MTG Salvation

38 + land + 8-10 rocks + 8+ good carddraw to offset flood.

Important for "Swamps matter" themes (mana doubling-mono black decks) such as Geth. Mono blue can get away with holding extra mana up. Grixis colors may use it to fix. 2x colors have better options.

a well-timed celestial convergence
or test of endurance or Felidar Sovereign will do the trick.

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Looks like a solid start.

You may want to test out AEther Spellbomb and Executioner's Capsule as additional targets for Trinket Mage. Cards like Vedalken AEthermage, Scrivener, Death Denied, Merchant Scroll, and Mystical Teachings are great in UB control builds like this as well. Finally Ghostly Flicker is amazing mid and late game. Especially in combination with Archaeomancer and the like.

Good stuff. Ghostly flicker is pretty sweet. Also considering sedraxis alchemist and Okiba-Gang Shinobi

Pauper, 1v1, Cavern harpy

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?p=9298736#post9298736

Presenting 1v1 Pauper Cavern Harpy U/B control. The general is a built-in recursion engine in disruption heavy CIP effect creature colors so I won't go into the various synergies. Surprisingly enough, there're many ways to lock your opponents out in pauper U/B with near infinite bounce at your disposal but the general gameplan is to maintain tempo/control with cheap bounce/discard/counter effects and win via general damage. Recursion is a big theme here and by ms.harpy's nature allows us to "efficiently" operate in the battlefield while evading removal. Almost all the creatures on the list have CIP effects that work with her. Cheap bounce / hand disruption /counters allows the deck to control the tempo while grave recursion effects lets us maintain the hold as the deck curves out better than others.

Happy disrupting



Considerations:
Mesmeric Fiend, Duress, Ostracise (Hesitant against 1 for 1 / tmp effects)

5 mana is too much for a tutor. 8 mana kicker for 2 cards is also too much. (both costs a full turn when you need them the most). I'd rather use stuff like T&N to just cheat stuff into play for a wallop effect than burn a turn to setup a drop.

progenitus indeed. 5 color access gives you this always accessible saucy beater, conflux, all sun's dawn, makes stuff like Praetor's Counsel very potent, abuse stuff like Cruel Ultimatum + sorcery recurring creatures like archivest/izzet chronarch.

I have a horde of notion dream halls deck somewhere in my graveyard sig if you need references.

A larger update: +mulldrifter, scion of darkness, crosis charm, grixis charm, siege-gang commander, dread return, army of the damned

Cut out the crawler and insurrection and spell copy effects in favor of more tokens and creature combinations with sedris.

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From Innistrad, I like Traitorous Blood. Especially copied with Riku it allows for an alpha strike with an opponent's own creature(s).

Its not bad but I can only wish it doubles as removal like Grab the Reins or had instant speed. Lifting someone else's titan or killing the Omnath player with his own General is pretty good tho.

-Minor updates with +saffi, Winding Canyons, Darksteel ingot, genesis
-Redid the color lands to favor green/white the most

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Gotcha, makes good sense. Have you made any changes in the last few weeks? Perhaps something else from Innistrad has wow'd you? In your experience how many times do you need to recast Riku to get the game state to the point where you start X'ing people out of the game? Also, have you played against other pauper or non-pauper commander decks and how did it compare against whichever?

From playing Riku against normal multi-player decks, I never bother resolving riku until late game when I'm prepping to copy xpells or can chain a spell (usually more ramp) on the same turn directly after casting him. A common occurrence is copying ulamog's crusher at 10 mana or the return sorcery creatures for massive CA. In the mean time, I'm doing whatever possible to slowing down the leading player (via ramp/ld, bounce effects) while staying under the radar (as pauper riku rarely draws attention if you politick correctly)

vs. weaker / pre-con decks where removal is scarce, riku dominates and stuff like combat damage via multiple windrider eels + landfall wins out. Otherwise, its attempting to ramp to 16+ mana for giant fireballs.

Nothing from Innistrad wowed me.

Riku pauper, lots of ramp and giant x spells.

see sig for a sample deck list that I run

Update: Added Geth as he interacts with wheel effects, kelpie draw, and a win-con by himself!

Presenting Sedris, traitor king's group draw. The basic goal is to accelerate games by letting everyone draw/discard a lot of cards and win via our opponent's hard work. Play this if you like chaotic fast games and lots of fixing for everyone.

Powerade effects:

• Group draw effects: Mikokoro, Center of the Sea, temple bell, jace beleren, minds aglow lets everyone join in on the fun while accelerating games
• Wheel effects: wheel of fortune, fate, chandra ablaze, windfall, memory jar, Syphon Mind forces everyone to re-sculpt hands and gives me access to goodies in their graveyards
• Skull Clamp/River kelpie draw: Unearth effects, bloodghast, persist triggers, Geth, recursion, kolbol tokens galore!

Wincons?

• Tokens: Army of the Damned!, Grave Titan, Wurmcoil Engines?
• Geth, Lord of the vault: Other way to take advantage of wheel effects. Sticking this guy on the board is enough to dominate games
• The random win? Rite of replication or Chancellor of Spire's your opponents time warp or rite effects. Infinite tokens/turns thanks to wheeling!
• Combo: Buried alive => Necrotic Ooze + Kiki-Jiki Mirror Breaker, Grimgrin, corpse borne + Sedris unearth or Corpse Dance into infinite ooze tokens and untap effect via sacing off the remaining half

Other fun interactions

• Kiki-jiki Mirror Breaker / Mimic Vat: Start copying grave titans/wurmcoil engines, cliques, chancellors, glen eldndra, all the evoke/echo costed guys, the list can go on...
• Necrotic Ooze: Interacts with parts of the combo, avatar of woe, Viashino Heretic, Geth, Nightscape Familiar, and all your opponent's lost treasures from those wheel effects

Tips, comments, suggestions are always welcome!