Pauper League: Week 4

Week Four of Pauper league at Play the Game was today.

First an announcement, to settle the issue of Prizes vs. No prizes for the “league” I recommended and I believe we decided on this: The last Wednesday of each month we’re having a tournament.  $5 buy in, store credit as prizes based on the PTGRTS prize structure.

Back to the story:

I overslept a bit so Rich and I showed up a little late. James and Corry were playing a match already so Rich pulled out Izzetpost and I unleashed a new gigadrowse-enhanced Spring Tide.     Suffice to say, Spring Tide performed fantastic, I finally have the build I’ve been searching for going 5-1 today.  A full rundown of it’s performance is here.   Next I loaned Spring Tide out to Corry and had a rematch from last week.  My Jet Blue vs. His Kiln Fiend Deck.

Jet Blue

A straightforward, get-in-there-and-kill-you deck that will be much cooler next week due to a gift of four Cloud Pirates from Doug to replace the Cloud Sprites (Thanks Doug!).  Went 1-2.  Biggest problem was getting two-for-oned off Unstable Mutation.   Kiln Fiend probably isn’t my greatest matchup as he’s running a lot of burn and negate.  still, I felt like I was in it until the end and went 2-0 vs. the same build last week.   Need to work out a sideboard for this deck, and try again next week.

Also, new player Drew showed up again this week.  He still doesn’t have a pauper deck, but is running a pretty low power causal elf deck.   I put Affinity up against it and won despite a very slow start.   Ran over the deck with pestilence due to him not drawing a second land until turn six.  Turns out he was running  32 lands in a ~120 card deck.  I borrowed his deck then, and shrunk it down to sixty cards, trying to explain the idea of a mana curve.  Then played against it with my “Wurm” Deck (the lowest power deck I have built) and I was slaughtered 0-2.

The 'Wurm' Deck

After that it was time for me to go.   Looking forward to next week.