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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 90: Playing Your First Local Event
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we answer a long overdue listener question about how to navigate your very first event at your local game store. With Pauper…
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Common Ground 89: Burn Baby Burn 2.0
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron and Thomas revisit Pauper's Red deck and how it has evolved since the Kuldotha Rebirth banning. Whether you like…
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Common Ground 88: Fog Deep Dive with CGCup2 Winner Zach Geraets
Welcome back Pauper fam! The day after the 2nd Common Ground Cup, Cameron sat down with good friend and fellow South Dakotan Zach Geraets who not only won the…
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Common Ground 87: It shuffles in?? The 2nd Common Ground Cup Recap
Welcome back Pauper fam! The 2nd Common Ground Cup was a smashing success! We doubled our attendance from January and had an absolute blast bringing quality…
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Common Ground 86: Who's The Beatdown? Is it Spider-Man??
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron leads us into a Magic game-theory discussion centered around the classic article "Who's The Beatdown" by Mike…
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Common Ground 85: Our Edge of Eternities Picks for Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Thomas and Hippo discuss a bevy of new cards from Edge of Eternity that might see some play in your favorite format. Plus…
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Common Ground 84: Pauper Lessons from Cube Weekend & Holy Terror Top 8s Batman
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo swap stories from their Cube Weekend vacation while discussing some takeaways from Cube that can…
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Common Ground 83: The Pauper 'Gates' Are Open Wide at Paupergeddon!
Welcome back Pauper fam! It's time for the summer edition of Paupergeddon once again and this time they're celebrating 10 years of high-level Pauper in Italy!!…
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Common Ground 82: POST-INDY CAR POD
Welcome back Pauper fam! We were so pumped from NRG Indy that we couldn't wait to get home before recording this week's episode! A couple of lav mics in a car…
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Common Ground 81: Hippo Takes A Stand
Welcome back Pauper fam! This is it. The narrative climax you've all been waiting for. Hippo shares his complete and utter disdain for High Tide and what its…
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Common Ground 80: Another Great Grassroots Pauper Event with Pauper-oncini Organizer Alex Nicewander
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo sit down with Alex Nicewander to chat about Pauper-oncini, a mid-west Pauper tournament that he…
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Common Ground 79: A Terror-fying Showcase Challenge
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, Thomas and Hippo dive into last weekend's MTGO Showcase Challenge results which include an impressive 11-1 win from…
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Common Ground 78: Our Final Fantasy Picks for Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo peruse the Final Fantasy spoiler and pick out their favorite commons for Pauper. There are a…
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Common Ground 77: Unscripted Talk Mostly About Magic the Gathering
Welcome back Pauper fam! A totally normal episode with the totally normal hosts nothing peculiar happening here! This week the crew focuses on the Magic Online…
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Common Ground 76: Re-Ranking the 5 Colors in Pauper & Universes Beyond Opinions
Welcome back Pauper fam! After an off-the-cuff opinion piece about Universes Beyond and the state of MtG, the bois discuss the 5 colors in Pauper and how they…
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Common Ground 75: Spy Combo 101 with Hunter Bisch
Welcome back Pauper fam! After a quick Game Cave monthly recap from Cameron and Hippo, we sit down with our local combo expert Hunter Bisch to chat about the…
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Common Ground 74: West Coast Pauper Open Winner Interview with Kyle Herman aka PickledHeart! Also Sprout Swarm???
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Thomas sat down with Kyle Herman (AKA PickledHeart on Discord) to chat about his recent victory with Walls at the West Coast…
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Common Ground 73: What Are The New Top Decks in Pauper?
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo share their picks for the top 3 decks in the current format, discussing which strategies are…
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Common Ground 72: A Growing US Pauper Scene & A Very Diverse Metagame
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo chat some podcast housekeeping (thank you all for listening!!), give a rundown of some upcoming…
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Common Ground 71: The One Where Cameron Roasts Flicker Tron
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we have recaps galore for you all! Hippo shares his Denver adventures, Thomas complains about poor sportsmanship, and…
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Common Ground 70: Week One Results of Post-Ban Pauper plus Tarkir Cards!
Welcome back Pauper fam! As promised, it's time to dig into what our new Pauper format looks like post-bans & unbans. Using this past weekend's MTGO challenge…
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Common Ground 69: 20 Minutes of Ban Talk & MtG Tall-Tales featuring Matthew Sentilles
Welcome back Pauper fam! Some nice news this past Monday from the Pauper Format Panel making some big swings at the Pauper ban list, so naturally we recorded…
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Common Ground 68: Paupergeddon & The State of Our Format
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we take a look at this past weekend's results from Paupergeddon Lecco featuring a sweet Pactdoll Terror-inspired Gardens…
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Common Ground 67: Another Unhinged Team Trios Recap with Derrick Smith
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we are once again joined by the godfather of Nashville's Pauper scene, Derrick Smith! Derrick played the Pauper seat on…
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Common Ground 66: Slippery, Foggy, and Competitively Groggy
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week, Cameron and Hippo recap their rounds at the Game Cave monthly playing Bogles and BG Fog featuring plenty of fun stories…
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Common Ground 65: Upstate NY Pauper Open Recap with Kalikaiz!
Welcome back Pauper fam! Our comrades in New York had their much anticipated Inaugural Upstate NY Pauper Open this past weekend and podcast alum Jake AKA…
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Common Ground 64: Building Pauper Community with LPL Manager Morgan Fussell
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we're joined by the manager of the London Pauper League (LPL), Morgan Fussell, for a conversation about building communities…
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Common Ground 63: Updating Our Top 5 Cards in Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we decided to update our lists from Episode 10 when we ranked our top cards in Pauper. We each share our new Top 5 lists and…
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Common Ground 62: BW Blade in 2025 with Austin Walker
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week we sit down with our friend, teammate, and local judge Austin Walker to chat about his take on the BW Blade archetype and…
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Common Ground 61: Start Your Engines Pauper Fam! AEtherdrift Set Review
Welcome back pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo take a look at some new commons from the latest MtG release: AEtherdrift. Although one card may…
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Common Ground 60: Catching Up with Champion Michael Pfohl
Welcome back Pauper fam! Our friend Michael Pfohl joins us this week to chat about his victory at our recent Common Ground Cup! Having only picked up the deck…
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Common Ground 59: The First Common Ground Cup Recap!
Welcome back Pauper fam! With the first Common Ground Cup finished the bois are back to recap everything about it. They recap the tournament itself with a meta…
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Common Ground 58: The Grab Bag Calm Before the Tournament Storm
Welcome back Pauper fam! With the first Common Ground Cup on the horizon, the gang discuss a grab bag of topics this week: Thomas catches us up on his Atlanta…
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Common Ground 57: Is Pauper Actually Stale? feat. Atlanta Recap
Cameron and Hippo cover for an ailing Thomas and cover their trip to SCGCON Atlanta, the latest challenge decklists, and the current discourse of whether…
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Common Ground 56: White Elephant Brews
Welcome back fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo did some special brewing for their local pauper event. The trio was assigned a different person to brew…
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Common Ground 55: 2024 Recap with Kalikaiz
It's been a whole trip around the sun and this week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo tag in Kalikaiz to help them recap 2024 in Pauper! It was quite a year for our…
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Common Ground 54: We're Back On Simic Terror, Mail Bag
Welcome back fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo go over a few questions the listeners have. The crew delves into topics from Simic Terror all the way to…
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Common Ground 53: The New Faerie King: Interview with Skura
Welcome back fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo are joined by special guest Skura, also known as Islandsinfront. For those unfamiliar, Skura is a…
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Common Ground 52: Jund Takes Over Paupergeddon Roma
Welcome back fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo take a look at Paupergeddon Roma. Italy showing us their love of Pauper with 690 people battling it out…
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Common Ground 51: Pauper Trios The Sequel
This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo are joined by special guest and friend of the podcast Derrick. The four participated in a team trios event hosted by Game…
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Common Ground 50: Foundations Edition
The big 5-0! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo discuss a handful of new Pauper cards and downshifts from Foundations, as well as a quick listener question…
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Common Ground 49: Midrange Madness
Welcome back fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo tackle two questions this week! Firstly the crew quickly goes over a listener question about Pauper cube…
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Common Ground 48: Is This How to Beat Combo?
Welcome back everybody to another Episode of the Common Ground Pod. The crew is back with Pauper again!!!! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo dive into a…
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Common Ground 47: CubeCon Recap!
Buckle up fam! When Cameron said he wanted to high-jack the pod to talk about CubeCon he wasn't kidding! Your favorite Pauper bois are joined by local limited…
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Common Ground 46: To Fog or Not to Fog? That was Hippo's Question
This week Cameron and James update Thomas on the results from our local monthly, as well as a deeper dive into the card Divest, and the best decks from an…
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Common Ground 45: Tempo Is Power
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo tackle tempo! They go over what tempo is and how it applies to the pauper format! Any questions…
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Common Ground 44: Shaking Out The Mail Bag
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week no Thomas at all so apologizes in advance if the editing isn't up to par, fear not he'll return next week! The show must go…
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Common Ground 43: Duskmourn Pauper Set Review
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo take a gander at Magic's newest standard set Duskmourn and talk about some potential Pauper…
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Common Ground 42: Thomas Is Back and Victorious
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo have a lot of tournament recap to do. Thomas is back in Nashville and all three got to play in…
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Common Ground 41: Hottest Takes In Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo gathered your hot takes and react to them. Thank you to everyone who sent in, this episode is a…
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Common Ground 40: Second Time's the Charm: Downshifts Part 2
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo had some technical difficulties, lost the original audio but re-recorded the next day just…
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Common Ground 39: Pauper 1k Incoming!
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week no Hippo as he was not feeling the bestest. Wish him a quick Hippo recovery! The show goes on with Cameron and Thomas…
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Common Ground 38: We Want These Downshifts
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo discuss cards they would love to see downshifted to common! The crew each picks a card from blue…
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Common Ground 37: Brews, Challenges, & Locals
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo go over a variety of different topics. Firstly Thomas shout outs upcoming NRG Louisville in hopes…
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Common Ground 36: Three Gruul Players One Podcast
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo are joined by a special guess Matthew Sentilles. Sentilles is a friend of the Pod and a Gruul…
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Common Ground 35: Polarity of Pauper a Symptom of Format Diversity
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week's topic is inspired from a friend of the show's question "Do you think Pauper is a polarized format?". The crew takes this…
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Common Ground 34: Cute Critters From Bloomburrow For Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This weekend is prerelease for Magic's newest standard set Bloomburrow. Cameron, Thomas, and Hippo go over spoilers and pick out…
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Common Ground 33: A New Gleeful Combo Deck
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week the crew goes over a couple different topics. Firstly Hippo goes over a local tournament he played in with BG Dredge. Then…
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Common Ground 32: Common-tating Magic & Pauper with Will Hall
Get it "Commontating" because Pauper, its funny. Welcome back Pauper fam! This week no Hippo but Cameron and Thomas are joined by a very special guest Will…
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Common Ground 31: Rakdos Phoenix in Pauper
Welcome back Pauper fam! This week no Thomas as he is traveling for some well deserved relax time, drive safe! The show continues with Cameron and Hippo…