Back-Alley Gyoza

Pauper EDH Aggro Aristocrats FNM Infect Mono-Black Phyrexian Primer Proliferate Reanimator Sacrifice

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Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Terminal Moraine
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Proliferate (5)

• 1x Blightbelly Rat
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Gulping Scraptrap
• 1x Spread the Sickness
• 1x Whisper of the Dross

Burn (4)

• 1x Infectious Inquiry
• 1x Viridian Longbow
• 1x Virulent Wound
• 1x Vraska's Fall

Step 3-Ex post (12)

• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Corpse Cur
• 1x Disturbed Burial
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Grim Discovery
• 1x Morgue Theft
• 1x Rise Again
• 1x Stir the Grave
• 1x Unearth

Step 2: Kill the Rat (9)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Merciless Resolve
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Skulltap
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Vulturous Aven

Mono-Black Goodstuff (6)

• 1x Cranial Plating
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Tainted Strike

Additional Draw (4)

• 1x Foreboding Fruit
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Infectious Inquiry
• 1x Sign in Blood

Step 3-Ex ante (4)

• 1x Demonic Vigor
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Shade's Form
• 1x Unholy Indenture

Commander (1)

Other Creatures with Infect (9)

• 1x Blackcleave Goblin
• 1x Contagious Nim
• 1x Corpse Cur
• 1x Flensermite
• 1x Ichorclaw Myr
• 1x Phyrexian Digester
• 1x Plague Stinger
• 1x Scourge Servant
• 1x Vector Asp

Step 3-Ad hoc (8)

• 1x Abnormal Endurance
• 1x Demonic Gifts
• 1x Fake Your Own Death
• 1x Feign Death
• 1x Return to Action
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Undying Evil
• 1x Undying Malice

Ramp (4)

• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Maybeboard

Other (3)

• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Relic Putrescence
• 1x Skyscanner

Land (2)

• 1x Shire Terrace
• 1x The Dross Pits

Step-2 (3)

• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Crypt Lurker
• 1x Nasty End

Step-3 (1)

• 1x Dross Skullbomb

The Ring Tempts You (3)

• 1x Claim the Precious
• 1x Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1x The Black Breath

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You have discovered a rather strange "restaurant" with no name, deep within in a dark alley... within another sub-alley...

After taking a moment to look around, you realize that there is only one item on the menu:

..."Gyoza"...

(Logistically speaking, they cannot ever received any shipments, so...) What kind of meat & flour could they possibly be serving in a back-alley the middle of a giant mega-metropolis? (The only possible answer: Rat meat— seasoned with god-knows-what, wrapped in a Roach-flour dumpling, and then fried in gutter-oil...)

Are they absolutely disease-ridden? (Compleat-ly...) Are they prepared in a sanitary environment, and/or at least being thoroughly cooked to well-done? (Ha! Of course not...)

But for some reason... They must be delicious, because everyone just immediately devours them without a second-thought...

Every... Single... Time...

There must be— something about that Glistening Oil sauce...

Step 1: Taste the Rat...

You order a round for the boys...

Ichor Rats' ETB-ability triggers immediately—if not sooner, and gives everyone at the table a Poison Counter...

Step 2: Kill the Rat...

...for fun & profit!

• Ashnod's Altar

• Skulltap

• Altar's Reap

• Vulturous Aven

• Merciless Resolve

• Costly Plunder

• Village Rites

• Deadly Dispute

• Reckoner's Bargain

• Nasty End

(Yes, Bury the Rat in the Graveyard)

Step 3: Dig up the Rat...

Ex Ante

i.e. Preemptively— with Enchantments...

• Shade's Form

• Kaya's Ghostform

• Demonic Vigor

• Unholy Indenture

Ad Hoc

"In response to..." / @ Instant-speed...

• Undying Evil

• Supernatural Stamina

• Abnormal Endurance

• Undying Malice

• Return to Action

• Demonic Gifts

• Fake Your Own Death

• Feign Death

Ex Post(mortem)

"...from your graveyard to the battlefield"— Classic Reanimation...

• Unearth

• Exhume

• Stir the Grave

• Rise Again

Or, "...return target creature... from your graveyard to your hand"— to be cast again...

• Disturbed Burial

• Morgue Theft

• Call to the Netherworld

• Footbottom Feast

• Grim Discovery

• Corpse Cur

• Gravepurge

• Forever Young

Step 4: Repeat

Repeat steps 1-3 until everyone is dead!!!

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Breaking symmetry..

There are technically two flaws to the above plan...

1. To execute exactly would technically result in a draw due to everyone dying at the exact same time...

2. Anyone who thinks that three other opponents are going to allow this process to repeat 9 times, unmolested, is rather delusional...

Therefore, it is necessary to not only overcome the symmetrical nature of Ichor Rats' ETB-ability, but to quickly gain the advantage against the other opponents that are trying win as well..

Proliferate / Burn

Intially, there were only two {B} sources of Proliferate available in Pauper from the original 'Scars of Mirrodin' block:

• Grim Affliction

• Spread the Sickness

The release of 'Phyrexia: All is One' saw the printing of three more sources:

• Whisper of the Dross

• Blightbelly Rat

• Gulping Scraptrap

To resolve any of the above (after inital the initial Poison Counter) is to quasi-permanently break parity and have the opponents be one step closer to 10 Poison Counters.

If all of that wasn't enough, (ONE) took it a step farther with a pair of {B} Pauper-legal Infect "Burn" spells!!

• Infectious Inquiry

• Vraska's Fall

!!!

Creatures / Combat

There are 11 Creature-based sources of Poison Counters in this deck; 10 in the 99 and 1 in the Command Zone...

Chances are, 30~60% of the Poison Counters necessary for victory will need to come from early & frequent Creature combat, particularly with the Ichor Rats themselves and in conjunction with the combat-tricks listed in the "Ad Hoc" section of "Step-3"

Big surprise / little surprise

Little surprise(s)..

• Part of the surprise comes from the various combat-tricks, on top of the general Reanimator-style...

• Infect "Burn" spells: Infectious Inquiry and Vraska's Fall...

• Virulent Wound as a Removal spell or combat-trick is worth a special mention as well...

Big surprise..

It is not an unusual thing to see opposing decks fielding high-powered creatures (even in Pauper), and these creatures are not necessarily pointed in your direction 100% of the time (unless you have unlocked "Archenemy mode" —see below).

One of these hypothetical combats can be radically amplified with a single {B}— casting Tainted Strike...

How to unlock 'Archenemy' mode!

Turn-1:

• play Swamp— {T} for {B}...

• cast Dark Ritual— to add {B}{B}{B}...

• cast Ichor Rats— poisoning the table...

• Move to endstep...

Turn-2:

• play Swamp...

• Attack with Ichor Rats, and before combat-damage: cast Supernatural Stamina— targeting the Rats...

• After combat: cast Village Rites— sacrificing the Rats, which will return to the Battlefield tapped, thus poisoning the table again...

• Move to endstep...

• • End your turn-2 with one opponent at 6 Poison Counters, and the rest of the table at 2 Poison Counters..

** - Congratulations, the rest of the table has officially formed an alliance against you.. Good luck!

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Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Pauper EDH 10 months ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	10 months
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.33
Tokens	Food, Treasure
Folders	Cool, NEXT DECK(s), PDH Decks, Pauper EDH