LoadingReadyRun Draft #27: GTC Pauper

Posted on April 24, 2013 by LoadingReadyRun




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  1. “That’s a whole lot of cow” – I’m trying to keep a straight face at the office while listening to this. You’re making it exceptionally difficult.

  2. I love you, Graham . . . I love you so much . . . one day, I’ll make love to you

    Also, I think Strip Search is really cool

  3. so… only commons in GTC doesnt work… Only rares probably fares no better… how about only Uncommons?

  4. The opponent in round 1 was hilariously bad. and the fact that he said not drawing the right cards was a “statistical impossibility” really made me laugh too.

  5. Graham – Death’s Approach is not a “kill” spell. It would not have created rats for the Ogre Slumlord.

    This is going to be important for Dragon’s Maze, because a Death’s Approach gives -1/-1 – it can even kill Tanij (the indestructible Boros champion if I spelled his name wrong). Always important to keep your removal spells grouped accordingly: -x spells, the destroy spells, the exile spells, etc.

  6. Frizzell66, sorry dude, but when a creature hits 0 toughness, it dies, and that triggers Ogre Slumlord, so yes, there are rats involved.

    Anyway, this draft was worth it just for the comedy gold in round 1. So many laughs.

  7. The games were entertaining though – that was an interesting trio of decks you faced and almost as interesting opponents.

    I did enjoy (painfully) the first one the most – when someone cannot play Aurelia correctly, you have to doubt their comment about “playing paper Magic since Beta.” Yes, and I too love what “statistically impossible” things the MTGO shuffler does to us all on a daily basis!

    Your 2nd opponent at least could manage his cards better, but imagine his surprise when you had no bombs he could clone. Forced to clunkily clone his own Keymaster Rogues and Spectres – oh the Horror (but it seems to me that would have been a better clone target)!

    Interestingly in the last game you actually did not face too many rares or uncommons from as well – he beat you fair and square with basic Gruul and Simic commons!

  8. I love how match 1 your opponent played almost all rares/uncommons vs your pauper deck. That he brought in the shattering blow just for your whips was hilarious.

  9. Hello Graham,
    Pauper draft is a good idea because that is the substance of a limited deck. My question is do you think your deck would be better if you ran 2 muggins and 2 wojack halbadears with the prism? In pack 3 you took gargoyle over wojack, and edict over mugging, and approach over wojack.

  10. Graham saying “removal would have been good” after passing executioners swing made me clench so hard.
    Here’s a tip: when you are trying to make Death’s Approach work, and KNOW that Angelic Edict doesn’t work with it, DON’T pass Swing in favour of Edict

  11. Not sure if you could’ve won G1R1, but I think you could’ve improved your blocks a bit by switching Corpse Blockade and Dutiful Thrull around – that way both of his blocked creatures would’ve been killed during combat (Thrull would survive first strike damage due to regenerate, and its power was enough to kill Veteran – Blockade would have deathtouch on its side), and he would’ve just had Aurelia left.

  12. @Maestro:
    Regenerate removes the creature from combat.

    Why Graham choose to give the blockade deathtouch against a 1 toughness attacker is beyond me though :)

  13. During the draft you were talking about our favorite nicknames, and it reminded me of that poor old Garl from innistrad! also the manor skeleton, boy I miss them so much :D

  14. Yeah, I guess I was mistaken about the die part of Death’s Approach – it still kills indestructible creatures because it gets them to 0 toughness without damaging them, but then the die part still triggers Ogre. The more you know!

  15. Graham should not have been passing those Executioner’s Swings – they make the Death’s Approaches so much more usable. Swing has got its drawbacks, but just like Devour Flesh, you play them early and make the Death’s Approaches more viable. Nothing worse than holding on to a Swing for their best creature only not to be able to afford any more damage before taking them out! I make the most mistakes playing certain cards too early (Traitorous Instincts and such), so I like that Swing makes me need to play it earlier rather than later!

  17. I’m a little confused. I see a lot of comments bashing the first player. I saw some “mistakes,” but the reason he didn’t attack with the Aurelia the first game was possibly because Graham had 2 assault griffins in play. I don’t know about you guys, but I wouldn’t offer up my Aurelia for a trade with 1 assault griffin.

  18. @ Anonymous:
    When he first played Aurelia, the Griffins were tapped and he could have attacked without worry. Then the Homing Lightnings took out the Griffins soon after and he still didn’t effectively use her.

  19. If you had attacked with the thrull, YOU WOULD HAVE WON GAME ONE! I was just yelling at my computer………. sigh. Nice vids as always thanks :)

  20. I’d be interested to see the “only uncommons” draft. Would you go up or down in rarity if the uncommons are gone, though?

    Also perhaps a “must play every foil card you see” draft (“magpie draft”?) could be interesting, in a disastrously random kind of way. If there are no foils, your next pick would have to be whatever card has the shiniest art.

  21. Me: “Whip, whip, concede! Whip, whip, concede! Do iiiit!”
    Gstar: “Whip, whip, concede…”
    Me: *kermitflail.gif*

  22. I once put 15 2 drops in my deck and for 7 draw steps, every time I drew a card it was a Lays potato chip.

    It was a statical impossibility.

  23. Now that you have done Pauper, you should do noble. You pick up a rare in dragons maze, and then that is your noble. You have to pick cards within that color identity.

  24. In a recent video it seems you are playing on a mac. Was i dreaming? if not, how did you do that?