Comments on: Peering Into Pauper: Getting Aggressive with Affinity

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:13:25 +0000

Obviously sac your cantrips first

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:12:36 +0000

Round 1 Game 1,
End of turn Galvanic Blast him putting him at 16
Your turn draw a artifact from your draw step or
Draw an artifact from your chromatic sphere or
draw an artifact from your chromatic star and you fling for 17

Sac: frogmite, 3 x great furnace, chromatic star, chromatic sphere, spring leaf drum and sac 1 / 3 cards you draw from the turn drawing natural and sac effect draws.

He tapped out on his turn so you were clear to go off, only card he could have to win was Prismatic Strands.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:44:34 +0000

Very good commentary and video, but not the best play and saying that WW isn’t very powerful is just silly. Just today I played in a 4-RND went 3-1 I only lost to a mirror match WW it was very close. I crushed control and affinity. I beat two control and one affinity. Side boarding Dust to Dust. makes WW better than affinity in my opinion.

I really like watching some of the vids on this website but you need to step up on the gameplay and info to keep people watching.

thanks for the videos guys.

By: the_cardfather

the_cardfather — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:24:28 +0000

I’ve been back-reading after having been recently introduced to your series.

You posted in your most recent article that you still think this is one of the best decks in the format. Do you think its better than some of the Goblin lists that have been cropping up, or do you think they are doing well because people aren’t playing the obvious anti red cards?

By: eskimo227

eskimo227 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:44:19 +0000

This was a small mistake, but in r1g2 you missed 2 damage on the turn after he plays Kor Sanctifiers. With 14 life, he would have been forced to block a lethal all-in Atog + Disciple attack, so the Disciples would have got in for 2.

By: amukasier

amukasier — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:00:47 +0000

Pauper is my favorite format and i loved to watch those video`s.

I`m WW player myself and i have to say that affinity isn`t really that hard to deal with, if you draw the correct cards. With 4x Dust to Dust in sideboard affinity has usually 1 land on turn 3.

Also Affinity isn`t played widely becouse it has week combo match-up. Yes White Weenie has a weak combo match-up too but WW is very consistent while Affinity got`s often sketchy hands.

Thanks again for this one.

By: Pitlord

Pitlord — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:07:44 +0000

Thanks everyone for pointing out how awful I am and that my sideboard wasn’t the best. I obviously addressed some of the issues with the sideboard in the article, and will further consider the suggestions here.

Also, thanks to inneutral foe the constructive replies, not only to the article, but to a handful of other posts. I don’t think I could have phrased my replies any better. As for the deck changes you suggest inneutral, I believe I mentioned the use of Sunchaser/Ancient Den/white sideboard cards in another version of the deck tech that I wasn’t happy with overall. Basically I found in testing that the extra power helped more than evasion, and the white sideboard cards weren’t worth the maindeck swap, though I only tested a few board cards so that may yet change.
As for my decision to play a fair amount of affinity hate, the list was based on my examination of the first two weeks directly following the banning, when Affinity was still a dominant deck and Infect Stompy was gaining momentum. I took a week off playing, got lazy, and didn’t anticipate the plummet in Affinity’s numbers that I didn’t bother to double-check. I apologize for that, and will be more diligent keeping my lists up to date in the future.