Midnight Gond (Pauper Twin)

Pauper Combo GWU (Bant) Infinite Combo RGW (Naya) Twin

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Land (23)

• 4x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 3x Blossoming Sands
• 3x Forest
• 2x Island
• 3x Plains
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 2x Survivors' Encampment
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 3x Tranquil Cove

Creature (23)

• 4x Benevolent Bodyguard
• 4x Midnight Guard
• 4x Nettle Sentinel
• 4x Soul Warden
• 3x Soul's Attendant
• 4x Zephyr Scribe

Instant (6)

• 2x Prismatic Strands
• 4x Sprout Swarm

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Presence of Gond

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Ponder

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Sideboard

Instant (9)

• 3x Celestial Flare
• 2x Dispel
• 3x Gods Willing
• 1x Weather the Storm

Enchantment (5)

• 3x Journey to Nowhere
• 2x Spidersilk Armor

Creature (1)

• 1x Scattershot Archer

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Midnight Gond is name for the main combo in the deck, Midnight Guard + Presence of Gond . With a Guard enchanted with Presence, you can tap the guard to create an Elf, and the Guard's ability will untap him, letting you repeat the process to make infinite elves.

The secondary combo is Sprout Swarm + untappers. With 4 untappers and a Sprout Swarm , you can make infinite Saprolings. Tap your 4 untappers + 1 more mana/creature to convoke + buyback the swarm. Untappers will all untap, and along with the Saproling you just created, you now have 5 creatures to repeat the process. Although you can go infinite, it isn't always necessary to win. Sometimes making 1-3 saprolings a turn while gaining life off of Soul Warden will pull you far ahead of your opponent to where you can win.

Tournament Report

Matchups

Disclaimer: Currently, my sample size of games is very small, so any data here is probably unreliable. Also, as most of my testing here is done at my LGS, the decks I play against aren't an accurate representation of the overall metagame.

Overall Winrate Show

Matches: 2-1 (66.66%)

Games: 5-2 (71.43%)

Bogles Show

Matches: 0-1 (0%)

Games: 1-2 (33.33%)

Bogles looks to win by finding a hexproof creature like Slippery Bogle and enchanting it with auras like Ancestral Mask and Armadillo Cloak to create an unkillable threat that easily takes down a game. Sideboard in 2x Celestial Flare and 2x Soul Warden / Soul's Attendant out, and sideboard out 2 additional Soul Sisters for 2 Electrickery when you are going to be on the play.

Seven Dwarves Aggro Show

Matches: 1-0 (100%)

Games: 2-0 (100%)

An aggro deck with Burning-Tree Emissary to build a quick start and Seven Dwarves to create larger threats that can wrap up a longer game or just walk over your defenses. Sideboard 2x Journey to Nowhere and 2x Gods Willing in and 4 Soul Warden / Soul's Attendant out (I'm not sure if this is right). The deck plays 4x Skred and 4x Lightning Bolt , so protecting our creatures is a must if we want to combo off. Also, removal is important because while 1 Seven Dwarves will always be stuck behind Midnight Guard s and Thermo-Alchemist s, a 2nd one will let both through. Plus, removing 1 dwarf will shrink all of the others, so removal is very valuable here.

+1/+1 Counters Show

Matches: 1-0 (100%)

Games: 2-0 (100%)

A homebrew deck from someone at my LGS. Ainok Bond-Kin and Crowned Ceratok act as payoffs for +1/+1 counter creatures like Ivy Elemental . Sideboard 3x Journey to Nowhere in and 3x Benevolent Bodyguard out, because the deck (as of right now) doesn't play much creature removal, and a Journey on a Ceratok to remove trample means chumping with tokens for the rest of the game will work out.

21-10-2019

Match 1: Bogles

1-2. Game 1 they got off to a fast start with a Gladecover Scout , Ethereal Armor , and a couple mana fixing enchantments and are too fast for me to do anything. Game 2 I bring in 2x Electrickery and 2x Celestial Flare . I manage to overload an Electrickery after my opponent plays 2 Bogles, and they fail to find another Bogle while I attack with a couple of Nettle Sentinel s and Soul Warden s. Game 3 I keep a risky hand with the combo, but only 2 lands. I never find the 3rd land.

Match 2: +1/+1 Counters

2-0. Game 1, 3 Soul Sisters and a Sprout Swarm keep me alive for long enough to start Sprout Swarming multiple times a turn until I can overrun them with Saprolings. Game 2 I get a great draw and hit t3 Midnight Guard into t4 Presence of Gond for the win.

Match 3 Seven Dwarves Aggro

2-0. Game 1 we both mulligan to 5 to find a hand with lands in it. I manage to draw more Benevolent Bodyguard s than opponent draws Lightning Bolt s or Skred s, and eventually find the combo. Game 2 I have a bodyguard to stop the first Bolt on my Midnight Guard, but he has a Spell Pierce for my Presence of Gond , but luckily I draw another one within a few turns and have enough mana to get around the 2nd Spell Pierce .

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.86
Tokens	Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G