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Post by nyukon on Feb 3, 2013 3:18:49 GMT -5
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Post by grapplingfarang on Feb 4, 2013 7:23:56 GMT -5
About 30 minutes in now, think I better clear some things up, feel like I am coming off a little bit dramatic about being done. Right when the bannings happened I had a lot of people asking me what I was going to play (I had a lot of messages on MTGO and basically every website that could be MTG related.) Not knowing what I would be playing after the bannings, I said I would be taking a break from a format. A lot of that also had to do with me being pretty focused on brewing for the Legacy MOCS championship, having a couple modern decks that I had monied with and thought were on the verge of breaking out, and ZZW/cube drafts coming up. It also made it harder because I have been been quietly tweaking a Zombie deck for a month or two and playing in 2-mans, and always think about breaking it out for first time in Daily. The problem with that replacing it as the deck for me was that it's best matchups are Storm, Infect, and it destroys other black decks which should all not exist or be much less of contenders in this metagame. I don't really enjoy netdecking, and whichever format I prefer to play my own builds that I tweak to a metagame, and it will take time and attention which is in a couple other formats during my magic time right now.
Another reason I want to take a break from the format is that I am curious to try brewing with Gatecrash, and feel like with people still playing old stuff after bannings, and Gatecrash not being online quite yet it is a bit of a dead end format for a little bit. I do want to try brewing Simic in Pauper, but need to wait. This is a rough list that I will start brewing and tweaking on when the format is available online.
4x Cloudfin Raptor 4x Llanowar Elves 4x Coiling Oracle 4x Shorecrasher Mimic 4x Shambleshark 2x Drakewing Krasis 2x Blastoderm 4x Rancor 4xTemporal 4x Memory Lapse 4x Preordain
I don't want to get into mana base, as that takes a lot of tweaking, but basic idea will be to disrupt the opponent by putting cards on top of deck (hopefully cloudposts.)
Even though I'm not going anywhere, I am disappointed by the bannings. For one, I am one of the people that think Cloudpost is going to be to powerful in this new metagame and that Fissure Storm may be appearing in a number higher than people like. It is not about these just being the decks that are left, it is more about the threat of early turn deaths being gone. I think it is much like Standard with Thragtusk and Sphinx's Revelation, but Pauper does not have the offensive threats to go over the top. I think that the metagame may end up in a not fun place quickly, and before long something may have to be done about some combination of Cloudpost, Ghostly Flicker, and Cloud of Faeries. I could also end up being wrong, this is just what I think will happen from my experiences. I was playing a lot when Fissure Storm was at it's strongest, and have seen how much some of the top Cloudpost players have had to adjust to have a chance to win against Infect and Storm, and I don't think it will be balanced to have these in the format without Strong early threats.
I am also disappointed in that I think the format may not be as fun for me personally. The two main things that I enjoyed about Pauper was how evenly the metagame was split between combo, aggro, and control and I also enjoyed how intense some decisions were starting at the first turn. Legacy is my favorite format, and I saw Pauper as almost a more linear legacy. I see more bannings eventually happening that will make the format powered down a little. This could be good for a lot of people, but I may enjoy it less. That is fine, I am not planning on going anywhere, but if I have magic time I may not play as much if other formats catch my eye.
I have also had a lot of people asking how pissed I am, or if I am mad at WOTC. I think this is a little bit silly. This is WOTC's game, and ultimately they are doing what they think is best for it. For a long time WOTC has said that they viewed Pauper as a gateway into other formats, so am not hugely surprised about the bannings, as I think they may want to make it slightly more new player friendly. I think that they may have not payed much attention to the format, and are going to quickly have to ban more to make a more balanced format, but they are trying to do what they think is best.
That kind of turned into an essay, but I was afraid I came off a bit like a whiny bitch with me saying I would take a break. I'm not going anywhere, just had a lot of people asking what I will play, and am really enjoying other things right now and not quite ready to focus on Pauper quite yet again.
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Post by RockBass on Feb 4, 2013 10:18:02 GMT -5
Nah, I didn't feel you came across as a whiny bitch. It was more that you're a high profile Pauper player, so I felt your opinion was worth mentioning.
Much like someone would ask Pat Chapin or LSV about a standard banning.
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Post by mikeyk159 on Feb 4, 2013 13:58:15 GMT -5
yeah I am sorry if you thought I was calling you a whiny bitch, I didn't mean it to sound that way.
While I agree, again, that the banning of empty the warrens was a very bad choice, I don't think the format will become dominated by Cloudpost as there are plenty of decks that can beat it. But I could easily be wrong as well.
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Post by grapplingfarang on Feb 4, 2013 20:06:02 GMT -5
Oh no, I didn't think you guys were calling me that. I did say I was going to take a break from the format, and looking back on it I thought it could be looked at like I was saying if I can't play that I'm not playing at all. I'm still not used to twitter and fitting my messages in 140 characters yet.
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Post by mikeyk159 on Feb 4, 2013 20:55:39 GMT -5
I keep telling all of you! TWITTER IS EVILLLLLLL!!!!!
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Post by avery61 on Feb 4, 2013 22:00:21 GMT -5
I keep telling all of you! TWITTER IS EVILLLLLLL!!!!! Agreed ~ 140 characters or less! Hell I can't even say hello in that amount of space.
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Post by uno337ftw on Feb 6, 2013 20:24:27 GMT -5
Do you guys have a link to Aaron's UW anti-post deck list?
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Post by RockBass on Feb 7, 2013 10:16:19 GMT -5
Nate, do you have that link for the U/W anti-post deck handy? I'm at work and can't access it.
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