Pauper "Battle Box"
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Posted on Sept. 8, 2020, 9:40 a.m. by JTetris11
Hey everyone! I am currently building a "Battle Box" (I hope to finish at 8 decks) with Pauper decks I can introduce people to the format with and have a good time doing so. Any suggestions of staples of the Pauper format I need to include? So far I have:
What other decks would you suggest? Thanks for your help!
RNR_Gaming Do you have a link to a decklist of Acid Trip you could recommend? I have seen and am familiar with the Mono Black lists, but I this is the first time I have heard of Acid Trip.
September 8, 2020 3:22 p.m.
RNR_Gaming says... #6
Its probably dated by now but it was fun when I played it awhile back
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/playing-pauper-acid-trip
September 8, 2020 3:30 p.m.
RNR_Gaming Thanks! It looks sweet, "dated" or not (in my opinion). Thanks for the suggestion!
September 8, 2020 6:52 p.m.
You could search the web for pauper top 8 decklists, or something like that and get some pretty cool decks. That would be your best bet to find viable, tuned, fun decks to play. You'd end up with things like:
- Mono-R goblins
- Mono-G (splash U) Elves
- Mono-R burn
- Mono-B control
- UR Blitz
- Tron
...and UB delver and Mono-G stompy as well.
As someone who plays mostly pauper but all kitchen table/casual, I would say you might also want to look into such decks as:
- White Weenies
- GB Reanimator
- UB control
- RG aggro
- actually basically any guild pairing makes a decent deck, especially from RTR block, imho
- BR sacrifice
- BR trigger-upon-creature-death
- Bloodbriar
I hope at least some of that helps. =)
September 8, 2020 11 p.m.
Also, I just want to add that in my personal opinion, I found the Mono-G Elves and UR Blitz decks most fun to play.
September 8, 2020 11:12 p.m.
Gattison Dude ... You're like a living manifestation of Accumulated Knowledge! This is awesome, thank you! I certainly want to have some version of Mono-Red in this box, I'm leaning towards Burn since goblins might feel/play similar to Mono Green (aka small creatures with combat tricks, aggro punch).
I think you're right about Tron as well, just too important in the format to ignore. So that leaves me with 3 slots. Soo many cool things to do in Pauper! You have given me plenty to think about/consider, thank you new friend!
September 9, 2020 10:10 a.m.
JTetris11: lol, thanks, and no problemo! Pauper is my favorite format by far and I've been playing it happily for a few years now. Brewing crazy stuff like a maniac. >D Glad I could help!
I agree burn is probably the best option for mono-red. You get to use Lightning Bolt and stuff, which is always awesome.
I don't consider myself an expert on it, but I know a lot about pauper, so feel free to hit me up with any more questions in the future.
Have fun!
September 9, 2020 6:17 p.m.
Gattison what would you say was your favorite guild to build a pauper deck for, and why?
September 12, 2020 1:27 a.m.
JTetris11: I'll have to say Rakdos. Red and Black are my two favorite colors, and sacrifice-themed decks have always been a personal favorite. Exploring the great many ways red and black can sacrifice, or even discard things, and still take advantage of the "loss" has been super fun. But that's all due to personal taste, of course.
September 13, 2020 7:24 p.m.
fatalzintomyum says... #14
This looks so fun! This has actually made my day, and i'll do anything I can to help. I was just thinking about how wizard's support of pauper has been lackluster at best, and i was thinking all sorts of crazy things, like pauper only sets. This though could be an actual pauper product that I could imagine happening. in other formats like Modern, legacy, or even standard, it is very difficult to do this, for such a kit, even one with just a couple of decks, would be hundreds or thousands of dollars, which is just totally unattainable. However, in pauper, 3 decks, perhaps powered down ones, could be sold for 100 dollars or less. Thinking that you might have an emphasis on multiplayer, here is my advice.
TLDR: This is a great idea.
Delver-It would be a hard call to try and have a box like this without delver, but for multiplayer it might have to be adulterated a bit. the counter package might want to be dialed down a tad, but cards like Thorn of the Black Rose and also more card draw might be in order in order for it to compete in a multiplayer setting.
Tron-I think tron would do well in a slower multiplayer game. Of course it is a decently customization deck, so perhaps a version with a really big payoff would be good. I think
affinity-probably my favorite affinity of any format, this is also probably the most applicable to multi player play. Compared to other pauper decks, the deck has some pretty big creatures, even ones such as Somber Hoverguard, which happens to be a personal favorite. I think that with a bit more card draw the deck might be a real force, one that comes out of the gates quickly but has enough big creatures to remain in the game. because of this, you might actually want to power down this archetype a tad bit, perhaps putting Frogmite over an indisputably better multiplayer card like Myr Enforcer Of course, only testing will tell.
Land destruction-This might be more applicable as more of a ramp deck, because land destruction will kill tron in a multiplayer game and die to everything else, but Entourage of Trest and some of the new cards from commander legends (the cascade one that I cannot remember) can really make a sort of dreadmaw stompy deck that would be really fun.
Mono-green aggro-I can imagine games where this archetype would kill everybody quickly, leveraging the damage dealt by other decks to kill each player, until the remaining player(s) are left facing a pretty big board with no way to deal with it. I can imagine other games where a couple of creatures are not enough and the green deck is not able to kill quickly enough to race the more powerful strategies of other decks, consider Lead the Stampede as a way to get back into games.
finally...Bloodbriar- this feels like the epitome of the sort of pauper decks you are looking for in the longer games. it grinds like crazy, and I think that its massive creatures with wreak havoc if carefully placed among flying removal spells. This archetyp eis not one i have had much experience with, but after testplaying I can put the fatalzintomyum seal on how disgusting it would be in this playstyle.
TLDR:You don't gain much if you didn't read this, I guess
I will continue to follow this thread with quite a bit of interest, and there might be some more very long comments incoming.
JTetris11 says... #2
DeinoStinkus That sounds cool! Do you have any recommended decklists I should check out? I haven't seen/heard of this deck yet.
September 8, 2020 12:22 p.m.