Hi, killer_eye! Between work and summer break, I haven't gotten to play as much pauper as I'd like so I haven't actually played any games with Ransack the Lab yet. My goldfishing suggests that it's worth playing, but I don't know whether or not four is the right number. As for Barrier of Bones , I'll be sure to give it a shot once I can start playing again because, like you said, Fume Spitter looks really bad in the current meta.

I'm also seriously considering dropping Krosan Tusker in the near future. Do you have any suggestions?

i drop Krosan Tusker since the printing of Horror of the Broken Lands . i find it slow specially in the early games wherein we are building our graveyard and cycling our deck, as much as possible i want that early turn to have that 3-open mana for gnaw + extra mana for cycling which can't do with a tusker in hand. in terms of it as a beatdown aspect, i think horror of the broken lands is the better card at the job. i add the 18th land in the tusker slot.

I think the best way to put Stinkweed Imp in the graveyard would be with Wild Mongrel . It's such a good card for offense and defense and it gives you free discardS. Think about it. You start the turn, instead of drawing, Dredge 5. Then discard it. Pay one too cycle Horror of the Broken Lands Dredge 5. Discard it again. Thats 11 cards for one mana. Don't forget you have a 4/4. And it's doable on turn three.

Altoman, you're missing the point of the deck. it's not just about binning cards in the graveyard, it's about "cycling" your deck, drawing your wincons while at the same time filling your graveyard.

hi! i'll be playing in a 16p tournament and i expect there would be atleast 2 ponza players, just want to ask what's your gameplan against that deck or we're just relying with duress and also with luck not to be paired with them. thanks!

killer_eye, I haven't actually played Songs against Ponza, but my advice is to side in Duress and hope for the best. We're not running many lands so if they get a fast start and blow up our first couple of land drops, we're probably dead in the water. That said, Ponza is a slow deck and doesn't run counterspells so we actually have a pretty good chance of winning if they have a slow start or we Duress their Dark Ritual ( Utopia Sprawl / Wild Growth if they're on Mono-green) while we're on the play.

hey! it's me again, have you seen Witch's Cottage from ELD? i think it's good with Twisted Abomination , though i'm not sure if the number of our swamp will suffice to have a good chance for witch's cottage to get down untapped. what do you think? is it worth it?

Hi, killer_eye, sorry for the incredibly late response. Witch's Cottage is a cool card, but I don't think this deck runs enough swamps to make it reliable.

Archiving all pre-Ikoria comments

Dude ... Pauper is DAMN cool. And cheap as hell as far as I can tell. I might have to play it.

Wouldnt crypt rats kill you? Because it says each player and each creature?

Captaincaveman83, that's what Gnaw to the Bone is for; it cusions your life total so you can Crypt Rats without killing yourself.

Hi! It’s been a long time since I last visited your list I’m just checking if there’s any new tech for this deck. Btw I saw Shambling Ghast from AFR and seems good here, early board presence as blocker that can provide ramp or removal for X/1 creatures only downside is that it needs to die first unlike fume spitter but I’m more interested with the ramp.

Writhing Necromass looks like a good beatdown card from the sideboard when going all-in for Plan B.