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Common Ground MtG Pauper Podcast
A Magic The Gathering podcast focused on the best (and our favorite) format: Pauper! Tune in every Thursday for metagame updates, tournament reports, lots of laughter, and interviews with members of the Pauper community!
Hosted by Cameron Schindler, Thomas Gunn, and James "Hippo" Hieronimus.
Episodes
- Common Ground MtG Pauper Podcast
Common Ground 150: Gotta Catch Up With the Meta, Gotta Catch Up With the Meta, Pauper Pod!
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, the boys look over a myriad of recent tournament results to gauge the updated state of the meta now that Zeta hype has…
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Common Ground 149: Thomas' Turn for Therapy - Navigating the Vibes of a Low Pauper Population
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, Thomas is back and has some feelings to process about being in a new area with a lot less Pauper going on around him. Part…
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Common Ground 148: Giant's Boulder is Just Arcum's Astrolabe (Cameron did minimal editing to this)
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Common Ground 147: You Get An Affinity Variant, and You Get An Affinity Variant, Everyone Gets An Affinity Variant!
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, Cameron and Hippo discuss the many Affinity and Esper variants running around the Pauper format and which ones may be best…
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Common Ground 146: A Free Spike-opath Therapy Session & Teaching Magic with Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, we catch up with a couple of your emails and dig into whether Pauper is casual VS competitive and how that relates to…
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Common Ground 145.2: Technical Difficulties Caused by Planeswalkers at Common - Reality Fracture Pauper Spoilers
Welcome back Pauper fam! Sometimes you lose over an hour of recording and have a time crunch on the other side but THAT WON'T STOP US! We take a look at a…
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Common Ground 144: Hippo Declares Baleful Strix "Overblown Boomer Nonsense" - Testing Zeta Cards at Pauper League
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's been a full week of Zeta-legal Pauper in our local leagues and we have some insights to share from our experiences. That doesn't…
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Common Ground 143: 55 BALEFUL STRIX 55 DISPATCH 55 CUT DOWN 55 VANDALBLAST - The Zeta Set in Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! If you haven't heard, WotC and the PFP have walked back their decision regarding The Zeta Set and now we have some new toys to play…
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Common Ground 142: CubeCon 2026 (A Notably Shorter Edition)
Welcome back Pauper- uh, I mean, CUBE fam! Hippo and Cameron are back from CubeCon and they brought Matthew "Silly" Sentilles along to catch Thomas and y'all…
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Common Ground 141: To Draw Two or Not to Draw Two? That is Pauper's Question
Welcome back Pauper fam! These "Draw two"-style cards have truly taken over the Pauper format and we're interested in discussing the why. With such a…
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Common Ground 140: Brushing Up on Dungeon Mechanics & Other Enlightening Pauper Reports
Welcome back Pauper fam! With Thomas busy hustling and Cameron travelling for work, James and Cameron sit down for a remote episode to share some updates on…
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Common Ground 139: Jeskai Vibes
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we briefly discuss the latest B&R announcement before jumping into some Jeskai Ephemerate vibes and some general metagame…
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Common Ground 138: There (Hobbit Pauper Spoilers) & Back Again (Cup4 Winner Interview with Nathaniel Vowell)
Welcome back Pauper fam! It is once again spoiler time and we're returning to Middle Earth with The Hobbit. Will we see more than Giant's Boulder in the…
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Common Ground 137: The 4th Common Ground Cup Sleepy Recap
Welcome back Pauper fam! The 4th Common Ground Cup has come and gone and WOW we are so grateful to y'all for the support both in-person and across the…
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Common Ground 136: Pre-Cup4 Pauper Meta Check-In with Matthew "Silly" Sentilles
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's time for the Common Ground Cup! Keeping with tradition, we invite our fellow commentator Matthew "Silly" Sentilles to join us in…
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Common Ground 135: PauperGenesis Hotel Pod with Rich Bucey
Welcome back Pauper fam! PauperGenesis, the largest Pauper tournament in US history, has come and gone, and what an incredible experience it was! We recorded…
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Common Ground 134: Information Cascades in Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! As folks prepare for PauperGenesis and PauperGeddon this coming weekend, it's important to discern what the truth of your preparation…
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Common Ground 133: Where Do We Bow From Here? Pauper Ban Chat with Jonathan Collins (aka Brute)
Welcome back Pauper fam! Seeker of Skybreak is banned! What does this mean for the Pauper format? We invited Alum of the Pod Brute back on the show to discuss…
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Common Ground 132: The Combat Phase with Judge Austin Walker
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we invited Alum of the Pod and CGCup Head Judge Austin Walker back onto the show to dig into the intricacies of the Combat…
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Common Ground 131: Marvel Pauper Spoilers, ASSEMBLE!
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's spoiler time once again and this time Marvel's Superheroes have joined the Pauper fray. Are we hyped about more tacky UB cards in…
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Common Ground 130: Pauper Questions from The Notorious E.L.L.I.O.T.
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, we catch up with a handful of emails from our most frequent emailer Elliot! He has some good thinkers for us that lead into…
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Common Ground 129: Elves Deep Dive & PauperGenesis Jeskai Testing with Derrick Smith
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, Derrick Smith returns for another very fun episode where we dive into the Elves deck, how it works, and how to play against…
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Common Ground 128: A Vacation's Worth of Pauper Challenges featuring Cube Weekend 2026 Stories
Welcome back Pauper fam! We just got back (for Cameron, within hours) from our annual Cube Weekend and have some catching up to do with the past weekend's…
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Common Ground 127: Bonders Rejoice!
Welcome back Pauper fam! Bonder's Ornament is unbanned! Will it finally propel Tron to the top of the metagame? Will the midrange/control decks pick up a…
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Common Ground 126: Getting Silly with Jund Wildfire featuring Matthew "Silly" Sentilles
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, we're joined by Alum of the Pod Matthew "Silly" Sentilles for a DEEP dive into the Jund Wildfire deck! If you enjoy the…
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Common Ground 125: THINK MARK - Pauper Metagame Catchup
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, we check the pulse on the current state of the Pauper format and the neat decks that have been reshaping the metagame…
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Common Ground 124: PauperGenesis & NYC Pauper League with Chris/nyc-mtg
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, we invited Chris from NYC Pauper League onto the show to learn more about NYC's incredible League and the upcoming…
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Common Ground 123: Big Games VS Small Games in Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, we discuss a Sam Black theory article that breaks down card advantage into two major concept pillars of Big Games and Small…
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Common Ground 122: Secrets of Lorehold- I mean, Strixhaven Spoilers
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's spoiler season once again and there are some exciting Strixhaven commons that we have our eyes on. Plus a few decklist results…
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Common Ground 121: Skura Returns! Innovating in Pauper & Paupergeddon Coverage
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, Skura, the Faerie King himself, returns to share some stories from Paupergeddon coverage and how he's been innovating on…
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Common Ground 120: Some Rather Foolish Pauper Takes
Welcome back Pauper fam! There seems to be some rather Fool-ish energy in the studio today. Follow along with "Cameron", "Thomas", and "Hippo" as they share…
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Common Ground 119: Paupergeddon and Win-A-Dual Tournament Reviews
Welcome back Pauper fam! Paupergeddon Spring edition has come and gone and we have some really sweet decklists to look through! We also recap our experience at…
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Common Ground 118: Shoebox Stories & Picking the Right Pauper Deck
Welcome back Pauper fam! Cameron and Hippo just got back from Shoebox and have some shenanigans and Cube stories to share with us!* There have also been some…
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Common Ground 117: Lessons from Limited with Sam Snodgrass
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we invite our friend and Limited crusher Sam Snodgrass onto the show. Known as snodz on MTGO, Sam has consistently been at…
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Common Ground 116: Returning to the Gardens - Control in Pauper 2.0
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we return to the control archetype to go over some updates to the more long-form decks of the format and how they line up…
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Common Ground 115: Teenage Mutant Pauper Turtles
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's TMNT spoiler time and even though we're not the biggest fans of this set, there are still plenty of cool Pauper cards to discuss…
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Common Ground 114: A Menu of Metagames - Pauper Data Analysis with Ryan Adams
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we're joined by our friend Ryan Adams to discuss how to assess different metagames in Pauper using data analysis in new and…
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Common Ground 113: Organizing Your Local Pauper League with Ethan from Pauper PNW
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron and Thomas sit down with Ethan from Pauper Pacific Northwest (Pauper PNW) to chat about how we've each worked to…
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Common Ground 112: Spying Some Great Results at the 3rd Common Ground Cup Pauper $2k featuring Champion Michael Modena
Welcome back Pauper fam! The 3rd Common Ground Cup is in the books and y'all showed up in a BIG way to make it the best one yet! 80 Pauper players came to do…
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Common Ground 111: CGCup 3 Pre-Show Episode featuring Tristan Aita (SoIMBAGallade)
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's Common Ground Cup time once again and we're all very excited to bring you another great event! We invited our friend Tristan Aita…
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Common Ground 110: Diving Into Pauper as a New Player with Jonathan Collins AKA Brute
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we sat down with local friend and Discord regular Jonathan Collins (aka Brute) for a laidback discussion and storytime…
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Common Ground 109: there are plenty of playable pauper cards in lorwyn eclipsed
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's once again time for a new set and the bois have picked out a small selection of commons that they think might find some amount of…
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Common Ground 108: New Year, New Pauper?
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we're solidly into 2026 which means it's time to take stock of the Pauper format to see where we're starting things off this…
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Common Ground 107: Ringing in the New Year with a Pauper Mailbag
Welcome back Pauper fam! Happy New Year! To celebrate 2026 y'all showed up big time with plenty of questions for us to answer, so much so that we'll have to do…
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Common Ground 106: 2025 Pauper Review with Kalikaiz
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we invite Jake AKA Kalikaiz AKA saidenraiken on MTGO to join us once again for an end of the year review of the Pauper…
Common Ground MtG Pauper PodcastCommon Ground 105: Mirror Matches in Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week the boys answer an email prompt (thank you Skye!) and dive into the dynamics of mirror matches, both in terms of general…
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Common Ground 104: Eternally Grateful for Paupergeddon
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron and Hippo dissect the results from last weekend's Paupergeddon at the European Eternal Weekend. It was a diverse…
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Common Ground 103: How Hasbro's Direction Led to Pauper's Renaissance with Zach Geraets
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron and Thomas sat down with returning guest (and Common Ground Cup 2 Champion) Zach Geraets to discuss how Hasbro and…
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Common Ground 102: Is Pauper Still "Legacy Light"? with Carson Bispels
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we sit down with our good friend and local Legacy advocate Carson Bispels to chat about the age-old Pauper label of "Legacy…
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Common Ground 101: The Tide Goes Out, plus Avatar Spoilers
Welcome back Pauper fam! Well, the dust has settled and the PFP has decided that High Tide should return to the banlist. We spend the first half of this week's…
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Common Ground 100: 100 Things We Love About Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! For the big 100th episode we wanted to celebrate Pauper with 100 of our favorite interactions and things we love about the format…
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Common Ground 99: The Bant Terror Episode
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's finally time. You've all been wondering it and now we have the decklists to prove that Bant Terror can be more than just a meme!…
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Common Ground 98: CubeCon 2025
Welcome back Pauper fam! Or should we say, Cube fam? It's that time of year again: The CubeCon 2025 Recap Episode! This time around we had SEVEN people in the…
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Common Ground 97: What's Paupin'? Checking In with the Post-SpooderMan Pauper Metagame
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we take a look at the Pauper format in broad terms to discuss the current top decks, why new or returning decks are seeing…
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Common Ground 96: The Boomer Cube! CubeCon Primer with Ana Paterson
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's time for another Cube episode! This week, we invited our dear friend Ana Paterson onto the show to talk about her cube "The…
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Common Ground 95: Wild Hippo Alert at MagicCon Atlanta
Welcome back Pauper fam! Hippo has returned from Atlanta to tell us all about his adventures at MagicCon! Several friends (and one alum!) of the pod did very…
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Common Ground 94: Pauper Brewing in Context featuring TeasdaleMTG
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we answer a listener question with some help from our friend and yours, TeasdaleMTG! Teasdale is a UK-based Pauper content…
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Common Ground 93: What Your Pauper Opponent's First Land Can Teach You
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we discuss what your opponent's first land can tell you about what deck they're playing and what their gameplan might be. It…
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Common Ground 92: Look out Pauper, it's Spiderman!
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's that time again, spoiler time! This week we discuss the truly infamous Marvel: Spiderman set and its potential impact on the…
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Common Ground 91: We Finally Answered Some More Pauper Questions
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we reached deep into the mailbag to answer more of your questions about Pauper and Magic. Plus a weekend recap of the MTGO…