>Which rules should I follow? If you don't already have some homebrew version with friends, follow the MTGO card pool and banlist (and please spread this to your friends that start playing with you). Currently the only place Pauper is officially supported by Wizards is online, and they have a card pool and banlist, therefore that is the format we should be using offline on paper as well, since decks and cards can transfer to games between each other with no confusion.
>WAHHH THATS TOO HARD WHERE... mtg-hunter.com The bottom left has a box, select MTGO Pauper, all cards in the card pool and banlist are taken into account.
>What deck should I use? Ask in the thread!
>Is MTGO worth it? If you have no local paper competition, but want to play a vast amount of Pauper, it can't be beat, even if it is a clunky GUI, you learn quickly.
Some good decks for newbies include but are not limited to: >Burn >Elves >Goblins >Stompy >Slivers >Affinity >Mono U control >UB Teachings
Joshua Watson
gotta try brew a temur Delver/Moongose
Camden White
I want to make a top-tier pauper gauntlet. What are the must have decks? Looking for around 12 total to start with.
Jordan Taylor
Sup nerds. Been considering getting into pauper with a few buddies. My are Elves and/or Vampires viable? I'm sure Elves must be, but pauper Vamps would be neat too.
Many thanks.
Nolan Flores
Lol 12 are you fucking stupid. Top tier is like 4 or 5 decks, just Modern and Standard. Delver Stompy MBC Affinity Tron
Done.
Liam Bell
Elves are very very viable. There are some Vampire shitbrews, nothing good. They tend to be too slow.
Top tier is around 5 or 6 decks... 12 decks is a little unreasonable to all be top tier.
Jaxon Rivera
Why do you keep making these threads if they keep dying and have literally no discussion? Pauper is unpopular for a reason.
Austin Cooper
It seems to me three colors is a little greedy for a deck that aggressive with the manabases available in pauper. I'd probably try for Simic Delver or Gruul tempo/burn.
Justin Sanchez
Also, Gruul gains Kird Ape, which, like the Mongoose, sybergizes with Evolving Wilds/Terramorphic Expanse. Take a burn deck, throw in those and one of Stompy's better one drops, and you shluld be getting somewhere with making a Mongoose deck.
Juan Hernandez
There was a surge last month and the threads were more active but they died out for no reason.
1-drops.dek then?
Caleb Williams
I made a thread a few days back asking on how to improve my combo goblin deck. This is the revised list, please feel free to voice your opinions on it Creatures: 3x Goblin Bushwhacker 4x Goblin War Marshal 4x Goblin Electromancer 2x Sparksmith 4x Goblin Matron Instant/Sorcery: 4x Brightstone Ritual 3x Lighting Bolt 4x Preordain 1x Tarfire 4x Dragon Fodder 2x Krenko's Command 2x Battle Hymm 3x Distant Melody Land: 4x Island 4x Swiftwater Cliffs 12x Mountain
Aaron Bell
Yeah, that's the direction I'd go with it. Higher number of spells than typical aggro decks to support the mongoose, so try to go for a few impactful creatures and lots of burn to clear blockers/burn face. Maybe Hooting Mandrills to help push the last bit of damage through blockers.
Bentley Gray
Keep Watch combos very nicely with the red Rites card, discard X to give +X/+0 to all your guys
Nathaniel Lopez
That's an idea, but the picture is old. The list below he completely removed it for Preordain
Joshua Martinez
That's an idea, but the picture is old. The list below he completely removed it for Preordain
Justin Phillips
I think we've just discussed all there was to discuss for the time. I ran out of shitbrews and out of things to say about whatever you're brewing.
Not much excitement from Eternal Masters either besides getting Mongoose
Isaiah Garcia
Post shitbrews
Cooper Kelly
Nice. Is a single tarfire really worth it with the matrons? Wouldnt you just chain matrons into a bushwhacker? Got any play testing done?
Cameron Sanders
Running delve and treshold is going to make for an insanely inconsistent deck.
Jordan Lopez
Not him, but I've been playing around with RUG Delver for the past month and change, and in testing, 4 Mongoose, and 2 Mandrills seems okay. There have been plenty of games where I see one and not the other, or had to nuke the grave to push through a grindy game.
Of course, I am in no way a clever man.
Ian Hall
Seems like werebear would be just better.
Ethan Lee
But Werebear doesn't have trample, does it?
Jaxon Wilson
I made a deck for this a while back when I realized I only needed to buy ~8 common cards to make an affinity deck. I love how you can have such synergy with just commons. And also that Atog was technically a common. I never thought about that before, but I'm rocking my OG antiquity and revised ones.
Jaxon Gomez
Building RUG Tron, any spicy sideboard tech I should include? The meta is mostly Delver Fiend, so CoP Red and Pyro/Hydroblast are already guaranteed.
Kayden Ward
The format is stable. It's cheap. No one has to get mad about banlists or the expense, and therefore does not talk about them. That's 99% of modern and standard threads.
Nolan White
>Not much excitement from Eternal Masters either besides getting Mongoose
Peregrine Drake is pretty sweet. Definitely nowhere near Cloud of Faeries power wise but it has potential because multiple Familiars actually do more work.
I always wanted to play a deck with Rogue Elephant and Harvest Wurm.
Jaxson Reed
I've just made a MBC. I'm curious on the matchup against Mono-Blue, what cards should I sideboard?
Isaac Perry
Duress and Wrench Mind
Oliver Bell
Doesnt matter just play bounce spells
Easton Reed
[Citation needed]
Nicholas Bell
Hey kiddos, it's me, uncle Mark "MaRo" Rosewater, how about you show me them brews?
I might even downgrade a card to common for ya!
Cameron Price
Mark pls go.
Brandon Gutierrez
I just moved your favorite fun common to rare for that comment.
Cameron King
I've got 12 decks >Mono U control >Mono R Burn >Mono G Stompy >Mono W Soldiers >Mono B Control >Affinity >UB Teachings I'm actually considering taking this out. I think it's a miserable deck to play against. Might brew up DelverGoose like everyone else. >Acid Trip >Boros Kitty >UR delverfiend >Tortured Existence >Midnight Gond
They're reasonably balanced, but I'm still tweaking main decks and sideboards so that there aren't such awful matchups as Mono W vs Burn where MonoW gets circle of protection or chains lone missionaries together.
Thomas Allen
I'm planning on just making the top meta, matchups be damned.
Leo Bell
So you're trying to make a snapshot of the pauper meta of a specific point in time? Why not make something that can evolve and become a self-contained game like a cube?
Mtgtop8 has pauper nowadays. You should check that out if you want a metagame breakdown.
Jaxson Nelson
Ugh fuck that. I'm going to keep them updated. You do realize that Pauper is an eternal format with almost no future bans in sight, right?
I'll also be able to pick any deck I want for Pauper times at local stores. Lol @ tuning decks to be good fun against each other. Just make a cube if you're going to do that.
Owen Bailey
FYI mtgtop8 is hilariously slow and doesn't update quick enough. MTG goldfish is much, much better.
Brandon Howard
>keeping up with the evolving meta for 12 decks Man that sounds like a time sink.
Good luck with that, though. How are you going to do sideboards? In fact, how are you going to keep decks updated? There are variations even day to day on both mtgtop8 and mtggoldfish for winning archetypes.
Anthony Gonzalez
Correct, I'm not making 12 decks, I'm not an aspie. You just said yourself there are variations. Who gives a shit? The meta is set in stone besides the random Slivers or Soul Sisters.
Chase Green
I don't understand. are you the guy who wanted to make the 12 top pauper decks or some other lunatic?
Logan Cooper
add Bogles and it's fine
Dylan Thompson
Some other. I'm making 5 mono color meta decks.
Angel Johnson
Pic related
Daniel Williams
Not as of yet with the new list. But the deck's main focus is making a lot of goblin tokens and even more mana off them. With that I can Matron into Matron until all four are out then with the last play a kicked Bushwhacker for 10 haste damage, plus what ever other goblins I'll have. All for around RRRRRR8 Witch isn't impossible with this deck. That and the 1 tarfire is just incase I need a burn spell and have Matron in hand, I was going to run 4 Bolts, but the ability to tutor for a burn spell is something that could help win me a game or buy me a turn
Adam Long
Drop goblin matron and add a Goblin Bushwhacker, add Goblin Grenade or other goblin.
Matron is definitely one of those replaceable questionable cards.
Samuel Brown
I'll keep that in mind while testing, but as it stands, Matron stands as a way to get what ever goblin card I'll need in the moment. It helps turn a dead draw into something that will help me win or play to an out
Joseph Sullivan
Why does nobody ever use the cycle lands?
Jason Reyes
That Smother should be Doom Blade, forgot Smother was uncommon.
Leo Perry
Fuck I forgot Peregrine Drake also dropped on rarity. And Desperate Ravings! But I don't know where to jam it.
Ryan Butler
really want to try out elephant guide in a deck. Thinking some kind of sac value deck where I pump up the dudes for swings and if they're removed I get and Elephant. I just also really want to play Blind Zealot.
Dunno how useful it would be in auras though.
Lincoln Wilson
They do. It just makes you slower. Burn definitely uses them. Cycle sounds great, but they are really hit or miss. They lack consistency.
What do you guys think about running 4 Geth's Verdict and 1 Chainer's Edict for a MBC? I'm buying it on paper and when you lose the obuliette and 4 of Chainer's Edict it's like 20 bucks. Fuck paying that insane cost or obuliette.
Juan Baker
For obuliette*
Luke Fisher
No deck boxes In a vans shoebox. user pls. Pls.
Joseph Cooper
I mean in theory he's 2 3/3s for GGG. I don't know why he wouldn't be used.
Jaxon Peterson
What cool ass case can I get for my deck boxes here? Pirate Labs is expensive but I think it will be worth it. Think it would be ok without the foam?
Carter Cooper
Scratch that... I'm buying the foam and making a custom wood enclosure. Vans box get BTFO.
Grayson Evans
fuck you m8 I'll smash you with any one of my decks.
I'm thinking of putting elephant guide into Midnight Gond. 4x Commune + 4x Heliod's Pilgrim means there is some good aura synergy going already, and elephant guide on a Pilgrim means it's a reasonable threat for once. As the curve pretty much ends at 3 it'll be no trouble slotting it in.
Joshua Flores
Hello you! It's me again! I've got Delver, Stompy, Goblins, MBC and White Tokens under the belt, and was planning for Affinity, Bogles and Tron but ended up on a bender and put Elves together, as well as a homebrew of BG Aristocrats.
Isaiah Watson
I spent good money on pic related, sits nicely on the shelf like a grimoire.
Jace Ward
Those only hold like 3 deck boxes and cost 70 bucks lol
Jack Fisher
What are you talking about, they hold like 10 decks at least.
I bought the larger one. It was at a Con so it was discounted to 70.
Levi Roberts
..... they literally hold 3 Legion 120 card boxes. No room for play mats or accessories and super overpriced.
Much better options at that price point.
James Russell
S-sure thing friendo? I know you're right, there are more efficient options, but I really like the design of this one.
Adrian Scott
Where pauper EDH belongs? Pauper threads or EDH threads?
Jack Gonzalez
People discuss it in both. More people will probably see your post in the edh thread, though.
Hudson Nelson
Even then I think /edh/ looks down upon pauper edh.
Hunter Anderson
Not as much as on Tiny Leaders. People will post their decks and pretty frequently have one Pauper Commander deck among like 5 normal EDH decks. You probably won't get too much discussion aside from people complaining that it's too durdly, but you don't get the active hate that Tiny Leaders does.
Aaron Jones
I'm running a GW auras deck. I'm worried about the match up against burn. I usually start gainning life around turn 3, but it's not always that I'm able to draw Armadillo Cloak. What should I side to make the match up easier?
Blake Morris
Feed the clan
Cameron Williams
Elephant Guide goes in everything green that is not auras. Just because Totem Armor auras allows you to keep the creature with protection instead of losing all your other auras to get a 3/3. You should look into decks that focus on getting +1/1 counters or just Stompy.
Christopher Barnes
I need sideboard advice, i bought this list today to play on MTGO
I have only played once against burn, won g1, lost g2 and surrendered on g3 cuz mana screwed. unknown meta
Evan Powell
Board hydroblasts obviously.
Elijah Price
My MonoU has Deprive, hydroblast and grave hate as well as them spirits with undying in case I need to shift aggro or get some hard-to-remove creatures.
Leo Long
I don't know what you're on about, Pauper has been picking up a fair amount of steam in the mainstream, it's just unconducive for shitposting since this is a healthy format where you don't have to shell out top bucks for the top decks, eliminating arguments of whether it's worth it to mortgage one's house for better matchups and Force of Will/ Tarmogoyf; and in addition, brewers get a much more lenient pass. So we just chill out most of the time and have little to say.
Isaac Thomas
Some decks do, but mosr pauper decks already havea lot of one-drops.
Cooper Hall
MBC and Jeskai Kuldotha plays cycle lands.
Connor Rodriguez
Elephant guide can most likely just get jammed straight into Stompy
Jeremiah Green
The box looks very nice
Ian Price
Who cares you turbo, they guys happy with the purchase
Angel Wright
Elephant guide has been legal since Vintage Masters