Good luck to everyone playing Core Pauper today ^^ I'm barely awake, had to swap shifts at work to be free in time to play, but that meant barely any sleep. Doesn't matter I get to play Pauper that's closer to being, you know, Pauper, and I hope other folks like it too! :)

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Well, top 8 in Core Pauper, with Black Sac. I figured that I can tech for either Terror/Bogles or everything else, and decided to tech for Terror/Bogles. This got me into top 8, and we kinda need a small banlist addendum for next time obv. Also black in general did the best.

Also results from the very first Core Pauper. :) Classic MBC, Rogues Black Burn and Black Sac in a top 8 above UB Terror and Fams. Oh the humanity! XD

Learned one thing from the Core Pauper experience today. This lil' bastard is gonna show up randomly in my sideboards. What you do is side the li'l bastard in vs hard combo / Tron, the things what don't put no blockers, but you have to race them. Then u hit them for 10 for 2cc.

I rumor got to me that there might be something about Pauper with the upcoming bans announcements. I expect nothing, but wouldn't mind being proven wrong. If it's just a Name Sticker Goblin ban, that still counts as nothing. If it's not, it's less.

"Are the new boosters going to turn Limited into Commander?" - "Yes, but we made sure that Commander ppl can have fun." Can we just drop the charade and make Uncommons legal in Pauper? Because not even Limited is going to be about commons anymore. #mtgpauper

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I have an unfinished league run, that's been like that for a week. Been cooking up "DYI Preordain" value-bombs instead. Method no.3 is how you get a free Preordain as a side-product of messing with plutonium. I'll be looking out for cracked-power-creep Zombie cards, I think.

Looked over the Caverns of Ixalan commons, and they look fair enough... if Pauper didn't allow Artifact Lands and Blink Loops in it. How many more interesting releases are going to lead to misery and shit gameplay because of those?