This article is missing the Midweek Magic event for this week, but according to the main Midweek Magic article, it’s Standard Pauper. When they announced it a month ago, I began furiously crafting decks for it. Here are fifteen. They are of course untested… if one turns out to be bad, move on to the next.

As you may have guessed, I plan to spend a couple of evenings this week playing a great deal of Standard Pauper. Would love to see decks that others have come up with.

Orzhov Poison

I looked at all the options for poison/proliferate decks and decided that this color combination seemed most likely to succeed, but you may feel differently.

4 Crawling Chorus
4 Whisper of the Dross
4 Anoint with Affliction
4 Blightbelly Rat
4 Pestilent Syphoner
4 Flensing Raptor
4 Infectious Inquiry
4 Vraska’s Fall
4 Charge of the Mites
4 Scoured Barrens
4 Neglected Manor
7 Plains
9 Swamp

Proliferating Slime

Make big oozes, then make them bigger.

7 Forest
2 Island
4 Lush Oasis
4 Thornwood Falls
3 Hidden Grotto
4 Thirsting Roots
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Experimental Augury
4 Mesmerizing Dose
2 Vivisurgeon’s Insight
23 Slime Against Humanity

Dimir Control

A classic build of counterspells, removal, card draw, and a few finishers.

4 Phantom Interference
3 Anoint with Affliction
3 Tribute to Urborg
3 Think Twice
4 Quick Study
4 Spin Out
4 Twist Reality
4 Out of Air
4 Tolarian Terror
2 Daggermaw Megalodon
4 Dismal Backwater
4 Murky Sewer
1 Tocasia’s Dig Site
11 Island
5 Swamp

Orzhov Enchantments

I think I’m trying to do too much here; will probably fine-tune the deck after getting some experience with it.

4 Fear of Lost Teeth
2 Slumbering Keepguard
4 Fear of Surveillance
4 Balemurk Leech
4 Savior of the Sleeping
2 Fear of the Dark
4 Dead Weight
2 Lightwheel Enhancements
4 Rowan’s Grim Search
1 Mystical Tether
4 Trapped in the Screen
2 Grand Entryway // Elegant Rotunda
4 Forlorn Flats
4 Scoured Barrens
7 Plains
8 Swamp

Hare Apparent

I’m actually kind of worried that 20 Plains 40 Hare might be a legitimate deck in a format with no sweepers to speak of.

Could use On the Job or Rabbit Response here but Family Reunion is half the price and who knows if we’ll ever hit four mana.

4 The Fair Basilica
4 Hidden Courtyard
12 Plains
36 Hare Apparent
4 Family Reunion

Hare Apparent but greedier

Trying to see if it’s possible to play more rabbits by playing fewer rabbits.

4 Forlorn Flats
4 Scoured Barrens
13 Plains
1 Swamp
4 Eaten Alive
4 Corrupted Conviction
4 Fanatical Offering
26 Hare Apparent

Izzet Spells

The Tectonic Hazards are anti-rabbit tech.

4 Opt
4 Sleight of Hand
3 Wrenn’s Resolve
3 Think Twice
1 Shore Up
3 Tectonic Hazard
4 Burst Lightning
2 Into the Roil
2 Ichor Synthesizer
4 Firebrand Archer
4 Kindlespark Duo
4 Unruly Catapult
4 Eroded Canyon
4 Swiftwater Cliffs
7 Island
7 Mountain

Mono-Black Descend

Echo of Dusk and Deep Goblin Skulltaker are our primary payoffs here.

3 Ichor Drinker
4 Dead Weight
4 Desperate Bloodseeker
4 Echo of Dusk
2 Bonebind Orator
4 Unseal the Necropolis
2 Another Chance
4 Deep Goblin Skulltaker
2 Crow of Dark Tidings
4 Screaming Phantom
4 Overwhelming Remorse
2 The Dross Pits
2 Hidden Necropolis
19 Swamp

Mono-Black Deathtouchers

Attack every turn and make your opponent afraid to block. The one Island is so you can sometimes transform Aetherblade Agent without paying life.

4 Engine Rat
4 Aetherblade Agent
4 Goring Warplow
4 Cackling Slasher
4 Scream Puff
4 Not Dead After All
4 Undying Malice
4 Bladed Battle-Fan
4 Risky Shortcut
19 Swamp
4 Escape Tunnel
1 Island

Scrollshift Ramp

Rust Goliath is the biggest creature in the format, so let’s just play that.

4 Llanowar Elves
4 Three Tree Rootweaver
4 Helpful Hunter
3 Cosmic Hunger
2 Fierce Empath
3 Springbloom Druid
4 Scrollshift
2 Boulderbranch Golem
2 Emerge from the Cocoon
2 Runaway Boulder
2 Soaring Sandwing
2 Nurturing Bristleback
4 Rust Goliath
4 Blossoming Sands
4 Creosote Heath
1 Conduit Pylons
4 Plains
9 Forest

A Thousand Cuts

Trying to set up a board state where we can sit back and let Consuming Sepulcher or Shattered Yard take the wheel.

4 Burst Lightning
4 Feed the Swarm
4 Grab the Prize
2 Witch’s Mark
4 Tithing Blade
4 Magmakin Artillerist
4 Glassworks // Shattered Yard
2 Ray of Ruin
2 Thunderhead Gunner
4 Seismic Monstrosaur
4 Night Market
2 Avishkar Raceway
4 Jagged Barrens
11 Mountain
5 Swamp

Azorius Artifacts

In the late game, use Envoy of Okinec Ahau to reliably animate Eye of Malcator.

3 Scrap Compactor
3 Surgical Skullbomb
4 Combat Courier
4 Guidelight Optimizer
4 Mandible Justiciar
4 Aetherjacket
4 Envoy of Okinec Ahau
4 Eye of Malcator
2 Magnifying Glass
4 Gearseeker Serpent
4 Lonely Arroyo
4 Tranquil Cove
8 Plains
8 Island

Izzet Artifacts

Goal: attach equipment to evasive creatures.

4 Gingerbrute
4 Malcator’s Watcher
4 Oaken Siren
4 Aetherjacket
2 Granite Witness
3 Gearseeker Serpent
4 Beamtown Beatstick
4 Idol of the Deep King
3 Machine Over Matter
4 Explosive Derailment
4 Swiftwater Cliffs
4 Eroded Canyon
9 Island
7 Mountain

Dimir Threshold

Mind Drill Assailant seems like it ought to be pretty powerful here.

4 Desperate Bloodseeker
4 Thought Shucker
2 Daggerfang Duo
4 Nightwhorl Hermit
4 Ravenous Gigamole
4 Mind Drill Assailant
4 Dross Skullbomb
4 Song of Stupefaction
4 Inverted Iceberg
2 Think Twice
4 Escape Tunnel
3 Hidden Grotto
1 Tocasia’s Dig Site
8 Island
8 Swamp

+2/+0

Make several creatures. Give them +2/+0.

2 Seasoned Consultant
4 Dog Walker
4 Dragon Fodder
4 Ral’s Reinforcements
4 Ratcatcher Trainee
3 Head of the Homestead
1 Mirran Banesplitter
3 Burst Lightning
2 Lightning Strike
4 Goblin Surprise
3 Gnawing Crescendo
2 Charge of the Mites
4 Abraded Bluffs
4 Raucous Carnival
8 Plains
8 Mountain