Pauper Bleak Grixis Wildfire

by TheSwarmer on 20 January 2025

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (2)


Artifacts (4)

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Deck Description

I was there, Gandalf, 9 years ago when Bleak Coven Vampires and Mulldrifter stood united against the metagame in a Grixis Midrange deck... But I am also a realist, and I understand that the only way to run pet cards in anno domini is to slot them into a shell of as much broken shit as your aging digits can muster. And this is the Mostly Mono Black Rakdos Grixis shell that my fingers have mustered.

What the fuck is this? It is a worse version of Grixis Affinity. It is also a really fun Rakdos Control deck with some serious defensive capabilities, running Bleak Coven Vampires in an extremely grindy shell with no less than 25 2-for-1s (assuming Snackers come back at least once).

I just like Bleak Coven Vampires, man. And this is a really good shell for the card. Or at least as good as this awkwardly statted not quite Gary can stumble into.

Grixis Affinity is arguably the best deck in the format right now. It is 1/3 mana sources, 1/3 2-for-1s or better, and 1/3 extremely efficient tempo plays, be they threats, removal, lifegain, or burn. This bleak monstrosity here attempts to go more all in on the value aspects of the affinity deck, looking to outvalue and overwhelm the opponent in a long game while applying pressure almost incidentally.

NOTE: The deck has weakpoints to artifact hate AND graveyard hate. It is slow and it can fail to function with a lot of its cards being conditional (e.g., every single 2-drop except Wellspring). Nevertheless, it does run a very high number of very powerful cards and is quite fun to play.

How to Play

THE GENERAL IDEA
Is to exchange resources and come out on top. We are happy to play against Refurbished Familiar as we can just discard Sneaky Snacker. We have better removal than affinity. We have lifegain and card advantage and value and 32 points of burn between Galvanic Blast and Vampires.

The deck is even weaker into Mono Red and Mono Blue as Grixis Affinity is, and most of the sideboard exists to remedy this, while Shenanigans hopefully help us grind through the better artifact decks of the format.

NOTE: It is possible no Galvanic Blasts should be played, with Cast Downs and 3-4 maindeck Breath Weapons being the way instead.

Deck Tags

  • Pauper
  • Control
  • Rakdos
  • Grixis
  • Mono Black
  • Artifact

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Deck Format


Pauper

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

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