Once you add the voices and fetchlands and chords, it is no longer any sort of budget deck imo. What else is there that is expensive that you are avoiding? Thoughtseize? IoK is frequently just as good or better than thoughtseize.
You could potentially drop the cost 100 with only slight pain by using 4x marsh flats instead of 4x misty rainforest. Sometimes you'll wish you could fetch a forest, but usually you'll either have plenty of green (and thus a pains or swamp will work) or can just grab a shock.
Without chord and fetches, are eternal witness even worth including? I feel like the card is only useful for me in non budget pod because I still frequently get use out of it even when I don't need to go retrieve a specific creature from the GY. Grabbing a fetch is a legit play many times and at the end of their turn, chord grabbing EWitness, getting chord back (to prevent huntmaster flip, to just get another body to pod away w/o losing the chord, another body to chord bigger, etc) is a very valid play.
Without fetches/chord, sometimes EWitness is a decent card and frequently it is just a terrible 2/1 body for 3 and I'd rather have another finks in its place. Ari cut them from his kiki pod deck even when running fetches, so might be worth considering how much value they still have here.
forgot omens is white. Hrmm, elvish visionary? Wall of roots just doesn't seem like a good draw most of the time, a dork that you can't cast until turn 2 and can't even kill a 2/1. Also doesn't seem to block many things that are relevant in the format right now. Visionary was massively awesome in Naya Pod in standard before rotation and seems potentially useful here.
Even though pontiff is white, I'd definitely include him. Heck, in my non budget deck I'd consider it even if it required a purple mana and just rely on pod or birds/deathrite. Such a great answer to so many things.
Wall of Roots is really good with chord, less exciting without it. I'd personally swap out 2 of them for wall of omens. Now you can still pod for roots when you want it but omens is frequently a better card to draw (imo).
Orzhov Pontiff singlehandedly saves MANY games. I realize you are trying to minimize white mana use, but as the typical 1 of you'll pod towards him more than you'll draw/cast him. Need to kill something like a clique or a confidant or some lingering souls tokens? Grab Pontiff. Racing and want to significantly increase your strike? Sac a wall or something into pontiff and give all your guys +1 +1. When first playing melira pod (not budget) I didn't really understand the card but now it would be very hard for me to play without it.
For a bit more mana fixing without crushing the budget, razorverge are like 10/playset now.
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You could potentially drop the cost 100 with only slight pain by using 4x marsh flats instead of 4x misty rainforest. Sometimes you'll wish you could fetch a forest, but usually you'll either have plenty of green (and thus a pains or swamp will work) or can just grab a shock.
Without fetches/chord, sometimes EWitness is a decent card and frequently it is just a terrible 2/1 body for 3 and I'd rather have another finks in its place. Ari cut them from his kiki pod deck even when running fetches, so might be worth considering how much value they still have here.
Even though pontiff is white, I'd definitely include him. Heck, in my non budget deck I'd consider it even if it required a purple mana and just rely on pod or birds/deathrite. Such a great answer to so many things.
A few thoughts:
Wall of Roots is really good with chord, less exciting without it. I'd personally swap out 2 of them for wall of omens. Now you can still pod for roots when you want it but omens is frequently a better card to draw (imo).
Orzhov Pontiff singlehandedly saves MANY games. I realize you are trying to minimize white mana use, but as the typical 1 of you'll pod towards him more than you'll draw/cast him. Need to kill something like a clique or a confidant or some lingering souls tokens? Grab Pontiff. Racing and want to significantly increase your strike? Sac a wall or something into pontiff and give all your guys +1 +1. When first playing melira pod (not budget) I didn't really understand the card but now it would be very hard for me to play without it.
For a bit more mana fixing without crushing the budget, razorverge are like 10/playset now.