Pesty Groff Sacrifice/Life-Drain

Pauper Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Budget Lifegain Pauper Sacrifice

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Creature (22)

• 4x Bayou Groff
• 2x Blood Researcher
• 4x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 2x Epicure of Blood
• 2x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 4x Marauding Blight-Priest
• 4x Serrated Scorpion

Sorcery (12)

• 2x Cram Session
• 4x Hunt for Specimens
• 2x Read the Bones
• 2x Sign in Blood
• 2x Unearth

Instant (5)

• 4x Cast Down
• 1x Weather the Storm

Land (21)

• 5x Forest
• 4x Jungle Hollow
• 10x Swamp
• 2x Witherbloom Campus

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Sideboard

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Environmental Sciences
• 1x Expanded Anatomy
• 1x Introduction to Annihilation
• 2x Pest Summoning
• 2x Unearth

Instant (5)

• 2x Diabolic Edict
• 2x Doom Blade
• 1x Weather the Storm

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Pestilence

Artifact (1)

• 1x Tormod's Crypt

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Young Wolf

Instant (2)

• 2x Infuse with Vitality

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New pauper brew utilizing the new Groyf ( Bayou Groff ) and pests from Strixhaven. It's built on a shell of a deck idea I had when I first got into Pauper. The main idea is to make a bunch of pests, sacrifice them to Bloodthrone Vampire with Epicure of Blood / Marauding Blight-Priest on the board, and then hit like a truck. Learn and Lesson cards help you get the pests on the board, but also provide some flexibility to grab what you need when you need it. You might need Introduction to Annihilation or Expanded Anatomy for those tight spots, or you can use Environmental Sciences to grab the land you need or just gain those last few points of life to drain your opponent and seal the victory.

It could be worth it to add an Essence Warden so you're getting the drain on the pests' entrance and exit. I also need more good one-drops like Serrated Scorpion so I can cast the Bayou Groff on turn two, suggestions welcome. I'm thinking Carrion Feeder could fit in, but I want to keep that around, not sac it to the Groyf. Young Wolf perhaps? My one concern is that even if I put on enough pressure early to finish them off with life drain in the late game, some cards could end up being dead draws. Most of them avoid this, but the more I build towards one side of the deck the less synergy I get with the other. It's a delicate balance.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.36
Tokens	Pest 1/1 BG