Mono Rats Control

Pauper Budget Competitive Control Mono-Black Pauper

Thanimal

Creature (16)

• 3x Child of Night
• 2x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 4x Gurmag Angler
• 3x Pharika's Chosen
• 4x Typhoid Rats

Land (22)

• 22x Swamp

Instant (8)

• 4x Dash Hopes
• 1x Death Denied
• 3x Geth's Verdict

Sorcery (15)

• 4x Corrupt
• 3x Duress
• 4x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 2x Sign in Blood

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 3x Fetid Imp

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Font of Return

Instant (4)

• 4x Dark Ritual

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Tyrant's Choice

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Oubliette

Instant (4)

• 4x Doom Blade

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Sinkhole

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This is my flavor of Pauper Mono-black control.

I use the early deathtouchers to act as a wall or to swing in for easy early damage. I can also use Dash hopes and duress to control my opponents. Dash Hopes is particularly effective at tricking my foe to paying the 5 life and getting them within striking range of my finishers. I also use Sign in Blood as well as Read the Bones to maintain card advantage as well as dig for the my win cons.

I use Gary and corrupt as my finishers. They both drain for a substantial amount of life. I have found Corrupt to be especially useful, as it CAN target a creature under dire circumstances and doesn't rely on any amount of current board presence to work. Plus if I am using Corrupt to stablise the board, chances are I do not have a good amount of board presence anyways. Not to say Gary isn't effective; he is. But it is nice to have two paysets of big drainers to help me out.

And that is basically the deck. I still need to figure out what excatly to do in the sideboard, but this deck is remaining competitive against some quick decks.

Any advice is lovingly taken! Happy draining!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Exclude colors	B
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	2.92