4:11: One of my favorite things is watching LSV, one of the best players in the world, punt and go unpunished. It gives me hope as an average Magic player, showing that you don't have to play perfectly every turn of every game to win. As long as you stay pretty tight and know when you are screwing up, it's not impossible to win games of Magic. This makes the game way less stressful. It also shows that pros are human beings, and dismisses the mythology of it all. Magic Pros are pros because they are persistent. They put time and effort into the game, and they become better then everyone else by playing Magic cards. You don't have to never make mistakes, you just have to stick with it and eventually you'll get good.
Your sideboard has Ray of Revelation and no black cards, your 17th land should be Ancient Den rather than Vault of Whispers. I personally like having 2 Gearseeker Serpents rather than just one.
Hey ChannelFireball, thanks for putting up more pauper content! I took the liberty of sharing your video on the pauper subreddit. I would love to see you guys play more decks, as it's a great way to introduce your viewers to my favorite format! One thing though... my favorite aspect of pauper is brewing... because cards are so cheap, there's really no limit to trying anything! I know it's asking a lot, but I'd absolutely love a video where you brew something up in the format and run it through some games. Show people different resources and strategies for brewing, how to pick up cards for their decks, and some keys to testing. Brewing in pauper is a blast, and can be a rewarding challenge! So many people are coming to the format are picking up these tier 1 archetypes after watching them on your channel: I can't blame them, Affinity was my first pauper deck maybe 10 years ago. However, I keep playing the format because it's eternal, the cardpool is huge, and you can really make great decks with some brainpower and effort! From tinkering with existing decks, to centering on particular cards or mechanics, there are so many options, and I'd love for people to see this side of the format, the one that's been keeping me interested for more than a decade!
Why the Vault of Whispers? I think Ancient Den, whether for something like Ardent Recruit or Court Homunculus or even Thraben Inspector? And wouldn't Ichor Wellspring be a nice draw engine too?
Still, i think pauper is the most skill intensive format after legacy. It’s a player’s dream, decks costs 50-60$ in paper, skill intensive, non rotating, really healty meta, high power level cards (more than standard and sometimes more than modern) but no overpowered card ( bye bye planeswalkers), you have free spells (daze, gush, fireblast), big creatures on the board and powerfull spells to combo off.
In order for a spell to be countered on resolution, it needs to have all of its targets be illegal. In that case of eating his own creature, the creature wouldn't fight, but would still get the +1/2 because the spell targeted two creatures.
Spell would’t have fizzle because epic confrontation says thay the first creature gets bonus. Than you have a dot. Second part says it fights another creature. Removing the second target makes fizzle only the part relative to that target because the two parts are separated by a dot.
are the frogs in your deck gay by any chance but with all seriousness great looking deck pauper is generally i think a pretty cancer format but this looked cool
4:11: One of my favorite things is watching LSV, one of the best players in the world, punt and go unpunished. It gives me hope as an average Magic player, showing that you don't have to play perfectly every turn of every game to win. As long as you stay pretty tight and know when you are screwing up, it's not impossible to win games of Magic. This makes the game way less stressful. It also shows that pros are human beings, and dismisses the mythology of it all. Magic Pros are pros because they are persistent. They put time and effort into the game, and they become better then everyone else by playing Magic cards. You don't have to never make mistakes, you just have to stick with it and eventually you'll get good.
But the godlike lsv facial hair...
Or you could just cheat like many of the "pros"
Same rules apply to poker. Which is far more lucrative.
This is a very wholesome comment :)
ColorBlindBoxing hardly anyone plays magic to make money. most pros make their living from poker
Your sideboard has Ray of Revelation and no black cards, your 17th land should be Ancient Den rather than Vault of Whispers. I personally like having 2 Gearseeker Serpents rather than just one.
Hey ChannelFireball, thanks for putting up more pauper content! I took the liberty of sharing your video on the pauper subreddit. I would love to see you guys play more decks, as it's a great way to introduce your viewers to my favorite format! One thing though... my favorite aspect of pauper is brewing... because cards are so cheap, there's really no limit to trying anything! I know it's asking a lot, but I'd absolutely love a video where you brew something up in the format and run it through some games. Show people different resources and strategies for brewing, how to pick up cards for their decks, and some keys to testing. Brewing in pauper is a blast, and can be a rewarding challenge! So many people are coming to the format are picking up these tier 1 archetypes after watching them on your channel: I can't blame them, Affinity was my first pauper deck maybe 10 years ago. However, I keep playing the format because it's eternal, the cardpool is huge, and you can really make great decks with some brainpower and effort! From tinkering with existing decks, to centering on particular cards or mechanics, there are so many options, and I'd love for people to see this side of the format, the one that's been keeping me interested for more than a decade!
100% here for all this pauper content. 👌🏽
thanks for the video, LSV! really enjoying the pauper content from you.
Nice to see my "pet deck" played by LSV
Couldn’t you have tapped your myr enforcer for red with spring leaf drum and flung in response for lethal? 14:20
If highly recommend trying out the mono-white heroic deck! It's fair and aggressive
Would love to see lsv’s take on tron in pauper
Last LSVideo the audio was a second ahead, now it's a second behind. (If you gotta be out of sync, that way is at least better.)
Why the Vault of Whispers? I think Ancient Den, whether for something like Ardent Recruit or Court Homunculus or even Thraben Inspector? And wouldn't Ichor Wellspring be a nice draw engine too?
How do you find Pauper as a format in comparison to the other non-rotating formats?
He's stated it's one of his favorite formats. As for me, well, it's pretty obvious what I think :)
It was great until mono blue became like 30% of the format
It was worse when mono-G or peregrin drake tron were at 30%....
Still, i think pauper is the most skill intensive format after legacy. It’s a player’s dream, decks costs 50-60$ in paper, skill intensive, non rotating, really healty meta, high power level cards (more than standard and sometimes more than modern) but no overpowered card ( bye bye planeswalkers), you have free spells (daze, gush, fireblast), big creatures on the board and powerfull spells to combo off.
great content LSV
LSV is the best!
why vault over den?
Does it matter?
Paul M there is a ray of revelation in the board. Its a small reason but not zero.
adamjri I hadn't noticed! Thats so dumb hahaha
older list used things like edicts , so pretty much or a bluff or someone forgot to actialize the lsit @@ChocciAdam
Love it!
At 9:20, only lsv could call out his best draws and basically get everything he wanted, just how he wanted. -_-
You have to know what card to ask for, that's the secret to great topdecks
was i the only one praying for the quad daze?
It would have been legendary, but they only had 3 islands out...
10:33 he was expecting the astrolabe
Does eating his own creature with Atog fizzle the spell at 28:00?
In order for a spell to be countered on resolution, it needs to have all of its targets be illegal. In that case of eating his own creature, the creature wouldn't fight, but would still get the +1/2 because the spell targeted two creatures.
Spell would’t have fizzle because epic confrontation says thay the first creature gets bonus. Than you have a dot. Second part says it fights another creature. Removing the second target makes fizzle only the part relative to that target because the two parts are separated by a dot.
A-tog
23:52 I mite have destroyed the frogmite instead of the husk.
Que bien juega... pero que ogt tiene con los topdecks
Lsv playing with nonmatching cards tsk tsk
Bob Smith he does it for tilt value I think.
HAUMPH
27:40
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Set the “wet blanket” level to maximum!
god springleaf drum is garbage
are the frogs in your deck gay by any chance but with all seriousness great looking deck pauper is generally i think a pretty cancer format but this looked cool