Pauper Lands and Friends
Pauper
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Understanding the deck after testing —Feb. 3, 2019
Elvish Pioneer did not work. Neither did Groundskeeper. They did little to game play compared to Coiling Oracle and Growth Spiral. After much play testing, the deck seems to be a strange mid-range deck. It can Side in Basking Rootwallas and mutagenic growth to make it faster and can side in Gut Shot, Choking Vines, and Viridian Longbow to slow it down against aggro decks. The second thing is that Harvest Worm can get stranded in your hand if you do not have a basic land in the bin. To help alleviate this, Wild Mongrels were added as 4 additional ways of dropping lands into the bin. The deck is decently complicated to play. Knowing when to discard lands, when to deploy Scyth Tiger is where I make mistakes. For example, deploying the tiger on turn 1, ditching your only forest for a few turns can be, very unfortunate and game ending. Or Gushing being able to gush two islands to hand, discarding them to the hound to unlock Harvest wurms in your hand to discard the island again to the dog can be hard to detect. This makes me feel stupid quite often.
Mutagenic Growth looks awesome!! It totally slipped my memory! Thank you.
Gattison says... #1
Cool deck! Elvish Pioneer is a cool-looking card, but I agree he's hard to work with. Bonus points for trying though, because I've tried to use him in a couple decks before, too.
Do you think something like Mutagenic Growth or Slip Through Space would help avoid problem creatures? Or maybe a simple Unsummon that could bounce your cheap creatures to be recast, and also work as removal?
January 25, 2019 11:57 a.m.