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Pauper Competitive Forcefeed Mono-Blue Ninjutsu Primer Stax Tempo

sergiodelrio

Creature (19)

• 4x Faerie Miscreant
• 4x Faerie Seer
• 4x Mistblade Shinobi
• 2x Moon-Circuit Hacker
• 1x Silver Raven
• 4x Rishadan Cutpurse

Land (21)

• 3x Lonely Sandbar
• 4x Seat of the Synod
• 14x Snow-Covered Island

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Rhystic Study

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Eye of Nowhere

Instant (12)

• 4x Boomerang
• 4x Hoodwink
• 4x AEther Tradewinds

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 3x Disrupt
• 3x Flash Flood
• 2x Force Spike

Creature (3)

• 3x Slither Blade

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Fade Away

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Slow Motion

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Maybeboard

Creature (7)

• 4x Glistener Seer
• 1x Jace's Phantasm
• 1x Spellstutter Sprite
• 1x Ninja of the Deep Hours

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Deal me some cards

sergiodelrio's back on track to smack my opponent's deck!

I've been struggling to brew a working mono {U} bounce/mana denial deck, traditionally in Modern, always facing consistency issues or the deck ended up being too slow. Well, here's my (hopefully) functional and consistent Pauper version of a true blue bounce strategy... that can call all their bluffs.

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TAXES

Raise their bets until they can't pay the blind...

• 4x Rhystic Study: Give you that extra steam and make casting spells a nightmare for your opponent... easy to get four Aces when you keep drawing cards

• 4x Rishadan Cutpurse: The mana denial/Bounce strategy makes this one a powerhouse... and turns opponent's pocket rockets into Ace high

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HOLD 'EM

All-in on a complete bounce package...

• 4x Boomerang: OK Boomer - Best bounce spell in the game
• 4x Eye of Nowhere: Now here, now not - Second best bounce spell in the game
• 4x Hoodwink: Don't blink while your board shrink - You get the idea
• 4x AEther Tradewinds: AEther way a good trade - Bouncing our own stuff is a good idea here
• 4x Mistblade Shinobi: Is it Mistblade or misplayed? - Casually send their creatures back as well

That's 20, yes TWENTY bounce effects, Ladies and Gentlemen!

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Win the Bracelet

FLOP

• Deploy one drop flyers (Faerie Miscreant, Faerie Seer, Silver Raven) turn 1 or draw a card with Lonely Sandbar if you otherwise have a good hand

TURN

• Target their lands with bounce and optimally keep deploying your own landbase

• There are great recursion options in Mistblade Shinobi, Ninja of the Deep Hours and AEther Tradewinds to bounce your ETB effect creatures, or worst case Lonely Sandbars to cycle them late game or another tapped land if you can't play one that turn - that way you can just replay an untapped land

RIVER

• Close the game with crappy beatdowns while your opponent is stuck at one land

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Top Ranked	Achieved #9 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #2 position in Pauper 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Pauper Competitive 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Pauper legal.
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.92
Folders	Decks I want to Build