, God of the Sun
Lullmage Mentor
Merieke Ri Berit (Makes your opponents creatures sac fodder)
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (makes all your creatures fodder)
Ophiomancer
Entreat the Angels (makes huge evasive tokens so you do not want to have to use them as fodder, but they could be)
Martial Coup (Mass removal that creates fodder? sign me in)
Elspeth Tirel
Elspeth, Sun's Champion
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
Bridge from Below (Sac the Bridge itself and after that begin to sac as much as possible, this only works while Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, Martyr's Bond or Butcher of Malakir aren't out on your board)
Debtors' Knell (can in the worst case bring back some fodder)
Luminarch Ascension (Read Entreat the Angels)
Cauldron of Souls (Same story as with Mikaeus)
UNTAP:
Sword of the Paruns
Thornbite Staff
Umbral Mantle
Freed from the Real
Pemmin's Aura
STUFF TO UNTAP:
Ertai, the Corrupted
Mother of Runes
Merieke Ri Berit
Ghoulcaller Gisa
Bloodline Keeper
Arcanis the Omnipotent
COMBO PIECES:
Ertai, the Corrupted + Thornbite Staff
(Use Ertai to sac a creature and tapping him, Thornbite trigger will go on the stack when he is already tapped because tapping and saccing happen at the same time, untapping Ertei)
Ertai, the Corrupted + Lullmage Mentor/Bridge from Below + Intruder Alarm
(Same story, when you use Ertai it will untap him)
LOCKDOWN:
Propaganda
Ghostly Prison
Intruder Alarm
Dictate of Erebos
Grave Pact
Butcher of Malakir
Martyr's Bond
the rest in the list is either protection, card draw, tutors or removal.
WIN CONS:
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
Chainer, Dementia Master
Guile
Entreat the Angels
Debtors' Knell (with a lot of targets from Dictate of Erebos, Grave Pact, Butcher of Malakir and Martyr's Bond let alone the stuff that you countered)
also
The planeswalkers could easily go off by using fodder as blockers, or after a lockdown, or the lockdown itself can also simply win the game.