Losing Yourself: Lab Man PDH

Pauper EDH* Mill Mono-Blue Pauper

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Creature (24)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Armored Skaab
• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Cephalid Sage
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Drowner Initiate
• 1x Homarid Explorer
• 1x Laboratory Brute
• 1x Merfolk Traders
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Owl Familiar
• 1x Sage's Row Denizen
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Screeching Skaab
• 1x Scrivener
• 1x Sea Scryer
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Sultai Skullkeeper
• 1x Vodalian Merchant
• 1x Whirlpool Rider

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Chronic Flooding
• 1x Jace's Erasure
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Instant (20)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Displace
• 1x Dream Twist
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Mage's Guile
• 1x Mental Note
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Opt
• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Perilous Research
• 1x Radical Idea
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Tolarian Winds
• 1x Unexplained Disappearance
• 1x Voyage's End
• 1x Winds of Rebuke
• 1x Words of Wisdom

Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 28x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Warped Landscape

Commander (1)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Compelling Argument
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Contingency Plan
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Flux
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Pieces of the Puzzle
• 1x Secrets of the Golden City
• 1x Taigam's Scheming
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Artifact (5)

• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Maybeboard

Instant (3)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Confound
• 1x Counterspell

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Ideas Unbound

Artifact (1)

• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Flood
• 1x Mental Discipline
• 1x Rhystic Deluge

Creature (3)

• 1x Naga Oracle
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Selhoff Occultist

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Mono-Blue Self Mill Pauper EDH

Laboratory Maniac, a well known win condition in EDH, is making its Pauper EDH debut thanks to Ultimate Masters. The goal is simple: ditch your deck with draw and mill cards. The deck has a couple of gimmicks you can use to whittle down your library:

• Using Jace's Erasure in combination with Flux, Tolarian Winds, and Whirlpool Rider to go through large portions of your deck at once. Combined with Archaeomancer creatures it is possible to burn through half your deck or more in one turn.

• Ghostly Flicker and Displace can be used to mill many cards at once by flickering self mill creatures.

• You can use the High Tide combo with Cloud of Faeries to mill yourself out with Chronic Flooding or Sage's Row Denizen.

I've opted out of the Peregrine Drake combo because I wanted to focus on winning specifically with Lab Man but you could add it as an alternate win condition.

Top Ranked	Achieved #3 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.50
Tokens	City's Blessing
Folders	Cool Decks, EDH, EDH, Pauper EDH, PDH