I actually love the slow mana base, since it forces decks to adopt a longer game plan and not go for the super-quick hit, as soon as they go over mono-color. So the mono-color aggressive decks create the boundary in which we have to brew our decks to actually function. Sure, it could be nice to have some faster dual sources, but there are ways to fix your mana without big tempo loss (green land enchantments for example, or some mana rocks that draw cards), but then the decks that can pull cards from multiple colors with ease might get a bit too successful.

And really, look at the pauper metagame at mtgoldfish: there really isn’t a clear “mono-colored rules” scenario there. You can see that currently stompy is way up, but mono-u delver is down, elves is down and mono-r is nowhere to be seen. Mono-colored decks are hampered much more by the restrictions of what the respective color gets in tools, so this balances out: mono-colored might be faster, might be able to get nut-draws, but will be easily attacked with sideboard tech if you have access to more than one color. Multi-colored will be slower due to the mana base, but will have more tools at their disposal.

It’s simple to see at mtgoldfish: the second best two decks in the repeated 5-0 group is a mono-colored one and a multi-colored (UR) one.

The thing I really dislike is the disparity of online pauper and paper pauper with regards to what is a common. I think they should rule any common as a valid common, even if it wasn’t “printed” at common online. They might have to add some cards to the ban list, if they do it, but at least it would make using gather again a valid tool to decide on wether a card is legal or not and take away silly discussions.

I actually love the slow mana base, since it forces decks to adopt a longer game plan and not go for the super-quick hit, as soon as they go over mono-color. So the mono-color aggressive decks create the boundary in which we have to brew our decks to actually function. Sure, it could be nice to have some faster dual sources, but there are ways to fix your mana without big tempo loss (green land enchantments for example, or some mana rocks that draw cards), but then the decks that can pull cards from multiple colors with ease might get a bit too successful.

And really, look at the pauper metagame at mtgoldfish: there really isn’t a clear “mono-colored rules” scenario there. You can see that currently stompy is way up, but mono-u delver is down, elves is down and mono-r is nowhere to be seen. Mono-colored decks are hampered much more by the restrictions of what the respective color gets in tools, so this balances out: mono-colored might be faster, might be able to get nut-draws, but will be easily attacked with sideboard tech if you have access to more than one color. Multi-colored will be slower due to the mana base, but will have more tools at their disposal.

It’s simple to see at mtgoldfish: the second best two decks in the repeated 5-0 group is a mono-colored one and a multi-colored (UR) one.

The thing I really dislike is the disparity of online pauper and paper pauper with regards to what is a common. I think they should rule any common as a valid common, even if it wasn’t “printed” at common online. They might have to add some cards to the ban list, if they do it, but at least it would make using gather again a valid tool to decide on wether a card is legal or not and take away silly discussions.

Yeah, it’s not even close to Snapcaster. The only reason I thought about it was that it could provide a part of what I use Snapcaster in my Grixis Delver deck in modern: getting second uses out of spells. And I thought that in a Delver deck, it might provide the nice little synergy of guaranteeing a Delver flip and reusing spells at the same time. The deck I though about first was taking a Delver-Angler list and switching black to green, turning it into kinda a Delver-Monkey list. But I gues it’s still too slow to really work out. I only tried it in a fun little UR control build a little while ago, but there I went with three colors and outside of dedicated decks with color fixing, that didn’t really work that great. It was fun when it did do work (like recycling a counter), though.

Yeah, it’s not even close to Snapcaster. The only reason I thought about it was that it could provide a part of what I use Snapcaster in my Grixis Delver deck in modern: getting second uses out of spells. And I thought that in a Delver deck, it might provide the nice little synergy of guaranteeing a Delver flip and reusing spells at the same time. The deck I though about first was taking a Delver-Angler list and switching black to green, turning it into kinda a Delver-Monkey list. But I gues it’s still too slow to really work out. I only tried it in a fun little UR control build a little while ago, but there I went with three colors and outside of dedicated decks with color fixing, that didn’t really work that great. It was fun when it did do work (like recycling a counter), though.