[Pauper]BG Aristocrats (Pauper) [Revision 20]

Play Guide

• Mulligan hard to have the correct mana color combination (spell and lands). Major issue of this deck is that it's a dual color aggro deck in a format with poor mana correction.
• Never keep a 1 lander. Never!
• Winding Way should always be the last play.

Card Choices

• Bone Picker - High MV that can be cheated for 1 mana this is important against Spellstutter Sprite, has evasion and death touch and a good topdeck late game.
• Fleshbag Marauder - Edict effect on a stick, synergizes with Bone Picker, Unearth and Winding Way.
• Blister Pod and Nest Invader - Multiple Bodies, Ramp and both token can sac itself for Bone Picker requirement.
• Young Wolf - See Nested Shambler in Tested Card section.
• Falkenrath Noble - Pet card! Late game non combat source of damage. This card provides the deck a strategy to be defensive against bigger go wide decks like stompy.
• Fume Spitter - X/1 removal that can sacrifice itslef for Bone Picker requirement. (Under observation based on X/1 creatures played in the current meta)
• Winding Way - There's a conscious effort to put effects in creature spell (Edict - Fleshbag marauder, Disenchant - Masked Vandal) in order to make Winding Way efficient.
• Rotting Reunion - Trying out over Faerie Macabre, spell has flashback so it can still be used even if milled by Winding Way.

Tested Cards

• Bayou Groff - Bad against Counterspell and Snuff Out (2 for 1). Both cards are present in UB Faeries decklist (top deck).
• Mortician Beetle - Poor topdeck, needs sac outlet and lacks evasion. (Current Slot: Bone Picker)
• Nested Shambler - Has low floor but higher ceiling when combined with Rancor. Rancor is normally sided out against black decks to avoid 2 for 1 scenario thus failing to reach the ceiling, another thing is that ceiling scenario is most probably in a winning position already. (Current Slot: Young Wolf)

Maybeboard
Cards in this list is swap in place of Brindle Shoat.

• Ecstatic Awakener - Low cost, can be a 4/4 and draws a card.
• Girder Goons - Blitz messes up with combat math provides extra body and card draw. Timing is tricky due to no evasion.
• Liliana's Elite - Possible big body which works well with Rancor and Rites of Consumption.

Sideboarding Guidelines

Board Out

• Rancor - Boardout against MBC to avoid 2 for 1 scenarios. Don't board out all rancors in match with creature protection such as Obsidian Acolyte or Guardian of the Guildpact.
• Rite of Consumption - Bad against counter spells due to it's extra cost.
• Fume Spitter - Boardout against decks with less X/1 creature like MBC.
• Winding Way - Boardout against matchups wherein we badly need to draw the sideboard cards such as Burn / Infect / Bogles.

Board In

• Duress - Board In for combo decks such as Infect / Tireless Tribe
• Edict Effect - Good vs Ephemerate and Guardian of the Guildpact
• Fleshbag Marauder - Be mindful of Cuombajj Witches shooting Fleshbag Marauder in response to it's trigger.

UB Faeries:
-3 Rancor
-1 Rite of Consumption
-1 Fleshbag Marauder
+2 Duress
+1 Suffocating Fumes
+2 Snuff Out

MBC:
-3 Rancor
-1 Rite of Consumption
-2 Fume Spitter
+2 Duress
+2 Masked Vandal
+2 Rotten Reunion

Burn
-1 Rancor
-3 Winding Way
+2 Unexpected Fangs
+2 Duress
Don't board out removal for Thermo Alchemist