The Best Format Ever?! Pauper Cube Draft #1

A Pauper Cube draft on MTGO!
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[@kokonuts5749]

Round 1: 20:19 Round 2: 34:50 Round 3: 45:08

[@hundredpercentjuice]

“Card draw is basically fixing” You’re the best.

[@thomasmcmahan2631]

I mean hes not wrong

[@CalebGannon]

if you have your entire deck in hand, you only need one of each basic for a 5 color deck.

[@gougoule1512]

Who needs mana and card draw when you can play Vintage Dredge btw ?

[@pkfreezing]

Was your pod just allergic to drafting blue cards? Wheeling the preordain is honestly insane

[@CalebGannon]

I know that the aggro decks are pretty strong in this format, so people probably try and force mono red a lot. But I have no idea how preordain wheeled. There must have been literally nobody else playing blue.

[@exaroc571]

its unfortunate you didnt draft any rares this cube. better luck next time! Kappa.

[@CalebGannon]

there are some cards that were originally printed at rare and downshifted to common I believe. So there's a chance!

[@hundredpercentjuice]

Did you really forget it was a phantom draft? Caleb wouldn’t get to keep the mythics

[@Krossfyre]

The classic blue response: "Yeah no."

[@ikrena4701]

I'd love to see more of this cube

[@CalebGannon]

there will be many many more vids. I think I have 6 already lol I love this format

[@milanmach2379]

The fact you loaded up on 2 drops is why your pauper content is the best! My first try was Grixis control and I couldn't resist loading up on all the value cards so I died to go wide Selesnya and Red :) Evincar's and Pestilence was not enough to consistently keep up on tempo.

[@barkerm9]

Ray of Command is often just “destroy 2 attacking creatures” because it’s an instant

[@FiniteMTG]

Even better-only one of them has to attack!

[@mikewest7839]

I was coming here to say the same thing, it's probably the best creature removal in blue in the cube. I built a deck around it in Ice Age back in '95 :). Instant control is extremely powerful.

[@ry7hym]

yeah. I think I'm gonna start looking around my bulk to see if i can put together a pauper cube

[@exodus64]

Been waiting for you to do some Pauper Cube drafts! Thanks for all the great content Caleb!

[@CalebGannon]

I will have sooo many of these haha :) This format might be more fun than vintage cube for me

[@exodus64]

@@CalebGannon Yesssss! Watching you draft has helped me understand the different formats so much better. I'm actually in the process of putting together a paper Pauper Cube so this is perfect!

[@huttlord123]

That was the best draft and most fun cube game play I've ever seen lol. That last opponent probably uninstalled.

[@fillipeportilho5449]

Pauper Cube???? WOW! I love you, Galeb! More pauper videos, please

[@stephenlofton5403]

Tokens is probably the best deck in the format which means that evancars justice is probably the best card in the format. So many two for ones, powerful effects, removal, literal counterspell man this is sweet.

[@michaelhuebner6843]

Pestilence is the best card in this format followed by Crypt Rats.

[@zachariahhowell4342]

Perilous Myr can trade with Guardian of the Guildpact, and is a good card against aggro in general. Glad the Edict worked for you game 3 though!

[@ruttokyrpa3472]

Found the channel a day or 2 ago. Great content

[@hansoskar1911]

dude man, passing ray of command gave me a heart attack. this isnt a blue Threaten. this is an instant.

[@khavens101]

Not a bad point

[@Suppaichu]

Oh, oh...oh shit, i did not notice it was an instant. That card is insane, what did he pass it for? Oh.. the edict. It's.. fine i guess, it was good in the last match to crush all hopes opp had of ever winning

[@ahunter7563]

I'm halfway through,but i legit think having a 50 or 60 cards deck would have been a good idea,because all your cards are greats,and it prevent you from decking. Also,about the manabase,from the games you never seemed to have trouble hitting double black,because you drew so many cards,so justice isn't that hard on your manabase a you'd think. Love this cube tho,hope to see more of it!

[@alanrollf2856]

I love this cube man! How can I find the list so I can buy it??

[@Suppaichu]

Oh god, last match ater sideboarding was brutal, poor opponent. Bleegh that actually felt disgusting xD

[@guitarguy6561]

I thought when I seen all these cards come around "he drafting with mates or something" :D who knows, maybe they were standard players wondering why the packs had no rares lol Nice one as always Caleb!

[@mortimerreed]

All the shifting of rarity has me like wtf 🤷‍♂️

[@drmntpibb]

This format looks amazing!

[@jaysherman9138]

You had more answers in the SB for Guardian of the Guildpact! Rendclaw Troll and Cavern Harpy are not monocolored :P

[@nivikyesac]

Long time no see caleb. Glad to be back... any chance we got some sweet sweet pauper brews coming up sometime

[@TheSandurz20]

Wowee, 2160p. Gotta see modo in all its hi res glory!

[@CalebGannon]

it helps with reading the cards on mobile

[@TvV1ST3D]

My god a pauper cube? Sign me up

[@Pikagreg]

I thought you got a new mouse :p?

[@pedroguerra8133]

more pauper cube, please

[@marsh357]

Nightscape familiar is amazing in this deck!

[@joshdarnit69lol]

25:37 Should you have double blocked and used your arrows here?

[@CalebGannon]

that leaves us open to one of their pump spells. If we wait we can block with protection from a bounce spell

[@trueshields5689]

@@CalebGannon But you played right into Consume Strength... with all gas in hand it makes sense to go for it, plus you'd end up with a 2/2 in play even if they blew you out...

[@slurpleslixie]

Given how much you would crush any non-aggro matchup, why would you *not* maindeck Evincar's? The matchups where it is best are the matchups where you really, really want to win game 1

[@Blackvolttage]

Swaping jilt for the myr and probably a opt over ice would let you stay ub. Jilt was too slow for the aggro decks anuway and fire is nice, but if you are counting on a tapland and prophetic prism to cast it, probably to slow to help you against aggro.

[@mrmanatee]

good lord man how are you not gonna play nightscape familiar in this deck

[@michaelhuebner6843]

You can edit your deck between matches. Why did you leave Herald in for all three matches?

[@Soulless_Oni]

Perillous Myr could have been really good match 3. It keeps Guardian of the guildpact in check and deals with token.

[@ultimatev1]

You had the goblin with persist that technically isn't monocolored. Not terrible in the match up either.

[@dippn7047]

Cant believe you didnt bring nightscape familiar in r2g2

[@fremontthehacker3898]

Do a mystery draft

[@hundredpercentjuice]

21:22 - Caleb casually not mentioning the best Art/Function pairing in MTG history.

[@hundredpercentjuice]

Actually hoping you swing a creature into the flashback so you'll "get it"

[@manubeermann6591]

I think u really underestimate cavern harpy. It’s a 2 mana 2/1 Flyer that has a way to protect itself and can constantly reset your etb creatures.

[@108stiches6]

Love the vids but that title declaration is for Canadian Highlander

[@alexmccall4820]

Is there somewhere where I can see the cubes contents ? Interested in making a paper version

[@wasted4satan390]

magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/cube-spotlight-series-pauper-cube-2020-03-10

[@samual8299]

This looks fun! Sorry, but is this cube list posted somewhere online? I may want to throw a paper one together.

[@lovis8424]

google it. alternative is cc

[@samual8299]

@@lovis8424 lol I did Google mtgo pauper cube. There were a lot of results and no single one looked definitive.

[@PaeliasFr]

How much is this cube ?

[@josephmathes]

Ray of Command is really really good. Probably better than Diabolic Edict.

[@michaelhuebner6843]

Ray of Command is garbage versus token decks which are 1/2 the decks in the format.

[@WolfLink64]

It urks me you passed Delver twice. I know E Justice kills it but it kills Duelist too. And so what if it dies to one of your own cards? Some games you tempo them with Delver, some games you board wipe. It's fine to have a deck doing multiple things in singleton cube. Just take the good cards and win some games. XD

[@WolfLink64]

Like, if Delver is in play, it didn't matter that it dies to E Justice because if they don't remove it for you they'll die. Your deck is loaded with cheap interaction to tempo with Delver and flip Delver.

[@gregorygarrison572]

I'm pretty sure you need a new mouse. This is like the 10th time it's happened in the last week or so.

[@CalebGannon]

well, a lot of the things that happened in vintage cube were recorded months ago. I got a new mouse since then, but this one was just a misclick, not really a mouse issue

[@gregorygarrison572]

@@CalebGannon Fair enough, I've just seen a lot of weird mouse things from you recently., especially where you grab a card and as you drag it it picks up a different one.

[@clelvis225]

Pestilence needs a certain type of deck...Mulldrifter is great in anything...Pestilence is the more powerful card...Mulldrifter is in a better color....tough choice but I take Muffdrifter(heh) there as well...I do disagree with the Illumination pick over Shaper Parasite...I think Parasite is just a better card hands down and you already have Muffdrifter...

[@CalebGannon]

but.... drawing MORE cards! hahaha

[@shawn6669]

Any format where you have to draft go wide to succeed is a bad format.

[@CalebGannon]

I have posted 3 drafts that succeeded, none of which went wide? You can go wide to succeed but clearly its not needed.

[@cirdanelensar1608]

With all the misclicks, you'd think you'd learn to just stop resizing your windows.