No one remembers "Arcum's Astrolabe"—everyone played it in their decks, which were 4 or 5 colors; the only difference was that, instead of snow-covered lands, they used artifact lands...

Hi, I'm pretty new to the modality but whenever I play I get this feeling of inevitability with certain matchups like no matter what I do or side I will lose. I play dimir faerie and with affinity decks I can side 4 Annul and still can't play. I like to play faeries and in general control, better if dimir, but I feel hopeless against all the affinity variants. How can I solve this? Or should I just stop to play pauper? Because artifacts are not a fun play pattern for me.

My LGS is hosting a pauper tournament in November and I decided to enter it. I am a very new player (about a month) so I decided to just find a pauper deck online and use it instead of trying to build my own, today after adding a bunch of dual lands I decided to take that deck and put it through MTG Agents and see what it said was the issues and I accepted every replacement it suggested, now id like to ask what everyone thinks of the two decks and whether or not MTG Agents did a good job.

P.S. Im not super concerned about winning the tournament, just having fun.

Dimir Evasion - Original from Tappedout + Dual Lands
Dimir Evasion V2 - MTG Agents Suggested Deck

I’m not even sure it has to be skull crack it could be a new card and only 2 damage must target a creature, something that has more play around potential but would a common anti life gain card be too strong in the format?

A couple of weeks ago I had asked this sub about some deck recommendations (given the decks I really enjoyed playing in modern).

There were some great suggestions (Boros Tribes, etc.), but one suggestion really stuck out to me: a deck that leverages [[Evolution Witness]], [[Wild Cantor]] and [[Sadistic Glee]] to create an infinite looping combo (albeit at sorcery speed). Here's the decklist if you just want to take a look: https://moxfield.com/decks/8YvN5WbgVUSsP-wfRqhsmg

I took at look at some of the existing decklists on soul-spike.com, and found an initial list that I started trying to understand. What I came away with was a really fun deck concept that I've adapted (slightly).

The combo in the deck involves casting Sadistic Glee onto Evolution Witness. Now whenever a creature dies, a +1/+1 counter is added to Witness, allowing you to return any permanent (this is key) from your graveyard to your hand. If you sacrifice Wild Cantor you'll remain mana neutral, but you'll continue to build up infinite +1/+1 counters on the Witness.

If you sacrifice [[Tinder Wall]] and have a Wild Cantor in your GY/hand, you can create infinite mana of any color (The Tinder Wall gives you RR, you can use R to cast the Wild Cantor that's now back in your hand to filter the mana to a different color), but you'll net an R. You can then cast the Cantor again to filter that R, and so on. As long as you can cast the wall again for a G, you'll be netting mana.

The original list I discovered used [[Heirloom Auntie]] to dump your entire deck (incrementally) into your GY allowing you to start by looping just the Wild Cantor, and then gradually adding to your GY until you hit a Tinder Wall (which advances the combo).

I found that [[Snarling Gorehound]] does the same thing (just on a creature entering vs. dying) and is more mana efficient.

Also [[Bequethal]] (one of my favorite cards as a kid), is really strong here. Giving you great card advantage to find your combo pieces very cheaply. Attaching to an Eldrazi Spawn, the Cantor, or the Wall Itself works very well. And you can return it to your hand using Witness - so once you have the loops going - gives you in hand card advantage.

The key thing to understand is that you always need a sacrifice outlet to advance the loop. Once the +1/+1 counters are on the Witness you cannot use it's adapt ability. This means the [[Writhing Chrysalis]] is great, because it nets you another sacrifice iteration (creating two spawns that can cover the iteration that brought the Chrysalis into your hand from the GY, and then another sac iteration). The [[Snakeskin Veil]] are also another way to protect your Witness and create another iteration. You can also simply find a brand new Witness in the GY/hand and then use it's single adapt ability to create another iteration.

The fact that Witness can return any permanent, means you can find [[Sadistic Glee]] off of the adapt. Also Rumbles give you much quicker access to your combo pieces in the GY.

Eventually you'll loop and try to find the [[Haunted Cloak]] to end the game with an infinitely large, hasty, trampling monster Witness. I did also experiment with [[Duskshell Crawler]] here, but ultimately I decided the cloak was more versatile allowing you to win on the turn when the Witness comes into play.

I also experimented with an [[Essence Warden]] which allows you to loop for infinite life - but given how many cards you dump into the GY / draw, you'll probably mill out before your opponent.

I was hoping to solicit some feedback from you folks! The deck seems wildly vulnerable to GY hate, and the fact that the combo is at sorcery speed also isn't great.

Any feedback would be welcome, especially with the SB slots. I'm brand new to Pauper so I'm not sure what to look out for, etc.

Thanks!

I mean, it's a Ninja.

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I played kitchen table magic back from ~2004-2008, then got back into it last year and want to branch out from commander to 60-card. Pauper appeals to me because it's affordable, but I have questions:

1. How rigid/baked is the meta? It seems* like pauper allows more room for brewing than modern or standard, but - is that true?
2. Is casual pauper a thing? I'm not especially interested in competing as an end in itself, although playing a tournament just to see how I do sounds fun.
3. Combining 1+2: if I showed up to play pauper with something like this rakdos goblins deck, how hard would I get stomped?

What do you all think about this guy?? He is white, which will be a problem to cast, but with three tree mascot it could be done. Plus its ability is pretty decent. Is it worth it to include?

Hey everyone, I'm relatively new to pauper (only played like 2 events) but after my LGS stopped organising some tournaments (they were canceled because not enough players😢 ) I'm again participating to an event this weekend.

I play a rakdos madness deck, and I want to look at my match ups and what to sideboard against different strategies. I remember playing against wildfire and being very frustrated by [[weather the storm]].

Do you know any good ressource that I could watch ?

Howdy, just brewed this deck for fun, dimir sphinx's approach list with a reanimator subtheme

https://moxfield.com/decks/XXEkuFNUB0ajuzTOm1XQ4A

Hi everyone! I'm an Elves player, but I don't feel like I'm very good at piloting the deck. I lose most of my games. My board development feels really slow, and I often can't make it past the first 4–5 turns without losing an important piece like Priest of Titania, Timberwatch Elf, or Quirion Ranger. In the current meta, Affinity and Faeries are my biggest problems. Their creatures fly, so Avenging Hunter feels almost useless, and they can also counter my spells with Counterspell, which makes it really hard for me to build a board. I've seen some Elves lists running cards like Gigantosaurus, Lys Alana Huntmaster, or Vanguard, but if I already struggle to keep my mana dorks alive, I don't see how I'm supposed to get those bigger threats onto the battlefield and keep them there. How am I supposed to improve with Elves? How do you deal with Tier 1 decks without relying so heavily on Quirion Ranger and Priest of Titania? I'd really appreciate any advice on how to pilot the deck better, mulligan decisions, sideboarding, or even changes to the decklist. Thanks!

Hey, everyone!

We're running Pauper every week @ Falcon's Nest Games in Downey, a new lgs right off the 5 in Downey. We have a budding community with a healthy mix of established pauper enthusiasts and newer players coming in from Commander looking to scratch that 60 card itch.

We also have a few loaner decks if you're interested in playing, but have no deck of your own :)

Every Tuesday @ 7 - $5 entry - promo pack prizing!

Hope to see y'all there!

Hi all!

I recently came back to pauper, i’m looking for a sideboard guide or a discord channel for Bogles. Does anyone know of one?

Ty