Comments on: Dime a Dozen #14: Gatecrash Spoilers in Pauper

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:16:03 +0000

I love these articles. I can’t wait to see what kind of stuff that can be pulled off now that wizards put the ban hammer down on grapeshot, EtW, and invigorate. Things like guildgates and more multicolor strategies might actually be playable. I’m looking forward to an article with your thoughts on the bans, I think your BG deck gets a lot stronger now, not sure if anything from gatecrash makes it in there though.

By: WindDrake

WindDrake — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:46:13 +0000

Definitely. I don’t how well it will do, but the deck is a blast to play.

I would definitely enjoy them.

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:23:16 +0000

WindDrake – That’s awesome that you’ve been testing the deck! Thanks for the notes. Do you think I should do some videos with the deck when Gatecrash comes out?

By: WindDrake

WindDrake — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:48:43 +0000

Hey Jason, went ahead and put together your pestilence list without the gates.

Obviously, the mana is a lot worse, so thats going to be great once gatecrash comes out.

I went ahead and cut the Augurs, they just didn’t seem to be doing much. I put in a couple Auramancers as you suggested, and they have been sweet. They let you preserve your life total by using dead weights a little bit more aggressively early. It gets a little awkward if you don’t have a wall with pestilence + sign in blood and rager.

I also through in a couple duress and a faiths fetters main. Duress helps out against control and can potentially hit a rolling thunder. The fetters hasn’t been excellent, but its an out to crusher, tutorable with guard, and adds a little more life gain. Its super awkward with pestilence at times though.

I cut an Abomination for the fetters, but I think the deck does want three, the card performs on both modes. You always need lands, and he definitely closes games where you can’t find a guardian.

Storm is …yeah.

Definitely looking forward to evolving the deck with the guildgates. I realize the deck was made with them in mind, and boy will they help! I hope you get the time to follow up on it.

By: Jason Moore

Jason Moore — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:52:13 +0000

Donzo – I will probably try him, but I’m just not really sold on the idea. There is the benefit of playing a Spire Golem to pump Raptor, returning Golem with Ninja and then playing it to pump Raptor again I suppose. It also wouldn’t hurt to have another “must kill” creature in the deck.

JustSin – These Ravnica sets just have a ton of stuff going on in them, so there probably wasn’t much room to really emphasize gates. Gates are essentially a device in limited to help players fix their guild colors and splash some stuff. As far as playing Raptor in Delver, you’ll just have to wait for my next Blackborder article (I have no shame)…

By: JustSin

JustSin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:11:13 +0000

as we basically talked about in game I couldn’t agree more with the odd lack of gate interactions.. I would have put money on having something a bit more substantial to it and I’m curious to see what if anything the Delver players decide to do with the Raptor because its great, but where do you find room for it? lol

By: Donzo

Donzo — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:02:24 +0000

If you wanted to try out the ninja I would cut a snag, stitched drake, bonesplitter and curse from the md. Ninja might not be optimal in this deck, but he has good synergies with man o war, the 8 one drops, spellstutters, vapor snags, and the spire golems (Late game when you can recast them for 0-1 mana). That alone merits trying him out in my opinion.