We also recommend some upgrades with cards you can get by picking up a few extra packs or trading at local weekly events
Play her at the right moment, and she suddenly becomes way more than just cute
20 Starting Town A Colour-Fixing Launchpad For Creature Strategies Starting Town can enter tapped, but its true strength lies in its ability to generate any colour of mana each turn
It wont meaningfully improve the power of the other cards in your deck, though
Skip the $20+ cards (Thrumming Stone, Coat of Arms, Cover of Darkness) and the deck still hums: Commander: Karumonix, the Rat King (~$1) Engines: Pack Rat (~$3.30), Piper of the Swarm (~$3), Ogre Slumlord (~$0.45), a couple of Relentless Rats / Rat Colony (~$56 each cap the copies to stay on budget) Payoffs/utility: Crypt Rats (~$0.50), Nezumi Bone-Reader (~$0.40), Bontu the Glorified (~$3) as a sac outlet, Throne of the God-Pharaoh only if budget allows The rest: cheap black removal, Swamps, and a Sol Ring The whole list comes in well under $50, and it scales up gracefully add Marrow-Gnawer and Thrumming Stone later and the same shell jumps several power levels