The idea here is that I can take this to a store and give people a chance to play good pauper with decks that work well together (within reason) and won't have to worry about missing out on any of the "what Pauper is about" decks. So, here are:
First, Did I miss any super critical decks and are the less popular decks here (RG Slivers, Presence of God.dec) worthwhile inclusions? Second, the sideboards are super rough and were built with outside meta-games in mind. Stuff like Affinity's being built to beat the mirror just doesn't make sense, right? But, I want to make sure I have 12 decks that could conceivably beat the other 11 if played and side boarded well.
Anyway, that's what I have and I wanted to know if you guys had any suggestions before I try it out outside the house.
You are missing Burn and Domain Zoo. In particular, I think Domain Zoo is one of the most interesting decks that the pauper meta has to offer, so if you want to show the format to new people, it definitely has to be among the 12.
Simply put, Burn is too expensive. I thought maybe R-Goblins could sit there, but Burn is seriously 4 times the cost of most other decks. I think Domain Zoo is a good idea and might replace Gruul Slivers, yeah?
I feel like black is really missing out in here with MCB and 4 cards in Familiars, but black doesn't look to be all that present in Pauper. I think that some RB Storm deck might be worth looking into, but I don't know.
Right now it's hard to say how much each board will need since it's an isolated metagame. Every red deck is packing 3-4 Electrickery because of the Elfball, Presence of Gond, White Tokens, and Infect decks and each of those has something to counter that. The white deck already has 10 cards that pull 1/1s out of Electrickery range so I wasn't going to sweat it too much.
Since UGMadness is new to Pauper I have no idea what that deck is doing - except losing all the time to the other decks. I don't know if I want to put that one into stock and add something else. I don't think anyone really has played UGMadness enough to even know what it's doing though.
I think Goblins is definitely worth an inclusion here.
Azorius Kitty is also worth a look, although it's rather a difficult deck to play properly, so might not suit the "pick up and play" part of your idea.
Other honorable mentions: Nivix, UB control (trinket or no), and MUC
There are more Black decks to be used outside of MBC. Mono-Black Aggro comes to mind and Zombies as well! Zombies walks a line between control and aggro so it can be flexible in the meta you're creating.
I have mono-black so I was looking for something like UB Control or even BW Mimic. The problem I am having with a lot of this is that there are other decks but they feel like decks already in the pile. I do like the idea of decks that teeter between beatdown and control though.
@obermeir - Is UW Kitty that tough? I built it and my 7 year old went about 50% with it. As long as you watch your life total and just squeeze value where you can it usually worked out okay.
If you're looking for a B/x deck then maybe a Golgari Dredge deck could be what you're looking for. It will give you a Graveyard themed deck to add some variety to the meta.
Actually, I like that! I've seen GB Tortured Existence decks place in the dailies from time to time and was always curious about how those would work. I think that UG Madness might get switched that since Arrogant Wurm is usable and UG Madness has been pretty lame.
The most current list I can find is really old from 3 years ago:
Haunting Misery is appealing, but I like anything that loads a graveyard and fireballs someone because of it. Links?
I keep seeing Mulch and Tilling Treefolk decks floating around but I don't know if I am smart enough to figure out how those even work. I look and don't see any win conditions.
change the meta significantly. Same with banned list. Invigorate legal? Why not Cranial Plating Affinity, and Cloudpost for Tron? The power boosts are collosal. And we can't really predict how the meta would look like with these cards legal.
After defining that, we can focus what do you look for - diversity, similar power level, non linearity?
I really think pauper becomes degenerate without the MODO banlist. All of the banned cards are there for VERY good reasons and completely stop you from playing "fair" decks: why would you play WW when you could instead be swinging for 10 on turn 2 with Cranial Plating?
Paper with no ban list. Invigorate gives Infect a fighting chance with us, but it's still pretty average as a deck. Hymn to Tourach has been fine (really good but fine). I have a set of Cranial Plating that ~could~ go into some of the decks but Affinity already seems to be stronger than I want.
I do want all 12 decks to have a fighting chance against the other 11, but that's not always going to happen. And, sometimes I want to play deck X because it's fun even if it's not the most competitive deck out there. In the end I do want to use card inclusions and omissions to balance things to some extent.
With 12 decks the diversity is somewhat capped, but in there I would like each of them to feel noticeably different than the others.
I would consider the top 12 deck in Pauper atm to be:
1. Delver Fae
2. MBC
3. Burn
4. Goblins
5. Kuldotha Boros
6. Dimir Teachings
7. White Weenie
8. Eye Candy
9. RUG Tron
10. Counterburn
11. Hexproof Auras
12. Infect
So you could add Burn, Goblins, Kuldotha Boros, Dimir Teachings, Eye Candy, and Counterburn.
I would add in Eye Candy instead of one of the combo decks. I think GW Soul Sister is the 'worse' deck but Esper Familiars is more of a drag to play against.
Put in Goblins rather than the tribal Slivers (GW is a better version of this deck anyway).
Instead of UG Madness, which is not a great deck right now, how about a Burn or Counterburn list? If you need help making it more budget I'm sure people here have plenty of card replacement ideas. I guess Chain Lightning is the expensive card, perhaps Shard Volley instead?
Personally, I'd rather have a proper White Weenie list rather than the token variation, but it could be good to have at least one token deck I suppose.
Oh, and on Standard Bearer in GW Hexproof it comes in against Eye Candy, Infect, and the aura mirror.
I don't know how many decks will get totally overhauled, but I will consider looking into some of these - it really seems like Burn should be there.... at least Goblins so there's some mono-red.
RG Slivers doesn't get played, but so far it's done really well. Losing two lords for one, haste, and provoke has proven to be pretty nasty. And it has Bolt.
And.... ah yes, Standard Bearer for Eye Candy. I don't have that since I have Infect in that "All in balls to the wall one shot aggro" but Infect cannot with with a bearer on the field.
I've been trading off almost every $5 card I have left in my collection to build more decks, and based on the suggestions here I've gone with adding ZooFlames, RWU Delver (One of my favorite decks despite nobody ever playing it but me), eHustles RB Tortured Existence, and Golgari Tortured Existence. The last two are clear overlaps but I know that the guys I have over have a thing for reanimator and graveyard crap, so two doesn't seem too bad. Also, they can be spread out enough so that one goes control (RB) and the other combo (BG).
That will kill off UG Madness for now and might switch White tokens to just plain white aggro... still not sure though.
This thread is great, keep up the good work Galspanic! I'm currently building a MBC for pauper, any suggestions as to a companion deck that would be a lot of fun to play vs with my MBC?
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This thread is great, keep up the good work Galspanic! I'm currently building a MBC for pauper, any suggestions as to a companion deck that would be a lot of fun to play vs with my MBC?
I don't really know any single deck that would match up well, but maybe Elves or Kuldotha Jeskai? Angler decks might also do well, but I don't really know.
Right now I am looking at what to do with MUD and Familiars in the box and am leaning towards keeping them intact. I already have Invigorate in Infect (totally non-viable otherwise), Hymn to Tourach in MBC, and think I might build TPPS to provide the box with a competitive combo deck even though Storm is all but banned.
Of course, this puts tension on things since I want it to be an introduction to the format and that format exists mostly online.
I think more people play paper than you may realize, at least it is growing. Somewhere on this forum I remember a guy posting that there was a "group of hardcore pauper players" for FNM at his LGS.
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This thread is great, keep up the good work Galspanic! I'm currently building a MBC for pauper, any suggestions as to a companion deck that would be a lot of fun to play vs with my MBC?
I don't really know any single deck that would match up well, but maybe Elves or Kuldotha Jeskai? Angler decks might also do well, but I don't really know.
Right now I am looking at what to do with MUD and Familiars in the box and am leaning towards keeping them intact. I already have Invigorate in Infect (totally non-viable otherwise), Hymn to Tourach in MBC, and think I might build TPPS to provide the box with a competitive combo deck even though Storm is all but banned.
Of course, this puts tension on things since I want it to be an introduction to the format and that format exists mostly online.
Who cares if it's banned in official play because you can play whatever you want in casual, and introducing people to the game/format is more important than rules for sanctioned play.
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Who cares if it's banned in official play because you can play whatever you want in casual, and introducing people to the game/format is more important than rules for sanctioned play.
On some level I agree with you and that's why I am somewhat liberal in the ban list. But, Pauper is predominantly an online format and to make it a lot different wouldn't be a fair introduction to majority of the format. I suppose if Paper picks up and there's better documentation outside Card Kingdom's 2 tournaments, I can change that stance some. But even then most of the tournaments use the MTGO list anyway.
It's worth noting that I play with competitive casual players who love stupid MTG, but also want the best decks in whatever they are playing. So, making it "whatever you want" probably won't appeal to many of us.
There is the UW Reality Acid bounce deck and UB control/delver.
I have the stuff for that, but opted to go with Kuldotha Jeskia since it's similar. But, if the banning cause Acid Trip to be more popular then I'll probably swap out Familiars with that.
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4 Great Furnace
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Tree of Tales
Creatures - 24
4 Ardent Recuit
4 Atog
4 Auriok Sunchaser
4 Carapace Forger
4 Frogmite
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
4 Galvanic Blast
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Thoughtcast
2 Flame Slash
3 Gorilla Shaman
3 Hydroblast
4 Krark-Clan Shaman
3 Pyroblast
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1 Island
Creatures - 43
4 Birchlore Ranger
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Lys Alana Huntmaster
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Priest of Titania
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Sylvan Ranger
4 Timberwatch Elf
4 Wellwisher
4 Distant Melody
1 Viridian Longbow
2 Magnify
3 Nature's Claim
4 Nylea's Disciple
1 Respite
2 Scattershot Archer
3 Spidersilk Armor
17 Island
Creatures - 21
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Ninja of the Deep Hour
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Spire Golem
1 Stormbound Geist
2 Bonesplitter
4 Counterspell
1 Deprive
2 Gush
1 Nullify
4 Ponder
4 Preordain
4 Snap
1 Curse of Chains
2 Dispel
3 Hydroblast
2 Nullify
3 Piracy Charm
2 Serrated Arrows
2 Stormbound Geist
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2 Secluded Steppe
Creatures - 17
2 Icatian Javelineers
4 Razor Golem
3 Selfless Cathars
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Veteran Armorer
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4 Battle Screech
3 Gather the Townfolk
3 Guardians' Pledge
2 Journey to Nowhere
1 Kytheon's Tactics
4 Raise the Alarm
2 Ramosian Rally
1 Triplicate Spirits
3 Celestial Flare
3 Dust to Dust
3 Holy Light
2 Icatian Javelineers
2 Prismatic Strands
2 Suture Priest
2 Haunted Fengraf
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1 Mountain
1 Quicksand
2 Shimmering Grotto
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4 Urza's Power Plant
4 Urza's Tower
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4 Mulldrifter
3 Sea Gate Oracle
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4 Chromatic Star
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4 Firebolt
4 Prophetic Prism
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2 Khalni Garden
2 Serene Heart
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10 Mountain
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4 Heart Sliver
4 Hunter Sliver
2 Metallic Sliver
4 Muscle Sliver
4 Predatory Sliver
2 Quick Sliver
4 Striking Sliver
2 Two-Headed Sliver
4 Virulent Sliver
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Rancor
4 Ancient Grudge
3 Electrickery
1 Flame Slash
2 Homing Sliver
1 Moment's Peace
1 Pyroblast
2 Serene Heart
1 Spidersilk Armor
3 Azorius Chancery
3 Dimir Aquaduct
4 Evolving Wilds
7 Island
2 Plains
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Swamp
4 Cloud of Faeries
2 Mnemonic Wall
4 Mulldrifter
3 Nightscape Familiar
1 Sage's Row Denizen
4 Sea Gate Oracle
4 Sunscape Familiar
4 Compulsive Research
1 Foresee
3 Ghostly Flicker
4 Preordain
1 Reaping the Grave
4 Snap
3 Curfew
3 Dispel
3 Hydroblast
3 Prismatic Strands
1 Piracy Charm
2 Ulamog's Crusher
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18 Swamps
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4 Cuombajj Witches
4 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
2 Gurmag Angler
4 Phyrexian Ranger
2 Corrupt
2 Disfigure
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4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sign in Blood
1 Spinning Darkness
3 Victim of Night
2 Bonesplitter
4 Crypt Rats
2 Dead Weight
3 Duress
3 Ostracize
1 Shrivel
5 Forest
1 Khalni Garden
8 Plains
4 Selesnya Guildgate
4 Selesnya Sanctuary
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4 Midnight Guard
4 Pallid Mycoderm
4 Selesnya Evangel
4 Soul Warden
4 Soul's Attendant
1 Journey to Nowhere
1 Might of the Masses
4 Presence of Gond
4 Scatter the Seeds
3 Sprout Swarm
1 Triplicate Spirits
2 Circle of Protection: Red
3 Gleeful Sabotage
3 Prismatic Strands
3 Spidersilk Armor
4 Valeron Outlander
14 Forest
4 Plains
Creatures - 15
3 Aura Gnarlid
4 Gladecover Scout
4 Silhana Ledgewalker
4 Slippery Bogel
4 Abundant Growth
4 Ancestral Mask
4 Armadillo Cloak
4 Ethereal Armor
3 Favor of the Overbeing
4 Rancor
4 Utopia Sprawl
2 Hopeful Eidolon
1 Hyena Umbra
3 Journey to Nowhere
1 Moment's Peace
2 Prismatic Strands
2 Obsidian Acolyte
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Sandstorm
2 Scattershot Archer
16 Forest
Creatures - 15
4 Blight Mamba
4 Glistener Elf
4 Ichorclaw Myr
3 Rot Wolf
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1 Apostle's Blessing
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Groundswell
4 Invigorate
4 Lotus Petal
4 Mutagenic Growth
4 Rancor
4 Vines of the Vastwood
1 Apostle's Blessing
3 Fog
3 Hornet's Sting
3 Llanowar Augur
3 Nature's Claim
2 Ranger's Guile
1 Barren Moor
1 Bloodfell Caves
2 Evolving Wilds
4 Forest
4 Jungle Hollow
2 Mountain
1 Rugged Highlands
5 Swamp
Creatures - 28
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3 Pit Keeper
2 Satyr Wayfinder
3 Crypt Rats
4 Deadshot Minotaur
2 Jungle Weaver
4 Monstrous Carabid
2 Street Wraith
3 Gurmag Angler
2 Krosan Tusker
4 Songs of the Damned
2 Consume Spirit
3 Grisly Salvage
3 Gnaw to the Bone
1 Battlefield Scrounger
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Gnaw to the Bone
2 Golgari Brownscale
1 Nature's Claim
2 Reaping the Graves
3 Shrivel
2 Street Wraith
1 Wickerbough Elder
3 Evolving Wilds
8 Island
4 Mountain
2 Swiftwater Cliffs
Creatures - 12
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Kiln Fiend
4 Nivix Cyclops
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1 Counterspell
2 Dispel
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2 Gut Shot
2 Gush
1 Impulse
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Mutagenic Growth
4 Ponder
4 Preordain
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3 Electrickery
3 Flame Slash
1 Flaring Pain
3 Hydroblast
2 Piracy Charm
1 Pyroblast
2 Vapor Snag
16 Mountain
1 Teetering Peaks
Creatures - 12
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4 Goblin Arsonist
4 Goblin Bushwhacker
4 Goblin Cohort
1 Goblin General
4 Goblin Sledder
4 Mogg Conscripts
4 Mogg Raider
4 Mogg War Marshal
4 Sparksmith
2 Death Spark
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Electrickery
2 Fireblast
2 Flame Slash
1 Flaring Pain
2 Goblin Caves
2 Pyroblast
4 Smelt
2 Sylvok Lifestaff
3 Evolving Wilds
6 Forest
1 Island
4 Mountain
2 Plains
4 Terramorphic Expanse
2 Tranquil Thicket
Creatures - 22
3 Blastoderm
4 Kor Skyfisher
4 Matca Rioters
3 Mulldrifter
1 Pit Keeper
2 Qasili Pridemage
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Abundant Growth
4 Lightningg Bolt
4 Nylea's Presence
1 Opaline Bracers
4 Tribal Flames
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Branching Bolt
3 Circle of Protection: Red
3 Disenchant
1 Electrickery
1 Granger Guildmage
2 Phytoburst
1 Unearth
3 Bloodfell Caves
1 Evolving Wilds
4 Mountain
3 Terramorphic Expanse
12 Swamp
Creatures - 25
3 Carrion Feeder
4 Fume Spitter
2 Mesmeric Fiend
2 Mogg War Marshal
3 Perilous Myr
2 Golgari Brownscale
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Grave Scrabbler
2 Gathan Raiders
2 Death Spark
2 Diabolic Edict
3 Faithless Looting
4 Tortured Existence
1 Unearth
2 Duress
4 Electrickery
1 Faerie Macabre
2 Festercreep
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Raven's Crime
2 Sylvok Lifestaff
1 Tragic Slip
First, Did I miss any super critical decks and are the less popular decks here (RG Slivers, Presence of God.dec) worthwhile inclusions? Second, the sideboards are super rough and were built with outside meta-games in mind. Stuff like Affinity's being built to beat the mirror just doesn't make sense, right? But, I want to make sure I have 12 decks that could conceivably beat the other 11 if played and side boarded well.
Anyway, that's what I have and I wanted to know if you guys had any suggestions before I try it out outside the house.
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Other than that, In Elfball you wrote Quirion Dryad, but it is Quirion Ranger.
I feel like black is really missing out in here with MCB and 4 cards in Familiars, but black doesn't look to be all that present in Pauper. I think that some RB Storm deck might be worth looking into, but I don't know.
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And yeah, I would love Nivix but one blitz-one-shot deck felt like enough. And getting more UR stuff is more than I want to spend.
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But I wouldn't really worry about specific sideboard/mainboard choices. Specially if you wont be playing competitive games with them.
Since UGMadness is new to Pauper I have no idea what that deck is doing - except losing all the time to the other decks. I don't know if I want to put that one into stock and add something else. I don't think anyone really has played UGMadness enough to even know what it's doing though.
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Azorius Kitty is also worth a look, although it's rather a difficult deck to play properly, so might not suit the "pick up and play" part of your idea.
Other honorable mentions: Nivix, UB control (trinket or no), and MUC
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@obermeir - Is UW Kitty that tough? I built it and my 7 year old went about 50% with it. As long as you watch your life total and just squeeze value where you can it usually worked out okay.
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The most current list I can find is really old from 3 years ago:
60 cards
9 Forest
2 Golgari Rot Farm
10 Swamp
2 Terramorphic Expanse
23 lands
1 Augur of Skulls
3 Basking Rootwalla
1 Crypt Rats
2 Fume Spitter
2 Golgari Brownscale
3 Grave Scrabbler
4 Putrid Leech
4 Stinkweed Imp
1 Twisted Abomination
3 Vampire Hounds
4 Wild Mongrel
1 Yavimaya Elder
29 creatures
2 Echoing Decay
1 Last Rites
1 Raven's Crime
4 Tortured Existence
8 other spells
Sideboard
2 Augur of Skulls
2 Diabolic Edict
2 Duress
2 Echoing Decay
1 Festercreep
2 Fume Spitter
1 Golgari Brownscale
2 Snuff Out
1 Sylvok Replica
Are there any newer versions that have done well that you've seen?
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I keep seeing Mulch and Tilling Treefolk decks floating around but I don't know if I am smart enough to figure out how those even work. I look and don't see any win conditions.
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I really think pauper becomes degenerate without the MODO banlist. All of the banned cards are there for VERY good reasons and completely stop you from playing "fair" decks: why would you play WW when you could instead be swinging for 10 on turn 2 with Cranial Plating?
I do want all 12 decks to have a fighting chance against the other 11, but that's not always going to happen. And, sometimes I want to play deck X because it's fun even if it's not the most competitive deck out there. In the end I do want to use card inclusions and omissions to balance things to some extent.
With 12 decks the diversity is somewhat capped, but in there I would like each of them to feel noticeably different than the others.
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1. Delver Fae
2. MBC
3. Burn
4. Goblins
5. Kuldotha Boros
6. Dimir Teachings
7. White Weenie
8. Eye Candy
9. RUG Tron
10. Counterburn
11. Hexproof Auras
12. Infect
So you could add Burn, Goblins, Kuldotha Boros, Dimir Teachings, Eye Candy, and Counterburn.
I would add in Eye Candy instead of one of the combo decks. I think GW Soul Sister is the 'worse' deck but Esper Familiars is more of a drag to play against.
Put in Goblins rather than the tribal Slivers (GW is a better version of this deck anyway).
Instead of UG Madness, which is not a great deck right now, how about a Burn or Counterburn list? If you need help making it more budget I'm sure people here have plenty of card replacement ideas. I guess Chain Lightning is the expensive card, perhaps Shard Volley instead?
Personally, I'd rather have a proper White Weenie list rather than the token variation, but it could be good to have at least one token deck I suppose.
Oh, and on Standard Bearer in GW Hexproof it comes in against Eye Candy, Infect, and the aura mirror.
RG Slivers doesn't get played, but so far it's done really well. Losing two lords for one, haste, and provoke has proven to be pretty nasty. And it has Bolt.
And.... ah yes, Standard Bearer for Eye Candy. I don't have that since I have Infect in that "All in balls to the wall one shot aggro" but Infect cannot with with a bearer on the field.
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That will kill off UG Madness for now and might switch White tokens to just plain white aggro... still not sure though.
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I don't really know any single deck that would match up well, but maybe Elves or Kuldotha Jeskai? Angler decks might also do well, but I don't really know.
Right now I am looking at what to do with MUD and Familiars in the box and am leaning towards keeping them intact. I already have Invigorate in Infect (totally non-viable otherwise), Hymn to Tourach in MBC, and think I might build TPPS to provide the box with a competitive combo deck even though Storm is all but banned.
Of course, this puts tension on things since I want it to be an introduction to the format and that format exists mostly online.
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Who cares if it's banned in official play because you can play whatever you want in casual, and introducing people to the game/format is more important than rules for sanctioned play.
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On some level I agree with you and that's why I am somewhat liberal in the ban list. But, Pauper is predominantly an online format and to make it a lot different wouldn't be a fair introduction to majority of the format. I suppose if Paper picks up and there's better documentation outside Card Kingdom's 2 tournaments, I can change that stance some. But even then most of the tournaments use the MTGO list anyway.
It's worth noting that I play with competitive casual players who love stupid MTG, but also want the best decks in whatever they are playing. So, making it "whatever you want" probably won't appeal to many of us.
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I have the stuff for that, but opted to go with Kuldotha Jeskia since it's similar. But, if the banning cause Acid Trip to be more popular then I'll probably swap out Familiars with that.
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