Impoverished Memory [Pauper EDH]

[Oversoul]

I built non-Pauper EDH decks helmed by Quintorius twice. It's a fun commander. So now I'm trying it in this format. My initial list might be a bit rough. We'll have to test it and see. I'm not really comboing off here, but the hope is to have an inexorable flood of spirit tokens joining the fray.

Commander:
1 Quintorius, Field Historian

1 Abandon the Post
1 Anarchist
1 Angelic Renewal
1 Ardent Elementalist
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Auramancer
1 Battle Screech
1 Breath of Life
1 Brilliant Halo
1 Campfire
1 Cathar Commando
1 Cathartic Reunion
1 Cessation
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Conjurer's Bauble
1 Custodi Squire
1 Demand Answers
1 Dig Site Inventory
1 Disciple of the Sun
1 Electric Revelation
1 Faithless Looting
1 Fanatical Devotion
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Fields of Strife
1 First Day of Class
1 Fuming Effigy
1 Impact Tremors
1 Impulsive Pilferer
1 Jack-o'-Lantern
1 Kami of Industry
1 Kithkin Spellduster
1 Late to Dinner
1 Lotus Petal
1 Magmatic Sinkhole
1 Marshaling Cry
1 Mistmoon Griffin
1 Monk Idealist
17 Mountain
1 Myr Retriever
1 Pilgrim of the Ages
1 Pillardrop Rescuer
1 Pillardrop Warden
17 Plains
1 Prismatic Strands
1 Pursue the Past
1 Rally the Peasants
1 Recommission
1 Reinforcements
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Remember the Fallen
1 Resurrection
1 Return Triumphant
1 Sanctum Gargoyle
1 Scaretiller
1 Scrapwork Cohort
1 Sluggishness
1 Spirit Mascot
1 Starnheim Courser
1 Stone Docent
1 Strife Scholar
1 Suture Priest
1 Thrill of Possibility
1 Thrilling Discovery
1 Tocasia's Onulet
1 Tome Blast
1 Trusty Retriever
1 Workshop Assistant

 

[Oversoul]

So I got four games in tonight, and this deck was the first one piloted. I ended up winning all four games, so it was a good night as far as that goes. As for this deck? It's about what I expected. It can't generally keep up with the higher power found in faster-paced PDH pods, but against more middling decks and such, it's a monster. The pod tonight was only a three-player game, so I didn't have to worry about the more standard three different opponents, just two of them. They managed to kill some of my creatures, but left the spirit tokens largely alone. I built up an army of 8 spirit tokens and killed both opponents by beatdown.

 

[Oversoul]

Played this deck on Wednesday night. The whole pod had a sluggish start, and one of my opponents was playing his new deck helmed by Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos. I happened to have Cessation for that, which nerfed his capabilities a lot and bought me time. I went after another opponent, but got hit back even harder for my troubles. Court Street Denizen tapped down all of my blockers, so my life total was lower than I'd anticipated. Struggled to build defenses against that player, but then the fourth player, who'd been left unchecked this whole time, decided to swing in on me with everything. This handed the game to another player, but I died first. Such is the chaos of a four-player pod, especially when new players are involved.

 

[Oversoul]

After the win with Savagely Broke, I rolled a die to randomly pick my deck for the next game. Despite being a bit manadrowned, I had a lucky break. The player after me in turn order was running a deck helmed by Tymaret, Chosen from Death. Due to inexperience, he was activating his commander's ability on his own turn, rather than holding up mana. I kept using Breath of Life to bring back my Ardent Elementalist, then using the trigger from Ardent Elementalist to bring Breath of Life back from my graveyard. That was two spirit tokens for four mana, and I was able to get the Elementalist killed enough times to build up a small token army. The game was close. The player running a Zoyowa Lava-Tongue deck did lots of damage to me before I was able to build up a board state. The other player was running a deck helmed by Totentanz, Swarm Piper, and presented a threatening board of rat tokens that I could not ignore. I kept drawing basic lands, so I think that the Tymaret player targeting some of my cards in my graveyard probably saved me. I pulled ahead on tokens and ran over the Totentanz player, then the Zoyowa player, saving the Tymaret player for last.