MTG - The Proper Pauper Guide To Hexproof | A Magic: The Gathering Budget Deck

[@TheMaverickGirlGaming]

This was a really fun one to help write but can I just say: Can’t touch this. *DUN dundundun. Dundun. Dundun.*

[@jeremiahdriscoll9095]

Thank you both so much for calling the enchantments "pants."

[@marcelgardner8497]

My my my bogles Hits you, so hard Make you say oh my Lord Thank you, for blessing me With these auras for creature enchanting

[@Novenae_CCG]

Cartouche this.

[@johngleeman8347]

"Theros: Bed, Bath, and Beyond." XD

[@ryanmushrow1256]

Had to pop in for the Wallace and Gromit techno trousers, Bogles are nifty too

[@em-ink]

"Hey kids, remember when damage went on the stack? No?! Well that's why you are kids"

[@jek__]

I found it a bit strange he used the word "why" as "because" here, is that common? Reminds me of how they're very similar words in Spanish

[@ernestlam5632]

The lack of remembrances is not the reason why someone would be a kid. The cause of kidditude is the relative recentness of one's incarnation.

[@PaperCraneBE]

@@jek__ It's part of the joke. Usually one observes that a person is a child and deducts that the person will therefore be too young to remember something. The joke here is that this order is reversed. The person is too young to remember something, therefore we can deduct that the person must be a child.

[@fullparagon7468]

Remember when Mogg Fanatic was Mogg Fantastic? The professor remembers.

[@Lotties_handsaw]

to be entirely fair, someone who started playing directly after the rules change and was magic's recommended minimum age (13) would be about 24 now.

[@stormcrow4202]

Was watching older Pauper videos last night, and man the new editing just shines even brighter! Absolutely some of the cleanest editing in a deck tech I've ever seen.

[@sadboihours4083]

I just had to drop in to say i love the thumbnail. Slippery bogle+Wallace's robo trousers?! Chefs kiss.😘👌

[@Alarrick]

Extremely happy to see more Pauper content. Keep it up! The format is phenomenal for so many reason and deserves more exposure.

[@el_maoo]

hey prof, thanks for introducing me to pauper! i always thought budget magic would be awfully boring, but it turns out i can play a lot of old/powerful cards that i love. atog affinity is actually very close to one of the first decks i ever built when i started out.

[@PixelBush]

I wasn't going to watch this video on the bus, I was gonna watch a Magic Arcanum video instead. Then I saw the Techno-Trousers. Well played.

[@zacharyadler4071]

i like that wallace & gromit reference in the thumbnail

[@EliyaSelhub]

For one extra mana, I really like the flexibility of Return to Nature in any green sideboard.

[@Warclubz]

Love the thumbnail! Wallace and Gromit in The Wrong Trousers.

[@zanforian]

Someone gave that bogle the wrong trousers!

[@BackyardRonin]

Nope TotalyNotGeneric stop them prof! Stop them!!!!

[@muntmunt3155]

Hi I'm a penguin, and I've been looking for these...

[@MiguelMaravilla]

This may very well be the first pauper deck I purchase and play with. Thanks, Prof :^)

[@SuperSilverSerpent]

Ah, Bogles. When I saw the pauper bogles list for pauper, I realized how similar it was to a modern list, minus the manabase, and that’s how I made my first modern deck.

[@Mister_Tedious]

Same here with u/g infect ;)

[@tristanherrick7273]

Love the Wallace and Grommet pants!! 😆

[@johnnyd1988]

nice wallace and gromit reference in the thumbnail there Prof

[@thwapthis]

Please make more pauper deck techs!!

[@everyonecallsmedave6814]

I'd really like to see you play some pauper some time. Whether it be online, against a bot or another player, or in paper against a friend or in a tournament or something. Sure there's tournament play recorded but you just give off a nice relaxed vibe for a time exclusively for enjoyment of this great game

[@arphaxadbasilona1871]

Just recently started playing mtg because of arena and I fell in love with the aura deck type...and only now did I just know why it called a "boggle" deck...hopefully pioneer will be available on mtga...I'm excited to make the true boggles deck :-)

[@catoticneutral]

Ram Through from Ikoria could be a good alternative to Essence Harvest. It's a little cheaper, (both in terms of mana and dollars), it's an instant, it functions as removal so it's pretty reasonable to maindeck it instead of keeping it in the sideboard, and it's green, so it doesn't require mana fixing. There are some drawbacks however. Your bogle has to have trample for the burn damage to work, and your opponent needs to have a creature to target, so it's not going to be very good in bogle mirror matches. Edit: On second thought, it does cause damage, and damage can be prevented, so it's not 100% an alternative to essence harvest. It'll still help get damage through in most situations though.

[@gart8224]

Thanks, prof. Love your deck list vids.

[@crazedlink]

How about a Pauper Commander deck tech?

[@PocketHealer21]

I added the infinite combo of "Midnight Guard" and "Presence of Gond" to my Pauper Bogles deck for an additional chance at a win condition.

[@snugswashere6504]

How many of each did you put in and what did you take out? If you don't mind me asking :)

[@PocketHealer21]

@@snugswashere6504 I put in 4 of each Midnight Guard and Presence of Gond, and I took out the 1x Cartouche. 1x Gladecover Scout, and I never added the cards Favour of the Overbeing nor the Utopian Sprawl.

[@vladplasmius2854]

I just wanted to thank you for pronouncing ‘Rancor’ properly. My ears and pedantic tendencies thank you.

[@newsflash5132]

Almost.lol

[@MrGenyaAvacado]

I always pronounce ranker properly but sometimes misspell it.

[@loszhor]

Thank you for the information.

[@JivanPal]

These are the videos I love - relatively cheap and fun-to-play deck techs! Also, "BOG-gle" /ˈbɒgl/is actually the older British pronunciation of "bogle", weirdly enough 😋

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

7:41 Hey, look, "It's the wrong trousers!"

[@raydelmartinez2905]

'Theros bed bath and beyond' good one.

[@TheRealSpellstar]

I really wish we still got cards with old templating, like pseudo-lifelink and old slivers I know it makes the game really hard to understand for new players, but it makes the game so much more interesting for those who do know what's going on

[@seyproductions]

It boggles me how much the Professor loves this archetype :)

[@philipschorr5145]

I always liked oblivion ring, a bit expensive, but it gives you a bit more oomph from your ancestral masks and can hit a mirrors buffing enchantments. Though I guess I'm underselling how much that 3 mana would wind up costing you.

[@yankeedoodle1087]

What legal standard would this deck fall under? I have not been in MTG since Return to Ravnica, so I am not in the know. Answers appreciated, so thank you in advance.

[@identifiqa]

more pauper vids please!!!

[@adamorlowski4886]

I like the Wallace and Grommet thumbnail

[@114andyman114]

HEY prof what would modern/pioneer pauper look like?

[@Zerschnitzler77]

would be interested in tier 2 decks or naya slivers guide

[@jek__]

Huh I never thought about how vampiric link and spirit link are kind of like half of a pacify. They can still block and be effective in combat, but if they attack you just dont block and nothing happens, unless they have lethal. Fringe utility! The best part of the game

[@LandonTheDM]

Theros Bed Bath and Beyond xD laughed very hard

[@DeciduousClouds]

the flavor text implies that bogle is homophone with boggle because it rhymes with ogle & goggle

[@josephswan7254]

I’d just like to point out that “boggle” and “bogle” are basically the same word as both spellings can be used interchangeably to refer to the same creature of folklore that Slippery Bogle is supposed to be. In fact the common verb usage of the word “boggle” as in “boggles the mind” most likely comes from this very creature, as it is supposed to be a being that exists to confuse people, rather than help people as brownies do, or hurt them as boggarts do. So say it however you want, it really doesn’t matter.

[@Tacklepig]

And while we're at it explaining word origins from folklore creatures: "Ouphe" is pronounced like "oaf", as the latter is in fact derived from the former. The word literally translates to "elf child" and basically describes a changeling, a child that was abducted by elves or faeries and replaced with one of their own.

[@CyberBuster93]

The new Karametra's Blessing would absolutely do work here.

[@leocolossi]

Not really. The main creatures already dodge targeted removal, and Aura Gnarlid is usually big enough to not be removed by anything other than Doom Blade, a card that is VERY unpopular on the format. In the end, it just becomes a +2/+2 for W, in a format where there are better green pump spells such as Giant Growth, Groundswell and Vines of Vastwood. Bogles wants constant growth, not temporary.

[@catdaddragon]

I've been playing Boogles and Izzet Blitz since pauper became a thing and its a tried and true monster of a deck, my friends would rather see me playing blitz than the hexy bois lol

[@smittynumber1812]

"Pauper is the most affordable format for MTG" Mitch from Commander's Quaters: *Hold my $50*

[@thegrapejuiceguys668]

Smitty Number1 he could probably make a good deck with 5 dollars

[@suna7511]

@@thegrapejuiceguys668 thats too hard unless you dont include the price of basic lands

[@jaydenyamada2916]

Now for the important question... how do you beat it?

[@traumwandler8891]

AoE or sacrifice effects beeing faster or bigger counter or Turn 1 discard

[@Todiros]

Welp... the Utopia Sprawl now costs like $10 a piece! Otherwise, sounds like a fun deck. Probably the first netdecking I'll do!

[@josephs.4813]

You know I don’t play enough green....anything. I might actually build this.

[@zackpumpkinhead8882]

It's the wrong trousers, Garruk! The WRONG TROUSERS!

[@garrett1433]

Why not run Steel of the GodHead or Shield of the Oversoul?

[@matiasrizzitelli3018]

PLZ MORE PAUPER DECKSSS!!!!!!

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

But ins't the ruling text for reach "may block as though it had "flying"? Or is that outdated? I am fairly certain that was at least the wording before "reach" was a keyword.

[@thegis5911]

You can see it for a second in the video, as reminder text on Spidersilk Armor when the Prof is discussing Silhana Ledgewalker, but the reminder text for Reach states "This creature can block creatures with flying." The old rules text, "~ may block as though it had flying," is outdated, and it can be debated whether or not it applies in this scenario anyways.

[@addambarcelos]

Essence harvest is a pretty good inclusion

[@pauperjaymtg2920]

I love essence harvest

[@strictlyworse_mk7108]

Slippery Bogle in... * _The WRONG TROUSERS_ *

[@waaaaaaah5135]

When you shuffle your deck, you're doing a BogleSort

[@Drewbe821]

Now I want a custom playset of Bogle that is just the box art and title of the Boggle boardgame😂

[@TheMartianGeek]

I just came here to say...put decent hexproof creatures back in sets again!

[@mikezanin6708]

I'd love to play this deck but I'm so afraid of Serenity and similar effects. Any help on this matter?

[@mikezanin6708]

Besides Counterspells, with my mana base I dont find it reliable. Anything on White/Green?

[@rafaeldavis2615]

Serenity isn't legal in pauper. If you mean Serene heart, bogles isn't a big enough deck that people will play that against you. Usually, the main sideboard card against you is standard bearer, which just means you need to pack some more removal (I find journey to nowhere to be the best option in GW.

[@mikezanin6708]

@@rafaeldavis2615 Yea yea, I meant Serene Heart. And thats good news, thank you

[@reaven73]

What is the counterplay on Arena. You cannot use edicts, you cannot target, there are no boardwipes. If they get a good draw you just loose.

[@catoticneutral]

Arena has plenty of decent edict cards. Vraska's Fall, Innocent Blood, Pharika's Liberation, and Benalish Sleeper should all be legal in whatever version of pauper Arena has. Chainer's Edict is also on Arena, although only as an uncommon, check if it lets you put it in a pauper deck anyways though.

[@Nathan_Coley]

Many Magic The Gathering players...watch and listen to Tolarian Community College.

[@Dr.Q_PHD]

Where can I get these full resolution art pieces?

[@crovax1375]

I think that it's hilarious that a budget commander deck can go for about $50 and includes 25 more cards than decks in other formats

[@borismilnosteinumov2984]

The majority of those 25 additionnal cards are cheap lands, but I see the funny too

[@MrSocrates_]

To be fair, this 50$ pauper deck have a very stablished list for his price tag and hardly changes from time to time. A 50$ EDH, well, will generally be just a budget version of something he'll never be :v

[@borismilnosteinumov2984]

@@MrSocrates_ Definitely

[@ropesnake]

I think that it's hilarious that you would try to compare a 50$ pile that will never beat anyone outside the kitchen table to a similarly priced non-rotating, competitively tuned constructed deck and think that the former gives you "more value"

[@crovax1375]

@@ropesnake you don't play much commander do you?

[@Rukalin]

Good to see that the professor is on the correct side of the bogle debate

[@stevenrowe2797]

Can you add an enchantment to Slippery Bogle?

[@catoticneutral]

I'm not sure if I understand your question, so I'll answer by explaining how hexproof works. Only the controller of a hexproof creature can target that creature with spells and abilities. If you are in control of a bogle, you can enchant it. You cannot enchant your opponent's bogle.

[@jaksgaming0686]

I built a Bogle Deck with Elvish Lookout... It didn't work. Sadly.

[@Ducktor]

Complains about people miss pronouncing Bogle but then refers to Rancor as Rancer

[@RaevenKS]

"Remember when damages went on the stack ?" Urg... As much as I remember mana burn...

[@MidgarMerc]

I built 4 color bogles and astrolabe got banned like a month later so that was fun...

[@VanAleph]

Man, Utopia Sprawl needs a reprint

[@flusterfluff]

One of the many reasons to sideboard Runed Halo. Edit: Wait this is Pauper, not Modern. My bad.

[@JP-id7zq]

I was gona make this deck but then realised how many edicts are pauper legal lol

[@vincentmccue7481]

Bo Knows Auras. Also, Bog is pronounced (bawg) and le is (uhl), but put em together and you get....Bogle (bow-guhl)? It boggles the mind.

[@sonofchlar6144]

ENGAGEMENT!!!

[@sonofchlar6144]

Can’t touch this!

[@anahata8870]

What about boggels - nope ! 😆

[@volatilesky]

Flicker? I hardly knew 'er!

[@pauperjaymtg2920]

4:33 warrior not soldier.

[@manic7388]

One view. 300 likes, i think the view count is viewerproof

[@fluffbot3000]

Anyone else miss shroud?

[@P3RDT0]

EDH Boggles

[@zeroeffortmtg3977]

DAMM BOI THAT BOGLE IS THICC

[@vario6492]

5:35 arent these UNcommon??? I'm confused...

[@derpj7105]

They where common at one point, then got reprinted at uncommon. Still pauper legal in this way!

[@schrottinator]

So uncommons are allowed in pauper?

[@chosentwice1839]

schrottinator it was printed in common at one point, so it’s pauper legal. Just like Gray Merchant Of Asphodel is uncommon in TBD, It was printed in common in OG Theros.

[@schrottinator]

@@chosentwice1839 Thank you for clarification.

[@treypoole1699]

you always play 4 spider umbra

[@ernestlam5632]

Rabid Wombat

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

I don’t endorse degenerate strategies like hex proof but I’ll leave a like anyway because I like you, teach.

[@ForeverLaxx]

Degenerate? That's kinda funny.

[@DannyOE4]

Throws a fit about how to pronounce "bogle" then pronounces Rancor "rainker"...... smh

[@brennennichols7573]

I want to p.m. or email the prof about a game design I think he would like n understand

[@Mendesstieger]

A wasted opportunity to use Hexprof in the video thumbnail.

[@ForeverLaxx]

I think it's fun that you get so worked up over the pronunciation of bogle, but will mispronounce/misspell lots of things in other videos. Yes, yes we're all human but it still makes me laugh.

[@muntmunt3155]

I only clicked on this video because of The Wrong Trousers

[@mtggizmothing9723]

First? love my bogles!

[@SirNarax]

As a professor of the English language you of all people should know that there isn't just one way to pronounce a word.

[@4724.]

PP

[@plshalpme173]

maybe you will talk about something more complex than just aura trible? maybe something like history of eggs and their struggle after bans? or maybe how you can do math on your burn deck? or how planeswalkers slowly changed creature metagame and forced power creep? i would like to see something harder than 2+2.

[@shawndiaz7528]

Have you considered requesting Prof do videos on topics you're interested in for free without belittling the work him and the crew did or condescending bogles players?

[@robertschneider779]

I feel like asking this question on his patreon page, as a patron, may yeild better results.

[@HessianHunter]

I am glad that there are both insane jigsaw puzzle decks like Eggs and beginner-friendly decks like Bogles in Magic. Everyone has to start somewhere. Those topics you bring up all sound super interesting and I would like to see content about all of that, but I am also glad that a quality deck tech exists for an incredibly cheap and beginner-friendly deck.

[@plshalpme173]

you are right guys, this content is not for me. i have nothing to learn from prof and you will never see me in this comment section again.

[@SyntheticReign]

@@plshalpme173 I generally believe that you can always learn more from anything. For example, you learned that you wanted different content BECAUSE of the content that Prof puts out. Of course, if this isn't for you, that's fine, but try not to, as previously stated, insult people or their work just because it doesn't appeal to you. Just be grateful for the knowledge and gracefully move along.

[@CSDragon]

Sorry, never gonna pronounce it with a hard 'o' that sounds so weird.

[@golgariguy]

Hexproof is such a stupid ability... Shroud was much more flavorful!

[@idkjustleavemebeplease]

Budget deck, $50... I think I'll go buy that elf commander deck and call it good.

[@catoticneutral]

Most of the cards in a commander precon aren't going to be legal in pauper.

[@fingernfrets]

This isn’t a pauper deck. You’re using uncommon cards. You MUST use all common cards for it to be considered a pauper deck.

[@catoticneutral]

Those cards have been printed at common. They're legal in pauper, even if you're using an uncommon printing of them.

[@newsflash5132]

Funny. He makes a big deal about pronouncing bogles properly but continues the same tradition by repeatedly mispronouncing rancor . lol.

[@toastertubbo]

if you really wanted to shorten the name you could just call it "sexproof"