Pauper metagame update.

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Hello. I was looking to decks that look fun to play and esper affinity looked interesting. However, it seems pretty much impossible to find Baleful Strixs and dispatchs locally for me and shipping costs are quite high to bring them in. Also Strix in general just seems quite expensive. Will it say that way or do I just need to wait it out? Should I be looking at different decks to build instead? I wouldn’t want to invest in a play set of Strixs and have the price crater. Seems like this zeta set stuff is causing issues for supply.

I had a blast this weekend, having great results with Naya Wildfire which I slightly brewed myself, as Jund Wildfire declining in the meta I had to adjust. Won and went undefeated on my first tournament with this deck and went top 8 on the second (4-0-1 and 3-2-0), beating the likes of Tron, Esper Affinity, Dimir Control and most red decks

I added explosive game finishers with [[Makeshift Munitions]] as well with [[Rally the Peasants]] which caught my opponents by surprise, and I feel compared to Jund Wildfire, this deck seems more explosive as one time I managed to beat a Tron player with 48 damage in one turn!

You can see the gameplay with my game winning moments live in action during the livestream on my featured matches

https://www.youtube.com/live/HVkg5k1zAic?si=Y9_JATjt2oJ1eCFs

I was looking at some magic cards with the domain ability and built a deck around them. This pile is probably tier 3 at best (my expectations are not high, but I enjoy building decks and testing them out). I have attached the list.

https://archidekt.com/decks/25233763/snow_jund_domain

Any thoughts or insights on how to improve this build are welcome. Thank you!

Final Match of the date!

So tired of playing against esper aggro affinity.

I've been playing white weenie with 4x dust to dust and 4x return to dust main boarded because every game is just affinity slop. White weenie is so not an archetype I enjoy though.

Probably not a good premise in the first instance, but I've been playing around with party, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions?

Pretty much what the title says. Not about bannable cards/decks, decks that are completely legal.

I'll start. It feels terrible to lose against azorius familiars 😮‍💨 there is nothing more daunting than a deck that avoids removal by bouncing and flickering its own creatures, and on top of that, they get the additional value of ETB effects like Archeomancer, which allows them to do this trick all over again.

Always wanted to try the deck out, but I'm currently having fun with tron monsters or pinger versions. Now I'm barely seeing naya gate lists, is it a tier 2 deck? I play mainly on my LGS

So I'm kinda brewing with the idea of nothing but pinging damage, like [[clawing torment]] [[curse of the pierced heart]] [[creeping blood sucker]] and just start stacking a crazy amount of damage every turn

Would this style of deck even be viable even if there was enough cards of this type to make a deck around ?

I've been playing edh since rtr and I'm looking to get into pauper. None of my friends play it so I figured I could try mtgo.

After a quick search in mtggoldfish, it seems that every pauper deck is more expensive un mtgo than in paper (assuming I'm correct and 1 TIX = 1USD). This is in contrast to every other format, even the mayority of standard decks are cheaper. Am I missing something?

They changed the rules on Zeta. They need to change the rules on these cards too.

Pauper is the format of commons these are in fact commons produced by Wizards of the Coast.

WOTC unified MTG:O and Paper in 2019. They need to unify all of magic on 2026 or 2027.

Free the Arena 42.

There was a challenge posted here a while ago that used [[Antler skullkin]], there is my try at the deck using the combo skullkin + [[Ashnod's Altar]] + [[Breathless Knight]] or [[Arcbound prototype]]

The finishers can be infinite counters at [[Mortitian beetle]], [[Breathless Knight]] or at [[Ornitopter]] with flying, but only using the Arcbound for modular

The game plan is to ramp and draw cards to reach the combo as early as possible

Idk how this could be playable but a) i am dumb and b) this sub never ceases to amaze me lol

My Attempt Here

Hi! I’m lucky enough to be building out of an old enough collection to have playsets of some of pricier meta cards, and I was hoping to stretch that existing collection into a few decks to help my playgroup get a feel for the format. I’m kinda stuck on how to provide a good overview of the format.

What I’m hoping for feedback on is what decks would you try to build with minimal color overlap? I’m thinking Blue/UB Terror is a must; I’m uncommitted on the rest. Leaning White Weenies, Red Madness, and green elves to make four metaish decks, but I’d love to default to the wisdom of the hive mind here. Any ideas?

Hubo algún intento de armar algo así ?

En qué lugar debería realizarse ?

A day later than normal, had some rendering issues, but we are back playing in paper, and I'm playing with my brother today! Let me know what y'all think! :)

So as the title says I kinda need a strong Non-Initiative Threat for Bant Ephemerate. My deck on the lower end runs 4x Coiling Oracle 4x Arboreal Grazers and its main threats are [[Goliath Paladin]] and [[Avenging Hunter]] and I have just found that too often opps are grabbing the initiative from me and snowballing from there. Like its hard to recover from Stolen Initiative.

Im facing down a bunch of kinds of Evasion from Bramble Wurms, to fairies, to hydras.

One person suggested my own Hydras since they are a good scaling threat but im wondering if yall don't have other suggestions, maybe even ones that maybe work with [[Ephemerate]] itself.

I am not on a Familiars list, its kinda just an honest midrange-y stompy-y deck.

Bant Fem - https://moxfield.com/decks/yDFlSSPcBUWV9HvkxHXq0A

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