I had a really funny combo with Valk’s call the other day. Kellan’s activated abilities change his creature type- so he can just keep coming back with Call in play over and over again
32:45 The Sanctuary has all creature types, so it will not be reanimated by the Valkyrie’s call as the enchantment only reanimates non-angel creatures. I do not know what would happen if the land didn’t have shapeshifter, but I think it would come back as a land with a +1/+1 counter, but not as a creature
Valkyrie's Call with a Ghoul is downright hilarious. You could hear Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in the background when Mr.Cheon was flapping his wings :)
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Did it seem like Paul would have won with pressure? It feels like he waited way too long just from Paul's perspective Its just sketchy in limited when you don't know the opps deck
@@armedjoy3045 yeah I feel like he waited too much, I can understand wanting to not go into a bad trade with the fleeting flight, but you are also kinda forced to do it to keep going with the beatdown plan
In my last draft I got TWO of these beauties and was lucky enough to play one every game on turn five, what a time to be alive... 7-0 getting trophies CONSISTENTLY since I watch your channel, Paul. Thanks.
No offense meant but i find the way paul played that first game against lola extremely questionable. Durdling for that long seemed bad. Even without knowing about the sire, feels like he could have baited out those counters faster rather than not punishing him for passing with all his mana open turn after turn to draw into little guys that didnt do anything.
None taken. I had a game plan that involved getting ahead on cards and winning with attrition but of course that didn’t pay off given his rares. Jamming all my spells was the other line that was available.
the sire has Ward - pay 7 life so letting it bring you down to 5 life was already game over... unless I'm missing something? or maybe you had to suicide the Elenda to gain some life in case there's a removal top deck?
Yeah, specially with the lack of interaction, Commando can be played as two mana removal most of the times. And having it as 4/2 flyer with the Valkyries call after, pretty devastating. Would also have been the answer to the blue copy enchantment. Had 3 in my draft at the lgs, and went 5-0... the Commando is very undervalued. still great run @paul
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Wow Paul, i thought the zombie with the sacrifice ability was kinda meh when i first saw it. But you opened my eyes brother, those were some sweet combos : valkyrie + banshee + zombie = gg 😅
Soulstone Sanctuary is already an angel so it would not return at all. But a hypothetical creature land would return as a land with a counter, yes. And if the animation overrides the angel creature type changing effect it could even loop multiple times
Ya I agree I am learning if you see removal just take it unless its against a bomb bomb cause all the playable cards are more or less interchangeable. I just had a 7-1 deck with 0 rare cards. Blue black and I just had small cheap creatures with a good curve and 3 bakes, heroes downfall and eaten alive. Outside of the removal there was 0 synergy but every game felt so easy to win. I think the one loss was to a greedy 2 land keep. One game I won through a Elandra killed, it and then he slammed a Liliana. Side note how to people get these decks? I never get great rares and mythics together like that.
"Love" how often this format has packs that just don't contain anything above filler level for like 3-4 colors. Get unlucky with them a few times and even with correct signal reading you can trainwreck. Also reading signals from those is nearly impossible
Last 3 drafts, I've lost 5 games to Aetherize. That card is KILLING me. So... I drafted a blue/red deck. Not one Aetherize, but faced two more decks with Aetherize in the following games PLUS a game against Sire of Seven Deaths. I'm so frustrated.
Hey Paul love the drafts and really cool deck. I think two of your loses were to keeping mediocre hands. I believe you would benefit from mulligan more aggressively when your deck is as good as it is.
i actually did a full breakdown of my stats in a previous set and it turns out that i generally mulligan less than most people and that it's generally more correct
Noone going to comment Paul possibly lost to Matham's same deck twice? losing once to the Replication + Trufflesnout then again to the giant Mossborn Hydra
Bit late here, but great video as always! I'm actually still quite enjoying Foundations, while the power level is lower, it's great that colour combinations can support multiple types of decks (like shown here)! I'm at the first game rn and I do have a question if you (or anyone else) still checks comments here. For the first game, since we already decided to go for Squad Rallier value, wouldn't not playing the topdeck Evolving Wilds be better? It's tapped so cannot use rallier twice anyways, and its first activation hit two of our rares, so avoiding the shuffle would allow us to draw them in a few turns after we cycle through the deck with rallier once? Anyways, happy belated thanksgiving and thanks for the video!
Idk the first game you played scared and got punished… idk why u thought u could wait …. I thought the opponent had an aetherize and I would have run into it looooong before that sire hit the board. You would have won easily just attacking and sacrifice something to their trick you knew about. Even on the turn they played the sire I would have full send still and sacked whatever they blocked with the sire to the ghoul.
Soul-Shackle is a beating in any deck that doesnt mind trading bodies, I'd have gone with the second, given that the goal is getting to the late game. And the reach with the Valkyrie's Call is absurd, but everything is absurd with Valkyrie's Call.
Question - in the situation in the next to last game where you said you misplayed by not sacrificing the food, would it have mattered? Didnt you say early in the vid that if shes 5/5 and the combat damage takes you to 30, she would become a 10/10 before combat resolves right? So shed still have lived?
Imo, Inspiring paladin is a lot better than it looks, especially when you have ways to give your creatures counters. It goes insane with the green white unicorn
Hi Paul nice run! fun deck. Just wondering why you do not like Cathar Commando that much. I would have picked it both 9:13 and 11:30, or at least once between these two picks. I understand the 1 toughness idea and I'm not saying it's crazy strong but would say the card is deceptively good because of the overall lack of enchantment/artifact killer with a bunch of them which do impact a high portion of games. Wouldn't you agree?
I think it's okay and I agree that I should have taken one. I'm not a huge fan of 1 toughness creatures in general in this format as there are so many good ways to chump them.
@haumph Ok yes so I think we agree. It can sometimes also be a pseudo-kill spell with flash which adds another dimension to the card. But yeah the first copy is never that bad! 🙏
I disagree completely. Opening fun and exciting rares is part of what makes draft fun. Everybody has equal opportunity to open said cards and just need to be prepared with the mindset that sometimes you will lose to those rares. A limited format with all commons and uncommons would be extremely lame
This draft is a perfect example of why I really have not enjoyed this set at all… Difference between good common and good uncommon creatures is simply absurd. And the removal spells often can’t even cleanly answer those rares.
@@haumphi love the tempo swing, makes going first feel incredibly powerful and going second feel like going first. but the healing with panda is crazy.
tbh it was nice watching you lose that first game after not attacking with Elenda and just slow playing it. Shouldn't have let them draw to their bombs
Man I hate this limited……I dropped from #5 on duskmourne to freaking 99% on foundation. Every game felt unplayable, every single game….maybe I’m just bad….I dont know
A couple filler two drops that would love to be replaced by stabs/burglar rats but other than that this is a draft I would LOVE to play. Happy Thanksgiving!
I had a really funny combo with Valk’s call the other day. Kellan’s activated abilities change his creature type- so he can just keep coming back with Call in play over and over again
32:45 The Sanctuary has all creature types, so it will not be reanimated by the Valkyrie’s call as the enchantment only reanimates non-angel creatures. I do not know what would happen if the land didn’t have shapeshifter, but I think it would come back as a land with a +1/+1 counter, but not as a creature
Valkyrie's Call with a Ghoul is downright hilarious. You could hear Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries in the background when Mr.Cheon was flapping his wings :)
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Ty so much and hope you have a happy thanksgiving as well.
Funny to see Lola’s perspective on match one a few days ago lol
Did it seem like Paul would have won with pressure? It feels like he waited way too long just from Paul's perspective
Its just sketchy in limited when you don't know the opps deck
@@armedjoy3045 yeah I feel like he waited too much, I can understand wanting to not go into a bad trade with the fleeting flight, but you are also kinda forced to do it to keep going with the beatdown plan
In my last draft I got TWO of these beauties and was lucky enough to play one every game on turn five, what a time to be alive... 7-0 getting trophies CONSISTENTLY since I watch your channel, Paul. Thanks.
gz!
Soulstone Sanctuary doesn't return with Valkyrie's Call because it has all creature types.
Great point!
Happening across your videos got me not only back into magic, but my love of drafting, you are by far the best drafting UA-camr currently playing
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helps when you literally are programmed to be luckier
@@mtgo9686 lol
@ if you know even a small amount about programming and wizards as a company you would realize how easy it would be to implement this
@@mtgo9686 lmao you have no idea who Paul is do you?
No offense meant but i find the way paul played that first game against lola extremely questionable. Durdling for that long seemed bad. Even without knowing about the sire, feels like he could have baited out those counters faster rather than not punishing him for passing with all his mana open turn after turn to draw into little guys that didnt do anything.
None taken. I had a game plan that involved getting ahead on cards and winning with attrition but of course that didn’t pay off given his rares. Jamming all my spells was the other line that was available.
@haumph also wondering why not just turn entire team sideways the turn you played the bomb that makes them all fliers. Gg though, hard to beat Sire
the sire has Ward - pay 7 life so letting it bring you down to 5 life was already game over... unless I'm missing something? or maybe you had to suicide the Elenda to gain some life in case there's a removal top deck?
@@haumph lola thought you were playing around board wipe
Lola's POV: ua-cam.com/video/77mblqO2T7g/v-deo.htmlm37s
At 13:37... can't be a coincidence.
"Should I do it for Science?" Lmao 😂 awesome play Paul 33:36
Definitely should have picked up a commando, especially with Valkyrie's Call
Yeah, specially with the lack of interaction, Commando can be played as two mana removal most of the times. And having it as 4/2 flyer with the Valkyries call after, pretty devastating.
Would also have been the answer to the blue copy enchantment.
Had 3 in my draft at the lgs, and went 5-0... the Commando is very undervalued.
still great run @paul
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Nice draft, as always! 🔥 thx
Valkerys call plus a sacoutlet is beyond insane
35:50 I do remember Wonder, I loved blue/green madness sooo much, it was really what made me love competitive magic too!
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You walking through the strix activation bait and then them doing exactly what you said they would was awesome.
Oh my god then you read the Micromancer eaten alive tutor with the sacrifice of the Micromancer
Yeah I play a lot of Magic haha
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"I can just wait, I'm drawing creatures like crazy with rallier.
Thanks for keeping that in.
I always believe in the power of Squad Rallier!
Wow Paul, i thought the zombie with the sacrifice ability was kinda meh when i first saw it. But you opened my eyes brother, those were some sweet combos : valkyrie + banshee + zombie = gg 😅
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very informative gameplay as always!
TY!
Dude, your brain works so fast, it's amazing. I sometimes think you play first and then record the commentary later ;)
I try!
At 1:03:40 you could have held up the food and attacked. If they double block you crack the food and after damage, Elenda would be a 10/10 and live.
my face when you get passed your pack 1 pick 2
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Soulstone Sanctuary is already an angel so it would not return at all. But a hypothetical creature land would return as a land with a counter, yes. And if the animation overrides the angel creature type changing effect it could even loop multiple times
Ya I agree I am learning if you see removal just take it unless its against a bomb bomb cause all the playable cards are more or less interchangeable. I just had a 7-1 deck with 0 rare cards. Blue black and I just had small cheap creatures with a good curve and 3 bakes, heroes downfall and eaten alive. Outside of the removal there was 0 synergy but every game felt so easy to win. I think the one loss was to a greedy 2 land keep. One game I won through a Elandra killed, it and then he slammed a Liliana. Side note how to people get these decks? I never get great rares and mythics together like that.
"Love" how often this format has packs that just don't contain anything above filler level for like 3-4 colors. Get unlucky with them a few times and even with correct signal reading you can trainwreck. Also reading signals from those is nearly impossible
agreed!
Last 3 drafts, I've lost 5 games to Aetherize. That card is KILLING me. So... I drafted a blue/red deck. Not one Aetherize, but faced two more decks with Aetherize in the following games PLUS a game against Sire of Seven Deaths. I'm so frustrated.
I have opened and passed 2 Celestial Armours early in the format. I was like... 3 mana combat trick? next. hahahaha
its okay to be wrong at first but make the necessary adjustments later!
Hey Paul love the drafts and really cool deck. I think two of your loses were to keeping mediocre hands. I believe you would benefit from mulligan more aggressively when your deck is as good as it is.
i actually did a full breakdown of my stats in a previous set and it turns out that i generally mulligan less than most people and that it's generally more correct
6 hits in 27 cards with 4 looks is 65.9% for those curious but not motivated enough to do the exact math themselves :D
Noone going to comment Paul possibly lost to Matham's same deck twice? losing once to the Replication + Trufflesnout then again to the giant Mossborn Hydra
I saw an esper deck with replication, copying banishing light is wild, imagine copying valky's call lol
Bit late here, but great video as always! I'm actually still quite enjoying Foundations, while the power level is lower, it's great that colour combinations can support multiple types of decks (like shown here)!
I'm at the first game rn and I do have a question if you (or anyone else) still checks comments here. For the first game, since we already decided to go for Squad Rallier value, wouldn't not playing the topdeck Evolving Wilds be better? It's tapped so cannot use rallier twice anyways, and its first activation hit two of our rares, so avoiding the shuffle would allow us to draw them in a few turns after we cycle through the deck with rallier once?
Anyways, happy belated thanksgiving and thanks for the video!
Idk the first game you played scared and got punished… idk why u thought u could wait …. I thought the opponent had an aetherize and I would have run into it looooong before that sire hit the board. You would have won easily just attacking and sacrifice something to their trick you knew about.
Even on the turn they played the sire I would have full send still and sacked whatever they blocked with the sire to the ghoul.
it felt great seeing him get punished for being soo greedy honestly
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Soul-Shackle is a beating in any deck that doesnt mind trading bodies, I'd have gone with the second, given that the goal is getting to the late game. And the reach with the Valkyrie's Call is absurd, but everything is absurd with Valkyrie's Call.
True!
i remember wonder in my t2 deck ^^
yeah u/g madness was one of my first competitive decks.
Happy thanksgiving. Thanks for all the videos this year, I saw a late unblockable rogues land passed to you. What do you think about that card?
I probably undervalue it since I like casting my spells. I think it’s nice if you have two dual lands to make your mana rock solid
Question - in the situation in the next to last game where you said you misplayed by not sacrificing the food, would it have mattered? Didnt you say early in the vid that if shes 5/5 and the combat damage takes you to 30, she would become a 10/10 before combat resolves right? So shed still have lived?
i would have dealt lethal damage if i gained life prior to attacks
The Land is an Angel so wont come back :)
Imo, Inspiring paladin is a lot better than it looks, especially when you have ways to give your creatures counters. It goes insane with the green white unicorn
"(...) and they don't have threshold!" 🤣
Hi Paul nice run! fun deck. Just wondering why you do not like Cathar Commando that much. I would have picked it both 9:13 and 11:30, or at least once between these two picks. I understand the 1 toughness idea and I'm not saying it's crazy strong but would say the card is deceptively good because of the overall lack of enchantment/artifact killer with a bunch of them which do impact a high portion of games. Wouldn't you agree?
I think it's okay and I agree that I should have taken one. I'm not a huge fan of 1 toughness creatures in general in this format as there are so many good ways to chump them.
@haumph Ok yes so I think we agree. It can sometimes also be a pseudo-kill spell with flash which adds another dimension to the card. But yeah the first copy is never that bad! 🙏
It's interesting how many of those games were decided by the rares
Rares are strong
Waited way too long in first game and let dude draw everything
Turns out if you wait 8 turns instead of pressuring when you're ahead on board...
Great synopsis!
Man, mid decks carried by broken bombs is my least favorite part of limited :(
I disagree completely. Opening fun and exciting rares is part of what makes draft fun. Everybody has equal opportunity to open said cards and just need to be prepared with the mindset that sometimes you will lose to those rares. A limited format with all commons and uncommons would be extremely lame
Valkyries call with juggernaut turn three seems decent
heroic rienforcments is bananas. ive won every game ive drawn it.
This draft is a perfect example of why I really have not enjoyed this set at all…
Difference between good common and good uncommon creatures is simply absurd. And the removal spells often can’t even cleanly answer those rares.
Paul, how is Prideful Parent good with Valkyrie’s, but Resolute Reinforcements is bad with it? They’re basically the same card!
i don't think i said that
Commando is a counter against banishing light tho.
And celestial armor and leyline axe and embercleave.
really should have taken the healer hawk, authority of consuls, and the first panda
authority sucks. people take it higher than they should and play it more often than they should. disagree completely
@@haumphi love the tempo swing, makes going first feel incredibly powerful and going second feel like going first. but the healing with panda is crazy.
29:50 always when I play around a card they just have another card to punish my play
It be like that sometimes
The draft definitely seemed like atleast one other white/black player
that's usually the case as b/w is the most popular color combination due to its depth at common
Hey Paul, i think you mighta missed an early lethal with that soul zombie there
tbh it was nice watching you lose that first game after not attacking with Elenda and just slow playing it. Shouldn't have let them draw to their bombs
Ok
Is this card good in boros?
soso
Idk, I think twinblade blessing can win games, flash double strike can be super helpful.
It’s very bad
@@haumph Ok.
Gleaming barrier isn't a bad card to sac
Man I hate this limited……I dropped from #5 on duskmourne to freaking 99% on foundation. Every game felt unplayable, every single game….maybe I’m just bad….I dont know
it's not as easy of a set to have success with it seems.
Bacon to a pie
sounds delicious
This set is insane. Just draft a bunch of bombs and figure out how to get them in your deck.
not a bad approach
Sire of Seven Deaths shouldnt have been made. Its just not a fun card, not sure how it got past playtesting.
A couple filler two drops that would love to be replaced by stabs/burglar rats but other than that this is a draft I would LOVE to play. Happy Thanksgiving!
If you won a game, can you really say you puntted?
absolutely