Help picking 5 decks for a battle box
Hello! I am pretty new to the format, but not new to magic. I would love to build a 5 deck pauper battlebox to play with my partners, as they are not very interested in Commander, and would balk at the price point of other formats (as would I for that matter). I am trying to select five decks that seem healthy for this battlebox. Because it'll be a battlebox, there is no real need to care too much about the meta as I can exclude problem decks, and tune sideboards, but I don't want to stray too far from it either, in case that one of my partners decides to build their own pauper deck!
Right now my plan is to include one deck for each archetype: Control, Tempo, Aggro, Midrange, and Combo. The only decks I'm quite certain about are Boros Synth Aggro, Izzet Faeries and Goblins for aggro, tempo and combo respectively. Let me know if these decks are good representatives for their archetypes (I can see that goblins has a midrange plan B, I am also interested in Elves but worry about it being too linear and frustrating against boardwipes). I would love to hear about which Control and Midrange deck I should run. I am leaning to Familiars for control, or maybe even grixis affinity control, but the midrange options look pretty lackluster to me, is there anything stompy / zoo that I could build? I am currently only looking at mtggoldfish to get a look of the meta and don't see anything like that.
Cheers!
Posted Jun 20, 2022, 10:20 AM UTC
I’ve got a battle box of 12 decks and two of my favorites out of them are jund cascade (midrange) and naya slivers (Aggro/zoo). While neither is tier-1 tournament material, they both seem to put up interesting matchups with the other decks, not really steamrolling, or getting steamrolled by anything else. I’d highly recommend.
Do you have a list somewhere of your 12 decks? Cheers
Replying on an alt here, I've got most of the lists saved, I'll pass 'em on here. For the ones I don't have saved, I'll pass on a similar list.
Most are tier 2ish decks that I that were especially interesting or nifty, with a few jankier brews thrown in.
Jund Cascade:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2742703#Jund\_Cascade
Mono R Goblins:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2867277#RDW
Mono W Heroic:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2871184#Mono-white\_heroic
WG Counters:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2852264#Pauper\_WG\_Counters
Orzhov Pestilence:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2776843#Orzhov\_Midrange
UW Reality Acid:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2735459#Reality\_Acid
BG Aristocrats:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2134424#Golgari\_Aristocrats
Mono G Timmy:
https://archidekt.com/decks/187973#Dreadmaw\_stompy
Dimir Delver:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2596945#Pauper\_Dimir\_Delver
BR Re-animator:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2348148#Rakdos\_Reanimator
Naya Slivers:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2774692#Pauper\_Slivers
BG Tortured Existence:
https://archidekt.com/decks/2707967#Tortured_Existence
That was fast! Thank you
No problem! If you're looking for even more resources on pauper battle box type stuff, check out: https://www.pauperbattlebox.com/. Not my site, but tons of cool lists and ideas over there.
Thank you for taking the time to do this.