r/Pauper

I dont know a lot about Pauper. So I am quite confused with the landcount in a lot of decks. Sure, a lot of them can ramp but 9 lands in elves?! And 17 lands in some midrange-y combo deck?

Can someone explain to me why the mana base of decks are so over-the-top greedy? Or am I just misjudging heavily?

So I have been playing the format for about 5ish months now and I had been playing a few decks, started on Turbo Fog but clock anxiety kinda killed that deck for me. Went to brewing some nonsense using [[Spider Manifestation]] and stuff with reduces costs that just kinda died to everything.

The creature heavy nature of the format with the poor access to sweepers is making it hard for me to get my footing. In value vintage I run a Wilderness Rec control deck cuz that is my comfortable space, but pauper is so different.

I recently started trying to experiment with a Delver Tempo deck that felt a bit more my speed, but what I'd really like to be able to play is something that doesn't rely as much on committing to the board and plays at control speed. Something where I have plenty of time to figure out whats going on and how to deal with it.

Hey everyone! I've always been a commander player, but my lgs has a ton of pauper players, so i decided to build a pauper deck of my own. I know that people usually recommend aggro decks for people new to formats, but i enjoy slower/combo decks, and theres already 5 billion burn players at my lgs. What slower/combo decks would y'all recommend as my first deck?

As in, how often does the meta change? how often do staples change? how often do popular decks fall out of fashion for new, fresh decks with new strategies?

I want to try and get my buddies into mtg through pauper. I play modern but they don't play magic at all, what like 4 decks would you recommend i pick up that play well into each other as a good way to get them started.

edit. thought i should add some of the decks im interested in from looking around at mtggoldfish

mono black sac, BG gardens, grixis affinity, and caw gates

I've only been playing pauper since last summer, but I feel like my life is just piles of semi-random cards.

I have a couple (~8) pauper decks in dragon sleeve boxes that are labeled, but then I have a bunch of sleeved maybes/sideboard cards.

And then a ton of generic unsleeved maybe cards that could be good, but I don't have the rest of the deck or I haven't bothered sleeving etc.

This on top of a very general magic collection feels like a mess... Like this is another sorting vector. And maybe it's a sorting vector that is totally against a "normal" "expensive card = good".

Having a collection and playing pauper feels like being a millionaire but collecting pennies. Suddenly all of the draft chaff isn't chaff (or ~potentially~ not chaff).

Is there a way to play a pox deck right now? Is it in any way viable?

I am new to the format and coming from edh - I myself gravitate towards Gruul Ramp but i don’t get why combo decks have such a low share in the meta ?

Something obvious that I am missing ?

I got really lucky at a Final Fantasy draft and was able to draft nearly every Black Mage card into my draft deck and after watching a Professor video I realized that Black Mage's Rod and most of the other Black Mage cards are common and Pauper legal.

I looked up some videos and decks online for a starting point, but a lot of them are several months old and not updated. So I wanted to know how viable would a deck consisting of [[Black Mage's Rod]], [[Cornered by Black Mage's]], and maybe even [[Mysidian Elder]] would be?

Hi guys, I'm searching for advice for a new pauper deck. I already have a mono W heroic and a proxied grixis affinity. To switch things up, I would like to try a more control based deck, and I was wondering if it would be possible to build one on a tight budget (50$ or less). If you have advices, suggestions or moxfield lists, anything is welcome. Thank you!