Large northern bucktails (white tail deer)will cost about $4 each. The basic colors; brown, black, blue, purple, Root beer and olive drab green should keep you busy for a while.
Keep in mind you don't need to make up a lot of color combinations, just the colors that work where you fish.
My suggestion is trap some live crawdads in the lake you fish and study those for colors.
Otherwise you can end up with a jig box that weighs 50 lbs and you may only fish with 10% of those jigs.
Tom