Hi guys, I love MTGO pauper and I love to breed.
What I want to do is to explore all the five colors, with new breeds, or tuned existing decks.
I will do my best to explore 5 monocoloured decks and every possible 2 color combination.
I will try to make playable decks, that will at least have a chance against the metagame.
And the first deck I present you is pauper monogreen devotion!
I don't consider it a polished build yet, but it is a simple fun deck to play and it does well against a considerable part of the metagame.
Here is the build:
18 Forests
Survivors:
4 Young Wolf
4 Blisterpod
4 Safehold Elite
Devoted:
4 Nissa's Chosen
4 Garruk's Companion
4 Swordwise Centaur
Pumps:
4 Rancor
4 Vines of Vastwood
4 Aspect of Hydra
4 Seal of Strength
Removal:
2 Prey Upon
Sideboard:
4 Aerial Volley
4 Seal of Primordium
3 Relic of Progenitus
4 Scattershot Archer
So, the basic concept is very simple. We have a couple of "survivor" creatures, they are there to make a bit harder for your opponent to wipe your side of the table. When facing combat, they can also chump block and do some damage next turn.
The devoted creatures are slightly bigger than we pay for, having 3/2 or 2/3 status for 2 mana, but the really cool thing is how they help Aspect of Hydra get bigger. Sometimes aspect will pump 7, 8 damage each, that can get people of guard once in a while.
I kindda like blisterpod there, he is a nice creature for 1 mana. Being colorless helps sometimes against protection, COPs green, prismatic strands.
The deck should do well against a decent share of the field, so far I managed to beat a monoblue delver deck and (for my surprise) a delver-fiend deck. I lost to a torture existence deck with an eternal fog combo. Torture existence decks are very hard to beat with aggro, that is why I added a couple Relic of Progenitus to the sidebard, but I have my doubts on that, T.E. is not a very common deck in the queues and T.E. is not very useful against the rest of the field (not to mention it is not even a sure win against T.E. decks, they can easily find something to destroy it).
Also I am using 8 anti-flyer cards, that looks a bit of overkill against delver-faeries, it is not even the worst match we have, But the thing is that I honestly hate playing against delver-faeries, having a spellstutter sprite countering your stuff is very enervating, and what is the fun of playnig monogreen if you are not hating blue a little bit anyway ? ;)
I didn't face MBC so far but I guess the deck can handle it. The "survivor" guys can eat some removal, the pump spells can help there either.
White is a problem, soul sisters is probably very good against this deck, and turbo-fog or other fog based strategies are almost impossible to beat.
One thing to consider is adding some sort of direct damage to the sideboard to make the deck more versatile, the only card that comes to mind is viridian longbow, but that sounds a bit clunky in an 18 lands deck, anyone have some good idea ? =)
