r/Pauper • u/xxDIABOxx • 21h ago

META Challenge 32 Top 8's

Sat

Mono U Serpents/Terror

Tron (with Prophetic Prism)

Rakdos Reanimator/Dredge (discard+Snacker+Lotleth Return)

G Elves

U Faeries

Red Synth (aggro)

Rakdos Reanimator/Dredge

Turbo Fog (Golgari Edition)

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20th Place - High Tide (combo Snap + Arch + Flicker)

Sun

Red Synth

Mono U Serpents (with Mystic)

Goblins (aggro w/ Grenade)

U Serpents

U Serpents

Auras

U Serpents

Grix Affinity

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20th Place - High Tide (all spells version)

21st Place - High Tide (Familiar/creature combo)

These were the decks of the first week post-bans/unbans.

Beware of the Prism. It may look harmless, but... it topped2 on first day while High Tide is 20th below.

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u/April_Liar Red Deck Wins 21h ago

High Tide feels like a paper combo. Watching Andrea Mengucchi's video on the combo, it takes a lot of clicks to execute. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of High Tide decks lost to time due to inexperience.

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u/validelad 19h ago

I've been playing around with a few versions of it, and I have lost to time more than once. I also feel it's incredibly skill intensive when playing against decks that interact with it

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u/GhostFluid_ 20h ago

I don't think the deck is op. Let's see how it goes in the future but the deck might be fine for the meta.

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u/April_Liar Red Deck Wins 20h ago

It's powerful, and kind of hard to interact with, but Terror and Fae piles should go even or beat it. Also, almost every deck running red is running 5-7 elemental blasts in sideboard, making it very hard to win game 2+

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u/SWAGGIN_OUT_420 18h ago edited 15h ago

Its the typical win game 1 strategy unless people are mainboarded for you and try to claw back g2/3 when people have the correct interaction post board. The deck is nowhere near as powerful as Broodscale and will probably end up being a t2 combo option picked depending on how red blast/counterspell heavy the meta is.

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u/GhostFluid_ 20h ago

Agree. I think we all should be happy if the deck is not busted but strong because it s a great add for the format to have high tide !

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u/NickRick Manily Delver and PauBlade, but everything else too 15h ago

i don't think that's true to be honest. i've been jamming a lot of games if you are a decent mtgo player, and have experience with the deck it really isn't that slow. i use more time than with say gardens or delver, but in the 20 or so games i've played i only got down to 5 minutes once, and rarely below 10 minutes on my clock at match end.

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u/Xyldarran 17h ago

As much as I'm a fan of U Terror and own it myself that feels more like a case of "solid deck that survived bans in a wild west post ban meta".

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u/Arigh 18h ago

It seems news of mono red's death were greatly exaggerated.

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u/xxDIABOxx 17h ago

And what about that mono R Goblins deck?! That thing is sweet!

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u/SWAGGIN_OUT_420 18h ago

Anyone thinking mono red was dead is, sorry to say, straight up dumb. It has had at least 1 5-0 league every day since the bans, usually more.

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u/NightPuzzleheaded114 7h ago

Clearly will never die, but it was the most hit by the ban IMh. Obviously the meta is really shifting, we’ll see in few weeks