$50 Verazol, the Split Current | Kicker Tribal | Commander Abridged Gameplay
Friends, it's time to kick it up a notch! We're going to slither into a game with my favorite new scaly boi: Verazol, the Split Current #239!
Verazol is a brand new commander from Zendikar Rising that supports the Kicker archetype: whenever you cast a kicked spell, you may remove two +1/+1 counters from Verazol to copy that spell. This turns our kicked spells into insane bombs, letting us steal two artifacts with Thieving Skydiver #118, make a huge wolf army with Wolfbriar Elemental #225, or make 10 creature copies with Rite of Replication #165!
All we need to activate this powerful ability is +1/+1 counters. We can do this by utilizing Green's fantastic ramp potential like Vastwood Surge #217 and Grow from the Ashes #164 to cast Verazol with tons of +1/+1 counters and by adding more counters to it with cards like Invigorating Surge #673 and Inscription of Abundance #186.
The rest of the deck is filled out with all the usual important stuff like card draw (Inscription of Insight #61), removal (Mold Shambler #169), recursion (Murasa Sproutling #196), and wins with any of our kicked bombs, a token army (Roost of Drakes #74), or commander damage with our huge serpent leader.
The deck is incredibly well-rounded and powerful for just a $50 budget. And that's not all, friends: if you like how this deck looks and want to learn more, I did a primer on not only this deck but also how to section off its green core so it can quickly and easily transform into a Hallar, the Firefletcher #196 list, which I call a 2-for-1 Commander deck. I also heard this method called "Commander Roommates" which I quite like!
