If youre building cheap from the ground up, pair these staples with one of the best budget commanders
In recent years, collectible trading cards have surged in value, with top-condition pieces fetching thousands, and sometimes even tens of thousands, on the resale market
For the reasonable cost of three mana, Emperor Mihail II allows you to look at the top card of your library, letting you cast that card as long as it's a Merfolk
That can be devastating in a fast-paced, hard-hitting format
It's presented as a boardgame style self-contained format that you play (given that it comes with play pieces and I'm pretty sure that none of the cards are tournament legal), but it's so expensive that I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of the copies bought are never actually played with or even opened and are just bought for collection