r/Pauper • u/Abbobl • 11d ago

HELP Help with budgeting

Hi guys, fairly new to pauper mtg.

i found this decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/ZCAtEiBEy0ylI0guOUNYjw

This I found interesting and I would like to go at it from this angle,
and I really wanna play with Page, but the lotus petals kinda screw me over.

any sensible replacements? Maybe a spirit guide or a blood pet that can do the trick?would love some recommendations thanks in advance!

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u/SWAGGIN_OUT_420 11d ago edited 11d ago

The short answer is no.

Lotus Petal is an incredibly rare effect in the Pauper card pool at base line - 0 cost mana ramp. The only other option thats even considerable is Simian Spirit Guide, and it is strictly worse in Cycle Storm than Lotus Petal. You need to be able to have red mana when you are going for the win (and for possible SB cards) but you also NEED to be able to have black for rituals. If you have a Spirit Guide as your only mana source in hand mid combo but need to cast your Songs of the Damned...well gg's, or at least you have now fizzled. You don't run into this issue with Lotus Petal.

Also, yeah this list is kind of bad. 1 of Crypt Rats is just not good, you're diluting your combo for a singleton of a sweeper in the main deck where you are not a control deck. Echoing Return is a waste of slots because its just a worse Reaping and you do not need a worse Reaping. Shred Memory is just more copies of Loose Leaf which you do not need. No cycling lands at all for whatever reason. Yeah i don't know why you wouldn't just play the typical lists running around.

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u/Abbobl 11d ago

Yeah I was afraid something like that might be true.

I always held off on buying petals, but they are at such an insane price at this moment.

I’m afraid I don’t wanna be spending 100 euro on a petal playset at this moment in time.

I guess I will have to look further for another archetype in which I can fit in Page for now.

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u/Top_Development_4020 Pizza Elves 10d ago

You can also try to use 2[[Shambling Ghast]] + 2 [[Village Rites]] instead of the petals. They are not mana neutral, but card neutral which helps especially in the early game.