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What is the Pauper format? Pauper is a format which only uses common cards. With the exception of a small banlist, any card that has been printed at the common rarity level in a set or product.
Other than that, Pauper is like most other games of constructed Magic: Decks must consist of a minimum of 60 cards with an optional 15 card sideboard, and so forth.
I think it is a perfect time to remake this video with some more up to date deck references and prices! This format is only getting better!!
I agree!! It’s a nice format for commander player as well because cost lol
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Exactly !
Agreed. Updates are usually always good.
Also true in 2024
Everyone please push for Pauper events at your FNM. It would finally give us a format free of pay-to-win.
Topan Freeblade yea I love smashing FNMs with my fifteen dollar orzhov flicker deck
I love smashing pauper events with my $30 Exhume deck
I like to jund em out with my 15 dollar jund aggro deck.
Pauper is the best competitive format.
There is no "pay-to-win" aspect in it, it is very easy to get into and it is slower than the other formats, meaning that the games are intriguing to play and watch as well.
The decks are so cheap that basicly everyone can make a "top tier" pauper deck. I mean, a single Mana Crypt, Tarmogoyf, heck, even some lands cost more than a pauper deck.
THIS
@@TolarianCommunityCollege please do this but for penny dreadful
Pauper. The only budget Magic the Gathering format.
there’s peasant with only 5 uncommons and the rest are common
the crab empire yea true but a lot of uncommons are expensive like demonic tutor
Somehow it's still cheaper than not playing MtG
@@thecrabempire5767 Peasant is pretty awesome. I love having access to a few uncommons, opens up so many more options!
*Cries in penny dreadful*
Just thank you for exposing pauper to a larger group of player. It's such a great format
My all-time favorite format was featured...YES! A hundred gratitudes, Professor! :D
Daniel Magadia All time favorite format? Awesome! So what pauper deck do you play?
I have a few (all in paper), like the standard Mono Black, White Weenie, and Goblins. For weird stuff I have a UW CounterRebels, Izzet Tron (fav at the moment) and GB Delve. :)
Daniel Magadia nah, pauper RUG delver all the way ;)
Daniel Magadia So you can play Unglued and Unhinged common cards in Pauper?
Officially...no, but if you're playing it at home casually, it's fine I guess.
Thank you so much! We really appreciate the mention.
You are the reason I got into pauper professor. Please keep making deck techs!!!
this channel has been amazing in my journey to become a magic player. been playing some pauper and i love it.
TeamCultureKings I love pauper affinity what do you like
Leaving a comment and interacting to push for a remake on this video! I think that edh player getting into pauper would help the hame as a whole
Thanks for shining a light on Pauper Professor! It's an amazing format with great players!
My favorite part about these Kinds of videos is that besides the fact that they are incredibly well made and informative, they add so many people to the community of a great format and help pre existing player's (in this case pauper) cards go up on value which really helps everyone.
Thank you professor I've been waiting for this one. Pauper is how I got back into magic with my 14 year old daughter while going through chemotherapy. It's funny she's runs a similar Delver deck to the one in your video. I myself like monk black and also use Coumbajj Witches along with oubliette and grey merch. The owner of my lgs even makes and sells pauper deck for $7. It's the perfect way to get into the game. I just wish it had more of a presence in paper.
Professor, your channel is simply the best of the best.
Thank you Professor. This video randomly popped into my feed about 2 weeks ago. And after watching it I decided to come back to Magic (which I left in 1996). Thank you for bringing me back.
I just recently got back into Magic after having not played competitively in about 14 years, or even casually in about 7 years. By "got back into" I basically mean I've been watching tons of videos like this, and tons of videos on ChannelFireball to see what decks/cards are good and popular right now. Basically, just trying to increase my knowledge from all the years I've missed. Anyway, I didn't really see myself being able to afford Magic again any time soon, due to having kids and other responsibilities, but this Pauper format sounds perfect! I'm definitely going to try it out, although, I do feel a bit overwhelmed. There are SO many commons!
Thank you so much Tolarian. So many formats that I never knew existed and can be fun. Pauper is perfect! My community is somewhat poor so we can barely afford $130 decks at max.
Can't wait till I go to my friends and introduce to them pauper! Thank you
Best magic channel on the web honestly, what a pleasant man to listen too. May i ask i love Arcanis the omnipotent, but my local play group calls me a casual for running him in my flicker U/W deck. Is arcanis not worth playing jsut because he's 6 mana? the drawing cards, bonus and 3/4 body allowing him to get down and dirty i think he's great :\
Vis brah You think he's great? You love him? You enjoy playing him? You're no casual, you're an EDH/Commander PRO because the goal of the format is to HAVE FUN. If you AREN'T having fun playing with your deck, that's when you start looking for things to change.
Thank you so much for the response, but im not an EDH player i play a modern U/W flicer deck with Venser, and so happen to have arcanis, as my later game card to help ensure the win, but people make fun of me for using that card
Vis brah Does it work? If yes, I say you get Style Points. I also love Venser, having a pet flicker-proliferation artifact table-top deck with multiple copies of him.
i love my deck it's worked pretty well, granted Arcanis Doesn't always make it out i run only 1 copy, but yeah i play with lore and flavor in mind. I love flicker mechanic with my Venser, Resto angel, etc But Venser, Arcanis, and Teferi are my fav characters in magic i like running them. Being able to fight with 3/4 body is also nice. It's just annoying being called a casual, a lot of people say Arcanis sucks, i really don't get why.
Vis brah
If you and Arcanis live long enough to activate his ability more than once, you'll probably win that game.
After the first turn that you cast him, his self-preservation ability can be handy, although it is mediocre at best.
People have an issue with him because of his heavy blue cost, his high cost in general combined with lack of haste, and the fact that creatures die easier than spells to just about everything other than Blue permission.
You used to be able to neutralize him with a copy effect as well, but the Legend rule revamp put a stop to that.
Thank you, in another videos I ask if you could show us a deck that wins but isn't like 100-200$ but now you showed us a whole format that is very very cheap. Thank you so much!
Even though I am a seasoned Magic player, every one of your videos always has something new to me, or something to get me thinking. Great job!
Davesghola That's so awesome to hear. Cheers!
Dear Professor, I really enjoyed having you spotlight a format that is extremely underrated and which I've been plaing for years - it actually kept me going with MtG. It would have been nice if you mentioned magicgatheringstrat, both their website and youtube channel. They are doing the finest of work for and in the Pauper community for years now, be it Standard Pauper or Classic Pauper. I think they deserve a shoutout as they have literally thousands of Pauper videos on their channel, a weekly podcast and they covered pretty much every. Pauper Deck imaginable, be it homebrew or Tier 1 Deck, how to play or beat it respectively. Great video as always though, thank you very much for the exposire of this amazing format. The power level could be comparable to Legacy/Modern, it plays very similarly. ;)
Best,
Dominik
Witchkingx5 I am sorry I didn't mention them by name in the video. I linked them in the description. I intend to talk a lot more about Pauper, and I intend to talk about them and others.
Tolarian Community College Thank you! If there is anything we can do for you please let us know! (I am Brennon from MagicGatheringStrat)
I have been playing MTG fairly in depth for the past 8 months and been trying so hard to build budget, Modern friendly decks to play with my casual group. I have had little to no success (not a single win so far) with any strategy, and I don't have the money for the killer rares I need.
Enter the Professor and his Pauper series. I've been watching several videos over the past few days and I think I've found my new love in Magic. These Pauper decks could wipe the floor with my group and do it without any rares... and for the cost of a playset of a single card I could have a full deck.
I'm sold. Thank you Professor. My wife will surely appreciate me spending less on cards and my group will finally feel my wrath unleashed.
Love pauper especially since I really do adore common mtg cards. Maybe not the winners that umcommon, rares and mythic rare are, but instead are a menagerie of fun, interesting and even weird effects that add up and shine through the pauper format. Yay for common love!
Yes this gets me so excited to start grinding pauper dailies on MTGO and hopefully get to posting it as content on youtube since there aren't many youtubers who have pauper videos.
Thanks for the introduction to pauper professor, it's been a blast!
Tolarian Community College thanks for the insight into this format Professor! Maybe this is my solution to feeling worn out by Modern and its increasing costs. As someone who plays exclusively online I could get several decks and play them as I choose. Keep up the fantastic work!
I freakn love this channel. You are the best prof.
I had never heard of Pauper until this video, much appreciated for the info (as always) Professor.
Ive been wanting to play Magic online for awhile but didnt want to spend more money on more cards that I may or may not already have. Pauper however, seems like a great alternative, I like that theres such a large community for it. Thanks man!
8y ago, and this guy is why pauper is my main format 😂
Pauper is my favorite format. Thanks for doing a video that does it justice. I wish wizards would support paper tournaments, but that would cut into their profit margins so they won't do it without a strong push from the community.
Very interesting! I've already ordered the Delver deck, simply to have something to play in the format, but I look forward to toying around with the pool and letting my (albeit mediocre) brewing ability run wild!
For instance, I'm very interested in breaking a Midnight-Gond infinite combo deck...
Pauper was the biggest breath of fresh air. most importantly it gives meaning and purpose to the commons in your collection. Very fun to play as well!
Got suggested to this after I watched Gavin’s new vid. Always love watching your old vids, hope the comment helps!
I found a paper pauper group through a friends older brother what a find! Had a ton of fun doing it to thanks to your recommendations
Just found your channel. Been playing MTG since the beginning, but of course like many older players, I'm only recently getting back into it. I simply love this idea. For $100, a guy like me could build 4-5 decks and actually compete. Perhaps even better, my kids could do the same. Not sure MTG needed saving, but the pauper format might at the very least keep the game vibrant and alive. Awesome video; thanks for all of them. liked/subbed
Cheers, friend!
Right back at you Professor! Only discovered your channel last week - now one of my favs. Easily the best channel for gaming of any kind out there. Incredible work.
Prof. I know this is an old video but it just popped in my head while watching this.
On your recommendation, I purchased two rookie decks.(and of course used your affiliate link 😀)
They arrived today.
Man, let me tell you, I LOVE those decks!
I showed my wife the included cards that explain key words and list of turn phases, it’s now safe to say that she secretly loves this game!
Short story long, Thanks Professor, I have never gotten any bad advice from this channel and I literally watch your videos every night before bed.
I really like playing magic and owe it to you.
Thanks!
P.S. sorry to keep leaving super long comments and mushy comments in very odd hours of the night lol.
New to Magic. Just built my first deck thanks to the kind folks at the local game shop. A white-black control deck. I even won two out of three rounds! Great video. I'm in the learning-a-lot phase and addicted. The premise of "Pauper" you discussed is intriguing. Just getting into it and not having a lot of money to throw around, I find the pauper format to be really great for learning, developing skills, and plain old having fun. I wholeheartedly agree with the "community" point.
Your interview video with Gavin led me here and I'm making my 1st pauper deck now with only cards from my bulk box.
Thank you for this video. I love searching youtube for a format and the clarification, and yours is always top hit. I was watching your latest video The Professor's Preview Makes The News! (Exclusive Magic: The Gathering Commander Spoiler Card) and I had no idea what Pauper was. So again, thank you !
Thank you for introducing me to this format. I just feel so happy building a deck and looking through the old cards.
Since I started in way back during fourth edition, I only sparingly collected boosters but never was hardcore enough to get play sets of super rares and such. Let's put it like this: I was buying alliances packs when they first came out and I never saw a force of will. I did buy a couple packs every few weeks.
Thanks to pauper, I built a delver deck with cards I had lying around, I used force spike and stymied hopes instead of daze and such.
Thank you. My tournament yesterday was fun, I look forward to going back.
the video that all pauper enthusiasts where waiting for!
its fantastic to be able to show my friends who only ever played casually in the neighborhood what top tier decks looks and play like without the thousands of extra dollars to do so. make a few pauper decks irl and you will always be able to play against someone.
I love pauper
I acually play alot of pauper standard with friends and apdapted my favourite deck from there for friday night magic. Made for a really cheap really fun budget deck!
Thanks now I know what that format is, can't wait to start brewing.
Great time for a revised version for this vid
This and Goat Format in YugiOh are the pinnacle of budget formats for Trading Card Games. I love it!
Best, most underrated format in my humble opinion.
second best format ;) best is Mental Magic!
Travis Wizard
You mean it is played with ancient Egyptian laser beams?
That friday nights reference tho
Thanks man!!
I like the way you presented yourself and as a reward I will subscribe.
Drew
Oh my gosh pauper is my favourite format
The pauper format was the reason I got back into magic. Black for my prerelease color.
Wow, what great timing. I just purchased a U/G Pauper madness deck online for about 2-4 tix total. Been having a blast so far, and I'm going to play in paper soon!
Kind of sad that a lot of the madness cards are uncommon only in paper though. Dat Arrogant Wurm & Circular Logic!
Thanks Prof!
I wish Wizards would promote game stores to hold sanctioned pauper events! It would be an awesome way for new players to get into eternal formats!
I found my new jamin magic. Thanks professor. Now, to get my nephew to follow... That won't be too hard.
7 years later, Pauper is still my main way to play. It's also fun to watch these win, just as much fun as seeing a Lancer Evo beat a Lamborghini.
I'm sold. I'll be building a pauper deck later today.
Great video - thank you. Very interested in using Pauper as a way to get into playing MTGO.
Thanks for the video, i wanted to get into pauper but did not know where to start
If my friend and I ever do start up a shop. I'll be sure to have pauper as a supported format at our store.
Great video! Gonna be trying Pauper out online soon!
Christopher McCron Please do! It is a great community driven format.
Amazing video, exactly what I was looking for!! Good job :)
I need more people to play Pauper with!
When I get a job, I'm going on the prowl for Pauper players!
Thanks for this video! I now will try to build a pauper deck and encourage my friends to also do so:)
my lgs finally started doing regular pauper and I couldn't be happier
Look at that baby faced Professor!
Prof thanks for this video, had heard of it but my lgs is starting a league so I figured it’s time to check it out. You were informative and charismatic. You got a sub and a like from this greenhorn pauper player
I was on the fence about mtgo. But after seeing this I will sign up. I used to play delver dagger back in innistrad had a blast in standard
Circling back on this 7y/o video of Prof’s…
I started playing magic when I was in middle school in the late 90’s to high school in the early 2000’s.
I was gifted a ton of older cards by my older brother’s friends as hand-me-downs when they “caught” me and some of my friends playing at a picnic table at the community pool…
Fast forward to today - I often find myself wandering off during the long drawn out turns of a game of EDH back to those poolside moments…
How could I get back to that place? A return to my 90’s FILA basketball shorts, a ratty OG logo Cleveland Indians or Bmore Orioles T (also hand-me-down and 3 sizes too large) and my alpha and beta bolts? (Yes we’re reliving the hazy pipe dreams an old burn player).
Well, I returned to magic some 7ish years ago (roughly when this video was published) and I was brought into EDH by some of the same old friends. Magic was back, the nostalgia was in full force… just missing the alpha/ beta/ unlimited cards I once owned and the vintage T’s I’d since outgrown and handed off to goodwill.
I’ve been an active player in these past few years. But I’m finally returning to a format, a space, a tempo I once loved and what originally drew me to the game. A low cost/ low barrier to entry with a competitive edge - Pauper!
To those of you returning to magic or experiencing it for the first time: don’t get obsessed with “power”. Don’t get pulled into thinking you have to play standard, modern, or shoot… even proxy legacy…. Challenge yourself in the craft of deck building [with only commons]!
Prof, any kind of pauper meta update video would be greatly appreciated! Keep on keepin on!
I recently started collecting the cards again for nostalgia purposes, came into a bundle of C/UC's (about 12k) . Started thinking "hmm should start looking in to playing instead of just collecting" then started to look. Daunting is mild of a term and financially trying to keep up in the long run, perturbed me to say the least. The multiple formats is a tirade of confusion to me and your videos have really helped me understand and then enlighten me to a format I can actually start to break in to wow, just a big thank you to you for your work , i may be late getting into the whole scene but if it wasn't for your videos , i wouldn't be getting into it at all.
Thank you so much for all your inspiring videos
Thanks for all your Videos! I enjoy watching all of them:)
I need to get my community into Pauper, I'd love to have tournaments around here. I have a fully constructed 75 Delver deck put together.
Hey, I got into Pauper also thanks to this video and now it's my favourite 1v1 format. I even run tournaments for my LGS.
Since Pauper changed a lot in the last years, would you consider an update to this video? A lot of the mentioned cards are banned and it's now way more spread.
Do you already know the Discord with their monthly paper pauper Leugue via web cam? (they deserve a shout out)
An update would be pretty cool! Pauper truly is a neat format
I recommended pauper to my lgs and they said yes! Yay! Paper pauper for everyone!
Professor, awesome video as always. It would be great if you make a video talking about the difference between the Online Pauper card pool and the Paper Pauper card pool and how they use it there. Here in Brazil, for example, our Pauper National Championship uses the paper common card pool with the Wizards online banlist, and for me it doesn't make complete sense, lol.
Ah, sorry for my poor english.
and I am now a pauper fan! Perfect way for me to get my magic online fix with out break my debit card
Great Video Peofessor!
Ayy thanks for mentioning my subreddit in the description, I'm KronusX7
imanowlexterminator Heya! Yeah, hope this gets some more people over to the subreddit.
Pauper is more exciting to home brew based on the size of your collection. I only started collecting again back in November and I feel I already have enough commons to make half a dozen really fun pauper decks. But if someone was collecting for a decade then by now they would have near endless possibilities in pauper.
There is also Standard Pauper. The eternal format you described here is Classic Pauper. But the Pauper philosophy of using only commons can be applied to rotating and block formats, too! In fact, there are two weekly player-run events on Magic Online that plays Standard Pauper, which can be even be selected as a way to play in the client. Check the formats list the next time you build a deck: you can build one with only commons only from sets that are currently Standard legal. And believe it or not, this is still a very interesting, fun, and challenging way to play! Finally, because it's only current commons, it is DIRT cheap. In Classic Pauper, you have some decks worth twenty and thirty dollars. That's the high price of the entire Standard Pauper metagame, which makes this format a brewers paradise for drafters who have a bunch of Standard-legal commons just lying around in their online inventories. Anybody interested in this should check out PDCMagic.com, which used to be very active with Classic, Modern,and Block Pauper in addition to Standard. Great video, by the way!
Colin Abele I forgot to mention: the Standard Pauper community has never banned a single card. Not even Treasure Cruise. I still run four in my blue red deck that runs the best common counterspells and burn and wins off Dragon Fodder, Flurry of Horns, and Ojutai's Summons. But it's got trouble with Gary decks, which are very powerful even in Standard Pauper. But you have to be fast enough to beat Boros with their God's Willing on Satyr Hoplite tricks and tough enough to withstand a Stampeding Elk Herd that an Elvish Mystic ramped up. I'm serious, it's probably a more interesting format than Classic, which can get stale and really can get expensive if you want to keep up with the changes. Anyway, Standard Pauper. PDMagic.com. That's all :-)
Holy crap! The Tron lands were common?! New artifact pauper deck, here I come!
I like the concept of Pauper. I recently built a Pauper Cube. My rules were a little more strict though I did not include cards that were ever printed as higher than common in any set. I recently had to pull knightly valor due to it being upped to an uncommon in Origins.
Wait... So Pauper Affinity decks run actual cards with Affinity for Artifacts?
MasterQuestMaster Yes!!! full real affinity! That is why it is always a top 5 deck in the format
MasterQuestMaster Also artifact lands! So powerful they were banned in Standard and Modern, but not in pauper! It feels really crazy to be running them, makes me happy.
iiyama988 They were not banned in Standard. They have banned Cranial Plating in Pauper it was a bit too strong. Pauper is a great format and glad the Professor is shining some light on it. In last magic online dailies Pauper has actually had more players than Modern.
WoRMaSTeR64 they were banned. Search it. The six artifact lands, arcbound ravager, skullclamp and disciple of the vault were banned in saviors of kamigawa standard.
Team Bird Wizard I stand corrected sir. Kinda funny since I played Standard at the time but did not remember correctly.
You've just convinced me to get MTGO to play pauper.
3:12 "And the power level of common cards throughout Magic's history" IS OVER 9000 (I say in my head so as not to wake up my neighbours)
i have been playing magic on and off for about ten years and stopped the last time due to Money involved in keeping up with the overpriced cookie cutter decks that dominated the meta where i play. I really like building my own decks and strategies, even if they suck, and really just want to play for the fun of it!
i always knew about pauper but dismissed it as lame, but ever since i downloaded MTGO pauper feels like the best thing since sliced bread!
Pauper turbofog is the shit!
When cruise was still legal... It was the bees knees. :D
Of course. :)
***** because reasons that's why #ThanksObama
+NobodyWins Definitely a good upset deck if opponents are not ready
Before I watched this I knew not what Pauper was..😌 now. I now know title of the way I so truly love to play when I am opening packs and reading each card as I set them down. Whereas my nephew skips to the last ones.
Pauer is easily the best format in MTG. It feels like how the game is supposed to be played. Allowing for many diverse, and also viable, strategies to winning and each with an equal amount of answers to sideboard in so that matches are usually not just one sided. The cost is also an upside and with standard rotating out faster than before I find pauper even more appealing.
Pauper is defiantly my favorite thing to play on MTGO I made a UR feind deck for almost nothing as I already had most of the cards from drafts just sitting in my binder. others I was able to get for free from bots and the few i couldn't only cost me
Professor, you've sold me on pauper, I'll just crack packs for good commons now!
I'm ready to join the pauper student union!
I love that it's called that
Professor, please answer me these 2 questions:
- Can I double sleeve, where the outer sleeve is Ultimate Guard invisible classic soft sleeves?
-Are you planning to make a video on: Tiny Leaders?
SARMANTINE And thank you so much for this video, I give you an A plus plus plus
You've convinced me, I think I'll check out Pauper and convince my friends to give it a shot too (hopefully they'll not whine about my Decks being op/broken/unfun to play against if we're playing Pauper Decks... :S)
I've been trying to get my group of friends to partake in the challenge of pauper highlander.
No takers so far!
As someone who just got into mtg pauper sounds like the perfect format. I’m not looking to be the world champ I just want to have fun playing magic with my friends.
I got into Magic in 2011 with the first Duels of the Planeswalkers and even though I love DotP, I feel like it has sort of ruined Magic for me in a way since I can't find any formats that resemble it in play style. Limited and Standard are probably the closest to it, but they are too expensive for me. I was hoping Pauper would be a good fit, but even though it's nice and cheap, I can't stand many of the cards that dominate Modern as they are over-tuned compared to the Magic I'm used to. I'd love a Standard style format that only allows 1-2 copies per rare/mythic so the decks are cheaper and require more diversity instead of just 4x Courser, Siege Rhino, etc.
Love your videos, by the way. I may not be able to afford to play Magic, but channels like yours are a great way to stay in touch with the game. Cheers.
Pauper seems fun. Might as well play it!
I love my Simic doorkeeper deck in pauper so much especially after it rotated out of standard. Hopefully now people will start playing pauper more so I can use it more.