PAUPER TOURNAMENT

March 19, 2025

A 2 Stage Tournament With Prizing

This will be a free to enter 2 stage tournament with prizing for Top 8. For participating, all players will be given one pack at random from a grab bag filled Set or Play boosters from standard legal sets. A full breakdown of standard, premium, and collector packs can be found in the full rules Google Document.

  • Pauper is a common only 60 card format. This means a deck can contain cards that, in any set, were printed at the common rarity, and there maybe no more than 4 of any individual card. A deck must contain a minimum of 60 cards and may have a sideboard of up to 15 cards, if used.

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  • March 19, 2025. Sign ins, deck checks, and participation grab bag start at 12pm with matches starting at 1pm.

  • All packs are to be randomly distributed via a grab bag. Value packs are Set/Play packs from their respective sets.

    1st Place: 10 Collector Packs and 20 Value Packs

    2nd Place: 7 Collector Packs and 13 Value Packs

    3rd Place: 4 Collector Packs and 8 Value Packs

    4th Place: 2 Collector Packs and 6 Value Packs

    5-6 Place: 1 Collector Pack and 3 Value Packs

    7-8 Place: 1 Collector Pack and 1 Value Pack

  • When you RSVP, please mention that you and/or any other guests you bring would be interested in the Pauper tournament.

    This event has deck submissions. You do not have to submit a deck immediately if you want to participate. Deck submissions must be done before March 14, 5 days prior to the event.

Bracket

We’ll be using Start.gg for the tournament. Link to the Start.gg bracket found here. Players can also see the full entrant list and the most recent seeding while there. As more players register, the bracket will be updated as soon as possible.

Deck Submissions

We have made a Moxfield profile for the most recent deck submissions. Link to the Moxfield profile found here.

To submit a deck, send Adam a link to the deck using any of the popular deck building websites (Moxfield, Archidekt, TappedOut, etc). Day of the event, when you come and check in, your deck will be checked for if it matches your most recent decklist submitted. If your deck fails the check, you will not be allowed to participate until your deck matches the submitted deck.

Mechanically similar cards must have their correct ratios in the decklist, too. So if you have a list with 4x Reckless Impulse but bring 2x Reckless Impulse and 2x Wrenn’s Resolve, your deck will not pass its check.

Tournament Rules

  • This is not a sanctioned event. As such, you may use proxy cards as long as they are clearly legible.

  • This tournament will be a two stage tournament where groups compete separately and 8 players proceed to a final stage.

  • First stage is a Round Robin where a total of 8 players from the groups will move onto the second stage double elimination bracket, with half the players being put into the loser's bracket.

  • All games but the Grand Finals are to be played in a First to 2 match format, which are to be played in a First to 3 match format.

    • For all but Grand Finals, Game 1 is to be played pre-sideboard and Game 2+ are to be played post-sideboard.

    • For the Grand Finals: Games 1 and 2 are to be played pre-sideboard and Games 3 onward are post-sideboard.

  • Matches are to be played with a 28 minute per player chess timer for the entire match. Each game is to be played on the same timer, with the timer being paused for sideboarding between games.

    • As players have responses to game actions, the timer is expected to flip to the player looking to interact with the game.

    • Grand Finals will have a 40 minute timer instead of a 28 minute timer.

  • Players are given a maximum of 2 minutes to sideboard between games. After a match is concluded, players must return their Mainboard and Sideboard cards to respective, original boards.