U/B Pauper: Proliferate Poison

by Muktol on 14 March 2023

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

[u]Basic Idea[/u]
I saw some decks that used infect and proliferate recently, and I simply wanted to see if it was possible to make such a deck in pauper. So here is my take on this strategy.

[u]Maybe-board[/u]
The sideboard works as a maybe-board for the moment.

[u]Tests[/u]
I have tested this deck against other pauper decks. The decks I tested against are a mixture of Control and Aggro and the result are recorded in a spreadsheet. If you're interested in details from the spreadsheet, feel free to ask.

[u]Conclusions from the tests[/u]
I've not expected much from this deck and sure, it is rather slow to play. But it has enough elements to keep most opponents under control, but often only barely.
[[Festercreep]] was a great surprise in this deck and was able to shut down life-gain and tokens easily. [[Disowned Ancestor]] also worked very well, tough you have to find a good moment to give him a +1/+1 counter and then start proliferating.

I'm open to all suggestions and ideas that may help to improve this deck.

How to Play

2 mana and 1 card that gives your opponent a poison counter are a good starting hand. After your opponent has gotten a poison counter you can start to proliferate these counters up until 10, while you steadily remove his threads and built up your own defence.
[[Festercreep]] works like a charm against those pesky 1/1 tokens and is also a good target for proliferate. [[Disowned Ancestor]] manages to shut down many aggressive creatures easily, and is also a good target for proliferate, either by giving him a +1/+1 counter with his own outlast ability of via graft from [[Vigean Graftmage]].

Deck Tags

  • Pauper
  • Dimir
  • Midrange
  • Infect
  • Proliferate
  • Tested

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Deck Format


Pauper

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for U/B Pauper: Proliferate Poison

You must have overlooked the more successful designs with pentad prism which took the concept close enough to become a storm decktype.

Also, auto spelling is a funny thing. The words and phrases you use the most have a tendency to pop into posts.
For example I've recently had to write "I lose" a bunch of times and the auto speller kept suggesting "I love"

I wonder why your auto speller suggested "hsa" instead of "has" ;)

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Posted 15 March 2023 at 10:08

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I added 2 Pentad Prism instead of 2 basic lands. There where some occasions where I would have been able to cast another proliferate spell with just a little bit more mana, or proliferate and activate Festercreep, tough those situations where rather rare.

I don't have an auto-correction, I'm writing things on a computer in a browser... which checks for spelling, but doesn't change it automatically. These are simple mistakes I didn't see at the time I was writing it.
But yes, auto-correction can be a bitch. The word, or in this case the acronym, I'm having the most problem with would be "DSA" which is always converted into "DAS" (German spelling rules).

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Posted 16 March 2023 at 07:39

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I remember having seen the dimir Guildmage being a common.
If they've all been commonized the simic Guildmage might be of particular interest.

There's also my favourite "go to" fate transfer.

I think I've asked you the "phone question" before but with a french word at that time.

I often write something, hit the public button and then speadread and correct the damn thing seconds later.

I think stingmoogie might be nice with red proliferate.

Before pawbo was spoiled we had a conversation about sneaking in some counters into my modern halfdecks. After that I spent some time looking at a bunch of cards with counters, so when pawbo got spoiled I had the whole thing in mind when the focus on proliferate got known. I realised that eventually people would figure out to proliferate the lands with counters, so I invested heavily in the set.

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Posted 16 March 2023 at 08:27

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