G'day, ladies and gentlemen!
I figured it's time for another update and made the following changes to the general structure of the archive:
Added /PlayDeck_Brewin folder - all files from "PlayDeck_T1_Vintage_Conv_12-09-2014.zip" are now in there.
Added /PlayDeck_Korath folder - all files from "Korath Playdeck 12-09-2014.zip" are now in there.
Added /PlayDeck_Nex folder - all files from /Degenerate/EDH folder are now in /PlayDeck_Nex/EDH.
Furthermore, I added some Pauper decks using the
curent offcial banned list.
Some of those have been successfully piloted to top8s of numerous Daily Events on Magic Online by my buddies and me, others are strictly casual. Given the generally low level of card complexity, the AI has little room to make severely bad decisions and usually proves a bit of a challenge. Since it sucks at micromanaging its resources, a factor that is of special significance in Pauper matches, beating the AI is still fairly easy if one is somewhat accustomed to the decks and their key pieces.
Unfortunately, some key cards like
Grave Scrabbler,
Kaervek's Torch and
Roiling Terrain, that make certain Tier 1,5 & Tier 2 strategies viable, are missing, so some of the decks are but a shadow of their original versions. Maybe the devs will glance over
my ever expanding wishlist one day and code some of them *wink wink*
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The root of all evil is the AI's
current inability to handle the Ravnica block bouncelands when it controls less than 3 lands. Games where it plays one of the decks using them (and half of the decks I added do) are little fun, since it will stop playing lands as soon as it has a bounceland in hand, often resulting in it skipping multiple turns at the beginning of the game until it decides to discard that land.
Decks added:
Pauper_Nex_Affinity.dck
Pauper_Nex_Ally Mill.dck
Pauper_Nex_
Blightning Aggro.dck
Pauper_Nex_Blink.dck
Pauper_Nex_Blue LD.dck
Pauper_Nex_Burn.dck
Pauper_Nex_Ceta Tron.dck
Pauper_Nex_Dimir Trinket.dck
Pauper_Nex_
Doorkeeper.dck
Pauper_Nex_
Dreadwaters.dck
Pauper_Nex_
Dredge.dck
Pauper_Nex_Esper Infinity.dck
Pauper_Nex_Extort.dck
Pauper_Nex_Faes.dck
Pauper_Nex_Filtered Elves.dck
Pauper_Nex_
Fog.dck
Pauper_Nex_Gnaw.dck
Pauper_Nex_Goblins.dck
Pauper_Nex_Goodstuff
Bant.dck
Pauper_Nex_Goodstuff Blink.dck
Pauper_Nex_Goodstuff
Jund.dck
Pauper_Nex_Goodstuff.dck
Pauper_Nex_Hexproof Aura.dck
Pauper_Nex_Izzet Delver.dck
Pauper_Nex_LD.dck
Pauper_Nex_MBC.dck
Pauper_Nex_Melody Elves.dck
Pauper_Nex_Merchant.dck
Pauper_Nex_Mill.dck
Pauper_Nex_MUC.dck
Pauper_Nex_Ping.dck
Pauper_Nex_Rakdos Control.dck
Pauper_Nex_Ramp.dck
Pauper_Nex_Rebels.dck
Pauper_Nex_Rogues.dck
Pauper_Nex_Slinger.dck
Pauper_Nex_Slivers.dck
Pauper_Nex_Stompy.dck
Pauper_Nex_Suicide.dck
Pauper_Nex_Swarm.dck
Pauper_Nex_Teachings.dck
Pauper_Nex_Tron.dck
Pauper_Nex_Turbocloud.dck
Pauper_Nex_Unblockable.dck
Pauper_Nex_Weenie.dck
Lastly, there is the usual EDH decks update. Since Gargaroz made
Metalworker legal for use in EDH decks with the release of CoRM15 mini3, all decks now respect the
latest banned list change (unless I missed one or two).
Then there's a plethora of new decks and the usual changes to the older ones. People interested in the latter can find a list of changes in the attached .txt file.
I was on the fence regarding the inclusion of
Council's Judgment. It's current code makes the AI vote for a permanent the player hasn't voted for, making it unrealistically more powerful. I put it in nonetheless, hoping the code will be revised some time in the near future.
Decks added:
EDH_Nex_Ashling (Pilgrim).dck
EDH_Nex_Athreos.dck
EDH_Nex_
Cromat II.dck
EDH_Nex_Dromar.dck
EDH_Nex_Ephara.dck
EDH_Nex_Ghave II.dck
EDH_Nex_Gisela.dck
EDH_Nex_
Horde of Notions II.dck
EDH_Nex_Ith.dck
EDH_Nex_Jeleva.dck
EDH_Nex_
Johan.dck
EDH_Nex_Jolrael.dck
EDH_Nex_Kami.dck
EDH_Nex_Karona II.dck
EDH_Nex_Keranos.dck
EDH_Nex_Kruphix II.dck
EDH_Nex_Lazav.dck
EDH_Nex_Maga.dck
EDH_Nex_Momir Vig.dck
EDH_Nex_Numot.dck
EDH_Nex_Numot II.dck
EDH_Nex_Omnath.dck
EDH_Nex_
Phelddagrif.dck
EDH_Nex_Riku II.dck
EDH_Nex_Ruhan II.dck
EDH_Nex_
Saffi Eriksdotter.dck
EDH_Nex_Sedris.dck
EDH_Nex_Sharuum II.dck
EDH_Nex_
Sliver Hivelord.dck
EDH_Nex_
Sliver Hivelord II.dck
EDH_Nex_
Sliver Queen II.dck
EDH_Nex_Sydri.dck
EDH_Nex_Teferi (Archmage).dck (Placeholder)
EDH_Nex_Teneb.dck
EDH_Nex_Thassa.dck
EDH_Nex_Thromok.dck
EDH_Nex_Treva.dck
EDH_Nex_Ulamog.dck
EDH_Nex_Vish Kal.dck
EDH_Nex_
Xira Arien.dck
EDH_Nex_Yisan.dck
You need the latest bugfix for the CoRM15 patch in order to make the EDH decks running Metalworker legal.Enjoy!
stassy, if the changes I made to the folder structure are fine by you, would you please update the OP? It's still providing the March 2014 version of the archive. Maybe you have better ideas regarding the inclusion of the decklists submitted by Brewin and Korath?