Esper Control Budget

Modern player here. It looks like the format you want this to work in should be modern before anything else, because Control isn't a thing outside of Miracles in Legacy.

Our definitions of "budget" are probably different, but here's a deck list that at max would cost you $300 and could probably do decently well at a Modern FNM:

http://www.mtgvault.com/affykay/decks/esper-control-budget-gifts/

I'll explain things here for you.

This is an Esper Gifts build on a budget.

The Gifts Ungiven combo works where you Take Gifts Ungiven and grab Unburial Rites and one extremely big dude, then let both go to the grave, then Unburial Rites your really big dude with cheats. Because you want budgety I figured this was a good way for you to run a bunch of one-ofs and not have to blow $120 on Snapcaster Mages, and Isochron Scepter is a bad card outside of UWR where you can burn people out.

Because of the control shell of the deck, we run removal and counter-magic. I like Remand because it's a card that replaces itself immediately. Spell Snare is really good in modern and there's no reason to NOT run 2 of them. Path to Exile is our primary removal spell because it hits every single creature that's important in modern, including Tarmogoyf and Voice of Resurgence. Dismember is also just an insane card, it's -5/-5 for 1 mana, how can you complain about that?

So. Unburial Gifts. For your targets I chose Sundering Titan and Elesh Norn. Elesh Norn is an amazing card that's a removal spell upon ETB. Why Sundering Titan? Because it's hilarious and it works well with Academy Ruins in the chance you ever hard-cast Unburial Rites. It also crushes most land bases in Modern, where we often play three colors or off-color lands for sideboard cards.

Additionally you run Academy Ruins for Engineered Explosives, which really only matters when locked at 1, 2, or 3. This way you can constantly recur it. It's good against Affinity. And you can get Academy Ruins with Gifts Ungiven. Value!

And of course we run hand disruption and other one-ofs that we can Gifts Ungiven for, like Detention Sphere, Lingering Souls, Timely Reinforcements, and Supreme Verdict. Gifts is a deck where you can play to the situation. It's also a tough deck to pilot because you need to know your lines of play inside and out like the back of your hand to be super successful with it. But Gifts decks have control shells and if you're comfortable with it I say try this list.

Like I said, control is bad in Legacy outside of Miracles, and even though this is more than the "budget" you had in mind, the list is better, it's playable in a format with more players, and even though it's sub-optimal it's not a bad list to get started with. Your mana will be strange without fetches, but I plugged in fast lands and shocks to try to help aide that.

Hopefully I've explained enough but if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.