@P1NG4S: Baleful Strix is bad in EDH. It's not card advantage. It's a chump blocker with a cantrip stapled to its 1/1 flying tail.

Creature should offer relevant utility. The most Baleful Strix can really do is deter an attack by threatening to kill a single attacker. It doesn't give you anything relevant.

I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen Crawlspace in the list or comments.

Epochalyptik I usually don't expect to use Eternal Dragon 's ability more than three times per game. He's not something to be used over and over again, but to guarantee land drops over a couple turns. I'm even glad to see him in my opening hand, very well knowing I'll only plainscycle once.

Primal Surge is absolutely broken. It leads to easier wins than Iona, Shield of Emeria as Laboratory Maniac is an easy win with it.

devotiontoblue That's not really a staple card though. Fantastic, but it relies on a deck having lots of permanents and a non-permanent card is guaranteed to be exiled.

This may seem wierd but Grand Coliseum could be considered a staple card. I know etb tapped lands are frowned upon but the any mana is very helpful and could also be a budget card. Just my 2 cents

supercaptainpow like most of these cards, it is broken in the right deck (e. g. Prismatic Omen in Progenitus and Horde of Notions

Prismatic Omen is good in any deck of 3 or more colours, which is a large proportion of common EDH decks, making it a staple.

Capture of Jingzhou is strictly better than Time Warp .

yea, and over $200

epoch didn't give a card budget, plus he put in Imperial Seal ; How much is that again?

$700

after people see this list, i'm sure the prices of all of them will go up

Capture of Jingzhou is great with Medomai the Ageless

@devotiontoblue: I don't see the interaction there.

I've been thinking about making a separate list of budget EDH staples. It would include most of the $10> cards on this list as well as some cheaper substitutes. Would that be useful?

@Epochalyptik, I think that would be a really cool list. It would also give you an excuse to slim this list down a bit (which is starting to become bloated). It would also allow you to list some less-optimal cards like Consuming Aberration , which is bad in hypercompetitive, but perfectly reasonable (and potentially very powerful) in budget edh. If you think it's a good idea, then I would like seeing that list.

@Epochalyptik It does not count as an extra turn, thus granting you four turns in a row.

@devotiontoblue: It absolutely counts as an extra turn. Medomai the Ageless will not be able to attack on the extra turn created by Capture of Jingzhou .

@Grimgrinner: I don't think I would remove anything from this list. Maybe a fringe card here and there (e.g. Lair lands), but I would keep this more or less intact and have another list devoted strictly to budget cards.

No Phyrexian Reclamation ?

Has Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx been tested/used at all? Is it just not worth including on the staples list?

you forgot Rakdos Charm , the EDH RTR charm.

option 1 anti-reanimatoroption 2 artifact hateoption 3 anti-infinite creature combo

On the same line of thought, would Vraska the Unseen qualify? Whenever I cast her in games, she impacts the boardstate dramatically. Deters attacks and can remove just about anything.

@Saithor: Added.

@erabel: It's not an awesome card in EDH, but I suppose it's decent in monocolor. It's saved by the fact that it can tap for colorless (unlike, say, Cabal Coffers ).

@10vernothin: I suppose it's worth adding. I was hesitant to add it back when I considered the rest of the Rav charms because I thought it a bit awkward.

@GSamuelnh: Vraska the Unseen is an okay card, but it doesn't really do a whole lot. Most of the time it will just end up being a 5-mana removal spell. The other abilities are marginalized a bit due to the nature of EDH as a format.

I'd like to make a case for Predator, Flagship . Its the kind of card I will throw in almost any EDH deck.

It can help you sneak in General damage and makes almost any creature a killable target (sans hexproof and shroud and Indestructible of course).

Any mono colored deck wants it because it is off color kill but every deck can benefit from it really. It may be a bit costly for hypercompetitive but still has its uses. Just my 2 cents. It sees a lot of play in my area, not sure about everywhere else.

@Epochalyptik actually im pretty sure devotiontoblue is correct, another turn is different from extra turns, i remember the casters when watching pro-tour theros were talking about it a while back, although i might be mis-remembering