in the past, we have always used the two single-player decks to play each side once over the course of about an hour or so, then we get additional plays in when I can coerce the kids to get back to the table
But a properly built lifegain Commander deck is one of the most resilient and explosive archetypes in EDH because it treats life as a resource to be spent , not a number to be hoarded
Thundermaw is pricey for RDW but it does a lot of work
A ton of the communitys most popular cubes are built on very low budgets - such as the well-known and highly maintained Pauper Cube
Red Mage's Rapier Rarity: Common TYPE: Artifact SUBTYPE: Equipment CMC: 2 Mana cost: USD: $0.14 EUR: 0.08 TIX: 0.03 EDHREC RANK: 8824 Job select (When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature has "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn" and is a Wizard in addition to its other types
Borborygmos Enraged Borborygmos Enraged turns spare lands into Lightning Bolts for a terrifying threat