At a glance
- Format: Pauper
- Colors: Black / Green (BG)
- Archetype: Spy Combo
- Power tier: competitive (meta)
Strategy
A current Pauper meta deck: #7 in the MTGGoldfish metagame (4.0% of the field, 89 decks) as of 2026-09-28.
This is the featured list from C’mon! Katowice — 10th Place, 6-2 (2026-09-19; original decklist, archetype page). Commons only; play it on MTGO, Moxfield or in paper.
Cards
Decklist
Paste into Moxfield, Archidekt or MTGO (not on Arena):
Deck
1 Swamp
2 Gatecreeper Vine
1 Tinder Wall
3 Forest
4 Generous Ent
4 Land Grant
3 Mesmeric Fiend
2 Nyxborn Hydra
2 Jaspera Sentinel
1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
2 Lotleth Giant
2 Dread Return
4 Overgrown Battlement
3 Wall of Roots
3 Masked Vandal
4 Saruli Caretaker
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
4 Winding Way
4 Balustrade Spy
4 Sagu Wildling
2 Quirion Ranger
4 Lead the Stampede
Sideboard
A 15-card sideboard for best-of-three (Traditional) play — swap these in game 2/3 against the matchups below.
Full deck with sideboard (Bo3):
Deck
1 Swamp
2 Gatecreeper Vine
1 Tinder Wall
3 Forest
4 Generous Ent
4 Land Grant
3 Mesmeric Fiend
2 Nyxborn Hydra
2 Jaspera Sentinel
1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
2 Lotleth Giant
2 Dread Return
4 Overgrown Battlement
3 Wall of Roots
3 Masked Vandal
4 Saruli Caretaker
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
4 Winding Way
4 Balustrade Spy
4 Sagu Wildling
2 Quirion Ranger
4 Lead the Stampede
Sideboard
2 Gorilla Shaman
1 Cut Down
1 Swamp
1 Mesmeric Fiend
2 Avenging Hunter
1 Vitu-Ghazi Inspector
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Masked Vandal
2 Scattershot Archer
1 Pilfer
1 Flaring Pain
Card images & data via Scryfall.