Pauper - Mardu Enchantress - Room for Improvement?
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Posted on June 8, 2019, 4:30 p.m. by StopShot
Auratocracy
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I want to build a competitive or semi-competitive pauper deck that utilizes the colors red-white-black. () Budget is not an issue. My meta mainly consists of heavy control that builds up on card advantage over time. (Mono-Black Devotion and Izzet Draw & Ping are the decks I'd like a fair shot at beating.)
My deck's main purpose is to use and re-use cheap removal spells while also producing durable chump-blockers. I've yet to build this deck, but I wanted to throw the idea out to people to get some second opinions before committing to assembling it. I'd like to know 4 things:
1.) Is the manabase appropriately optimized for this deck?
2.) Is there any cards I missed that should definitely be in this deck?
3.) What aspects about this deck might need further improvements? (Ex: Needs an earlier boardstate, needs more win-conditions, needs a better removal package, needs life gain, etc.)
4.) I've thought about making room to add Tortured Existence and Grave Scrabbler into the deck for greater card recursion, but I'm not sure if that would dilute too much away from my deck's strategy. Thoughts?
@Blue_Flame, I thought about Answered Prayers . It's only really consistent if I have a sac outlet meaning it would only work with my other wincon Bogardan Dragonheart or by chance of top-decking a creature. If I want another aerial beater I'd like it to work more independently or have a more direct synergy with my deck.
Blue_Flame says... #2
Your manabase seems pretty good, I don't think 6 taplands is too little, plus you have Ash Barrens to find the basics you need.
I think your deck could utilize the new Answered Prayers from Modern Horizons pretty well - you have a decent number of creatures and plenty of ways to recur it.
The Bogardan Dragonheart - Kaya's Ghostform - Ironclad Slayer / Monk Idealist package seems kind of interesting; I'm interested to see how that works out in practice, but initally it seems clunky/slow to me.
I think if you were to make room to add TortEx/Grave Scrabbler it would indeed dilute too much away from your initial strategy. Your deck currently lacks ways to fuel cards into the graveyard like typical TortEx builds like Commune with the Gods and Vessel of Nascency , which are outside of your deck's colors. Maybe if you switched to Abzan instead of Mardu it could work, but as of now it just seems kinda unrealistic.
June 8, 2019 7:32 p.m.