How am I just hearing about this format. Super fun.
Well, I advise begginers to learn how to deal with the most anal decks in the meta.
Izzet Blitz, Delver, Infect and Mono-Black Control.
If you can somehow deal with these decks, you're fine.
Here it's updated Soldiers List.
Feel free to use it. If you face way too many MBCs on your Meta, you may want to swap Elite Vanguard with Thraben Inspector and bring Loyal Cathar and Desperate Sentry to the main board.
4 x Veteran Swordsmith
4 x Veteran Armorsmith
3 x Raise the Alarm
2 x Secluded Steppe
18 x Plains
3 x Topan Freeblade
4 x Gempalm Avenger
4 x War Falcon
2 x Bonesplitter
3 x Ballynock Cohort
3 x Ballyrush Banneret
4 x Elite Vanguard
3 x Celestial Flare
2 x Journey to Nowhere
Side
2 x Prismatic Strands
3 x Crimson Acolyte
3 x Loyal Cathar
2 x Desperate Sentry
2 x Disenchant
3 x Holy Light
>>48284887
Have you tried using deftblade elite+test of faith? It seems like a really neat combat trick.
>tfw job so not much time
It's pauper grinder viable?
>grapeshot banned
>etw banned
casual format for casuals?
>>48286517
Well anon, you don't want storm in a format where gush is legal.
>>48286517
There is so much legacy draw power it isn't funny. Banning most storm is reasonable.
Playing delver fiend cause I had most of the cards. Looks fun and it's strange to think a format of Commons is can be more broken then standard.
>>48286721
I think that every actual storm wincon is banned actually.
Currently playing an GB(w) Tortured Existence deck, pretty fun for the most part. Has good matchups against slow grindy decks but it struggles with fast-paced decks ala blitz and delver.
>pitching a grave scrabbler to a wild mongrel and casting it for its madness cost
>grave scrabbler gets back an arrogant wurm
>pitch the wurm to mongrel and cast it for madness
>10 power on the board out of nowhere
delicious
Main:
1 Ambush Viper
4 Scoured Barrens
3 Blossoming Sands
1 Bojuka Bog
3 Satyr Wayfinder
4 Arrogant Wurm
2 Gurmag Angler
3 Golgari Brownscale
4 Golgari Guildgate
4 Grave Scrabbler
4 Jungle Hollow
3 Leafcrown Dryad
2 Forest
4 Wild Mongrel
2 Putrid Imp
4 Tortured Existence
2 Auramancer
2 Tilling Treefolk
1 Stinkweed Imp
5 Swamp
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Seal of Doom
Side:
2 Circle of Protection: Red
2 Dead Weight
2 Faerie Macabre
2 Gurmag Angler
2 Mesmeric Fiend
1 Qasali Pridemage
2 Gnaw to the Bone
>>48288520
I just got into the format and I've been fucking with this too.
I've noticed that most variants of this deck have some kind of aggro slant, either going the wild mongrel path (with arrogant wurm, rootwalla, sometimes vampire hounds) or carrion feeder (bunch of guys that have nice death triggers)
I don't really like either one so I've been feeling out the deck without either to see where I want to go with it. Right now Crypt Rats is what ends up being my wincon most consistently, and I think it's the best card in the deck besides. Casting Street Wraiths are also pretty good against anything running swamps as I can keep the board locked up pretty nicely a couple different ways, but my swampwalkers always get through.
mana is a mess right now and I've been subbing in one ofs to test
these two cards right here are the dream team though, there are few things I get more satisfaction from in magic than having some teachings player locked out of everything with these guys
>>48288630
I want crypt rats too but they're exortionally priced on mtgo for a common, and the pauper scene around my area is non-existent so mtgo is the only option I really have.
>>48288630
>>48288520
I forgot, here's my current list
some other cards I've been testing are Festercreep, Thrull Surgeon, Predatory Nightstalker, Abyssal Gatekeeper, Vulturous Aven (really didn't like this one, much rather have street wraiths), Undergrowth Scavenger, and if there was some kind of eternal witness in the format I would love haunting misery as a wincon
Crypt Rats is so degenerate.
>>48288692
oh also getting a fume spitter/wickerbough elder party going against affinity is fun times
>>48288734
Isn't that kind of cheating? I don't think Chainer's Edict was printed as common?
>>48288777
vintage masters
>>48288777
Printed as a common in Vintage masters.
>>48288777
Chainer's Edict was a common in Vintage Masters.
>>48288806
Isn't that a MTGO set, though?
>>48288777
It was printed at common in VMA, which makes it legal on MTGO, and probably in paper.
>>48288816
Pauper is played mostly on MTGO
>>48288832
I just didn't think the rarities carried over. You can't play Hymn or Goblin Grenade online so I assumed the reverse was true of Online-only commons.
>>48288869
Most people adhere to the Online rulings, otherwise you'd get Hymns, Grenades and Sinkholes running around.
>>48288869
Ye. You gotta use the MTGO-banned list for the format to make sense. Otherwise you suddenly have to worry about things like Sinkholes and Lotus Petals showing up in paper that the list doesn't account for.
>>48288934
lotus petal is a common both online and offline
>Opponent plays turn 1 delver and passes
>I play turn 1 thraben inspector and pass
>Opponent scoops and leaves the lobby
fucking what
>>48288520
Run Crypt Rats to deal with fast decks. Recurring Crypt Rats (+lifegain so you don't kill youself) is backbreaking for many aggro decks.
>>48288609 I've said it before, I'll say it again. Try Vault of Whispers.
Extra Affinity and far better odds of having a creature with Metalcraft up on turn 2.
>>48288920
Yeah, my store house bans hymm.
>>48288869
The ban list is carried over if its uncommon or rare on mtgo you can't use it in paper pauper
>>48291719
Yeah, i'm running 4 Vaults now. Works quite well.
Played it 3-4 times tonight vs some guy with a janky Modern (non-pauper) deck - he moaned about me using 'Cheesey Artifact Lands' and a 'Legacy Pauper deck'.
MFW
>>48294589
That's not a cat, that's an owl.
>>48294729
delet this
>>48285549
It does.
But I wonder if I should replace War Falcon or Elite Vanguard. They give a decent clock to most decks, also I need a slot for Test of Faith.
>>48294764
Pauper seems interesting but all the local gaming stores near me only play Standard and hardly anyone plays eternal formats like Modern or EDH. How can I convince anyone to play Pauper?
>>48298093
bring a couple of decks out for them to try?
