A Guide To Every Deck In Pauper 

"I pronounce boggles as boggles and gif as gif, because I'm not a monster" *proceeds to pronounce mana as maw-na*

I’ll watch a sequel about the 1% decks in pauper

Colossal Dreadmaw finally getting the recognition it deserve.

a small error in the bogles section, Ancestral Mask doesn’t count enchantments you control, but ALL enchantments. That includes The Modern Age, Makeshift Munitions or Spirited Companion that your oponent might be playing.

This video is a boon to Pauper, and I will use this video as my ultimate resource to show the diversity and interesting gameplay the format has to offer. Thank you so much.

13:25 -Boros bully got its name from the namesake card Mage Ring Bully, which has not been run in the deck for some time.

you know, usually these types of videos are done so meanderingly and never really get into what makes the deck ticks but this one was great, thanks

This breakdown and explanation made me genuinely interested in trying out Pauper.

Also an important aspect of the format is that decks really don't stay in one archetype. Faeries is a tempo deck, but it's also a control deck, you legit can just drop a 1 mana blocker and sit back with counterspells and removal or you can go 1 mana threat, 2 mana threat and swarm with counterspell backup. Affinity can also do the same, UB terror is a tempo deck as well kinda like deaths shadow where you resolve the first 3 turns and then drop haymakers and protect em but it still can pivot into a pure control route. Boros bully can adopt any engine it wants (the gates engine, the artifact lands + cleansing wildfire engine, etc. And just have both gameplans ready) and many other examples, which is great in the format, decks respect each other's gameplans and isn't focused deck vs focused deck rock paper scissors game, it actually revolves around the gameplay instead of metagame choice.

I built a pauper Battle Box for less than a modern deck. 12 decks! This is largely because my friends let me look through all of their commons, and if I was willing to do all that work alone they just gave me the cards.

I loved how you were able to fit so much info on each deck in such a tight space of time. And I'm really happy for that. Short, simple and easy to understand! Well done!

I know why Boros Bully is named that, actually. It originally started life as a Boros Aggro deck brewed with Mage-Ring Bully, which is just a generic Prowess threat, as the centerpiece. Over enough time circulating through the meta, though, people realized a Boros swarmy Aggro deck with Rally the Peasants had legs, but could really stand to have stronger creatures than Mage-Ring Bully in the deck. Its current iterations have absolutely moved past all but the most enduring cards that make it work, but even without the namesake creature at all, the name stuck. It’s one of the most straightforward and creature-rich decks on offer, and doesn’t have a huge amount of surprises relative to the rest of the field pre-sideboard.

Wow great video! Your voice is perfect for explaining clearly without a hint of annoyance! “AYO! WHATS UP GUYS!!!ITS YA BOYYY…..” 🙄

tron also uses things like crop rotation to get consistency on tron lands

There are a few decks missing because of how they are put together on mtggoldfish Altar Tron, RB Madness burn, Boros Synth, Ponza, are all decks you can expect to regularly run into as well. UR fae looks like a tempo deck but a lot of the time it's really a value control deck, and regularly wins games through 1/1 beatdowns. Mono U fae is a tempo deck. Familiars has two builds as well, one has a combo finish by making infinite mana and milling the opponent with compulsive research.

holy hell you crammed so much information into 18 minutes that's insane good job

This is why I adore pauper. I don't play any deck in this video and still have fun and most likely have a decent matchup against them. Thank you for doing the format justice 💙

With the goblins, you forgot about dark dweller oracle, which can draw through your entire deck using the mana and putrid goblin, and oracle is tutorable with goblin matron.

Finally! I’m so excited for this

Boggle and bogle are two different things, boggle is to confuse, overwhelm or astonish. A bogle is a small phantom or spirit.

Great overview video -- though I'd also suggest people look at the metagame in general, as there are dozens of other decks that make up less than 1% of the meta but are still viable competitive decks (Elves and Tortured Existence are notably cult favourites).

Awesome video! A quick note on the Familiars section is that it's actually more of a combo control list then a straight value list. It ends up playing as you said but it runs a 6 card combo that gains infinite life. it sounds like a crap shot but you end up playing the cards naturally and you draw so many cards that it kinda just assembles itself. There is also versions of the deck that run an infinite mana combo as well.

Thank you for this video! I haven't seen such a simplified, to the point and specific video! There wasn't any unnecessary info. Very informative and efficient! I wish all the videos would be like this one! Great job man!

Simic infect and Boros heroic are two other decks that have seen decent play at my LGS. Just thought I'd mention them here.

This has been in my recommendations for some time now. After diving in, am amazed. Chef's kiss!

Incredible video! Super helpful for someone new to the format!

Pauper is great, but I must recommend Penny Dreadful. It is free. $0.00. You get to play with powerful cards like Cloudpost, Ponder, Treasure Cruise, Goblin Charbelcher, Monastary Swiftspear, Wrath of God, the list is over 15,000 cards.

Almost ready with my Dimir TERROR deck! Mostly play Pioneer, but super exited to play some Pauper 👌🏽

Thank you so much. As someone new to pauper I found this guide really informative and am looking forward to rocking out a burn deck at locals soon!

That was great! Lots of cool decks I've never heard of before. Pauper looks interesting!

This was exceptionally well done.

Great video, really concise info. People should be aware that these decks are likely to change out (anyone remember Tribe combo?) as new cards get added to the pool, but really this is a very good general overview with a good focus on the broad archetypes. Lots of changes have happened in the last few years since MH1, so Id love to see a follow up video in a year or so. Ive also never understood why the red invoker is chosen considering blue blast exists.

Fae is also seen in blue black, and is better than ur/u depending on the meta

Fan-freaking-tastic summary! Thanks!

Very good video, thank you for your time!

Just a couple of small nitpick corrections, UB Terror is more of a tempo deck rather than a control one, cause it can also get some fast wins out of nowhere and doesn't aim to longer games (such as decks like Fae and Teachings, that are actual Dimir control decks, do), the "UB Control" notation comes from a naming mistake made by MTGGoldfish, like "Burn" that is usually called "Kuldotha red", while the "Burn" name is used more for the spell-focused variant that at the moment is lower in meta

great job! as always.

Great video, thanks! 🎉

Please make a part 2 with Elves, Slivers, etc. I sent this to my friends and we're not teaming up to build pauper decks.

Man, I love your content

I have waited for eternity, and my patience has been rewarded.

You can also add the gates package to boros bully. It's a little bit slower, but with all the recursion it lets you ram your threats through even if they stop your Rally.

13:34 okay so Boros Bully is called that because in the early days of the deck (DeluxeIcoff from Pauperganda originated it), it would play Mage-Ring Bully, which is a 2 mana 2/2 with prowess that has to attack each turn, later to be upgraded by Seeker of the Way, which was downshifted to common in Iconic Masters. the idea is because you have so many flashback spells, you can beef up your prowess creature while also going wide. its a shame that almost nobody knows the true origin of the deck. I myself have the other variant in paper, jeskai bully, which didn't succeed the way Boros bully did. but it was piloted adjacent to the boros version to see if the blue mattered or not. you can still find Paupergandas streams about the deck

I finally just got the main board for my dimir infect deck. Now I'm working on the side board

So glad to see pauper picking up in popularity

13:23 As someone already mentioned, Boros Bully is originally named after Mage-Ring Bully, a card the deck originally ran. The deck was first invented by deluceicoff of Pauperganda fame (producing pauper content for years). This has been documented on CFB as well, e.g. look for Boros Bully deck tech by Alex Ullman from October 20, 2020.

As a proud temur ponza player, our day will come. No, seriously, playing Altisaur and cascading Boarding Party and Mulldrifter at like turn 4 is an amazing feeling.

Cool vid! Maybe not the best rep with red's stranglehold on the format limiting what's viable (online anyways). Hope the vid does well enough to consider covering other lists like MBC later on.

I would say sweepers are present in the form of Fiery Cannonade/Breath Weapon, Arms of Hadar, and the recently acquired Drown in Sorrow and Sulfurous Blast, but the gist is understood.

Kuka Beyo, japudi!

You deserve more sub my broutha

Would be cool to see pauper on mtg arena

Great video 10/10

I appreciate a man of pronunciation taste

And Pauper still has decks like Kiln Fiend, which can kill on turn 3, thing that some of decks in Modern can't do.

Tbh i find the lack of big swingy cards and planeswalkers that are often unchallengeable value ( unlike initiative/monarch for an instance) makes the game a lot more fun for me, as well as making the small advantages one gets more relevant and sideboarding more fun

Every time I look at pauper decks, it's like, the most based stuff a man can imagine.

What about Boros Synthesizer ? 😢😢

If I wanted to build two meta Pauper decks that were equally matched to teach my girlfriend magic with, which two would you guys recommend? Thanks!

I admittedly only play standard and only on mtga, but my biggest issues with mtg in general are the strength of what's strong. When you both get emptier hands each draw can be so so big. Maybe I'll try to find a way to sample this format. I've never played Paper but maybe I'll mess with mtgo to try it out. Hmm.

Haven't played pauper in a while, is RW affinity aggro no longer viable?

Wow. Elves main player here. List still 5-0 in league regularly. Where’s the love?

I play pauper and I have an Infect and Eye Candy decks, I was expecting them to be on this video but apparently less than 1% players use them.

Im very glad this video exists but i dont think its very accurate For starters, what you called dimir control isnt a control deck at all, goldfish called it that but the original name for the deck was turbo terror, bc you absolutely cannot win the late game. you win by slamming a couple big 5/5s and then protecting them with counterspells Secondly, you forgot the mention the brainstorm + squadron hawk synergy, which is the core of that deck Thirdly, what you called 4 colour gates is called naya gates. goldfish called it 4 colour bc gates decks often splash a fourth colour in hte sideboard bc its really easy to get the mana with the gates, but the deck is really just WRG I dont really think familiars is a control deck as they barely play any removal, its more of a value combo deck imo I hope more people play pauper and thank you for making this video

Pauper Heroic is a really fun time

I like this video

Where's Prowess? I thought Kiln Friend decks with Swiftspear were topping the format.

If a card is originally printed as common, but is later reprinted as non common, are you still allowed to use it? If you were to have the original printing, as a common, I mean. Or would you go by the current printing?

This is a really good video that is genuinely helping me to get into Pauper right now, but I'm gonna be honest, every time you say "mawh-na", a little bit of my brain dies.

I definitely read the thumbnail as "Guide to Every Upper Decker"

I don't agree with the labelling of Dimir "Control" as a control deck. While the deck can certainly play a longer game, your primary plan is playing 2 5/5s on turn 4 and then trying to win in 2-3 turns, using countermagic and interaction to keep your opponent on the back foot. If you try to play a full control game with Dimir you run into the problem where you need so many cantrips to enable your 5/5s that you sort of run out of relevant cards in your deck by the time you stabilize

Where was mono black?

So... Gates. As a Gates player since Dragon's Maze (2013), I think I'll give Pauper a chance.

Got one for pedh?

Amazing attempt but I think another way to approach this topic is using the "shell approach" akin to cedh Affinity and Tron share some cards and generally "cheat" on mana for big things Delver, Terror, Angler are spell-based using the yard as payoff Faerie and Ninjas do whatever they are doing with those pesky dudes Gates for... gate stuff... Flicker cause Ephemerate is like the best White card ever lol and then whichever decks that do not really fit the typical shells get their own lil segment in a sense some of the more widely-used cards can be easily explained so the new guys could try to frankenstein some of the shells together to build something familiar but not the "stock" lists since even some of the decks listed here have at least another possible variation to be equally effecting just with a slight focus in a sense but good job showing some love to even the most obscure formats out there~

Rip that mono Black wasnt mentioned

Y E S

Mardu Synth!!

Looking at the banlist quickly, I saw that the official wizards site has a mistake: sinkhole is on the list twice; guess they really don't want that card to be legal

I need a 10 dolar price range format. 100 dollars for a deck is still insane to me.

meanwhile I have my Sultai Energy deck and my Gruul Bloodrush deck...Pauper rocks

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Didnt Cranial Plating get a common print and therefore should be legal?

Boggle is a game. Bogle is a creature type. Also, what's "monna"? Is it similar to mana?

Where is my jund cascade :,( i love that deck

Perhaps if you pronounce mana as mahna, don't judge how others pronounce bogles and gif. Other than that insanity, great video!

Im just simlpy asking. WHERE TF IS SIMIC INFECT (sry my favourite deck😅)

RIP tortured existence

I'll be playing 5 colors using Terrace

Tortured Existence! 🤘

Where's poison storm? 😢

Ok now I understand why drake is banned

Damn, Pauper Slivers is really bad enough to not get mentioned?

There isnt an o in the mana, nor a u after the a in the word mana.

RIP Pestilence 😭

no love for mono black devotion?

Me building a 100% proxy commander deck (even the 0.25 cents cards)

could we get the thumbnail without the letters? It would look fire on a t shirt

Pestilence and tortexe not even decks anymore :(

wait how else do you pronounce bogles?