John, powerless Noble Fish is pretty good and (assuming you have some of the staples) should be relatively cheap to construct. Here's a sample list pulled from
http://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=4702&d=227161:
4 Wasteland
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Tundra
3 Tropical Island
3 Flooded Strand
1 Strip Mine
1 Forest
1 Island
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Delver of Secrets
3 Qasali Pridemage
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Aven Mindcensor
1 Trygon Predator
4 Force of Will
4 Preordain
4 Spell Pierce
3 Flusterstorm
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Brainstorm
3 Stony Silence
SB: 2 Swords to Plowshares
SB: 3 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2 Serenity
SB: 4 Nature's Claim
SB: 4 Grafdigger's Cage
It runs about $2500, but the costs are due to FoW, Wasteland, duals/fetches, and Goyfs. If you have the duals/fetches and Forces, it's just under $1,000 to build based on prices from deckstats.net (which tend to lean a little high end since it takes mid or high price from TCGPlayer).
If you do decide to acquire power for it later on, it tends to fit in seamlessly and doesn't require it all at once (a Mox here, a Recall there). The other benefit of investing in this sort of deck is that a large majority of it will transfer as you build your collection (Forces in anything blue, Wastes in Shops, etc.)
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