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Pauper's Deck Challange-peasant on MTGO

Hello Friend,

     I am from a far away place called Magic The Gathering: Online. I love peasant magic and so did alot of others on MTGO. MTGO is only IPA 7th and up, so alot of the older sets aren't on there :/ So we made a Weekley tournament that is free to enter, and u can win prizes. Though it was hard to calibrate how many uncommons there are in a casual tournament online. So we just decided to make it all commons.

     It is quite a fun format actually, through cranial plating made it kinda boering so we banned and unbanned it for some tournaments. We started off calling it Peasant Deck Challange. Then some that were joining were arguing that Peasant is a solid name with a format already layed out by the Peasant Council, with 5 uncommons allowed. Most of the people had gotten used to calling it "PDC" for short already, so we looked up something similar to what a peasant would be, as a poor person, so we found the word Pauper, which has a similar meaning. So it is now called Pauper's Deck challange, or Pauper Magic.

     We have had it up and running to a decent size now and just wanted to give a shout out the the Peasant Community about it. We had a Feature article on Magic's main site.(http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/jm67) We do all of our tournies and info off the MTGO msg boards. We are now appraoching our 15th Tourney this weekend. And after the 16th tourney we are doing PDC Worlds Online with top winners and point winners of our weekely tournaments. Pretty neat stuff. We have a Pauper Council set of I believe 4 people right now. Our reach might even go out to paper magic eventually. Well i'm Just giving you a heads up showing you what we are doing. You could possibly maybe check out the online scene on a spare account of ours just to see what it was about.

TheOrangeMitten aka ToM