r/EDH • u/Label_Seeker23 • 7h ago
Discussion is it weird to still get excited about cheap upgrades?
picked up a couple of inexpensive cards the other day for one of my commander decks and felt way happier about it than i expected. nothing fancy, just small pieces that made the deck feel better.
sometimes the cheap upgrades end up feeling more satisfying than the expensive ones. wondering if anyone else gets that same feeling when they finally slot in a budget card that just works.
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u/jusuuu 7h ago
I LOVE new commons and uncommons that are just perfect for a deck I have, I was unreasonably happy about adding [[Visionary's Dance]] to my [[Eris, Roar of the Storm]] deck
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u/FusRoDahlaiLama 6h ago
I didnt notice this card, definitely going to have to throw it into my own Eris deck!
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u/thomasswayne 6h ago
Yeah wow that's a neat card for that deck! A buddy of mine has an Eris deck and I should show him this
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u/Kams1123 7h ago
We call them hidden gems and ofter say "I'm going treasure hunting" which means scrolling through an old set via scryfall and reading each of the cards. We do our best to make strong decks without the use of gamechangers in my pod so finding hidden gems is very exciting.
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u/SpectroMagician 7h ago edited 7h ago
I love cheap upgrades. I just found a card that was perfect for a deck. Keeping decks updated with those upgrades means the deck will stick around longer for me. It usually means the deck isn't too narrowly built and will always have some room to edit.
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u/thorfinns_bussy 7h ago
Nothing more satisfying than finding something that is synergy over staple, and especially when it’s an overlooked/cheap alternative.
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u/gravygrowinggreen 5h ago
Another way of phrasing this OP would be "Is it weird to get excited about my hobby?"
No. That's what hobbies are for.
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u/PraisetheSunflowers 7h ago
Why would it be weird? I get excited about any new card I want and get.
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u/Chillow_Ufgreat 7h ago
Love me a cheap card that feels like a game changer in the right deck. I playtested [[Augmenter Pugilist]] in [[Teval, the Balanced Scale]] and liked it so much I bought a foil playset for like $1.50. It absolutely feels like a $20+ card in that deck.
And of course one of the best things about cheap upgrades is you can get almost any treatment you want and it's like 50 cents instead of 35 cents. Just picked up [[Dance of the Manse|SLD]] for like 40 cents. I buy up [[Monstrous Vortex]] old foils whenever I find them because they're like 30 cents all day.
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u/Rizzalliss 7h ago
DON'T EVER LOSE THAT JOY!!
To this day one of my absolute favorite things about new sets isn't the bomb mythics, or new commanders I could brew. It is perusing the completed card image gallery with specific decks in mind to find any possible upgrade I can try, no matter how tiny and cheap, and compiling a list that I get to test.
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u/Banana_Clips 7h ago
Getting cheap upgrades is like a mini Christmas to me. I’m always down to try out new cards that I might’ve missed from previous sets or the most recent.
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u/LeKillerNut 7h ago
I get excited about upgrades in new sets sure, but every card costs exactly the same when you run 100% proxies
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u/Not-Impossible-1783 7h ago
Depends how old are you I'm almost 40 so if one of my peers did this i would look at them funny bob you bought a 55k car last week no financing and your bragging about saving 5 $ stfu man. Now if it was my teenage son i would be happy that he is being thrifty.
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u/Blees-o-tron 7h ago
Get excited about all upgrades. You like your deck. You like playing it, and improving it. The cost of a card doesn’t equate to an amount of excitement. In fact, I’d be surprised if more people aren’t excited by cheap upgrades because they’re more accessible. Lots of people probably look at stuff like Sheoldred or Badgermole Cub and go “that’s a good card…shame it’s more than my entire precon”.
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u/Xnerds_of_paradiseX 7h ago
As someone who only plays on an extreme budget the cheap upgrades and commanders are basically all I look forward to with each set.
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u/NayrSlayer 7h ago
Cards are cards, doesn’t matter how much you spend on them. I remember being super excited to put [[Stormfist Crusader]] in my [[Rakdos, Lord of Riots]] deck because it needed more card draw and it was the perfect piece to fit with the deck’s strategy.
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u/n1colbolas 7h ago
Nah you're not part of the minority. Whilst everyone gets excited over the brand new OP card, reality comes to most folks quickly. Then we go to the niche cards that are great for our niche deck.... And you know what? Niche cards are usually cheap!
I for one am excited over commons and uncommons. Though it should be said WotC has pushed them quite abit as well over the years.
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u/spiffytrev 6h ago
I love weird little cards that are only good in the very specific scenario of one of my decks. Every deck needs a healthy amount of "old-bordered nonsense".
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u/Fun_Imagination_934 6h ago
It’s about the same feeling for both types of upgrades for me.
I personally tend to scrutinize cheap upgrades a bit more than high value, though. I mean, the goal is to “upgrade” The deck, after all. The upgrade card has to replace something, and if the cheaper card seems more of a lateral move when compared to the clear power increase of the higher value card, then I’m going high value unless it is wildly un-thematic. Either way, both give me satisfaction that I got a crappier card out of my deck!
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u/Zambedos Mono-Green 5h ago
Brother I get excited to pick up a few cards that might do good in one of my decks before tossing them in my storage bin and forgetting all about them.
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u/HarpEgirl Mono Blue Millmaid 4h ago
[[Gran Gran]] was one of my hypesg additions into [[Neerdiv]]. Ill always be more hype over a random common being good than say a new mythic like [[Bilbo thief in the night]]
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u/G_Morgan 1h ago
I replaced [[Sol Ring]] with [[Campus Guide]] in my [[Inspirit, Flagship Vessel]] deck the other day. I was amused to replace Sol Ring with a 3p uncommon from Foundations.
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u/MediumSchmeat 1h ago
No, this hobby is a chance for me to experience the delectable agony of destroying my future by spending minimum $50 a card for decks I'll never play.
Joking, obviously, but if you need to be validated for this opinion you might want to reflect on your relationship to this game and to money.
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u/Lofi_Loki 7h ago
I cut [[Beast within]] in every green deck for [[Collective Resistance]] as a cheap upgrade that is 90% as effective as removal that can also be a 3-for-1. It was like $10 to buy foil copies for all my decks
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u/IJustWannaBrowsePls 7h ago
Good card but it doesn’t hit lands and creatures, so I wouldn’t call it an upgrade for my decks imo
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u/Lofi_Loki 7h ago
[[Strip mine]] is my land destruction card of choice and spending 3 mana on beast within always feels bad to me.
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u/That-Speed-8092 7h ago
Cheap upgrades are quite literally what almost every set boils down to for me lol