I still dont think parfait really works with creatures. I also dont think parfait is a good choice on a budget since it needs lots of expensive artifact mana to run/proxies. A couple years ago i ran this up in new england:

WRb parfait

9 plains
5 mountains
1 black lotus
1 lotus petal
1 mox diamond
1 chrome mox
1 mox pearl
1 mox ruby
1 sol ring

4 land tax
4 scroll rack
4 isochron scepter
4 goblin charbelcher
1 goblin trenches
1 seal of cleansing

4 orim's chant
4 reb
4 swords to plowshares
4 lava dart
3 hide/seek
1 enlightened tutor
1 balance

SB varied alot

boil
rack and ruin
pyroclasm
tomod's crypt
mox jet
swamp
random hate

Isochron scepter eats counters or randomly wins games. Last tourney it won me 6 games (5 with chant) since they couldnt deal with it. Lava dart is the cheapest way to trigger tax and kill problem dudes. Goblin trenches is just retarded with tax, and if you somehow don't win with trenches (which doesnt happen that often), it will trigger tax enough to make belcher lethal. REB is needed since you need a way to say no and get a lot of your stuff to resolve.

For a budget unpowered meta, scepter-stuff is the way to go since that is effective vs cheap decks. The rest of the deck is meta dependent since you pretty much play hate cards and use tax-rack to find multiple copies of and get one to stick.

Well, I have been playing Parfait for many years (maybe five or so) until i stopped playing a year or two ago. I played alot of MWS and in tourny's up in New England. I almost always used a W/r or W/r/b build that when i last stopped playing looked alot like this:

9 plains
5 mountains

4 swords to plowshares
4 orim's chant
4 lava dart
4 red elemental blast
3 hide/seek

4 land tax
4 scroll rack
4 isochron scepter
4 goblin charbelcher

1 balance
1 seal of clensing
1 enlightened tutor
1 goblin trenches

1 mox pearl
1 black lotus
1 lotus petal
1 mox ruby
1 mox diamond
1 sol ring
1 chrome mox


This deck operated a lot differently, using the belcher-tax combo while using efficient stall tactics with scepter to live long enough to "combo" out. Lava dart was key in killing problem creatures while triggering tax, and with no nonbasics would allow belcher to kill in one hit. Hide/seek added versitility and another thing to add to a scepter to make it more dangerous. The one downside of your build is that triggering tax is a lot harder and zorb isn't usually good enough.

This new version looks better, and this new version alone will make me reconsider quitting the game. So thanks.