>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
Pic related is my new brew around kroalsan tusker. The idea is to play value creatures to ramp to a point when I can cast grim harvest every turn for extra value and start beating face with my 6/5.
Removal suite is a little of everything because im not sure yet what do I need.
Spicy cards:
Undying evil because when it works it's a bomb!
Yavimaya Elder: I was playing a Nissa's Pilgrimage because drawing 3 for 3 ia nice even if they are forests. But this one also attacks
Brandon Collins
Oh, the proxied cards are Echoing Decay and Gnaw to the Bone, because I don't have them with me now.
Evan Barnes
Where are the mongoose and drake decks, Eggman?
Landon Morales
There are not any because 2 cards at common don't make a meta change.
Juan Cook
My battle box is taking forever because my wife will only let me buy one deck a month. I have burn and Rebels, what should I get next? Stompy? Delver? I'm going to proxy Obuliette until I can afford them for MBC. Chainer's isn't super cheap either I guess.
Jack Anderson
Your wife is doing you a favor. If you buy all decks at once you just get bored afterwards.
Parker Bell
I am going to try Mongoose in the sideboard of my BG TE deck. I'll post here about how that goes once I've done some testing. Also, was going through my cards last night and realized the key pieces of my old standard Axebane Guardian/Galvanic Alchemist shitbrew are common. Before I try to put that back together, are there any pauper untap effects that will go infinite with less than four defenders?
Jonathan Stewart
I have a tortured existence and UW tron deck built. My main question is, what is the proper build for Drake combo in tron? Do you drop the W altogether and go super counterspell heavy?
Adrian Young
How do you build UW Tron? I've seen monogreen and RUG/artifact manafixing versions. What is the appeal of white?
Jace Nguyen
White gets you O-ring and the two mana removal enchantment that I cannot remember because of headache. The other big draw is rhystic circle. Signets are also really neat so you don't need to rely on tron lands as much.
Isaiah Moore
Journey to Nowhere.
Benjamin Barnes
Thank you. I'm going to sleep, will post my list in the morning, if the thread doesn't get strangled in the night.
John Perez
Hopefully it won't. Summer shitposting isn't quite as bad during the middle of the night in North America.
>Lost to elves, was decently close but his draws were just too explosive
>Hosed tron, terrible matchup for her, nothing she could really do post board either
>Hosed grixis teachings, it was some weird non combo control build, pretty close match, he drew like 4 hydro blasts first post board game and I couldn't get through, beat him game three when he mulled to 5
>Beat monoblack control, had all my creatures in the board, lost game one to a weak keep and then got him game two with sided in creatures and then got him game three by taking them out again
Logan Adams
Absolutely not.
Nolan Scott
I love Burn. Fuck the haters.
Asher Cox
How are you liking tortured existence? I recently put it together but have been having trouble beating grindy control decks. Maindeck bojuka bog is a bitch
Ryder Fisher
Burn is pretty fun, can't complain.
Christian Green
Eh, I negotiated that with my wife too. Can't deny though, has a point.
Build Delver. Always play Delver. Even if it isn't the most busted deck, Snap and Gush and Spellstutter Sprite are so fun to play.
Joshua Harris
Anyone see goldfishman's GW tokens deck with the infinite combo? Pretty neat, uses Midnight Guard & Presence of Gond
Jackson Cruz
Uh. Otherwise known as midnight gond.
Charles Hernandez
I've only played a couple of control decks, so not much experience with the matchup. My plan is to jam in more threats postboard and try to keep them from stabilizing, though. Extra Arrogant Wurm and some Mongoose.
Wyatt Anderson
4x Tower 4x Mine 4x Power Plant 4x Tranquil Cove 2x Remote Isle 2x Island 1x Plains
4x Journey to Nowhere 2x Oblivion Ring 2x Rhystic Circle
I'm still sad we didn't get Chainer's Edict at common in Eternal Masters.
Henry Bennett
Oops, replace Dispel with Repeal.
Aiden Bell
I like the shroud approach, I was thinking of trying out blastoderm
Do you think arrogant wurm is better than angler?
Ryan Morris
I run both. Wurm is better from a card advantage standpoint because with Tortured Existence out it buys back a creature when you cast is (and has flash). Angler is more mana efficient and can close games early, but it's not as easy to reuse as the Wurm if it dies, and the card advantage from Wurm and Grave Scrabbler helps out grind opponents in the late game.
Jaxon Anderson
I currently run 2 Arrogant Wurm, 2 Angler mainboard with a third Wurm in the side, but I am pretty new to the deck, so this isn't necessarily the best split.
John Sanchez
Is SinkHole legal?
Daniel Murphy
Playing Pauper Mono White Soldiers.
War Falcon x4 Elite Vanguard x 4 Raise the Alarm x3 Veteran Swordsmith x4 Veteran Armorsmith x4 Ballynock Cohort x3 Topan Freeblade x4 Gempalm Avenger x4 Ballyrush Banneret x3
I'm still unsure about Oust. Delver decks can just grab them back, and organize the deck so it can flip on my endstep. I don't want to spend on Journey to Nowhere, Should I go with Oblivion Ring?
Nathan Collins
Why not Sunlance over O-Ring? It will kill most things in the format. You could put O-Ring in the side for Anglers.
Bentley Carter
Sunlance hurts me way too much G1 on matchups against common meta decks like Tron, Angler is also everywhere.
Camden Cook
brainstorm is much worse without shuffle effects.
Eli Thompson
There are 3 fetches, 4 viridian emissary and 4 tuskers. Shuffling isn't that hard.
Joseph Miller
you went from "my mom" to "my wife"
Way to live your life, beta.
Ethan Brown
the only shuffle I saw was the tusker, couldn't tell what a lot of the cards were. it's really common mistake new pauper players do is to jam 4 brainstorm because it's played in legacy.
Kevin Baker
How good is this deck? I'm v hype to break into pauper by cheesing people out with 1/1s gone sexual
Ryan Robinson
Anyone have any experience running infect?
Gavin Gonzalez
Amazing. Highly inevitable if your oponnent don't have enough removal. Sideboard options can turn it to dust though.
Daniel Wilson
Hey lads, this is my first pauper deck. I'm still pretty new despite having a shitload of cards from gifts over the last few years. Please rate/give advice on my deck here.
Yeah. I'm sad but hey, I get to play with my friends.
Just kidding I have no friends.
Robert Russell
Top fun decks are Delver UB control Tron Prove me wrong.
Alexander Sanchez
Does Delver include the all delver decks or just the mono-U one?
Brandon Cox
Mono u
Josiah Thomas
But DelverFiend is a blast to play and UB Delver is also fun as fuck.
Delver itself is a fun card.
Samuel Richardson
You asked, I answered.
Isaac Flores
>not Canadian threshold
Ethan Hall
Tron gets shitted by MBC. Delver is only fun if you like playing alone. UB Control is even worse on that regard.
Isaiah Perez
Good job bringing up other alternatives dumbass.
Julian Fisher
Pauper is fun. Its actually fun even if you don't buy cards for it and just use what you have. Anyone can make a decent aggro deck. I got my friends at least warmed to it by playing them with a mono white equipment deck I threw together that they had a decent chance against.
Of course, pic related is where the fun's at.
Lincoln Martin
I once built a modern deck around that and demolished my play group. If you use it with well wisher, soul warden, essence warden, or soul's attendant you can become the INFINITE LIFE INFINITE ELF god.
Nathan Walker
Gimme a disciple list, I have 4 lying around and I want to make something.
Brayden Morris
The usual. Affinity with Atog as the sac outlet and flings as a finisher.
Landon Campbell
>mfw i pulled a foil mongoose as the only decent thing in my ema packs >mfw nobody plays pauper >mfw it isnt worth shit afterall
Luis Edwards
>the thread dies because we can't complain about prices like other formats or bannings or fakes etc.
Trust me, it's nice not having counterfeitfags shitting up the thread. Then again, it's pretty funny to pick a fight with them and see them trying to justify their inherently wrong position.
Jeremiah Bennett
This one has actually stuck around for a while. Maybe we should just do weekend threads?
Jeremiah Brooks
Well fuck you too. Maybe I want to actually play the game instead of spreading my ass cheeks for wizards of the kikes. Jokes on you for spending thousands of dollars on pieces of paper lmao
Hudson Turner
Is this mainly about 60-card pauper? Does anyone play or care about pauper EDH?
If no, then does anyone have a few infinite/repeatable combos that aren't midnight/gond, freed from the real, or reflection helix oriented?
Joshua Hall
>mfw my pauper deck cost more than my modern deck
Jaxson Foster
Lets start a new format Tiny Paupers, 50 card common only edh with cmc 3 or.less and you can have any uncommon as your pauper leader
We can spike the price of certain cards for a format that will be played 3 times on youtube before dying out
Lets do this
Evan Roberts
I tried pauper EDH, and honestly I'm not too much of a fan. Games get really really grindy and turn into staring matches since boardwipes are almost non-existent. Deck strategies are also pretty narrow and heavily skewed towards certain gameplans since all you have to work with is commons.
Ian Edwards
How is that possible? Did you just buy all the expensive commons because expensive = good?
Carter Lopez
Just checked their site, holy fuck it's honestly really sad. Literally the only update they had since January is them clarifying that the extra two colorless mana that needs to be payed is generic mana instead of anus mana.
I'm so glad I didn't fall for this meme. Too bad my friends ate it all up.
Oliver Sullivan
He probably runs a meme modern deck like treasure hunt zombie infestation
Joshua Jones
Probably foiled out his deck, and got things like FNM Brainstorms, Player Rewards Lightning bolts, etc.
Owen White
Thanks for reminding me that Tiny leaders was a thing that existed. Gave me a good laugh.
David Bell
Never really heard of Tiny Leaders up until now, checking it out, it doesn't seem like a terrible idea for a format. Why does it get a lot of shit?
Jason Sanders
See Speculators store raped and bought out all the foils of cmc 3 legendaries and othere cmc 3 or less good stuff in the hopes that it would make them bank, it didnt, also the guys who created it said they owned it and wizards didnt, they copped flak and he format died
Xavier Sanders
Thread is just as dead as the format
Jace Lopez
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Jaxon Lee
I've yet to lose to MBC in a game that doesn't involve multiple rats and not drawing color fixing with RUG Tron.
Cameron Cook
Do I really need Obuliette and Chainer's Edict for MBC? I'm buying it for a battle box.
Jonathan Barnes
Check MBC from a year ago when chainera wasnt legal for ideas on replacements.
Also, oubliette isnt good when you face a lot of aggro. Its one of those cards that become must plays just because they are expensive (and no the other way).
Justin Cook
Oubliette provides good devotion, but you could put Liliana's Specter or something in for that. And if you need the removal to slow down aggro there are more efficient options. Oubliette is just nice because it does both in one card.
Jackson Hall
Basically gonna change Chainer's for Geth's Verdict and add two more 2 cmc removals.
Eli King
They are both good decks, only annoying as fuck. Fun decks are Affinity, Tron, Boros Metalcraft, Soldiers, Stompy, Goblins., Canadian Threshold.
Unfun Decks are mono U Delver, UB Teachings, Izzet Blitz, Hexproof and Elves.
Elijah Campbell
Spotted the aggro player. It's okay, playing your whole hand is fun as fuck.
Parker Miller
Does anyone here use Cockatrice? I'd like to play with folks using cards I haven't bought yet in order to feel better before I spend money.
Tyler Johnson
There were only two good decks in the whole format. Nothingelse could compete, so people lost interest.
Hudson Bennett
Pauper lacks decent Boardwipes, therefore Control conpensates by counterspelling everything. Don't get me wrong, you'll win, but people really like to play magic. You could at least allow it. Those decks are barely interactive and heavly frustrating. MBC discards your hand and destroy all your creatures while drawing and gainning life. Elves can't be defeated without sideboard options. Hexproof and Izzet Blitz plays barely even looking at what your opponent has in the field. Those decks don't need pilots, it's solitaire.
Ryan Morales
XMage has some people playing Pauper consistently.
Justin Phillips
Anyone know of any really good cubes that are up to date for the format?
Nicholas Williams
XMage is trash. Untap.in is where it's at. Play anywhere there is a web browser
William Clark
Peregrine Drake ban when?
Jaxon Harris
Does Pauper Vampires exist?
Robert Morris
It's not breaking anything so probably never.
Yeah. It just sucks.
Jace Williams
My store started doing pauper on sundays so i built Midnight Gond after clicking around and reading about different decks, will the deck get shit on by all tier 1 decks or do I at least have some semblance of a chance? Additionally am I better off with a GW token list or trying for a Bant list more focused on finding and protecting the combo?
Michael Reyes
>mfw the best I got from 5 boosters was a Winter Orb+Price of Progress while my friend got Foil Pyroblast+Wasteland
Jacob Reyes
Any pauper infect list? Got my promo glistener elves lying somewhere in my shoe box.
Bentley Martin
Pauper infect is meh at best, if they unban invigorate it could have constant t2 kills but untill then t3 kills are too slow
Benjamin Robinson
It's a 2/2 flying that dosen't cost mana and can even provide ramp with the right deck. It's still costs a card and 5 manas to work. If it gets countered it's brutal. It's a pretty alright card. Nowhere near annoying as Delver.
Yeah, but it sucks so far. It could be a thing with Bleakcoven Vampires, Artifacts and MBC utilities.
I would go with Blue, White protection is great, but you hardly will be able to stop the sideboard options without hard counters.
Easton Mitchell
So Im currently playing stompy/Izzet blitz but also have u/b delver but i want to upgrade it to something else. Should I bother or should I just build something else?
Angel King
It's still free/ramps to throw out there and enables winning the game on the spot with ghostly flicker/wall/mulldrifter which the format doesn't need.
Justin Scott
Whenever I use Untap.in I start getting weird bugs after the first few games.
Jose Smith
Maybe, but I want to see what it does to the format before it gets a ban. If you just ban all combo decks out of the format by default, you end up with Modern.
Blake Murphy
Seems like it will have a bad MBC matchup, and you need a plan for Electrickery out of the side. See what your store's meta ends up looking like.
Jose Campbell
Modern has RG Breach/Valakut variants, Scapeshift, Ad Nauseam, Living End, Abzan coco, Grishoalbrand and Storm to some extent.
