Hacked Magic

Pauper EDH

Voldeganon

Creature (16)

• 1x Chainbreaker
• 1x Elusive Spellfist
• 1x Ingenious Skaab
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Jhessian Thief
• 1x Metropolis Sprite
• 1x Nimbus Naiad
• 1x Nivix Barrier
• 1x Nyxborn Triton
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Silvergill Douser
• 1x Stormbound Geist
• 1x Streambed Aquitects
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Watercourser

Instant (14)

• 1x Befuddle
• 1x Bewilder
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dazzling Lights
• 1x Disorient
• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Fleeting Distraction
• 1x Hydrosurge
• 1x Jace's Scrutiny
• 1x Lethargy Trap
• 1x Lost in a Labyrinth
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Stream of Unconsciousness
• 1x Traumatic Visions

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Cartouche of Knowledge
• 1x Chant of the Skifsang
• 1x Cunning
• 1x Eel Umbra
• 1x Infiltrator's Magemark
• 1x Jeskai Runemark
• 1x Leaden Fists
• 1x Pin to the Earth
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Sinking Feeling
• 1x Slimebind
• 1x Soar
• 1x Spectral Flight
• 1x Spontaneous Mutation
• 1x Tightening Coils
• 1x Unstable Mutation

Land (38)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 34x Island
• 1x Quicksand
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Maximize Altitude

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Ashnod's Transmogrant
• 1x Conjurer's Bauble
• 1x Elven Lyre
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Living Armor
• 1x Mightstone
• 1x Scale of Chiss-Goria
• 1x Staff of Zegon
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Tooth of Chiss-Goria
• 1x Traveler's Amulet
• 1x Wanderer's Twig
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

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A neat little deck whose general is the ordinarily super-broken Magical Hacker. With no other un-cards in the deck and access only to blue and colorless commons, it interestingly is no longer super-broken (at least in my opinion). With a deck built around it, it becomes a versatility/utility general that flips buffs and weaknesses for a small cost. The only card that becomes even remotely broken that you have access to is the Stormbound Geist (and possibly Chant of the Skifsang), as Undying can become mechanically equivalent to Persist to make sure that the Geist never dies, and the Chant because 1 mana to give a creature +13/+0 can be pretty terrifying.

Basically, the Hacker just allows a mono-blue deck to do some things it probably would not be able to do ordinarily. It can turn boosts into removal and it can turn removal into boosts, depending on the board state.

Also, using the Hacker to invert the status is completely optional, and you can use cards for their intended function just as easily still. It may also be that the Hacker can interact with your opponent's strategies in theoretically broken ways. But there's no access to planeswalkers in Pauper EDH and to most high-end cards by nature. I would argue that while the Hacker deck can be strong, it shouldn't be too broken. I have yet to playtest it extensively, of course -- but it doesn't strike me as being a particularly competitive general for the format, and more of a fun gimmick.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.23
Tokens	Clue