The Proper Pauper Guide To Mono Black Devotion Control - A $50 Magic: The Gathering Deck
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This video will cover an absolute favorite of mine, mono black devotion control, a deck that can be put together for only about $50 and, best of all, has zero copies of Oko, of Nissa, of Krasis, or of any other mythics, because this is pauper, we may be playing with commons but we’re still playing with power and we’re playing magic the gathering! Lets take a look. - Hry
1:14 sometimes I think about why WotC hates Pauper, then Prof reminds me: "there's no PLANESWALKERS in Pauper!"
I would die for a pauper masters lmao
@@ther3aper561 All commons?
And war of the spark could hace fixed that. What a waste that was
@@thewintersaint Hopefully we never see planeswalkers in pauper, screw em
core set 2021 is gonna based around Teferi. Ready your buttholes for the very first 1 mana common planeswalker, Teferi young apprentice.
I’ve just gotten back in magic for the first time since (2006?!) and i can’t believe that this channel doesn’t have 1M+ views on each video. Watching all of these is really helping me learn of the different formats, cards both new and old, etc. it’s exactly what people like me need. Thank you so much for the quality content!
Thanks for the kind words!
Tolarian Community College Of course, thanks for all you do for the magic community Professor!
I'd love to play this deck but I've just become a 3/3 elk so...
SniperDave just be a planeswalker/ enchantment?
Me big dead fish
you're about to be a 0/1 fish w=once Theros drops
@@Jahsart23 sac to feeder in response, activate tortex pitch stinkweed imp get back angler
Monoblack player: “I fear nothing!”
Enchantments: **exist**
Monoblack player: “I fear one thing!”
I fear no man! But... that *thing*... it scares me.
Circle of Protection: Black don't do much vs. Gary for lethal and change.
I fear no permanent but that thing (enchantments)… it scares me.
Alexander Christensen much better
That's why Duress is a card.
Prof: “And once you have it, you have it for life.”
Me: Looks down at my paper Jeskai deck. Tear.
@Sebastian Baumruker agreed
I was worried Oubliette wasn't going to get a look-in! Thankfully it was there at the end. One of my favourite cards in Pauper
And even though it's really expensive, it's still cheaper than Oko!
Instructions unclear ended up with an Oko deck.
I consider start playing magic. I guess pauper is a good format to start for me. Thanks for the video prof
Straw Hat it is an amazing starting format, it's super funny, the people are great, and you can build a lot of decks without spending much money
Welcome, the format won't disappoint!
Pauper is the cheapest format, but standard is the most accessible. If anything just buy some cards, make a deck & have fun with it!
Actually Penny Dreadful is cheaper but it rotates so it needs regular whole pennies of investment, it's a format that is for the really fortunate.
Im a new player too, never played in my life . In my mid 40’s. Got lots to learn about magic. Not sure where to start , still learning the very basics of magic.
Me playing literally every format where it's legal: ight Delver let's get this bread
Me coming to Pauper: wow dude, there's so many decks??? and they're cheap asf???
...
plays UR Delver
Welcome friend! We accept all playstyles here! Play that delver shamelessly :D
And you don't have gush or daze anymore. Good luck.
@@guybrushthreepwood8174 there are plenty of good substitutes for gush and daze, I run commune with the gods in my delver deck 😁 along a few others
@@guybrushthreepwood8174 According to the last few pauper leagues on mtggoldfish, delver is still doing pretty well. Although, a lot have actually been cutting delver itself and just opting for more faeries.
Thank you Professor! I am now 32 years old, got two Kids Bit when i Look your videos i alwasys get that feeling when i was young and absorbing all that exiting new content...
Thank you very much for your Service!
YES! This is literally what I've been looking for!
A bald professor???
I love this deck. Pauper has become my favorite format. Great videos and I enjoy watching you play.
This format literally got me and a friend into magic and I currently play this list slightly altered because of this video, dope channel.
"Like all Pauper decks, you have it for life"
Unless you put together the Professor's Mardu Reanimator with Arcum's Astrolabe.
oh come on, just replace the astrolabe with some other mana filtering (chromatic star anybody?)
@@araen11 of course, it's a simple replacement. Just poking fun at his statement
@@KoiBoiRoi I know, but still, banning is not something one can predict (well.. at least not always with high certainty *ekhm* oko *ekhm*
Love the video, Professor. Pauper is amazing and deck tech videos for it are always welcome.
I love your ability to love every aspect of this game, no matter how disparate.
It’s contagious, too.
Thank you _so_ much for this deck tech! I love playing mono-black with a passion, so I _have_ to play this!
Thanks to the Professor, I finally made an MTGO account and bought cards for Pauper mono black decks a couple of days ago. They feel great to play. Thanks for all your videos.
Great video, Prof! Gonna have to add this to my Pauper to-build list.
I'd love to see your take on other classic mono-color pauper decks, or decks that deserve more spotlight.
It's nice that I found this video since I'm starting to build and play my mono black control deck
Hey Prof, don't know if you read these, but I just wanted to tell you that you have reinvigorated my love for magic. I only ever played at a casual level with friends (no format or card limit) but these pauper decks have given me a new hope for the game. As a poor college student, being able to afford a competitive standard, modern, or even pioneer deck is out of the question. With pauper, I can play a competitive game but not break the bank. I truly hope you continue to make more pauper related content as it is my favorite format for magic. I hope that pauper takes off where I live and more people play it in paper at my LGS. Thanks for resparking my love for this game!
That opening. Man, you really hit what I get tired of seeing. I'd have rather we kept Field of the dead and banned some of those cards.
Too many answers to PWs in standard, not enough to field.
@Jojoforpres ok boomer
Your Friendly Neighborhood Shugoki name calling? Really? Ugh, that’s just lame.
But Field of the Dead is not a $40 mythic
Zero Effort MTG it also likely means that wizards don’t need to bad Öko.
Wow professor, this list actually seems really fun to do!
As a "new" player that can't afford paying as i was building at least one good EDH deck, now that i did it, i think i'll build this and test pauper a bit
i love this style of video! love your pauper deck techs
I doubt you will see this but this got me into Pauper. Especially since most of my fun decks were only a few cards shy of being Pauper. Thank you good Sir Professor
Hey Professor, your review on card sleeves helped me see what card sleeves I need so thanks man, I got some pearl Matt dragon sheild sleeves and your reviews helped me decide by a while
Nice!
@@TolarianCommunityCollege Dragon shields are way better than ultra pro sleeves :)
Thank you Prof! as pauper player I appreciated this.
The thing seperating your techs from others besides the high quality is showcasing pauper, commander, modern, etc. Keep it up!
Hey look, it's my favorite pauper deck! Great to see it getting some love!
Thanks professor the drama class is full this semester for sure with all the negative attitude toward standard right now, it's nice to see a content creator do something positive and uplifting and remind us why we play magic
I want to like standard but have been pushed out by price. This channel turned me onto pauper and I'm greatful for it.
Your intro beautifully surmises my frustration with Magic at the moment.
Thank you as always professor! Love this deck!
I've been playing a ton of Pauper Storm; this format is so cool.
O would love to see a video about the inside out combo deck in pauper!
I love pauper and love your job! Thanks for the videos!
Nice job Prof! What an elks-allent video
You nailed it with that intro. Congrats prof
So much MonoB fun! Absolutely Fantastic!
You are reading my mind Prof! I just built a pioneer Black Devotion deck!
MBC is my favorite deck in pauper. I've been experimenting with Trespasser's Curse, and it puts in work.
This is hilarious I’ve been running this deck list for a while
Love your Deck Guides!
Three Gary’s can’t just spell GG it can spell GGG
No, GGG spells Llanowar Tribe. Nice try, though.
Or Groundbreaker, Leatherback Baloth, Chlorophant, Predator Ooze, Steel Leaf Champion, Unyaro Bees, Seton, Yorvo, Ayula’s Influence, or the best one of them all, Niall Silvain.
Prof don’t be silly, there are plenty of other decks!
Gruul elks
Selesnya elks
Jeskai elk control
Fires of invelktion
Golgari (or sometimes Jund) elks
Mono red cavelkade
Do not forget izzet double elk
Elkdos Aristocrats
This was my first competitive deck ever, I LOVE this deck
Always ready for more pauper.
Love it how most of the top standard decks run most of the same outrageously experience cards, great intro! Awesome deck tech.
One of my favorite decks of all time. Praise Gary!
never thought i'd see the prof do a video on my favorite deck. ever since i got hooked on pauper this was the way to go, lots of fun... it has alot of variants too. currently using MBC with a crap ton of discard then finish the game with Pestilence, Evincar's Justice, and Gray Merchant
I built this deck and took over my local pauper meta. Prof for the win
I think this deck could use the Witch's Cottages to bounce back a creature to the top of your library allowing you to cast Gary again after loosing him to Pestilence. I really like the Witch's Cottage for all mono black decks, Pauper or otherwise....
Great Deck as always Prof!!!!!!
I built this deck after my friends got tired of my TortEx Turbo Frog deck and this has been such a blast
My foil Grey Merchant of Asphodel is one of my favorites
I would love to see you do a random Pauper EDH deck tech for fun, one day. Considering there are at least 11 common legendary creatures to build around.
Pauper EDH is normally built around any uncommon creature, no legendary status required.
@@slugmtg1937 I figured. I just found it amusing that there were common legendary creatures.😜
@@Drewbe821 I know, I had to do a double take browsing some common boxes at my LGS.
You really kicked up the graphics. Good stuff.
TL;DR I need help building a Pauper Battle Box, around 10 decks, that can be taken to my lgs for people to play before commander league. thanks for the help.
I like this deck so much that I put it together and went to my lgs to see if anyone else played pauper...
I found one person who had a deck, mbc as well, and we had a good old sit down...
Coming from someone who has only ever played commander because I hate buying cardboard then being told I can't play with it after 2 yrs just sucks. Let me say I had a blast. I even had fun figuring out how to properly sideboard. Someone gave me a hint since it was a mirrorish game. They told me to think of the cards I liked in my deck and then find cards in the sideboard that would turn my deck from magic is fun yes please into oh crud magic was fun. I managed to get 4 full games in before our commander league started, and we went back to the way magic is properly played. 100 card singleton...
I now have a problem I need help solving. I would like to build a battle box with 6-10 pauper decks.
I have 3 decks pick out so far and will list below. What I am looking for are decks that can almost hang together ie 4-8 tier 1 and maybe 2 tier 1.5. Talking to the group of players this was the power that we decided to play with. The thinking is if all the decks are strong then no matter what deck is grabbed from the box it should be able to face off with almost all the other decks.
The decks I have made so far are
1 MBC
2 Elves (really who doesn't already almost have a full set of these just in a box some where)
Decks I know I will be building
Flicker Tron
Affinity
WB pestilence
In the end I am hoping to have a wide variety of playstyle and my Battle Box.
Already having a playset of Gary's, Whisper Agents, and $7 of TCGPlayer credit, I bought this deck for $18. This is my first pauper deck so I'm pretty hyped
Affinity Pauper Please! Thank you so much, Prof!
i looked the deck list up on cardkingdom and im shocked to see this deck ACTUALLY coming in at $25 bucks
I made a similar deck a couple years ago. Super fun
yes just what i needed on a rainy weekend with nothing much to do
Tortured Existence decks are definitely my favorites in pauper. You do have a deck tech on one of those, though.
He does have a deck tech on that one.
While watching this, 10 till 3 a.m. MST, I was trying to figure out wtf is a Gary....yes I figured it out. Love the deck, and Pauper is the best, helps an older Magic player have use for his endless amount of commons. Was able to sift through them and organize, kept what I wanted and donated the rest to some newish players who love the idea of Pauper.
I would really like to see a deck tech on fishelbrand. It was played at that same livestream and it is extremely complicated.
This is a great deck! How would you update it with new cards? (Posted as of Ikoria)
Gary ands Gurmag are two of my favourite cards ever, so naturally built Mono Blacxk devotion. Not the same lsit necessarilly but basically the same thing.
Question, If you were to add Oubliete in , what do you trade out of the main?
This looks really fun :0
Witch’s Cottage is so good in this deck. Sure go ahead. Kill my Gary. I dare you. 🤣
God I wish my friends played pauper 😭😭😭
This is my favorite format. It's fun, budget, a Brewers Paradise of powerful old cards and a ton of possibilities.
I love this format, and wish people would just play it with me!
Anybody struggle in a similar way? What suggestions do you have encouraging a format at you local game store?
Omg, exactly. My friend just doesnt wanna play it, because he cant play rares and uncommons, how stupid. I adore this format, its great and cheap.
I think I found my next pauper deck, though zombies will always be my favorite.
Hey professor, I live in the uk and on a British mtg store called Liliana market which is what I use for singles you can get Oko thief of crowns for only £10!!
I’ve never seen whisper agent in this deck before, but it seems sweet.
I'm gonna have to get into pauper. These planeswalkers are out of control. These days, standard seems more of a chore than a funtime activity. Pauper seems like it might be a breath of fresh air. Nice video! I love your content, Prof.
Pauper is great. The decks are really cheap so you can make a few and have your friends make a few so you don't really get bored playing one deck, as is common in other, more expensive formats. And it's not like the decks are unfun to play! There's no feeling like flooding the whole board with elves or flickering an evoked mulldrifter or garying someone for a ton. There's a ton of variety, too! If you liked a deck in the past, there's a good chance there's a pauper equivalent that's just as fun.
I'm relatively new to the pauper format as an edh player outta curiosity I built an abzan pestilence deck and I removed the recommended black thorns because I know I'm going against elves and used that slot for another fog/removal effect any ideas on if this was the right thing to do
I love this deck!!
I'm glad you covered my favorite deck after bald btw
I‘d love to see a guide to Monoblue faeries or monowhite Soldiers. They both are my favourite pauper decks.
nice.
best format ever
Oh hey it's my pauper deck!
Honestly, extensive playtesting has showed me that Hymn to Tourach does not deserve its ban. It's good, but not busted.
Maybe but... it is a card that if legal really limits design space for new commons
@@christopherwoodbury7520 How does it limit design space? Wrench Mind is still quite good, even used alongside Hymn, and Duress is just an entirely different card.
Plus, I feel the same could be said of Lightning Bolt, and that's still legal.
It's not that it is busted, but that if you T2 htt, and discard both opponent lands, or land + draw non-games happen and it is bad for every format that non games can happen
I'd love to see either a Tahngarth forced combat deck, or a pauper version of the Boggles deck already on the channel
What do you think of Lost Legion in this deck? gives double devotion and scry 2 in a 2/3 creature for 3 mana
Is discip-atog-ffinity legal in pauper? In my souvenir (did not check yet) artefact land were not legal either and I stop playing pauper many years ago then
Ahhhh nooooo!!! I already run against this deck so often when I play pauper, now they will never cease after jumping on the prof train! I still typically mainly run zombies, so it's sometimes usually a pretty even matchup. Them landing the thorn, though, is always detrimental.
What do you think about Nausea? is it useful against Elves? Or is it unnecessary?
I love that you're doing content on this format! Pauper is so good for the magic constructed. I like that you went for a build that has clear win conditions - makes it a lot more fun to pilot.
I am curious about one thing though: Is whisper agent really better than phyrexian rager? seems like the higher power doesn't really matter that much in this deck, and draw 1 seems much better than surveil 1.
The creator of this version, MrPrototype, said that part of the reason why he choose the agent was because it was a better creature against tron, the same reason why you see 2 gurmag anglers and duress mainboard.
Other than that I'd say that it depends on what you want your second 3-drop to do. If you want a card that replaces itself but doesn't have good stats, go with the rager, but if you want better stats with flash and more devotion without the replacing effect, use the agent
@@rafael_sekia Hmm interesting! I don't think i understand why agent is better vs. tron?
@@bcfblack It's basically because it has an extra point in power, so it increases the clock faster than rager does.
@@rafael_sekia yeah true enough. Thanks!
Ill-Gotten inheritance could be fun with putting on pressure, especially in the late game. Its a little expensive for (3)(B) but it's an enchantment that on the beginning of your upkeep, drains 1 life from each opponent and you gain 1 life. Also you can pay (5)(B) to sacrifice Ill-Gotten inheritance to deal 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.
Where do you get your background music?
First! The Oko train is going to slow way down on Monday - that is a lot of good mechanic for not only black but also Pauper...almost seems a tad bit too many for consistency but looks like a fun deck regardless.
The new hair looks great !
Ever dropped a turn two gurmag angler followed by a turn 3 gurmag angler? Feels pretty good
I added Corruption, is my favorite card and a good option to play in mid-range.
I’d love to see a deck tech of Pauper Affinity.
Mono white, or BW rebels. I know it's not the greatest, but I enjoy it, and it can usually be built for under $30. I love how the deck can fetch a bound in silence to put on a bogle.
It's been a while since you did a top 5 cards for Pauper.
The Prof nails today's standard.
Primer!
The proper pauper MBDC primer!
While I understand why Whisper Agent is included in the deck, what is your opinion of Blind Zealot instead? Has evasion and can function as a Murder on a stick in a pinch.
My favorite MTG product is the Throne of Eldraine because it revisualizes fairy tales in a whole new light.
This is a great deck! Love these pauper deck techs! But $50 for this deck, sounds really expensive? I pasted the deck list to Card Kingdom and the total amount was about $15 (excluding the mana) Am I missing something here?