Ana Battlemage, Discard

Pauper EDH* BUG (Sultai) Control Discard Pauper

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Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 8x Island
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Recursion (5)

• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Grim Harvest
• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Mnemonic Wall

Discard Hurts (4)

• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Raiders' Wake

Flicker (2)

• 1x Displace
• 1x Ghostly Flicker

Overwhelm (2)

• 1x Ulamog's Crusher
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek

Graveyard Hate (1)

• 1x Nihil Spellbomb

Ramp (10)

• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Far Wanderings
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Krosan Restorer
• 1x Ondu Giant

Bounce (9)

• 1x Curfew
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Cavern Harpy
• 1x Waterfront Bouncer
• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Recoil
• 1x Dinrova Horror

Board Wipe (4)

• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Fade Away
• 1x Evincar's Justice
• 1x Pestilence

Artifact/Enchantment removal (3)

• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Mold Shambler
• 1x Wickerbough Elder

Target Creature Removal (3)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Faceless Butcher
• 1x Snuff Out

Combo piece (1)

• 1x Freed from the Real

Commander (1)

Card Draw (7)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Probe
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Mulldrifter

Discard (5)

• 1x Vicious Rumors
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Siren of the Silent Song
• 1x Syphon Mind

Counterspell (4)

• 1x Dispel
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Negate
• 1x Perplex

Tutor (3)

• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Mystical Teachings

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Discard (11)

• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Augur of Skulls
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Blizzard Specter
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Seer's Vision
• 1x Cinderhaze Wretch
• 1x Enemy of Enlightenment
• 1x Urgoros, the Empty One
• 1x Mournwhelk
• 1x Reaper of Night

Protection (1)

• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Transmute (7)

• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Dimir Infiltrator
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Dimir House Guard

Combo? (3)

• 1x Exhume
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Breaker of Armies

Lands (6)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Skyline Cascade
• 1x Slippery Karst

Tutor (3)

• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch

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Ana Battlemage Pauper-EDH.

My first deck in this format. In our meta, we are allowed to include up to 8 uncommons (including the commander) into our decks. The deck is control-oriented and tries to deny my opponents' a key resource: cards. Any help is appreciated.

The description is still under construction!

Some explanations:

Artifact/Enchantment removal

• Return to Nature a very versitile card that can get rid of an artifact or enchantment. When needed it can even get rid of a card in an opponent's graveyard.
• Mold Shambler if the kicker-cost is payed it can get rid of any non-creature permanent.
• Wickerbough Elder's ability to deal with arifacts/enchantments can be repeated through all the bounce and flicker spells in this deck.

Board Wipe

• Crypt Rats is a creature-based board wipe.
• Fade Away is especially nasty after an opponent has tapped all his lands and has to chose which permanents to sacrifice.
• Evincar's Justice can destroy hordes of small creatures (especially tokens). It can be cast again with buyback for an additional .

Card Draw

• Coiling Oracle can be card draw and sometimes even ramp.
• Probe lets me draw 3 cards and forces me to discard 2 making it a weaker card:Franitc Search but it is meant to be played with the additional kicker-cost.
• Geth's Grimoire works as a draw engine with all the discard in this deck and is especially useful with my commander.
• Mulldrifter draws me two cards and is a great blink/flicker target. If I am desperate I can just evoke it for .

Combo Piece

• Freed from the Real works well with cards like Krosan Restorer (threshold - infinite mana), Siren of the Silent Song (each opponent discards a card) or Waterfront Bouncer (bounce multiple creatures).

Discard

• Burglar Rat is the discard version of a cantrip and is even better in mulitplayer.
• Caligo Skin-Witch is meant to played with its kicker-cost of . Similar to my commander and somewhat better in a multiplayer game.
• Liliana's Specter for more is the bigger flying version of Burglar Rat
• Probe when the kicker cost of is paid this card is not always card draw but also forces one opponent to discard 2 cards.
• Raiders' Wake does not only hurt my opponents for every discard it even generates them. The 5 flying creatures and the menace offered by Cavern Whisperer is especially useful.
• Cavern Whisperer's mutate ability offers a discard-effect similar to Burglar Rat while giving the creature it merged menace and if its a smaller creature a 4/4 body.
• Dinrova Horror not only bounces a permanent but it also forces my opponent to discard a card.

Graveyard Hate

• Nihil Spellbomb is a cheap way to get rid of an opponent's graveyard. For the price of it even lets me draw a card replacing itself. It can be tutored by Trinket Mage.

Overwhelm

• Ulamog's Crusher is a big hitter with Annihilator 2.
• Artisan of Kozilek is another big Eldrazi with Annihilator 2 that can recur a creature from my graveyard directly to the graveyards.

Ramp

• Rampant Growth ramps a basic land.
• Sakura-Tribe Elder ramps a basic land and can jump block while doing that.
• Nightscape Familiar is not exactly ramp, it just makes all my blue spells cheaper. It is also a great blocker because it can be regenerated for just .
• Harrow forces me to sacrifice a land but makes up for it by ramping me two basic lands untapped.
• Far Wanderings is a worse Cultivate or Kodama's Reach but once I have reached Threshold it ramps 3 basic lands.
• Krosan Restorer is similar to Far Wanderings as once Threshold is reached its power level rises significantly. This card generates infinite mana with a little help from Freed from the Real.
• Farhaven Elf ramps me a basic land. It can be bounced/flickered for additional ramp.
• Ondu Giant like Farhaven Elf but for more and with a bigger body.

Tutor

• Trinket Mage can tutor for one of the 3 artifact lands or for Nihil Spellbomb.
• Fierce Empath tutors for the two big hitters of the deck Ulamog's Crusher and Artisan of Kozilek or Dinrova Horror to get a dangerous permanent.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02