WUBR

Pauper Control Cruel Control

caiusthethief

Instant (31)

• 4x Accumulated Knowledge
• 4x Counterspell
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 2x Devious Cover-Up
• 1x Devour Flesh
• 1x Echoing Decay
• 1x Electrickery
• 1x Ephemerate
• 4x Exclude
• 1x Fire / Ice
• 2x Lightning Bolt
• 3x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Negate
• 4x Skred
• 1x Terminate

Land (23)

• 4x Ash Barrens
• 3x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Snow-Covered Island
• 2x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 2x Snow-Covered Plains
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 3x Swiftwater Cliffs

Creature (4)

• 3x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Mnemonic Wall

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Preordain

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Sideboard

Instant (14)

• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Electrickery
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Hallow
• 3x Hydroblast
• 1x Leave No Trace
• 1x Magma Spray
• 1x Negate
• 3x Pyroblast

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Swirling Sandstorm

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Straight up control deck, you end the game with ephemerate on your mnemonic wall to get lightning Bolt, posing a relatively fast clock on your opponent once you start the recursion. Devious cover-up helps securing that even if one of your "combo" pieces gets disrupted you can get it back. Skred is undoubtedly the best removal in the format for mana efficiency and even if you have some non-snow lands here it still holds great. For the sideboard I'm thinking about putting green for weather the storm, which is a great card vs very aggressive decks and serene heart, which can save your ass vs the likes of bogles. Even if green is the most popular choice for this deck right now, I feel that the sheer versatility and potential soft lock offered by ephemerate on mnemonic wall is straight up better than the sprout swarm win-con offered by green. Mana base is currently in testing phase, I feel that I could cut bouncelands in favour of more basics/evolving wilds, especially if I insist on running terminate. The teachings package is quite standard but I feel like a copy or two of forbidden alchemy would be good for the deck. Be sure to leave a feedback to let me know what you think and how you would improve this!

1st Edit: manabase fixed by removing all the bouncelands and a gainland, adding two basics and two evolving wilds. Dawn charm added to main deck in order to soft lock opponents with wall-ephemerate -main deck is now 62 cards- Sideboard changed. Tested in a tournament, ending 2-0-1, winning against snow-tron and elves and having a draw against old-school affinity. I think I have made some mistakes in the last game against affinity and I could have won if I hadn't. Good thing I noticed is that the deck isn't THAT slow, as I predicted, since only the last match ended 1-1, the others were 2-0 and 2-1. To sum up, the deck is strong, albeit it probably needs some adjustments, especially in the sideboard department. Looking forward to improve it.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	62
Avg. CMC	2.18