MTG Salvation

The last few months I've been building dozens of these decks to carry with me and give away to LGS's to distribute to new players, with typed-up cutsheets rubber banded around them. My general rule is no card over .50 cents... On average I've assembled these for less than $20 a piece off of TCGPlayer.

Feel free to assemble some yourself or offer some suggestions!

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
Pestilence effects are very strong, seldom played and cheap, so I designed this deck around them. Also contains mass-edicts, heavy discard and tons of synergy with all those thrull tokens. I'm proud of this deck; it is almost always relevant at the table. Under-utilized gems are Last Laugh (a nuclear bomb in multiplayer EDH), Day of the Dead (seriously underrated) and Hecatomb (so much fun).
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http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/endrek-sahr-edh-20-series/

Vorosh, the Hunter
An infinite combo deck with redundant combo pieces, that tries to make infinite mana through an untapping land untapper. Vorosh is an effective (and slightly over-budget) plan B; the deck is a very tricky tool box with lots of tutors. I think it's a bit over the targeted complexity level of these decks, but so much potential for fun and so rewarding to know well.
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http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/vorosh-10-edh-series/

Jalira, Master Transmuter
Blue has so many quality, cheap cards that I wanted to make some a fundamental mono-blue control list full of bounce and counterspells. Jalira can fetch finishers at instant speed, at the expense of running goofy token generators in the deck. This is a great strategy 1-on-1 but I don't know if there's a way to broaden the strategy for multiplayer... The finishers have been changed around a few times as prices go up and down; Stormtide Leviathan is probably the best, I need more that influence the board like that guy.
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http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/jalira-edh-10-series/

Daghatar the Adamant
The first deck I wanted to build when I started this project was green/ white/ (blue) enchantment voltron with Ethereal Armor, Ancestral Mask, hexproof, enchantress effects, et cetera. There weren't any great G/W voltron generals in-budget though... So I ended up here. Daghatar isn't totally useless to the strategy, and black gives access to Duneblast, a few powerful enchantments, and the joy of Mischievous Poltergeist and Xathrid Slyblade as voltron targets. In general this deck is weak due to having to rely on target creatures out of the main-deck rather than command zone; the games it does well in tend to involve stacked lifelink effects on a creature with 10+ power... I feel the deck really needs a better commander and better aura targets.
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http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/daghatar-10-edh-series/

Chorus of the Conclave
Chorus is dirt-cheap, but I feel demands a very specific deck design to utilize... A ton of ramp to get her onto the field, and a ton of weenies to pump; the problem is this is a fundamentally weak strategy, being weak to targeted removal or countermagic or sweepers or about anything else. I've never been too happy with this deck as it is so easy to disrupt, but it is fun to beat down with a 10/9 Blurred Mongoose or River Boa.
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http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/chorus-of-the-conclave-10-series/

Selenia, Dark Angel
I wanted to build a defensive deck with lots of Extort shenanigans, and ended up with this wannabe pillow fort deck. It's a bit too much of an under-powered spreaded-synergy grab-bag, I think it needs some more card draw engines and more defenses that aren't creature-based, as it tends to be weak to board sweepers and is prone not to do much even when it does work. The deck is popular to new players though, who tend to be attracted to life drain and like the multitude of cool and cheap black/ white legends.
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http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/selenia-10-edh-series/

Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
This is my attempt at a strong, basic aggro deck; obviously a better strategy 1-on-1 than in multiplayer. Kolaghan along with little dragons make for free Trumpet Blasts, which naturally go along with goblin tokens and little guys; I love that gems like Aftershock, Bedlam, Cauldron Dance, Fire Covenenant, Phyrexian Purge, Torrent of Souls and Zealous Conscripts are all in budget. This is one of the earliest of these decks I built and one of the most flexible in terms of card selection... I would like to make it better suited to influencing the board at large; in multi-player it usually just head-hunts one player and then dies.
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http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/kolaghan-edh-10-series

Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
This is my attempt at a reanimator deck. Alesha can be a great engine in herself, and between her mini-reanimation, traditional fatty reanimation, and mass discard effects, the deck can be grindy and has multiple synergistic, often relevant lines of attack. I do feel I went a bit too heavy on the creatures here; my next iteration will replace some of the weaker reanimation targets with reactive answers.
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http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/alesha-10-edh-series/

Here is the Brago list I made which worked quite well. It checked in at just under $25. Feel free to add it to your stacks.

If you want to give decks away, build PAUPER decks. I never thought I would like pauper cause I don't get to play cool stuff, but the power level is so low that the games are hilarious, and very fun. Great way to get people into the format because decks are dirt cheap, and power cards are not hard to get. Also there are way less combos and blowout plays in pauper, so games are quite interactive if done right.

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If you want to give decks away, build PAUPER decks. I never thought I would like pauper cause I don't get to play cool stuff, but the power level is so low that the games are hilarious, and very fun. Great way to get people into the format because decks are dirt cheap, and power cards are not hard to get. Also there are way less combos and blowout plays in pauper, so games are quite interactive if done right.

I've done the Pauper thing before, and I'm a big fan of Pauper EDH because of how fundamental the games are. But I like these better as giveaways because they have more cards that make players say "Wow", and they hang better with "real" EDH decks.

I don't have a complete decklist, but I just want to say that Jaya Ballard, Task Mage is perfect for this idea. She is a super neat card, and you can get her in foil for less than a dollar. You can also include a lot of interesting/niche cards in the deck (Red Elemental Blast, Illicit Auction, Flowstone Flood, Reign of Chaos) because, worst case, Jaya can turn them into Incinerates.