Devourer of Memory Voltron Mill

Pauper EDH* Pauper UB (Dimir) Voltron

Scarecrow1779

Instant (26)

• 1x Coffin Purge
• 1x Confound
• 1x Corpse Churn
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dive Down
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Dream Twist
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Eyeblight's Ending
• 1x Intervene
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Mana Leak
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Murder
• 1x Negate
• 1x Pharika's Libation
• 1x Radical Idea
• 1x Rend Flesh
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Spell Rupture
• 1x Think Twice
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Turn Aside
• 1x Unexplained Disappearance
• 1x Winds of Rebuke

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 1x Crippling Fatigue
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Syphon Mind

Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 12x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Artifact (11)

• 1x Bonesplitter
• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Darksteel Axe
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Shard of Broken Glass
• 1x Strider Harness
• 1x Torch Gauntlet
• 1x True-Faith Censer
• 1x Vulshok Morningstar

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Cathartic Adept
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x First-Sphere Gargantua
• 1x Lurking Informant
• 1x Mindwrack Harpy
• 5x Persistent Petitioners
• 1x Proven Combatant
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Screeching Sliver
• 1x Sewer Shambler
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vedalken Entrancer

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Chronic Flooding
• 1x Curse of the Bloody Tome
• 1x Jace's Erasure

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This deck is a very powerful voltron deck that depends on using small, repeatable self-mill effects and equient to buff Devourer of Memory, making it a sizeable and unlockable voltron threat. Because Devourer is only 2-CMC, you can easily recast after getting hit with removal, but the deck also packs a decent counterspell suite (10 counterspells) and an additional hexproof spell or two to help keep commander recasting to a minimum. By the end of turn 6, Devourer should already have been able to 3-shot an opponent, and after that, getting 16 commander damage in 2 combat steps is very doable.

The deck packs a total of 16 repeatable mill sources so that you don't have to depend on Devourer's built in mill to make it unlockable. However, in the late game, the ability to pay 3 to give Devourer +1/+1 can help get the extra damage for a faster kill, or even help avoid a board wipe. The self-mill aspect also gives the deck some flexibility and card advantage in the form of 12 cards that can be played from the grave or can return themselves to your hand.

Thanks to black, the deck also packs a decent removal suite of 12 cards that can kill creatures, return them to hand, or force opponents to discard. There is even some grave hate in the form of Coffin Purge and Bojuka Bog. All of this combined with the counterspell suite makes the deck very capable of delaying enemy threats and thwarting combos.

This deck feels incredibly well balanced to me in play testing, with no obvious weaknesses. It has a strong win condition that can apply pressure quickly. It can block some board wipes and quickly recovers from those it can't block. It has lots of utility creatures that keep edicts from being too effective. Grave hate doesn't stop this deck, either, since the grave is just used for incidental value after triggering Devourer's buff ability. The low mana curve and cheap interaction also gives the deck a good chance against aggro decks.

This deck feels like it is well positioned to play with other high-power decks such as Crackling Drake, Crypt Rats, Tatyova, and Ascendant Lawmage.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.09
Tokens	Proven Combatant 4/4 B
Folders	Pauper EDH