Ruination Rioter's Landfill

Pauper EDH* Lands RG (Gruul)

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Creature (26)

• 1x Burning-Tree Vandal
• 1x Conclave Naturalists
• 1x Destructive Digger
• 1x Elvish Skysweeper
• 1x Excavating Anurid
• 1x Golgari Brownscale
• 1x Greenseeker
• 1x Groundskeeper
• 1x Hissing Iguanar
• 1x Hobblefiend
• 1x Loathsome Chimera
• 1x Mad Prophet
• 1x Merchant of the Vale
• 1x Murasa Behemoth
• 1x Oread of Mountain's Blaze
• 1x Rummaging Goblin
• 1x Skola Grovedancer
• 1x Spitfire Lagac
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Thermopod
• 1x Thrashing Mossdog
• 1x Underworld Rage-Hound
• 1x Voracious Typhon
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Wildheart Invoker
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Moldervine Cloak
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Talons of Wildwood
• 1x Tin Street Market

Land (42)

• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Cave of Temptation
• 1x Desert of the Fervent
• 1x Desert of the Indomitable
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Naya Panorama
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Ravaged Highlands
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 11x Snow-Covered Forest
• 9x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Timber Gorge
• 1x Timberland Ruins
• 1x Tranquil Thicket

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Spyglass
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bonder's Ornament
• 1x Bonesplitter
• 1x Shard of Broken Glass
• 1x True-Faith Censer
• 1x Vulshok Morningstar

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Benefaction of Rhonas
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Commune with the Gods
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Firebolt
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Monstrify
• 1x Scout the Borders
• 1x Shenanigans
• 1x Swirling Sandstorm

Instant (9)

• 1x Band Together
• 1x Broken Wings
• 1x Flaring Pain
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Magmatic Sinkhole
• 1x Moment's Peace
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Whiteout
• 1x Wild Hunger

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Sorcery (4)

• 1x Claws of Wirewood
• 1x Flame Jab
• 1x Rites of Spring
• 1x Winding Way

Artifact (1)

• 1x Darksteel Axe

Creature (3)

• 1x Hooting Mandrills
• 1x Keldon Raider
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Bloodfire Infusion
• 1x Lignify

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Thanks to the from earlier this year, Ruination Rioter now works as a deck! He can die, deal a ton of damage to somebody's face, go to the command zone, and immediately be recast!

I've revamped this deck to be a little less combo focused. There are still 4 sac outlets that would allow you to purposefully kill the rioter and replay him quickly for mid/late game kills, but the deck also focuses a lot of effort on medium sized creatures and a mild version of voltron to help reduce the graveyard dependency and the need to cast and kill the Rioter 6+ times. This isn't really a ramp deck, since we would prefer to keep our lands in the graveyard. So we can't afford to replay the Rioter more than 3 or 4 times. You've got to use combat to whittle down life totals a bit, then just use Rioter as a finisher.

What this deck does have is a surprising number of value engines. There are 6 repeatable rummaging engines in the deck, and if you combine them with Greenskeeper or Talons of Wildwood, you get a repeatable draw engine. The deck also uses Bonder's Ornament for some repeatable draw. There are also a total of 14 other cards that can activate or play themselves from the grave, so that's plenty of cards you don't mind discarding to keep drawing. Greenseeker is even a self-contained way to pull one land from the library into the grave each turn, allowing Rioter to hit way harder.

As an additional way to fill the grave, the deck has 16 lands that can sacrifice or discard themselves. Most of that is for cycling and fetching other lands, but there are a few that just have alternate abilities that you can use at the end of the game when you just need the last Rioter trigger to hit for one or two more points of damage.

My big worries as I move into testing this are that for a deck that wants to win in the mid/late game, this thing doesn't have that much removal. I'm also worried that there aren't enough sacrifice outlets. If either of these are the case, then it's probably the cards that are playable from the grave that will be cut a little more, along with the single-use self mill spells.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Folders	Potential Pauper Playability, Pauper EDH, Tapped Out - User Decks