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Sorcery (15)
Land (20)
Instant (8)
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This is the first Pauper format deck I’ve ever constructed. It began as a Reanimator build, but slowly transformed into a mono black discard/hand control deck.
As the last surviving member of the De la Poer family, you, one William Fontaine Delapoer Dauterive, awake with a start in the middle of the night. Mercifully pulled into consciousness from another recurring nightmare, you set match to candle. In the dark shadows of your bedroom, you notice your cat is fixated upon the wall, darting up and down along it and clawing frantically at seemingly nonexistent things within. You press your ear to the wall and hear a faint scurrying.
Removing a candle from its sconce, you creep stealthily in your bedclothes down the grand staircase to the rustic cellar door. Giving the brass handle a sharp pull, it opens as a stale wall of air seeps out. Ahead of you stands an altar; sliding it aside you descend the well worn stairs of a hidden passageway.
At the bottom you recall the ghastly visage tormenting you in your dreams! There, stretching out as far as the eye can see, is an immense twilit grotto, a sprawling necropolis of horror and decay!
Suddenly, all around you hordes of vermin writhe and pulse in a maelstrom of scurrying bodies. You collapse with fear and exhaustion...
•Swamps bubble and churn at the base of your hereditary homestead, Exham Priory.
•Do you dream of being able to reclaim one of your rodent horde from the pits of the grave? The dreams in the Witch House often drift to such things...
•Barren Moor helps move the game forward if you happen to have enough land for the moment. Cycle it and redraw.
•Ravenous Rats is an ideal Turn 2 play; this little rodent will get the ball rolling. Better yet, should we sideboard in our ‘blink’ effect cards in Game 2 or 3, his true value becomes evident.
•Rotting Rats is a nice two drop since we don’t need to waste a reanimation spell on it. This one comes prepackaged with its own recursion built right in! Sure, we also have to discard but that is hardly a grievance—especially mid to late game when our opponent will have a handicapped hand size coupled with innumerable forced discards, when we won’t.
•Chittering Rats is going to provoke ire, so be prepared. Nothing derails one’s carefully crafted plans more than returning the card you just drew to the top of your library. Not to mention the fact they know they’ll probably have to discard it next turn anyway! That chittering you hear is the sadistic glee of our tiny mammalian friend.
•Swarm of Rats is our bomb. Once a handful of rodents are in play, dropping this creature creates a significant threat.
•Modeled on his own feline familiar, Black Cat played a key role in Lovecraft’s vermin-filled short story. Included for flavor purposes, but surprisingly practical nonetheless.
•Cry of Contrition is very cost effective, and thematically appropriate. Force that discard, then attach it haunting a creature we perceive isn’t long for this world. When it leaves this mortal coil, BOOM double discard.
•Vicious Rumors forces a discard, pings for a point of damage, and mills a card off the top of their library. Trifecta
•Mire's Toll plays best mid to late game once a handful of swamps hit the board. Then it becomes a poor man’s Thoughtseize.
•Raven's Crime is just oh-so-abusable and will quickly become a thorn in the opponent’s side.
•Geth's Verdict isn’t technically hand disruption, but it might as well be. Once they find a way for that single creature to finally hit the table, poof make it disappear. The life point ping just adds insult to injury.
•Village Rites helps us refill our own hand after casting so many cheap and effective discard spells. Great artwork on this card; here we see Lady Margaret Trevor of Cornwall and Godfrey De la Poer getting ready for a family meal...
•Unearth allows us to recast a particularly vile vermin to reestablish control, should things take an unexpected turn. Ideal targets are Chittering Rats’ Gnat Miser or Swarm of Rats.
•Cast Gnat Miser as early and as often as you can, to castrate your opponent’s maximum hand size. Shift focus to getting Chittering Rats into play, shattering the opponent’s tempo. Reanimate either rodent as necessary with Unearth.
•Inundate the opponent with a flood of discard spells, consigning what’s left of their hand to oblivion.
•Cast multiple rat creatures, keeping the opponent’s hand in check, then finish them with Swarm of Rats.
“Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations...So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts...”
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(3 years ago)
| -1 | Archaeomancer | maybe |
| -1 | Ghostly Flicker | maybe |
| -4 | Painful Memories | maybe |
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| Date added | 4 years |
| Last updated | 3 years |
| Legality | This deck is Pauper legal. |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 1.52 |
| Folders | Pauper, Stolen Decks, Mythos: The Gathering, Pauper Decks to try, Owned, Interesting, Pauper OTHERS, zIdeas, Wanted Decks, Pauper |
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