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@PauperDan6 ай бұрын
It was great to actually play against you for once! Such a good day!!
@benrapley52226 ай бұрын
Love the breakdown. But no Altar Tron represented. Shame😂
@franksantana68597 ай бұрын
Ban the artifact lands in pauper for the love of god
@astrograph78757 ай бұрын
No
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
😂😅
@Juanproalfa27 ай бұрын
Inventor axe top A, i don,t have the chance to try but its looks amazing. I justtake 1 foil in mi prerelease
@rang0697 ай бұрын
Why mesmeric fiend and not skullcap snail? What am i missing?
@Adrianovaz20077 ай бұрын
Fiend lets you look into the opp's hand and choose what's exiled
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
fiend is targeted so you get to choose what to take (counterspells or removal)
@rang0697 ай бұрын
@@NyxMTG ah thanks, sorry i somehow disnt catch that
@claudiomicheli38637 ай бұрын
Been testing a similar version of Dredge, but with careful study in place of Brainstorm, and havent been impressed by the mana problems and deep analysis. Now I’m trying the same idea but without the blue, simply having faithless looting in place of careful study and adding 4 Street Wraiths to get to 3 cards drawn (comboes with Scrapwork Mutt), and the deck seems much stronger and fast. I’ve just tested one match with altar tron so far, and won 2-1 because post sideboard we can focus on the hate by siding out the combo thanks to the Snacker. Now that I’ve watched your video, I’m also wonderinf why not try the Malevolent rumble in place of some Blanchwood prowlers, it seems like despite not being a creature in the graveyard the card could just be vastly superior in providing card quality and ramp, making some combo matchups more manageable
@claudiomicheli38637 ай бұрын
Btw wonderful ideas all around. I was wondering if in the BG combo instead of the Gorehounds maybe using Cloakwood swarmers might provide an alternative wincon that is good on his own while also still comboing off when one has the infinite loop (another infinite infinite attacker might just be enough to end the show directly without having to flip the deck in its entirety). Also, maybe Fanatical Offering might be worth considering given that the map can place +1+1 counters
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
super interesting ideas! i think rumble can work in sooo many shells!
@claudiomicheli38637 ай бұрын
@@NyxMTG God, now i’m curious which ones 😂😂
@JackieVargo7 ай бұрын
Cool! I've been playing dredge since they downshifted dread return and giant! I was wondering what your list looks like if you don't mind sharing? It seems pretty sweet!
@claudiomicheli38637 ай бұрын
@@JackieVargo Sure mate :) Maindeck: 4 Generous Ent 3 Lotleth Giant 4 Satyr Wayfinder 4 Stinkweed Imp 2 Troll of Khazad-dûm 4 Sneaky Snacker 4 Rubblebelt Maverick 4 Scrapwork Mutt 4 Street Wraith 2 Gnaw to the Bone 3 Forest 1 Haunted Mire 3 Swamp 3 Conduit Pylons 1 Wooded Ridgeline 1 Geothermal Bog 1 Twisted Landscape 1 Mountain 4 Dread Return 4 Exhume 4 Faithless Looting 3 Malevolent Rumble Sideboard: 1 Lotleth Giant 1 Dragon Breath 4 Ancient Grudge 4 Coffin Purge 4 Ray of Revelation 1 Gnaw to the Bone You might notice it counts 64 cards: that's because Street Wraith costing zero is a special case where one can break the rules and not impact on the overall land density of the deck. Compared to a more stock Dredge list the creature density is a little different: about 51% compared to the traditional 55%. I haven't found differences in Lothlet Giants being lethal, especially because Street Wraiths can be used to dredge deeper, making the actual creature count in the graveyard higher and the deck overall faster in conjunction with Sneaky Snacker. The sideboard is just a sketch and of course can be tailored to the meta. I would say 4 Ray of revelation is probably overkill, and the slots can be used for something else if you don't expect huge amounts of Bogles/don't care. An argument can be made for Flaring Pains and Bojuka Bogs (easy to find with Satyrs and Rumbles, probably useful in the incoming Snacker meta), but i'm not sure yet. The Twisted landscape is just to add a 4th source of red that also rounds up the color requests for black and green. I've been happy with it so far, it tapping for colorless can make a difference with hardcasted Dread Returns and double reanimation turns.
@weenblizzard97807 ай бұрын
Isnt there a deadly dispute type card that makes map tokens? Seems like a good fit for the broodscale deck
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
Fanatical Offering seems like another solid include yeah!
@grahampage63537 ай бұрын
How about a Nadir's Nightblade for the Lizard Twin deck?
@grahampage63537 ай бұрын
And Rite of Consumption as alternate wincons...
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
They do take a lot less clicks online so they could be worth trying
@CharlotteMimic7 ай бұрын
Oh shit I totally missed Sneaky Snacker, that's nuts!
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
Snacker is crazy!!
@CharlotteMimic7 ай бұрын
Landscape vs. Bouncelands will be a very interesting dynamic going forward. I wouldn't be surprised if (non-affinity) decks never used *any* other dual lands after MH3.
@mazunhoof7 ай бұрын
thoughts about Kenku in the grixis list? any argument for/against it? love the concise video thanks
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
kenku is insane into the snacker meta, it just depends how safe it will be to animate bridges with so much dust 2 dust around
@lars_rosenberg7 ай бұрын
Lizard Twin is a nice name, but I prefer Gleezard.
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
both seem great 😎
@davidny2127 ай бұрын
Great take on affinity!
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
We put our money where our mouth is! I’ve been spamming this to great success and Luke already 5-0’d!
@davidny2127 ай бұрын
@@NyxMTG Great! I am building it to try out!
@Mattatamus7 ай бұрын
Thought picker witch takes so many clicks to exile your opponents library. RiP your clock
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
Yeah, it really does 😅 luckily a lot of the time you can just loop extra glees and swing for lethaln
@malte547 ай бұрын
I still do think broodscale, witness and gorehound are perfect cards for a tortex build. Witness gets back tortex, tortex gets back witness, gorehound will find any of those at some point.
@TeaAddict17 ай бұрын
I made a spicy aggro version of broodscale. It uses young wolf, greedy freebooter, bayou Groff and bonepicker. It digs with deadly disputes, fanatical offering, the freebooter and wedding invitation. It also uses invitation to get the damage through as well as using escape tunnel.
@jack0fspades-svg6297 ай бұрын
So stompy with a combo in it lol
@luizotavio22377 ай бұрын
Is snaring gorehound even necessary? Isn't it already lethal to draw thought picker? Like use TP as a 4 of instead
@Duke_LukeM7 ай бұрын
The difference is that Gorehound is useful when we are not comboing because it is card selection, wheras the witch is not. We only ever want one thoughtpicker witch, on the turn we are winning the game, wheras we want a gorehound in every game and it's a good turn 1 play. This means that 4 gorehound is much preferable to 4 TPW
@dakkaboi14197 ай бұрын
Its January 2026 and broodscale has just been banned. 'Pauper is dead' the players cry; 'Why would NOTC do this?' Everyone is back next week playing gardens anyway.
@vladdogarel2637 ай бұрын
Jack o lantern + molten gatekeeper has to be better than thoughtpicker witch simply due to synergy with gorehound. I’ve tested both and it feels so so so much more consistent
@Duke_LukeM7 ай бұрын
Our thesis is that if you are comboing with a gorehound in play then you have the win 99.99% of the time you just have to find an energy refractor so we want our win-con to be as simple as possible, and thoughtpicker witch also has utility if you draw it normally. Molten gatekeeper also randomly loses to prismatic strands which is unfortunate!
@claudiomicheli38637 ай бұрын
Jack-o-lantern is pretty genious though, because it takes less slots (at minimum 2, up to 3) and lets the deck combo off with one less black mana. Also, it's maindeck graveyard hate with a cantrip attached for the same cost of an Energy refractor, which can be very relavant in quite a number of matchups (Moggwarts, Altar, Exiling Sneaky Snackers, Dredge, Mirrors etc). The only problem with Molten Gatekeeper seems to be the mana, but otherwise its quite a lot better than Nightblade or Witch (no lifegain from the nightblade is a loss, but i guess the efficiency of having the option of comboing off without the Gorehound would be significant)
@tr00gaze7 ай бұрын
Really great pauper content, probably my favorite next to Kirblinxy. The audio could be a little louder, though.
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
I’ll try and remedy that in the future 🔥 thank you!
@rykernugent61767 ай бұрын
Why do you have dreadmaw tier and nyx tier?
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
Dreadmaw tier because Colossal Dreadmaw is just a running magic meme and Nyx tier because my name is Nyx 😅
@morreamanha7 ай бұрын
btw, I had great fun watching the video, great list 😁
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
thank you!!!
@morreamanha7 ай бұрын
deem inferior can also put things on the bottom of the library, and it seems that you missed that, or am I missing something?
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
It can! However I think sadly your opponent gets to choose where it goes so if they want to keep it, they will be able to get it back again
@morreamanha7 ай бұрын
@@NyxMTG yeah, I think you’re right, the opponent gets to choose, I missed that.
@benwierchowski34967 ай бұрын
obviously refurbished familiar is the top all star creature here but I just love sneaky snacker. it looks so fun to play with and I think it has lots of potential!!
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
The snacker has SOOOO much potential for sure yeah, I’m even more impressed by it than I was when I posted my set review I think!
@KLT10037 ай бұрын
Also agree with with S-tier Refurbished Familiar. not just in grindy grixis affinity, I can see it in Orzhov blade. How much fun would it be to replay it with Skyfisher/Glint Hawks.
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
Yeah it seems very strong in those types of decks too!
@mollyeldred49307 ай бұрын
I always wondered what that meant LOL!!
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
🧠🧠🧠
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
What is your favourite mana dork?
@TeaAddict17 ай бұрын
You brought him up, garl my beloved. Good? No. But it's funny to say his name.
@Dieonceperday7 ай бұрын
I like Ruby, Daring Tracker. Even if it does bother me just a little bit that her buff doesn't take her up to 4 power.
@vladdogarel2637 ай бұрын
Broodscale combo is a meme. Broodscale in a Golgari midrange or gates list? Not so sure if that’s a meme. You just play regular gates or midrange with 4 lizard 4 glee 4 gorehound 1 jackolantern and 1 molten gatekeeper seems pretty good. Run a bunch of token makers like khalni and nest invader and pair it up with village rites effects and you have a pretty decent deck imo
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
We tested the all-out combo version a bit with my team and it felt a bit shaky but I’d love for it to end up being good!!
@vladdogarel2637 ай бұрын
@@NyxMTGyeah it feels like a bad version of helix combo. But again I do feel like playing a Golgari midrange list that happens to have broodscale in it might be strong enough, I’ll send a list I cooked up in the discord in a while
@anoobindisguise43377 ай бұрын
i think you're pretty massively underrating the red bonesplitter. Bonesplitter is already good, this is a bonesplitter with flash that equips for free the first and second time and then can be blown up with a kuldotha rebirth or whatever. how many times do you need to equip bonesplitter a third time?
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
Everyone is saying the same thing 👀 maybe I’ve missed a banger here 🤯
@tensorius7 ай бұрын
Agree Familiar is the best card in the set with just the assumption that Ram is just getting insta-banned. It is just goes for free in to grixis replacing frogboi. I think Broodscale is a lot better than you think! Brew incoming....
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
I’ll be super happy to be proved wrong honestly !
@colinsickels80137 ай бұрын
My only true gripe I have with this list is the lands, they aren’t going to see play at all, there’s almost no 3 color decks in pauper that want that land, also evolution witness and broodscale but I’m a combo player so I let it slide
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
I really think these lands will be amazing in 2 colour decks! Mainly the 2 colour decks that can use brainstorm are the main ones. They can be good in 3c too I assume but, the ability to tap for mana and/or make brainstorm good is really interesting for 2c blue decks I think! You’re right that some might not see play though… the naya one for example I doubt will be played
@iamkrazy17 ай бұрын
Let's say I have 0 lands in hand on turn 3 and I have Lórien revealed, brainstorm and counterspell in hand. I realistically have to cycle Lórien, play the land and say go holding up counterspell (in some matchups anyway) but now I have no shuffle for brainstorm. Also, if I have Lórien and then later draw brainstorm, I obviously could lose the shuffle effect. Lórien is definitely still better than these lands because it's a draw 3 later but the utility they have is really, really useful in quite a few scenarios. (Also just having more shuffle effects in the deck helps)
@TeaAddict17 ай бұрын
Dude I agree I was playesting against the rat and its just so much value whenever it comes down. Its crazy.
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
The rat is bonkers !! 🐀🔙🔛🔝
@TeaAddict17 ай бұрын
You really missed inventor's axe. Its actually a very good variant of bloodaxe which is a card that often wants to see play. It works really good in mono red equipment shells.
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
I’ll have to keep my eye out for any brews that use it !
@TeaAddict17 ай бұрын
@@NyxMTG oh it will get used alright
@genyrik357 ай бұрын
Screen could maybe be zoomed in a bit so we can better see the cards once they’re in the tier list
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
I’ll make sure to try and zoom in for the next set!
@TempoBear7 ай бұрын
I think inventors axe is actually solid, or at least has potential. It’s effectively a combat trick with flash, and then re equips for ‘free’ once, and remains around to sac to rebirth etc. It also gains value if amassing energy is relevant, which could be relevant with jolted awake. Imagine a boros synth with this axe as another thing to return with glint hawk. Jolted awake returns synthesizer and nets an energy as well. You could play a synth list with axe, maybe galvanic discharge, and jolted awake, and start retuning cycled oliphaunts to play with jolted awake for 1 mana. You could even run hexgold slith or aether chaser… maybe… Pretty sure all of that in one list is going too deep, but I’d be cautious to write off the axe. For me it’s like a B on potential.
@NyxMTG7 ай бұрын
I can respect that, hadn’t thought of the fact it can be a combat trick you sacrifice to kuldotha and play with synth 🤯