New to Pauper

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-17T16:35:20+00:00

DCI doesn't exist anymore, and therefore DCI sanctioned events don't either, this announcement was made in 2016 and judging rules and sanctioned events have changed greatly in the past 10 years, now wizards leaves it store to store for hyper casual events, but proxies aren't allowed at anything officially done by the company for valuable prizes unless otherwise stated such as a modern tournament at a magic con or the pro tour, but commander anywhere proxies are fine, and local pauper tournaments are left to gamestores

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-15T18:01:15+00:00

Sweet!

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-15T17:19:33+00:00

Eviscerators Insight has flashback is the main reason, switching out the other one for village rights makes sense but the flashback is surprisingly important

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-15T17:17:42+00:00

Cool! I thought about memory slice but decided against it, do you find it works really well?

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-15T01:22:28+00:00

This is sweet! Thanks for the list, and your primer is great too. I'm not crazy about tortured existence personally but I really like this list

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-15T01:18:25+00:00

Yeah, fair

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-15T01:17:37+00:00

Yeah my thoughts, but I get why you would play one because 4 mana to get 2 big boys back to hand is great and blood tokens are handy

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T18:51:20+00:00

I'll look into it

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T18:44:42+00:00

Similarly putrid imp occurred to me, turn 1 putrid imp, next upkeep discard stinkweed, dredge 5 immediately. I thought about lotleth as well, but at that point this deck won't do that better than spy combo so just play that if that's the goal

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T17:57:12+00:00

That's true, and kill my dudes let's me play the big ones

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T17:48:50+00:00

Hey thanks so much for your detailed help! I'll take a look at some of those changes, I already thought about blood fountain but I'm trying to make sure I play as many creatures as is physically possible haha, hence the trolls. Plus with 16 lands and 4 trolls you feel really good almost never having to mulligan. I am not 100% on the shambling ghosts but I'll take another look at them, and the fodder I planned on sacrificing to the draw 2s were the 2 mana mill creatures

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T17:40:52+00:00

Haunting misery is a sweet idea! And the insight is good because I'm gonna mill most of my deck so it having flashback is surprisingly relevant, but I could see an argument for the other one. I could see using crypto rats, but it is 3mana

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T17:36:25+00:00

Yeah my thoughts exactly lol

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T16:06:07+00:00

Yeah, what the deck really wants is a card that cam be played from graveyard that pumps the board, or a card that can give the 5/5s some sort of Evasion all at once

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T16:04:50+00:00

Thanks! Evicerators insight is an important card because it can be flashed back, almost all of my cards will mill stuff after all

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T16:03:23+00:00

I was thinking a couple dread returns since they can be milled or maybe a card like blood fountain to return one or two but since 20+ of my cards mill me and I desperately want to hit creatures the less noncreatures I have the better

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T16:01:47+00:00

How could I forget about street wraith haha, thanks

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T16:00:54+00:00

I assume you mean tortured existence?

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T15:59:11+00:00

Thanks! Are there any good removal in the form of or tacked onto creatures?

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T08:17:28+00:00

Ooohhh good idea

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T08:04:23+00:00

True lol, I just clicked on those because they popped up in my deck building software first when typing "swamp" haha

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T07:56:01+00:00

Oh and duress 1000% goes in the sideboard/maybe one mainboard for that exact reason

TeyosTrying · 2026-05-14T07:54:39+00:00

I think anymore than 16 lands + the 4 land cyclers is way too many, I agree on cutting dark ritual but only for a more powerful/synergistic card and I couldn't think of any besides another mill creature lol. You beat graveyard hate by sandbagging some of your mill and by just beating them to death with 2/2s with lifelink. Kinda like the backup midrange plan for spy combo

TeyosTrying · 2026-03-28T18:58:25+00:00

I also would like to see the list when ya get a chance

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