Araumi's Graveyard

Pauper EDH Combo Competitive Control Mill Tap/Untap Tokens UB (Dimir) Value Engine

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Land (37)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Contaminated Aquifer
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Ice Tunnel
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Shire Terrace
• 11x Snow-Covered Island
• 14x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Tocasia's Dig Site
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Draw (7)

• 1x Floating-Dream Zubera
• 1x Impaler Shrike
• 1x Krovikan Sorcerer
• 1x Legion Vanguard
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Viscera Seer

Hitter (6)

• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Kalastria Healer
• 1x Shepherd of Rot
• 1x Vengeful Dead

Untap (5)

• 1x Corridor Monitor
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Teardrop Kami
• 1x Trickster Mage
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands

Mill (13)

• 1x Armored Skaab
• 1x Crow of Dark Tidings
• 1x Fallaji Archaeologist
• 1x Gorging Vulture
• 1x Gurmag Drowner
• 1x Halimar Excavator
• 1x Iceberg Cancrix
• 1x Laboratory Brute
• 1x Mire Triton
• 1x Sage's Row Denizen
• 1x Selhoff Occultist
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Thassa's Devourer

Discard (8)

• 1x Ashen-Skin Zubera
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Elderfang Disciple
• 1x Elvish Doomsayer
• 1x Miasmic Mummy
• 1x Nezumi Informant
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Virus Beetle

Mana (5)

• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Scaretiller
• 1x Walking Atlas

Recur (2)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Repository Skaab

Commander (1)

Protection (9)

• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Feign Death
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Not Dead After All
• 1x Professor's Warning
• 1x Shore Up
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Undying Malice
• 1x You See a Guard Approach

Removal (7)

• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Death's-Head Buzzard
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gangrenous Zombies
• 1x Priest of the Haunted Edge
• 1x Slum Reaper

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Sideboard

Mill (6)

• 1x Eerie Soultender
• 1x Forsaken Drifters
• 1x Koma's Faithful
• 1x Necromancer's Assistant
• 1x Organ Hoarder
• 1x Snooping Newsie

Protection (3)

• 1x Armor of Shadows
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x Undying Evil

Discard (4)

• 1x Disciple of Phenax
• 1x Fanatic of the Harrowing
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Thieving Sprite

Land (3)

• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Study Hall

Recur (3)

• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Shipwreck Dowser

Initiative (3)

• 1x Aarakocra Sneak
• 1x Underdark Explorer
• 1x Vicious Battlerager

Draw (3)

• 1x Faerie Miscreant
• 1x Gluttonous Guest
• 1x Merfolk Pupil

Removal (2)

• 1x Accursed Marauder
• 1x Chain Devil

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Maybeboard

Land (11)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Maestros Theater
• 1x Obscura Storefront
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x The Dross Pits
• 1x The Surgical Bay

Mana (5)

• 1x Burdened Aerialist
• 1x High Tide
• 1x Liliana's Shade
• 1x Prosperous Pirates
• 1x Sailor of Means

Mill (5)

• 1x Balustrade Spy
• 1x Rotcrown Ghoul
• 1x Screeching Skaab
• 1x Sultai Skullkeeper
• 1x Wailing Ghoul

Discard (3)

• 1x Cruel Grimnarch
• 1x Dinrova Horror
• 1x Sibsig Icebreakers

Draw (9)

• 1x Augury Owl
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Filigree Familiar
• 1x Moon-Circuit Hacker
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Pondering Mage
• 1x Soulreaper of Mogis
• 1x Spark Reaper
• 1x Tymora's Invoker

Recur (7)

• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Dukhara Scavenger
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Eerie Soultender
• 1x Meldweb Curator
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Scrivener

Tutor (5)

• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Perplex

Hitter (8)

• 1x Dunland Crebain
• 1x Enlightened Maniac
• 1x Falcon Abomination
• 1x Gitaxian Raptor
• 1x Glaze Fiend
• 1x Nocturnal Feeder
• 1x Rabid Bloodsucker
• 1x Vampire Spawn

Other (7)

• 1x Bloodrite Invoker
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cauldron Familiar
• 1x Displace
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Ghostly Flicker

Removal (4)

• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Perplex
• 1x Rotfeaster Maggot

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Araumi of the Dead Tide lends a great way to take full advantage of ETB triggers. Maximizing the number of creatures that are within the deck, and that can add more cards to the graveyard is key. Many tempo cards, like Fleshbag Marauder become high value plays. Some sacrifice and discard outlets are needed to help fuel the graveyard in case opponents don't want to kill your creatures.

The win condition is to have as many drain triggers, like Gray Merchant of Asphodel go off as possible. Additionally, there are multiple ways to untap Araumi of the Dead Tide like Corridor Monitor, which can lead to a strong finishing turn. Some creatures are specifically in the deck to allow for these turns and to generate additional mana like Peregrine Drake.

Something of note that I have noticed, this may be local meta and decks scene, but there is a lack of graveyard removal in Pauper EDH Decks. This may be because of where players are typically creating value from other sources. Regardless, taking advantage of the lack of this specific interaction helps give card advantage in this specific deck.

The mill cards selected were done from a quick and dirty point system, the lower the mana value the better, the more cards milled, milling over 10 cards, and if there were additional perks when milling with this specific creature were kept in mind. This is why there are cards like Mire Triton and Laboratory Brute are grouped in with cards like Iceberg Cancrix. The amount of repetativeness for like cards does not match other archtypes in Pauper EDH yet.

Additionally, something not popular in many Araumi of the Dead Tide lists is the inclusion of Fallaji Archaeologist, which goes great with a lower number of non-creature spells to increase the amount milled.

One archtype that allows effectively for multiple copies is discard creatures. The Burglar Rat shell has a lot of copies, and a handful of versions that also make you discard like Rotting Rats. This option is alright, as this can allow for future turn targets with Araumi of the Dead Tide.

The only non-creature spells within the deck are specifically to protect your commander. Right now the focus was all 1 mana spells and repeat like effects to maximize redundancy. Feign Death and Mizzium Skin have enough specific use cases to make having both versions valid within a decklist while giving enough coverage to protect against most removal. The only negative to this is that, with the exception of protection, the deck is moving at sorcery speed. Someone may not wish to pilot a deck that has this drawback.

Scaretiller and Walking Atlas are within the deck for the potential of a "cute combo" with Bojuka Bog and Dimir Aqueduct. Additional value lands like Mortuary Mire, Mystic Sanctuary, and Witch's Cottage provide late game options if the round appears to be stalling. Plus putting in 3 lands at once in a non-green deck gives unexpected value for blue and black.

Snow cards help with a few creatures. Iceberg Cancrix, Gangrenous Zombies, and Priest of the Haunted Edge produce so much value, especially when copied with Araumi of the Dead Tide that the inclusion of snow-lands is worth it.

The lack of enchantments and artifacts is due to the lack of prefered recursion in this commander color pairing. As the objective is to mill as many cards as possible the inclusion of unusable cards once in the graveyard seems counterintuitive. This decklist is more so to see if this initial feeling is correct or an overreaction.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	3 weeks
Exclude colors	WRG
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.49
Tokens	Blood, Copy Clone, Dungeon: Undercity, Skeleton 4/1 B, The Initiative, Treasure, Wicked
Folders	I want it, EDH