Theros Standard Pauper Sealed Clan Events !!!

Sealed !!

Ever dreamed of playing a Standard Pauper Event Sealed Event on MTGO?

Theros Standard Pauper !!

Well we make this possible, as a Clan Invite Only Event so we can see how it goes.

Thanks to BIGBEE, he is the man in charge of this wonderful Event set-up and that takes place on the Clan's Forums.
So it's coming on SUNDAYS at 6 PM GMT + 1. You have to register on Clan's Forums and say you are interested in playing it, in the appropriate section named "STD Pauper Sealed Event". All stuff and explanations are on the forums, so see you there.


So if you register on Clan's forum and are or become a member of the clan before the event starts (get in touch with Captain Adner Online or mail standardpauperplayers@gmail.com), then post something on forums to say you will be attending next sunday, and give us a mail we can reach to send you the Draft Set, we're definitly going to have fun !

At 6 PM GMT+1 every SUNDAY in Anything goes Room / Getting serious Room, Bigbee will send all registered Clan Members their Draft Set by Email if members haven't downloaded and generated a Draftset by themselves using the Draft Generator, and allowed Building Deck time will be 15 minutes.
Then we'll go for 3 to 4 rounds of swiss depending on the attendance (we need at least 4 members to launch the event, it will be cancelled and postponed otherwise).

Visit the Clan Forums for more information and walkthrough for the Sealed Events.

It's there and UP to YOU now wether you take part or not.

Fun, Experience, Commmunity.

Tix Entry Standard Pauper Events Poll : the Results

Most of the Standard Pauper Players Clan members would like to see Standard Pauper become an officially sanctioned format on MTGO sooner or later, and the sooner the better !!! 

There are many reasons for them to keep hope alive. Let me quote a post from old-timer and format enthousiast and player, as well as community pillar Joekewwl, published on PDCMagic.com during the last month of December : 

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:53 pm    Post subject: Standard Pauper events for Mtgo????
ok guys, now that I have your attention. Looks like this is going to happen but way down the road and here's why. After talking with Wotc about it heres what I know. They have had talks about events for Std Pauper. The current issues they want to get out of the way is New UI aka Wide beta up and running 100% and close the V3 version. So anything new like this is on a back burner. Good thing is they are talking about moving forward but no date on that. Im just happy with the fact that they have talked about in house and its not just the community. The new contact person at wotc that we all need to keep in touch with for this is Mike Turian Hes the Digital Product Manager heres his email. michael.turian@wizards.com So anytime anyone feels like shooting an email asking for event support please do. Anything awareness from us to wotc only helps remind them we want this and keeps on the radar.  Thanks- Joe _________________ MTGO Beta Moderator and Test Guru Selected to the - 2011 Community Cup: The Community Team

So I deeply encourage you to write to Michael Turian if you want to show support for the Standard Pauper format. Why? Remember now how Pauper became a sanctionned format on MTGO on the 1st December 2008 ?

http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Pauper_Magic

Venerable Community members and  hosts, like Gwyned, have been relentlessly writing and bringing attention to the Standard pauper format in order to achieve official format recognition : 

http://puremtgo.com/articles/should-standard-pauper-become-sanctioned-format

http://puremtgo.com/articles/standard-pauper-good-wizards-good-you

Hiroshi Hyde even submitted a petition on Change.org, you can find and sign it here : 

http://www.change.org/petitions/wizards-of-the-coast-make-standard-pauper-a-supported-format-on-magic-online

Before Pauper became officially supported as a format on MTGO, there were free to enter Players Run Events (PRE) only and that's how the pauper community built its roots. These Pauper PREs are still running and active as you can check here :

http://community.wizards.com/forum/magic-online-player-run-events/threads/4065936

Of course Pauper Dailies may never return after they were recently removed, you can read about that here :

http://cabelthepauper.blogspot.fr/2013/12/wacky-wednesdays-pauper-dailies-whacked.html

Still there are competitive and officially supported Pauper Events you can officially enter online...

So let's hope we can pay and enter officially suppported Standard Pauper Events on MTGO one day too. Because it looks like a majority is ready and willing to do so, we'll come to the poll results very soon.
But before we can do that, players interested in pay-to-enter competitions will have to build things by themselves. And now we come to the poll.

More than a month ago, a public poll was started on this Blog.

http://standardpauperplayers.blogspot.fr/2014/01/to-pay-or-not-to-pay-that-is-todays.html

37 people have given their opinion a chance to be heard on the following question : 

Would you attend Tix entrance fee Standard Pauper Events?

Thanks to all of them, wether clan members or not, for taking the time and effort to speak their mind on that, now here are the results and where we could go from there.

Yes : 72%

No : 28%

The results are quite clear. 72 % out of 37 players, and that means 27 people would enter a Tix Entrance Fee Standard Pauper Event. That is interesting for us, but it is as well for MTGO Teamwork / Management.
It means that we, in the first place, then MTGO could put together a Tix entrance fee Standard Pauper series. There is a topic and discussion going on on the clan's forums, don't miss it if you want to let your voice be heard, but ohh Clan forum is for Clan members only.

So where shall we go from there now?

Maybe it's time for another round of questions, so we can have a more efficient brainstorming session before we can set things up.

And for example :

What would be the best Entrance fee?
1 Tix
2 Tix
3 Tix
More

Would you like it to be open to all or restricted to Clan members only?
Open to all
Clan members only

Would you like it to be a single event or a league?
Single Event
League

If played as a single event, would you limit attendance? And if yes, what would be the upper limit?
No
Yes, no more than 32 players
Yes, no more than 64 players
Yes, no more than 128 players

Of course each of those questions could be submitted as polls here, but I'm not sure it is the best solution.
So please use the comments and give us some feedback on the way you see this taking place some day, and again, the sooner the better !

Thank you for reading, and may your opponent never draw his Garys when he needs them.

The Dark Horse from Born of the Gods: Servant of Tymaret

You are underestimating my powers!

	To be honest, Born of the Gods wasn't too impactful for Standard Pauper. It didn't provide much tools for innovators and the most successful archetypes remained the same. Actually, two decks winning MPDCs post-BNG ran no card from it (shootout to rremedio1 for finally taking down a tournament with a list running BNG cards). Despite a lack of power in the set, one, in my opinion, strong card got overlooked. It's Servant of Tymaret. There are currently 4 cards, all white, which can exile creatures in this format. Counterspells and bounce can get rid of the Servant but blue isn't popular in general right now. Servant of Tymaret is a great blocker against any ground creature, has immunity to removal spells, heals us and damages our opponent. It is close to a planeswalker with so much utility! Such a versatile card is expected to be very good in an underpowered commons-only format. Nevertheless, this powerful card needs a home. With 1 power it's hard to get through and without it's inspired trigger 1/3 blocker is not all that impessive. This means we want to be playing this card in a deck, which has plenty of removal for opposing creatures. The first place I tried Servant in was Dimir and it was awesome there. Due to the fact that Servant is black, we can have a lot of removal in any  deck with him. It is definitely fitting in Orzhov Extort and maybe it's possible to brew some kind of Rakdos burn/drain deck. Not sure about synergies in Golgari colours but if it wants to go controllish Servant is always available. I would like to also mention that in event, where Dimir Control dominates the format again, Servant could be an option. It has a lot of resilience and creates a "quick" 10 turns clock. It would also be a nice sideboard for every  Black deck against Mill decks. Metagame is still full of aggro decks and counterspell-based Dimir Control has a hard time keeping up. I'm much more interested to try Servant out in a black deck with either red or white. Or, considering latest results for three-coloured decks, BWR control. These colours provide us all the removal we want and we can add  Ubul Sar Gatekeeper due to our mana base. For MPDC 24.04 I decided to play Rakdos Mono-removal and it didn't pan out very well. Creatures 4 Servant of Tymaret 4 Kragma Butcher Spells 4 Devour Flesh 4 Grisly Spectacle 4 Lightning Strike 4 Pharika's Cure 4 Read the Bones 4 Shock 3 Auger Spree 2 Razortip Whip   Lands 12 Swamp 7 Mountain 4 Rakdos Guildgate SIDEBOARD 4 Duress 3 Stab Wound 2 Razortip Whip 2 Electrickery 1 Crypt Incursion 1 Auger Spree 1 Mind Rot 1 Asphyxiate After some practice I learned that Servant has a lot more ways to die than I previously thought. Devour Flesh is a cheap and clean answer considering our Servant of Tymaret is going to be alone on the battlefield most of the time. -X/-X removal sells also get rid of this creature and Quag Sickness is a popular card in most of Black decks. Last Breath is yet another popular removal spell in White that can get rid of our every creature. Kragma Butcher was lackluster for me because our opponent had a removal spell for it pretty much all the time. Overall, deck didn‘t perform up to my expectations, but it was still a great lesson  for me that not everything what‘s great on paper is good in practice. Please, do not underestimate Servant of Tymaret because of my failed experiment though. It‘s still a great card with no shell for it to shine yet. I made this deck just to test Servant‘s power in a correct environment. Unfortunately, this list is not even close to a perfect one for Servant of Tymaret. Yet, it's a start. The card is really powerful and with more people exploring it, someone should find a way to break it. See you in the next MPDC, Mundisv