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UR has a lot of defacto storm cards already you could run: talrand, sky summoner, kiln fiend, nivix cyclops. U tempo has a bunch of cards that also work well with upping spell count: snap, gitaxian probe, gush, ponder, brainstorm. Mutagenic growth and aspostle blessing also fit in storm...

I haven't really played the affinity lists, though they look super sweet to play; i've just had an unhealthy obsession with tron decks since I first played Izzet tron and Triscuit tron back in Ravinca/time spiral standard lol. I think I will try running more haunted fengraf in the main to help...

So, I took a stab at converting your mono green tron list to pauper. I really like the idea of it so far, though I am trying it GU (which might be wrong). I can't really go with the crusher-gauntlets strategy that you ran, because, well no gauntlets. Crusher is pretty vulnerable otherwise...

Oddly enough, I just played against a list that tried to kill me with jace's erasure. His plan was to just ritual/metamorphosis out a bunch of card draw with erasure in play, but was vulnerable to sb annuls. I like your hightide version better. Is it soft to counter magic game 1 though...

Here is the Banned list: If it was printed as a common at some point, its legal. Both those decks look super sweet. I don't think i've seen a pauper list abusing high tide, which seems odd. I love the tron list. I've always liked tron, but the pauper tron lists i've seen all look really...

So I was randomly googling for treasure cruise v. gush, and it turns out someone wrote a book on playing gush. Oh Stephen Menendian...how you never fail to disappoint. In restrospect, I think I horribly misbuilt and misplayed the deck. I was trying to be much too controlling with far too...

Like this? Ok, thats awsome. Thats really similar to a mono U delver list. The core of the deck is traditionally: x4 delver, x4 cloud of faeries, x4 spellstutter sprite, and x4 ninja of the deep hours. Than thats backed up with some counters, snap, and spire golem We just don't have...

I saw you mention it in a post a while back that you ran a league. I couldn't remember if it was pauper or peasent though. I played the format for the first time last night in my first mtgo tournment (lets not talk about the results haha) but it was a lot of fun. I ran a mono U delver build...

I just signed up for MTGO and have been messing around with pauper. Anyone here play the format? I know Onderzeeboot played a lot of peasent(?) back in the day. Also, wow this client.

I don't think the two really belong in the same zone of comparison. Cloudfin is basically just a traditional aggro creature you want to curve out with; Delver decks are more about establishing a board position using very cheap and powerful threats, and than being able to protect that board...

If you have a cube with a lot of impactful creatures with low default toughness, darkblast is an extremely fun value removal spell (dark confidant, delver of secrets, stormkirk noble, champion of the parish, young pyromancer, noble hierarch ect.). I love figuring out how to use various draw...

I would put you in the middle of the road. You're more of a tempo deck (delver, remand, seeker, riftwing, daze, figure), but with excellent midrange tools to generate card advantage and threat resilency if your tempo plan is disrupted (true-name, lingering souls, jitte). You have the tools to...

It really depends on what kind of decks you want delver to go into: the spectrum of delver aggro-control is pretty broad. Generally, the more aggroish the lists are, the more important an early delver is, while the more controlling the list is, the less essential it is. There is also the...

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That makes a lot of sense. In KTK the common morph cycle (ponyback brigade ect) worked at a very high power level relative to what you normally pickup at common. Your drafters, in comparison, have a lot more valid non-morph alternatives. In addition, in KTK, the formats main issue for the...

debt of loyalty Instant speed and in white.

I'm thinking more along the lines of lotus petal with cards like entomb and reanimate; you pretty much have a nasty combo deck right there. Though I think my main concern is the question you pointed out: do we really want to enable breaking the curve? Is turn 2 birthing pod ok, or a turn...

Yeah, i've been following Steve about the Delver decks on his podcast and on the mana drain, and prior to the VSL I think I was sold on his theory. However, when he was playing it as a hard control deck he ended up throwing games to LSV that seemed unlosable, and when he shifted to actually...

Breaking singleton can be tricky. Sometimes its good to do for a while just because it increases the chance that people will explore an archetype or part of your cube, sometimes you might want to do it to get information about how well an idea works, other times its essential to do to have...

Thats funny, I had the exact same thoughts. It seemed like you could be way behind off of your opening 7 to a degree and frequency that I've never seen in any other format, with no set of decisions that the player could make to change that. Yet, you might still have 10 minutes or so of...