Extort

[sideflop]

Deck
Creatures x24 4x Kingpin's Pet 4x Syndic of Tithes 4x Syndicate Enforcer 4x Basilica Screecher 4x Daggerdrone Imp 4x Dutiful Thrull Spells x16 4x Murder 4x Stab Wound 4x Oblivion Ring 4x Shadow Slice	Land x20 4x Orzhov Guildgate 9x Swamp 7x Plains

so yeah, just a rough idea
was talking to my shop owner about doing a pauper tourney, he said hes got alot of requests for it, and i told him about a pauper extort idea, he said that has a chance of working, so i want to make one.

this is my idea, its mainly all standard(minus the ring)
most expensive card is 5, so that will help with the extorting + 16 creatures with extort

but thoughts and ideas are welcome, id love to get it going in the works and make it work

[XBM Yosho]

The new mechanic has promise, so it looks pretty interesting. You said your deck is going to be standard, does that mean the entire tourney is standard only, or are you choosing to play standard?

EDIT: I saw you just changed out Altar's Reap for Shadow Slide, I would of personally kept in Altar's Reap as one of, if not the most powerful effect in pauper is card draw.

[sideflop]

its standard cause i have never made a pauper deck, and its just a list i threw together off cards on the top of my head.

but, i threw the shadow slice in there cause if was fun during draft(cipher+extort), it was in my head, it just slipped, and how many altars reap do you think, should i put it back to 2? like -1 ring and slice? or should it be a more of?

also, any ideas for an sb?

[XBM Yosho]

Originally Posted by sideflop

its standard cause i have never made a pauper deck, and its just a list i threw together off cards on the top of my head.

but, i threw the shadow slice in there cause if was fun during draft(cipher+extort), it was in my head, it just slipped, and how many altars reap do you think, should i put it back to 2? like -1 ring and slice? or should it be a more of?

also, any ideas for an sb?

Honestly you might consider running 3-4 Altar's Reap because as I said before, card draw beats in pauper.

But if you want to keep your other spells where they are, then drop Shadow Slice down to 2 or lose it all together. I would keep Oblivion Ring at 4 and never lose it. That is your only answer against enchantments and artifacts, that is a must have keep no matter what.

As far as your side board goes, what decks will you be facing or expect to be facing? Without knowing what is in your meta, preparing for it is kind of difficult.

[shoebaka]

If your not playing standard might I suggest a few other things? For one swap Daggerdrome Imp for vault skirge. You have plenty of life gain to off set the phyrexian mana if you use it. Also you already have O-ring and Stab Wound to kill creatures maybe drop the murders for despoil, choking sands, or Befoul (if you need the extra creature kill) because 8 post can be tricky, and LD is never dead.

But I really wish this was Peasant because I'd love to still 4 cabal coffers in this .

[hamberglar]

Actually, ring is standard, too.

[shoebaka]

Originally Posted by hamberglar

Actually, ring is standard, too.

while it is standard legal it's not standard pauper legal. standard pauper only looks if it has been printed as a common in the sets that are standard legal.

[XBM Yosho]

Originally Posted by shoebaka

while it is standard legal it's not standard pauper legal. standard pauper only looks if it has been printed as a common in the sets that are standard legal.

This is true, standard pauper is the hardest form of pauper lol

If the tournament wasn't standard this card would be fine. So you will have to replace it with another form of enchantment and artifact hate.

[ExImperialDragon]

Erase and Keening Apparition aren't absolutely awful. Urgent Exorcism might have niche use?

Banishing Stroke and Devout Chaplain are both uncommons, like Oblivion Ring, unfortunately. =/

Is there any white artifact hate I forgot? I only found stuff for enchantments, like Silverchase Fox. There's 23 artifacts in Standard that are Pauper legal at the moment and Murder seems to deal with most of them, going without artifact hate seems reasonable unless I'm stupid because there's something huge I overlooked. <.<

[XBM Yosho]

Originally Posted by ExImperialDragon

Erase and Keening Apparition aren't absolutely awful. Urgent Exorcism might have niche use?

Banishing Stroke and Devout Chaplain are both uncommons, like Oblivion Ring, unfortunately. =/

Is there any white artifact hate I forgot? I only found stuff for enchantments, like Silverchase Fox. There's 23 artifacts in Standard that are Pauper legal at the moment and Murder seems to deal with most of them, going without artifact hate seems reasonable unless I'm stupid because there's something huge I overlooked. <.<

I think he is actually safe in that department now that I look at it. So just enchantments will be the issue.

[chrupson]

Hello, I went for something like this, any feedback? Adding Altar's Reap might be a good idea as some of you mentioned.

http://www.mtgvault.com/adrenalynn/d...r-exchantment/

[shoebaka]

wait I'm confused is this a standard pauper deck or just a classic pauper deck? Because I'm not sure what I'm looking for when right now.

[sideflop]

its just classic pauper, made with standard cards

as for white artifact hate, i know of disenchant and shattering blow

[XBM Yosho]

Originally Posted by sideflop

its just classic pauper, made with standard cards

as for white artifact hate, i know of disenchant and shattering blow

You cannot have classic and standard at the same time, they are two completely different formats.

Classic Rules:
Classic is a format that allows all sets and promotional cards.

Standard Rules:
Decks must contain cards from only these sets.

Innistrad
Dark Ascension
Avacyn Restored
Magic 2013
Return to Ravnica
Gatecrash (effective February 1, 2013)
Dragon's Maze (effective May 3, 2013)

The only way you could ever mix the two formats is if the tournament itself is playing under classic rules, and you are choosing to play with only standard cards. If that is the case then this really isn't going to work then, you are going to have such a hard time it isn't even funny because you are limited and they are not.

I really hope you have mis-understood what standard and classic are, because if you really are limiting yourself to standard and the other people are not then this is a horrible idea.

If you weren't playing standard I would suggest removing Murder for the far better card of Unmake. That is one of the absolute best removals in the pauper format as it is an instant and it completely removes them from play.

[sideflop]

i think its a miss understanding on both ends, the is classic pauper, the list is just made off of cards from the top of my head which happens to be standard cards (people i play with dont play anything outside of standard, with the exception of edh, hence the standard cards) its not the final list, morealess a rough draft.

but, back to the deck. here are some ideas

altars reap vs sign in blood?

i dont know whats played in pauper, but for creatures, disciple of law, disciple of grace, disciple of malice. woud they be worth thinking about?
blood seeker? goes with the extort theme

phrexian mana spells?
like apostle's blessing

removal/control
ashes to ashes?
castigate for hand control
dash hopes black counters have to be fun