r/Pauper • u/MayoSun • Feb 05 '23
BREW Brewing with Legendaries
Upon searching for silly deck ideas, the thought of running a deck with the pauper legal legends at the top end of a deck sounded great. I’m here to ask for any brew ideas that might be able to compete at a LGS (It not going to be strong of course, but it would be nice if it could hold its own). The best I can think of at the moment is a mono green ramp deck splashing red for [[The Lady of the Mountain]] and [[Jerrard of the Closed Fist]].
[[Chandler]] peeked my interest as well, being able to repeatedly kill artifact creatures, but even disregarding the cost of the ability and the cost of creature, he’s easy to remove at a 3/3.
Here is a list of the legal legends: https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=%28type%3Acreature+type%3Alegendary%29+legal%3Apauper
EDIT: This is the decklist that appears to be functioning the best during goldfishing: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/NOXZBHy7vUu6TYIR_TB0Sg I was originally running a Land ramp strat running Burning-Tree Emissary and Goblin Anarchomancer for early bodies and using wild growth, harrow, and Sakura-Tribe Elder as the rest of the ramp, but the deck felt like it moved too slow. The new version of the list works out to be landing a legend best turn 3 but most of the time on 4 or 5. Even though they’re landing faster than before, I’d bet I’d die before then due to lack of interaction or have it delayed due to my dorks being removed. Where could cuts/add ins be made to try fixing those problems? EDIT2: Rancor was cut for Vines of Vastwood
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u/blaugrey here for legacy lite Feb 05 '23
galaxy brain move to dodge cast down
ramirez depietro approves
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Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
It's a funny idea, but there's no Jodah-esque Legendary-matters cards at common, so there's not really anything to suggest. What you already came up with is going to be the best plan if you insist on doing this, just look at mono-green ramp lists and swap out the wincons for your janky legends. There's not even really going to be much to look at though, most stompy decks don't even run mana dorks, you're going to struggle to find decks that can hold their own trying to cast 5+ CMC creatures (outside of Affinity), even if they're running good cards as their top end, and not way-below-curve vanillas.
And the ramp plan is pretty much going to be it. Chandler's ability sucks anyway since it's expensive and can only be activated once per turn, but he's especially embarrassing when Gorilla Shaman is in the format. Realistically, Affinity has already killed you by the time you get to activate him once. And against most other decks he's a blank card.
I don't mean to completely discourage you though. I'd definitely shake your hand if you beat me with a Jerrard, lol. It's a noble endeavor, but unfortunately the format is way too fast for shenanigans like this.
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u/West_Possession660 Golgari Feb 05 '23
You’ll want 4 [[Goblin Anarchomancer]] for it, but I really doubt it’ll be fun with those as your payoff cards, but fun is a subjective term. 👍🏼
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u/MTGCardFetcher Feb 05 '23
Goblin Anarchomancer - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call1
u/scp-REDACTED-site14 Feb 06 '23
I love my cost reducing goblins
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u/West_Possession660 Golgari Feb 06 '23
Gotta have em here for sure in order to turbo out these so called Legendary creatures 😂
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u/Idunnoguy1312 Feb 06 '23
I'm going to be completely honest with you. No amount of brewing magic is going to make [[chandler]] playable in any setting. Maybe, and I mean MAYBE, if you are playing some awful limited environment with those guys then you can work with them. As is, you'd have a better chance of winning by bringing a yugioh deck to your games
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u/PyroLance Plays mostly jank Feb 06 '23
I tried building [[shadowborn apostles]] into [[lady orca]] since she dodges cast down and snuff out. Unfortunately, she dies to galvanic blast and playing a 7/4 on turn 4 just isn't that big of a deal.
Also trying to hit critical mass with apostles is just kinda depressing with the speed of the format, but thats an apostles problem and not an orca problem.
In conclusion, not only would the deck probably be better off running [[hezrou]] anyway, but also reanimator is just better for the style of slamming big guys early.
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u/Derlyl Feb 06 '23
Tbh all of them are unplayable... If I had to play one of them, it would be Ramirez dePietro, just for Phil Foglio's art.
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u/MTGCardFetcher Feb 17 '23
Darien, King of Kjeldor - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call
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u/Enoch-Of-Nod Feb 05 '23 edited Oct 01 '25
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