Gary Was Here, Ash is a Loser: Gray Merchant PDH

Pauper EDH* Group Slug Lifegain Mono-Black

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Creature (30)

• 1x Barrier of Bones
• 1x Basilica Screecher
• 1x Blood Seeker
• 1x Boneclad Necromancer
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Cackling Fiend
• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Corpse Hauler
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Death's-Head Buzzard
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Faceless Butcher
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fog of Gnats
• 1x Gangrenous Zombies
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Liliana's Shade
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Lost Legion
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Spark Reaper
• 1x Syndicate Enforcer
• 1x Thorn of the Black Rose
• 1x Thoughtpicker Witch
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Vulturous Aven
• 1x Wicked Guardian

Instant (10)

• 1x Abnormal Endurance
• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Defile
• 1x Merciless Resolve
• 1x Rend Flesh
• 1x Succumb to Temptation
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Undying Evil
• 1x Victim of Night

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Casting of Bones
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Shade's Form
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Unhallowed Pact
• 1x Unholy Indenture

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Macabre Waltz
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Recover
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Skulltap
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Wander in Death

Commander (1)

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Executioner's Capsule
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Thought Vessel

Land (35)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 32x Snow-Covered Swamp

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Creature (3)

• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Festercreep
• 1x Wall of Shadows

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Fun with Gray Merchant of Asphodel in Pauper EDH

By now, everyone knows how good Gary is in EDH. Getting it out with a normal board makes huge swings in the game and can sometimes give you an insurmountable amount of life. In Pauper EDH it is much the same except now, thanks to Theros: Beyond Death, you can have Gary in the command zone! The deck plays similar to Kokusho, the Evening Star in regular EDH: play value creatures and draw spells to build your boardstate until you can play Gray Merchant of Asphodel , then find ways to retrigger its ability. It is a bit slow to get going but after you stabilize you should no longer be worried about losing via life loss. The deck's biggest weaknesses are going up against combo decks (decks that don't win via damage) and Voltron (decks that win via commander damage).

Any comments or suggestions? Let me know!

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.65
Tokens	Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Pauper EDH, Decks to try, EDHPauperx, EDH, Build, Cool Decks