Yu-Gi-Oh! Top 5 Decks Under 30 Dollars - September 2024

These are what I think the most competitive decks you can build for the cost of 3 structure decks or less. These will be decks with a full main deck and extra deck. There are probably lots of other decent decks you can build for this price that would still be worth trying out.

The YDKE of the sample deck lists if you wanted to try them out on something like EDOPro
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Number 1:
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[JakeJusin-hhdl]

In my opinion shark has to be the best deck on this list because of the new support in ROTA.

[stoic_hero_tcg]

4:45 ZEUS was reprinted in the 2 Player Starter Set, along with a few other good Extra Deck monsters, which is how I got it for my physical Traptrix deck.

Also, Traptrix recently got support in the form of Banishing Trap Hole, a card that is currently overlooked but hits a lot of meta starters and extension, and does not destroy, like Bottomless. It is also quite affordable, around the 1 dollar range too.

[BGL]

Made a Melffy deck for a similar price, not including the shipping via TCGplayer. It's not super competitive in the locals or tournament settings but it's also got tons and tons and tons of options with the extra deck and has room for lots of hand traps. It can definitely put up a fight in the rogue and casual kitchen table territories where you don't see 900$ T1 hyper optimized OTK.

[Serjohn]

speedroids before apollousa was banned were pretty good,
i reccomend lightsworns with bystials/branded, lightsworns have many level 4 tuners and bystials are level 6 you can synchro into Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, also lightsworns can make michael, minerva, judgement, and branded can make albion
also dont sleep on the new zombie world zombies

[heavenmattia]

Also dinomorphia is a solid budget option in my opinion

[lifedeather]

Sharks so based, was playing it before the new support, Boards of F0 3 Toads and Kragen with a Handtrap in hand was insane XD

[chrisgm]

I Don't know how hard it would be but i would really love to see like a second version of these deck without hand traps and such.
Love the videos tho!

[SloopYGO]

exosisters is a good one! i think it went under people's radar, but thanks to the reprints in rarity 2, the deck is VERY cheap now. martha playset and zeus are the most expensive cards, and theyre still under 15

[Adrian-etun]

Nice video in my opinion I think a dino deck is super budget friendly (with out ground xeno) and i am talking from experience since i am running a dino deck right now and in total i spent around 30 and it has a lot of negate with evolzar cards and ultimate conductor

[glitchmakerygo]

Due to Rarity Collection and other reprint sets, Purrly is incredibly cheap now.
Possibly cheap enough to do a budget challenge with.

[pablocardoso]

Bring a deck list of Infernoid low budget, please

[DiegoSanchez-eimf]

Saludos desde México :3, gracias por el video muy útil :D

[TrunksStrife]

Don't get Mad, Get Glad-ators or Git Gud!

[oxicleanx]

Opinion on mikanko as a semi budget deck? I wanna build it cause the deck is fun (for me) on master duel, but idk how good it is in the tcg

[u.a.perfectace]

Go Utopia! Utopia Double reprint is the 2024 tins and about time. Only has 1 printing lol😂

Also Utopia can compete but a competitive version has to run Crossout plus targets to not die (plus Dimensional Barrier makes you cry too so even more reason to include Crossout).


Gotta run 3x Mask of Restrict in the side for all those Kurikaras, Kaijus, Golem, and Sphere Mode (probably a jank counter move but you ll draw into them off of Xyz Tactics).

[rich]

Could you put together a cheap aromage deck and a cheap witchcrafter deck?

[Ruggi]

Spright is very budget except starter, do what you want with the information

[Kasei]

1:29 Main Set never reprint cards so ROTA will not contain Abyss Shark, only chance for this are high rare prints like starlight or ghost rare prints and this card is not a realistic candidate for that

[alucardygo]

Very good video and informative, can you do one for 50? 🎉🎉

[MJhenriquez]

Would you really think a traptrix can be competitive? I'm building one right now but dont really have any expensive card and most of then were a gift 😅