Darksteel Angel's live now. Should be an update in the next couple days.

rtdfjyghc Good switch. I don't play competitive at all, but I want to try it.

Mortlocke I think that if you have a regular group, and that the regular group knows and trusts each other, and your group disagrees with the bans, then you can completely ignore them. In fact, if you're starting a casual match with people who aren't in your group, you should be able to say something like "I know it's on the banlist, but I have Jeweled Lotus in this deck. Is everyone okay if I use it?" If everyone else is on board, great! If not, well, make sure you have a backup card.

This is only for casual play, of course. In an organized tournament, follow the tournament rules. But I've used pre-established illegal Modern cards in casual games without any consequences, I have kind of a meme deck on here that's 100% made from the Modern banlist, and I don't think EDH would be any different.

As long as everyone agrees, go ahead and use the cards. I won't tell the RC.

Welcome to the club, TakenHPLossB4!

Welcome decks are a good way to get started with your own deck. How much have you played? Have you tried using different colors or strategies, and if you have, which ones do you like?

Made_Compleat Perfect card, and I've been thinking about getting back into that game. Never made it all the way through on a run.

I've done a little casual tinkering, but I'm not going to call myself a Pauper expert. I mostly run off guesswork and what looks fun in the moment.

Maybe just move the Gray Merchants to the sideboard for burn decks, so you don't lose to your own Shepherds in a damage race. Artifacts/affinity decks tend to be popular, but I'm not sure what there is besides the Wrench Minds.

Sneaky Snacker comes and goes, so some graveyard interaction might also help. Something like Vile Rebirth or Shamble Back.

Yeah, looks like that works, using the +1. Trying to work out how it interacts with Raging River. You need three blockers per sector. If Ghost of Ramirez DePietro attacks in alpha, the three defenders there still needs to split. You need six defenders per sector. So if I'm doing the math right, Raging River + Space Beleren requires 18x potential blockers to make sure every sector/river split has three available blockers.

Got it. Missed the Cabal Therapy interaction, that makes sense. I should have seen that, I'm trying to learn Legacy Dredge. Thanks for explaining, and glad I could help!

Underworld Cerberus needs to die to get the recursion. Undercity Informer lets you sacrifice it, but then you need another creature to sac to it to mill your deck. I would switch it for Garna, the Bloodflame for some more consistency. And your opponent doesn't get the recursion, which might make a difference in some matchups.

Done. Will try it out at soonest opportunity. Now I just need a more original name for this thing. And a sideboard.

Any thoughts on Diregraf Horde instead of Gray Merchant of Asphodel? I think you have enough direct life loss with the Gempalm Polluters and Shepherd of Rots, and the Horde offers three bodies to support those cards, or fodder for Corrupted Conviction and Village Rites for a final push.

Balaam__ I'm sold on Gurmag Angler, but I'm still working on the proportion of creatures to removal. Any recommendations for what to switch out?

Always discard. Can't hurt me if you got nothing to hurt me with. And since there's enough discard, discard punishers, and small-hand punishers, I'm going to in a Locust Miser direction.

Swarm of Misery

Creature - Insect

Flying

Each player's maximum hand size is three.

1/2

Wild. If you need ideas, here's a randomizer. All rolls are six-sided dice (d6).

First roll is mana value.

Second roll is color. 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-multicolor, roll again twice.

Third roll is card type. 1-creature, 2-instant, 3-sorcery, 4-enchantment, 5-artifact, 6-your choice.

Fourth roll is effect. 1-removal, 2-noncombat wincon (burn, mill, "you win the game", etc.), 3-scry/surveil, 4-combat pump/buff, 5-resource gain (ramp, lifegain, draw, etc.), 6-your choice.

rtdfjyghc Took the time for a quick skim. First note is that Iona, Shield of Emeria + Painter's Servant shuts down the instants and sorceries like Mists of Lorien and Ruinous Rampage. What did you have in mind to make Pinnacle Starcage enter or False Prophet die, and what's the intent of Mischievous Quanar? I'll have to see how Rooms interact with this.

But overall, good thoughts, and I'll see how those pillows/breakers can be incorporated/prevented.

rtdfjyghc If I didn't want my life ruined like this, I wouldn't be begging for it. I'm going to take a deep look at this as soon as Darksteel Angel goes live. But a quick skim of your list gives me some early thoughts and ideas. Seriously, though, this is good stuff, and you gave Technically still blockable a lot of help.

Sounds good, thanks! I'll check out Moxfield and see how it feels next to Archidekt, like you said, explore a little bit, see what I like.

I just kind of archived a bunch of decks on Archidekt. I'm not planning on moving there full time yet, but does it have the any kind of forum setup or deck commenting system? Any good tips or tricks for the site? How about Moxfield?

moo1234 I think the best wording depends if you want the generic Food life gain ability to cost , or if all activated abilities of all Food tokens should cost . Something like if you're making token copies of Dubious Delicacy, should the life loss ability also cost .

moo1234 I think the best wording depends if you want the generic Food life gain ability to cost , or if all activated abilities of all Food tokens should cost . Something like if you're making token copies of Dubious Delicacy, should the life loss ability also cost .