deckstats.net
You need to be logged in to do this.
The buttons above will open in a new window. Please return to this window after you have logged in. When you have logged in, click the Refresh Session button and then try again.

W/B Grindy Midrange Control @ Pauper - Pestilence & Lifegain (Pauper)

For most Magic software, including Magic Workstation and Cockatrice:

For MTG Arena:

For Magic Online (MTGO):

For others:

To play your deck at an official ("DCI-sanctioned") tournament you need a deck registration sheet. Here you can download such a sheet pre-filled with the cards in this deck!

(-> Your Settings)

Please note: This is not an official DCI service. So please always make extra sure that the sheet contains all the cards in your deck and fulfils all DCI requirements. If you notice anything wrong, please let us know. DCI is a trademark of of Wizards of the Coast LLC.

Please select the columns you would like to see:

This a midrange-control type of deck, that wants to go into the long game to find the combo of Pestilence and Guardian of the Guildpact to secure the win.
Occasionally, the flyers + the lifegain + the threat removal are enough to win, but I'd say 4 of 5 games come down to finding and using Pestilence.

Since it can stop creature aggression on so many levels (block on the ground and in the air, gain life back, remove, prevent damage) and has a decent amount of card advantage, the deck can usually get to the late game against creature-based decks of any kind. Fairies and Delver decks are really good matchups for this deck.

Against control, it's important to build up the mana necessary to be able to cast several spells per turn, in order to force the opponent to decide which spell they want to counter. The deck usually has enough card draw and life gain to get to this point.

Combo decks are the hardest matchups, since this deck wins slowly. In these cases, it can only hope that part of the combo is a creature it can remove. If the combo pieces are artifacts or enchatments or lands, the sideboard offers a lot to shore up this weakness. Prismatic Strands can also negate combo decks for the few turns the deck may need to win on it's own. The Tron + Dinrova Horror blink combo was a nightmare for this deck when it was on top of the metagame.

The burn matchup can be difficult if the deck does not find the early lifegain, and easier when it does, specially when it also finds Prismatic Strands.

Guardian of the Guildpact is the secret star of the deck. For most decks, it is impossible to kill (Agony Warp kills it, but that's not widely played, and as long as the deck has a secondary creature out, sacrifice removal does not work), and either slows aggressive creatures (Gurmag Angler!) down or, in multiples, kills inside of a few turns.

Mainboard graveyard hate is really effective against so many Pauper decks. Kor Skyfisher can bounce Bojuka Bog as well, and since this deck goes into the late game, it is rather common to exile the opponent's graveyard twice in a game.

All in all: if you like grindy, creature-based, highly interactive games, then this is something you might want to give a try :-)

Tags

Turn: Your life: Opponent's life: Poison counters:
Hand (0)
Library (0)
Graveyard (0)
Exile (0)
Board (0)

Name

Type

Notes

Power

Toughness

card

Type

Notes

Power

Toughness

 

Counters

Move this card to:

Actions

2-sided (coin flip)
6-sided (d6)
20-sided (d20)
Sides:

Auto-draw

Auto-untap

Double-click to open card details.

Move selected to:

Combined probability

Min. amount:
Card:

Custom calculation

If I play a card times in my ? card deck, how likely am I to draw it times?
  Name Hand Turn 1 Turn 2 Turn 3 Turn 4 Turn 5 Turn 6 Turn 7 Turn 8 Turn 9 Turn 10

Additional Probabilities

Embed Into Forums or Website

For forums and blogs please select one of the BB-Code options. For websites and forums that support HTML (e.g. Wizards Community Forums) you can use the HTML options.

Link to this deck

These are the all the revisions of this deck. Click on a revision to view the deck as it looked back then.
  Compare Revision Created By
» Revision 7 April 4, 2023 schuppius
Revision 6 May 28, 2022 schuppius
Revision 5 May 27, 2022 schuppius
Revision 4 May 12, 2022 schuppius
Revision 3 March 17, 2022 schuppius
Revision 2 July 26, 2017 schuppius
Revision 1 July 24, 2017 schuppius
There are no comments about this deck yet.
English card names will be linked automatically.
In addition, you can use BBCode (like [b][/b], [url=...][/url] and so on) here.

An error with your login session occured:
unknown
You can do this in a different tab to avoid losing the data you entered here. Once you are done, click the Refresh Session button and then try again.
If the problem persists, please contact us.