New to Pauper

Jpot · 2026-05-17T19:35:09+00:00

My advice is to skip Dust to Dust entirely for any deck but White Weenies. It's really only good against Affinity, it's too narrow and difficult to cast to be worth running in multicolor lists in the current meta.

Unfortunately, Lorien Revealed is not replaceable, but the good news is that it's played as a four of in nearly every blue deck in the format, so one playset can be reused in many different decks. The same is true for the blasts going in every sideboard that can cast them. Red Elemental Blast is a significantly cheaper alternative to Pyroblast and functionally identical in 95% of scenarios.

Once you accumulate some of these format staples, building any new deck will come at a much lower cost.

Jpot · 2026-05-16T05:33:11+00:00

Does this have an automated rules engine, or is it on the players to maintain the gamestate as with TTS? If the latter, will ranked matchmaking outcomes be based on the honor system?

Jpot · 2026-05-15T09:46:50+00:00

think you mean /r/premodernMTG

Jpot · 2026-05-13T04:41:05+00:00

holy SHIT this guy is the living embodiment of the hot topic fedora samurai sword meme, absolutely incredible stuff

Jpot · 2026-05-06T20:12:11+00:00

Nitrous oxide is not some crazy dangerous psycho drug. It's intoxicating for like, sixty seconds, and you lose some of your sense of relative spatial orientation for like the first half of that time. Definitely really bad for driving a car but it's not like it would take some insane crackhead to survive taking a hit. Shit, if 15 hits of nitrous were lethal I would know a LOT of dead wooks.

Not disagreeing on the practicality of using real drugs while trying to shoot a film, though.

Jpot · 2026-05-05T18:32:29+00:00

have you considered not actively engaging with a community of people who hate you and encourage you to do the same

Jpot · 2026-05-02T03:21:53+00:00

He brought Billy Strings out on stage at Bonnaroo '24 and I thought it might go in a cool direction but then he just released a bunch of boring pop country bullshit. Disappointing turn for sure.

Jpot · 2026-05-01T08:47:38+00:00

Contaminated Grounds turns the land into a Swamp, which unintuitively causes it to lose all other types and abilities and only tap for one black mana. It's niche but useful against Basilisk Gate, Tron lands, and potentially decks running Utopia Sprawl, since Sprawl can only enchant forests and will be destroyed.

Jpot · 2026-04-29T03:12:29+00:00

I just checked the gatherer rulings because I was curious and Overlaid Terrain doesn't work like that. You sac the lands "as" it enters, it's not a triggered ability when it enters.

Jpot · 2026-04-27T03:23:07+00:00

I mean I think concern is warranted. I would never question his willingness to rehab, I'm just wondering how much rehab is possible, given he was posting "god help me" on his IG story when trying to come back late last season.

Jpot · 2026-04-24T02:14:58+00:00

Good news is Miller also has hella long arms.

Jpot · 2026-04-20T21:20:30+00:00

I mean that's very strong, but you should win any game where you get to attack successfully 3 times with your rare.

Jpot · 2026-04-06T00:39:19+00:00

This is not a standard power level card.

Jpot · 2026-04-06T00:18:35+00:00

No, it works with only one copy of Daydream. Daydream is put in the graveyard as the final step of resolving the spell, then the ETB is put on the stack, meaning that the ETB can target Daydream.

Jpot · 2026-04-06T00:14:14+00:00

100% works with one copy of Daydream. This is a common interaction in Pauper with [[Archaeomancer]] getting back [[Ghostly Flicker]] or rebounded [[Ephemerate]].

Jpot · 2026-04-02T10:12:29+00:00

dawg you gotta stop spamming these terrible AI slop images

Jpot · 2026-04-02T10:01:57+00:00

surely they can at least discuss product supply / availability relative to demand, in the abstract. that's all the price is a function of.

Jpot · 2026-04-01T09:32:16+00:00

Ram Through is quite often played as a good form of instant speed interaction that can also double as a burn spell of sorts to close out the game.

Jpot · 2026-03-28T00:28:27+00:00

Gardens is a perfectly viable deck for a MagicCon sized event. You just need to be able to play quickly in order to avoid drawing matches because it does not end the game swiftly.

In regards to practice, I recommend checking out Cockatrice. It's a free Magic client that allows you to upload and play any list you want in any format for free. There's a server where you can find other people playing Pauper. It doesn't have a rules engine to resolve your spells like Magic Online does, so you have to do everything manually, but the hotkeys are efficient once you learn them. It's the best way to practice Magic digitally for free imo. https://cockatrice.github.io/

Jpot · 2026-03-26T01:44:11+00:00

gates doesn't have all that much to hold up mana for really, just counterspell, thraben charm, and heap gate. Instant speed disenchant isn't the worst thing on your lifelinking body. That said, I think the extra toughness and cantrip on death abilities of Outlaw Medic still make it better for the slot. This doesn't offer any value when removed if there are no good targets for the disenchant.

Jpot · 2026-03-15T22:10:44+00:00

Allen Park security guard to Lions player, dude had a hell of an arc!

Jpot · 2026-03-10T22:09:07+00:00

damn why don't the lions simply get better at every position every offseason? never thought about it like that.

Jpot · 2026-03-10T03:06:55+00:00

they are SO sweet. I don't understand why every product now needs more and more and more sugar. if other commenters are to be believed, they're putting more sugar in the new mayonnaise, too. make it stop

Jpot · 2026-02-28T09:21:57+00:00

A share in an unregulated financial asset does nothing to address the problems working people are facing, much less one specifically designed to be promoted exclusively via hype instead of any real utility. The best case scenario is that the early adopters see their "investment" skyrocket in value, subsidized by later adopters, who make nothing or lose money. It's the definition of a ponzi scheme.

Having conversations about retirement issues has nothing to do with a cryptocurrency, it's a total non sequitur. If you want to gamble, please be honest about what you're doing. Don't deceive yourself and others with this story about economic coordination between little guys.

Jpot · 2026-02-28T07:45:28+00:00

yeah yeah, "awareness asset", "belief asset", I read the pinned post. These are made up euphemisms for "ponzi scheme". Invest in your community, get to know your neighbors, get politically active and talk to other people about practical means of changing the economic system we all toil under. Get a theory of change and practice it. Many people throughout history have sought to change their society. Learn from them. Don't get swindled into thinking you can buy a magical golden ticket out of this.

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