@@jadegrace1312 Pauper is in a fantastic shape right now, and while some sideboard card are big hosers (see vs affinity), they serve to balance more powerful decks
@@jadegrace1312 It's not that bad, unless it's affinity or mono-red aggro, two of the best supported archetypes in pauper and a perennial plague, only kept around because they're easy to hate out. Phil happened to be playing a red deck with artifact lands that happens to not be the most powerful at the moment. Getting your lands destroyed that easy is not that bad if you can pop off before. The eldrazi and delver decks he played against are a bit more resilient. Mono red is a bit faster and can live through some counterspells better. Phil in particular has little knowledge of the format, so adjusting the deck, mulligans and sideboarding are difficult. Those Galvanic Blasts need to come off if they're going to be shocks and Faithless Looting is one of the best spells in the deck. On the very first game, for example, he keeps a blast (with no artifacts) and a Fiery Temper (while putting back all spells that let him cast it for 1). no matter what, he'd still bite it to the armadillo cloak and the opponent siding and drawing 2 (probably all) Freewind Falcons is just bad luck against someone overly prepared against mono-red.
@@jadegrace1312 pauper sideboards are not nearly as hoser-y as modern/legacy. Pyroblast and hydroblast are the good type of "hoser" where game can still happen after they resolve unlike chalice of the void/moon effects/rest in peace et al. Currently, there are two lingering hosers in the pauper format gorilla shaman and CoP:blue. I think gorilla shaman is a fine play pattern as long as the bridges are legal. I do think all CoP should be banned on principle, but atm only one deck plays it in the sideboard. And it plays only CoP:blue at only 2.
@@fel_95 I mean it's somewhat diverse, except there are no viable control shells except for UR Control and even then it is basically only doing well in tournaments if your name is Spock.
I imagine this deck had been in the queue for a while, it won the first major championship with MH3 and then disappeared completely when Writhing Chrysalis dominated.
Your recap is exactly how I've felt every time I've registered this deck for anything. I took a Rakdos list to a $2K before MH3 in a burn heavy meta and lost to myself more than anyone else. It just feels clunky. When the deck went off, it felt amazing. When it doesn't, it just feels bad to cast most of the cards. And eventually, I feel like I always run out of enablers, especially blood tokens.
I wonder how well you would do in Timeless with your legacy knowledge. Would be interesting to see but i doubt it's ever happening since you would have to play arena for that.
No idea why these decks aren't playing Burning Inquiry. Seems like the nuts. The pauper-legal Rootwalla, along with cards like Collateral Damage and Reckless Abandon to repeatedly sacrifice the Snackers. The tap lands are inconvenient, and they're not mountains.
@@ThrabenUniversity I am so sorry you got it personal. Does trying to correct me help you to seQuence better your plays or you are still that bad? Let me know if you wish so, I will start raging at people in that case too!
"The only two certainties in life are death and Phil facing the absolute worst match possible in the first round", Benjamin Franklin
Snacker is indeed one of the best cards in the Terror match-up. Especially if they are playing Delver.
Look, when everything else is broken, Pauper stands... playable.
It does not look particularly playable to me. The average sideboard card is just an insane hoser it's pretty lame.
@@jadegrace1312 Pauper is in a fantastic shape right now, and while some sideboard card are big hosers (see vs affinity), they serve to balance more powerful decks
@@jadegrace1312 It's not that bad, unless it's affinity or mono-red aggro, two of the best supported archetypes in pauper and a perennial plague, only kept around because they're easy to hate out.
Phil happened to be playing a red deck with artifact lands that happens to not be the most powerful at the moment. Getting your lands destroyed that easy is not that bad if you can pop off before. The eldrazi and delver decks he played against are a bit more resilient. Mono red is a bit faster and can live through some counterspells better.
Phil in particular has little knowledge of the format, so adjusting the deck, mulligans and sideboarding are difficult. Those Galvanic Blasts need to come off if they're going to be shocks and Faithless Looting is one of the best spells in the deck.
On the very first game, for example, he keeps a blast (with no artifacts) and a Fiery Temper (while putting back all spells that let him cast it for 1). no matter what, he'd still bite it to the armadillo cloak and the opponent siding and drawing 2 (probably all) Freewind Falcons is just bad luck against someone overly prepared against mono-red.
@@jadegrace1312 pauper sideboards are not nearly as hoser-y as modern/legacy. Pyroblast and hydroblast are the good type of "hoser" where game can still happen after they resolve unlike chalice of the void/moon effects/rest in peace et al. Currently, there are two lingering hosers in the pauper format gorilla shaman and CoP:blue. I think gorilla shaman is a fine play pattern as long as the bridges are legal. I do think all CoP should be banned on principle, but atm only one deck plays it in the sideboard. And it plays only CoP:blue at only 2.
@@fel_95 I mean it's somewhat diverse, except there are no viable control shells except for UR Control and even then it is basically only doing well in tournaments if your name is Spock.
you call it a rare pauper video, but when you think about it, it's rather...common 😎
Please don’t bring in cast into fire against anything that’s not affinity or burn 😂😂😂 love pauper content
yeah lmao it would have been better in the match vs eldrazi to have sneaky snacker
I imagine this deck had been in the queue for a while, it won the first major championship with MH3 and then disappeared completely when Writhing Chrysalis dominated.
thanks for returning to the format, I enjoyed this a lot. Pls play more pauper!
Your recap is exactly how I've felt every time I've registered this deck for anything. I took a Rakdos list to a $2K before MH3 in a burn heavy meta and lost to myself more than anyone else. It just feels clunky. When the deck went off, it felt amazing. When it doesn't, it just feels bad to cast most of the cards. And eventually, I feel like I always run out of enablers, especially blood tokens.
modern horizons set's have made pauper into a decently cool format since i last played it 6 ish years ago
Kitchen Imp is one of my favorite cards, and Pauper, one of my favorite formats. Nice to see it in a deck!
That Writhing Chrysalis was very silly in MH3 limited too. It's up there with Ajani and Psychic Frog on that format. Might have been better as a rare.
yayy Pauper
YES, PAUPER VIDEO, LET'S GOOOOOO
Just sleeved this up a few days ago :)
How do I get you to play Zubera Storm in Pauper?
Wake up babe, new pauper video just dropped!
29:10 I believe if you use blood token instead of Faithless to discard Snacker I gets into play right away...
I wonder how well you would do in Timeless with your legacy knowledge. Would be interesting to see but i doubt it's ever happening since you would have to play arena for that.
Legacy folks, don’t feel bad. RDW wins on turn three in standard right now. Everything is a mess.
We love it when Phil plays Pauper! Rep the best format 😍😍😍😍
Unironically, Phill would get better results with the monoblack burn version
Pauper!
W000000t Pauper for life
No idea why these decks aren't playing Burning Inquiry. Seems like the nuts. The pauper-legal Rootwalla, along with cards like Collateral Damage and Reckless Abandon to repeatedly sacrifice the Snackers. The tap lands are inconvenient, and they're not mountains.
nice
no psychic frog in pauper :)
yeahhh... sideboarding cast into fire vs gruul cascade and dredge is not ideal to say the least
I see pauper, I click
I miss hill giant
That second match... Not a single good sequence
*sequence Thanks for trying to look smart though!
@@ThrabenUniversity I am so sorry you got it personal. Does trying to correct me help you to seQuence better your plays or you are still that bad? Let me know if you wish so, I will start raging at people in that case too!
Rakdos madness is one of the most overrated decks in pauper, yes. Your thoughts are pretty close to the truth
PLAY STANDARD
You can ask nicely 😭
Alternatively, don't ask at all. People only play standard when Wizards forces it for RCQ season lol
@@Martian_Manhunter Standard has overall been the best constructed format over the past year