PDH | Manic scribe are my creatures vanishing

Pauper EDH* Control Infinite Combo Jank Mill Mono-Blue Theme/Gimmick

lonesentinel

Draw (22)

• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Serum Visions
• 1x Sleight of Hand
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Flux
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Secrets of the Golden City
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Rain of Revelation
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Unexplained Vision
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Ramp (7)

• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye

Combo (4)

• 1x High Tide
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Snap
• 1x Peregrine Drake

Flicker (3)

• 1x Siren's Ruse
• 1x Displace
• 1x Ghostly Flicker

Bounce (12)

• 1x Curfew
• 1x Seal of Removal
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x String of Disappearances
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Run Away Together
• 1x Snap
• 1x Withdraw
• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Separatist Voidmage

Wizard (8)

• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Separatist Voidmage
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Scrivener
• 1x Vedalken Dismisser

Land discard (7)

• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Warped Landscape

Tutor (5)

• 1x Dizzy Spell
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Vedalken Aethermage
• 1x Drift of Phantasms

Other (26)

• 1x Halimar Depths
• 24x Island
• 1x Path of Ancestry

Commander (1)

Removal (9)

• 1x Desert
• 1x Into the Roil
• 1x Run Away Together
• 1x Deep Freeze
• 1x Fade Away
• 1x Griptide
• 1x Repel
• 1x Run Aground
• 1x Vedalken Dismisser

Counter (7)

• 1x Dispel
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Foil

Recursion (5)

• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Salvager of Secrets
• 1x Scrivener

Delirium (2)

• 1x Flux
• 1x Frantic Search

Protection (1)

• 1x Neurok Stealthsuit

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Sideboard

Draw (8)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Vision Skeins
• 1x Words of Wisdom
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Sift

Ramp (3)

• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Vodalian Arcanist
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye

Land discard (1)

• 1x Bant Panorama

Protection (1)

• 1x Mizzium Skin

Bounce (6)

• 1x Peel from Reality
• 1x Snap
• 1x Winds of Rebuke
• 1x Repulse
• 1x Undo
• 1x Tolarian Sentinel

Delirium (3)

• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Strategic Planning
• 1x Sift

Counter (1)

• 1x Thought Collapse

Other (1)

• 1x Hieroglyphic Illumination

Tutor (1)

• 1x Pilgrim's Eye

Mill (4)

• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Winds of Rebuke
• 1x Thought Collapse

Removal (4)

• 1x Time Ebb
• 1x Whisk Away
• 1x Temporal Eddy
• 1x Totally Lost

Wizard (3)

• 1x Augur of Bolas
• 1x Vodalian Arcanist
• 1x Wizard Mentor

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This deck seeks to win by milling out your opponents! We use the commander because he hits all opponents (instead of just 1), so it scales regardless of your playgroup size!

This is the updated version as of 13-Sept-2020 (after Double masters print). Original version is here PDH-Are my creatures vanishing or is it your deck?

I have since stopped using this deck, because I have changed to dimir, which is more consistent with tutors and removal.

Wincon combo (Infinite)

Archaeomancer + Displace + Peregrine Drake

Tried-and-tested infinite mana combo.

Redundancy for Archaeomancer in Scrivener,Mnemonic Wall,Salvager of Secrets

Redundancy for Displace in Ghostly Flicker

After generating infinite mana, you can use Archaeomancer + Displace + Manic Scribe which will mill out all your opponents, effectively killing them on their draw step.

Delirium

Our commander's second ability also mills the table, so we need self-discard cards to make this happen.

For this reason, I have added in more searchlands like Terramorphic Expanse which help thin the deck and activate delirium.

We are aiming for Instant, Sorcery, Creature, Land as the 4 different card types for delirium, although we have a smidgen of Artifacts and Enchantments in the deck that may help out in the oft chance that you do not hit the primary 4 types first.

Removal

Other than the typical counterspells/ bounce, we have

2-sided bounce

This can help to bounce threats while bouncing our own creatures to abuse the ETB effects

• Withdraw

• Run Away Together

• Curfew

• String of Disappearances

Commander shutdown

Deep Freeze

Removal is different that most ways. Since we are dealing with milling strategies, we eschew traditional bounce/tapdown mechanics in favor of putting things on the top of the library, then milling it away.

• Whisk Away
• Griptide
• Repel
• Temporal Eddy
• Run Aground
• Totally Lost
• Vedalken Dismisser

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Archaeomancer + Displace + Peregrine Drake Archaeomancer + Displace + Manic Scribe
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.67
Tokens	City's Blessing
Based on	PDH-Are my creatures vanishing or is it your deck? lonesentinel PDH