While it's hard to say that any card is a certainty, I think there are a couple of cards that you really have to have a good reason not to play them if you are playing the colors of those cards.
A couple of examples of these cards would include Eternal Witness, Fact or Fiction, Shriekmaw, Lightning Bolt, Swords to Plowshares, and Wasteland.
Wasteland would be the only card I would include in every deck I build, but depending on the colors I'm playing, there are certain cards that are just too good to ignore...
Nice data..
makes me smile when i see 2x spellstutter sprite (and a bunch of other 2x cos tt's definitely from me t8ing with the same deck twice)..
or executioner's capsule being so "highly played" (mainly in crosis control which was picked up by many pple)
one could probably take the most played cards of 2-3 colors and throw them together to make a deck that works.. lol..
...that has more to do with me not knowing the format at all. If this were standard pauper or extended I would have loved the soundless commentary-less video. I enjoy voice-overs too, but these have the benefit of being quick and dirty while still getting a point across.
That last comment was mine; I apparently wasn't logged in. Always seems better to take credit for your statements than to hide behind a wall of anonymity
I love this card. I even made a pauper deck of my own utilizing the land. I like that you keep trying to break it, but your 4-colour lists in pauper seem iffy. I like to stick to a 2 colour (U/G), splash red for Torch. In fact, you might want to try one of your sleeper card (Sprout Swarm) in a Cloudpost deck. When you're making obscene amounts of mana, it just seems good.
I love that you counted the number of times each card top 8'd, i don't think its usful when building my own decks but its handy as a sort of "snapshot" of the format.
The term staple is used too much in magical circles, 100 card Singleton doesn't have a completely defined metagame as yet and as such nothing can be deemed as a certainty in any list.
For anyone looking to get into the format,pick cards that are good for your gameplan/strategy (or extremely bad for your opponents strategy) over anything else.
I like that the videos were super short, but didn't like the complete silence that accompanied them. Some sort of commentary would have been lovely, but that would have likely extended their length (to fit everything in at a reasonable pace).
God and Wizards of the coast know i've played a LOT of magic 2010. Not that I love it so much, it's just that it fires so often. But the only baneslayers I ever opened were right at the beginning, when they "only" cost half as much as they do now. Think it was 2 (one of them foil) in the very first week. Then never again. -groan-.
It is really a Grinding* painter deck with Leyline and helm as alt wincons. I doubt charbelcher really fits in that design, as you need lands to play the other parts. I am not a classic player though so I leave the definitive answer to someone who is.
"You need at least 4-12" is a lot different from needing 50 or so. But even though that sounds a lot more reasonable it still makes it a tad expensive if you don't happen to have those cards to begin with. Also it seems odd to me to talk about a format that is supposedly wide open and talk about buying a deck. Shouldn't rogue builders be able to avoid buying? Maybe THAT should be the subject of your next article.
Dredge is a combo deck! i dont care if it can win via agro plan it is based on dredging up an obseen amount of cardss. just becasue it wins in the combat step does not an agro deck make. its like saying that sliver flash is not a combo deck because it can win via hardcasting slivers.
Cotton: I wasn't really sure whether I should make it 1 article or 2, I drafted it out as 1 article but it seemed quite long and I though it would be better to split it into 2.
Katastrophe: I would have run Soul's Majesty if I had it, but I'm now very glad I didn't because I found Drumhunter to be an exelcent card and the acceleration ir provides is more useful than I thought it would be. And about Rosheed Meanderer, I honestly didn't think of it.
I did play against some Tilling decks many months ago when it was popular. In my opinion, the reason it faltered was because it did not have as strong a draw package as thunder. It was also heavily reliant on the graveyard for card advantage. If you are going to rely on your graveyard, then you might as well play some form of Tortured Existence. This reliance makes Tilling Thunder more vulnerable to hate from the board in games 2 and 3. Though having never played the deck and only beating it many times, feel free to disprove me. Again, I look forward to your next piece.
While it's hard to say that any card is a certainty, I think there are a couple of cards that you really have to have a good reason not to play them if you are playing the colors of those cards.
A couple of examples of these cards would include Eternal Witness, Fact or Fiction, Shriekmaw, Lightning Bolt, Swords to Plowshares, and Wasteland.
Wasteland would be the only card I would include in every deck I build, but depending on the colors I'm playing, there are certain cards that are just too good to ignore...
Nice data..
makes me smile when i see 2x spellstutter sprite (and a bunch of other 2x cos tt's definitely from me t8ing with the same deck twice)..
or executioner's capsule being so "highly played" (mainly in crosis control which was picked up by many pple)
one could probably take the most played cards of 2-3 colors and throw them together to make a deck that works.. lol..
wager sounds difficult to police..
and yes, 100 card singleton is v fun~ =)
Yeah, how dare you make us skip over a link!!1
:sigh:
Thanks for the read!
...that has more to do with me not knowing the format at all. If this were standard pauper or extended I would have loved the soundless commentary-less video. I enjoy voice-overs too, but these have the benefit of being quick and dirty while still getting a point across.
To give commentary, because really, I hate my voice. Do you think that if instead of me talking some sort of music would have been fine there?
That last comment was mine; I apparently wasn't logged in. Always seems better to take credit for your statements than to hide behind a wall of anonymity
I love this card. I even made a pauper deck of my own utilizing the land. I like that you keep trying to break it, but your 4-colour lists in pauper seem iffy. I like to stick to a 2 colour (U/G), splash red for Torch. In fact, you might want to try one of your sleeper card (Sprout Swarm) in a Cloudpost deck. When you're making obscene amounts of mana, it just seems good.
lol fatties
I love that you counted the number of times each card top 8'd, i don't think its usful when building my own decks but its handy as a sort of "snapshot" of the format.
The term staple is used too much in magical circles, 100 card Singleton doesn't have a completely defined metagame as yet and as such nothing can be deemed as a certainty in any list.
For anyone looking to get into the format,pick cards that are good for your gameplan/strategy (or extremely bad for your opponents strategy) over anything else.
What the hell is that mono green spiders deck?
I like that the videos were super short, but didn't like the complete silence that accompanied them. Some sort of commentary would have been lovely, but that would have likely extended their length (to fit everything in at a reasonable pace).
God and Wizards of the coast know i've played a LOT of magic 2010. Not that I love it so much, it's just that it fires so often. But the only baneslayers I ever opened were right at the beginning, when they "only" cost half as much as they do now. Think it was 2 (one of them foil) in the very first week. Then never again. -groan-.
It is really a Grinding* painter deck with Leyline and helm as alt wincons. I doubt charbelcher really fits in that design, as you need lands to play the other parts. I am not a classic player though so I leave the definitive answer to someone who is.
"You need at least 4-12" is a lot different from needing 50 or so. But even though that sounds a lot more reasonable it still makes it a tad expensive if you don't happen to have those cards to begin with. Also it seems odd to me to talk about a format that is supposedly wide open and talk about buying a deck. Shouldn't rogue builders be able to avoid buying? Maybe THAT should be the subject of your next article.
Anyone think it would be possible to combine/throw in a Charbelcher into the Helm/Leyline deck?
am i the one talking about the deck josh? hee hee
and darn bazaar for getting this out early!
Dredge is a combo deck! i dont care if it can win via agro plan it is based on dredging up an obseen amount of cardss. just becasue it wins in the combat step does not an agro deck make. its like saying that sliver flash is not a combo deck because it can win via hardcasting slivers.
I will leave my comment for my next article, because of a similiar discussion with few friends:)
Your articles make me want to play pauper ... great job
Thanks for the constructive critism guys.
Cotton: I wasn't really sure whether I should make it 1 article or 2, I drafted it out as 1 article but it seemed quite long and I though it would be better to split it into 2.
Katastrophe: I would have run Soul's Majesty if I had it, but I'm now very glad I didn't because I found Drumhunter to be an exelcent card and the acceleration ir provides is more useful than I thought it would be. And about Rosheed Meanderer, I honestly didn't think of it.
I did play against some Tilling decks many months ago when it was popular. In my opinion, the reason it faltered was because it did not have as strong a draw package as thunder. It was also heavily reliant on the graveyard for card advantage. If you are going to rely on your graveyard, then you might as well play some form of Tortured Existence. This reliance makes Tilling Thunder more vulnerable to hate from the board in games 2 and 3. Though having never played the deck and only beating it many times, feel free to disprove me. Again, I look forward to your next piece.
Please god tell me you realize it was a joke.
Great that affinity still gets covered :-)
-Casual Affinity fan saying thanks
Most of the pauper decks have around 4-12 "expensive cards", so if you like only one or two decks you can buy them pretty cheap :)
I just gave this deck a try in my first pauper game, it seems both fun and powerful :) Thanks for the videos, they really sold me on trying pauper!
Yea I am with you, I learned so much from those videos.