[EDH] Cormela $50 Budget Storm

Commander / EDH Budget Magecraft Multiplayer Storm Tokens UBR (Grixis)

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Card Advantage (Spells) (26)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Clear the Mind
• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Crash Through
• 1x Cremate
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Fatal Grudge
• 1x Fleeting Distraction
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Magmatic Insight
• 1x Nasty End
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Opt
• 1x Painful Lesson
• 1x Peek
• 1x Peer into the Abyss *f-pre*
• 1x Practical Research
• 1x Renegade Tactics
• 1x Take the Fall
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Village Rites

Recursion (4)

• 1x Cemetery Recruitment
• 1x Demonic Gifts
• 1x Past in Flames
• 1x Presumed Dead

Tutors (2)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Waterlogged Teachings  ^Flip

Win-Cons (1)

• 1x Saw in Half

Lands (28)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 6x Island
• 1x Maestros Theater
• 6x Mountain
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Removal (9)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Anger of the Gods
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Blue Elemental Blast
• 1x Summary Dismissal
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Void

Token Generators (6)

• 1x Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
• 1x Murmuring Mystic
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1x Third Path Iconoclast
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Enablers (2)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Goblin Bombardment

Card Advantage (Permanents) (1)

• 1x Archmage Emeritus

Commander (1)

Mana Advantage (Permanents) (9)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1x Talisman of Creativity

Mana Advantage (Spells) (6)

• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Energy Tap
• 1x Infernal Plunge
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Path of the Pyromancer

Pingers (5)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Electrostatic Field
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Impact Tremors
• 1x Kessig Flamebreather

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A not-so-quick brew around Cormela, Glamour Thief, but with a $50 budget. Or, at least, all of the cards themselves need to be within a $50 budget, but who cares about the printing - I love foils and old border cards baby! I've always wanted to build a Grixis instant/sorcery-based storm deck, however I never really liked any of the commander options until Cormela, Glamour Thief. I tried a non-budget brew around her whenever she was released, but never really got anywhere with it due to a lot of the cards costing a fair amount of money. I approach my groups budget challenges as being able to build a deck I've always wanted to build, and not having to worry about perfectly optimizing everything due to budgetary constraints. So, I decided to build Cormela, Glamour Thief to satiate my desire to build an instant/sorcery-based storm deck.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them. However, it is a budget deck and right now I've pretty much maxed the $50 budget out. The final price of the deck as of 7/11/2024 is $49.98.

How to Play and Win-Cons

The general gameplan is to get your commander out as fast as possible and start digging for Saw in Half and a ritual effect. A bunch of cards in the deck support the gameplan and we can win once we assemble the Cormela, Glamour Thief + Saw in Half + Ritual combo. The deck primarily wins with cards like Impact Tremors, Goblin Bombardment, or Guttersnipe to deal damage to our opponents. We have a couple methods of successfully winning with these cards.

• Token Generators - We run token generators like Young Pyromancer. We can use the tokens generated with these cards to gain more mana with Ashnod's Altar or pay for cards like Costly Plunder. The tokens also deal damage when they ETB with Impact Tremors or we can sacrifice them to Goblin Bombardment.
• Saw in Half + A Ritual - Cormela, Glamour Thief goes infinite with Saw in Half and a ritual effect that generates at least three mana. Essentially, you target Cormela, Glamour Thief with Saw in Half. When the original dies, you get back your ritual from the graveyard. When one of the copies die due to the legend rule, you get back Saw in Half. However, you're able to tap both copies for mana in response to the sacrifice trigger. We can also sac the copy to things like Goblin Bombardment or Ashnod's Altar, and the copies ETBing trigger Impact Tremors. We also run Burnt Offering, and we can sac the copy to Burnt Offering since it's an instant and we can do it in response to the initial legend-rule sac trigger.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths:

• Due to over 1/4 of the deck having cards that say "draw a card" and our commander herself being a form a graveyard recursion, the deck is fairly consistent. The deck is often able to draw into one of our ritual effects fairly early on that we can abuse with Cormela, Glamour Thief, allowing us to cast more spells and draw more cards.

Weaknesses:

• The biggest weakness of the deck is we're very focused around the graveyard and getting cards back from the graveyard after we've cast them. If someone removes our graveyard when it has our key cards in it, the deck is kind of screwed.
• The deck is incredibly focused around the card Saw in Half. If Saw in Half gets removed and put into exile, the deck doesn't really have a good response and kind of flounders. Of course, the deck can still try to win via the token generators and cards like Impact Tremors or Goblin Bombardment, but our main gameplan revolves around the Saw in Half combo.

Cards to Add When Budget is $100

This is more of a list of cards I want to add. Not all of them can go into the deck. I'll decide when I get there.

For Sure:

• Aetherflux Reservoir
• Birgi, God of Storytelling  
• Blasting Station
• Brainstorm
• Ponder
• Seething Song

Maybe:

• Bolas's Citadel
• Cabal Ritual
• Lightning Bolt
• Pitiless Plunderer
• Pyretic Ritual
• Serum Visions
• Underworld Breach
• Urabrask  

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This is the second deck I've made for my group's budget shenanigans. The first deck was a very very bad tribal spirit Celestial Kirin deck. That deck can be found here:

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[EDH] Budget Kirinbomb

Commander / EDH* AstroAA

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Date added	3 months
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 33 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.57
Tokens	Bird Illusion 1/1 U, Copy Clone, Drake 2/2 U, Elemental 1/1 R, Imp 2/2 R, Pest 1/1 BG, Soldier, Treasure
Folders	Astro's Brews, Astro's Personal Decks