Back-Alley Gyoza

Pauper EDH Aggro Aristocrats FNM Infect Mono-Black Phyrexian Primer Proliferate Reanimator Sacrifice

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Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Terminal Moraine
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Proliferate (5)

• 1x Blightbelly Rat
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Gulping Scraptrap
• 1x Spread the Sickness
• 1x Whisper of the Dross

Burn (4)

• 1x Infectious Inquiry
• 1x Viridian Longbow
• 1x Virulent Wound
• 1x Vraska's Fall

Step 3-Ex post (12)

• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Corpse Cur
• 1x Disturbed Burial
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Grim Discovery
• 1x Morgue Theft
• 1x Rise Again
• 1x Stir the Grave
• 1x Unearth

Step 2: Kill the Rat (9)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Merciless Resolve
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Skulltap
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Vulturous Aven

Mono-Black Goodstuff (6)

• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Tainted Strike

Additional Draw (4)

• 1x Foreboding Fruit
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Infectious Inquiry
• 1x Sign in Blood

Step 3-Ex ante (4)

• 1x Demonic Vigor
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Shade's Form
• 1x Unholy Indenture

Commander (1)

Other Creatures with Infect (9)

• 1x Blackcleave Goblin
• 1x Contagious Nim
• 1x Corpse Cur
• 1x Flensermite
• 1x Ichorclaw Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Digester
• 1x Plague Stinger
• 1x Scourge Servant
• 1x Vector Asp

Step 3-Ad hoc (8)

• 1x Abnormal Endurance
• 1x Demonic Gifts
• 1x Fake Your Own Death
• 1x Feign Death
• 1x Return to Action
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Undying Evil
• 1x Undying Malice

Ramp (4)

• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Maybeboard

Other (3)

• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Relic Putrescence
• 1x Skyscanner

Land (2)

• 1x Shire Terrace
• 1x The Dross Pits

Step-2 (3)

• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Crypt Lurker
• 1x Nasty End

Step-3 (1)

• 1x Dross Skullbomb

The Ring Tempts You (3)

• 1x Claim the Precious
• 1x Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1x The Black Breath

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You have discovered a rather strange "restaurant" with no name, deep within in a dark alley... within another sub-alley...

After taking a moment to look around, you realize that there is only one item on the menu:

..."Gyoza"...

(Logistically speaking, they cannot ever received any shipments, so...) What kind of meat & flour could they possibly be serving in a back-alley the middle of a giant mega-metropolis? (The only possible answer: Rat meat— seasoned with god-knows-what, wrapped in a Roach-flour dumpling, and then fried in gutter-oil...)

Are they absolutely disease-ridden? (Compleat-ly...) Are they prepared in a sanitary environment, and/or at least being thoroughly cooked to well-done? (Ha! Of course not...)

But for some reason... They must be delicious, because everyone just immediately devours them without a second-thought...

Every... Single... Time...

There must be— something about that Glistening Oil sauce...

Step 1: Taste the Rat...

You order a round for the boys...

Ichor Rats' ETB-ability triggers immediately—if not sooner, and gives everyone at the table a Poison Counter...

Step 2: Kill the Rat...

...for fun & profit!

• Ashnod's Altar

• Skulltap

• Altar's Reap

• Vulturous Aven

• Merciless Resolve

• Costly Plunder

• Village Rites

• Deadly Dispute

• Reckoner's Bargain

• Nasty End

(Yes, Bury the Rat in the Graveyard)

Step 3: Dig up the Rat...

Ex Ante

i.e. Preemptively— with Enchantments...

• Shade's Form

• Kaya's Ghostform

• Demonic Vigor

• Unholy Indenture

Ad Hoc

"In response to..." / @ Instant-speed...

• Undying Evil

• Supernatural Stamina

• Abnormal Endurance

• Undying Malice

• Return to Action

• Demonic Gifts

• Fake Your Own Death

• Feign Death

Ex Post(mortem)

"...from your graveyard to the battlefield"— Classic Reanimation...

• Unearth

• Exhume

• Stir the Grave

• Rise Again

Or, "...return target creature... from your graveyard to your hand"— to be cast again...

• Disturbed Burial

• Morgue Theft

• Call to the Netherworld

• Footbottom Feast

• Grim Discovery

• Corpse Cur

• Gravepurge

• Forever Young

Step 4: Repeat

Repeat steps 1-3 until everyone is dead!!!

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Breaking symmetry..

There are technically two flaws to the above plan...

1. To execute exactly would technically result in a draw due to everyone dying at the exact same time...

2. Anyone who thinks that three other opponents are going to allow this process to repeat 9 times, unmolested, is rather delusional...

Therefore, it is necessary to not only overcome the symmetrical nature of Ichor Rats' ETB-ability, but to quickly gain the advantage against the other opponents that are trying win as well..

Proliferate / Burn

Intially, there were only two {B} sources of Proliferate available in Pauper from the original 'Scars of Mirrodin' block:

• Grim Affliction

• Spread the Sickness

The release of 'Phyrexia: All is One' saw the printing of three more sources:

• Whisper of the Dross

• Blightbelly Rat

• Gulping Scraptrap

To resolve any of the above (after inital the initial Poison Counter) is to quasi-permanently break parity and have the opponents be one step closer to 10 Poison Counters.

If all of that wasn't enough, (ONE) took it a step farther with a pair of {B} Pauper-legal Infect "Burn" spells!!

• Infectious Inquiry

• Vraska's Fall

!!!

Creatures / Combat

There are 11 Creature-based sources of Poison Counters in this deck; 10 in the 99 and 1 in the Command Zone...

Chances are, 30~60% of the Poison Counters necessary for victory will need to come from early & frequent Creature combat, particularly with the Ichor Rats themselves and in conjunction with the combat-tricks listed in the "Ad Hoc" section of "Step-3"

Big surprise / little surprise

Little surprise(s)..

• Part of the surprise comes from the various combat-tricks, on top of the general Reanimator-style...

• Infect "Burn" spells: Infectious Inquiry and Vraska's Fall...

• Virulent Wound as a Removal spell or combat-trick is worth a special mention as well...

Big surprise..

It is not an unusual thing to see opposing decks fielding high-powered creatures (even in Pauper), and these creatures are not necessarily pointed in your direction 100% of the time (unless you have unlocked "Archenemy mode" —see below).

One of these hypothetical combats can be radically amplified with a single {B}— casting Tainted Strike...

How to unlock 'Archenemy' mode!

Turn-1:

• play Swamp— {T} for {B}...

• cast Dark Ritual— to add {B}{B}{B}...

• cast Ichor Rats— poisoning the table...

• Move to endstep...

Turn-2:

• play Swamp...

• Attack with Ichor Rats, and before combat-damage: cast Supernatural Stamina— targeting the Rats...

• After combat: cast Village Rites— sacrificing the Rats, which will return to the Battlefield tapped, thus poisoning the table again...

• Move to endstep...

• • End your turn-2 with one opponent at 6 Poison Counters, and the rest of the table at 2 Poison Counters..

** - Congratulations, the rest of the table has officially formed an alliance against you.. Good luck!

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Pauper EDH 1 year ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.33
Tokens	Food, Treasure
Folders	Cool, NEXT DECK(s), PDH Decks, Decks