The glaring "issue" with Pauper is the lack of meaningful sweepers. Once a Boggle gets above 1 toughness, how do you sweep it? How do you kill it? You can't hope to "sacrifice" all of the creatures. Any halfway good player would simply decline attacks until they have at least two on board. You can't Echoing Decay, you can't Shrivel, you can't Elecktrickery, so what do you do? Once the opponent's creatures are above 1 toughness you can't even race. How is this not the top deck of the format?
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The glaring "issue" with Pauper is the lack of meaningful sweepers. Once a Boggle gets above 1 toughness, how do you sweep it? How do you kill it? You can't hope to "sacrifice" all of the creatures. Any halfway good player would simply decline attacks until they have at least two on board. You can't Echoing Decay, you can't Shrivel, you can't Elecktrickery, so what do you do? Once the opponent's creatures are above 1 toughness you can't even race. How is this not the top deck of the format?
The glaring "issue" with Pauper is the lack of meaningful sweepers. Once a Boggle gets above 1 toughness, how do you sweep it? How do you kill it? You can't hope to "sacrifice" all of the creatures. Any halfway good player would simply decline attacks until they have at least two on board. You can't Echoing Decay, you can't Shrivel, you can't Elecktrickery, so what do you do? Once the opponent's creatures are above 1 toughness you can't even race. How is this not the top deck of the format?
What deck are you playing?
Haha, that would be useful wouldn't it? Mostly Kuldotha Jeskai but really any non-black deck. Maxing out on Geth's Verdict and Chainer's Edict works for black but what do other colors do?
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Haha, that would be useful wouldn't it? Mostly Kuldotha Jeskai but really any non-black deck. Maxing out on Geth's Verdict and Chainer's Edict works for black but what do other colors do?
You run a full set of Curfew. It's already a solid card in Jeskai and it hits Bogles, Tron, and Eye Candy really well.
There aren't any creature sweepers, no, but there are enchantment sweepers. Either use some highly-efficient spot removal like Ray of Revelation to keep them from building up auras, or just good old Patrician's Scorn to throw all their stuff in the garbage. You need to get maximum impact per card because you can't afford to spend a lot of board space on it.
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Oh, you think the losers' bracket is your ally, but you merely adopted the scrub tier. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t 4-0 an FNM until I was already a man; by then, it was nothing to me but an extra pack to sell for store credit!
Serene Heart is one of those that always bears mentioning because it's so hard to search for - it specifically says Aura, not Enchantment. And Jeskai could probably pull it off with Prophetic Prism, but it's probably not better than Patrician's Scorn. The only downside to Scorn is that it blows out your Oblivion Ring, which you might have used to bottle up a Rancor or something.
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Guys, what would you recommend to run in a burn deck to beat bogles? My MBC and jeskai kudoltha seem to beat them quite easily, but monored burn just gets crushed
Update: I suppose that the best we could run is Martyr of Ashes, the second place goes to Electrickery. Have I missed any options?
There are a couple other options, but at some point you have to call it a lost cause. You could probably load up the board for that one match up and get wrecked by other stuff. But Martyr and Electrickery are early enough that you should do okay. Ont he play Electrickery could end the game on turn 2, and on the draw Martyr flattens them. Keldon Marauders is a big enough creature that it should hold off an an attack while on the table too.
I've never had issues with Bogles in Burn except when I totally donkey the plays and lose the game myself.
Martyr of Ashes is your friend. Get one out early and it will threaten to 2-for-1 even the big +toughness enchantments with an instant speed activation.
Martyr of Ashes is your friend. Get one out early and it will threaten to 2-for-1 even the big +toughness enchantments with an instant speed activation.
There are a couple other options, but at some point you have to call it a lost cause. You could probably load up the board for that one match up and get wrecked by other stuff. But Martyr and Electrickery are early enough that you should do okay. Ont he play Electrickery could end the game on turn 2, and on the draw Martyr flattens them. Keldon Marauders is a big enough creature that it should hold off an an attack while on the table too.
I've never had issues with Bogles in Burn except when I totally donkey the plays and lose the game myself.
Ok, thanks a lot, guys!
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The glaring "issue" with Pauper is the lack of meaningful sweepers. Once a Boggle gets above 1 toughness, how do you sweep it? How do you kill it? You can't hope to "sacrifice" all of the creatures. Any halfway good player would simply decline attacks until they have at least two on board. You can't Echoing Decay, you can't Shrivel, you can't Elecktrickery, so what do you do? Once the opponent's creatures are above 1 toughness you can't even race. How is this not the top deck of the format?
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Haha, that would be useful wouldn't it? Mostly Kuldotha Jeskai but really any non-black deck. Maxing out on Geth's Verdict and Chainer's Edict works for black but what do other colors do?
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Or, if Bogles specifically is a big enough problem, there are always Standard Bearer/Curfew from the sideboard.
Edit: Or Devout Harpist, if you want to get real specific.
Commander: Child of Alara BURGW, Adeliz, the Cinder Wind UR
Tiny Leaders: Gwafa, Hazid Profiteer UW
Regular Pauper: Stompy G, Mono-G Tron G, Infect G
Not super easy to pull off in Jeskai
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Guys, what would you recommend to run in a burn deck to beat bogles? My MBC and jeskai kudoltha seem to beat them quite easily, but monored burn just gets crushed
Update: I suppose that the best we could run is Martyr of Ashes, the second place goes to Electrickery. Have I missed any options?
I've never had issues with Bogles in Burn except when I totally donkey the plays and lose the game myself.
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Ok, thanks a lot, guys!