Having tried to help many turkey hunters learn to use mouth calls, I think the "average guy" can run a V-Cut call made of thin reed material better than anything else. More advanced callers generally will end up going to another cut, but many of those start out as V-Cut's.
The combo-cuts, batwings, and ghost cuts are all modified V-Cut calls. So, if you really want to get your dollars worth when buying calls, buy either calls without cuts or V-Cut calls to start out with, and get yourself a good pair of sharp scissors so you can make the cuts yourself.
I regularly begin with a cut-less call, and work my way through the cutting process until I find the cut that works best with the call/reed combination that each call is made with. The fact of the matter is that you can take two calls constructed exactly the same, and put the same cut in each one and many times they will sound different.
I have constructed many calls of the same basic reed design and found the "turkey" in each one of them with two entirely different cuts.
