Since I last wrote of Pauper, much has changed on MTGO! Included here are a full MTGO field archetype breakdown, multiple new decklists, and reader questions from Twitter.
Dylan Lerch
Dylan Lerch is a professional poker player currently living in Houston, TX. After discovering Magic: the Gathering in 1995, it's been the only hobby that's stuck with him from grade school through post-college adulthood. Notable Magical achievements include a top 8 at the Stronghold prerelease, Notable qualities include a second-degree black belt, sporting a permanent beard, and living in the suburbs with his best friend Valeri and a giant pack of dogs. Finally graduating beyond filling stacks of spiral-bound notebooks full of partial decklists, he started writing The Brewery in October, 2010, eventually landing him his spot on the Quiet Speculation team.
Jund is one of the top decks in the Extended format, and here is everything you should need to supplement your playtesting with it for Grand Prix: Atlanta!
Taking a look at the best finishing Jund decklists in the early PTQ Nagoya season to create a baselane “consensus” list.
Pauper is the best format that you’re probably not playing. A healthy Eternal format with some of the coolest decks you’ll find? And it costs a fraction of any other Constructed format you can find!
There was a time when this deck was flying under the radar (well, as much as arguably the strongest deck from last season can really do) and the best reason to bring in a card like Kiln Fiend or Frost Titan was that your opponent simply sideboarded out their removal for game 2! This would also put your hapless opponent in a difficult decision for game 3 […]
