ive been working on this steelfin combo deck for about 3 months now, been playing it mostly on endstep and in my locals where ive had around a 60-65% winrate and ive also top8'd a 64 played tournament with it.
would love to here if anyone has any suggenstions of ideas of things to add/change about the list

We just launched our website socalpauper.com in the hopes that we can populate the calendar with as many pauper events as possible and provide a hub for pauper players to look up where to meet, make friends, keep up to date with magic news, lookup card legalities and prices, life counter and more! We really hope this helps build up a thriving community for arguably the best competitive format in magic! please feel free to join our discord through the link provided as well if you want to play digitally through endstep.cc or MTGO!

I'm starting on the format and turbofog has completely amazed me, so I'm trying to build one.

I've heard some people talking about the BG version of turbofog but couldn't find any list, so what's it like? It's better than the UG, how does it win and it's viable in the current meta?

Hi, all. My LGS is having a pauper event. I'm not a regular pauper player but I thought it might be fun. A friend of mine warned me it would be very competitive, so I got a bit intimidated. I still want to try it, though. I'm trying to build a fun but solid pauper deck and thought zombies would be cool. I'm looking for guidance to make it stronger or any suggestions. Any help is appreciated!

https://archidekt.com/decks/27861966/zombombies

1x A.I.M. Labs (msh)

1x Advanced Stitchwing (2x2) [Recursion]

1x Armored Skaab (isd) [Mill]

2x Carrion Feeder (ema) [Sac Outlet]

2x Counterspell (cmm) [Removal]

2x Crawl from the Cellar (inr) [Recursion]

4x Defile (mh1) [Removal]

1x Dimir Signet (frc) [Ramp]

1x Dismal Backwater (tdm)

2x Dregscape Zombie (mm3) [Recursion]

1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel (plst) [Drain]

1x Haunted Cadaver (ons) [Discard]

6x Island (trk) 320

1x Lotleth Giant (cmm) [Finisher]

2x Nightscape Familiar (dmr) [Ramp]

2x Project Deathlok Soldier (msh) [Recursion]

2x Shambling Ghast (j25) [Ramp]

2x Sibsig Appraiser (tdm) [Draw]

1x Sinister Hideout (spm)

1x Soured Springs (otj)

1x Spellweaver Eternal (hou) [Pump]

17x Swamp (trk) 322

2x Vedalken Ghoul (arb) [Drain]

4x Wretched Throng (inr)

The Pauper format has gained new additions with the Zeta set, opening up new builds. In today's article, I'll present a different Faeries build that only became possible thanks to the addition of one of the most powerful cards the format has ever had.

All the fours, droopy drawers

This week I’m with the cats talking Pauper

Comments on the Ban announcement

If Pioneer Masters were Pauper legal

Brewing 101, starting with Unflinching Hortimancer, go !

#mtgpauper
#paupermtg

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0FoICKFFYIB1rNpBHoXaTg

Any thoughts of a Black Artifact Aggro Deck? Could this be worth it.

We could play [[Myr Enforcer]], [[Frog Mite]], [[Dross Golem]], and [[Refurbished Familiar]] as heavy hitters for the deck.

Match 2 of last week's league night is now out for everyone to watch! Remember, channel members get to watch all 4 matches early! ;)

Today we have Theodora on Temur Monster Tron up against Alexis on Golgari Spy Combo!

📹 https://youtu.be/k5Km8w8gs4Q?si=UTqF3HAOB7SfqDA4

Enjoy!

I just started playing faeries a bit ago and it’s by far the hardest archetype I’ve played before. I was wondering if there is a faeries discord server for resources and people to talk to about piloting that deck. I just started playing UW and UR faeries and they’re so fun to play. But i definitely feel like I miss play a lot so any help would be great!

If anyone has some general advice on how to play faeries that would be awesome as well!

I‘m not exactly a high tide fan, but the new card [[Make it so]] certainly pushed a similar strategy. What do you think about this deck in the current meta? It doesn’t rely on creatures and even is able to tap down Campfires before going for the Stream of thought + MAKE IT SO kill by letting your opponent draw their last cards.

I came up with this list on the fly maybe you can help to push this nightmare of a combo deck.

Cold be good with bouncelands and tron lands?

Hey so I'm looking to make a green black version of gruul monsters and I'm wondering what are some of the big bombs that black could provide to make the deck worth it ?

I’m building a Rakdos sack deck as an off Meta deck and I need some car draw ideas.
I have:
[[village rites]]
[[corrupted conviction]]
[[Sign in blood]]

Is there anything better than these out there in Rakdos?

Last Saturday we ran the 5th PauperParty in Lahr (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): 44 players, 6 rounds of Swiss into a Top 8.

Top 8

Final: Roman beat Tom 2-0. Roman went 7-1-1 over the day. Winning decklist

Full standings (all 44 players)

Metagame (44 decks)

• Affinity (Esper/Grixis/other): 8 (18%)
• Faeries (Mono-U/Dimir/other): 5 (11%)
• Storm (Ruby/Cycling/Poison): 5 (11%)
• Tron (Flicker/Monster): 4 (9%)
• Burn: 3 (7%)
• Boros Moxite: 2
• One each: White Weenie, Bogles, Elves, Gates, Spy, Turbo Fog, Rakdos Madness, Jeskai Ephemerate, Mono-Black Sacrifice, Persistent Petitioners, Mono Red Aggro
• Unclassified/rogue: 6

Some observations

• Affinity was the most-played deck but put only one pilot into the Top 8. Grixis Affinity itself did well (67% match win rate over 21 matches). Esper Affinity was at 44%.
• Faeries had 5 pilots and none in the Top 8. Mono-U Faeries finished at 35%.
• The Top 8 had 8 different archetypes, and half of them were the only copy of their deck in the room (Spy, Turbo Fog, Cycling Storm, Jeskai Ephemerate).
• Blue Elemental Blast was in 21 of 44 sideboards, Red Elemental Blast and Pyroblast in 25 combined.
• Most-played maindeck cards: Vault of Whispers, Refurbished Familiar, Thoughtcast, Utrom Monitor, Counterspell. The Affinity share shows.

All decklists: https://planesforge.de/tournament/pauperparty-5-fire-ice-edition · Meta stats: https://planesforge.de/tournament/pauperparty-5-fire-ice-edition/meta

Thanks to everyone who came, and to our sponsors Lipplapp1 and Kobra Collect. See you at #6!

I know that with the recent decision on down-shifted Zeta set card a number of people are thinking about what else could also be down-shifted to common. Today I would like to propose 3 cards each for a different reason. I do not necessarily believe these examples should become common but they have some interesting reasons as to why they might work. So lets begin.

First and most controversial is Prismatic Vista.

I was thinking about fetch lands & pauper. The format currently has access to the landscapes, which have been an great edition to the format. That said building a two or more colour deck in pauper still requires a specified threshold of search and filter to achieve with consistency. I believe pauper is currently at a state where removing the clunky nature of building a deck that is more then one colour with out the addition of the aforementioned requirements would be of great benefit. Lastly, because of the wording only you may only search for basics & not cards with clear power band issues.

The second card is Treasure Mage.

I don't have some a number of reasons to express why Treasure Mage. I just do not think it would break the format at all while be a great addition for creative deck brewing. I have also heard a number of people over the years say "If only treasure mage was pauper legal".

Lastly, Path to Exile.

The reason for path is simple. I want it to be pauper legal to settle the argument once and for all that it is a ramp spell and not removal. We already have Dispatch and Skred so its not a power balance issue if path is a removal spell. But would it be to powerful as a ramp spell? Maybe.

Pauper metagame update.

source: magic4ever.com/pauper

Mono blue delver player here, I'm currently preparing for a big local pauper event, and I was curious if anybody had any suggestions for sideboarding, or playing against blue delver's weaker matchups, especially the following:

• White Weenies: Deck goes so wide against me that seeing [[Leonardo, Big Brother]] is inevitable, just tough to play through.
• Esper Affinity: The Zeta set additions of [[Baleful Strix]] and [[Dispatch]] are an insane nuisance to Terrors and Serpents
• Elves: Elves rolls out way too fast for mono blue lists to catch up, and by the time a single terror is down their engine is usually online. Anything to priotize countering or removing?
• Any Fairies variant but especially mono blue: The [[Cryoshatter]] + [[Sewer-Veillance Cam]] combo feels impossible to get through and they tempo so much better against me.
• Snacker Gates: Not much to say besides how consistent it is and how lifegain is so hard to keep up with.

I cannot find decent guides or resources online for blue delver despite how popular the deck is and how consistent of a mainstay it has been in the meta (been playing it for ~three years now) and its honestly kind of frustrating. No deck gets a perfect matchup where every opposing deck is favored, but I can't help but feel like its a death sentence every time I queue up against these lists before the game even starts.

Any tips or pointers to resources would be great, these match ups are always going to be rough for the list but I would love to learn about any tips and tricks I can before the big event.

Decklist for reference: https://moxfield.com/decks/FQ6p5XT04EqPC_jr9azGKw

Lo primero no sé si esto está permitido aquí, si no se puede pasad el bulldozer sin miramientos! Jejeje

Empezamos nueva etapa en el canal, hablando de este increíble formato de Magic the gathering, Pauper. En este nuestro primer video, hablamos de l liga de Benidorm, de los cambios en el formato por el Zeta ser, y de los baneos que curiosamente no nos han afectado (Baleful strix, te hablo a ti, si XD

https://youtube.com/live/2KNhSMlu_N4?feature=share

Esperamos que os guste!

I realise we've been a little quiet on the Reddit with these the past few weeks! But we're back now, huzzah!

Kicking it off with Ellen on Zubera Storm vs last league's winner, Tom on Mono-Black Sacrifice!

📹 : https://youtu.be/aI8nlP6_k9w?si=Icmdozpmy_bWIj1H

Enjoy! 🐻

Back when I was playing grixis affinity I made these alters for my deck, now I'm on esper and I think they're not so good? But then again I haven't been doing very well with the deck in big tournaments so perhaps I do need them. A couple friends have been playing them and they're not great in the mirror but of course 0 mana 4/4 is good!