Standard Budget Deck: Nova Grappler (Hero)

Our lord and savior

With our most recent set, The Heroic Evolution, Miwa's Heroes finally became a full deck. They have an actual wincon, and a variety of support cards that share the >Hero< race. The deck in its entirety should run you less than $40, Perfect Guards included, and although they're far overshadowed by Beast Deities, they can still put in a ton of work. If you're looking for the most bang for your buck, I highly recommend picking up Heroes.

Deck Spotlight: Gunmen and Cats (Cat Butler)

Cat Butler is so broke I don't even know.

Best Butler

Over in Japan, back in Legion era, Cat Butler was the most broken card in the game. The cheapest restand available at the time. Even with the G2 and lower restriction it's one godly card. Hell, he even got hit because of it in Japan format. A deck focused on abusing Cat Butler would work really, really well and be very, very potent.

Budget Deck: Nova Grapplers (Beast Deity)

     Beast Deities. Probably my favorite Nova Grappler deck with its perfect mix of pressure

and rush. Quite flashy too and it feels so great when you pull off combos. Only problem is that almost every card with "Ethics Buster" in it's name is pretty expensive... Whatever, I'll make it work. Let's get on with it.

Budget Deck: Nova Grapplers (Blaus)

Badass Robos

Blaus are a group of badass blue robots with awesome skills. They absolutely lack support and you can't make a deck full of Blaus, so you need to tech in a few cards. But despite lacking support, they work quite nicely, and can work on budget.

Blaus originated from this Ride Chain that was released on BT04 (Maan a long time ago), but thanks to a bunch of Rambling and begging for more support for Stern, Bushi for once, decided to give them a whole Archtype. And the testing results were... Dramatically good. Stern got a crossride, Blaus got an amazing Break Ride, and probably the best hand engine in the entire game.

Now, playing budget Blaus is a bit harder than normal, since both Galaxy and Mond are at $13 or so, but there are a lot of decent options out there.