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Saturday, September 23, 2023

Paupers in the Arabian Nights of Antiquity

It's another Tuesday night where I'm available so another visit to Sword in the Stone for their Pauper Night.  I've acquired a few more older commons on the cheap (and an Alpha Wild Growth that was discounted but NOT cheap) and headed into competition with some Arabians 

Fort Zinderneuf 

3x Ironwood Treefolk                             4x Llanowar Elves
1x Argothian Treefolk (Antiquities)    3x Kodama's Reach (Kamigawa)     
1x Magnigoth Sentry                              4x Wild Growths
2x Argothian Pixies (Antiquities)        3x Scryb Sprites
2x Wall of Wood                                     4x Giant Growth
1x Feldon's Cane (Antiquities)             2x Elven Cache (Visions)
1x Stream of Life                                    1x Ghazban Ogre               
3x Gaea's Touch (Dark)                          2x Metamorphosis 
2x Crumble (Antiquities)                      1x Charge Through                       
2x Return to Nature (Eldraine)
1x Many Partings (LotR)

17x Forests
3x Desert

Sideboard
2x Tranquility                                        1x Snaresnipper
3x Ghazban Ogres                                 1x1Shanondin Dryad
2x Metamorphosis                                 1x War Mammoth
4x Sandstorm                                         1x Return to Nature  


No Naf's Asps, no Wyluli Wolves. But all other Arabian and Antiquities green commons were in the deck.  Complete wash, going 0-4, with one total busts (11 lands and no creatures turn 4).  Each other scenario were the Treefolk holding off the tide of war, until the bitter.  In fact, against a blue ninja deck, I held off wave after wave of attacks with Deserts and a lone Wall of Wood, my Fort Zinderneuf. 

Not sure if I can make it next Tuesday, but I will place a order for cheap Legends and Dark commons  (or main set reprints), and perhaps fill in the Asps and Wolves for an appearance before the deck evolves again.  

Into the future:  The Ghazban's and Metamorphisis are already leaving, especially since I never used a Metamorphosis and an ogre provided my killing blow in one game.  Ghazban's might see the light of day in a Pauper Kird Ape variant.  This is why it might be proper to use Naf's Asps and Wyluli Wolves at least once before moving onto Leprechauns, Brownies, and Wolverine Packs.  

Moving Kodama's Reach to four, and keeping the Crumbles for theme, while Return to Nature is the end point for that type of spell.    The freaking Walls of Wood proved far more practical, even against the big monsters from a Landcycle/Exhume Deck.

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