Grixis Cipher Snipe

Standard UBR (Grixis)

mrcrushin

Creature (14)

• 2x Bane Alley Broker
• 4x Deathcult Rogue
• 4x Goblin Electromancer
• 4x Guttersnipe

Land (22)

• 3x Blood Crypt
• 4x Dimir Guildgate
• 4x Island
• 4x Izzet Guildgate
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Shimmering Grotto
• 1x Steam Vents
• 2x Swamp

Artifact (1)

• 1x Bident of Thassa

Instant (12)

• 2x Dissolve
• 2x Doom Blade
• 4x Lightning Strike
• 2x Magma Jet
• 2x Syncopate

Sorcery (11)

• 4x Call of the Nightwing
• 4x Hands of Binding
• 2x Rakdos's Return
• 1x Stolen Identity

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Creature (2)

• 1x Soulsworn Spirit
• 1x Young Pyromancer

Instant (11)

• 1x Annihilating Fire
• 1x Auger Spree
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Electrickery
• 1x Essence Scatter
• 1x Homing Lightning
• 1x Inspiration
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Mizzium Skin
• 1x Negate
• 1x Skullcrack

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Divination
• 1x Inaction Injunction
• 1x Last Thoughts
• 1x Mental Vapors
• 1x Undercity Plague

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Weird idea i had trying to figure out a good way to use cipher spells. Listed here is built from cards I actually have, hence the weird/crap mana base.

I feel like ciphers are mostly overcosted, but using Goblin Electromancer to mitigate that extra cost makes them more useful.

I need to have something with evasion to get the ciphers through to trigger. Standard right now doesn't have a lot of quality unblockables (spoiled by Invisible Stalker), but Deathcult Rogue is almost as good as unblockable and for a reasonable cost. Bident of Thassa and Hands of Binding help ensure breaking through in case you need to use another attacker.

The problem i'm having with designing this deck is just what to include as instants/sorceries. With Goblin Electromancer in the deck, options are pretty wide for cheap removal and counterspells.

Main deck idea is get the Electromancer's and gutternsnipes out there, cast cheap spells, trigger repeated ciphers to pop off lots of Snipe pings while disrupting your opponent. Included Rakdos's Return as a finisher, hopefully you have a few Electromancers on the board to help pump it really high.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 6 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 32 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.50
Tokens	Copy Clone, Horror 1/1 UB