[Competitive] Value Beasts

Pauper RG (Gruul)

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Creature (27)

• 4x Advocate of the Beast
• 4x Arboreal Grazer
• 4x Blastoderm
• 4x Excavating Anurid
• 4x Slaughterhorn
• 4x Tinder Wall
• 3x Wirewood Savage

Land (21)

• 4x Crumbling Vestige
• 4x Gruul Turf
• 4x Hickory Woodlot
• 8x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Mountain

Artifact (4)

• 4x Arcum's Astrolabe

Instant (4)

• 4x Brimstone Volley

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Winding Way

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Sideboard

Instant (11)

• 3x Electrickery
• 3x Feed the Clan
• 1x Flaring Pain
• 4x Pyroblast

Creature (1)

• 1x Gorilla Shaman

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Aftershock

Artifact (2)

• 2x Relic of Progenitus

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Great thanks to DoctorMckay for its incredibly helpful suggestions on improving the deck. He also has some interesting decklists of his own, you can check him out.

This deck is the nightmare of control decks. Ramps early, being able to play a Blastoderm turn 2, thanks to Arboreal Grazer , Depletion Lands and Tinder Wall . This gives us early openings that for sure make our opponents suffer the pressure.

Arboreal Grazer + Crumbling Vestige is amazing, also Arboreal Grazer + Gruul Turf is. Sometimes Arboreal Grazer + Sandstone Needle is the ultimate ramp. Advocate of the Beast + Arboreal Grazer is great early value that keeps growing over time, as it is with almost any other beast you contol. Blastoderm is an all star in the deck, being the main early beater, and has nothing to envy to the well known Gurmag Angler . Its timed death is greatly compensated by its built-in protection. Excavating Anurid has a lot of value in it: it has a big body, and draws us a card while helping itself reach Threshold. Slaughterhorn serves as our instant speed pump if necessary (uncounterable, by the way), and can be played to have another body on board. Brimstone Volley synergizes with Tinder Wall for a great removal and finishing utility. Arcum's Atrolabe draws us extra cards and keeps our mana fixing on.

A note about the sideboard, Aftershock serves as both land destruction and big creature removal, and can be used also as artifact hate. At 4 mana, it becomes playable in this deck and can be very helpful against many matchups.

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Updates:

2019/04/14

Replaced Firebolt s with Ground Assault s. Is also useful early, and as early as turn 3 can kill a Gurmag Angler or even a Guardian of the Guildpact .

2019/04/15

Global update of the deck. Puncture Blast serves us better then Ground Assault . Also helps us push damage, deal against Tireless Tribe and Atog , and makes good trades played instant speed against big creatures. We can do against Guardian of the Guildpact since we run 4 multicolored Frenzied Arynx . We run enough ramp to compensate its cost. Sideboard has also changed, instant speed aura removal added, left only one Flaring Pain in favor of two Relic of Progenitus , since the most played fogs are problematic for its flashback, and we already run direct damage and creatures and damage of different colors against Prismatic Strands . Barrage of Boulders replaces Electrickery since we can afford the mana and can help us win the game against decks with blockers (we rget ferocious via pumping Avarax , riot from Frenzied Arynx or counters by Advocate of the Beast ).

2019/04/17

Second global update of the deck. Abandoned Lead the Stampede in favor of Faithless Looting for more consistency in drawing lands or sideboard cards. It pairs well with Yavimaya Elder , which also gives us more lands, mana fixing, draw and an early body to apply pressure with. For now only removal of choice is Magma Jet , which I prefer for the filtering it provides, second removal of choice would probably be Jaya's Greeting or Puncture Blast to deal with big or sticky threats. The sideboard is still under development.

2019/04/25

Third and most probably final overhaul of the deck. Decided to try Tinder Wall and ended up being amazing, and it replaced Explore . Decided to reduce the land count from 23 to 21 and add a couple of Krosan Tuskerss to gain all the value it provides. And with the great help of DoctorMckay which gave me the ideas of using Brimstone Volley and Alchemist's Vial and also helped me optimizing the proportion choice of the cards in the deck, the development of the deck was accelerated and became a much faster and much more consistent deck.

2019/08/24

With the ban of Gush , Daze and Gitaxian Probe , and the release of Modern Horizons, the meta changed a lot, and a new concept of deckbuilding was introduced with Arcum's Astrolabe . I have updated the deck to make profit of this and another card from Horizons, Excavating Anurid . Since the Astrolabes already draw us cards, the slower Krosan Tusker s and Alchemist's Vial s were replace for the full playset of Brimstone Volley for the added pressure. Excavated Anurid has replaced Avarax for its better body and resistance to Hydroblast . Additionally, Lead the Stampede was replaced with Winding Way , since it helps fill our graveyard for Threshold, and has a more optimal mana cost.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Arboreal Grazer + Crumbling Vestige Arboreal Grazer + Gruul Turf Advocate of the Beast + Arboreal Grazer Arboreal Grazer + Sandstone Needle
Legality	This deck is not Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.59
Folders	Pauper, Interesting Decks