Pedro Paulo

About:

Also known as PyotrPavel, Pedro is a Pauper aficionado who mostly plays on Magic Online and frequently places in the Top 16 of the Pauper Leaderboards. He won the biggest Pauper Super Qualifier to date, with 266 players, playing W/B Pestilence. He dreams of the day Wirewood Symbiote gets downshifted to common so he can play Elves nonstop.

Magic

Pauper Deck of the Week: Tribe Trip

Pedro Paulo | 2023-12-07

A combo in the combat phase in white and blue. Does it look strange? Yes. Does it matter? No, as it is an absolute beast of a deck that can win as early as turn two! White-Blue Tribe is a glass-cannon type of combo deck, but it can answer interaction with the help of its blue cards.

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Magic

Quick Hits from Ixalan: Fog Tron? Run, Hearties, Run!

Pedro Paulo | 2023-11-23

We continue to explore The Lost Caverns of Ixalan. Does this artifact herald the return of one former bogeyman of the format? It looks like it does! One of the most prolific Tron players made the Top 8 of a recent event and is vouching for the card. It's time to bring Fog Tron back onto the map!

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Magic

Quick Hits from Ixalan: Surfing the Merfolk Tide

Pedro Paulo | 2023-11-14

Let's start exploring The Lost Caverns of Ixalan! This typal strategy gets a huge upgrade. A new creature features one of the most iconic effects in all of Magic and looks to be an impactful card across various formats. Let's see how Tishana's Tidebinder can fit into a Legacy build!

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Magic

Quick Hits from Ixalan: Offerings to Black Gardens

Pedro Paulo | 2023-11-08

Let's start exploring The Lost Caverns of Ixalan! Pauper's premier midrange deck gets three new cards. Two are functional reprints to add redundancy, but one is a spicy removal that enables more robust lines in the early game. A stroll through these Gardens is getting more beautiful every day!

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Magic

Pauper Deck of the Week: Faeries, Blue and Black and Back Again

Pedro Paulo | 2023-11-01

Every Wednesday Insight is taking a quick look at one of the top-performing, most peculiar, or simply sweetest Pauper decks among recent results. Winning two main events on the same weekend, piloted by a player who already won five out of the eight previous Challenges, is this the return of the Faeries?

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Magic

Pauper Deck of the Week: Monowhite Heroic

Pedro Paulo | 2023-10-25

Every Wednesday Insight is taking a quick look at one of the top-performing, most peculiar, or simply sweetest Pauper decks among recent results. Two new cards made this strategy resurface to snag a Challenge Top 8 and a Top 16. Here's a great option to deal with all these red decks looming around!

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Magic

Pauper Deck of the Week: Turbo Initiative

Pedro Paulo | 2023-10-18

Every Wednesday Insight is taking a quick look at one of the top-performing, most peculiar, or simply sweetest Pauper decks among recent results. Once banned out of the format, initiative returns with new technology fresh from the mind of Brazil's three-time national Pauper champion. You have to try this deck!

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Magic

An Analysis of Pauper Through the Last 23 Challenges

Pedro Paulo | 2023-10-16

It's time for another analysis of the Pauper metagame and its evolution. This time we look at several months' worth of data from Challenges on Magic Online. How did The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, Commander Masters, and Wilds of Eldraine change and shape the current format?

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Pauper Deck of the Week: Blue-Black Sticker Infect

Pedro Paulo | 2023-10-11

Every Wednesday Insight is taking a quick look at one of the top-performing, most peculiar, or simply sweetest Pauper decks among recent results. Why have pump spells grow a creature temporarily when you can permanently change its stats? Such is the power of stickers, an upgrade fit for the new reality of the format!

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