Alright the basic idea of this deck building challenge is simple, but wanted a second opionon, as well as advice. Basiclly there is a person in my local game store who declared that they are up for any mtg challange I could come up with. He likes to build EDH decks, so I want to challenge him in that regard. The basic idea is we would have a 25$ budget to spend on the EDH deck with basic lands being provided for free by me. We would only build these decks with the cards at out local game store. Outside of rares which vary in price commons are 10 cents and uncommon are 50 cents. Any advice on making this challenge fair as possible as well as advice on how to carry out this challenge?
A mostly-commons control deck is doable, and can even keep up with decks that aren't being restricted like this. Capsize is common, as are many counterspells, and some completely-playable card draw spells.
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