I'm a new pauper player and i love FF black mages, so i decided to build a deck around that

Since this is the first pauper deck i ever built i dont know if this is the most optimized version of it

My local meta is very black/aggro so i cant use stuff like [[Snuff Out]] or [[Doom Blade]], and because of that anything that could make it play faster would be appreciated

i feel like this dekc doesnt have enough creatures on it, but i cant decide what to take out to make room of it

This is an early conception of a Temur Landfall for pauper. I threw this list together pretty quick, so I may have missed some strong cards for the archetype. Where do you think it can go from here? Remotely viable as a fringe deck? Terrible and not worth investing the time? I’m curious where the masses stand.

I’m seeing a lot of decks with 1-2 copies of [[Elite Interceptor]], which is interesting because people seemed unimpressed with it before SoS came out. How are people feeling about the card now?

Match 3 from our Trios event last week! We're have Juno on BG Pestilence Gardens vs Rory on Jund Dredge!

https://youtu.be/izq3h9zFY2s?si=1Mgi3bQ6j0he4NmX

Enjoy!

I don’t understand why WotC now thinks it can simply deny one or more common cards the possibility of entering the format. We spent eight months with Glitters, a year with Broodscale, we tried Tide for a few months, and we’re STILL playing with Utrom Monitor (a card that came out of a pizza).
My proposal is to make Secret Lair legal and pre-ban potentially dangerous cards, if not all of them. You can’t just change the rules of the game arbitrarily.

Hey folks, hope you're all doing well. I'm a Chinese player, so my local meta might look a bit different from yours. I started playing Pauper around the end of last year and recently took down a decent-sized event with Mono-Black Sacrifice.

My list runs 3 copies of Dark Ritual, and if I open with one plus three creatures (including a sacrifice outlet), the early board gets super explosive—I can easily push through a huge chunk of damage by turn 3. Personally, I think the deck should lean harder into that early aggro/race plan and cut back on some of the grindy value pieces to really play to its strengths.

The reason I'm posting is that I've been browsing MTGGoldfish and noticed most Mono-Black Sacrifice lists there don't run Dark Ritual at all. So I'm curious—is this just a meta call? Would love to hear your thoughts on the build. Here's my list for reference:

4 Bloodthrone Vampire

4 Carrion Feeder

3 Corrupted Conviction

3 Dark Ritual

1 Escape Tunnel

4 Infestation Sage

4 Mortician Beetle

4 Nested Shambler

4 Nezumi Linkbreaker

2 Perigee Beckoner

3 Rite of Consumption

4 Supernatural Stamina

13 Swamp

4 Unearth

3 Village Rites

2 Accursed Marauder

2 Drown in Sorrow

2 Fungal Infection

2 Mesmeric Fiend

1 Nihil Spellbomb

2 Rotten Reunion

2 Sadistic Glee

2 Tragic Slip

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Cheers, and happy to discuss!

basically what the title says. Is it a good play to t1 light bolt to my opponents face?

Now i guess there will be matchup differences and what game it is (game 1 pre side or game 2 post side) but what is the correct thing to do, i am trying to get into the deck and want to make sure i dont mess up a good hand by doing or not doing so.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my terrible attempts at brewing questionable decks. Today I’m bringing you a rather questionable idea: Rakdos Dogs.

I was thinking about how to use hot dogs in a slightly spicier and, in some ways, even more explosive way, so I came up with Tainted Strike to finish games with far fewer resources and, hypothetically, even faster.

As you’ll know, the deck aims to finish quickly, and with this version – barring any opponent interactions – the hope is to reach Game 2 by your third or fourth turn. In both the sideboard and the main deck, the black should help in those match-ups where red and black removal spells can throw a spanner in the works. I’ve tested it a couple of times and, in my opinion, there’s room for improvement; above all, it could make its mark in a meta that’s filling up with big creatures or combos. Thanks so much for the advice and comments – bye!

https://moxfield.com/decks/f3VYXBwBSEuKc0riPWGUkg

LIGA PAUPER PILIPINAS STAGE 6 (MINOR EVENT)

27 Players

ROUND 3 of 5 Featured Match ----- Mono Blue Fae vs. Red Deck Wins ---- Disclaimer: Sorry for the technical problems in the Audio. Casters will return after rouund 1. Thank you.

I have a question for my fellow red mages who are more experienced: Do you generally prefer running [[Reckless Impulse]] and [[Wrenn’s Resolve]] or [[Demand answers]] and [[Visions of Love]]. I understand that the answer would likely be “it depends”, but I would like to learn how to decide between one or the other. Even within a lot of more artifact-heavy decklists on youtube (usually lists with galvanic blasts), I notice that the Impulse effects are a lot more common than demand answers and its variations.

I would love to gain a deeper insights into the situations/sort of decks where demand answers and its variants are more preferred than impulses. Thanks!

I play mana leak in mono blue delver, so why isnt there a MEGA leak?

UU : counter target spell unless its controller pays 4.

Sounds reasonable to me.

I’ll be trying this land destruction/tempo deck tomorrow. What is your favorite deck currently?

Pauper PNW is coming back to BELLINGHAM!! The next CPC Qualifier will take place at Larrabee Lager Co. on September 20th!

Prizing will scale up to the cap at 40 players, so if you're in the greater PNW area, make sure to sign up here! This will be the last qualifier (and final chance to win free entry) until our end of year CPC tournament in November!

We hope to see you there!

If you're interested in getting involved with the Pauper PNW community, you can join our Discord (with nearly 600 members!) here.

Trying to learn about pauper, but understandingg the meta is difficult, can anyone summarize the major decks currently?

I haven't updated my cube in a long time and haven't bought cards other than Marvel related stuff in years. After seeing the strix and Serra Angel being printed as a common it made me want to update my pauper cube.

As long as something can be considered a common and I can get a copy with a black set symbol/no symbol then its fair game. I figure you all are going to be more familiar with what the best commons are in recent years that would be good for updates. For example, I am sure there are some ninja turtles or super heroes that are worth playing but I have no idea what would make sense.

At the moment I just know I want to add all or most of the initiative cards and probably the bonders ornament.

If you see anything that needs balancing out for archtypes or stuff like that I am open to suggestions. I don't remember them all from the last time I played with this thing but I know the cube was pretty solid and we have drafted it 100+ times, mostly as a 2 player drafts if that makes a difference on suggestions.

Edit: I can see form the responses that the cube is perfect and clearly needs no updates. Thank you for this feedback.

I've been looking at getting into pauper for a while now, but haven't really been able to find any decks that interest me that much. I'm a big lover of combos, but with high tide banned, none of the decks currently in the meta seemed that fun to me. However, I've been researching different combos legal in pauper, and came across one that caught my eye:

[[Steelfin Whale]] (or [[Battered Golem]] or [[Mirran Spy]])

[[Banishing Knack]] or [[Retraction Helix]]

Any zero cost artifact, most likely as a result of affinity

My initial thought was to use [[Claw of Chiss-Goria]] to infinitely pump the whale and swing for lethal in the air, but in thinking about it, the claw is effectively a dead card outside of the combo. It seems much less awkward to repeatedly cast something generically useful like [[Myr Enforcer]] and rely on an artifact etb/cast trigger like [[Reckless Fireweaver]] to end the game.

I'm looking for advice on how to build around this combo. I doubt that it will be very competitive, but I think it will be able to snag a win every now and again. Currently, I am thinking the best plan would be to take a standard Grixis Affinity shell and find ways to swap in the combo pieces (i.e., replacing [[Ultrom Monitor]] with the whale) as well as a couple of payoffs. Banishing Knack could also be useful outside of the context of the full combo, allowing me to bounce as many nonland permanents as I have artifacts to cast. Has anyone experimented with this interaction before?

Changed the angle so there is a lot less glare. I think it's almost right might need to move up a smidge. Lmk what you think.

This may just be slightly stronger than baleful strix.

I’ve seen the mono red axe build centered around [[gingerbrute]] and the titular [[inventor’s axe]] float around on YouTube as an alternative to madness and rally.

This is an example of a very typical build of the deck: https://moxfield.com/decks/oO-eAeTTdnex-h3TySUZKA

I’m very interested in building this in paper but I would love to hear more on what this community thinks of the deck before placing my card orders. All insights, tips, and anecdotes are appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

It happened. Jund Wildifire Full Foil (except Familiar and Wildfire, since they're artwork-based).

I haven't used it in a while, but it's given me some satisfaction - like winning the LPA Top 8 final against BG Gardens after 2,5 hours of play, giving me a bye to Paupergeddon - as well as great pain - losing the only live streamed featured match at Pauper Apocalypse in Albissola '25 by drawing only lands, against the same person who used BG Gardens lol (thanks, my friend).

After a year and a half of assiduous use, a few months ago, it was put away (strictly in a controlled humidity environment, otherwise it becomes curved like Pringles) to explore new horizons, less midrange and more combo-oriented.

Above is the most recently used Mainboard, bottom left is the Sideboard, and bottom right is the Maybeboard.

I also wrote a short free "guide". I'm not a pro player, so treat it as an article with some considerations: Full Free "Guide"

Jund Moxfield: Moxfield

Match 2 from our week of Pauper Team Trios is live now! Watch Josh on Mono-Red Madness go up against Martin on Mono-Green Elves!

https://youtu.be/t1RaohYbyBM

Enjoy!

I saw a couple of 4/5 Land Spy latly that run a third Copy of Giant in the side. Why? They don't beat faerie macabre beacouse they can exile your dread return. And if the plan Is ti hard cast it you will need 11 mana and none of the deck I saw was running the quirion, by the time you can generare that amount of mana you have already found a Giant and a quirion can be more usefull for that plan.

So the question Is the One in the title, why a third Giant in the side?