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Topic: Pauper Tournament
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Rockinamig14
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posted November 28, 2010 11:25 AM
        
So my LGS has a pauper tournament next month and I'm trying to find info on good decks to build, but info is scarce. I've run into mono-blue control (control and Fae variants), goblins, affinity and storm, as well as an occasional sliver deck.seems like storm is the strongest (so far) because plenty of people are calling for storm to be banned in the format. anyone really familiar with the format with some advice? maybe point me in the direction of a good resource? obviously i'm not too worried about budget seeing as how everything is a common.
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JoshSherman
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posted November 28, 2010 12:00 PM
Pauper is no uncommons, as opposed to Peasant which is 5 uncommons, right? Look at this site and see if you can replace the uncommons without losing too much power:
http://peasantmagicgroningen.blogspot.com/edit: also, I'm not familiar off the top of my head with something to deal with Grapeshot (side from Hindering Touch), but there are plenty of cheap ways to kill goblin tokens from EtW. __________________
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airwalk
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posted November 28, 2010 12:17 PM
Going lethal with Grapshot is much harder than with ETW though, even though you get hosed by Bloodfire Dwarf.I'd definitly play storm.
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ninjazwig
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posted November 28, 2010 12:20 PM
Most of the storm I run across in pauper is empty the warrens. People should be packing echoing truth to deal with you if you are playing this. Grapeshot isn't so great in pauper. It usually hits for 10 or 12.
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ninjazwig
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posted November 28, 2010 12:21 PM
Oh also Pdcmagic.com
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JoshSherman
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posted November 28, 2010 01:43 PM
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Originally posted by ninjazwig:
Most of the storm I run across in pauper is empty the warrens. People should be packing echoing truth to deal with you if you are playing this. Grapeshot isn't so great in pauper. It usually hits for 10 or 12.
I'd want to run Bushwhacker in a pauper deck, and Grapeshot makes the lethal uninterrupted storm count 5, with 8 mana needed. That seems attainable to me, but I've only played Peasant, where I had access to Storm Entity. I would think cheap countermagic like Disrupt, Daze, BEB, and Hydroblast would be efficient enough to dispatch storm as well. __________________
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airwalk
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posted November 28, 2010 01:50 PM
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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
I'd want to run Bushwhacker in a pauper deck, and Grapeshot makes the lethal uninterrupted storm count 5, with 8 mana needed. That seems attainable to me, but I've only played Peasant, where I had access to Storm Entity. I would think cheap countermagic like Disrupt, Daze, BEB, and Hydroblast would be efficient enough to dispatch storm as well.
I've seen a lot of people using Goblin War Strike, havn't seen Bushwacker but it would be cute, RR might suck though.
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JoshSherman
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posted November 28, 2010 02:34 PM
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Originally posted by airwalk:
I've seen a lot of people using Goblin War Strike, havn't seen Bushwacker but it would be cute, RR might suck though.
That sounds awful to me. I can't think of an instance where I'd rather have Strike than Bushwhacker. It costs one more mana, but it takes a lower storm count to go lethal. Either way, if they have Echoing truth or something like that, they have it, know what I mean? I guess I could see running Skirk Prospector (except there's no room for it) to offest those sort of concerns. __________________
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airwalk
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posted November 28, 2010 02:38 PM
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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
That sounds awful to me. I can't think of an instance where I'd rather have Strike than Bushwhacker. It costs one more mana, but it takes a lower storm count to go lethal. Either way, if they have Echoing truth or something like that, they have it, know what I mean? I guess I could see running Skirk Prospector (except there's no room for it) to offest those sort of concerns.
IMO, they are both win-more cards and I wouldn't use either of them. I'm just saying I seen way more people using Goblin War Strike than Bushwhacker. ETW is fatal enough and doesn't really need to another card added to it as a low-storm ETW can win the game itself easily if your opponent doesn't have a way to deal with your tokens.
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Scopes13mtg
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posted November 29, 2010 02:33 PM
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Originally posted by ninjazwig:
Oh also Pdcmagic.com
I used to play in the free tournaments they host on MTGO. Definitely a good resource.For a long time I went with Slivers, and even though it was anticipated, I did pretty well. I haven't been into the pauper metagame lately, but the feeling I got was that Slivers made it big, got hated out, and once MBC and Blink decks got big I was able to bring Slivers back and do well. Momentary Blink decks are fun online (not so much in person), but are way too slow to compete with G/W Slivers.
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WeedIan
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posted November 29, 2010 03:52 PM
Black Blue is what i play, you get access to the best commons Brainstorm, Edict, Counterspell, Mulldrifter, Ninja.I play with Rats and Lilliana's Specter for sick card advantage. Put duress in the sideboard if you face storm. Its nice when people waste their removal on a Rat if they fear you getting down an early ninja, and if they don't the rat takes 2 cards and the ninja gains you at least one card +3! __________________
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Rockinamig14
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posted December 09, 2010 09:34 PM
any thoughts on affinity? i'm liking empty the warrens storm too
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beaucoupfish
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posted December 09, 2010 09:58 PM
I busted up one build of warrens storm with a Gruul aggro deck at a pauper tourney I played in recently. I'm not sure it's the greatest deck, but depends on the meta I guess. In the tourney I played in, a WUR control deck took top prize...it was running man 'o' war, sea gate oracle and lone missionary for ETB effects with recursion being provided by kor skyfisher and momentary blink. support was provided by lightning bolt and into the roil. Coincidentally, I was going to play a similar deck but wasn't confident in the deck's manabase. :P
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ninjazwig
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posted December 10, 2010 01:54 AM
You can't go wrong with aggressive green decks running rancors and blastoderms. I play a blue/green deck with various fairies and some big green hitters backed up with rancors to keep the damage flowing.
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airwalk
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posted December 10, 2010 01:26 PM
Rancor and Blastoderm, great synergy there for sure. 
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ninjazwig
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posted December 10, 2010 05:11 PM
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Originally posted by airwalk:
Rancor and Blastoderm, great synergy there for sure.
Yeah, I sure was implying that you would try to cast rancor on blastoderm............ Didn't think it was nessecary to spell things out all the way for people.
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Havoc Demon
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posted December 11, 2010 01:14 AM
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Originally posted by Rockinamig14:
any thoughts on affinity? i'm liking empty the warrens storm too
I would expect cards like Disciple, Cranial Plating or Skullclamp to be banned and making the decks much less degenerate, but still competitive.
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Scopes13mtg
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posted December 12, 2010 03:51 PM
I believe online Pauper restricted the artifact lands. Affinity is still doable, but probably not optimal. __________________
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Rockinamig14
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posted December 12, 2010 04:55 PM
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Originally posted by Havoc Demon:
I would expect cards like Disciple, Cranial Plating or Skullclamp to be banned and making the decks much less degenerate, but still competitive.
cranial plating is the only card that is limited/banned in the format. here's an online deck i've been looking at: http://pdcmagic.com/gatherling/deck.php?mode=view&id=14533
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Volcanon
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posted December 21, 2010 09:56 AM
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Originally posted by Rockinamig14:
cranial plating is the only card that is limited/banned in the format.here's an online deck i've been looking at: http://pdcmagic.com/gatherling/deck.php?mode=view&id=14533
Clamp is an uncommon, so its banned anyway.
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