Death in the Shadows

Pauper Aggro Budget Competitive Mono-Black Pauper Voltron

mal099

Buff (18)

• 2x Bonesplitter
• 3x Dark Favor
• 2x Mogis's Favor
• 4x Predator's Gambit
• 4x Sinister Strength
• 3x Unnatural Endurance

Creature (16)

• 4x Changeling Outcast
• 4x Dauthi Slayer
• 4x Tormented Soul
• 4x Vault Skirge

Mana (21)

• 3x Dark Ritual
• 18x Swamp

Other (5)

• 3x Duress
• 2x Rite of Consumption

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 4x Apostle's Blessing
• 3x Dauthi Horror
• 3x Plague Stinger
• 3x Rush of Vitality
• 2x Snuff Out

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Maybeboard

Sideboard (8)

• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Cower in Fear
• 1x Defile
• 1x Echoing Decay
• 1x Geth's Verdict
• 1x Mephitic Vapors
• 1x Shrivel
• 1x Vampiric Link

Buff (8)

• 1x Bonesplitter
• 1x Deviant Glee
• 1x Grotesque Mutation
• 2x Molting Snakeskin
• 1x Scourgemark
• 1x Thrull Retainer
• 1x Unlikely Aid

Other (4)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Sign in Blood

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They came from the darkness...

Get an explosive start with Dark Ritual, then play any of your unblockable creatures, buff them up with auras and destroy your opponent as fast as possible!

Very fast deck, but very vulnerable to removal. We try to protect our creatures with Duress, Apostle's Blessing and Unnatural Endurance. If any opponent is actually fast enough to give us trouble, we can sideboard in some lifegain in the form of Vault Skirge or Rush of Vitality. Burn/RDW is still an almost impossible matchup that will just kill all our creatures, but many other decks will have trouble with our speed.

Comments and recommendations appreciated!

(Wondering right now about maybe using a transformative sideboard that makes the deck into Suicide Black, will require some testing...)

Top Ranked	Achieved #66 position overall 6 years ago Achieved #2 position in Pauper 6 years ago Achieved #1 position in Pauper Pauper 6 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WU
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.40
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