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U/W acid trip is still my favorite pauper deck.
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Matsuri posted:Hm. So what's the best way to deal with flicker-based Tron decks? Reality acid.
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Jan 24, 2018 08:02
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suicidesteve posted:It's unimaginably slow, extremely easy to disrupt, and doesn't actually do anything while also having a bunch of cards that are really bad if you don't have a Reality Acid in play. This may all be true but it’s also cool and the most fun
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Jan 24, 2018 08:35
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Matsuri posted:GP Indy apparently had over 200 players. one of my FLGS started running pauper. Week one we had 16 people, week 2 we had 12 people, week 3 we had 2 people (and I brought 5 decks to lend out :/) Pauper is cool and fun and I have many decks made for it in paper, here they are in order of style: - U/W Acid Trip - Mono B control - Izzet Blitz - Goblins - Elves - Bogles
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Jan 24, 2018 17:21
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Hellsau posted:Do you enjoy digging and digging and digging until you find a Tireless Tribe, and if you miss you do literally nothing? Yes of course I like that.
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Jan 24, 2018 22:47
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I'm starting a modern league at my current FLGS. I'm running acid trip gently caress the haters
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Feb 1, 2018 18:38
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Just won a G3 against mono blue delver with acid trip. Finished the game with 4 cards left in library, drew 20 cards off assorted mulldrifter triggers.
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Feb 10, 2018 05:22
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Played my first round of paper pauper league and won 2-1 vs 4-colour tron as u/w acid trip. Game 2 involved all 4soreadimg seas and at least 6 reality acids. G3 I beat a T4ulamogs crusher.
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Feb 13, 2018 09:13
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suicidesteve posted:Reality Acid on Crusher, sac Reality Acid to annihilator is the only sweet thing I ever did with that stupid deck. I had T3 acid on a tron land, opponent untapped played a mountain and cast crusher, passed. I untapped and journey to nowhere’d the crusher and dream stalker’d the reality acid. But I really like that that annihilator trigger line
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Feb 13, 2018 09:19
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Started week two of a local paper pauper league that I’m running. Good meta so far: 2 U Delver 1 UR Delver 3 Izzet Blitz 1 Burn 2 Elves 2 Affinity 2 Tron 1 Mono B 1 UB Control 1 Temur Control 1 Dredge 1 Acid Trip
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Feb 19, 2018 02:57
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Played R2 of my local paper modern league and got paired against 16 land mono-u delver. Won 2-1 G1: lost the die roll, opponent has timely counterspells and 2x delver and I don’t gain a significant amount of life. Also I draw 2 spreading seas. Side out: 3x seagate Oracle, 4x spreading seas Side in: 3x geist, 2x counterspell, 1x dispel, 1x Sunlance G2: I gain about 16 life while running my opponent out of resources. Eventually I have 4 flying attackers to my opponents one flying blocker G3: every creature my opponent plays gets removed, I dispel an annul, I Kor sanctifier a curse of chains, then bounce it and get a spire golem next turn. That’s all she wrote.
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Feb 24, 2018 06:42
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Hellsau posted:Okay looking at the UR Delver list (6th) that beat me in the win-and-in, I'm real salty about losing to it. They apparently boarded in 8-11 cards - they played four Pyroblasts and three Relics, AND played at least one Stormbound Geist. What the gently caress did they take out? They kept in all four Skreds for game 2 at least. I was just looking over and saw your name in the 11th place spot. How loving bananas is that G/W/R splinter twin deck though? Mezzanon fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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Feb 26, 2018 23:16
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Hellsau posted:It's probably fine except Midnight Guard gets owned by Bolt and the deck can't beat Counterspells and Mulldrifters and Electrickery is a problem for your plan and you'd be under constant time pressure and actually going infinite isn't really feasible online and your manabase is underwhelming and you get owned by Viridian Longbow pretty hard. That's what I assume the bodyguards and spidersilk armor out of the board are for. By Bananas, I meant "this deck is cool as hell, and I would probably build it in paper"
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Feb 27, 2018 00:33
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uPen posted:I don't care whether it's good or not I just bought 30 rats and you can't stop me. 22 swamp 30 relentless rats 4 grey merchant 4 oubliette
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Feb 27, 2018 21:10
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Played round 3 of paper pauper league. Best izzet blitz in 2. Game two was won when my opponent didn’t realize that he could return two spreading seas’d mountains to cast gush. I’ll take it.
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Mar 3, 2018 05:35
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Paging Hellsau for Pauper Advice! My Pauper League match this week is against probably the best tron player in the meta, playing a very controlling build of tron. I'm on Acid Trip  My opponent is on this build of Flicker Tron:  Aside from keeping him off Tron (ideally with acid instead of spreading seas) do you have any advice for the matchup (since you're an exceptionally experienced pauper and tron player) Any sideboard advice would also be greatly appreciated. (I'm thinking, counter/dispel. stormbound geist in, but not sure what to take out (does the relic come in?)) I assume, watch out for ghostly flicker value loops right?
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Mar 6, 2018 17:26
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The Shortest Path posted:Does anyone happen to know what's up with the card Predatory Hunger? The Exodus set symbol on it appears to be a silver uncommon symbol but every card database I can find lists it as being common and legal for pauper, despite having no other printings. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=6141 Says it's common
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Mar 6, 2018 18:24
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Hellsau posted:You're doomed. You have no maindeck counterspells and Ghostly Flicker kind of owns your primary game plan, he's got multiple counterspells, and Capsize will be enough to end the match, so game 1 is a lost cause. Your best bet would be to kill any Prisms on sight and hope to color screw him while somehow beating him to death before he finds a relevant spell. I don't even know what you could sideboard to make that matchup good enough to reliably win the match given how badly you'll lose game 1. That particular Tron build seems like it's built in such a way that you have the best chance against it, with only one Flicker, one Pulse, two Walls, two or three Pyroblasts, and a reasonable amount of removal, but after sideboard you get to take out the four Journeys and two Missionaries and bring in what, two Dispels two Counterspells and the Relic? Still missing a card to bring in, and even after sideboarding you have fewer counterspells than they do maindeck and they also get to bring in Pyroblast which is much better than any card you're bringing in. Relic isn't horrible since they only have one Flicker so you might get to eat it, but even without a Flicker loop they can just outdraw you, counter everything important and beat you to death with Mulldrifters or Rolling Thunder you. Maybe you can bring in Hydroblast only to counter opposing Pyroblasts or the Rolling Thunder? That's pretty sketchy and likely to make you wind up with dead cards in hand. This all seems correct, and isn't anything I didn't already know. I got paired against this version of Tron R1 in the league:  And I just absolutely destroyed it, but they also didn't have any flickers. This matchup I'm facing seems super weird because for the first time ever U/W acid trip is the beatdown deck. I have to try and keep my opponent off having a huge mana advantage and then try to trick them into playing out a mnemonic wall so I can somehow remove it. I agree on the relic for the second game. I mean I'm 3-0 going into a 5 round tournament so I'm a lock for top 8, I'm just gonna try and steal the win of the century over here. Edit: I mean as long as I don't get paired against them the first round of top 8 I feel pretty good about making it to prizing.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:28
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BGrifter posted:Anyone in Canada have suggestions for a place if I wanted to slowly start buying up full playsets of commons by set? Local game stores or face to face games?
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Mar 8, 2018 00:52
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Some Numbers posted:Generate mana and win by putting Freed from the Real on Axebane Guardian to instawin with Invoker, I think? Lost my league match to flicker tron in 3. At least I took a game off it.
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Mar 10, 2018 08:16
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Hellsau posted:You're doomed. You have no maindeck counterspells and Ghostly Flicker kind of owns your primary game plan, he's got multiple counterspells, and Capsize will be enough to end the match, so game 1 is a lost cause. Your best bet would be to kill any Prisms on sight and hope to color screw him while somehow beating him to death before he finds a relevant spell. I don't even know what you could sideboard to make that matchup good enough to reliably win the match given how badly you'll lose game 1. That particular Tron build seems like it's built in such a way that you have the best chance against it, with only one Flicker, one Pulse, two Walls, two or three Pyroblasts, and a reasonable amount of removal, but after sideboard you get to take out the four Journeys and two Missionaries and bring in what, two Dispels two Counterspells and the Relic? Still missing a card to bring in, and even after sideboarding you have fewer counterspells than they do maindeck and they also get to bring in Pyroblast which is much better than any card you're bringing in. Relic isn't horrible since they only have one Flicker so you might get to eat it, but even without a Flicker loop they can just outdraw you, counter everything important and beat you to death with Mulldrifters or Rolling Thunder you. Maybe you can bring in Hydroblast only to counter opposing Pyroblasts or the Rolling Thunder? That's pretty sketchy and likely to make you wind up with dead cards in hand. Mezzanon posted:Lost my league match to flicker tron in 3. At least I took a game off it. Here's a longer version of the matchup for you Hellsau, it was closer than I was expecting. G1: Lose the die roll. I try to play smart knowing that I am hugely unfavored in this matchup, and I do pretty well. I spreading seas to keep my opponent off tron, and I try to get low level beats in and hope he doesn't get the flicker wall combo going. He lands it once and gets rid of a spreading seas on a tron land, but he still doesnt have tron, which allows me to make a sacrifice play with one of my reality acids to draw out countermagic so I can journey to nowhere his mnemonic wall. I eventually have to tap low to get him on a two turn clock, but he has tron online. I need to fade a single turn of him not drawing exactly Tower and having rolling thunder in hand. Opponent draws tower and has rolling thunder in hand and domes me for 15 while I am at 15. (my next turn play was going to be bounce crossroads so that I would not die) G2: I realize that keeping my opponent off blue is a fools errand so I have to try to outdraw my opponent and/or keep them off non-blue mana. So I spend this game keeping a spreading seas on a tron land, and throwing the rest at green lands/cascade bluffs. to keep my opponent off pulse of murasa. Opponent sticks a rainbow land and lands the stonehorn lock, but has absolutely zero pressure. This gives me a chance to evoke mulldrifter (with sac on the stack) momentary blink mulldrifter to draw 4. Opponent keeps the lock for 3 turns and I spend those 3 turns sculpting my hand and playing two power creatures. I finally make a move where I spreading seas a tron land (taking opponent off tron again) throw a reality acid into countermagic, play a second reality acid on his stonehorn, then bounce the acid, killing the dignitary. Opponent untaps and tries to pulse of murasa the stonehorn back and I have double dispel at the ready. Opponent tried to flame slash one of my attackers and I have the hydroblast and he scoops it up. G3: I mull to 6 and keep a 2 white land hand, and by the time i see a blue source my opponent can double capsize lol so I scoop it up.
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Mar 11, 2018 19:01
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Hellsau what’s your current tron list?
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Dec 1, 2018 03:06
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Just played my first ever round with tireless tribe against ub delver and won. This deck is loving hilarious and fits right into my favorite thing in pauper: dumb uw decks.
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Mar 6, 2019 02:34
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Hellsau posted:It also might not beat Boros since it's tough to Pestilence your opponent's creatures away when they can burn you for 12. WB pestilence is the same as all my favorite decks in pauper: it’s not one of the top two decks, but it’s cool as hell.
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Mar 6, 2019 09:06
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suicidesteve posted:This will make me feel good when I pay $35 to play it and lose to the top 2 decks repeatedly. That’ll happen. You might actually be okay vs delver, you probably get wrecked by tron though Johnny Five-Jaces posted:how unlucky is it that pteramander isn't a common Working as intended. Delver plays a 1 mana 3/2 flyer and a 1 mana 5/5 with unlimited churn and permission. You don’t need more threats you’re the best deck in the format Edit: isn’t ub delver like 40/75 of the legacy deaths shadow list? Mezzanon fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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Mar 6, 2019 21:21
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I'm trying to get better at playing tribe. Do I just lose to bogles and Gond and Pestilence?
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Mar 8, 2019 11:28
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little munchkin posted:you should be fine against bogles, they don't have much interaction. game one you can run out an early tribe and bait them into leaving stuff back to block. You're probably right on bogles, I probably keep thinking of modern bogles which has daybreak coronet for lifelink forever. I still have a lot of learning to do with tribe, that's why i'm running the local pauper league.
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Mar 10, 2019 07:04
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2-0 in my local pauper league after beating mono blue delver
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Mar 16, 2019 07:52
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Somehow beat mono black control with tireless tribe today lmao
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Mar 20, 2019 07:07
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Hellsau posted:lol Pretty sure I’m paired against bogles next week, welp.
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Mar 20, 2019 08:17
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Played 2 pauper side events at GP Calgary lost one match across both events and had to explain how my deck won to EVERY OPPONENT (still tribe) Beat burn while at 1 life 3 times.
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Apr 1, 2019 06:14
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Played a league match against presence of Gond and managed to slam out games where my opponent didn’t draw prismatic strands. One where I had to do over 34 damage in one swing
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Apr 8, 2019 02:06
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uPen posted:Rip tribe. Came here to post exactly this
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May 20, 2019 21:41
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Hellsau posted:blows my fuckin' mind that some idiot at wotc banned daze and didn't touch tron at all I’d be happy with just a flicker ban
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May 29, 2019 09:19
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uPen posted:Unban daze you cowards. Ban flicker so I can play acid trip.
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Jun 4, 2019 09:17
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Aranan posted:Ban Tron, ban Astrolabe, unban Hymn to Tourach you cowards Ban ghostly flicker so I can play reality acid
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Jul 17, 2019 05:52
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GoutPatrol posted:please God yes (eyes reality acids)
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Sep 20, 2019 08:10
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Mezzanon posted:God yes (eyes reality acids) As a follow up to this I’m definitely bringing acid trip to the local pauper night with ephemerate and mystic sanctuary. gently caress the haters
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Oct 3, 2019 02:21
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:Hellsau I'd love to hear your take on the tournament tonight! give me a rundown on the pauper 1k. any spicy lists? any great plays? give me stories
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Holy shitasses mystic sanctuary is a hosed up card, and I’m probably playing it in the worst possible shell for it. Evoke mulldrifter, ephemerate before sacrifice, next turn ephemerate again, play sanctuary put ephemerate on top, preordain, ephemerate, on upkeep ephemerate Kor skyfisher returning mystic sanctuary, play sanctuary put ephemerate on top of library.
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