$howcase your most expensive deck

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Posted on April 18, 2018, 11:46 p.m. by greyninja

Here's a chance to really embarrass yourself and admit to the community what you've spent on one deck. Feel free to share if there's a story of how it got there! Have fun! $$$

greyninja says... #2

I'll start. This is my paradox engine deck with oodles of expensive ramp. It was extra costly because I started with UBRG before swapping to WUBG, spending money on lands etc. TappedOut's estimate says $1300+ and I believe it.

April 18, 2018 11:47 p.m.

Azdranax says... #3

Once I stopped playing Legacy on any sort of semi-regular basis and built a cEDH version of Leovold, Emissary of Trest, I had very little time to actual play him before the ban-hammer fell, so I decided to double-down on a Sidisi-reanimator package instead, and have since started upgrading everything I could to foil versions. Now, with the sideboard included, the price-tag is pushing upwards of $4k, and I rarely even take it out of the deck box...kind of a shame, really.


Brains Desired, Not Required

Commander / EDH Azdranax

SCORE: 27 | 13 COMMENTS | 5420 VIEWS | IN 7 FOLDERS


April 19, 2018 12:24 a.m.

pskinn01 says... #4

I Atraxa Hate was built to have a turn 1 lock possible. Its about $3100. The store i used to play at is closed for repairs, but it used to be hated to the point people actually scooped as soon as they saw her. Shes not anywhere near tier one, and not the most consistent wins. But was hated more than the storm deck, enchantment tutor deck, or the I take extra turns cause my commander attacked deck. Which are in my meta, and are tuned better.

About to build my first legacy deck - elves, as I picked up a playset of cradles before the most recent spike. So that will prob easily top this deck in price.

April 19, 2018 12:36 a.m.

dbpunk says... #5

I personally am a cheap ass, so my most expensive deck is either my Mina and Denn, Wildborn extreme rampdeck (Knock Knock Knock It's The Twins) or my Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker mill-walker deck (Mirko Vosk and his Friends present...). One was the remnants of an animar deck I built years ago and built up incredibly much and the other was a deck I built from scratch.

April 19, 2018 2:36 a.m.

Rabid_Wombat says... #6

My favourite Legacy Stasis deck clocks in at around 6k:



But this deck is budget compared to some of my peoples decks whom I play against ;)

April 19, 2018 3:51 a.m.

HashMasta says... #7


Chaining together a kill streak

Commander / EDH HashMasta

SCORE: 1 | 105 VIEWS | IN 1 FOLDER


This deck had really emptied out my wallet as I worked on it overtime lol. Although it only says 5k on tapped out, when it was at the version it was now (including foils), it was about 6k. When I first made this deck however back when dinosaurs roamed the earth...It was less than $400 with some cheap rares and few ways to win. Then I got better cards (and more expensive) such as Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon. and then I got the realllly expensive ones such as Mana Crypt, The Abyss (I got a screaming deal at $270 btw shout out to ebay lol), and The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale. At this point it was a little above 3k. But I decided it wasn't flashy enough for the amount of wins it got me. So I dropped even more money to get all the foils you see on it. leaving me at around 6k total. All in all, I think I spent more than 9k on this deck (if you wanna include past versions and non foils)

BUT IT WAS WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!!!!!!

April 19, 2018 7:41 a.m.

JANKYARD_DOG says... #8

This is my most expensive. I invested in it when I was going to school... so I had a little extra to throw around lol. Think it cost around $300 for everything I didnt have. It's value has increased since then though, so that's good at least.


Sigarda, Human's Grace - Hatebears Edition

Commander / EDH Mj3913

SCORE: 31 | 36 COMMENTS | 4544 VIEWS | IN 12 FOLDERS


April 19, 2018 9 a.m.

Boza says... #9

I did have a Legacy death and taxes once that clocked in at around 1,2k but I got rid of it to get other stuff. Currently, the most expensive deck I have is:


The Legend of Saskia

Commander / EDH Boza

SCORE: 1 | 16 VIEWS | IN 2 FOLDERS


April 19, 2018 9:12 a.m. Edited.

Last_Laugh says... #10

My Animar deck Animar, Angry Hemorrhoid is currently my most expensive list at about $1500 but as soon as I pick up about 10 more cards (totaling less than $100), it'll be Muldrotha at $1850 Muldrotha's Madhouse (This one still needs help if anyone is up to the task)

April 19, 2018 11:12 a.m.

Arvail says... #11

This is my competitive EDH list:


The Tax Man's Paradox

Commander / EDH TheDevicer

SCORE: 5 | 16 COMMENTS | 647 VIEWS | IN 1 FOLDER


I own everything except a timetwister and some random cards here and there to be bought soon. Decided to buy a modern deck instead. I'm debating between buying an Alpha twister for the deck or buying Kess splinter twin.

April 19, 2018 2:44 p.m.

Phaetion says... #12

I've made expensive decks in the past, but this takes the cake and the first to come to mind.

Some time ago, I built decks using all 15 of the FTV: Legends as decks. This was the deck for Visara the Dreadful, and at the time I had a certain trio of Black enchantments. I went all-out on the price in a bid to make it the most expensive deck I ever built. I can no longer build it, since I sold the enchantments, but I didn't edit the deck to reflect that.

April 19, 2018 4:43 p.m.

kanokarob says... #13

My Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient deck is about 75% foiled so far, so if i had to guess, there's probably about $1000 dollars in it, though I haven't been keeping track. Finished, it'll be about $1700.


And I'll Pay a Red | Only 5 Red Spells! *PRIMER*

Commander / EDH* kanokarob

SCORE: 64 | 44 COMMENTS | 10243 VIEWS | IN 28 FOLDERS


April 19, 2018 5:16 p.m.

Rabid_Wombat says... #15

griffstick sweet deck bro - now I wanna build it!

April 20, 2018 3:18 a.m.

griffstick says... #16

Thanks Rabid_Wombat

April 20, 2018 9:29 a.m.

redbird97 says... #17

April 21, 2018 4:08 p.m.

Winterblast says... #18

I think it's this one:


Augustin's $t4ks (Primer)

Commander / EDH Winterblast

SCORE: 114 | 148 COMMENTS | 18521 VIEWS | IN 43 FOLDERS


it's mostly that expensive because several RL cards have spiked recently and multiplied in price. a few months ago the price on tappedout was less than half of the currently displayed price...several of the non-foil cards have been altered to white bordered to match the white sleeves of the deck as well, but that's more for personal value.

May 29, 2018 10:30 a.m.

Hexapod says... #19

I was never a big fan of 5-color decks, but Jodah really made me want to build one. It is also the only occasion for me to play 10 dual lands in a single deck, bringing the estimated value to $34,386.09. Music of the Spheres

This is greatly exaggerated, because in reality my duals are FBB, so the actual value is closer to 20K.

I have been playing since 1995 and in average paid around $45 for each dual.

July 23, 2018 11:25 a.m.

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