Pauper Cycle Storm Turn 1 Kill Explained

[@MTGDeckmasters]

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[@sasha-2574]

Thanks for showing Pauper Solitaire in action.

[@leospitz7895]

There is a way to optimize your Reaping the Graves. When you resolve the spell, you should try to cycle back each creature you brought back, while the different iterations are still on the stack. This way you keep a maximum of creatures in the graveyard, in case you draw a Songs of the Damned. I hope it makes sense, it's tricky to explain !

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Oh that's true! I never thought about that. Thanks for the tip👍

[@bronchiel]

cycling is done at instant speed, much like any other ability on a card (unless specified otherwise). this allows you to add the cycling cards to the stack before the spell resolves.

[@archerjagv2993]

while that is optimal, it slows your pace down even further, since you have to keep track of which cards are targeted in your graveyard

[@leospitz7895]

@@archerjagv2993 you can just move them aside. And the upside is tremendous !

[@bcocquyt]

​@@leospitz7895graveyard order matters in pauper.

[@Mandolorian1001]

Also a piece of detail you can add to your play is allowing each copy of reaping the graves resolve one by one as you can cycle at instant speed. That means the creatures are still in your bin, and you return and cycle them one at a time on the stack to maximise the efficiency of your songs of the damned

[@MTGDeckmasters]

True. That is a great interaction

[@Mandolorian1001]

@@MTGDeckmasters i’ve been playing cycling storm for a few years now, and its a serious difference maker. Thanks for the videos! I’m the owner of a new lgs, and i refer to your content quite a bit for tutorials for decks outside of my normal play expertise

[@tentacle_love]

Songs of the Damned was a card that I recognized as super busted way back in the day. Granted, I may have been about 15 years too early for it to be seen in a deck, but yeah, it's awesome.

[@joshualynn9337]

Its great until your opponent hits you with a foil lol

[@Dracomandriuthus]

Or Faerie Macabre

[@sasha-2574]

Creatures (25) 1 Blood Celebrant 4 Drannith Healer 4 Drannith Stinger 3 Architects of Will 1 Repository Skaab 4 Horror of the Broken Lands 4 Street Wraith 4 Imposing Vantasaur Spells (19) 4 Dark Ritual 4 Songs of the Damned 4 Cabal Ritual 2 Dihada's Ploy 4 Reaping the Graves 1 Mystical Teachings Artifacts (4) 4 Lotus Petal Lands (12) 4 Ash Barrens 4 Barren Moor 1 Island 3 Swamp Sideboard (15) 1 Forest 1 Mountain 3 Darkness 2 Duress 2 Pyroblast 1 Vision Charm 2 Gnaw to the Bone 2 Grisly Survivor 1 Snuff Out

[@Enth_used]

Thank you so much for making these videos! its super fun to watch these combos in action.

[@MTGDeckmasters]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching👍

[@MrSneakyyGaming]

Lol advice since I love the videos. Get that perfect starting hand. Then shuffle your remaining 53 then go. Might avoid any sceptics

[@davidsquatplate6958]

I've been playing this deck for 3 years and instead of Lotus Petal because it's expensive, I play Chromatic Star, an otherwise completely identical deck

[@Idk-cv4ft]

Here’s to a lotus petal reprint. One day

[@LyonAhp]

​@@Idk-cv4ftgood news! We have had that day!

[@chrisjones-rf3bt]

Please god get extra Drannith Stingers down early, then your 3 points of damage a turn and then they may at least not be dead by the middle of your turn - interesting though!

[@Rabid_Wombat]

100 times this ^^

[@Gettin_chunky]

Yeah he could ended that much sooner.

[@ironpig7747]

I would just concede

[@MTGDeckmasters]

What do you mean? You don't want to sit there watching your opponent for 15 minutes??

[@heresJohnny73]

if you concede you lose but if you watch them for 15 minutes they might mess up and lose

[@JustinHinzMagic]

I took down a tournament with caw gates. I was bored as crap. This looks way more fun.

[@imhoenn5710]

Any particular reason you wouldn't just jam the second stinger at 10:48 after drawing the petal? Seems like having 2 damage per cycle would be optimal.

[@ChunkMiwa]

In case he don't get a second one and can't pay the blue mana for Mystical Teaching/Repository Skaab. With this, he could bring back Reaping the Graves and keep the combo going. It was mostly in case his draws were bad and get dry on cycling cards. If he drew another Reaping the Graves, he could also bring back Songs of the Damned for plenty of mana. Playing Stinger could have been enough, but I think it was safer the other way around :) Hope it was clear

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Yes I could have done that

[@BabyBlue-OG]

Deck List Dark Ritual x4 Street Wraith x4 Drannith Stinger x4 Drannith Healer x4 Imposing Vantasaurus x4 Cabal Ritual x4 Horror of the broken Lands x4 Reaping the Graves x4 Architects of Will x3 Songs of the Damned x4 Lotus Petal x4 Mystical Teachings x1 Dihadas Ploy x2 Repository Skaab x1 Swamp x4 Island x3 Mountain x1 Maestros Theatre x4 Total costs for all cards ca. 50€ / 47$ without shipping costs 59 cards Total cant name the last card anything with Blood in the name who know this card ?? Maybe i did some misstakes pls correct the list then :p

[@chromelambo3938]

5:45 with your storm count being 6, you actually return 7 creatures from the grave to hand. 1 for the original spell and then 6 more for the 6 copies that storm made

[@HiveCryptid]

It was storm count 6 *including* reaping the graves, so 5 spells before it for 6 iterations total

[@TheMasterPooper]

With great power, comes great responsibility

[@kevingeorge5159]

love how affordable pauper is 😂

[@Fabyfakid]

Even as an opponent, Id just let it run the whole way through to see it play out, that was an awesome engine 💪

[@GuilhermeSilva-x2f]

Super cool deck. Twidle storm in modern is awesome. Are you thinking doing something for the legacy format? Also turn 1 storm? Lotus bloom eggs? Some ideas 😅

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Thanks! More cool decks on the way😏

[@bobthecar8656]

Is repository skaab best in slot for that effect? Im not too familiar with pauper, but ardent elementalist comes to mind since it at least keeps a body. Pretty negligible upside but still. Thanks :)

[@avee1210]

I think the idea is that you can sac skaab to itself and get it back with reaping the graves to use over again

[@sasha-2574]

Beware of these cyclers showing up at your local triathlon events.

[@Louse1021]

This isnt complicated at all compared to the old vine storm lists lol but it looks fun

[@H40B.]

Do you have a decklist? love the vid.

[@qbertq1]

Will rapidly shuffling two cards change the cards?

[@matthewami]

I never thought to cut a land in half for cycleing

[@mistysowards7365]

I built this in mono black pauper, it's way harder though.... lol couple more sets I'll have a legit mono black pauper storm/cycle deck.

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Nice. What is the win condition?

[@epsteindidntkillhimself69]

@@MTGDeckmasters Its probably Consume Spirit.

[@sasha-2574]

@@epsteindidntkillhimself69 or Drain Life

[@joshualynn9337]

Speaking of pauper storm I'm 4 cards away from finishing vine storm

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Nice!

[@miguelalmendras3126]

Love this deck. Gonna try it to troll my opponents!❤

[@SantiCUCA]

Can you post this exact list link? Loved the demonstration. How many lands it play?

[@Charleston-rv3cb]

Imagine doing this turn 2 and the opponent casts a weather the storm

[@r88bboy1]

can we get the decklist without paying for it like jesus christ why do i have to sub to patreon jus to see the decklist

[@dylanfrazier1845]

Dudes drawing his whole deck, just list em

[@babytextor]

Google pauper cycle storm

[@jackreynolds580]

Didn't he show the deck list at the start?

[@matteorossi1172]

There is a youtube short that shows the entire deck

[@shotgunmacgaming2391]

Searching “pauper top decks” is free. You can see the top performing pauper decks and their lists for free. Pauper cycle storm is on there if you scroll down a bit.

[@victorchico4980]

tioooo, me encata este mazo, tengo el clasico de ciclo de ikoria, pero esto, esto es la ostia

[@bidoofman6876]

Really cool deck man!

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Thanks! It's crazy to me that we can do this in Pauper👀

[@bidoofman6876]

Yeah man for real! I'm a big storm fan

[@danhan121]

Lucky you had that one land and no other lands for all those draws

[@MTGDeckmasters]

True. This is the best case scenario

[@johnathonsummers1405]

How do we get ahold of the deck list?

[@Idelfirse31]

Hey , its amazing decklist possible ?

[@danhan121]

One well timed swamp in the deck to start it off apparently 😂😂

[@sasha-2574]

"Songs of the Damned" ----> "Songs of the Damned Cyclers"

[@kevinfarner6052]

Is the one swamp the only land lol

[@joshsmith529]

List?

[@firedrake110]

You did miss a draw in the middle of the execution, but no worries lol

[@rasmusberthelsen5281]

Why not play the extra Drannith Stingers so the opponent goes down faster

[@josht2136]

4 land deck?

[@Gettin_chunky]

Fun deck but very easily stopped. And God forbid someone has underworld dreams out before your able to get started 😂

[@primepanda9855]

[@MTGDeckmasters]

I hope you are talking about the deck...

[@Doki1880]

The deck was pretty nice too

[@MetagamePro]

Decklist please!

[@crothas]

I think this deck was better when you just played Kaervek's Torch.

[@kuruptelite]

I call bs on this deck. You have like 12 lands total. There is no way this deck functions without being stacked. No to mention how many times you would have to mull just to get a good hand

[@saltyaf6574]

I get that this is a year late but my guy you can function with 12 lands in a 60 card format because I function with 23 lands in commander which is a 100 card singleton format where people tell me to run at least 37 lands maybe you just only play casually or everyone you play with just hates fast games

[@kuruptelite]

@@saltyaf6574 no you can't, don't care what keyboard warrior nonsense you spouting. I've played mtg since its release and I primarily play CEDH. Even in my K'rrik deck it doesn't function with less than 25 lands. Stop lying to yourself lol.

[@ziinyu5893]

nice

[@movetv7149]

dark ritual isnt banned in pauper?

[@MTGDeckmasters]

No it's not

[@hipkinbay6567]

in a game with 10000000 difernt cards makes no sense to me use repeat ones

[@dylanmahoney4889]

Even pauper is broken 😅

[@erebus7913]

This is why I will always put a ley-line of the void in my deck

[@POSTAGEMCASUAL]

Pauper Cycle Storm is 1 player game.

[@ZoltánNagy-f7p]

😂😂😂😂 A swamp in your starting hand, then you draw only spells....😅😅😅😅

[@assaulterpt]

playing solitaire

[@Profdesoussol]

L'accent de me dit d'quoi...😂

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Quebec esti de caliss

[@bryanflores7838]

lmfao you gotta pay to see your decklist

[@shifty330]

The most toxic deck in the format. Yuck. I just scoop as soon an they cycle their first card. Boring.

[@LuizFeReis]

lol

[@Slim3398]

It ain’t worth it to do this every format. At what point do you want to play a normal game of magic

[@MTGDeckmasters]

Normal game of magic? No thank you