PDH-Are my creatures vanishing or is it your deck?

Pauper EDH* Casual Jank Mill Mono-Blue Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

lonesentinel

Draw (17)

• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Opt
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Counsel of the Soratami
• 1x Flux
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Secrets of the Golden City
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Foresee
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Delirium (7)

• 1x Hapless Researcher
• 1x Contingency Plan
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Taigam's Scheming
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Flux
• 1x Frantic Search

Removal (6)

• 1x Desert
• 1x Deep Freeze
• 1x Griptide
• 1x Repel
• 1x Run Aground
• 1x Vedalken Dismisser

Tutor (5)

• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Drift of Phantasms

Topdeck manipulation (2)

• 1x Contingency Plan
• 1x Taigam's Scheming

Spell Recursion (1)

• 1x Archaeomancer

Wizard (12)

• 1x Hapless Researcher
• 1x Sea Scryer
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Sage's Row Denizen
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Separatist Voidmage
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Scrivener
• 1x Vedalken Dismisser

Ramp (9)

• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Dreamscape Artist
• 1x Sea Scryer
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Stonybrook Banneret
• 1x Apprentice Wizard
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Vessel of Endless Rest
• 1x Shoreline Ranger

Land discard (7)

• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Warped Landscape

Recursion (5)

• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Vessel of Endless Rest
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Scrivener

Flicker (3)

• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Displace
• 1x Ghostly Flicker

Commander (1)

Bounce (11)

• 1x Banishing Knack
• 1x Curfew
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Seal of Removal
• 1x Call to Heel
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Withdraw
• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x AEther Tradewinds
• 1x Undo
• 1x Separatist Voidmage

Combo (6)

• 1x Banishing Knack
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Wormfang Drake
• 1x Merrow Levitator
• 1x Peregrine Drake

Counter (5)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Foil

Other (27)

• 1x Halimar Depths
• 25x Island
• 1x Path of Ancestry

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Sideboard

Draw (9)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Words of Wisdom
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Sift

Delirium (3)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Sift

Land discard (1)

• 1x Bant Panorama

Protection (1)

• 1x Mizzium Skin

Bounce (5)

• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Snap
• 1x Winds of Rebuke
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Tolarian Sentinel

Removal (4)

• 1x Time Ebb
• 1x Whisk Away
• 1x Temporal Eddy
• 1x Totally Lost

Combo (1)

• 1x Shrieking Drake

Counter (1)

• 1x Thought Collapse

Other (1)

• 1x Hieroglyphic Illumination

Tutor (1)

• 1x Pilgrim's Eye

Mill (4)

• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Winds of Rebuke
• 1x Thought Collapse

Ramp (4)

• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Vodalian Arcanist
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye

Wizard (4)

• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Vodalian Arcanist
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Wizard Mentor

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Updated list here https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/pdh-manic-scribe-combo/

This deck seeks to win by milling out your opponents! We use the commander because he hits all opponents (instead of just 1), so it scales regardless of your playgroup size!

The combos

Wincon combo (Infinite)

Archaeomancer + Displace + Peregrine Drake

Tried-and-tested infinite mana combo.

Redundancy for Archaeomancer in Mnemonic Wall + Salvager of Secrets + Scrivener

Redundancy for Displace in Ghostly Flicker

After generating infinite mana, you can use Archaeomancer + Displace + Manic Scribe which will mill out all your opponents, effectively killing them on their draw step.

Wincon combo 1

Manic Scribe + Merrow Levitator + Retraction Helix

1. Cast the merrow levitator the turn before(summoning sickness), with a counterspell or Mizzium Skin in hand and many islands.
2. Cast Retraction Helix on merrow levitator

3. Cast and bounce your commander for each time to mill the table 3 cards each.

4. (Optional) Cast High Tide + Stonybrook Banneret this increases the available and makes your commander only cost

5. (Optional) Having Sage's Row Denizen in play

Wincon combo 2

Sage's Row Denizen + Shrieking Drake

This is a 2-card combo but it only targets 1 player

Wincon combo 3 (but slower)

Manic Scribe + Wizard Mentor

This is a repeatable bounce effect which you have to recast for 5 mana each turn

The gameplan

Ramp

We use manadorks, searchlands, and Dreamscape Artist to add more mana.

The artist also helps to add more Island into play which synergyses with High Tide

ETB effects

We build our deck around our commander's ETB effect, as well as other ETB creatures.

There are also symmetrical bounce effects with serve double purpose as threat removal and our own recursion

Delirium

Our commander's second ability also mills the table, so we need self-discard cards to make this happen.

For this reason, I have added in more searchlands like Terramorphic Expanse which help thin the deck and activate delirium.

We are aiming for Instant, Sorcery, Creature, Land as the 4 different card types for delirium, although we have a smidgen of Artifacts and Enchantments in the deck that may help out in the oft chance that you do not hit the primary 4 types first.

Removal

Other than the typical counterspells/ bounce, we have

2-sided bounce

This can help to bounce threats while bouncing our own creatures to abuse the ETB effects

Withdraw

AEther Tradewinds

Curfew

Peel from Reality

Undo

Commander shutdown

Deep Freeze

Topdeck

Run Aground

Repel

Griptide

Totally Lost

Together with the commander's mill ability, this is akin to hard removal.

Other interactions

Using treasure cruise, you can Delve away all the creatures in the graveyard, leaving only the one you want. Then, use Haunted Fengraf to get it back.

Seeking improvement in the following areas

Defense: Should I add in some walls? What about timmy pingers?

Filtering: I'm not sure how fast I can pull off WINCON 1 since the available tutors are limited.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Archaeomancer + Displace + Peregrine Drake Manic Scribe + Wizard Mentor Sage's Row Denizen + Shrieking Drake High Tide + Stonybrook Banneret Manic Scribe + Merrow Levitator + Retraction Helix Mnemonic Wall + Salvager of Secrets + Scrivener Archaeomancer + Displace + Manic Scribe
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.80
Tokens	City's Blessing
Folders	Lonesentinel's PDH completed
Based on	PDH | Manic Scribe infinite mill lonesentinel PDH