Buying bulk commons is admittedly a bit of a pain in the ass, but the serious answer is that if you live in the United States, do the following: 1. throw the list into TCGPlayer 2. hit "optimize", turning off exact printings 3. pick the TCGDirect cart. You want as much of the order as possible reasonably priced from TCGDirect 4. comb through the TCGDirect stuff and look for cards that are poorly priced, i.e. where only foil or otherwise expensive printings are there. Most of the deck should be under 50 cents per card, with a handful of protection spells being in the $0.75-1.50 range 5. look for any non-TCGDirect stuff that's in a package of less than 5 items 6. find replacements for the cards you singled out that didn't have good listings. This is a deck of bulk commons, you'll be able to find very similar replacement cards for most things. I used scryfall to find similar options and then double checked in TCGPlayer that each one had a reasonably priced printing on TCGDirect I did this about a week ago and in 15-20 minutes the cart was $28. I imagine it could go as low as $25 with a bit more massaging of the cart.

@@salubrioussnail I am well aware of TCGplayer. That deck list optimized to around a $65-70 purchase as of 6/5/2024, and that is allowing for damaged cards as well. What wound up happening was I got the card total down to $30-35, but the shipping total was $30-35 as well. I am struggling to believe that you got the price down to $28 a week ago, with the realities of shipping and tax, and am still looking for an actual $25 option or proof of any kind. Would my local gamestore(s) fish the cards out for that cheap even? I guess I will have to ask. I already own a good 20+ of the cards, but that's beside the point.

Grim Hireling and better counterspells would be my first two orders of business if I had more budget to work with

@@salubrioussnail Grim Hireling is deffinitely a great card to add! A bit out of my budget aswell, but something to try and trade for or get in the future :D

I made a video discussing board wipes back in September, but I didn't really touch on how many people should play. Whether or not they should be played in creature-heavy decks really depends on what sort of deck it is. If you're running an aggressive deck that can consistently threaten player kills by turn 6 or 7 (in a mid-power game), you might only want to add 1-2, or even none at all if you're playing a Voltron deck. On the other hand, if you're playing a slower, grindier deck that is likely to get overtaken by other players on board at some points in the game, running 3+ board wipes becomes a good idea.

@@salubrioussnail my thought process was that my Kutzil deck mostly aims to grow tall and trample over creatures. To ensure that i need creature with higher than base power to draw more tempo.