Hey guys, I'm new here, yay me! So I've been working for almost a year on this pauper battle box type thing. I use it mainly for teaching new players and taking to my local brewery with some friends.
It's 6 mono-colored decks (including colorless) that are all on pauper and all kinda "on flavor" for the colors. Red is burn, black is rats/graveyard stuff, white is flying and equipment, green is big trample/ramp, colorless has ulamog's crusher, and blue is mill. They all have basically the same land base that I dont plan on changing.
My friends and I have had A LOT of fun playing these and 1v1 they all work fantastic against each other...the one single problem I'm having is when we do multiplayer, blue just loses every. Single. Time. I would love love love your guy's help with my blue deck list for improving multiplayer. Any and all help and suggestions are very much appreciated.
You are doing a good thing to get people interested in the game, my congrats.
The mill deck is probably just too slow. Maybe you could shift it into more of a control or control with fliers deck. Mill is a tough archetype and really needs a critical mass to work properly. Maybe a budget-ish Mono Blue Control with cards like Delver of Secrets and Faeries could be a bit more competitive. Good luck.
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1. Dramatic Reversal is a "win more" card. It only works when you're already ahead - it won't help you get ahead.
2. Ponder/Preordain should be maxed out. Cantrips are powerful!
3. Sandbar/Sanctuary aren't Snow-Covered. I prefer my 8 fetch lands but they enter tapped out so your Sandbar/Sanctuary would be too slow.
Thanks for your help, guys. The deck was definitely too slow, I decided to switch to a delver/control list scaled to be a similar power level with the rest of the box.
It's 6 mono-colored decks (including colorless) that are all on pauper and all kinda "on flavor" for the colors. Red is burn, black is rats/graveyard stuff, white is flying and equipment, green is big trample/ramp, colorless has ulamog's crusher, and blue is mill. They all have basically the same land base that I dont plan on changing.
My friends and I have had A LOT of fun playing these and 1v1 they all work fantastic against each other...the one single problem I'm having is when we do multiplayer, blue just loses every. Single. Time. I would love love love your guy's help with my blue deck list for improving multiplayer. Any and all help and suggestions are very much appreciated.
Full decklists:
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/pauper-battle-box-3
Blue decklist:
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mono-colored-pauper-set-blue
The mill deck is probably just too slow. Maybe you could shift it into more of a control or control with fliers deck. Mill is a tough archetype and really needs a critical mass to work properly. Maybe a budget-ish Mono Blue Control with cards like Delver of Secrets and Faeries could be a bit more competitive. Good luck.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
4x Didn't Say Please
4x Thought Scour
Sorcery (8)
4x Ponder
4x Preordain
4x Iceberg Cancrix
4x Jace's Phantasm
12x Persistent Petitioners
4x Winter's Rest
Land (20)
4x Evolving Wilds (synergy w/Cancrix and Ponder)
4x Terramorphic Expanse (synergy w/Cancrix and Ponder)
12x Snow-Covered Island
1. Dramatic Reversal is a "win more" card. It only works when you're already ahead - it won't help you get ahead.
2. Ponder/Preordain should be maxed out. Cantrips are powerful!
3. Sandbar/Sanctuary aren't Snow-Covered. I prefer my 8 fetch lands but they enter tapped out so your Sandbar/Sanctuary would be too slow.
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfx2kA8gok&feature=emb_logo
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3RYiZJFCK0
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j18HlKybrm8&feature=emb_logo
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiAEzfAgpbI
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vNr_4ubfMg
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJcwpxraL-g
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8MyVNLVYNw
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-M5ffoArnY
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_yQEBOPi_w&feature=emb_logo
extended - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpUB9zpyr4&feature=emb_logo
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/pauper/paper-pauper-and-peasant/811699-rebels
we both use - 4x Bonesplitter.
my mono-black pauper:
https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/pauper/paper-pauper-and-peasant/812854-mercenaries
we both use - 4x Gray Merchant of Asphodel, 4x Sign in Blood, 2x Tendrils of Corruption and 2x Diabolic Edict.
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfx2kA8gok&feature=emb_logo
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3RYiZJFCK0
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j18HlKybrm8&feature=emb_logo
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiAEzfAgpbI
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vNr_4ubfMg
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJcwpxraL-g
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8MyVNLVYNw
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-M5ffoArnY
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_yQEBOPi_w&feature=emb_logo
extended - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpUB9zpyr4&feature=emb_logo
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/03-03-20-mono-blue-pauper/
4/15: If you're going to add Brainstorm max out to 4 copies and use Evolving Wilds + Terramorphic Expanse for shuffling.
my list: https://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/pauper/paper-pauper-and-peasant/808934-monouninjas
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfx2kA8gok&feature=emb_logo
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3RYiZJFCK0
limited - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j18HlKybrm8&feature=emb_logo
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiAEzfAgpbI
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vNr_4ubfMg
standard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJcwpxraL-g
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8MyVNLVYNw
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-M5ffoArnY
modern - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_yQEBOPi_w&feature=emb_logo
extended - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpUB9zpyr4&feature=emb_logo