Crush Your Foes with Mardu Reanimator! A Powerful Pauper Deck For Magic: The Gathering
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2019
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Turn 1 Faithless, pitch Ulamog's Crusher and Dragon Breath into the graveyard. Turn 2 Exhume, bring back Crusher, Dragon Breath triggers and attaches for a 8/8 Annihilator 2 firebreathing eldrazi on turn 2. GG?
As someone who currently has the old B/R version of this, this turn 2 kill feels so good to pull off when you get it.
Sounds so degenerate that I thought it's modern lol
You could also do more fast mana strategies, such as lotus petal + dark ritual for turn one reanimation possibilities. Plus with lotus petal, it can add white and add to your delve cost, cutting the land draw and increasing open mana fixing. Just some brewing ideas I have for Mardu reanimator. Looks so sick!
Terminate?
Lotus petals for turn 1 reanimate and haste potential?
Was a joy to help you with this video Professor. I hope lots of people raise tons of gigantic monstrosities from the dead to devour some delicious commons at events in the near future! 💀👻
Diego Sarbieri unfortunately Crypt (and Nihil Spellbomb) come down and get used immediately. As such, there really isn’t anything that can be done. The best is to try reanimating quickly or else fuel the yard up for a Gurmag Angler, since we can actually cast that.
So why not a Eldrazi Devastator over a greater sandwurm?
is the deck still possible without astrolabe?
@@willlozinak5182 you got many options Navigator´s Compass, Mana Cylix, Crumbling Vestige, Painted Bluffs, Shimmering Grotto, Unknown Shores. also chromatic star
, chromatic sphere, lotus petal, prophetic prism or prismatic lens between many others
@@TheMaverickGirlGaming Grim Harvest
can we have an updated list after astrolabe ban?? please..? ah, and the new thriving lands, 3 color decks got that, now
That feeling when you see an old card you didn’t remember and you recognize it from the art. Makes you all warm and fuzzy like seeing an old friend. I learned to play magic with portal and 7th
Pauper tournaments needs to be in stores now!
Luckily for me my store just decided to start
@@adammartin451 same here!
Hello Professor! Another great video, as always. Many thanks for helping us newer players out with such a vast array of resourceful and informative videos! I'm finally feeling comfortable enough to attend my first FNM at my local game store, so again, thank you for creating pertinent content and explaining everything from mere basics to fairly in-depth mechanics. You've made an instant fan of me! :)
Thanks Prof.! Pauper is my favorite format and I never see enough deck techs for it outside of your channel.
Prof, you have inspired me to officially get into Pauper. I am going to build this deck and one that I saw this week on MTG Goldfish (4-color black Pestilence). Thanks for the push over the years! I hope you continue to put out more Pauper content, as it is really fun and financially accessible to me.
Just finished my first pauper tournament today, and I loved it, was great fun and I wanted to thank you professor, to make me discover that incredible format !
This & the 4 color Pestilence deck in the same week? My black pauper heart can’t take all this love 🖤
Wich Pestilence Deck do u mean? I think I'm blind af
Great vid prof!
I’d like to see some updates to some of your past decks to see how recent sets and additions may have changed them. For example, goblins with goblin grenade, maybe zombies with lazotep reaver and ob nixilis’s cruelty etc.
It doesn’t need to go over the whole tech, maybe just a quick screenshot of the old tech, and explain which cards the player may want to consider. Whatever balance of less work and more info/tech you can do.
I just got done watching all the playlist for Pauper. Thank you! I hope the next Pauper video is soon. I would like to see a artifact/colorless Pauper deck if able.
Another fantastic video and really informative for me coming back to the game.
Very cool and seeing the Bearer in the side put a smile on my face.
Love your Deck Teks Prof, thanks for posting!
Love the deck a lot! I would suggest Rite of Consumption/Fling as SB to be more aggressive against removal (i.e. Snap) during later games
Boy, Kaldheim's addition of common snow-duals is really sweet, further increasing any multi-color deck's consistency with Astrolabe.
Astrolabe was banned (thankfully).
5:34 I like the shoutout for Greater Sandwurm. Jungle Weaver isn't all that terrible either. Reach is very relevant in Pauper.
I stared getting back into the format on mtgo and plan on building a new deck every paycheck so this may be my next build till I learn the meta game better and are able to brew.
Watching in 2020, I've seen many of these cards enter the ban list. This is a very potent deck.
Cool vid prof, may have to make this one.
This is a great video. Thanks for your deck tech.
Was at my lgs the other day and someone was running Pauper Robots. Would love to see your rendition of a deck like that.
You're correct! This didn't pop up in my videos yesterday. I was redirected from your "stop buying this rip off!" video.
Yep. I got screwed, and it's a great video.
Hey Prof. awesome video as always. I recently say your videos on Mondern and Legacy Burn. Have you done a video on Pauper Burn?
Amazing work! Would love to see you have a crack at Rakdos Tortured Existence. I think it would be a difficult challenge though.
Metropolis zone Muzak! I love sonic. Thank you professor, very cool
Thanks for the deck tech!
Hi Professor! Please review some Standard decks as well. There had been a lot of EDH, Modern and Pauper reviews lately. Don't forget the Standard, please!
love the vid and i know you go into detail about each card, but could you post a decklist? thanks!
If you're looking for a budget alternative to Darkness, Holy Day also works! It's the same effect, but for a single white mana instead.
Hey Professor, I am a massive fan on the zubera storm deck and with ashnods altar in the format now, it could potentially go a long way.
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11:00
Swirling what again?
People talk about astrolabe ban... I actually dont know if it decreases format diversity or increases. I mean, look at how many multicolored decks became possible
Paulo Bassani increases diversity, decreases the number of decks not running arcum’s astrolabe
Astrolabe will become a staple in most decks that it would be run in almost all competitive decks, it might increase diversity but you should know that it's very powerful for just one card to have a big effect on the format's future.
That doesn't mean i want it banned tho. Wotc decides
@@seilipendra2611 i agree-they don't have to ban just good cards, they have to ban broken ones.
I think it'd be unwise of Wizards of the Coast to ban a card that doesn't reduce format diversity. Isn't the entire point of banning cards to increase format diversity? It's also a newly printed card that encourages you to buy other newly printed cards.
If your looking for other options for huge creatures to reanimate there is always Eldrazi Devastator from Battle for Zendikar, an 8/9 with trample. Ulamog’s Crusher would be a better option sure but sometimes the trample damage could be relevant 😊
It makes a good back up target incase they exile ulamugs crusher
I love this deck. I would recommend running Dead of Winter with the deck since you have the snowland synergy.
Juicy_Corgi can’t run it. It’s a rare and pauper is common only
Thanks for the video friendo!
Thank you for doing a pauper deck tech :)
As the meta of pauper is still being shaken up, I would like to offer a few more cards to consider in the sideboard/main. Most of this is based off my B/R version of this deck that I currently have, but I think it's still useful to mention a few of these cards.
Lightning Axe [R, Instant: As an additional cost to cast Lightning Axe, discard a card of pay 5. Lightning Axe deals 5 to target creature.] - While you lose the ability to deal more than 5 to a creature, you still get a very good cheap removal spell and even a way to discard a card you need out of your hand to reanimate.
Chainer's Edict [1B, Sorcery, Target player sacrifices a creature. Flashback 5BB] - Another great option against boogles or just solid removal in general. Especially since you have the ability to cast it from the graveyard.
Electrickery [R, Instant: Electrickery deals 1 damage to target creature you don't control. Overload 1R] - Overloading an Electrickery to clear the board of X/1s is super powerful and sometimes is what you need. Blazing Volley is an alternative to consider, but Electrickery is just so flexible that the extra 1 mana to overload it is worth it.
Bojuka Bog [Land: Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile all cards from target player's graveyard. Tap: Add B] - This a great way to have main deck graveyard hate in case you don't want certain creatures of theirs to be reanimated with Exhume. The mana base in this three color version doesn't have room for many copies though, but I think you can squeeze one copy of this land at least for extra insurance. I would still keep Tormod's Crypt in the sideboard though in case you really need the graveyard hate.
Shred Memory - [1B, Instant: Remove up to four target cards in a single graveyard from the game. Transmute 1BB] - This card is, again, good maindeck graveyard hate for getting rid of the problematic creatures you don't want back on the battlefield with Exhume. You can also use this card to tutor up an Exhume or one of your discard spells easily too. Breath of Life makes needing graveyard hate a little less necessary, but this card is still nice for a couple of copies regardless just for the tutor ability alone.
Eldrazi Devestator [8, Creature - Eldrazi: Trample (8/9)] - This is no Sandwurm, but this creature is able to be casted from your hand if you need to, which could be important. If you're worried about not being able to cast Sandwurm, you could consider this as a replacement, especially since it can trample. This card also synergies well with Dragon's Breath thanks to it's trample keyword. This creature is vulnerable to small deathtouchers though, so keep that in mind.
I hope some people find these suggestions useful. Again, some of these cards might not work depending on your local meta, however more options is always a good thing and I know that I will be keeping some of these cards when I go to upgrade my current R/B list to this Mardu list. Thank you Professor for the decktech. It's always nice to see other people's brews and ideas. It's what helps keep the metas evolving and from becoming stale. And I hope my suggestions help some people as well.
If your reanimator deck is casting 8 mana creatures, something has probably gone critically wrong and that 8 mana creature probably isn’t resolving.
I run a R/B reanimator in pauper like yours, honestly wont be changing to mardu. The R/B version is super consistent, i have recently added a playset of lotus petal though for some super ramp.
Angler is 6 and a black not 5 and a black other than that great video been playing turbo Re-Animator B/R for years going to pick these cards up and give your version a try, no Apostles blessing?
I think your cards are generally large enough to not need protection from anything given the removal in the format. Now if this deck becomes big online and in paper, I can definitely see adding some number of apostle's blessing, or even reworking the mana base to be able to reliably cast god's willing.
I would love a zubera arcane/spirit combo deck tech from the professor
Faithless looting unlocks so many different strategies in different formats. Draw then discard is highly preferable to discard then draw.
Never been this early to school before!
Hi Professor. I really like your idea. What do you think about adding "Dark Ritual" and "Chromatic Star" to this deck?
My favorite colors AND my favorite archtype!? Id be spoiled if seasoned pyro wasnt a must have in modern and now 30 each ‘:(
Could you do an update to izzet blitz? I saw your deck tech on it and that is what got me into pauper, but with the recent bannings of gush and probe is that deck dead or is it still salvageable?
you already made a video long ago about pauper elves but perhaps with the new legality and modern horizons you can make an "update video" for the deck
I LOVE THIS DECK!
And if you add Lotus Pedal to the deck, you can occasionally speed up the clock by a turn
I did get a yt notification prof!
A series of mono colored decks would be awesome 😁
"Swirling Standsorm"? Oh, Fropessor... you are too much!
Id love to see a new version of the delver deck after daze and gush ban.
Looks pretty good. Have you been able to test this either with MTGO or paper?
I would love to see a pauper discard deck tech.
Both Liliana and Snapcaster are $70 per card!? Seems like the “much needed reprints” barely did anything to make the “more available.”
Who would have thought... it's super obvious for over ten years that wizards just wants money and doesn't care about secondary market so those cards will always be expensive and you need to pay a couple hundred bucks (or even more) to have a competitive deck.
They reprint but mythic or "rare" rares...
70 bucks for liliana is a bargain considering she was over 100 prior to the reprint.
@@LapahnYT Yeah, premium products don't lower prices until you get a goyf situation, where it's clear the intention is to run the price into the ground. Even goyf went UP in price after his first reprint. A card isn't actually reprinted unless it's uncommon or below, hence why rarity has no place in reprint sets. It directly fights against the entire point of the set, all for the sake of limited. As if every single other set isn't already compromising for limited enough already.
Premium, limited run product doesn't impact cost very much. Wizards cares too much about maintaining the secondary market for "investor confidence" than actually allowing their game to be playable at a high level for most people.
Nice pauper deck! What about an upgrade version of ub alchemy? Thanks prof
Personally, I'd love to see a build of a faerie tribal deck of some kind. Keep up the good work, Prof!
I was looking at building Faeries in Pauper and came to the conclusion that you're better off building Delver if you want to play with Faeries. Faerie tribal is unfortunately underpowered in pauper
What about Mind Rake from MH (3 mana discard 2 with overload 1B: everyone discards 2 cards)? seems like a possible discard outlet that also cuts away at your opponents ability to contest what you're doing.
I want to see what your picks would be for an infect/proliferate deck, please and thank you 🙂
I would add Crypt Rats instead of Sandstorm in the sideboard. Usually you Don t need 5 damage to everything and you can activate them much faster than sandstorm. In case you dredge it, just reanimated it.
Jeskai prowess would be a nice deck to discuss.
Very nice deck
Hey, could you please deck tech a Rakdos Deck featuring Astrolabe, costly plunder, goblin grenade, kuldotha rebirth, ichor wellspring, thorn of the black rose, audacious thief perhaps, something along those lines?
Cool. Can you make a deck tech on modern BR goblins please?
I don't know prof, I will still run resurrection, there's something to that card that really makes me want to reanimate big eldrazi
I'd love to see a video on Ninja Tribal
Hey Professor, what do you think of Ransack the Lab in the deck? I'm going to be trying the card in my Rakdos Reanimator deck instead of Tormenting Voices. I think it could be good because the deck already has plenty of ways to get cards that are already in your hand into your graveyard, so being able to select from the top of your library could be useful if you don't happen to have the cards you need in hand. It's certainly also a better topdeck than Tormenting Voice if the game goes long.
Cool build
Pauper and Legacy tournaments need to be a thing
At 11:10 Gorilla shaman is stated to Cost 1,25 each, 4x costing a total of 1,25. For those of You not well worsed in math, 4 gorilla shaman is actually 5 Dollars.
Another hit! Unfortunately I didn't receive a notification on this either
Prof, please do a deck tech on Pauper Infect!
hahaha i love that the background is graveyard hate lol
Would love to see an updated list of this deck, since the astrolabe got banned. Great video though.
I just swapped Arcum's Astrolabe with Chromatic Star. It works pretty well IMO
9:56 "this helps with your blue spells and permanents with ease" "This helps you deal with blue spells and permanents with ease"
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Can someone explain the advantage to putting pyroblast vs red elemental blast into a deck is? I see the different card texts but I can’t tell why it makes it better.
Hydroblast/Pyroblast can actually legally target a spell but will do nothing unless it is blue/red respectively. In Pauper this is only relevant in UR Kiln Fiend decks that simply want to throw out a bunch of spells. Red/Blue elemental blasts must have legal targets when casting as they don't have the same clause. It's an interesting swap of words that changes functionality!
For the sake of pauper, other than UR kiln Fiend decks, Red/Blue elemnatl blast will always be better as they are cheaper than pyro/hydroblast!
Was this list ever updated? I’m getting into pauper now and need to learn more
idk, but Late to Dinner is a card from Modern Horizons 2 that's just a strictly better version of Breath of Life. Same effect and cost but you also get a Food token.
No Ransack the Lab as a black alternative to some of the red discard/draw sorceress?
Cleric or phantoms deck tech would be awesome
I would like to see Midnight Guard Gond
If there is one can you do a video on a good pauper artifacts deck?
do you think a couple bolts would be good, to deal with delvers, and other small creatures before you can reanimate a massive creature?
Modern infect or some commander ( Nekusar, Animar, Yisan. ) maybe?
Honestly, I want to see a midnight gond combo deck to see how my list matches up. It's kinda a wacky build.
I want to see a sultai delve/ delve deck for pauper
Do you have any decklists turning this into a PDH? The only commander I can find is Mardu Roughrider, and my deck building skills are subpar to say the least.
Luv it, mix within legacy dredge reanimator that none can afford and my dredge in mordern that just tip ban
Prof, please do a deck tech on Zubera Storm
Professor, what do you believe about Shenanigans instead of Gorilla Shaman for the sideboard. Even tho it’s just dredge 1 and it’s a sorcery, I personally find it better. Plus, it can be less slots in the sideboard. While it’s true it’s more vulnerable against graveyard hate which you will face constantly, i still find it better than gorilla shaman
6:18 Gurmag Angler is 6 and a black, not 5... Awesome video, though!
obviously now replace Tormenting Voice with Thrill of Possibility
Gurmag Angler now costs five generic and one Black mana, bringing the total mana cost to 6, in place of the traditional seven, 6 Generic and one Black mana.
You heard it here first ; )
Jk: love your stuff Proff.
This deck is awesome!
Btw, what do you do against BO3 sided in graveyard hate? Are you just trying to outpace the graveyard hate, or did I miss a way to get around it?
I don't think there is a way to protect your graveyard in Pauper - you just have to race to beat their hate.
@@humphrex I don't understand this comment. Are you saying the graveyard strategy folds to Faerie Macabre? Because this deck gets hurt by all graveyard hate, which Stevie P clearly understands given their question. And Faerie Macabre is probably the weakest hate in the format, so I don't know why that was your example of a graveyard hate card over Nihil Spellbomb, Bojuka Bog, or Tormod's Crypt.
Mill competitive pauper deck!!!
I would love to see an infect deck tech.
I’d like to give a shout out to gift of orzhova. It’s a 3 cost of 1 B/W B/W and it gives a creature +1/+1, flying, and lifelink. This is stronger on striped riverwinder thanks to hexproof, but a flying, lifelinking 9/9 with annihilator 2 will leave everyone and everything floundering in terror.
I think it's urgent to see an anti-Infect Pauper deck tech. Please do it, dear Professor.
I wish you would show us some gameplay with these decks somehow