No primer, but I can help with the metagame and overal card choices. No decklists. You can look up decks in this very forum, or I'll generate aggregated lists on demand.
All of this data I generated just today. It covers since Khans entered the format, until February the 25th. I cheated a little and tucked #8022204 and #8022237 into the 25th, so they'd be included.
meta_t88.html, metatable_t88.html, cards_distro_2-1-2-4.html. Those same three I mentioned.
tree_t88.html. I call this a Format Tree. It's just the same data as the periodic metagame, but all together. Click a header to fold/unfold it.
legal_20150127.txt. List of every legal card in MOL Pauper, until the date in filename. It's not here, it's not legal. I did my research, thank you very much.
tag_distro.html. This is like the cards in known decklists, but counting "tags" instead of cards. Tags are labels I use to describe some functions. I don't have as much as I want, but it's good enough. Examples of tags are disruption, removal, graveyard hate.
cards_artifact hate.html, cards_disruption.html, cards_enchantment hate.html, cards_graveyard hate.html, cards_removal.html. For each main tag, the cards that have it.
archetype-cards.html, archetype-cards_tags.html. These are the biggest card changes in the archetypes with the most metagame, and the same, but looking at tag changes instead of cards. My latest juice.
All the table headers are intuitive, I think, but feel free to ask anything. When having time into account, I use four week periods, because Pauper has just not much data. However, the recent MOL Schedule change doubled the Pauper events, so we'll have better data from now on. My weeks go from Thursday to Wednesday, just because.
Mostly, Delver of Secrets Blue based decks dominate the metagame. Treasure Cruise recently brought Mono Black down (it's based on discard. Yeah.) Substituted it with a UR Delver good stuff control deck fueled by that very Cruise. Mono Blue Delver Faeries is the best deck by a mile. Before Cruise became popular, said Mono Black was the second-best deck.
I really think blue needs at least one important ban. Probably two.
There are some decks, like Affinity and MonoG Aggro, that are always there, just not the best. Affinity has had its moments...
No primer, but I can help with the metagame and overal card choices. No decklists. You can look up decks in this very forum, or I'll generate aggregated lists on demand.
All of this data I generated just today. It covers since Khans entered the format, until February the 25th. I cheated a little and tucked #8022204 and #8022237 into the 25th, so they'd be included.
meta_t88.html, metatable_t88.html, cards_distro_2-1-2-4.html. Those same three I mentioned.
tree_t88.html. I call this a Format Tree. It's just the same data as the periodic metagame, but all together. Click a header to fold/unfold it.
legal_20150127.txt. List of every legal card in MOL Pauper, until the date in filename. It's not here, it's not legal. I did my research, thank you very much.
tag_distro.html. This is like the cards in known decklists, but counting "tags" instead of cards. Tags are labels I use to describe some functions. I don't have as much as I want, but it's good enough. Examples of tags are disruption, removal, graveyard hate.
cards_artifact hate.html, cards_disruption.html, cards_enchantment hate.html, cards_graveyard hate.html, cards_removal.html. For each main tag, the cards that have it.
archetype-cards.html, archetype-cards_tags.html. These are the biggest card changes in the archetypes with the most metagame, and the same, but looking at tag changes instead of cards. My latest juice.
All the table headers are intuitive, I think, but feel free to ask anything. When having time into account, I use four week periods, because Pauper has just not much data. However, the recent MOL Schedule change doubled the Pauper events, so we'll have better data from now on. My weeks go from Thursday to Wednesday, just because.
Mostly, Delver of Secrets Blue based decks dominate the metagame. Treasure Cruise recently brought Mono Black down (it's based on discard. Yeah.) Substituted it with a UR Delver good stuff control deck fueled by that very Cruise. Mono Blue Delver Faeries is the best deck by a mile. Before Cruise became popular, said Mono Black was the second-best deck.
I really think blue needs at least one important ban. Probably two.
There are some decks, like Affinity and MonoG Aggro, that are always there, just not the best. Affinity has had its moments...
Anyway... you can see for yourself.
Best info so far man. Good stuff with the tables, Ktken does that with modern, and I always point to that for people as well. Yeah, Ive read a lot of stuff, and am a little said by the domination of blue. I mean it makes sence, don't get me wrong, with cruise being so good its banned in legacy. But I assumed, incorrectly, its not as good without fetches.
Then again, I run the kilnfiend primer back at modern, sooooo I shoulda known
I was hopeing to get in something non blue (It's well known I hate the color :P) but also wanted to do something more midrange since my main decks in almost all formats is aggro and I need a bit of a break.
Lantern, as an FYI there were a couple of Zoo Pauper decks that put up results but that was before treasure cruise. I think you may find them interesting though.
I was hopeing to get in something non blue (It's well known I hate the color :P) but also wanted to do something more midrange since my main decks in almost all formats is aggro and I need a bit of a break.
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!
I will mostly defer on deck recomendations to other people, since I have been studying the format for like, only two months. But I'll say this:
The most midrangy deck that wins is actually RUG Tron. It's fueled by Mulldrifter and Treasure Cruise, so you wouldn't be scaping blue, but it's only for support. RG deck with U support and many-colored sideboard.
Eh, I don't consider Mono Black as midrange. It plays too few creatures, depending on the version. Edit: I guess it IS midrange. Chittering Rats, Gray Merchant of Asphodel...
I thought the most midrange deck of the format was Jund Tortured Existence, but it's a fringe deck and a true three-colored manabase is not really there in Pauper.
Weird... I definitely don't consider Boros Skyfisher as midrange. The creatures are too small for that. If it was built for midrange, it's a failure. Aggro deck or bust.
Substituted it with a UR Delver good stuff control deck fueled by that very Cruise. Mono Blue Delver Faeries is the best deck by a mile. Before Cruise became popular, said Mono Black was the second-best deck.
The rest of the info is great! However, I would disagree just a bit with this. The UR decks floating around recently are actually pretty bad and have begun to die off.
I would also say that Esper Familiars is way better than Delver, but it's extremely difficult to play and so you don't see a ton of people play it. However, those that do play it often do very well in the daily events.
I'm sorry, but I have to fall back on the widely avaliable data.
There is more data on metagame than on matchup percentages, even if both are a little low (it's improving as we speak.) I assume you are refering to this. Notice that it stops late January, when UR Delver Control gained metagame % for the first time.
UR is not "dying off" at this point, no data supports that. It may very well do in the coming weeks, just not right now. Whatever you see will be anecdotic until you round up all the avaliable data for a period of time.
Maybe Esper is way better than Delver Faeries, but I won't speculate on things that aren't in the avaliable data. I have to tell what I see. The more time passes, the more unlikely than Esper is actually better than Delver Faeries. I'm sure Esper won more of its matches, but it's effectively worse.
Don't get me wrong, you need to know everything you can. Metagame share is just the starting point. We each tell what we see and are all the better for it. You need to beat Delver Faeries, because you will face it like twice as much as Esper (as per metagame %,) but you also need a plan for Esper (because it wins many of its matches, as per matchup %.)
I guess it depends how you define midrange? Every creature in the Red Skies deck draws you a card with its ETB, and that's why they all cost 3 and 4 mana. So you're playing dudes that net card advantage, then swinging in the air while raining bolts and such at the enemy's board.
Tortex was pretty midrange-y, but it was always difficult to play, generally operated at a disadvantage in the metagame, and basically Treasure Cruise has pushed out any deck that wanted to grind card advantage without blue mana anyway.
I'm really not going to talk about current trends in the meta, because I just don't keep track - the guy asked for nonblue midrange, so I gave him what I knew.
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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!
There is more data on metagame than on matchup percentages, even if both are a little low (it's improving as we speak.) I assume you are refering to this. Notice that it stops late January, when UR Delver Control gained metagame % for the first time.
I'm actually not. I'm referring to the Daily reports that were run on reddit.com/r/pauper for a long time (tomscud recently stopped doing them until the banlist gets changed, though /u/Najay1 also does some in detail reports).
For reference, this is the latest one, and these (1, 2) are the two before it.
As you can see from the reports, Delver is definitely the deck to beat. However, Esper/Grixis Faeries remain as the deck with the largest winning percentage and the highest cash percentage. On top of that, the UR Control/Delver builds have been extremely lacking (it was listed as a "loser" in all three reports because of its consistently low win percentages, from 23%-35%. That's awful) and people are finally leaving the deck because, quite frankly, it's bad.
Current through last week. UR Control was both super popular and pretty terrible for most of that time, though it turned in a decent performance last week once U Delver took off again. I think the main problem with the UR deck is that it's pretty good against the two best decks in the format (U delver and familiars) but not very good against pretty much everything else. The lack of a consistent clock really hurts it.
Unfortunately, I'm probably going to be out of Pauper soon. It has been a failed experiment in my LGS (I don't use Magic OnLine, we played paper with MOL rules.)
@Tom the Scud: Good work, obviously. BUT, I'd really really consider not going bellow two weeks for reports. There are just too few events.
I actually use four weeks for Pauper (two weeks for Modern and Standard,) but since the new online schedule doubled the number of events, I'd feel confortable with 14 days now. Just not seven...
In theory the plan was to do monthly reports as well, and maybe some kind of rolling four-week average, but I binned the project temporarily due to time constraints & the likelihood that there will be at least one significant ban on the 23rd.
I don't really want to get into a topic that has been rehashed a million times here and elsewhere, but I'll be very surprised if cruise doesn't get banned, and won't be surprised if cloud of faeries goes with it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the MTG Goldfish top decks resource yet. This is basically the raw data you need to understand what pauper is all about on a day-to-day basis. All of these decks are the ones you need to beat, but the variation in pauper decks is even more than that in a format like modern, and possibly even legacy. If you're playing on paper, there is some variation. For example, the pauper league I play in allows all commons from both paper and online, so the full list of shenanigans is available. Hymn to Tourach is legal, Death Spark is legal, and Beetleback Chief is legal, so there's a bit of a shift in how decks stack up, but if you're just going to play online, the MTG Goldfish route is definitely the way to go.
MTG Goldfish also contains all the information on the best cards in the format you'll ever need. It's really invaluable.
All of this data I generated just today. It covers since Khans entered the format, until February the 25th. I cheated a little and tucked #8022204 and #8022237 into the 25th, so they'd be included.
Metagame:
http://www.moxes.com/images/articles/tally/PAU_meta_t88.html
Metagame, but in table form so you can see subarchetypes and 4-0s:
http://www.moxes.com/images/articles/tally/PAU_metatable_t88.html
Cards in known decklists:
http://www.moxes.com/images/articles/tally/PAU_cards_distro_2-1-2-4.html
All of that and more:
http://www.moxes.com/images/articles/tally/pauper_20150302.zip
All the table headers are intuitive, I think, but feel free to ask anything. When having time into account, I use four week periods, because Pauper has just not much data. However, the recent MOL Schedule change doubled the Pauper events, so we'll have better data from now on. My weeks go from Thursday to Wednesday, just because.
Mostly, Delver of Secrets Blue based decks dominate the metagame. Treasure Cruise recently brought Mono Black down (it's based on discard. Yeah.) Substituted it with a UR Delver good stuff control deck fueled by that very Cruise. Mono Blue Delver Faeries is the best deck by a mile. Before Cruise became popular, said Mono Black was the second-best deck.
I really think blue needs at least one important ban. Probably two.
There are some decks, like Affinity and MonoG Aggro, that are always there, just not the best. Affinity has had its moments...
Anyway... you can see for yourself.
Best info so far man. Good stuff with the tables, Ktken does that with modern, and I always point to that for people as well. Yeah, Ive read a lot of stuff, and am a little said by the domination of blue. I mean it makes sence, don't get me wrong, with cruise being so good its banned in legacy. But I assumed, incorrectly, its not as good without fetches.
Then again, I run the kilnfiend primer back at modern, sooooo I shoulda known
I was hopeing to get in something non blue (It's well known I hate the color :P) but also wanted to do something more midrange since my main decks in almost all formats is aggro and I need a bit of a break.
For nonblue midrange, we've got the venerable Red Skies/Turbokitty/Ichor Wellspring deck: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/magic-online-general/pauper/developing/509377-rw-wellspring
Or you could just play Monoblack Control, which still plays like a really slow, grindy midrange list: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/magic-online-general/pauper/established/189720-primer-mono-black-control
The most midrangy deck that wins is actually RUG Tron. It's fueled by Mulldrifter and Treasure Cruise, so you wouldn't be scaping blue, but it's only for support. RG deck with U support and many-colored sideboard.
Eh, I don't consider Mono Black as midrange. It plays too few creatures, depending on the version. Edit: I guess it IS midrange. Chittering Rats, Gray Merchant of Asphodel...
I thought the most midrange deck of the format was Jund Tortured Existence, but it's a fringe deck and a true three-colored manabase is not really there in Pauper.
Weird... I definitely don't consider Boros Skyfisher as midrange. The creatures are too small for that. If it was built for midrange, it's a failure. Aggro deck or bust.
The rest of the info is great! However, I would disagree just a bit with this. The UR decks floating around recently are actually pretty bad and have begun to die off.
I would also say that Esper Familiars is way better than Delver, but it's extremely difficult to play and so you don't see a ton of people play it. However, those that do play it often do very well in the daily events.
URW Control
WBG Abzan
GRW Burn
EDH
GR Rosheen Meanderer
There is more data on metagame than on matchup percentages, even if both are a little low (it's improving as we speak.) I assume you are refering to this. Notice that it stops late January, when UR Delver Control gained metagame % for the first time.
UR is not "dying off" at this point, no data supports that. It may very well do in the coming weeks, just not right now. Whatever you see will be anecdotic until you round up all the avaliable data for a period of time.
Maybe Esper is way better than Delver Faeries, but I won't speculate on things that aren't in the avaliable data. I have to tell what I see. The more time passes, the more unlikely than Esper is actually better than Delver Faeries. I'm sure Esper won more of its matches, but it's effectively worse.
Don't get me wrong, you need to know everything you can. Metagame share is just the starting point. We each tell what we see and are all the better for it. You need to beat Delver Faeries, because you will face it like twice as much as Esper (as per metagame %,) but you also need a plan for Esper (because it wins many of its matches, as per matchup %.)
Tortex was pretty midrange-y, but it was always difficult to play, generally operated at a disadvantage in the metagame, and basically Treasure Cruise has pushed out any deck that wanted to grind card advantage without blue mana anyway.
I'm really not going to talk about current trends in the meta, because I just don't keep track - the guy asked for nonblue midrange, so I gave him what I knew.
I'm actually not. I'm referring to the Daily reports that were run on reddit.com/r/pauper for a long time (tomscud recently stopped doing them until the banlist gets changed, though /u/Najay1 also does some in detail reports).
For reference, this is the latest one, and these (1, 2) are the two before it.
As you can see from the reports, Delver is definitely the deck to beat. However, Esper/Grixis Faeries remain as the deck with the largest winning percentage and the highest cash percentage. On top of that, the UR Control/Delver builds have been extremely lacking (it was listed as a "loser" in all three reports because of its consistently low win percentages, from 23%-35%. That's awful) and people are finally leaving the deck because, quite frankly, it's bad.
URW Control
WBG Abzan
GRW Burn
EDH
GR Rosheen Meanderer
Updated spreadsheet for FRF season is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HLqRk3h2IUI3nudF0JhUjfo5vSigFrXVGGkWTpT_brE/pubhtml
Current through last week. UR Control was both super popular and pretty terrible for most of that time, though it turned in a decent performance last week once U Delver took off again. I think the main problem with the UR deck is that it's pretty good against the two best decks in the format (U delver and familiars) but not very good against pretty much everything else. The lack of a consistent clock really hurts it.
@Tom the Scud: Good work, obviously. BUT, I'd really really consider not going bellow two weeks for reports. There are just too few events.
I actually use four weeks for Pauper (two weeks for Modern and Standard,) but since the new online schedule doubled the number of events, I'd feel confortable with 14 days now. Just not seven...
MTG Goldfish also contains all the information on the best cards in the format you'll ever need. It's really invaluable.