The Pauper Format

If you go back a few articles you will remember my article on commander. I said that it was the best format. That may possibly be true, but today I have a good competitor. Before I start talking I just want to clarify that this is my own opinions.

Now when I think of what makes formats good, there are a lot of things that come up. Gameplay, fairness, but also how much money you need to spend to play it. Modern is a great format, but it costs a lot of money to get a deck. Standard is a little cheaper than modern, but it is a rotating format. But Pauper is a good balance of both.

Pauper is a format where every card in your deck has to have been printed as a common at one point in time. So an all commons format. It may seem like all the decks might be terrible, but actually the power level of decks in the pauper metagame are very powerful. Pauper is not a rotating format, in fact, you can use any common card from all the sets in Magic's history! So you have access to a lot of cards. It has some cards that were played in legacy, like Gitaxian Probe, but that was recently banned in pauper. Pauper can sometimes play like legacy, and has really good gameplay.

Pauper, if you already guessed it, is pretty cheap in price. Some of the best decks are only eighty dollars! Now that may seem like a lot to some people, but compared to thousand dollar modern decks and three hundred dollar standard decks it is pretty good. Some pauper decks can even be forty to twenty dollars too. 

Because pauper never rotates, doesn't cost a lot, and has really good gameplay and decks, it is a really fun format to play! So go find some awesome commons, maybe Delver of Secrets, or Lightning Bolt, and challenge a friend to a game.

That's all for now!