I have never played an EDH game in my life, and frankly I suck at everything magic the gathering. So I did a lot of searching for EDH "power cards and staples"
however most cards are rare, and mythic.
Even my doom blade is banned, since m14 decided it should be a chase uncommon.
I have a solknar the swamp king (I am going to try to run this even though its rare, ill ask).
Deck so far:
Dark Ritual
Lightning bolt
GrapeShot (modern master's common)
CounterSpell
Delver of secrets
Terminate
Our Variant Commander Decklist subforum is full of Pauper decklists and discussions about good cards. Pauper is a fun format, so if you're curious it's worth checking out.
Black seems like a good choice, with its strong common card drawing and removal options. Pestilence was still a common last time I played with it. Plus the really strong artifacts and enchantments that black is usually weak to tend to be rare.
Ogre Menial is a pretty good pauper general. Fill the whole deck with pump, ramp, and Goblin Tunneler effects and it will kill before most edh decks even get started.
Ogre Menial is a pretty good pauper general. Fill the whole deck with pump, ramp, and Goblin Tunneler effects and it will kill before most edh decks even get started.
It does but I guess OP's shop added some weird rules.
Okay, I emailed the shop owner (facebook actually). Solknaar is a no-go.
re-iterated the rules.
+Uncommon commander (in most recent printing)
+99 cards must be commons in most recent printing, (does not matter if it was a common in it's print run but changed EG rancor, doom blade, pestilence).
It's a great format to jump into. I built my pauper deck for less than ~20 and it's obliterated the competition. Where else are you going to get a deal like that?
Since we're all just going to vote for our own stuff, my vote is for wirewood symbiote. Should have a link in my sig. That deck is nuts. ramps like crazy, draws like crazy, generates tons of tokens...it's like the pauper equivalent of maelstrom wanderer. Especially is pestilence is banned, since that's one of the few cards that poses a real threat for the deck. I've hit ulamog's crusher on turn 4 EASY. Or just spent a few turns bouncing elvish visionary and wood elves for insane value until I get out lys alana huntmaster and started making enough tokens to darken the skies. Then generate ludicrous mana with priest of titania and use viridian longbow to nuke the table. It never runs out of gas, ever. it just keeps getting more and more crazy, and it protects all its combo pieces like a champ. Cards that are crazy all-stars in other decks, like rancor, is barely playable in mine because the elves generate so much more advantage.
Pauper Commander games are usually really slow. Card advantage is the name of the game.
I don't care which commander you play, but at least consider playing blue, and maybe black as well. The commons in those colors are bonkers when the game goes long. It doesn't even seem fair, really:
Sadly, you don't get Crypt Rats. But you can still lean on Evincar's Justice to handle the token swarm that at least one person will be trying to generate.
Okay, I emailed the shop owner (facebook actually). Solknaar is a no-go.
re-iterated the rules.
+Uncommon commander (in most recent printing)
+99 cards must be commons in most recent printing, (does not matter if it was a common in it's print run but changed EG rancor, doom blade, pestilence).
*Modern Master's counts as a recent print run*
They don't count things like From the Vaults do they? Not being able to play Fyndhorn Elves because it is printed at mythic rarity in FTV: 20 seems really silly.
so the even is on Tuesday, and I just don't have enough cards really to make a playable deck. I'm trying right now but it looks like I might have to skip this.
deciding between mono-green, or red/black
red/black being rakados cackler. this will have no creatures, but will have bolt, grape shot, hymp to tourach, apetite for brains, dark ritual, etc etc
monogreen commander being acidic slime, this deck will all be mostly creatures, with mana dorks and stuff like giant growth
Rules:
Uncommon Commander
99 cards MUST BE COMMON (most recent printing)
I have never played an EDH game in my life, and frankly I suck at everything magic the gathering. So I did a lot of searching for EDH "power cards and staples"
however most cards are rare, and mythic.
Even my doom blade is banned, since m14 decided it should be a chase uncommon.
I have a solknar the swamp king (I am going to try to run this even though its rare, ill ask).
Deck so far:
Dark Ritual
Lightning bolt
GrapeShot (modern master's common)
CounterSpell
Delver of secrets
Terminate
and the rest are just junk filler
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It does but I guess OP's shop added some weird rules.
Okay, I emailed the shop owner (facebook actually). Solknaar is a no-go.
re-iterated the rules.
+Uncommon commander (in most recent printing)
+99 cards must be commons in most recent printing, (does not matter if it was a common in it's print run but changed EG rancor, doom blade, pestilence).
*Modern Master's counts as a recent print run*
Since we're all just going to vote for our own stuff, my vote is for wirewood symbiote. Should have a link in my sig. That deck is nuts. ramps like crazy, draws like crazy, generates tons of tokens...it's like the pauper equivalent of maelstrom wanderer. Especially is pestilence is banned, since that's one of the few cards that poses a real threat for the deck. I've hit ulamog's crusher on turn 4 EASY. Or just spent a few turns bouncing elvish visionary and wood elves for insane value until I get out lys alana huntmaster and started making enough tokens to darken the skies. Then generate ludicrous mana with priest of titania and use viridian longbow to nuke the table. It never runs out of gas, ever. it just keeps getting more and more crazy, and it protects all its combo pieces like a champ. Cards that are crazy all-stars in other decks, like rancor, is barely playable in mine because the elves generate so much more advantage.
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I don't care which commander you play, but at least consider playing blue, and maybe black as well. The commons in those colors are bonkers when the game goes long. It doesn't even seem fair, really:
Capsize
Ghostly Flicker
Grim Harvest
Mystical Teachings
Dimir House Guard
Archaeomancer
Etc.
Sadly, you don't get Crypt Rats. But you can still lean on Evincar's Justice to handle the token swarm that at least one person will be trying to generate.
Just not Rancor or Pestilence, which are uncommon now.
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They don't count things like From the Vaults do they? Not being able to play Fyndhorn Elves because it is printed at mythic rarity in FTV: 20 seems really silly.
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deciding between mono-green, or red/black
red/black being rakados cackler. this will have no creatures, but will have bolt, grape shot, hymp to tourach, apetite for brains, dark ritual, etc etc
monogreen commander being acidic slime, this deck will all be mostly creatures, with mana dorks and stuff like giant growth