Teachings doesn't really synergize with the delve mechanic since teachings wants a full yard and delve wants to generally be more aggressive. You could try sb into a teachings deck but it's quite a shift.
Accumulated Knowledge isn't usually played in this build for the same reason. You are forced to eat cards in the yard.
Regarding Scavenger vs Angler. The 5 body is really hard to deal with in pauper. While wizards is printing more options there aren't that many things that can just sit there while you beat them with angler. The flyer is good against some decks but many can do 3 damage to get rid of it.
I came here to see if there were any improvements in the site since my $5 a month silver subscription came out of PayPal. I used to think people were crazy for offering 50% bounties on tickets but I think that's exactly what I'm going to do to cash out my remaining points. I see no reason to keep using this site which is a crying shame. It was perfect for small dealers who wanted to trade up and keep their good cards stocked. I would trade foils for Points and then points for Staples.
1 easy thing they could do to help dry up the supply would be to allow people to pay for premium memberships in points. I doubt that they would ever do that. I don't know what else they could offer that would deflate the currency without losing confidence.
Have they talked anymore about the inflation? To me that is worse than the new site. I've seen people running 100% bounties on tix just to cash out which is basically the equivalent of a run on the bank.
There is a lot of creature kill in this meta and fiend is the most fragile part of the deck. This doesn't mean it's bad, but having played the deck before Cyclops when it used to play less like infect and more just pushing chip damage. I think he's just exploring the posibilities of thermoalchemist.
It's a consolidated thread so people can track the changes to pauper over time. Usually a set might only add 1-2 new cards. The wealth of playable commons that have been added lately is a nice change.
Pauper is fun if you like eternal formats but it's no way to add significant value to your collection. It would give you something to play while you invest in a deck. Standard is fairly budget right now but it rotates quick. That is a big drawback if you don't play a ton.
It's definitely different to play as a non combo deck, but right now I think there is just too few answers to alchemist (other than creature removal). You can still run free stuff like mutagenic growth and gitaxian probe like the combo list. Growth protects from most burn.
My account finally got rolling again during the past couple of days. I think a lot of folks are excitedly exploring the new package trade feature, and sending to folks that simply have the most cards to fulfill in a single trade, regardless of the actual value of the trade. I think you could do worse than load up your wants list with the cards you actually want ($2 - $infinity stuff) but add as many cheap commons and uncommons as you can bear; commons and uncommons that you've maybe been toying with the idea of collecting or building with. I think that's a good way of raising your profile and helping folks unload stuff clogging up their own home collections.
For example, I put a bunch of chase standard cards on my list without seeing much action, but once I put some additional SOI and EMN commons and uncommons on my list (for building a dumb super casual edh deck), trades for the chase cards started coming in, usually loaded up with extra commons and uncommons. The cost of the extra commons and uncommons have been negligable, certainly not exceeding the expenses I'd expect honoring a 10-20% bounty.
I haven't really tested this method on modern or older edh/legacy stuff, but I don't think it could hurt to have 4+ cards available for any prospective trader to latch onto in your profile.
No joke. I added a bunch of low cost crap (Wastes et since I didn't draft that set) and trades started rolling in. Personally I look at point values when I do package trades, but I'm the same way. I'd rather ship $2 worth of bulk with my $10 card than a couple of $3 cards that would ship on their own.
One thing I was curious about as someone who doesn't currently use Pucatrade but certainly keeps an eye on the goings on there via this thread mostly... The addition of mtgo trading and such, has me a tad curious, how does that work within the pucapoints system and what sorts of conformation exist for the online trading to help avoid the potential for scammers and such that something like package tracking and such for physical cards can help avoid?
They have bots set up. You trade your cards to the bot and then I presume get your points even if its a couple days before they pickup.
Ohhh, okay, that makes 100% sense then. That's awesome of them to be willing to act as intermediaries between mtgo traders to allow for a free flow of mtgo cards that can be converted into pucapoints and then into physical cards. Sounds like a win win for a lot of people (or for physical cards into points and then into mtgo cards).
I'm testing the waters for this right now. i had an open order for tix for about a week, but no bites since I don't pay bonus. I just uploaded a bunch of commons and uncommons from standard and modern so we'll see how that goes.
One thing I was curious about as someone who doesn't currently use Pucatrade but certainly keeps an eye on the goings on there via this thread mostly... The addition of mtgo trading and such, has me a tad curious, how does that work within the pucapoints system and what sorts of conformation exist for the online trading to help avoid the potential for scammers and such that something like package tracking and such for physical cards can help avoid?
They have bots set up. You trade your cards to the bot and then I presume get your points even if its a couple days before they pickup.
Is there a reason that the tokens on my want list which were previously valued at ~800 pp are now requiring ~2000 pp? Kinda a bummer.
Not many for sale I guess. I'm wondering if they are going to retract some of these point values which would leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.
For instance I have a few rare old foils that goldfish puts at about $20 each, but I can get 6k pp for them. If I sent one to you and cleaned you out I don't know how happy you would be knowing you had to cough up the equivalent of a playset of fetches for it.
Accumulated Knowledge isn't usually played in this build for the same reason. You are forced to eat cards in the yard.
Regarding Scavenger vs Angler. The 5 body is really hard to deal with in pauper. While wizards is printing more options there aren't that many things that can just sit there while you beat them with angler. The flyer is good against some decks but many can do 3 damage to get rid of it.
1 easy thing they could do to help dry up the supply would be to allow people to pay for premium memberships in points. I doubt that they would ever do that. I don't know what else they could offer that would deflate the currency without losing confidence.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/magic-online-formats/188848-faq-everything-about-set-redemptions
No joke. I added a bunch of low cost crap (Wastes et since I didn't draft that set) and trades started rolling in. Personally I look at point values when I do package trades, but I'm the same way. I'd rather ship $2 worth of bulk with my $10 card than a couple of $3 cards that would ship on their own.
3 Archaeomancer
4 Mulldrifter
4 Peregrine Drake
3 Sea Gate Oracle
Sorcery (15)
3 Compulsive Research
1 Deep Analysis
4 Flame Slash
2 Ponder
4 Preordain
1 Rolling Thunder
3 Counterspell
1 Electrickery
3 Ghostly Flicker
3 Lightning Bolt
Land (19)
2 Seat of the Synod
2 Forgotten Cave
5 Island
3 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Izzet Guildgate
4 Mountain
4 Swiftwater Cliffs
3 Aura Flux
2 Dispel
1 Gigadrowse
3 Gorilla Shaman
3 Hydroblast
2 Pyroblast
I'm testing the waters for this right now. i had an open order for tix for about a week, but no bites since I don't pay bonus. I just uploaded a bunch of commons and uncommons from standard and modern so we'll see how that goes.
They have bots set up. You trade your cards to the bot and then I presume get your points even if its a couple days before they pickup.
Not many for sale I guess. I'm wondering if they are going to retract some of these point values which would leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.
For instance I have a few rare old foils that goldfish puts at about $20 each, but I can get 6k pp for them. If I sent one to you and cleaned you out I don't know how happy you would be knowing you had to cough up the equivalent of a playset of fetches for it.