Dime a Dozen #52: Classic Pauper Resurgence

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Jason Moore

You are currently browsing comments. If you would like to return to the full story, you can read the full entry here: “Dime a Dozen #52: Classic Pauper Resurgence”.

 

  1. MBC placed in the meta more than Pauper, so it might be an even bigger elephant at the moment. If people are going to play in DEs they need to have a plan for Delver, MBC, and aggro decks (Goblins is big right now).

    If you’re going to play in some events on video, I’d love to see the WW Tokens deck in action!

  2. (Firstly, sorry for the non-perfect English :P)

    About the TE deck:

    In the first turns, one forest usually is enough… For Satyr, Commune or Leechs. You almost never play Brownscale, And on the other hand, you will need a lot of black always, for TE ability, or Crypt Rats; also for Barren Moor, etc. Maximizing the option to play TE on the first turn is also a reason. And some turns after, you won’t need more than GG or GGG almost ever.

    Grave Scrabbler, Wild Mongrel… They fit in a different deck, next to Arrogant Wurm and Basking Rotwalla. If you test the deck, you will understand :D (the main reason is that there are not enough discard abilities… If you add some, the deck will change too much).

    I think the deck doesn’t play mainly aggro, but sometimes, you can aggro with Leech or Werebears + dredging.

    The main plan is to find TE ASAP. So if you dont start with a copy of it, then you have Commune or cyclying cards for looking for it. When you find it, then you start moving cards to the graveyard with Satyrs and Communes, if you haven’t started already. So usually a dredger will have appeared, and then each turn u will dredge, and will start playing as many “2 mana 4/4s” as you can (Leeches and Werebears), while you can kill the 3 thoughness or less creatures at the same time, with the Rats. Tilling Treefolks and Tusker are essential here for continuing playing lands, so you can keep dredging turn after turn… And then you “change” the dredge card with any creature you want in the graveyard, depending on what you need. I still didn’t try the Nightstalkers… But probably they solve the problems we had against decks like Hexproof and Tron.

    A very very difficult deck to play; you have too many options each turn, and you will need to test a lot a lot and have hundreds of errors before start controlling it “decently”… But instead of hating this, I love this, because you have a very complex deck in a not-so-complex format… And I can tell you that at some point I started getting bored of Pauper, and when I found this deck, this changed totally for me :).

    By the way, a very good article with very good content; and you explained the dimir deck in a way that it encouraged me to play it, hehe. Keep with the great articles!! ;)

  3. They need a new name for these “Dailies.” This time last year we had 21 of these events each week. Now we have 3 – 1/7th the amount – and Europeans cannot play in them. Pauper is not back to where it was before. To use your analogy, WotC hit Pauper with a truck, let it linger on life support, and has just moved the all-common format to stable condition. Pauper is far from being that healthy great kid again. In my opinion, it hasn’t even left the hospital yet.

  4. Ahniwa – I appreciate the deck suggestion! Nice insights as well.

    Alejandro – Thanks for sharing! Solid info, and I’m glad you liked the article.

    HistorianJoe – Good points. I definitely like the analogy :P

  5. I agree, HistorianJoe. The events start at 2:30 am my time, which is probably the worst time possible. But I’m staying up super late anyway to play! I really want pauper to be a thing again. :)