Speaking of easily hated out decks, I find the fact that there are at least 14 cards designed to punish graveyards printed at common but no recursion irritating. Dredge would be a great pauper deck in the line of infect, stompy, and affinity. Easy to hate out but really strong.
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Pauper: UB Wight Phantasm RB Burn UR Faerie Rites of Initiation
Minotaur Illusionist would be a pretty good finisher for an Izzet control deck now that Drake is gone. UR has always lacked a potent finisher, and Minotaur, while expensive, has built in Shroud and can act as removal in a pinch. I like it. Gelectrode + Thermo Alchemist would also enable UR Storm, which is neat.
I'd like something along the lines of this:
Sudden Thunderbolt R
Instant
Sudden Thunderbolt deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to you.
Basically a Flame Slash for Tempo decks, trading Sorcery speed for 2 damage to the dome, which doesn't even help much when you're behind facing a swarm of creatures.
Also:
Greater Werebear 1G
Creature
Threshold - Greater Werebear gets +3/+3 as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard
1/2
Trading the mana ability for 1 more point of toughness seems fair enough, and in a land where 4/4's run aplenty on the first few turns and we even have titans like Gearseeker Serpent and Gurmag Angler, a Pauper variant of Tarmogoyf doesn't seem too absurd or format breaking. Moldgraf Scavenger wasn't good enough.
UB Wight Phantasm
RB Burn
UR Faerie Rites of Initiation
Legacy:
R Burn
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I'd like something along the lines of this:
Basically a Flame Slash for Tempo decks, trading Sorcery speed for 2 damage to the dome, which doesn't even help much when you're behind facing a swarm of creatures.
Also:
Trading the mana ability for 1 more point of toughness seems fair enough, and in a land where 4/4's run aplenty on the first few turns and we even have titans like Gearseeker Serpent and Gurmag Angler, a Pauper variant of Tarmogoyf doesn't seem too absurd or format breaking. Moldgraf Scavenger wasn't good enough.
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