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BUDGET EDH April 21, 2026

Tameshi, Reality Architect $50 Budget

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I gave myself a challenge to create a fairly competitive combo deck with only $50. This deck, helmed by Tameshi, Reality Architect, is a low-end bracket 3. There are 7 infinite combos in this deck that result in infinite storm count and landfall, allowing you to end the game with a few different finishers.

I like playing decks with a clear purpose or goal in mind, and I like playing bracket 3 decks. This Tameshi build has no game changers, but is laser-focused on hitting one of these combos.

Instead of running through every card in the deck like I usually do, I’m going to focus on getting to the core combos and explain how we get to a position to win.

Note: At the cheapest printings, this deck costs around $53 at time of writing.


Bracket 3 Budget Azorius
Command Zone

Tameshi, Reality Architect

Legendary Creature — Moonfolk Wizard
$68.57

Creature 15

1 Coretapper $0.24
1 Digsite Engineer $1.85
1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch $0.43
1 Kappa Cannoneer $0.40
1 Keeper of the Accord $0.40
1 Patron of the Moon $2.89
1 Replication Specialist $0.19
1 Ruin Crab $1.79
1 Sai, Master Thopterist $0.43
1 Scrap Trawler $2.92
1 Sojourner's Companion $0.35
1 Sun Titan $0.35
1 Trinket Mage $0.40
1 Vana'diel Adventurers $0.29
1 Walking Ballista $10.46

Instant 19

1 Alchemist's Retrieval $0.26
1 Boomerang
1 Counterspell $2.52
1 Dispatch $0.31
1 Dispel $0.33
1 Ephara's Dispersal $0.29
1 Frantic Search $0.66
1 Geistwave $0.24
1 Hoodwink $0.31
1 Into the Roil $0.09
1 Machine Over Matter $0.08
1 Negate $0.20
1 Scour for Scrap $0.34
1 Shadowbringers $1.48
1 Spell Pierce $0.30
1 Thirst for Knowledge $0.29
1 Unwanted Remake $0.30
1 Winds of Rebuke $0.32
1 Wipe Away $0.29

Sorcery 6

1 Baral's Expertise $0.26
1 Johann's Stopgap $0.06
1 Reshape $4.36
1 Sevinne's Reclamation $0.36
1 Supreme Verdict $3.10
1 Temporal Fissure $0.24

Artifact 16

1 Aether Spellbomb $0.33
1 Arcane Signet $0.42
1 Azorius Signet $0.28
1 Chromatic Star $0.35
1 Expedition Map
1 Lotus Bloom $4.05
1 Magistrate's Scepter $5.07
1 Mirage Mirror $0.65
1 Moonsilver Key $0.84
1 Origin Spellbomb $0.15
1 Repurposing Bay $0.74
1 Sculpting Steel $3.07
1 Soul-Guide Lantern $0.28
1 Stone of Erech $0.29
1 Sunbeam Spellbomb $0.19
1 Wayfarer's Bauble $0.31

Enchantment 10

1 Angelic Shield $0.23
1 Honest Work $0.29
1 Inventive Iteration $0.43
1 Mirrormade $1.87
1 Seal of Removal $0.22
1 Solitary Confinement $0.46
1 Soul Snare $0.17
1 Tempest Technique $0.56
1 Unable to Scream $0.31
1 Witness Protection $0.25

Land 33

1 Adarkar Wastes $0.36
1 Ancient Den $0.95
1 Command Tower $0.29
1 Glacial Fortress $0.34
12 Island
1 Mystic Sanctuary $0.84
12 Plains
1 Prairie Stream $0.31
1 Seat of the Synod $0.68
1 Temple of Enlightenment $0.29
1 Tolaria West $2.01

Tokens Used 5

Construct
Copy
Myr
Soldier
Thopter

EDH BRACKET

1
Exhibition
2
Core
3
Upgraded
4
Optimized
5
cEDH
Bracket 3 // Upgraded

Beyond the strength of an average precon deck.

  • Late Game 2-Card Infinite Combos
  • No Mass Land Denial
  • Up to 3 Game Changers
  • No Chaining Extra Turns

How to Play the Deck

The goal is to go infinite, but some games, the combo doesn’t come together. We’re running cheap tutors and often need to rely on the luck of the draw to pull off our win.

Aside from the pieces of the combo and ways to find the deck runs pretty heavy interaction. We have a lot of cheap bounce and counter effects, as well as cheap auras that lock down creatures.

Many of our creatures are recursion for artifacts, which can help us in a pinch of we don’t want to activate Tameshi.

Playing passively and slowly gearing up for a window to attempt to combo off is usually the best bet. People in bracket 2 games aren’t super aware of Tameshi’s loops, especially for a $50 budget deck. Avoid making enemies and even offer to help out the table by countering big game-enders from other players.

Combos with Tameshi

Tameshi allows us to loop artifact lands and artifact copy-spells to create infinite landfall triggers. The goal is then to mill opponents out with Ruin Crab.

The other way we end the game is by creating infinite mana and funnelling it into Walking Balista.

Let’s take a closer look at how the main combos of the deck function.

Landfall and Storm Combos

These combos involve Tameshi, Lotus Bloom, an artifact land that taps for colored mana, and either Mirrormade or Sculpting Steel. Now, these combos will only create infinite landfall and storm, you will need a way to end the game after that. Ruin Crab is cheap and effective, milling out your opponents. You can also use Tempest Technique of you have enough creatures, but this method is far less reliable. Kappa Canoneer can also one-shot someone because of the infinite artifact storm triggers.

Prerequisites:

Infinite Landfall and Storm

Combo Sequence
Cost
1
1. Activate Lotus Bloom, sacrificing it to add .
2
2. Cast Mirrormade using the mana from Lotus Bloom, targeting Seat of the Synod.
3
3. Activate Mirrormade, tapping it to add .
4
4. Activate Tameshi by paying , bouncing Mirrormade to your hand and returning Lotus Bloom to the Battlefield.
5. Repeat from Step 1.
×

If you’re confused about how the mana works for this combo, essentially you’re netting mana every time you use Lotus Bloom but it then has to be used to cast Mirrormade and activate Tameshi. You’ll need to alternate the colors you add with Lotus Bloom to make this viable.

For example, after you tap Mirrormade for , Tameshi will bounce it to your hand, and you’ll need to sacrifice Lotus Bloom for .

Use , the from Mirrormade, and one additional to recast Mirrormade, targeting Seat of the Synod. At this point, you have available.

Activate Tameshi with , go through the loop, but this time sac Lotus Bloom for blue. You

should have in your mana pool.

Cast Mirrormade for , and pay the activation for Tameshi with . You’ll have one leftover, as well as the you produce with Mirrormade to make this a self-sufficient combo at this point.

Infinite Mana Combos

These combos involve Tameshi, Lotus Bloom, and Patron of the Moon. You’ll be able to net infinite white mana, and you can also net infinite blue but it requires a bit more work, since Tameshi’s activation cost is white.

To end this loop, you’ll dump all your mana into Walking Ballista and ping people for damage.

Prerequisites:

Infinite Mana

Combo Sequence
1
1. Activate Lotus Bloom, sacrificing it to add .
2
2. Activate Tameshi by paying , bouncing a land to your hand and returning Lotus Bloom to the battlefield.
3
3. Activate Lotus Bloom, sacrificing it to add .
4
4. Activate Tameshi by paying , bouncing a land to your hand and returning Lotus Bloom to the battlefield.
5
5. Activate Patron of the Moon by paying , putting the two lands from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
6. Repeat from Step 1.
×

Infinite Turns

This combo look isn’t as fun because it requires you to manually go through turns until you find a way to kill people or your opponents concede. It’s easier to pull off than the above landfall combos.

Prerequisites:

Infinite Turns with Tameshi

Combo Sequence
Cost2
1
1. Tap Coretapper to put a charge counter on Magistrate’s Scepter.
2
2. Sacrifice Coretapper to put two charge counters on the Scepter.
3
3. Activate the Scepter by tappinging it and removing three charge counters to take an extra turn.
4
4. Activate Tameshi by paying 2 and returning a land to your hand. Bring Coretapper back to the battlefield.
5. Move to your next turn and repeat from step 1.
×

You can pull off another infinite turns combo using Emry, Lurker of the Loch. It costs 1 less mana, but results the same way as the combo using Tameshi.

Prerequisites:

Infinite Turns with Emry

Combo Sequence
Cost2
1
1. Tap Coretapper to put a charge counter on Magistrate’s Scepter.
2
2. Sacrifice Coretapper to put two charge counters on the Scepter.
3
3. Activate the Scepter by tappinging it and removing three charge counters to take an extra turn.
4
4. Activate Emry, allowing you to cast Coretapper from your graveyard for 2.
5. Move to your next turn and repeat from step 1.
×

Finding Our Combos

The most important cards in this deck are the colored artifact lands Ancient Den and Seat of the Synod, as well as Lotus Bloom. Thankfully, Reshape cares about mana cost (which is 0 for all three of these artifacts), so you can tutor for one of them for 2 blue mana.

Tolaria West can transmute to get us Lotus Bloom or the artifact lands, too, and that’s only 3 mana. Trinket Mage is also three mana and can tutor for any of the three pieces.

Magistrate's Scepter, Coretapper, and Sculpting Steel are also important combo pieces, which we can grab with Repurposing Bay, the Birthing Pod for blue.

Moonsilver Key is also a useful artifact tutor, but it can only grab the artifact lands.

Conclusion

Can Tameshi be a powerful bracket 4 or cEDH deck? Yes. Does it have to be? I don’t think so.

This deck is fun because it instills some of the competitive, ticking clock playstyle of cEDH into a casual bracket 2 deck. The lines to win are sometimes difficult to achieve, since they often involve 4-5 cards. But, assembling the combos on a budget makes the deck fun and rewarding.

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