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Beggars CAN Be Choosers: It’s Stompy, I’m in Love
Posted on May 16, 2011 by toxic fungus
Did you even bother to check MTGOTraders.Com for Quirion Rangers? I just looked and they have 12 of them for $3.50 which you can pay tix for instead if you decided to.
I would recommend HyperCam to record matchs since it free and doesn’t seem to mess up or anything with longer games. Beware that it can eat up a few GB of hard drive space for the videos. Been using it recently myself for another forums site and my pauper decks.
Thanks for pointing out those articles from PDCMagic.Com. I didn’t know about them so I’ll have to check them out soon. I mostly seem to see the green post deck instead of this deck there. It looks pretty cheap to play so I might test it out. Glad to see your breaking even beyond building the deck.
Neros: This article came out timed poorly (poor for me, great for you guys!) relative to the currently ongoing “Retro” drafts on MTGO. Currently, there are Mirage/Visions/Weatherlight drafts available, obviously increasing relative supply of Quirien Ranger. When I was looking for them, they were very hard to find. Thanks for the feedback and advice on the video capture, but I am working off a laptop with low resources, and really have no interest in doing videos right now.
I think he just meant as a means of always having a stored record of your matches as opposed to leaving the MTGO demons to eat random games at will which seems to be the case. Though you can obviously go from there for videos I guess.
Nice article, I thought the same thing about the rangers when I read but obviously that is acredited to the “new” queues dropping some of those prices.
Might have to give this one a go
I do appreciate the advice from everyone on how to store game videos, truly. Honestly though, my set up and writing for this series in general doesn’t seem to be hurting without them. Since I am writing the match reports directly after wards (with a few notes during), the lack of a replay here and there is not that big of a deal.
I love to watch Pauper matches on video but also appreciate written content. Sometimes you just can’t watch videos and being able to read strategy articles for Pauper is welcome.
@ SaiDes
Thats exactly what I meant but, I guess doing the article right after each works pretty good too.
I never even thought about the drafts going on. Hopefully the next time your having troubles finding a card a draft will come up so you could wait it out abit instead. How good/bad is your laptop?
I enjoyed this article, each one has been better than the last. It seems odd that this deck would actually be that good against MBC or Frantic Storm but if it works it works. I’m definately going to give it a try once I get some rangers.
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I’ve played this deck a lot and it’s really good.
You only have 3 bad match-ups: MBC, WW and infect.
Infect runs almost the same pump spells than you (plus Invigorate, and that’s huge) but it’s like you start at 10 life.
WW has lots of cards that hurt you. Standard Bearer is a complete nightmare for the deck, it turns off all your pump spells. And then they have Kor Skyfisher to block your Silhana Ledgewalker. That said, if they dont draw the Bearer is a close match, but winnable.
MBC has lots of tools against you. Crypt Rats + Unearth is so painfull, like Tendrils of Corruption/Corrupt.
The rest of the matchups are even or in your favor.
Frantic Storm it’s very close, but pretty winnable. The key here is using a Shinen to take down some familiars. Also they cant bounce your Silhanas and you have 4 Rootwallas to play more creatures after they combo out.
Speaking about the list I don’t like the Rogue Elephant at all. I played with it a lot of times and it has not been good a single time I drew it. I would play the 4th Shinen of Lifes Roar instead.
On the sideboard, i would take out the Hidden Spiders for Hornet Stings. Still good vs MUC/Faeries and can deal with standard bearers.
Andrew: Thanks for the positive feedback, it means a lot! You are correct that the matchup with MBC is not that favored. There are a few cards that really wreck you. That said, the deck is capable of just smashing so fast that the MBC player never establishes control. I’d say it’s (very roughly) 60/40 in their favor. The frantic storm matchup does seem to be good for you as the green mage. The sb Thermokarst, plus untargetable, plus free rootwallas work well, but again, it may be in reality more like 50/50.
Veon: Yeah, I’m not sold on that elephant either, but was trying to figure out what to put there. The Shinen may be correct.
On a different note, I meant to include commnet on the NPH card “Mutagenic Growth,” which may have a home in this deck. I’m not sold on that either, but definitely want to test it when it comes online. Also, that card is clearly better in the infect deck.
Whats the name of the article series on PDCMagic.Com with the deck list analysis? I found one that was for standard but that was all and it seems you don’t have to be logged in to view them unless I was thing the wrong area somehow. I just looked through there articles which were from PureMTGO.Com.
Neros, It was not a an article series, it was a forum, and the only way to get there was to register. Unfortunately, i can’t link it as you’d need to be registered for it to work, and I can’t get to the site from my work computer anyway.