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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Aug 3, 2020 23:11:43 GMT
You are all invited to submit a pauper brawl deck - this special format works like Pauper Commander, except it's based off of Brawl instead of EDH. That means that you have to build around a single Uncommon commander, supporting them with a 59-card singleton deck that can only contain basic lands and commons!
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{Comments} Basically it's a control deck that wants to cast the chimera and then cast one spell during each opponent's turn. |
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{Comments} For this challenge, after looking at the possible options, I decided to go with a Gnarlback Rhino Pauper Brawl deck. How about a Voltron-style deck where each pump spell and Aura cantripps? |
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{Comments}Mill yourself for fun and profit. |
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{Comments} Solid Snake
In which I attempt to draw many cards and then swing in with a giant, evasive snake. |
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{Comments} Place your taxes on the altar, for it's time for an Orzhov The deck's main objective is to get out Cruel Celebrant early, in order to play a ton of sacrifice-based payoffs that will bleed our opponent to death. To help this along, we have a lot of token producers like Raise the Alarm that give us two creatures for the price of one card, allowing us to have plenty of sacrifice fodder, and cards like Serrated Scorpion that have a significant payoff when they die. Cards like Imperious Oligarch fill both roles, rewarding us with a token when they die, encouraging us to sacrifice as many small creatures as possible. Our payoffs come in three flavors: We have our sac outlets, like Malevolent Noble, that sacrifice creatures as often as possible to beef themselves up, or draw cards repeatedly to fuel our gameplan like Spark Reaper. We also have one-off "burst sacrifice" cards like Final Payment and Wicked Guardian, which allow us to sacrifice a creature just once for a big effect or some kind of card draw or advantage. And lastly, we have payoffs that reward constant sacrifice like Rising Populace and a few ones that incidentally benefit off all the tokens that will be entering the battlefield like Impassioned Orator. Our setup makes Corpse Knight a possible alternative as a Commander, but I chose Celebrant because I felt we had a sufficient number of sacrifice cards and 2-life swings on every sacrifice are bigger than 1 life swings. You could also go in more on Malevolent Noble type antics and add some food cards like Bake into a Pie for fun, but I found it was better to keep the deck consistent than spread itself thin with multiple gimmicks. Either way, enjoy your cruel celebration! May your opponents be drained in short order. |
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