Pro

• The extension tries to be smart. Decks that have "Casual Challenge" as part of their name are automatically checked without clicking the button. Also it remembers which deck you enabled checks for.

  • Tip: "CC" also works for the auto-detection

• You can use all the cool features of Scryfall, like their day-precise pricing and amazing search functionality while still seeing whats legal or not for the Casual Challenge

• Both extensions are actively developed, so new helpful features will come

Contra

• There are decklist tools out there with way more functions, but the extension is only supported for Scryfall

How much does a deck actually cost?

35€ - 75€

• Depending on your preference for card condition, card language and time of last print, prices for cards can vary a lot

• It's strongly recommended to buy cards via cardmarket, a player to player marketplace with the best prices in the European area

  • Once you have an account, you can use the Wants feature to put in your decklist and use the Shopping Wizard to get the best combined price

  • Be vary of shipping cost (included in the 35-75€) and time. Certain countries are very expensive (e.g. Netherlands) or even have customs (Great Britain, Switzerland). While in other countries (especially south/east Europe) shipping can take very long (1-2 weeks is usual).

  • --> for the fastest shipment and lowest shipment cost you can buy everything from your country (there is a filter for that on the shopping wizard), but this will increase card prices

Can I get it cheaper?

Yes

Option 1: Proxies

• You can print out so called "proxies" --> cards intended for testing out decks or to get otherwise hard to acquire cards

  • A recommended tool is MTG Print by CARD TRADER

  • Make sure you set the print size in each step to 100% and check the chosen prints: arena versions of cards will look bad when printed out.

  • It's highly recommended to print in a copy shop with colors. This will cost you around 4€ per deck

    • If you are a student or have otherwise access to a shared (color) printer, you might get it even cheaper

  • If you print more than 1 deck, I'd recommend you using the cutting service offered by most copy shops (which usually costs around 4-8€ but for basically any amount of sheets).

Option 2: Borrow a deck

• We have around 40 decks already in the play group with 14 active players --> there are more than enough decks to just borrow a deck

  • But keep in mind that constructing and maintaining your very own deck is at least half of the fun of the format

How are Budget Points calculated?

Roughly: Average of the cheapest daily prices of legal prints since the last 4 months.

More details coming when someone is asking for them :P

Changelog

11. August 2024

• Missing EUR prices are now interpolated from (adjusted) USD prices

02. September 2023

• Support Casual Challenge in Deck Editor of Scryfall.com

• Show BP per section

28. June 2023

• Move to own domain

• General overhaul of texts

• Removed the deprecated deck check method via Google Sheets

01. July 2023

• Deck checker now supported on Firefox

31. July 2022

• Updated page for new budget points

01. April 2022

• Updated ban list to match current competitive meta (see Discord message for more details)

24. Mar 2022

• Added basic constructed rules

• Added "costs" section

• Added table of contents

18. Feb 2022

• Added deck check methods 

06. Feb 2022

• Clarified card print legality and specified that the sideboard is part of the budget

19. Dec 2021

• Defined format basis to be Vintage legality

15. Dec 2021

• Added Pauper to the list of considered formats to form the ban list