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Power Budget TCG
Power Budget TCG
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What is the goal, the history, the reason behind it all?
It all started when I was challenged at my local game store to make an EDH deck where every card was only 50 cents or less, slightly inspired by the Commanders Quarters and their budget decklist builds. The kid who challenged me wanted it to not include commanders but I wouldn't let them get out of it that easily, EVERY CARD had to be 50 cents or less (CoL). I ended up making an Atla Palani, Nest Tender deck that by my modern standards was garbage. They ended up failing to follow through, but now I had a brand new and unique way to play the game that only costed $15 to play. It did well enough that people started to build them along with me, and we started becoming known as the pod that runs budget decks. That was until I repurposed a build I had done previously. A mono white commander that did a partner pairing between two Baldur's Gate cards, Far Traveler and Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward.
All it took was taking my Anointed Procession and a few other redundancy pieces out for more draw and ramp and it was a powerhouse of a deck. That's all it needed to go from $150 to $15. Not only that, it performed extremely well in the 50 CoL pods. But magically, it was also dominating tables in my local game store's normal pods. I couldn't believe it! Now I had a deck that costs a fraction of the others' decks and it could consistently pull archenemy and WIN. That was when I realized I could probably make videos about these budget decks. So I decided to make my first video: Baru, Wurmspeaker.
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Ahh, the awful first video. Now it's only available to those of the community that are members. It really didn't have a lot going for it. Plus I kept putting myself center frame and made the card small. Not much has changed but now the card is bigger I guess, lol. But this deck was another example of my trying and failing to make a good budget deck. I really wanted to do Abdel but wanted a testing ground for the videos done first so I didn't royally screw up beyond repair with the deck I liked the most. I needed to take time before I let Abdel be released to the world. The last thing I want to do is rush into making the Abdel video, if I did that first it would have been guaranteed awful. So I did it second.
It really didn't look good or perform well, stats wise that is. But it was me finally putting my baby Abdel out in the open. I eventually worked and refined my technique on video making. People gave me advice such as "You're not the important part, the card is. Put the card on the screen." and I did. Next thing you know I decided to simplify my wardrobe and wear a black shirt, fuzzy rainbow crocs, and blue jeans. I started using more of myself in the green screen and tried adding more of my humor into the videos. Then with 400 subscribers in tow, I decided to upload a video about a new card: Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
We left to Magic Con Chicago 2024 and the video took off! it jettisoned to 1k views and blew past all my previous videos. 1k, 1.5k, 2k, it now stays around 10k and really stands as an example of something I did right. Now that I found a winning formula I had an idea. What if I fixed my baby Abdel. What if I made a new video? Well That's exactly what I did.
Quirked Up White Boy ✨️GOATED✨️ with the Sauce?
This is where the channel started to get a lot of attention. I started getting people interested in my comedy and what I was doing pretty early on. This was the turning point for my videos that made me realize that people really wanted to see me being goofy and that the deck list videos were the secondary thing. The fact that the lists were running as well as they did was honestly just a nice bonus. Now I Make these videos trying to get people to laugh. It works a lot of the time and the community that we have built shares my foundational sense of humor. I've achieved a lot with the help of the audience feedback. A lot of new players coming to MTG just to get ideas of how to get into the game without breaking the bank. I've become a budget friendly way for once entrenched players to hop back into the scene. The decks I make range from simple to complex, they do tribal (kindred) synergies, they do stupid one off effects. My decks really give those options to those who want it, and now I make this website to act as a hub for the people that are interested in the cause. I just want to make the best game ever as accessible as possible. That's what I hope I've done. So now that you've read this whole thing, which is kinda nuts, I gotta say Hi! You must be a description person, the type that actually reads all the descriptions I make on my videos. If you aren't then you would definitely enjoy them. They are inane ramblings of whatever I was thinking at the time of posting that video and the running themes usually are meta and fourth wall breaking. So if you are interested in that you should absolutely read those descriptions :).
Otherwise, In 16 words, I'll tell you what I do:
Hi! I'm Cody, and I make funny budget deck list videos full of skits and bits.
