The Proper Pauper Guide To Mono Black Devotion Control - A $50 Magic: The Gathering Deck 

1:14 sometimes I think about why WotC hates Pauper, then Prof reminds me: "there's no PLANESWALKERS in Pauper!"

I’ve just gotten back in magic for the first time since (2006?!) and i can’t believe that this channel doesn’t have 1M+ views on each video. Watching all of these is really helping me learn of the different formats, cards both new and old, etc. it’s exactly what people like me need. Thank you so much for the quality content!

I'd love to play this deck but I've just become a 3/3 elk so...

Monoblack player: “I fear nothing!” Enchantments: **exist** Monoblack player: “I fear one thing!”

Prof: “And once you have it, you have it for life.” Me: Looks down at my paper Jeskai deck. Tear.

I was worried Oubliette wasn't going to get a look-in! Thankfully it was there at the end. One of my favourite cards in Pauper

Me playing literally every format where it's legal: ight Delver let's get this bread Me coming to Pauper: wow dude, there's so many decks??? and they're cheap asf??? ... plays UR Delver

YES! This is literally what I've been looking for!

I consider start playing magic. I guess pauper is a good format to start for me. Thanks for the video prof

Great video, Prof! Gonna have to add this to my Pauper to-build list. I'd love to see your take on other classic mono-color pauper decks, or decks that deserve more spotlight.

Thank you Professor! I am now 32 years old, got two Kids Bit when i Look your videos i alwasys get that feeling when i was young and absorbing all that exiting new content... Thank you very much for your Service!

Instructions unclear ended up with an Oko deck.

I love this deck. Pauper has become my favorite format. Great videos and I enjoy watching you play.

Love the video, Professor. Pauper is amazing and deck tech videos for it are always welcome.

This format literally got me and a friend into magic and I currently play this list slightly altered because of this video, dope channel.

i love this style of video! love your pauper deck techs

Hey Professor, your review on card sleeves helped me see what card sleeves I need so thanks man, I got some pearl Matt dragon sheild sleeves and your reviews helped me decide by a while

I love your ability to love every aspect of this game, no matter how disparate. It’s contagious, too.

Wow professor, this list actually seems really fun to do! As a "new" player that can't afford paying as i was building at least one good EDH deck, now that i did it, i think i'll build this and test pauper a bit

Hey Prof, don't know if you read these, but I just wanted to tell you that you have reinvigorated my love for magic. I only ever played at a casual level with friends (no format or card limit) but these pauper decks have given me a new hope for the game. As a poor college student, being able to afford a competitive standard, modern, or even pioneer deck is out of the question. With pauper, I can play a competitive game but not break the bank. I truly hope you continue to make more pauper related content as it is my favorite format for magic. I hope that pauper takes off where I live and more people play it in paper at my LGS. Thanks for resparking my love for this game!

Thank you _so_ much for this deck tech! I love playing mono-black with a passion, so I _have_ to play this!

Thanks to the Professor, I finally made an MTGO account and bought cards for Pauper mono black decks a couple of days ago. They feel great to play. Thanks for all your videos.

"Like all Pauper decks, you have it for life" Unless you put together the Professor's Mardu Reanimator with Arcum's Astrolabe.

I doubt you will see this but this got me into Pauper. Especially since most of my fun decks were only a few cards shy of being Pauper. Thank you good Sir Professor

Thank you Prof! as pauper player I appreciated this.

Thank you as always professor! Love this deck!

It's nice that I found this video since I'm starting to build and play my mono black control deck

My foil Grey Merchant of Asphodel is one of my favorites

The thing seperating your techs from others besides the high quality is showcasing pauper, commander, modern, etc. Keep it up!

Love your Deck Guides!

Hey look, it's my favorite pauper deck! Great to see it getting some love!

Nice job Prof! What an elks-allent video

You nailed it with that intro. Congrats prof

I've been playing a ton of Pauper Storm; this format is so cool.

Your intro beautifully surmises my frustration with Magic at the moment.

MBC is my favorite deck in pauper. I've been experimenting with Trespasser's Curse, and it puts in work.

Thanks professor the drama class is full this semester for sure with all the negative attitude toward standard right now, it's nice to see a content creator do something positive and uplifting and remind us why we play magic

O would love to see a video about the inside out combo deck in pauper! I love pauper and love your job! Thanks for the videos!

So much MonoB fun! Absolutely Fantastic!

I want to like standard but have been pushed out by price. This channel turned me onto pauper and I'm greatful for it.

This was my first competitive deck ever, I LOVE this deck

One of my favorite decks of all time. Praise Gary!

This is hilarious I’ve been running this deck list for a while

Three Gary’s can’t just spell GG it can spell GGG

You are reading my mind Prof! I just built a pioneer Black Devotion deck!

never thought i'd see the prof do a video on my favorite deck. ever since i got hooked on pauper this was the way to go, lots of fun... it has alot of variants too. currently using MBC with a crap ton of discard then finish the game with Pestilence, Evincar's Justice, and Gray Merchant

Always ready for more pauper.

That opening. Man, you really hit what I get tired of seeing. I'd have rather we kept Field of the dead and banned some of those cards.

You really kicked up the graphics. Good stuff.

I think this deck could use the Witch's Cottages to bounce back a creature to the top of your library allowing you to cast Gary again after loosing him to Pestilence. I really like the Witch's Cottage for all mono black decks, Pauper or otherwise.... Great Deck as always Prof!!!!!!

I made a similar deck a couple years ago. Super fun

I built this deck and took over my local pauper meta. Prof for the win

I built this deck after my friends got tired of my TortEx Turbo Frog deck and this has been such a blast

Gary ands Gurmag are two of my favourite cards ever, so naturally built Mono Blacxk devotion. Not the same lsit necessarilly but basically the same thing.

Love it how most of the top standard decks run most of the same outrageously experience cards, great intro! Awesome deck tech.

i looked the deck list up on cardkingdom and im shocked to see this deck ACTUALLY coming in at $25 bucks

Prof don’t be silly, there are plenty of other decks! Gruul elks Selesnya elks Jeskai elk control Fires of invelktion Golgari (or sometimes Jund) elks Mono red cavelkade

Already having a playset of Gary's, Whisper Agents, and $7 of TCGPlayer credit, I bought this deck for $18. This is my first pauper deck so I'm pretty hyped

I love this deck!!

TL;DR I need help building a Pauper Battle Box, around 10 decks, that can be taken to my lgs for people to play before commander league. thanks for the help. I like this deck so much that I put it together and went to my lgs to see if anyone else played pauper... I found one person who had a deck, mbc as well, and we had a good old sit down... Coming from someone who has only ever played commander because I hate buying cardboard then being told I can't play with it after 2 yrs just sucks. Let me say I had a blast. I even had fun figuring out how to properly sideboard. Someone gave me a hint since it was a mirrorish game. They told me to think of the cards I liked in my deck and then find cards in the sideboard that would turn my deck from magic is fun yes please into oh crud magic was fun. I managed to get 4 full games in before our commander league started, and we went back to the way magic is properly played. 100 card singleton... I now have a problem I need help solving. I would like to build a battle box with 6-10 pauper decks. I have 3 decks pick out so far and will list below. What I am looking for are decks that can almost hang together ie 4-8 tier 1 and maybe 2 tier 1.5. Talking to the group of players this was the power that we decided to play with. The thinking is if all the decks are strong then no matter what deck is grabbed from the box it should be able to face off with almost all the other decks. The decks I have made so far are 1 MBC 2 Elves (really who doesn't already almost have a full set of these just in a box some where) Decks I know I will be building Flicker Tron Affinity WB pestilence In the end I am hoping to have a wide variety of playstyle and my Battle Box.

Affinity Pauper Please! Thank you so much, Prof!

yes just what i needed on a rainy weekend with nothing much to do

I would love to see you do a random Pauper EDH deck tech for fun, one day. Considering there are at least 11 common legendary creatures to build around.

This looks really fun :0

nice. best format ever

God I wish my friends played pauper 😭😭😭 This is my favorite format. It's fun, budget, a Brewers Paradise of powerful old cards and a ton of possibilities. I love this format, and wish people would just play it with me! Anybody struggle in a similar way? What suggestions do you have encouraging a format at you local game store?

I’ve never seen whisper agent in this deck before, but it seems sweet.

Tortured Existence decks are definitely my favorites in pauper. You do have a deck tech on one of those, though.

I love that you're doing content on this format! Pauper is so good for the magic constructed. I like that you went for a build that has clear win conditions - makes it a lot more fun to pilot. I am curious about one thing though: Is whisper agent really better than phyrexian rager? seems like the higher power doesn't really matter that much in this deck, and draw 1 seems much better than surveil 1.

While watching this, 10 till 3 a.m. MST, I was trying to figure out wtf is a Gary....yes I figured it out. Love the deck, and Pauper is the best, helps an older Magic player have use for his endless amount of commons. Was able to sift through them and organize, kept what I wanted and donated the rest to some newish players who love the idea of Pauper.

I would really like to see a deck tech on fishelbrand. It was played at that same livestream and it is extremely complicated.

Mono white, or BW rebels. I know it's not the greatest, but I enjoy it, and it can usually be built for under $30. I love how the deck can fetch a bound in silence to put on a bogle.

I'm glad you covered my favorite deck after bald btw

I think I found my next pauper deck, though zombies will always be my favorite.

Ill-Gotten inheritance could be fun with putting on pressure, especially in the late game. Its a little expensive for (3)(B) but it's an enchantment that on the beginning of your upkeep, drains 1 life from each opponent and you gain 1 life. Also you can pay (5)(B) to sacrifice Ill-Gotten inheritance to deal 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.

This is a great deck! How would you update it with new cards? (Posted as of Ikoria)

I added Corruption, is my favorite card and a good option to play in mid-range.

This is a great deck! Love these pauper deck techs! But $50 for this deck, sounds really expensive? I pasted the deck list to Card Kingdom and the total amount was about $15 (excluding the mana) Am I missing something here?

Hey professor, I live in the uk and on a British mtg store called Liliana market which is what I use for singles you can get Oko thief of crowns for only £10!!

The new hair looks great !

Witch’s Cottage is so good in this deck. Sure go ahead. Kill my Gary. I dare you. 🤣

I'm gonna have to get into pauper. These planeswalkers are out of control. These days, standard seems more of a chore than a funtime activity. Pauper seems like it might be a breath of fresh air. Nice video! I love your content, Prof.

I‘d love to see a guide to Monoblue faeries or monowhite Soldiers. They both are my favourite pauper decks.

My favorite MTG product is the Throne of Eldraine because it revisualizes fairy tales in a whole new light.

Man, I remember when this deck used to run Phyrexian Rager. Surprised that went away.

Primer! The proper pauper MBDC primer!

Ahhhh nooooo!!! I already run against this deck so often when I play pauper, now they will never cease after jumping on the prof train! I still typically mainly run zombies, so it's sometimes usually a pretty even matchup. Them landing the thorn, though, is always detrimental.

First! The Oko train is going to slow way down on Monday - that is a lot of good mechanic for not only black but also Pauper...almost seems a tad bit too many for consistency but looks like a fun deck regardless.

I'd love to see either a Tahngarth forced combat deck, or a pauper version of the Boggles deck already on the channel

I’d love to see a deck tech of Pauper Affinity.

A U/W blink deck would be cool

I just bought this from my local LGS Pandemonium games and sports in garden city Michigan

Oh hey it's my pauper deck! Honestly, extensive playtesting has showed me that Hymn to Tourach does not deserve its ban. It's good, but not busted.

Oooo I’m loving the shaved head

I've started building a pauper simic deck that works a lot like modern's simic flash deck

The Prof nails today's standard.

What do you think about Nausea? is it useful against Elves? Or is it unnecessary?

With theros coming back, I can't wait for all the new toys pauper players may get! Devotion is too good!

I Love You Professor, You're the Mr. Rodgers of the MTG Community.

Question, If you were to add Oubliete in , what do you trade out of the main?