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Built specifically as an anti-meta deck in an aggro heavy LGS. Recommendations wanted!
CARD CHOICE
MAINBOARD
Targeted Removal
Chainer's Edict - the heavy hitter of Pauper. Added value for heroic, bogles, and Atog (if it's the only creature on their field). Flashback is the icing on the cake.
Fatal Blow to kill anything when paired with a sweeper activation or block
Moment of Craving - One of my new favorite cards, and perfectly at home in this deck. Buff our life while removing most any Elf, Delver of Secrets
, Mulldrifter, etc
Doom Blade - A standard all-star and now a pauper staple. At my LGS, only two people have MBC, so this is a great option -- you may want to play with the numbers, depending on your meta.
Tragic Slip gives us the threat of one-mana removal, since we're not running any Disfigure. With so much removal in general, in the mid to late game, you can almost always activate Morbid, even by killing your own creatures by blocking, with Pestilence, etc
Mass Removal/Ping
Pestilence - an absolute beating in my local meta. The only threats it can't reliably kill the turn after it's dropped are Gurmag Angler, Atog, and maybe Myr Enforcer or Spire Golem. Also can pair up with our Moment of Cravings to take fatties out.
Crypt Rats - overall, worse than Pestilence, but drops a turn earlier and only requires one black mana, if you ended up getting stuck with our plains and/or Ash Barrens.
Evincar's Justice - in longer games, this is a great wincon. Repeatable sweepers rock.
Other Creatures
Phyrexian Rager - cantrips, and can survive a Rats or Pestilence for 1. Beats face.
Lone Missionary buffs our life total, chump blocks, and can be swept with any of our mass removal to active Morbid.
Palace Sentinels makes us win long games, and can survive sweepers up to 3, which is why I chose it over Thorn of the Black Rose.
Gurmag Angler is a 5/5 fish that usually drops for 1-3 mana. Having a fatty helps us close games faster and put the life deficit in our favor to finish with our sweepers.
Loyal Sentry trades for anything on the ground for one mana. Worst case scenario, it eats a removal spell, trading card for card.
And, finally, Syphon Life. This is a pet card of mine, and is our best wincon against control. Countered? Not a big deal, we retrace it. We also buff our own life total so we can more safely ping with Pestilence and Crypt Rats.
SIDEBOARD
Circle of Protection: Red makes it virtually impossible for burn to win, and has lots of value against Kuldotha Boros and Affiniy.
Fragmentize kills everything except Myr Enforce and Serpent for Affinity, Curse of the Pierced Heart, Spire Golem, an opposing Pestilence, Oubliette... pretty much everything it needs to.
Nihil Spellbomb keeps graveyard decks in check without exiling our Chainer's Edicts.
Raven's Crime is here for Tron, MBC, and other control decks. Especially once we have The Monarch, we'll usually have plenty of lands to throw away to Retrace. With control decks, we're also less incentivized to want to play a huge number of lands to have max black mana to sweep with, since they run less creatures.
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| Date added | 6 years |
| Last updated | 6 years |
| Legality | This deck is Pauper legal. |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.58 |
| Tokens | The Monarch |
| Folders | (╯ຈل͜ຈ) ╯︵ ┻━┻ |
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