Mtg pauper general, card draw edition.
Thread topic:
>Best non-blue card draw at common? For each color?
> pauper
Proof that MTG is pay to win. Why not switch to something better like Force of Will or Heartstone?
Doesn't matter. Counterspell is common so (card draw) spells are not effective.
>>47291897
>Force of Will or Heartstone?
Force of Will is twenty thousands leagues below what I think is socially acceptable for a card game and Heartstone is an entirely different card game all-together.
>>47291897
>Le wrong fun meme
Go and take your salt elsewhere.
>>47291882
Black: Read the Bones.
All other colours: Mulldrifter.
>MTGO Pauper Guide
https://www.cardhoarder.com/mtgo-beginner-guide
>What are some top tier decks I can get on MTGO/Paper?
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/pauper
>BUT I WANT TO SEE ALL VIABLE DECKS!
http://tappedout.net/users/fruuty/deck-folders/
>Which rules should I follow?
If you don't already have some homebrew version with friends, follow the MTGO card pool and banlist (and please spread this to your friends that start playing with you). Currently the only place Pauper is officially supported by Wizards is online, and they have a card pool and banlist, therefore that is the format we should be using offline on paper as well, since decks and cards can transfer to games between each other with no confusion.
>WAHHH THATS TOO HARD WHERE...
http://www.mtg-hunter.com
The bottom left has a box, select MTGO Pauper, all cards in the card pool and banlist are taken into account.
>What deck should I use?
Ask in the thread!
>Is MTGO worth it?
If you have no local paper competition, but want to play a vast amount of Pauper, it can't be beat, even if it is a clunky GUI, you learn quickly.
Some good decks for newbies include but are not limited to:
>Burn
>Elves
>Goblins
>Stompy
>Slivers
>Affinity
>Mono U control
>UB Teachings
>>47291916
Counterpart and its like are too high and breaking. Makes the game super unfun.
>>47291882
Dangerous Wager is really fun for Burn Decks. I like to make it extra dangerous by fireblasting with the same two mountains.
new to pauper
any recommendations for my monogreen ramp?
>>47297314
the problem with mono G is that you dont have any kind of board control
this is why it is usually prefered to go for the aggro G stompy that focus on closing the game asap while swarming the playboard instead of ramping for a big fattie that would probably get removed few moments after he is deployed
>>47297314
turn 3 crusher isn't fast enough?
vines hex-proof isn't protection enough?
>>47297449
fuck meant to quote >>47297436
>>47291897
Because both are shit games.
Really hoping for Kird Ape at common for EMA.
http://deckstats.net/decks/44776/493601-jund-allies/es
Rate this allies deck, also suggestions for the side?
>>47297449
turn 3 crusher implying you get to drop 3 creatures in t1 and t2 and have sprawl and grow in hand
also
>playing goldfish
How do I play high tide and gush in the same deck?
>>47298454
too bad there are no good storm cards in pauper anymore
>>47298454
Fuck I meant frantic search and gush
>>47291882
>black
Read the Bones, by a mile
>red
Tormenting Voice
>green
Krosan Tusker or Gift of the Gargantuan
>white
Repel the Darkness? Shelter?
White gets fuck-all for card-drawing at common, except for the occasional cantrip.
Auriok Sunchaser or Carapace Forger in Affinity?
Does anyone even play Affinity anymore?
>>47298465
Frantic Search isn't banned in your store?
>>47291897
Listen up weeb
Even if you could afford a Tier 1 deck, you still wouldn't win because you're a dumb shit and Magic doesn't test indepth knowledge of Chinese pedo cartoons. Thus it's is not pay to win. Get it?
>>47291897
Is FoW better balanced for real? Is it really cheaper?weeb gf wants to play something less expensive
>>47291882
UW tron and Tortured Existence reporting in.
>>47291882
>pauper
Can someone explain to me what it means?
Im kinda new to MtG
>>47300050
Read the op. Jesus. It's MTG using only Commons.
>>47291897
>Proof that MTG is pay to win.
>pauper
Literally what?
>>47291897
>Pay to win
>A format in which the most expensive deck is $60 if you have none of the staples
>>47300050
Only common cards are legal. Cards that were printed at common at any point in their history online, with a few banned cards.
Pauper is only officially supported online, so some cards that havent been printed on there at common, but have been in paper, aren't legal. Stuff like Sinkhole, for example.
It's a lotta fun to play, and its super budget compared to any other format out there.
>>47300626
Unless you invest into pauper and then move to a hick town where they play idiotic pauper rules.
Fuck Shreveport.
>>47300754
What's wrong? I don't play pauper but I see people playing at DL all the time.
>>47300495
>>47300525
I think he means the existence of Pauper and not playing Standard/Modern/Legacy since they are ten times more expensive than Pauper.
>>47298937
Lol no. R/r will forever run this shit
>>47300754
Lake Charles here. Small town stores are ass.
So the coolest pauper deck I've ever seen is acid trip.
I have the usual three questions
>how much is it
>is it hard to pilot
>what's it's viability
How popular are enchantment decks? On the flip side, how popular is tranquility for sideboards?
>>47291897
>Proof that MTG is pay to win.
You mean, pay to play. Moron
>Doesn't matter. Counterspell is common so (card draw) spells are not effective.
Yes please, counter my cantrips instead of my wincons.
>>47291897
>>47300495
>>47300525
>>47307325
is everyone literally retarded? I understand perfectly what anon means by this statement, if a game has such high budget entries such as magic in all the popular formats:
>standard - $500
>modern - $1000
>edh - $1000
but of course these are for top tier decks, or decks that want to try and win on a consistent basis.
now onto pauper, how good is affinity and white weenie? I want to make several pauper decks for me and my playgroup and i want to make decks that have a range of strateies, goals, and "good" cards, would these two deck ideas work as the starting points in pauper? or would affinity and green stompy work better
>>47307490
>if a game has such high budget entries
Then it's pay to play, not pay to win.
If you can't afford duals, then play Modern where Shocklands are the norm. But even then, D&T and Dredge in Legacy are very good and they use no duals.
Decks that become notably good in a format don't always start out as expensive, instead they can become expensive because then they get popular.
Also on the actual topic, I think that Affinity is pretty good, not too sure about WW but I think that Thraben Inspector could be a boon for the deck.
>>47300754
>>47301373
Holy shit local players.
I'm new to MTG and made a Burn Pauper deck but I'm always busy on Thursday night lol. I dunno what weird rules he's talking about. It's just every card at common on paper and MTGO banlist. I mean I wish it was MTGO card pool as well but it's no hard to adapt.
>>47307615
>If you can't afford duals, then play Modern where Shocklands
isn't a set of those over $1000?
>>47308171
>isn't a set of those over $1000?
Most decks only play around 2 of a single shock and they run for like $10-$15 so they're not too expensive.
Playsets make sense if you don't want to switch cards around (I don't), so then a full playset of each shockland for a total of 40 cards is around $500-550.
>>47307909
>I dunno what weird rules he's talking about
It's a popular meme in this threads to pretend to be really mad at people who play commons not available on MODO.
I also thought it was retarded, but people here seem to like it that way.
You woudn't believe how assblasted some people got when I said that of all the usual subjects from the Card Kingdom banlist (The basic 9 plus Goblin Grenade, High Tide, Hymn to Tourach and Sinkhole), only Hymn was worth banning from what I had seen in my LGS.
>>47298544
Anyone?
Oooh, it's coming together lads! Just some full art Forests due to arrive in the mail and the basic 5 mono decks are done. Onto Affinity and Bogles after this then I'll saunter my way through Tron.
>>47313781
Go test and see what you prefer. I like a 4/4 for 2 mana better.
New pauper decks when? Will Eldritch Moon change the meta a bit?like WotC cares about pauper in any way ;_;
>>47298937
It's cheaper but the dumbass devs cannot balance the game to save their lives. Look at any tournament from the past eight months and tell me what rulers you see, look at tournaments a year ago and tell me what rulers you see. R/R is god now just like Baha Blast was god a year ago. And when R/R rotates some other ruler will replace him with just as much unnecessary utility strapped onto a card.
>>47321505
nasty
>>47297314
consider putting in Fog.
>>47307490
>edh - $1000
Jesus Christ how. Are you one of those people that runs all foils or plays with Timetwister?
Any unusual decks you encountered that looked fun?
I want to try something completely new and un-meta
>>47330857
Ninjablast looked really fun and isn't bad.
>>47311270
This fucks up the meta. The MTGO meta is fantastic and well balanced. The paper meta depending on store and what people play and whatever random cards you do or don't ban is complete shit. Make it consistent. More people will play that way.
If you dont evolve pauper is deader and will continue to die due to old Commons getting more and more rare.
Evolve, dummy. You're holding back new players and the meta.
>>47311270
My local store has idiots like you. I just decided to get pauper decks and play with people who follow the sanctioned meta. So far it's been great and people love and ask for the "MTGO box" and have picked up MTGO and play online.
Have fun with the same 4 players all the time.
>>47332893
Burn guy here... you're kind of a dick but your idea seems neat. I might do that, see what people think.
>>47321505
There's an infinite mana combo there somewhere there isn't? Ivy Lane Denizen+Devoted Druid+?
>>47334298
more like infinite tokens
>>47334558
No I know about Midnight Guard+Presence of Gond, I was talking about a possible extra infinite combo
>>47334636
ivy + druid + grond is infinite tokens. two ivy + druid + grond can do infinite mana and tokens, but you need the grond to make tokens to trigger ivy, to use ivy's counters to untap druid more
>>47314353
Great pile, oubliettes arent cheap at all.
>>47307615
This gal has to be really good in WW cyborgs right? Run it instead of court homunculus. Skyfishers can let you replay inspector as well.
>>47307200
Ive heard its really grindy, so you might need to learn it inside out
>>47327696
An optimal Arcum or Tasigur list with Workshop or fetches+duals respectively can be easily 2k.
>>47334741
>An optimal Arcum or Tasigur list
Tryhards play that shit. Unless you meant French, so yeah only tryhards play it.
>>47291897
>FoW (Not that FoW)
Animeme artstyle
>HS
I RANDOM A RANDOM RANDOM ONTO RANDOM RANDOM
Wow....
Incredible!
