About this episode

The episode discusses updates to control decks in the Pauper format and their performance against the current metagame.

Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we return to the control archetype to go over some updates to the more long-form decks of the format and how they line up against the metagame that exists today. Gardens has seen a resurgence online as Rally overtakes Madness as the red deck of choice and the UB Terror decks have also been seeing more play. Plus a chat about some intriguing innovations to the Hexproof deck in the latest MTGO challenge list dump. Thank you as always for listening! Join our Di...

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Host: Common Ground MtG

Topics covered

• Pauper format
• control archetype
• metagame updates
• deck innovations
• Hexproof deck
• Rally vs Madness

Keywords

• Pauper
• control decks
• metagame
• Hexproof
• Rally
• Madness
• UB Terror

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pauper, Gardens, Rally, Madness, UB Terror, Hexproof, MTGO

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