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Making a green black deck for standard play. It's on a budget, and if I can trade something for expensive rares it would probably be for a woodland cemetery or overgrown tomb.

Here it goes:

Land 24
4 evolving wilds
4 golgathi guildgates
10 forests
6 swamps

Green speed element
Somberwald Sage *4
Elvish visionary *3
Borderland ranger *3
Caravan vigil *1
Seek the Horizon *1

Cheap and dirty black commons to buy me time
Tragic slip *4
Seductive allure *2

Cheap 4 mana large monsters
Desecration demon *4
Deadbridge Goliath *4

Draw more cards, hoping for synergy with cheap large creatures
Triumph of might *4

Large beat sticks
Wolfir silverheart *2
Griselbrand *1
Neferox *1

Not the most competitive deck in the world, but it's going to be inexpensive and I think it can play with the big boys.

If you're looking for some good cards with synergy, look at the new Ravnica little starter for green/black. it's a 60 card deck with 2 boosters in it for like 15 bucks. And if you can get your hands on a pre-release box from Ravnica, they're being sold at my flgs for like 25... That's 40 bucks right there. And that's pretty much all I used for the basis of my Rakdos deck and it hasn't lost yet, admittedly I don't play in tournaments, so idk how competitive it is.