Enchanted Blade

Pauper Aggro Budget Midrange Pauper Theme/Gimmick WUB (Esper)

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Land (21)

• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 3x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Island
• 5x Plains
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 3x Swamp
• 3x Tranquil Cove

Instant (8)

• 1x Hindering Light
• 1x Mana Leak
• 3x Mizzium Skin
• 2x Negate
• 1x Prohibit

Enchantment (9)

• 2x Edge of the Divinity
• 1x Favor of the Overbeing
• 3x Journey to Nowhere
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Shield of the Oversoul
• 1x Steel of the Godhead

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 2x Ponder
• 3x Preordain

Creature (16)

• 4x Bant Sureblade
• 4x Esper Stormblade
• 3x Grixis Grimblade
• 4x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Tidehollow Strix

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Sideboard

Instant (7)

• 4x Dispel
• 2x Echoing Decay
• 1x Soul Manipulation

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Journey to Nowhere

Creature (4)

• 1x Auramancer
• 3x Standard Bearer

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 2x Fragmentize

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (9)

• 3x Castigate
• 4x Duress
• 2x Unearth

Creature (2)

• 2x Tidehollow Strix

Instant (1)

• 1x Doom Blade

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It's an Esper Aggro/Midrange deck using the 3 color "Blades" from Alara Reborn and pairing them with multicolored auras that will greatly boost their stats. With an Esper Stormblade on T2 and an Edge of Divinity on T3, we have a 6/5 flyer that can attack and have mana up for a counter or creature control if need be (if the 3rd land drop was made and it's untapped). This draw doesn't happen all that often, but the deck can consistently get anywhere from 6-10 power out of two 2cmc creatures.

I would like to see this list become as competitive as possible (although I'm willing to admit, we may need a new card printed to put this where I would like to see it) so any and all help is greatly appreciated. The maybeboard is cards I'm thinking of adding to the SB to help against certain matchups with the exception of the Tidehollow Strix that may end up MB as an answer to Delver of Secrets   or any other troublesome creatures. I am constantly toying with the counter suite in this deck also. Looking for good inexpensive (mana) hard counters that don't offer ways out. Prohibit has worked well in this slot as well as Hindering Light . Mizzium Skin has offered great protection as well.

Help with the counter/control suite will be especially appreciated! Thanks!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.92
Folders	Pauper Decks