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Aug 25, 2016 19:30
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Dehtraen posted:Do you think Drake will survive another b&r announcement? Hopefully it'll get hit hard with a ban. Look, i play the deck. It isnt unbeatable. But it is incredibly oppressive and unhealthy for the format at large.
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Aug 25, 2016 20:50
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Death of Rats posted:Not that they even approach tier 1, but I run White Weenie and Nightsky Mimic Extort as my main Pauper decks. I also have Delver Fiend, but I l'm kind of down on it at the moment (not finding it as much fun as the other decks). I also built BG Tortured Existence Dredge pre-KTK, but haven't updated it since Angler was printed. I should look into that - it was fun for a while. TE Dredge is really, really fun that unfortunately feels like you are racing a soap bubble. It's a grindy deck that shits itself if graveyard or enchantment removal look at it sideways, and doesn't Just Win to reward the vulnerability. That said it's my go to "reasons I love Pauper" rando deck.
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Aug 26, 2016 02:53
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How do non-black decks deal with Bogles?
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Oct 21, 2016 03:42
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Thanks guys. I'm trying to put together a set of (non-drake) Pauper decks that can play against each other sans sideboard without being utterly broken. I run Drake and before that UB Teachings so Boggles has never really been a big issue to me.
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Oct 21, 2016 07:05
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The only "reliable" counter I can figure to jam into non-drake decks is Faerie Macabre, and that still isn't great. It'd be fantastic in Dead Dog except that Dead Dog is a fragile joke of a deck that I so desperately want to be good.
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Nov 2, 2016 02:20
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I'm well aware that Drake is amazing. I'm playing it in paper so I don't even need to worry about clock. I'm the only one playing it and I'm the one asking the group to ban it. Other people argue with me that it isn't imbalanced as I go 3-0 or 4-0 for a fifth week.
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Nov 2, 2016 04:10
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Thank heavens. To reply to the previous point, my playgroup goes by online Pauper legality so MBC doesn't get Sinkhole and Hymns.
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Nov 3, 2016 20:16
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Depending on your friends group you may want to put Elves over Stompy, since some people love Elves and huge/huge kills.
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Nov 4, 2016 00:58
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That's fine if and only if you call it "Izzet Blizzet."
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Nov 8, 2016 03:25
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Is there even a halfway decent combo deck remaining without Drake or Storm? There's 1 land burrito but that sure doesn't count.
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Nov 15, 2016 22:36
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Hellsau posted:Freed from the Real is fine, Midnight Gond would be fine if Delver didn't exist, and I plan on using the Chittering Rat + Mnemonic Wall + Ghostly Flicker combo to close out games with Teachings, but nothing nearly as dumb as Drake. What's your experience with Freed? It seems way, way too fragile at a glance.
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Nov 15, 2016 22:47
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Anniversary posted:So I recently realized I have an MTGO account from years ago and am looking to get into Pauper. Burn. It's _the_ civic of Pauper street races.
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Dec 13, 2016 21:47
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Anniversary posted:Oh. Oh no. I am not a burn player. No worries. I'd steer you more towards Boros Metalcraft over Grixis, but both are reasonable interactive decks. I misunderstood your request for a grindy deck, thought you meant for grinding points, not individual games!
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Dec 13, 2016 23:36
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Oh, and Kuldotha Rebirth is almost exclusively played in decks that run Ichor Wellspring. And KR is played less now that Angelic Purge is an option.
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Dec 13, 2016 23:40
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lazerwolf posted:I'd rather run angelic purge and perilous research over Kuldotha Rebirth Yeah, I run 3 Angelic Purges/ 2 Kuldotha Rebirth in Boros. I want to run WUR (Jeskai? I was out during the clans thing) but if I put in Mulldrifters I feel wrong if I'm not running Cloudshift and Momentary Blink. Then I run more positive EtB effects. What I'm saying is i miss Astral Slide.
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Dec 14, 2016 07:43
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suicidesteve posted:Has Tortured Existence ever just not had it on turn 1? I've literally never seen it happen. Which is really annoying when your deck is exactly one card and otherwise does nothing. Yes. In fact playing it Turn 1 is often not a good idea. Not that it matters since the deck is bad.
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Dec 23, 2016 00:20
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Anything besides Chandra's Revolution and Renegade Map sparking people's interest?
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Jan 9, 2017 05:52
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lazerwolf posted:Defiant Salvager could be nice in some sort of GB sacrifice deck with bloodbriar I can't see Defiant Salvager seeing play over Carrion Feeder in such a hypothetical deck.
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Jan 18, 2017 21:16
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What list are you on now Hellsau? If you don't mind sharing.
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Feb 24, 2017 08:33
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Thanks, yeah, it has the same ban list as modern. So, to cover all the bases... Does it include the pauper ban list as well? Does a card have to be printed at common in a modern legality set? Or is it sufficient to have been printed at common in any printing and also have been printed in modern? All that said, oof the modern ban list alone kicks affinity too hard. I'd go Tron or Stompy, since the format is so much of a question mark I don't know what answers to pack.
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Feb 24, 2017 23:58
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Some Numbers posted:If I wanted to put together a handful of decks to smash into each other, what would a good spread of interesting archetypes be? Could do worse than going to MTGTop8 and looking at some league 5-0s. How many decks did you want to throw together, and do you want to put together sideboards for them?
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Feb 28, 2017 21:36
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Hellsau posted:Fair warning, you basically can't beat someone who plays counterspells or graveyard removal or just gains life. But that's part of the fun! It's fun to hand to someone without explanation, but it's a bad, expensive joke that wears real thin.
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Mar 3, 2017 08:32
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Rules question, since I hate miracle triggers. I'm flicker rats playing against NuBurn. They draw Thunderous Wrath, reveal, and put the miracle trigger on the stack. Can I flicker a Chittering Rat to put the Thunderous Wrath back on top of their deck, preventing the Thunderous Wrath from being cast? Addendum, if that's possible. Later in the turn, if they deal draw the Thunderous Wrath again would they be able to trigger Miracle? I'm assuming no because it is no longer their first card of the turn but you never know.
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Mar 3, 2017 22:18
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What do you see as the big, if any, movers and shakers from Amonkhet?
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Apr 18, 2017 21:54
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The Cartouches really bump boggles up. Especially in the burn heavy environment that people seem to like around here.
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Apr 22, 2017 20:06
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:Dang. Thanks anyways Could we interest you in the wide world of Infect?
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Nov 13, 2017 17:47
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. I like the idea of having other resources to mess with besides life and mana.
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Hellsau posted:If you want to play a creature combo deck, Lead the Stampede (freshly downshifted to common in Iconic Masters) makes Elves substantially better. You run 38-40 creatures, and getting three to five creatures off of a Lead the Stampede makes it much less likely that the opponent can just kill your few cards that matter and ignore the rest. A control deck used to be able to kill your Timberwatches, Huntmasters, big Elvish Vanguards and early Priests and just ignore your random manadorks since they can just play a 1/3 and laugh. Now the Elves deck can run 4x Distant Melody and 4x Lead the Stampede and at least put some pressure on the control decks to answer their dorks. What are your thoughts on cutting some Forests and running Land Grant in their place? Looks like the only time it'd bite you in the rear end is when your opening hand is Island and Land Grant.
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Dec 6, 2017 22:26
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little munchkin posted:i feel that giving away information is losing more value than you're gaining from the deck thinning. The challenge of playing against elves is wisely using a limited amount of removal/counterspells. Do you bolt that mana elf to slow down their development or save it for a payoff card? Land Grant gives your opponent the answer to that question. Fair and reasonable. I'm getting worse because I've been playing local pauper and man is it not a good meta.w
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Dec 6, 2017 23:08
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:So this is the infect deck I've been running: Ranger's Guile is another anti-removal pump spell.
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Dec 14, 2017 21:40
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:Guys! Are you in the Portland area by any chance?
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Dec 21, 2017 06:59
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trillocity posted:Assuming you mean Oregon, there are a couple stores that have dedicated Pauper nights. Time Vault (downtown on Broadway) has theirs Monday night and generally gets 6-8 people, and I think Red Castle Games (in the Southeast) has theirs on Thursday, but doesn't advertise it, so it doesn't fire consistently. If there are other stores that you know of that play Pauper, please let me know! Retro Game Trader in Beaverton is trying to get Wednesday night Pauper going. So far it's a very (very) soft crowd, but it's no entry cost and the staff is friendly. I have never actually been out to Time Vault, I should hit it up one of these days.
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Dec 22, 2017 08:35
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Sinkhole is ~$3 in paper. Same for Chain Lightning.
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Dec 30, 2017 17:25
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You mentioned binder. Are you playing at a store, and if so are they using the MTGO banlist.
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Jan 6, 2018 09:19
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Hellsau posted:In actual Pauper news, apparently Ninjustu is bugged and you can only activate it after damage is dealt, making Delver effectively unplayable. Get out you decks that are dogs to UR/Mono-U Delver and play them before they fix this bug sometime three or four years from now. Mtgo.txt
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Jan 15, 2018 07:13
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Our local flgs pauper scene got destroyed. One friend of the owner asked that it be moved back from 6pm to start at 7:30 on a Wednesday so his other friend could show up. The store closes at 9. The matches became frantic races against a 30 minute clock, the attitude went from relaxed to rush rush rush. This put off a lot of newer players who were excited about a cheap format who stopped coming because they didn't want to be pressured. For bonus points, the friend never materialized
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Jan 24, 2018 17:53
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Matsuri posted:True, but there's at least something to be said for a 2/3 that can block almost anything without issue and can attack through almost anything without issue too. I dunno if it's the right choice for Boros, but it may have a very welcome home in decks with pump spells. Those pump spells would have to be multicolored as well. It can block almost anything. That doesn't fly (Boros/Jeskai/Delver). And isn't unblockable or have shadow (Izzet Blitz). Or multicolored (Boggles). It's an okay blocker against Elves until they overwhelm with the swarm and/or pump an unblocked dude for lethal. If Boggles geared up Gladecover then it is likely GG. But in the end, it just doesn't do enough. And it was one of my first pet cards.
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Jan 27, 2018 08:48
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I'm guessing Golgari Toolbox was Tortured Existence?
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Jan 28, 2018 19:51
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Building a set of loaner decks for local pauper nights. Does Stompy really not run any Bonesplitters or Garruk's Companions?
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Jan 30, 2018 08:14
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Hellsau posted:Something with 4x Stonehorn Dignitary. Getting free wins against everything with Forests and most things with Plains is too good. Yep. The only out Elves has to a active flicker Dignitary is a side boarded Mob Justice if they're still running Birchlore Rangers. And that requires 20+ elves on the field. Save your removal for their Huntmasters and they aren't getting there.
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Feb 1, 2018 22:04
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