[PDH] Garna and Her Colony

Pauper EDH* Aggro BR (Rakdos) Pauper Tribal

Spell_Slam

Lands (35)

• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 18x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Ramp (8)

• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blood Vassal
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Thermopod

Creatures (41)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 32x Rat Colony
• 1x Thunderscape Familiar
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Keldon Vandals
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Ingot Chewer

Card Advantage (7)

• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Death Denied
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Urborg Uprising

Other (1)

• 1x Rites of Initiation

Commander (1)

Removal (7)

• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Fling
• 1x Rolling Thunder
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Victim of Night
• 1x Destructive Tampering
• 1x Cosmotronic Wave

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Garna, the Bloodflame is an extremely powerful general and lends itself well to Aristocrats strategies and aggressive strategies. Although sacrificing stuff is one of my favourite things to do in Magic, I'm going to go with a deep synergistic aggro deck: Rat Colony.

Garna feels very powerful in a list like this. She allows us to get a lot of card advantage with her first ability by getting multiple creatures back after combat or a board wipe. This makes it easier to make attacks that would otherwise be unprofitable and keeps us aggressive.

I completely forgot that Garna also has another juicy line of text: Your creatures have haste. This is also perfect for an aggressive list as it means we can deploy our returned creatures again next turn and keep attacking right away.

Garna can also allow for small value plays with cards like Faithless Looting. discarding two creatures and getting them back with Garna means we draw two cards for only 1 mana, on top of whatever we get back from a combat phase. Seems great!

Other than that, this deck is pretty straightforward. some spot removal, some graveyard hate, some artifact hate, some mass removal and a few cards to bring creatures back from the graveyard. Urborg Uprising was my introductory benchmark card to PDH card evaluation, and it still rings true today.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.34
Folders	PDH