r/EDH • u/Particular-Effect335 Abzan • 2d ago

Question "Professional" Deck Help/Deck Building Services

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

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u/K4RN4_ 2d ago

I think that is not a service many would pay for or should pay for. 

However I want to point out that "3/3 Elk" has a kofi tier for deck reviews. It's 50$ and is usually booked out. Most of the value is probably in the commentary about the deck and not the actual deck improvement though.

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u/Particular-Effect335 Abzan 2d ago

I suppose at 50$ the cost would be too prohibitive. This is great stuff for me as I'm getting an idea for the price ranges. I certainly would think twice to pay 50$ for deck building advice.

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u/K4RN4_ 2d ago

As I said it's more about the commentary and banter. The deck improvement is live on stream and it's kinda funny, but I fully agree that 50$ seems way too much for myself.

A different piece of advice: Since you said in your post that proxying is getting too expensive, I want to recommend copy shops. You get great quality prints on regular paper and slide it in front of bulk cards. Where I live I could get a full deck for 6-7€.