Displeased Gryffter

Pauper* Budget Cycling Midrange Reanimator Surveil UB (Dimir) Unearth

GrimlockVIII

Creature (22)

• 2x First-Sphere Gargantua
• 4x Sea Gate Oracle
• 4x Sinister Starfish
• 3x Stormbound Geist
• 2x Thorn of the Black Rose
• 3x Viscera Dragger
• 4x Wretched Gryff

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 1x Evincar's Justice
• 3x Of One Mind

Land (20)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 2x Dimir Aqueduct
• 2x Dismal Backwater
• 7x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 6x Swamp

Instant (13)

• 4x Cast Down
• 4x Consider
• 3x Mana Leak
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Suffocating Fumes

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 3x Dispel
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 2x Suffocating Fumes

Sorcery (7)

• 3x Befoul
• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 3x Duress

Creature (2)

• 2x Cuombajj Witches

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Maybeboard

Creature (11)

• 1x Baithook Angler  ^Flip
• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Dregscape Zombie
• 1x Gurmag Angler
• 1x Kathari Screecher
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Sightless Ghoul
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Vault Skirge

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Consult the Necrosages
• 1x Ichor Slick

Land (1)

• 1x Dismal Backwater

Instant (1)

• 1x Dihada's Ploy

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I really wanted to brew around Wretched Gryff and this was the result. It's a simple midrange deck with a light surveil sub-theme to get First-Sphere Gargantua and Viscera Dragger into the grave as quickly as possible. All my creatures are tough enough to survive the pauper board wipes that I've included except for Stormbound Geist, but his Undying ability lets him spawn back in anyway.

This deck is supposed to, ideally, constantly accrue card advantage and solid bodies so that way I never run out of tempo. The main synergy involves Unearthing First-Sphere Gargantua or Viscera Dragger and kicking my opponent in the nutsack before saccing one of them to pay for Wretched Gryff's emerge cost. Stormbound Geist also synergizes well with the Gryff due to his Undying ability, giving me two 3 power flyers for the price of one 2/2.

I actually bought the deck in real life, and it's been able to go toe-to-toe with my roommate's mono-green Urza Tron deck so far, so that's cool. However, because Consider hasn't been released yet, I've had to substitute it with Curate and so I don't really have a turn 1 play yet.

Any suggestions to improve this brew are extremely welcome.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.20
Tokens	Monarch Emblem
Folders	My Pauper Brews