Here is the third part of the deck ideas that I have listed for Standard Pauper. I had a few references and ideas from various blog sites that I have visited. The current local metagame is more on Green Red Aggro, Golgari Delve and Black Devotion decks and my recently played deck is a Grixis version of a midrange Exploit deck. Here is a partial list of what it looks like:
Creatures
2 Gurmag Angler
2 Gurmag Drowner
4 Palace Familiar
2 Prescient Chimera
4 Sultai Emissary
2 Vulturous Aven
2 Silumgar Butcher
Spells
2 Anticipate
2 Bathe in Dragonfire
2 Cancel
1 Disdainful Stroke
3 Divination
3 Lightning Strike
2 Nullify
2 Reach of Shadows
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Twinbolt
Just add the Grixis playsets of two-color gain life lands and the list is basically complete. Access to Red gives you spells like Scouring Sands which is good sideboard on matchups with tokens. The deck went about 2-1 in the last weekly Standard Pauper, losing to Blue Red Control but fares well against Golgari Delve and Mono Black Aggro. My sideboard is basically switching to specific counters like additional Disdainful Strokes, Negates and Coral Barriers to hold off fast Red aggro and again, Scouring Sands for tokens.
I will have the deck on standby for this weekend’s tournament, though I am checking for another new list from the results of recent tournaments on MTGO.