MTG Salvation

At first glance, Tainted Strike would be a very good addition. It's basically "In response to your boardwipe, I win the game."

Is this the first original Ron Spencer art for a Magic card since the Lorwyn block? I really miss his work, the game needs more artists with a distinct style.

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Yeah but commander has other options that can totally pacify a commander. I would argue that Darksteel Mutation, Imprisoned in the Moon, and Song of the Dryads are all a lot worse than Oko for the fact that the transformations dodges most creature based board wipes.

I would argue that auras are much easier to interact with than Oko just snapping his fingers and turning off your commander. And that's on top of the fact that Oko is repeatable. Aura-based removal can be frustrating, but it still feels far more fair than what Oko can do.

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Does Pauper have a mono-white heroic deck yet?

It does, but I'm not sure if it would fit in there. It doesn't really like going wide beyond maybe one or two tokens from cards like Cartouche of Solidarity to dodge the Edict effects that are common in the format.

Question. If you have a card like Nikya of the Old Ways and this one out, a single forest taps for six mana, right?

Definitely a strong addition to this particular type of blue removal. And I know it's niche, but I think this is the first time an aura has been printed like this for blue in pauper commander?

Nice toy for Muldrotha too.

I'm already making a budget Commander decklist for her. I really hope she gets a nice extended art/showcase/some sort of fancy promo version print.

While we're piling on with reasons why this card would be fake, I'm pretty sure that they've had a policy not to print lands in Standard sets that don't tap for mana unconditionally, unless it has some sort of fetch to the battlefield effect.

I'm really not sure about your sideboard choices. As somebody else pointed out to me a few weeks ago, Ghostly Flicker in Tron makes Spreading Seas very impractical as an answer to Tron. Maybe something like Thermokarst if you want to have land destruction in your sideboard? Otherwise, something like Nihil Spellbomb (even without the card draw) or Tormod's Crypt can be far more crippling against most flavours of Tron than land destruction. I'd also consider running something other than Gut Shot against Elves. Maybe Echoing Truth. You'll probably want some number of copies of Gleeful Sabotage against Affinity and Astrolabe decks. This also gives you another option against Bogles. You might even want to run Serene Heart in stead of Reverent Silence.

First, using deck tags will make your deck a lot easier to read:



Second, a few months ago we ran a video primer on this exact strategy that might give you some more ideas. The only major change (the video was filmed before Modern Horizons came out) would be to switch out the playset of Sultai Emissary for Putrid Goblin. Persist is a far less clunky way to keep bodies on the board than Manifest. Another card I'd run at least two or three copies of somewhere in your 75 is Pestilence. There is quite a bit of aggro in the meta right now, and something like Elves can easily swarm the board while they use Wellwisher and Weather the Storm to negate your burn strategy. This can be supplemented by swapping your Maggot Carriers for cards like Festering Mummy and Shambling Goblin, with Carrion Feeder as your main sac outlet to let you snipe your opponent's creatures. There's some very interesting choices in your list, I really like Trespasser's Curse.
One thing that comes to mind immediately is running a number of copies of Nameless Inversion in your removal suite, since it can be recurred with Ghoulcaller's Chant.

Mystic Sanctuary gives pauper decks another option for Ghostly Flicker loops besides Wall of Omens/Archaeomancer, and a less vulnerable one at that. The condition of having at least three islands makes it less viable for something like Tron, but still very useful.

This gives pauper decks another way for Ghostly Flicker loops besides Wall of Omens/Archaeomancer, and a less vulnerable one at that.

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Wonder what the other three Quest artifacts will turn out to be. One of them must be a Holy Grail variant. What else is there in Arthurian lore that would qualify?

There's an thirteenth century middle-Dutch Arthurian novel about Sir Gawain being sent on a quest to retrieve a floating chess board. It's a very obscure text, but I'd love to see it included.