Token/+1/+1 counter themed deck with a touch of combo, built around a 15$ budget commanded by Caradora, Heart of Alacria
Main Gameplan:
Beatdown - smash your opponent in the midgame with a large evergrowing army of creatures. You have many ways to put counters on your entire team with cards like Loyal Guardian and Oran-Rief Ooze, try and ramp on turn 2 to be able to play your commander a turn early to abuse his ability to make our growing army grow even faster. Your army will grow rapidly with cards like Basking Broodscale and Herd Baloth and with all of your creatures entering with counters thanks to cards like Good-Fortune Unicorn making them benefit from Abzan Falconer, Tuskguard Captain and the like, these creatures arent just big, they are hard to block.
Combo - the decks combo angle focuses on the Persist keyword. Whenever a persist creature dies it returns with a -1/-1 counter on it if it didn't have one when it died, but -1/-1 and +1/+1 counters cancel eachother out so if a persist creature dies and returns while we control an effect that would put a +1/+1 counter on it it can immediately be sacrificed again infinitely. The deck has 2 persist creatures (Kitchen Finks and Aerie Ouphes each has their own benefits that will be explained later) and 5 ways to make them enter with counters (Good-Fortune Unicorn, Ivy Lane Denizen, Juniper Order Ranger, Renata, Called to the Hunt, and Thunderous Velocipede).
How do we win with the combo? Simple, firstly now that we have a creature that can die infinitely we need a way to sacrifice it - the only ones that fit our budget are Fanatical Devotion and Dissection Tools (by moving the equipment between owners we can keep sacrificing creatures).
Now that we have a creature constantly entering and dying we need a card that can generate value from enter or die triggers, of which we have many in the deck including Angelic Sell-Sword or Haruspex and even cards like Basri's Lieutenant or Slurrk, All-Ingesting if we can make the persist creature enter with more than one +1/+1 counter (with multiple Good-Fortune Unicorn effects or if we still control our commander).
If the creature we are looping is Kitchen Finks we dont even need to have a payoff as we will gain infinite life. If the creature we are trying to loop is Aerie Ouphes we can go infinite without having a way to sacrifice it if there is a flying creature (just keep looping it letting the persist trigger return it before the damage is dealt to the flying creature to keep sacrificing it infinitely).
The combo is not necessary in order to win with the deck and I advise not using it unless you know you are facing strong opponents or you have no other way to win.
List of Vehicles/Mounts searchable by your Commander:
Thunderous Velocipede - the most important vehicle in the deck! this card makes all of our cards gain +1/+1 counters and enables many of our combos.
Bulwark Ox - when ahead, this card gives you a very cheap way to protect your board/specific creatures from boardwipes and removal.
District Mascot - an immediate way to remove a problematic artifact.
Dermotaxi - an immediate way to remove a problematic creature in a graveyard OR you can imprint a strong creature in a graveyard to get a potential threat.
Guardian Sunmare - can find small creatures like Kitchen Finks or cards like Fanatical Devotion you are missing for your combo.
Cultivator's Caravan / Lumbering Worldwagon - mana ramp.
Statistics:
Card Draw:
Angelic Sell-Sword, Armorcraft Judge, Bonders' Enclave, Cloaked Cadet, Dyadrine, Synthesis Amalgam, Harmonize, Hunter's Insight, Hunter's Prowess, Inspiring Call, Mindless Automaton, Secret Rendezvous, Tributary Instructor, Trash the Town, Towashi Guide-Bot
Ramp:
Basking Broodscale, Circuitous Route, Dauntless Scrapbot, Emergent Sequence, Cultivator's Caravan, Fertilid, Haruspex,
Migration Path, Lumbering Worldwagon, Rampant Growth, Rishkar, Peema Renegade, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Sol Ring, Vastwood Surge
Removal:
Aerie Ouphes, Crib Swap, District Mascot, Dromoka's Command, Fall of the Impostor, Reclamation Sage, Smell Fear, Valorous Stance
Bonuses to +1/+1 counter creatures:
Abzan Falconer, Ainok Bond-Kin, Armorcraft Judge, Basking Broodscale, Basri's Lieutenant, Botanical Brawler, Duskshell Crawler, Herd Baloth, Inspiring Call, Iridescent Hornbeetle, Oran-Rief Ooze, Rayblade Trooper, Slurrk, All-Ingesting, Tributary Instructor, Wildwood Scourge
