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Back when I joined the PDC community, it seemed a lot more centralized than it is today. There were clear, vocal “community leaders” who had their hands in every debate. (I used to consider Evu, SpikeBoyM, and LulThyme the Triumvirate of Pauper, with names like lathspel, idoru, KingRitz, kehmesis, and icarodx serving as top-ranking officials in the community. I know there are plenty of names that pre-date even these, and I am in no way suggesting that these particular players have any superior influence or importance in the community. I am merely speaking about my own, biased impressions of the PDC world when I first started getting involved.) Usually there was only one debate at a time. There may even have been a council of PDC elders who convened at established intervals to hold live forums about these issues. PDC catered to a very small, focused group of Pauper players on MTGO and very few if any other Magic websites gave Pauper the time of day. Certainly not WotC themselves.

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