Shadowmage's Value Train

Pauper EDH Combo Control UB (Dimir)

NeverTheTwelve

Lands (37)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 14x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Tutor Effects (6)

• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Mystical Teachings

Mana Rocks (5)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Cluestone
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Thought Vessel

Mass Removal (3)

• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Evincar's Justice
• 1x Pestilence

Steady Draws (3)

• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sphinx's Disciple
• 1x Thorn of the Black Rose

Spot Removals & Bounce (13)

• 1x Blind Zealot
• 1x Boomerang
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 1x Chill to the Bone
• 1x Deny Reality
• 1x Flesh to Dust
• 1x Heartstabber Mosquito
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Murder
• 1x Murderous Compulsion
• 1x Recoil
• 1x Temporal Fissure

Extra Feats (10)

• 1x Elusive Spellfist
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stormscape Familiar
• 1x Train of Thought
• 1x Whispers of the Muse

Permission Spells (5)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Logic Knot

Commander (1)

Value Engine Pack (12)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Chittering Rats
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Dinrova Horror
• 1x Displace
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Scribe of the Mindful

Untomb (5)

• 1x Disturbed Burial
• 1x Grim Harvest
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Undertaker

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Other (16)

• 1x Brine Shaman
• 1x Consult the Necrosages
• 1x Ghastly Demise
• 1x Gone Missing
• 1x Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Mind Games
• 1x Mortus Strider
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Rend Flesh
• 1x Scrivener
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Walking Atlas

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If you ever played the original Pauper format, you shoud know the UB Triggers and the Familiar deks. So, what's worse than having a heavy control that wins out of nowhere with a combo? Obviously having a continue draw engine that refills your hand with no mana loss. All on broad the Shadowmage Infiltrator's value train! Next stop: victory!

What is it? - This deck is basically a fusion of the two decks mentioned earlier and its plan is pretty simple: control the board, kill everything that either to big or scary, counter all that we don't ant to see and slowly set up for the value that will sets your opponent so far behind that the beginning of the universe seens happened yesterday. If you love and render your opponent harmless this is the deck for you.

How does it wins? - There are a few ways: first of all beating. Don't forget that your commander has fear, so he's a pretty consistent clock. Other that that wiping your opponent's board lets you to attack easily. On the other hnd, you can win by comboing off and generating tons of mana, draws, mill, bounce effects & co. Examples of combos in this decks are:

• Archaeomancer or Mnemonic Wall + Displace or Ghostly Flicker to target the instant again and blink for basically free and instant speed.
• Above + Peregrine Drake to add infinite mana.
• Above + Chittering Rats after your opponent's draw step to send back that card on top of the library (unless instant or has the flash keyword) basically forcing him to draw the same card for the rest of the game.
• Above + Dinrova Horror to bounce and discard.
• Above + the other Archaeomancer or Mnemonic Wall to return one other instant or sorcery every time.

What we fear the most? - The deck is pretty strong, the value is very difficult to stop when it begins to run, but every deck that is too fast (remember, our creatures are tiny and easily scared) and, funny enough, full of counters or hard removal is a bad, but not impossible to win, matchup.

Other super duper things? - This deck can draw ALOT. you may draw up to 4 cards each turn using the commander, Sphinx's Disciple and Thorn of the Black Rose whitout doing anything at all. If you like drawing aggressively this deck if for you. Another cool thing is that this deck is full of tutors with transmute. The best interaction imho is Brainspoil searching for Mnemonic Wall that returns it and so on. It gives you a 3x1 with ease. Cards like Cavern Harpy can reiterate your ETBs and bounce herself so you can do bad things again and again and again and again and again and again...

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WRG
Splash colors	UB
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Monarch Emblem
Folders	EDH Brews 2016, Maybedecks, EDH Pauper