Talking budget decks and then quoting a budget format is misleading when talking about price to pay magic. So is using proxy prices when talking about the prices wizards is setting.
The standard budget deck right now is 500$ (Izzet Lessons)
(Standard) Sultai Reanimator is 850$
(Standard) Bant Airbending is 800$
(Standard) Simic Ouroboroid is 900$
(Modern) Boris Energy is 850$
(Modern) Belcher is 350-450$
(Modern) Amulet Titan is 950$
Vivi cauldron led to a one deck standard and cost about 1000$
Wizards pricing and printing policy has led to only proxy/casual formats and budget formats being affordable to play. It’s why formats like Pioneer are basically dead and standard is nearly on life support at local most LGS. My metro area has dropped standard night from all but one game store.
Competitive where? At the LGS the weaker end of decks you are going to run into for standard are things like bunnies, boros burn, collectors cage, landfall, temur combo, roots, dimir tempo, mono white tokens, esper control, sultai control, and esper/dimir self bounce.
Most of these decks are still expensive because any mythic play piece right now is expensive and deck defining.
Many playable uncommons like stock up and boltwave are multiple dollars a pop.
Most of these decks are using play pieces that are printed for commander or other eternal formats that keep prices high.
The land base in standard is crazy expensive. All of the uncommon lands are tap lands that cause you to die on the spot to aggro decks since standard is a turn 3-4 format and the land base is largely coming from either shock lands that are expensive as they are good in nearly every format, verges that are underprinted, and starting town/multiversal that are underprinted.