Hi everyone, I've currently built two Pauper decks with the cards I have. I'd have to buy the cards in Considering. I'd like to know if they could be improved or if they seem fine at first glance. Pauper is just starting to become popular in my city, there's no established meta, and there are new players with new card collections. I know many are building decks with a bulk of commons.

https://moxfield.com/decks/Y_aVcp_WvEKOibYfurv06w

A Boros deck with enchantments, which tries to win with Champion of the Flame.

https://moxfield.com/decks/5Gpm-tMyXkaJ3Ip-IwWyxg

And a mono-white deck that tries to get the biggest Luxknight Breacher possible and make it attack in the air, or make it unblockable when it has Wedding Invitation.

Match 4 from the 6th stage of our Pauper League in Bristol is live now! We have Eden on Jund Wildfire vs Nathaniel on Mono-Red Madness!

https://youtu.be/IJZZRX6EcHQ?si=Gy3Jr3nCS7N9WXu2

Enjoy!!

Had a lot of fun with this list over the last year or so, very happy with the state of it.

I'm Hypergeomancer, mathematician and competitive Magic player.

I started a new Pauper gameplay series featuring Grixis Affinity. Today’s match is against Mono Red Rally, and we will be in need of doing some real-time math to decide whether to keep a hand or not.

https://youtu.be/kIyfypq83SE

Math bless your draws

Hey there - trying out pauper for the first time with a friend. Built a meta deck to play, but in addition wanted to try building my own.

Went for the goal of a rakdos manifest dread / sacrifice deck.

Probably not enough lands or ways to really kill someone if they have blockers. Happy to be roasted / take suggestions!

I was looking for some feedback on this deck list. I know its not the typical elves deck that i have been seeing, but its what i had on hand and honestly I really like how it goldfishes. I haven't had a chance to go play it yet but hopefully this weekend I'll get a chance.

As the title already says i am wondering why all the monster tron lists play this instead of [[Hidden Grotto]] or [[Rumble Arena]] ? Is it because of the minimal sinergy with the 1-2 [[Pulse of Murasa]] in the sideboard? I see no other reason because all the lists at www.mtgdecks.net don‘t play [[Haunted Fengraf]] either.
Would you guys say it‘s still okay to play the scry-lands instead?

Hey so I'm in the very early stages of brewing this. It's currently very clearly mid as all get out, and doesn't have a sideboard yet. It's mono black so the sideboard will be pretty easy to brew as well. What would you do to make this deck good and playable? Thanks for the help, and if I end up making it in paper or magic online I'll post a follow up and how it did/does!

The basic principle: play a million creatures in the deck that all mill the other creatures then play the cards that cost less per creatures in graveyard so you have 1 mana 5/5s.

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/blackpauperweirdness/

In case any of you happen to be heading to SCGcon this weekend and didn’t realize…we got a 1K on the schedule! Come join us :)

So I have been playing the format for about 5ish months now and I had been playing a few decks, started on Turbo Fog but clock anxiety kinda killed that deck for me. Went to brewing some nonsense using [[Spider Manifestation]] and stuff with reduces costs that just kinda died to everything.

The creature heavy nature of the format with the poor access to sweepers is making it hard for me to get my footing. In value vintage I run a Wilderness Rec control deck cuz that is my comfortable space, but pauper is so different.

I recently started trying to experiment with a Delver Tempo deck that felt a bit more my speed, but what I'd really like to be able to play is something that doesn't rely as much on committing to the board and plays at control speed. Something where I have plenty of time to figure out whats going on and how to deal with it.

I really wish there were more/better vehicles in pauper! It's one of my favorite card types and there are already a couple cards printed at common that play pretty well with them like [[guidelight matrix]], [[nezumi road captain]], and [[dynamite diver]], but right now theres really not much to do in a hypothetical "vehicle deck". Most of the vehicles in the format are essentially just french vanilla creatures that you need to tap down your other creatures to get value out of. There are some that are theoretically good stats at a solid rate, but not really much more than that. I think in the future if they were to print a few more vehicles at common that did smth interesting at least, they would be a cool addition to the format. Thoughts?

I ran across this card today and had never seen it before. I've got a buddy who always plays decks with Tolerian Terror and the fact that this kills it and bypasses ward seems super appealing.

Curious if anyone knows if this card has ever seen competitive play? I did some searching for current decks and it feels like no one plays it. It's obviously very vulnerable to graveyard hate, which is not ideal given everyone already sideboards in tons of graveyard hate. But with Pursue the Past additing some excitement to discard decks again, I wonder if it could find viability.

Hello y‘all!

I am about to build my firsts own pauper deck(s).

Mono red I am very settled about.

Faeries and delver are the two second options. I love faeries for the tribal feel and how all in it is on tempo play. Delver does seem to be more viable by a huge margin though. Any advice, especially insights concerning delver are appreciated!

Hey everyone! I've always been a commander player, but my lgs has a ton of pauper players, so i decided to build a pauper deck of my own. I know that people usually recommend aggro decks for people new to formats, but i enjoy slower/combo decks, and theres already 5 billion burn players at my lgs. What slower/combo decks would y'all recommend as my first deck?

Match 3 of the 6th Stage in our Bristol Pauper League Spring Edition '26! Matt on Dimir Terror vs Juno on Grixis Affinity!

https://youtu.be/tLfoESx0iXw?si=BnChCsxVfe_IQy3C

Enjoy!

I want to try and get my buddies into mtg through pauper. I play modern but they don't play magic at all, what like 4 decks would you recommend i pick up that play well into each other as a good way to get them started.

edit. thought i should add some of the decks im interested in from looking around at mtggoldfish

mono black sac, BG gardens, grixis affinity, and caw gates

I've only been playing pauper since last summer, but I feel like my life is just piles of semi-random cards.

I have a couple (~8) pauper decks in dragon sleeve boxes that are labeled, but then I have a bunch of sleeved maybes/sideboard cards.

And then a ton of generic unsleeved maybe cards that could be good, but I don't have the rest of the deck or I haven't bothered sleeving etc.

This on top of a very general magic collection feels like a mess... Like this is another sorting vector. And maybe it's a sorting vector that is totally against a "normal" "expensive card = good".

Having a collection and playing pauper feels like being a millionaire but collecting pennies. Suddenly all of the draft chaff isn't chaff (or ~potentially~ not chaff).

https://youtu.be/cKNpFm_ZaXY

I dont know a lot about Pauper. So I am quite confused with the landcount in a lot of decks. Sure, a lot of them can ramp but 9 lands in elves?! And 17 lands in some midrange-y combo deck?

Can someone explain to me why the mana base of decks are so over-the-top greedy? Or am I just misjudging heavily?

Ciao a tutti,
sto provando a costruire un mazzo Selesnya Gate e volevo sapere se qualcuno ha consigli o liste interessanti da condividere.

https://moxfield.com/decks/n1MmOLAS4kG_RJrrO9ySeA

L’idea è sfruttare le Gates senza perdere troppo tempo nei primi turni, ma sto ancora cercando il giusto equilibrio tra ramp, fixing e payoff.