Posts tagged Extended

Hello Paupers! 

Due to Wizards’ recent massive change of the Extended format and the impending format rotation which knocks Time Spiral block and 10th Edition out of Extended, there has never been a better time for newcomers to jump into Extended. 

Starting with XPDC 9.01 on Wednesday, October 20 at 8:30pm ET, the following sets will be legal in Pauper Extended: 

Magic 2010 
Magic 2011 
Lorwyn 
Morningtide 
Shadowmoor 
Eventide 
Shards of Alara 
Conflux 
Alara Reborn 
Zendikar 
Worldwake 
Rise of the Eldrazi 
Scars of Mirrodin 

XPDC on Wednesday nights and daytimes on Sundays at 7PDC are your weekly opportunities to enjoy this bigger, badder card-pool. 

XPDC runs 4 rounds of Swiss every week, and even if you don’t make the playoffs you have a chance at a playset of Extended-legal commons as a door prize (plus anything donated by players). Top 8 players are guaranteed a playset of commons, and T4, 2nd place, and 1st place players get 2, 4, or 7 credits at any of the MarlonMTGO.com bots. 

You’ve got more than a week to read up on the metagame, get some playtesting in, and prepare for Wednesday, October 20 at XPDC 9.01. 

Hope to see you there!

Take a look at these numbers obtained via Gatherling’s metagame reports:

Conclusions?

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Guardian of the Guildpact, Aven Riftwatcher, and Kor Skyfisher are
2/3’s. Steamcore Weird and Dimir Infiltrator are 1/3’s. Aggro decks
run a lot of 2/2’s and 3/2’s. The creature curve, for the most part,
stops at that magic number 3.

Creature combat in Extended is an interesting situation. So many of us
choose our creatures not for their physical stats but for their ETB
abilities, which we then exploit with Blink or Harvest for card
advantage. The bodies we are left with on the battlefield themselves,
however, are nothing impressive, and often rattle sabres at each other
long into the end game without doing a whole lot of fighting.

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This is the last summer of Mirrodin Block for Extended Magic. The October rotation away from our beloved metallic plane will have drastic consequences for the Extended format, and in particular a few treasured archetypes. I’ve compiled a list for your edification in the hopes that you will use these next few months to bid a fond farewell to some of the monolithic archetypes of Pauper Extended.

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MystikDuck, a man with a light-hearted touch to competitive gaming and deck nomenclature, stormed through a field full of Extended mainstays to come out on top piloting a deck full of creatures with protection from… something. “Nom Nom” refers to the ferocious nibbling of his bevy of beatsticks, and Naya tells us something else entirely: the Duck did it with green. Without blue.

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XPDC 6.08 Review
by Skeletoy77

Alas, once again I come up with a T4 but fail to advance in XPDC 6.08 this Sunday. At least I’m consistent. That’s 3 Top 4’s in the last month, all of them a loss. Maybe I have A.D.D., or maybe this season of XPDC is so awesome that I can’t help run a new deck every week. So far it’s been UB Rats/Control, Mono B Aggro, and now RG Aggro with a total record of 11-4.

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XPDC and Pauper Extended have now run a full eight events into the Zendikar metagame, and three premises have emerged quite conclusively:

1.) moromete is dominating this event;
2.) Rats Teachings is the most successful deck;
3.) Green blows.

Outside of a not-so-fluke Goblinstorm victory and a just-miss by Affinity, the victors of the past eight XPDC events have unfailingly resorted to the incremental yet overwhelming hand and board advantage provided by Pauper Extended’s wealth of “enters the battlefield” creatures. These decks are so dominant in the playoffs, in fact, that they truly define the metagame, even amid a broad field of rogue decks.

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Cogs and Stripes is a sleeper giant of the PDC Extended format. Only a few select Paupers understand the latent power of this Swiss Army deck-of-all-trades. The time has come once again, however, to pull back the curtain and reveal the raw power, the smoke, and the mirrors. Behold!

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