Pauper Ponza
Pauper
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Update —Aug. 14, 2019
Changes Before ELD's Time Vault Games Pauper Open - Aug 17th 2019
Okay, so this comes with me finally jumping into MTGO. The word on blue's and Tireless Tribe's demise is a false one. If Tribe continues to pick up, I may rethink on adding back Serrated Arrows to the removal suite.
Removed:
2x Ash Barrens
2x Wild Growth
1x Firebolt
1x Earth Rift
2x Flame Slash
1x Tormod's Crypt
1x Swirling Sandstorm
Added:
2x Mountain
2x Tinder Wall
2x Lightning Bolt
2x Burst Lightning
1x Return to Nature
1x Electrickery
Description
Ash Barrens - It's a good card no doubt when it comes to color fixing. But I noticed that it always is used to fetch a mountain. It's rare that I ever use this to fetch a forest with this. So why spend 1 mana for a mountain when I can spend 0 mana on an actual mountain?
Tinder Wall - looking back on my mana ramp suite, I left this card out originally because it did not fit in well with arbor elf + forest. Playing with just utopia sprawl and wild growth, I've come to feel that past the early game, the extra enchantments rotted in my hand to later get cycled with faithless looting. I may have been wrong about Tinder Wall being more than a ritual that didn't fit in with arbor elf. It has a nice 3 toughness and it also has the ability to remove x/2 creatures that it blocks. This has helped save some early aggression.
I took down a few of my flashback spells for 2 Lightning Bolt because I've come to realize that sorcery speed removal doesn't always cut it against the threats I see across the table. Some creatures even have 3 toughness and that makes firebolt a bit sad.
As I mentioned before it really hurt to see sorcery speed removal in my hand. So I'm trading Flame Slash for Burst Lightning. I still want to remove x/4 creatures at instant speed and I'm not yet sold on Magmatic Sinkhole because it's not a guarantee my grave will be stocked.
Speaking of, I always manage to draw into a Swirling Sandstorm with no threshold enabled. And that makes me sad.
I'm giving Return to Nature a try because I still respect the graveyard, but I also feel like a single Reverent Silence may not be enough to fight enchantment heavy decks.