MTG Salvation

I have a budget Brago, King Eternal deck, However, with all the new cards that have come out from origins, MM2, and the Tarkir block. It needs updating.
I built it for about $30, but am willing to drop in another 15 20.
Looking for additions and replacements. They don't have to be "under a dollar budget" but not more than a few bucks

I have too many lands, probably going down to 35

Moved to commander multiplayer from the commander main. Please in the future refrain from posting decklists in the commander main.

Cloudgoat Ranger makes tokens that can make him big and flying. If you can blink him a few times you can start tapping a lot of tokens and make him huge.

Whirler Rogue isn't out yet, but once Origins comes out he's gonna go right in my Brago deck. Looks awesome.

Sea Gate Oracle doesn't draw as efficiently as Mulldrifter but it does let you choose the best of the top two cards of your deck.

Fireshrieker gives Brago two triggers per combat as well as letting him kill faster. Silverblade Paladin does something similar.

Mystic Remora is good in the early game, but with Brago it has some staying power. Mid to late game you can continually flicker it to reset the upkeep cost.

Sphinx of Uthuun costs a lot of mana, but if you can flicker him a couple times it gets ugly.

Angel of Finality is graveyard hate you can flicker.

Almost all of those are both under a dollar and good enough to pull weight in my non-budget Brago deck.

Some budget-friendly lands you may want to consider are Calciform Pools (~$0.50), Command Tower(~$3), City of Brass (~$3), Glacial Fortress (~$2), and Adarkar Wastes (~$2.50). Several others that aren't budget but are in standard right now (so packs are cheap) are Temple of Enlightenment (~$6), Mana Confluence (~$10), and Flooded Strand (~$15). Hallowed Fountain (~$8) was just recently in standard and you can probably find some kicking around trade binders at your LGS.

You seem to be lacking in protection for Brago (although I like Spectra Ward). Swiftfoot Boots can be found for $0.25 basically anywhere thanks to constant reprints in Commander precons. Counterspell and Swords to Plowshares will run you about $2-3 apiece, Swan Song and Dissolve for about $1 each, and Dissipate and Arcane Denial for under a dollar. Path to Exile is this month's FNM promo, so expect to see a couple in binders and such.

Sun Titan and Karmic Guide (both ~$2.50) seem mandatory for blink decks, as does Archaeomancer (<$1).

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Some budget-friendly lands you may want to consider are Calciform Pools (~$0.50), Command Tower(~$3), City of Brass (~$3), Glacial Fortress (~$2), and Adarkar Wastes (~$2.50). Several others that aren't budget but are in standard right now (so packs are cheap) are Temple of Enlightenment (~$6), Mana Confluence (~$10), and Flooded Strand (~$15). Hallowed Fountain (~$8) was just recently in standard and you can probably find some kicking around trade binders at your LGS.

You seem to be lacking in protection for Brago (although I like Spectra Ward). Swiftfoot Boots can be found for $0.25 basically anywhere thanks to constant reprints in Commander precons. Counterspell and Swords to Plowshares will run you about $2-3 apiece, Swan Song and Dissolve for about $1 each, and Dissipate and Arcane Denial for under a dollar. Path to Exile is this month's FNM promo, so expect to see a couple in binders and such.

Sun Titan and Karmic Guide (both ~$2.50) seem mandatory for blink decks, as does Archaeomancer (<$1).

What cards do you recommend I cut for these additions.
I have a ton of counterspells and cards you metioned in my Talrand EDH, which I plan on taking apart. It's no longer fun like it used to be.

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Cloudgoat Ranger makes tokens that can make him big and flying. If you can blink him a few times you can start tapping a lot of tokens and make him huge.

Whirler Rogue isn't out yet, but once Origins comes out he's gonna go right in my Brago deck. Looks awesome.

Sea Gate Oracle doesn't draw as efficiently as Mulldrifter but it does let you choose the best of the top two cards of your deck.

Fireshrieker gives Brago two triggers per combat as well as letting him kill faster. Silverblade Paladin does something similar.

Mystic Remora is good in the early game, but with Brago it has some staying power. Mid to late game you can continually flicker it to reset the upkeep cost.

Sphinx of Uthuun costs a lot of mana, but if you can flicker him a couple times it gets ugly.

Angel of Finality is graveyard hate you can flicker.

Almost all of those are both under a dollar and good enough to pull weight in my non-budget Brago deck.

Same question, what are your recommended cuts?

I'd cut Custodi Squire. I don't like cards that hinge on my opponents choosing how much value I get.

Kaho, Minamo Historian seems like he's just begging to be murderized before you can get much value out of him. And then you're out those tutored instants.

Medomai the Ageless isn't bad by any means, but it doesn't have any real synergy with the rest of the deck.

Rishadan Brigand is another card I don't love because it gives opponents the choice.

You might not wanna replace Prismatic Lens with one of my suggestions, but there are probably better mana rocks to run. Sky Diamond or Marble Diamond, maybe.

Cloudgoat Ranger serves a similar role to Urbis Protector.

For the instants you can cut some of your worse one-shot blink effects (Flicker, Turn to Mist and Liberate seem especially mediocre). I'm not sure how many you really need when your general is a repeatable Ghostway.

If you lower the mana curve of your creatures, you can afford to cut some of your mana rocks. While it is nice that you can blink them with Brago, I'm not really sure you need as many as you have. Prismatic Lens and Seashell Cameo in particular stand out as not really contributing much. Good cheap creatures to consider here include Flickerwisp (blink stuff with Brago, then blink it again), Knight of the White Orchid (ramp! in WU!), Knight-Captain of Eos (Fog is fun), and plenty others. Myr Battlesphere is an incredible finisher. Quarry Colossus seems pretty bad, considering you already have Nevermaker.

So far I've added:
Cloudgoat ranger
sun titan
archaeomancer
swiftfoot boots / whispersilk cloak
swan song
whirler rogue
mystic remora
fireshrieker
steel of the godhead
inquisitor exarch
act of authority
sword of the animist
knight of the white orchid


I'm considering adding the following:
bone to ash
clash of wills
displacement wave
curse of the swine
grasp of the hieromancer
talent of the telepath
tragic arrogance

Dismiss is strictly better than Bone to Ash and dirt cheap as well.

Counterspell, Arcane Denial, and Dissipate are all really cheap counters I'd run over Clash of Wills.

Grasp of the Hieromancer is a bit low impact.

Talent of the Telepath seems fun, but there's a reasonable change you won't get anything good with it.

I was thinking about adding in Frozen Æther, it's a much better control version of blind obedience because it targets artifacts and lands.

Kor Cartographer is some Knight of the White Orchid redundancy.