What’s going on in Pauper at the moment? Here’s my take on the Pauper metagame.
The best decks
First, what are the best deck archetypes? I’ll list them in order based on what I vaguely think are their power levels. I’ll link to one possible list that is showing up at MTGTop8, but there are often many variations on these decks.
1. Kuldotha Red (Aggro)
We currently have a version of this deck built in paper; we’re missing the copies of Clockwork Percussionist to bring the deck up-to-date with Duskmourn.
2. Grixis Affinity
We don’t have a copy of this built at the moment, but I think we have all the cards for it.
How would you all characterize this deck? Control? Midrange?
3. Broodscale Glee (Gleezard, heh) Combo
There are both Jund and Golgari versions of this; we have one possible Golgari version currently built in paper. I have a lot that I want to learn about how the different versions of this function.
4. Mono-blue Terror (Tempo)
We have a version of this built in paper. One big question for versions of this deck is: Boomerang, or no?
5. Cawgates (Control)
We don’t have this built in paper; we’re missing Outlaw Medic from this particular build, as well as a few of the dual gates.
The gates package also sees play in a number of other decks. I’m also interested in a Midnight Gond combo deck that also takes advantage of the gates package.
Other interesting decks
- Elves: we have a version of this built in paper.
- Fairies: we are missing 3 Spellstutter Sprites to build this at the moment.
- UB control: I’ve built a version of this before, and had fun with it. Sometimes this is also a Fairies deck.
- UW Familiars: I’ve built a version of this before as well, and also had fun with it.
- I’m still on the hunt for a competitive tortex list.
- There are a lot of people experimenting with a lot of other things, as well. Check out this metagame page for more ideas!
What else do we need?
Sleeves!