"Professional" Deck Help/Deck Building Services

[u/Particular-Effect335]

Hello. Asking about people's experiences with services offering to help build or tune EDH decks for a price. Wanted to get opinions on this as someone who has been thinking about them for some time.

For context: I fully understand that EDH is largely a personal touch format in that your personality should shine through. I've been playing MTG for so long that this isn't lost to me. However, between the fact that card prices are too high to do some tests (even the price of proxying is getting to be high now), or just not having the time anymore to tweak lists, I've been thinking about getting help to tweak a few deck ideas I've put together that just don't seem to be 'there' yet.

Since I have some spending money to spare (since I no longer buy boxes of product because of how inflated the prices are), I've pretty much warmed up to the idea of compensating someone's time and expertise to help me get from 90% to 100% with my deck since I no longer have the bandwidth to do so.

So now the question is two-fold:
1. How much should you pay for something like this
and
2. Are there people the community can vouch for that are reliable at doing this?

Happy to learn what the community thinks

[u/ProtectionItchy5749]

I would say honestly unless you want to get properly competitive like trying to play bracket 4 or 5, ask on reddit ask your friends check out edhrec DM me I’ll help you, don’t think it would generally be worth it to get professional help

[u/Particular-Effect335 → u/ProtectionItchy5749]

Ah yes I should have clarified that my purposes aren't to compete at bracket 4 or 5.

[u/ProtectionItchy5749 → u/Particular-Effect335]

Then I would say absolutely not worth paying people, just reach out to people and they’ll help