Dime a Dozen #29: Introducing Doctor Pauper

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Jason Moore

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  1. Actually, none of the guys in the auras deck (except the auramancers) die to Doom Blade!

  2. videos, videos, videos.

    I’d watch ALL the videos.

    Oh, and nice write-up. Can you put it in a video though?

  3. The grixis deck looks pretty sick, but what are you going to be doing the first 2 turns? There’s a distinct lack of 1 and 2 drops in a format that can flood the field by turn 3. More early removal? More early deathtouch? Tidehollow strix, typhoid rats?

  5. Tom the Scud — LOL good point!

    yessir — I’d like to. What would you like to see in the videos? Glad you shared some input on the Grixis deck.

    Greystone — Okay, what do you want to see in the videos? I appreciate the comment!

  6. Jason- Play with the decks you’re reviewing. It doesn’t have to be ALL of them. But if they look promising, or at least fun, run them through a few rounds against the field. And just talk about what you would change about the decks after playing them, or if you would never be caught playing the chosen deck again.

  7. yessir – Gotcha. That sounds pretty good! The only problem I could see arising is my having to constantly buy new decks. We’ll see how it goes!

  8. You could set a date and time to stream the testing sessions, and I’m sure people would be willing to loan you cards to test with… This segment seems like a lot of fun, great idear dude!

  10. First off: Great read, keep it up!

    Second:
    The LD/discard deck doesn’t make much sense to me when I look at it. I understand that it might be preying on post or land light hands from any deck, but it seems ridiculously soft to aggro of any sort. This can be stopped with a few cards like the full four of echoing decay, or some edicts so that change should probably be made.

    I would also look for some tough high damage creatures like firecats (the 4/1 vanilla from M14) to clean up the game after the opponent is stumbling. LD only works while the opponent is off their game, that can’t last indefinitely.

    The major issue of course is that if you don’t succeed in your plan of keeping your opponent in the stone age (mana wise) you are hosed.

  11. Awesome article Jason! Sorry about the anonymity thing, I was sure I had emailed you back! Excellent to see two of my pet brews getting some attention off the doctor!

    The comments are also great. I’ve been playing the LD/Discard for about 2 weeks now and I’ve came to the same conclusion as some of the commenters here. It’s very weak to aggro and it lacks the creatures to finish off the game once the opp is stumbling. I’ve been toying with a version which doesn’t run any blue, thus making the mana a little easier to manage and I’ve increased the mainboard removal. Still looking for the end game threat to fit in as well, I’ve found that I just don’t have pressure to keep on my opponent once I’ve wrecked a few lands.

    Also, Happy to lend you the cards for a few nights if it’s for an article. As I’m sure most contributors would be!

    Thanks, Doc!

  12. Mattador – Your input is very much appreciated!

    Calum – Glad you could share your findings! The submissions were very cool, and I’m looking forward to trying the decks out.

  13. Hello there!
    I don’t play online, but sometimes I think about the online metagame when building with paper cards. Following is the last list I’ve assembled. It seems promising IRL, and maybe you could give it a shot, since mtgo is the best way to test new brews:

    4 Molten Rain
    4 Stone Rain
    4 Roiling Terrain
    2 Earth Rift
    4 Flame Slash
    4 Lightning Bolt
    4 Firebolt
    4 Searing Blaze
    2 Staggershock
    2 Serrated Arrows
    3 Expedition Map
    1 Rolling Thunder

    3 Forgotten Cave
    4 Cloudpost
    4 Glimmerpost
    12 Mountain

    4 Electrickery
    4 Pyroblast
    2 Red Elemental Blast
    4 Gorilla Shaman
    1 Shattering Pulse

    I call it “No dudes”. It’s got 61 cards MD and I like it that way. But perhaps you might help me select something out. The idea is to get as much card advantage as its possible for red by playing flashbacks and burning down the opponent as we remove their creatures. Also serrated fucking arrows.

    Let me know if you end up playing it. The downside is it probably is a quitting machine

    Thanks!

  14. Gustavo – I appreciate the submission! I’m still figuring out which deck(s) to showcase next time, but this one just might fit the bill.

  19. Now now Deluxeicoff. Should we ask, “Are you seriously going to comment on an article you didn’t read?” Jason defines his “Doctor Pauper” title near the start of the article. “Doctor Pauper is an interactive exercise in both deckbuilding and deck tuning. Here we’ll be looking at decks submitted by you, the readers, and searching for ways to “fix” or adjust (and hopefully optimize) them.”

    I do agree that experience in a format helps when tendering advice. These articles are not likely to be of great service to strong pauper competitors (such as delixiecoff). Jason has demonstrated, however, his ability to offer some reasonable Magic theory/advice/ideas to less experienced, less serious players. Plus he’s trying to make this an interactive exercise rather than just a guru telling us how it’s done.

  21. I share the confusion of deluxeicoff to what this article is about. The introductory passage cited by rpitcher is not helpful. Jason do you want to get a deck to be at the brink of competitiveness in a Daily Event? Or just tinker around and collect some ideas? Because for the second direction, a forum is a much better place!
    Both notions can be found in the article and even three decklists of varying degree of Spike-ness. Consider partitioning the article in two sections maybe. Or drop one of the routes of developing, because I can’t really start discussing a deck if I’m not clear on where you want to go here.

    If you want to go competitive, please think about the correct meta game. Suggesting a sniper deck that snipes “Burn, Hexproof, Izzet Fiend, and Stompy” in the current meta is irrelevant and misleading.

    Aaand: videos are cool :)

  22. I stand corrected – your observation rpitcher is 98% correct.

    For the record…I’ll take 10 Jason Moores vs. one toxic/ (my clan fears reprisal/angering our overlord…lol) E.Hustle any day. Bottom line, Jason angers grinders…(me included) boo hoo/who cares?!…yet he also inspires new pauper blood which is of paramount importance… – Jason, do you want to change this persona? If so, the answer is INCREDIBLY SIMPLE… put up and show up…take it from someone who’s been on rogue for 8 MONTHS…it’s fun!