Jalira, Master Budgetmorphist

by RKwan on 25 May 2015

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

This deck is part of a challenge a friend issued unto me, where I would make a commander deck with no card costing more than 50 cents.

I have put a number of self-imposed restrictions on the deck as well:

- No countermagic
- No tutors
- No Infinites
- No Land Destruction or Discard

I will probably start making a series of these decks around this challenge. The end goal after playing a good number of games with this deck is giving a new player a usable deck for commander.

How to Play

You want to abuse Jalira's polymorph ability as much as possible to take advantage of those sweet, sweet enter-the-battlefield triggers. The deck has a number of token generators, the two most notable being trading post and nuisance engine.

Your primary route to victory will typically look like this:

- Build a board state with token generators.
- Take advantage of scry triggers when you can.
- Use Jalira to thin deck and generate card advantage.
- Use your suite of enchantments and instants to control the board and be political
via tapping/untapping or destroying enemy permanents/giving creatures evasion
- When no one suspects it, turn all your creatures into a copy of stormtide leviathan or sharding sphinx and swing for the win.

Now to explain the oddballs in the deck:

Thassa's Ire

Can untap or tap target creature. Allows for multiple triggers off the commander or can deter a lethal attacker or potential blocker

Zephyr Charge

Hilarious with Dismiss into Dream. Everyone wants to believe they can fly.

Denizen of the Deep

Allows me to retrigger all the creatures he's bounced to my hand.

Cryptic Annelid.

3 times the scry, 3 times the fun.

Sunken Hope

Allows for some disruption during a long board stall. This one should be used carefully.

Deck Tags

  • Budget
  • Jalira
  • Polymorph
  • Commander

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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