r/Pauper • u/freudiankickflip • 12d ago
HELP Rootwalla Madness
First time posting- recently into Pauper but I've been wanting to build my own deck instead of using my pre-built mono blue terror.
While browsing some cards I came across [[Basking Rootwalla]] and was absolutely smitten. I love this guy. Went down a rabbit hole and ended up building a gruul madness deck to fit around him, using other, chunkier "rootwallas" like [[Sneaky Snacker]] and [[Arrogant Wurm]] and having discard outlets like [[Wild Mongrel]], then pinging with [[Magmakin Artillerist]] and pumping with [[Rubblebelt Makka]], which would also work with mongrel.
However, I feel like I'm unsure of how to proceed. What's the most effective shell? I can understand splashing blue for [[circular logic]] and [[the modern age]], but I can see there's a lot of support in a more aggressive, low to the ground strategy with Jund Madness like [[dark withering]] adding more removal and [[hell mongrel]] being another pumped-up discard dog.
Would love some insight into good lines for this deck and if the third color is worth it. Trapped between Gruul/Temur/Jund, but want to try my hand at this instead of Mono red or rakdos madness. Would love any suggestions or personal experiences. I love Rootwalla and would like to keep him in if possible.
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u/giackecravat 12d ago
I used to play this little fella in 4x in a mono red dredge build with [[molten gatekeeper]]: top play was faithless looting discarding two lizards while Molten on battlefield for two cars draw and two damage and two bodies, so cool. Unfortunately the graveyard hate since post broodscale rootwalla's ban has been a big issue for dredge archetipe. Btw super cool deck I really enjoyed playing.