Black-Sac

Pauper BR (Rakdos)

Wrynfroe

Creature (26)

• 4x Bone Picker
• 4x Crypt Rats
• 4x Footlight Fiend
• 2x Gurmag Angler
• 4x Serrated Scorpion
• 4x Shambling Ghast
• 4x Troll of Khazad-dum

Instant (14)

• 4x Deadly Dispute
• 2x Feign Death
• 4x Reckoner's Bargain
• 4x Village Rites

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Echoing Return

Land (16)

• 10x Swamp
• 4x Vault of Whispers
• 2x Witch's Cottage

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 2x Alchemist's Gift
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Darkness
• 2x Echoing Decay
• 2x You Are Already Dead

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Choking Sands
• 2x Duress
• 2x Feed the Swarm

Artifact (1)

• 1x Sylvok Lifestaff

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Maybeboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x You Are Already Dead

Creature (1)

• 1x Kjeldoran Dead

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Draw more than blue {U}, gain life like white {W}, and deal direct damage without red {R}!

Black-Sac can do it all, ...at a cost.

My spin on Pauperganda's list.

The big changes in this version are the mainboard inclusion of 4 copies of Echoing Return and 2 Gurmag Anglers.

• The Angler presents a decent mid to late game threat and has plenty of fodder to help offset it's cost with all the instants and sorceries we cast.

• The Echoing Returns help us to recur some really nasty creatures like Serrated Scorpions and Bone Pickers.

The sideboard is for my local meta and personal battle box, but I think it's widely applicable to many of the tier 1 / 2 decks in the format.

• Alchemist's Gift helps to keep us in the game against burn match-ups, and the deathtouch helps our Footlight Fiends and Perilous Myrs to better trade against bigger creatures.

• Choking Sands is included to slow Tron down, but it can also mess with snow-based taplands. Chip damage is a bonus.

• Darkness is a surprise fog effect that might help to buy another turn and help us "get there."

• Echoing Decay can be used against elves, birds, etc. but it can also be used on your own creatures if you really need to get some triggers in.

• Feed the Swarm helps to deal with Bogles and Graveyard Removal (Relic of Progenitus).

• Sylvok Lifestaff helps against burn and keeps your lifetotal above your opponents for when you use Crypt Rats to finish the game.

So far, these changes have made a massive difference in my (admittedly limited) testing.

I've identified a few things that really hurt the deck and would welcome ideas to counteract them.

• Counterspell heavy decks can really shut down our card draw and recursion.

• Graveyard removal makes Gurmag difficult to cast and stops us from recurring our sac fodder and threats.

• Lifegain thwarts our plan of whittling away the lifetotal and finishing the game with Crypt Rats

Notes:

Decklist adjusted around June 2023 with LOTR set.

-2 Perilous Myr -4 Swamp +4 Troll of Khazad-dum +2 Witch's Cottage

Alchemist's Gift should probably be Toxin Analysis The ability on Witch's Cottage is nice to have, but not the main plan or main way to recur our bigger threats.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.36
Tokens	Treasure
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