Starm requires building around, but he doesn't necessarily have to cost a lot of money - because they're ordinarily so underwhelming, spells and creatures that can deal exactly one point of damage are very cheap, and Starm triples their output
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The deck is certainly one of the stronger decks in this article, despite having a very budget manabase that doesn't run any fetchlands
Black Lotus is a mono artifact (meaning it can only be played once) with no casting cost (so no mana is required) that allows a player to add three mana of any single colour to their mana pool
What could make it better
The surviving soldiers and citizenry of Halcyon would evacuate to Phyrexia, where Yawgmoth would twist and augment them even further, leading to the creation of the bio-mechanical horrors of Phyrexia that we all know and love