Olkas Shenanigans

Pauper EDH Control Pauper Value Engine WU (Azorius)

Kaniel

Lands (35)

• 1x Ancient Den
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Drifting Meadow
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 7x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Meandering River
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 7x Plains
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Cove

Tutor (5)

• 1x Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1x Kor Cartographer
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Trinket Mage

Finisher (4)

• 1x Angel of the Dawn
• 1x Cloudreader Sphinx
• 1x Ninth Bridge Patrol
• 1x Ulamog's Crusher

Ramp (2)

• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Walking Atlas

Flicker (18)

• 1x AEthersnipe
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Augury Owl
• 1x Auramancer
• 1x Aviation Pioneer
• 1x Enlightened Maniac
• 1x Gallant Cavalry
• 1x Icatian Javelineers
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Palace Sentinels
• 1x Sage Owl
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Sensor Splicer
• 1x Spire Owl
• 1x Vedalken Dismisser
• 1x Wispmare

Flickereffects (7)

• 1x Cloudshift
• 1x Displace
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Momentary Blink
• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 1x Turn to Mist

Cardadvantage (4)

• 1x Artificer's Epiphany
• 1x Compulsive Research
• 1x Hieroglyphic Illumination
• 1x Rhystic Study

Protection (3)

• 1x Alexi's Cloak
• 1x Angelsong
• 1x Diplomatic Immunity

Commander (1)

Control (8)

• 1x Deep Freeze
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Dismantling Blow
• 1x Echoing Truth
• 1x Journey to Nowhere
• 1x Lawmage's Binding
• 1x Oblivion Ring
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Manarock (7)

• 1x Azorius Locket
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye

Counter (4)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Faerie Trickery

ETB (2)

• 1x Soul Warden
• 1x Suture Priest

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Maybeboard

Other (12)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Arrest
• 1x Aven Fogbringer
• 1x Curse of Chains
• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Eldrazi Skyspawner
• 1x Forsake the Worldly
• 1x Gulf Squid
• 1x Jeering Homunculus
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Muddle the Mixture

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A friend of mine introduced me to pauper EDH recently and after some soulsearching I stumbled upon Momentary Blink (which i had wanted to built something around since Timespiral). Some iterations later this version of a blink deck resulted from my efforts.

This deck is a (juiced down) pauper-blink deck and plays as such. Part of it is card-advantage which i prefer at mostly instantspeed, since i want to keep the mana open for counters/safe-blinks and just the threat of people nervously eyeing two untapped islands. Olka is a mana-hungry witch, hence the manarocks. The deck takes some time to establish a boardstate and plays like a midgame control, usually going in for the kill with either a late game Ulamog's Crusher + the surrounding control or actually just finishing off with a Ninth Bridge Patrol , which puts on weight quite quickly. This deck does not aim at being competetive (otherwise I'd probably just play strix or army-ants tbh).

Sunscape Familiar is a workhorse in this deck, cheapening almost every blinkspell, as well as the carddraw and most my card-advantage-related-creatures. Especially since mana is an issue with Olka he helps out loads (also reducing her initial casting cost to 1 WTF).

Olka is quite susceptible to removal (or at least if someone tries, i am forced to flicker her, making my board vulnerable as well as binding my resources) - hence i begrudgingly added Diplomatic Immunity and Alexi's Cloak (plus Heliod's Pilgrim for tutor purposes (he also helps out with fetching for control in form of Deep Freeze and Lawmage's Binding ) and Auramancer for recursion) as well as Forge of Heroes and Opal Palace to get her out of Electrickery range.

I have been homebrewing for a while now, only recently discovering and checking out the Tapped Out PDH Compendium. I am quite inspired with PDH by now and feel like contributing and enlargening the community, inspiring different playstyles and adding momentum. Anyhow. This deck is my humble contribution as well as a basis for argument and improvement. Feel free to comment :)

Despoiler:

I refuse to play any Combos, since they (to me) always feel like a cheap way of winning or loosing and I want to see the deck in full flicker interaction, not just be busy digging for 3,4 pieces and than insta-win. This is obviously my personal approach at deckbuilding and MTG per se (so please don't feel offended if this is your kink :) ).

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Phyrexian Golem 3/3 C, The Monarch, Thopter 1/1 C