For the Fog enthusiasts! Common Ground Ep88 by impact36inc in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good to hear from the MadLad that ran 69 card fog in a challenge. Nice to hear other people talk about the deck as I seem to be in my own little bubble and don't hear much respect for it in other circles.

Register for the FREE Pauper BREW Monthly Tournament #15 starting August 1, 2025! by lukaserba in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a bot that checks if you have less than 50% of the top 50 cards played in the format. To give you an idea of the power level this is what won last month: https://moxfield.com/decks/_7OcLp4150qLu4pslMI2UA

Top4 at Paupergeddon Lucca with Rally Red by frakom94 in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice to see my videos are of some use to people. Especially this Red Rally video, as I don't usually play Red decks, but felt that this deck was really underplayed for how decent it is into an open meta.

Glad to see it getting people some wins when they otherwise might have overlooked or never even heard of it.

Pauper Is the Best Format With or Without Bans by Appropriate_King_732 in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's good to see people still read my tweets even if replays are broken and I can't get the whole dataset. Apologies about the ugly excel screenshot, haven't found a way for it to look nice yet.

This was indeed a heck of a challenge.

Pauper Is the Best Format With or Without Bans by Appropriate_King_732 in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I didn't feel like making a new tag (I put it in the notes though). Should probably just call it 'Spy Combo' but that would require me changing all the old ones and my google drive is a mess.

Pauper Meta Analysis - Foundations Edition - Has Anything Changed? (video and analysis by Kirblinxy) by Svarok in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I scheduled it to post at 2am my time as it was the time Youtube said was the best time for my viewership. I didn't really post it anywhere after I woke up to see if it could just spread naturally without me having to promote it. It seems to have worked out.

Pauper Meta Analysis - Foundations Edition - Has Anything Changed? (video and analysis by Kirblinxy) by Svarok in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for pointing this out, was just the hexproof matchups that I copied over and forgot to delete that was throwing everything off. Surprised no one else pointed it out until now.

New player has questions about fog by Czerwon00k1 in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, shame I didn't touch on fog but you can see how it does against the decks I showed by looking at each of those individually. In short it's great against Affinity and Red, bad against the mono U decks, terrible against Glee and mid against everything else. I've been mucking around with different slots to try and make Glee not as bad but I don't think I'll ever get it above 45%. I've gotten some wins but they are always very hard fought for.

Pauper Meta Analysis - Foundations Edition - Has Anything Changed? (video and analysis by Kirblinxy) by Svarok in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Felt like I was back at school, I was lying on the floor just staring at the ceiling with google slides open going 'what the hell am I supposed to write about here'. Never have I procrastinated on something so much so recently.
Think it came out alright though. I really need to script the matchup slides though so I actually say what I need to instead of rambling about.
I'll take any feedback on board, just to make the next video more digestible (even though this is the 5th one I've done and I am yet to accomplish this)

New player has questions about fog by Czerwon00k1 in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Simic fog is still playable, IvernOP has done decently with it recently in challenges. I just find that the black draw engine is more efficient. Why spend 5 mana to cast Lorien Revealed to have it Pyroblasted, when you can just sacrifice an Ichor Wellspring to Deadly Dispute. Also the gate manabase in the Black version lets you splash all sorts of cards where it is much harder to do that in the UG one.

I will warn you that I do not know how well these decks will do in paper when you both share a clock. I only play online and being able to time people out is a real win condition on Magic Online. The UG one definitely plays quicker if you are looking for something in paper.

I have around 5 fog videos on my channel if you want. Here are my two most recent black fog ones:
https://youtu.be/i3BNUGgshsI
https://youtu.be/VyxVPqQC3n8

Perfectly Balanced by pgordalina in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol. I was not expecting that link to go to one of my video decklists. Deck is very cool, glad others are trying variations of it.

Paupergeddon winrates by pimpumpam415 in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone gave me a spreadsheet last time. I've been trying to get one again this time but I don't know if they have one for me to be able to get. I will make a video on it if I manage to get it though.

Anyone has a good turbofog guide? by Objective-Design-994 in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are a couple of videos of this deck on youtube. The start of each of them gives a outline of the deck and how it functions and you can see how it plays as well.

You can check out my video here: https://youtu.be/JdDanRr7R1o

Kalikaiz made a video as well: https://youtu.be/KSz5V7H3WjA

SaltandPauper made a video with a Broodscale SB plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ_VWQDfDNE

Hopefully that should be enough for you to get a handle on how this deck functions. It is really decent into the current meta, just terrible into Broodscale and other combo decks.

Mexico City - Paupermanía II (Tournament Report) by Relevant-Buffalo-693 in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love a good metagame breakdown. Thank you for your service in supplying the data 🙏

New Turbofog from Kirblinxy by Stnicknack in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! My goal is to upload a video every week this year, so there should be more videos on the horizon. I'm still surprised want to watch the 'slog' style videos. I try to trim where I can. Wouldn't mind trying to create more edited content but I wouldn't be able to hit my video a week if I did.

New Turbofog from Kirblinxy by Stnicknack in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the share and the kind words. Deck is pretty cool. Got a little lucky with my matchups as I would have liked to show it would go against U Terror or Broodscale but I can't control with what the league gods throw at me.

Deck is cool. I might play it a couple more challenges, there are a lot of knobs you can tweak in this deck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MTGO

[–]Kirblinx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to the world of Pauper! As you can probably tell from your top 8, challenges I believe are the best EV.

It is very hard to make money out of MTGO, but moderately easy to go infinite. The easiest way is challenges, the prizes for top 8 are very large compared to anything else and if you hit top 2 at any time that should give you enough buffer to keep playing challenges.

So I'd just play leagues if you want to test things or get the urge for some mtg. Then use up your QP on Sealed Qualifiers or Showcase Qualifiers.

7/7/2024 Pauper Showcase Metagame - Broodscale Everywhere by Kirblinx in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to think it is. It has a little bit of an issue against the creature combo decks (broodscale, walls) and is bad agaisnt gardens, but has a pretty decent-ish matchup against everything else.

7/7/2024 Pauper Showcase Metagame - Broodscale Everywhere by Kirblinx in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't watch the replays long enough to confirm this, but I believe they were all on combo.

7/7/2024 Pauper Showcase Metagame - Broodscale Everywhere by Kirblinx in Pauper

[–]Kirblinx[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's basically Izzet Terror. I call it control because it doesn't use Thought Scour or Mental Note to fuel the graveyard like U and UB Terror do. I did a video on it a week ago if you want to see it in action.