After a long break from Pauper exploration, I came across a deck I was previously testing in Pauper. It had the label "Pauper TGalbs Boros."

I loaded up the decklist and was immediately surprised by what I saw:

I looked up TGalbs on mtgo-stats.com and found this list which I was basing mine off of. I had decided 4 Boros Garrison was just a little bit clunky and replaced it with a Boros Guildgate, and the 4th Gorilla Shaman got replaced with an Ancient Grudge for some added utility against Affinity or Delver. Overall the deck looked like it had a great plan to attack the major metagame decks: Delver, Affinity, and Mono B. I talk about the deck and sideboarding options in this video:

Without further ado, I jump right into the queues.

In the first queue, I encounter what is perhaps the deck that hated Boros out of the metagame: UR Control

This has to be an awful matchup. Pyroblast can only do so much work here, especially if I don't draw any after sideboard. Ah well.

In the second queue, I encounter a deck that seems to be a favorable matchup: Burn.

I feel a bit lucky drawing Circle of Protection: Red in both games, but I feel like that's the reason I have them in the sideboard, after all.

In the third queue, I encounter one of the decks I'm looking to target with Boros, Delver:

I beat some incredible odds to win this match, but I feel like that's what the deck was designed to do. I even missed an Ancient Grudge that might have helped close out the game a few turns earlier than I was able to.

Reflection:

This deck is a solid metagame deck if you expect to face anything other than Tron and UR Control. It might have some problems beating Corrupt heavy Mono B decks, but I think that's well worth the risk for playing a deck that is as consistent as this one is. It was well-built, and I thank TGalbs for the excellent build.

Until next time, this is Chris. Enjoy Looting away excess lands.