AiriZel: Thoughts

So right now, with applications pretty much finished (MIT chose a funny time to go down for maintenance -.-) , I’m back to working on my latest article about Pauper Magic.

To be honest, the Pauper Magic format, AKA PDC, is something that’s really cool to come about. Sure shuts up a lot of those naysayers who claimed Wizards would never support a format that costs at times nearly nothing. I guess they were wrong.

That said, of course, the format isn’t all that cheap either. Although it doesn’t compare to the 30+ tix Figure of Destinies in Standard, the 10+ tixs fetchlands (in multiples) in Extended (along with the tarmogoyfs and other necessary rares), and the 50+ tixs Force of Wills and ridiculous dual lands of classic, Pauper still carries some “expensive” cards. Notably Armadillo Cloak is 2.43 each on MTGOtraders, and Fireblasts are 1.94.

Again, nothing compared to how much my extended deck costs (in fact, can’t even play standard).

I have to wonder though. Given the fact that PDC 4 man queues pay the same payout as the Classic queues… and Pauper players feasibly can have decks that win that cost under the 3 tix entry versus Classic decks requiring 100s of tixs in order to be competitive…

Doesn’t anyone feel that PDC might be an impediment to the classic community? Just a thought. I recently stopped playing Classic (after I returned from my 4 month break) because of the increasingly high cost of entry of the format, and my inability to keep up. That said, I’ll probably barn a deck for this weekend’s special PE, should I be home.

Anyway, here’s a preview of my next article on PureMTGO about “the Pauper Burn Standard.” It’ll be under my Rune’s Ramblings article type. Look for it sometime in 2009 XD

Enjoy!

-Sebastian