MTG Salvation

What I give I can also take away
Zameck Guildmage

Credit is due to xpolosp0rtx for the main combo of the deck, however some elements of it were not included to diversify answers and alternate win conditions.


What is Pauper Commander?
1. Same rules as Commander.
2. Commander is an uncommon. It can be any uncommon, not just a legend.
3. Rest of deck must be common in a non-Magic Online (the online exclusive Masters Editions come to mind) printing!

To be strong a Pauper Commander deck must use or have an answer to the 'Four Pillars':
1. Fireball and variants - Red and black have them, be able to survive it.
2. Capsize- Banned in some places, you need to be able to disrupt the buyback.
3. Pestilence and its variants - board sweepers, be ready.
4. Alabaster Potion and variants - Lifegain, the opposite of Fireball, reusable effects also count.


(*) Indicates that a card appears in multiple categories.

Change Log

04/12/2013
Walker of the Grove -> Voyaging Satyr - This is to make combo more consistent.
Feedback would be fun, I intend to try this deck once I fill the last ten proxies and Zameck is one of the more popular second generation guildmages.

I too wanted to go infinite in pauper. I tried my hand at Zamek:


Primarily I swapped in these cardsstormbound geist sprout swarmyoung wolf flood urban burgeoning scatter arc aerie ouphes reclaim snakeform rending vines wizard mentor banishing knack cloud of faries shielding plax nantuko shaman fierce empath reap and sow vedalken aethermage galvanic alchemist

Undying is obviously good: spend the counter to draw a card and the guy is undying again.

urban burgeoning lets you tap again to draw on their turn.

banishing knack if you have freed from the real and nothing else to the combo

cloud of faries + archaeomancer/et.al + ghostly flicker on a land that taps for 4 GGUU

vedalken aethermage to get galvanic alchemist to soulbond a land untapper + land that taps for 4 GGUU

I have more ways to combo but run less counterspell control

You have some good choices there, I might make the combo a bit more tutorable, but I was vexed on value of some undying, although the 2/2 ones do have some merrit as threats. I'll post what I end up using, but did you ver find counterspells may have helped? when playing blue I just have to use them.

Undying is good in this format. Undying with the general choice: busted. Your creature dies once and it gets a counter. You chump block again and you pay two to remove the counter and draw a card. Your creature leaves w/o a counter and comes back with a counter. Unkillable blocker that draws cards.

Counterspells are always good. Especially the ones that Draw a card: exclude scatter arc bone to ash The decision to run counter light was a meta decision. Bounce from banishing knack and capsize is strong enough to disrupt guilderbairn combo and aggro threats are pretty weak in this format; multiplayer. If they attack me then they themselves are wide open to an attack. Adding counters to every creature this deck plays also makes every creature formidable. Cards like sprout swarm and acorn harvest can chump all day too. (and undying)

I am running scatter arc and fuel for the cause. I mostly save them for my opponents win condition spells from knowing my local meta. Voltron generals : whispersilk cloak, ect...

Miffed: Are you aware that you have 102 cards in the decklist that you posted? I'm not sure what you'd cut, but probably ramp.

Looks pretty fun overall.