Comments on: Dime a Dozen #55: Preparing for Proper Pauper

By: skayleef

skayleef — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:57:49 +0000

I think the irony here is that delver seemingly gets over run by the token deck At least the new version, not the one you ran through the daily in your article.

By: Tom the Scud

Tom the Scud — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:16:46 +0000

It would be interesting to see someone run the straight aggro tokens deck – note the important difference with your version is that BALKK’s version is maindecking zero reactive/defensive cards, except for one drops that can do double duty (like the jav’s and the tappers) – just cast one dude turn one, two dudes turn two (or four dudes if you hit the screech/tribe wombo combo), three dudes turn three, and swing for lethal with the pledge on turn four.

One change I would make to that deck is to put in Ramosian Rally (maybe 2 of?) to fight electrickery. You may also want benevolent bodyguard in the main deck in place of other one drops, because at some point people are going to start bringing echoing truth/decay to the fight.

MBC is badly positioned at the moment – MBC deck were getting murdered by treasure cruise decks right and left over the last weekend.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:44:45 +0000

I really like your Delver list. I have been playing a very similar list for quite a while now and I love it. I would only recommend playing 17 lands and would probably cut 1 golem for it. I never liked them as a 4-off and they might get even worse with only 16 lands I would imagine. I’m also not a big fan of Gitaxian Probe, I play 1 Exclude and 1 Bonesplitter instead and really like them. But that’s probably just a matter of personal play style. I would really like to watch u smashing some people with the deck in the next videos
As far as Treasure Cruise is concerned, I’m still not sure how many copies I should play in my 75 and whether I should play Gush in the same deck. For now I’m trying the same configuration as you but haven’t been playing much since Khans got released on MTGO. Would be great to hear your opinion about Treasure Cruise though, after you had the time to get in some games.

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 07:43:10 +0000

El Conejo – Are you referring to the online metagame with or without the bug?

Emisun – I’ll have to check that Walls deck out! Good find.

ThankTheBear – I appreciate the suggestion. That’s actually a good idea for decisions outside of Magic as well!

burt – I like the strong opinions. Foundry isn’t too slow in that matchup?

By: burt

burt — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:59:15 +0000

It sucks that players cheat – but hymn is no stronger than counterspell, mono blue, more like mono booooo. Maybe golemn foundry could be in the affinity sideboard for mono black. I like to have some recursion in mono black as the games can go long.

By: ThankTheBear

ThankTheBear — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:23:27 +0000

Woah, there was a bug in MTGO that made it so illegal cards could be played? Nuts!

One time at FNM I was stuck between two decks. I decided to roll a d6 and assigned all odd numbers to one deck and the evens to another. I rolled and for some reason went against what the dice said. I went 0-4 with an established archetype and didn’t have that good of a time.

What I’m trying to say is sometimes when indecisiveness hits, a little bit of chance can spice things up. I say, perhaps erroneously, roll the dice!

By: Emisun

Emisun — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:47:35 +0000

The mono-green list looks pretty good.
There is also mono-green walls (tinder wall, overgrown battlement) ramp which seem pretty well-positioned right now, with the penumbra spider as an allstar blocker. Shyft at CFB put up a variant of that some 6-12 months ago.