BG Tortured Existence

Pauper BG (Golgari) Dredge Imp Madness Pauper Toolbox Value Engine

awesomeragle

Creature (26)

• 2x Brindle Boar
• 2x Crypt Rats
• 4x Fume Spitter
• 3x Golgari Brownscale
• 2x Grave Scrabbler
• 4x Kitchen Imp
• 3x Mesmeric Fiend
• 1x Spore Frog
• 2x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Thoughtpicker Witch
• 2x Tilling Treefolk

Land (22)

• 4x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forest
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 3x Golgari Rot Farm
• 4x Jungle Hollow
• 7x Swamp
• 2x Tranquil Thicket

Enchantment (8)

• 4x Tortured Existence
• 4x Vessel of Nascency

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Commune with the Gods

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Sideboard

Creature (10)

• 2x Caustic Caterpillar
• 2x Ezuri's Archers
• 2x Slum Reaper
• 2x Spore Frog
• 2x Wickerbough Elder

Instant (2)

• 2x Gnaw to the Bone

Land (2)

• 2x Bojuka Bog

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Dead Weight

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It is clear that Tortured Existence needs something other than a mono black shell to work, but any one other color feels underwhelming to me. So this is my attempt at the best cards in red and green for this deck. Everything revolves around getting the engine online, Tortured Existence. Once that is out you have access to anything you could need from the graveyard, including an insane madness value engine with Grave Scrabbler , and a lot of life to be gained with Golgari Brownscale by repeatedly discarding it to the namesake enchantment to return another. The win condition is beating down with a single huge threat like Horror of the Broken Lands or eventually overwhelming them with a swarm of value creatures. I think Tortured Existence is criminally underplayed in pauper and just needs to find the correct shell for success.

Edit: Removed red for more consistency in mana and replacing Faithless Looting with Vessel of Nascency . Deck runs smoother now, less color screw now and side board options become better.

04/06/19 - Removed Cuombajj Witches because metagame has moved away from them being important, also evened out the basic lands some since BB is no longer needed by t2. Replaced with Mesmeric Fiend to attack bad matchups from a different angle. Also adding Thoughtpicker Witch to make the fiends more potent and to also help with bad matchups.

04/07/19 - Kraul Foragers becomes Brindle Boar

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.24