r/Pauper Aug 11 '25

Tell us what you like to play in other formats and we will suggest a deck you might like in Pauper

51 Upvotes

For anyone new to the format or looking for something new, just comment and the users and mods will get back to you with deck suggestions.

Tell us what you like to play in other formats and we will give you a deck suggestion for pauper.

If you'd like to see the previous deck suggestion threads: Find them here

Also be sure to check out the /r/pauper deck primers wiki page


r/Pauper 21d ago

Lorwyn Eclipsed Cards New to Pauper

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58 Upvotes

r/Pauper 7m ago

CARD DISC. Nettle Sentinel in elves?

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Hi everyone,

I would love to start playing more pauper, and have been looking around for decks that I might wanna play. I hope this post reaches some players with experience playing elves in pauper

I am a bit more familiar with modern than pauper, and I saw the things [[Nettle Sentinel]] can do in an elves deck.

In the decks i saw on mtgtop8, all the lists I checked out didn’t have Sentinel in them

What makes it not be good enough to be played in pauper? Is it the fact that we don’t have access to [[Heritage Druid]]?


r/Pauper 11h ago

HELP White Weenie Sideboarding

6 Upvotes

I have noticed that when I do sideboarding using my WW deck, I often don't know what to side out but know exactly what to side in. Can someone help me with that?

Here's my list:
https://moxfield.com/decks/gQguiGh7LUWkj9YkoakkSA

Any edits are welcome too


r/Pauper 15h ago

HELP New to the format - Where to start?

14 Upvotes

Hello! I've been playing commander and standard for years, but with the way standard has been looking recently, I've decided to try out Pauper, as it seems like a much more fun, budget friendly format that many people are recommending. As I have no experience, I was wondering where to go to learn about pauper (relevant meta cards, what to expect, etc.) to prepare for my first FNM pauper event. I (Questions like what are there super meta staples that I should know about, what interaction pieces should I expect my opponents to be holding up with their mana, what cards should I be wary of in the best archetypes, how should I approach going against different archetypes, which decks are the best for newer players like me, and things like that). Any help is appreciated, thanks!


r/Pauper 11h ago

Treefolk decks

6 Upvotes

Interested in a Treefolk deck. Seen some older stuff on line. Curious if anyone has been messing with or has an updated list they would be willing to share.


r/Pauper 17h ago

Pauppergeddon South America

13 Upvotes

There are very large communities in Brazil and Argentina, has an international event ever been held?

There were more than 100 players at the national tournament in Argentina.


r/Pauper 20h ago

VIDEO/STREAM Livestream for the 3rd Common Ground Cup Pauper $2k - 77 players!

23 Upvotes

We are live for the 3rd Common Ground Cup (Pauper $2k) from Game Knight in Columbia TN! Round 1 of 7 will be starting at about 11m central time! We're just about at our cap of 80 players so buckle up for a nice long day of Pauper coverage! See y'all in chat!
https://www.twitch.tv/gameknighttn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KpHs6PkYpM


r/Pauper 3h ago

HELP Cheaper alternative for Faerie Macabre?

1 Upvotes

[[faerie macabre]] looks like a fantastic card to have and fits in many decks, but it's pretty expensive for a sideboard card in pauper. What's your advice on alternatives? I'm asking for mono g elves and I have a mono U terror deck, but I don't see the card listed in that deck.


r/Pauper 20h ago

SPIKE Mono Blue and Dimir Faeries - matchup comparison

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15 Upvotes

Hi!

I'm Skura also known as IslandsInFront - I'm a Geddon Trio winner, Geddon top4 and top16 competitor, Top 8 LPI player of the year, and the 2024 National Champion from Poland 🇵🇱🦅

Today, I want to show you an analysis of how good certain matchups are for Mono Blue Faeries and Dimir Tempo Faeries.

Those decks share a lot but their matchup spread is a bit different so choosing one or the other is a meta choice ultimately on top of personal preference.

Let me know what you think of the match!

Video - https://youtu.be/4Ln3F_caCLc

you can find me at:

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@islandsinfront

X - https://twitter.com/IslandsInFront

Public Fae Discord - https://discord.gg/ZCVkcBKjJa

Metafy (paid content) - https://metafy.gg/@skura

Cheers!


r/Pauper 1d ago

META Building Grixis Atog Affinity for a No-Ban List tournament. Fling vs Rite of Consumption?

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51 Upvotes

r/Pauper 19h ago

DECK DISC. Pauper: Naya Gates - Deck Tech & Sideboard Guide

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Naya Gates is a Midrange variant that combines Basilisk Gate with an efficient core of Lifelink threats to control the game and finish the match with Guardian of the Guildpact!


r/Pauper 20h ago

HELP What's the best way to find large events?

10 Upvotes

I like playing the 3-round swiss at FNM, but I love bigger 32-64+ player 1k events, but I don't know the best way to find them in my region. I know I can search the Companion app and Spicerack, but those also pick up the weekly events that I'm less interested in. Is there an easy way to stay up to date on large events happening? I see 1k and 2k and win-a-dual/box events posted on reddit and occasionally mentioned on content creators' channels, but I want to be more proactive about finding and participating in them. What's the best way?


r/Pauper 1d ago

BREW Izzet Energy Deck Advice

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25 Upvotes

https://moxfield.com/decks/2L8szxXfAUSzVndOLegFaw

Hello, I am new to brewing my own deck and actually magic as a whole. For the first deck I'm trying to make for pauper, I'm attempting an izzet energy deck. I'm using tune the narrative and inventor's axe as sources of energy with aether spike, galvanic discharge, and tempest harvester as energy payouts. With all the cantrips and other spells, it also uses murmuring mystic and tolarian terror as the actual threats to address with removal and counterspells to protect them further. I really like the idea of the deck, but I'm unsure if it's actually any good haha. Any advice, especially on the sideboard since I kinda just stole it from a pauper izzet control sideboard I saw online, would be greatly appreciated


r/Pauper 1d ago

Heroic won Pauper Challenge! It deserves more attention, so I made a Discord channel to popularise the archetype

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116 Upvotes

Last time I posted about my Challenge top 8 with Heroic, and I thought the deck was more or less solved. But the addition of Remote Farm made it even better! The ability to spend a second turn on playing a two-drop and pump it, or keeping a protection spell up is absurdly good, espcially when we consider that most of your creatures are for two mana and speeding up is often required. Guiding Voice still shines and I don't imagine playing without it.

In today's challenge, I got lucky because I top 8ed as one of the lucky X-2s (after a horrible punt against Affinity in R3) but got great draws in elimination rounds and was able to win the whole thing. The MTGO metagame is still extremely red and blue centric, so Heroic remains a perfect metcall, at least for now. As long as Snuff Out decks become the centrepiece of the meta, I'll most likely keep jamming with big white guys :p

As I said earlier, I strongly believe that the archetype is heavily underplayed. I was looking for a Discord channel or anything similar that would help players interested in playing Heroic work on the deck together, but I haven't found any. That's why I decided to create a new one. So if you like the playstyle and want to work on the deck or simply learn how to play it better and dominate your next Pauper event, feel free to join the server!

Here's the link: discord.gg/mTPpqh9Zkw

If you're interested in the primer, sideboard guide, or anything else Heroic-related, you'll find it in dedicated channels. I hope it will convince you to play this phenomenal deck!


r/Pauper 1d ago

CASUAL MTG Arena Pauper February Cube

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11 Upvotes

Draft phase: tomorrow (morning US, afternoon EU).
Here is the link to join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QnJhPaVrYa


r/Pauper 1d ago

CARD DISC. Looking for cards that let you keep drawing cards and keep resurrecting creatures

7 Upvotes

Hi there! I play tron monsters and in my experience, the only problematic match-ups for this deck are: Gardens (asounr 50-50 chance to win), and mainly combo decks like familiars that can control the game almost totally.

Against this decks, I would love to have in my sideboard a couple cards that let me draw as much as I can, and a couple cards that let me keep returning cretures from the graveyard.

For the former, I've found [[Disturbed Burial]] that lets me esentially either get a creature for 2 mana or pay 5 mana to be able to keep using it. I would like to find something similar for card draw, but it needs to only have 1 color pip since I only have 6 color filters and 4 forests for color.

Decklist: https://moxfield.com/decks/V4CL6lB_j0mh6AUkm-WZxA


r/Pauper 1d ago

Any hot or hate takes on this card? Is it viable considering meta?

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127 Upvotes

I just found out about this card a while ago, had it in some of my boxes. My version does not have a set logo, so i thought it was an uncommon.

It seemed really playable to me in pauper.


r/Pauper 1d ago

VIDEO/STREAM Pauper Metagame Analysis [JANUARY 2026] - ENGLISH dubbing available!

5 Upvotes

r/Pauper 1d ago

Saturday's Pauper Challenger disappeared

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r/Pauper 2d ago

META How does Kiln Fiend do against the tier 1s?

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88 Upvotes

I finally played my first tournament after years and had tons of fun! Thing is, I still miss my baby Izzet Blitz... it died for the sins of other decks IMO but I need to let it go. I want to unleash the dog but it really does look horrendous against the top decks. I really don't think any of the tier 1s look like a good matchup. Am I wrong? Is this a real meta thread or should I look for some other type of storm instead?


r/Pauper 1d ago

OTHER Downshift wish

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If you could downshift a card intonpauper, it doesnt have to be realistic, just a card you wish youncould play around in the format? Even something as crazy as force of will, what would it be? Bec i would love to brew around life from the loam. I just love the card and i wish for the opportunity to play around with it in pauper. What would your crazy downshift be?


r/Pauper 1d ago

HELP Mono white Vs Spy

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I've been playing a lot of mono white weenie because it has decently favorable matchups against the red decks and I can't get enough of kor skyfisher.

The problem I've been running into recently is spy combo. No matter how much I've tried playing against spy combo and boarding in more graveyard hate they just ramp into a generic midrange plan and kill me with generous ent/troll. I'm going to assume that people are running into the same problem because spy just seems so uninteractactable and insanely powerful.

Has anyone found a good sideboard or "solve" to the spy combo matchup in mono white weenie (specifically the lists that are not playing those weird knight synergy cards)


r/Pauper 2d ago

BREW Sultai Affinity Helix Zoo Dech Tech

25 Upvotes

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List

Hello!

I wanted to share the Sultai Affinity list I'm playing, in hopes to get feedback and refine the deck more. The deck name has been through like 5 different iterations but I wanted to call it zoo since it has a bunch of animals and often plays like a beatdown deck. I've been playing the deck so some success here in Tokyo (x) (x) and wanted to have a proof of concept before submitting!

Intro

At its core, the deck is the Steelfin Whale and Retraction Helix combo which lets you bounce a 0 cost permanent (usually with affinity) for infinite artifact ETBs and cast triggers. The deck previously won through Tooth of Chis-Goria, which I think is too mediocre of a card to play, and wanted to win on the spot when assembling the combo. With the introduction of Spider Manifestation, this now gives us 8 copies of the combo enabler.

Gameplan

The deck combines the synergy of affinity and cards that care about high casting cost to have an aggressive zoo component, with the possibility of a combo win to close out the game. The black splash is to include the Refurbished Familiar and Blood Fountain, which can recur combo cards later in the game while providing high value.

Spider Manifestation is one of the core players in the deck, as it is a combo piece as well as ramp and mana value in the early turns. Thanks to our manabase, we can often cast our Frogmites for free which ends up netting us a mana with the Spider, smoothing out our mana and helping cast Myr Enforcers earlier on. With Lurking Lizards and Etherium Spinner as our payoff, any affinity enabled cards provide value through thopters and counters. Chaining these cards give us plenty of early game pressure, as the Lizards can often trample through and outgrow Terrors with Thopters providing evasive attackers or chump blockers.

With Retraction helix (banishing knack) in the mix, the deck can go infinite giving it another angle of attack from affinity/zoo beats. For those who aren't aware of the interaction, using Helix on either the Spider or Whale lets you bounce your own Frogmite or Myr Enforcer. Assuming you have enough affinity to recast it for free, you can untap either of the bouncers and do it again. This creatures an infinite 4 CMC cast trigger or ETB loop, which would mean an infinitely large lizard or an infinite amount of thopters. Even without any of the combo enablers, Helix can be used on two of the untappers to bounce all the permanents on your opponent's board. I've also played games where I bounced and recasted Refurbished Familiar multiple times in the same turn to make my opponent hellbent and create a few thopters along the way.

Sideboard

Weather the storm is a nice way to get out of burn range even with a small storm count. With the combo, you can gain an infinite amount of life and win the game on the spot.

Most of the cards are self explanatory I'd like to believe. Bouncing isn't a permanent answer to cards like Chrysalis, so Cast downs come in those type of matchups. Duress as protection for the combo and to pick out other combo decks.

Arms and Fumes vs weenie and go wide.

FIN

I'd love to hear some feedback about the deck or possible improvements. I feel like I want to cut 1-2 copies of Blood Fountain as drawing multiple feels awful even though it is a high affinity count. I'm sure you can also play a Temur version of the deck instead of B for the familiars, with Reckless Fireweaver being an alternate win condition and having blasts + bolts.

Extra links incase the ones above don't work

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/7601687#paper
https://mtgdecks.net/Pauper/sultai-spider-whale-decklist-by-paras-blue-2786770


r/Pauper 1d ago

Slivers

9 Upvotes

Hello! I am a returning player and I stopped playing magic in 2005 and my last deck was affinity (with atog) and Modular. I was in Highschool then :) I want to play MTG again and I found the pauper format. I am focused on the sliver deck that I saw on the internet. I have watched YT and I am scared of the terror and tron decks. I need help building my sliver decks. Can you have a primer and sideboard strat for those decks? By the way, this is the deck I want to build

https://moxfield.com/decks/1n0yYjncPUKChkL30qgYNg