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My daughter is a huge Blue card fan (she loves mermaids especially). How can I build a solid blue deck on a limited budget with easily obtainable cards?

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There are over 2000 blue cards, you might want to narrow the scope a little bit. :) – Kevin Montrose♦ Oct 21 '10 at 19:06
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Agreed that this is very broad. What does this deck ultimately need to do? Competition level, or just have fun? – lilserf Oct 21 '10 at 19:59
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I'm voting to close this, as I think it is way too broad to answer. Even in Standard, there are hundreds of cards, your version of budget might be different from mine, and there could be dozens of answers to this. – LittleBobbyTables Oct 21 '10 at 20:55
@Jeremiah: You might want to specify some specifics about the deck to avoid the question being closed. Do you want a control deck? Blue beatdown? Take advantage of theme/tribal cards? etc – Albort Oct 22 '10 at 0:41
@Jer: you may want to change the word "standard", as the term refers to a particular tournament format in Magic that I don't think is relevant to your question. – Jadasc Oct 22 '10 at 11:07

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You should be able to build a reasonable deck of any colour for casual play using just standard commons. It won't be particularly exciting, but as long as you have a reasonably large fraction of creatures, go easy on the enchantments, and choose cards to follow the mana curve (i.e. some low cost, some high cost, most in-between), you'll be fine.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'mermaids'. If you're referring to Merfolk, then yes, you should be able to build a reasonable deck based on that theme relatively cheaply. A basic idea would be 4x Lord of Atlantis, 4x Sunken City, and then your choice of Merfolk cards (of which there are lots; many are common).

Here's a list of Merfolk to give you an idea of the possibilities:

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=+%5Bmerfolk%5D

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+1 for general advice, but I don't like the specific deck advice. Lord of Atlantis costs something like $5 a pop due to his key role in Legacy Merfolk (which is an excellent budget deck by tournament-player standards but far from "budget" for most casual decks). Sunken City is a straight-up bad card that also creates "I can't do anything" situations for new players. – Alex P Oct 30 '11 at 21:54
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Building an inexpensive blue deck means concentrating on one of the strategies it does well at common, which could mean "mill" (causing your opponent to draw out his or her deck), cheap flyers, card drawing, or creature denial (cards like Unsummon or Sleep). These strategies tend to dovetail nicely with merfolk. Merfolk themselves have a "strategy," as there are many cards that give bonuses to other merfolk you control, or allow you to tap them for various effects. These "fish" decks are playable in many different formats.

A preconstructed blue/white Merfolk deck was released in 2008; they're still fairly easy to find.

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